Stepwilk: "
It's been answered before on this thread, but for those not reading much of it, the dividing line is between controlling and simply speaking a line that his father fed him. Did the kid check intersecting taxiways, estimate the time-to-touchdown of the aircraft on half-mile final, ensure clearance from the previous departure and then tell JetBlue to go? No. He spoke the words his daddy told him to speak, and he may not even have known what they meant."
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And how about the distraction of having little johnny in the tower, talking on the mike and doing this, that and the other thing? Not to mention little jane.
The cheesy holes were starting to line up nicely ......
Then again, maybe controllers are being paid waaaay too much, if so little concentration is required to get the job done.
