Maybe to feel some sort of connection? I made a Mii for my recently dead grandma in Tomodachi Life on the DS. It helped a bit with the grieving.

To quote myself

I’m not sure why it is like that nowadays. I guess in the beginning of ATC in the US it made sense for air bases to control the nearby airspace, and it probably just went from there, with maybe consolidation of towers as a cost-cutting measure along the way.

Also,

IIRC, the Army and Navy also operate their own ATC Yes, there is also Marine-run ATC.

Spitballing:

• institutions don’t like losing control
• Many towers are located on military bases
• military air traffic controllers need to learn the ropes someplace that isn’t an aircraft carrier or active deployment

No, like I said, they’re using the same systems, the same software, the same hardware. People at different towers talk to each other on the phone and on the radio, especially during handoffs between airspaces. The computers talk to each other. IIRC the information from one tower’s radar is shared with other towers. They’re not parallel systems, it’s all the same system.

edit: I’ve been using “airspace” to mean “volume controlled by a tower”. There’s many airspaces.

Why would they sit in the same room? They’re managing different airspace. There’s over 250 towers, they can’t all sit in the same room.

It’s a pun/joke. Abroad/a broad. OP is a woman, aka “a broad”, and she’s overseas, aka “abroad”.

It’s that second part that’s tricky.

I’ve not read the report, but there’d only be one tower responsible for the airspace. Iirc, it was an FAA tower. What I heard happened was that the helicopter didn’t follow the tower’s instructions. But, again, I’m months out of date on that incident.

Imagine airspace like a tray of cookies baked too-close together. Some are bigger than others, some are weird shapes, some are sugar cookies, some are chocolate. But it’s a tray full of cookie. There’s only one cookie at each spot.

To stretch the metaphor further, imagine an ant walking across the tray. It’s still only on one cookie at a time and it doesn’t care if it’s chocolate or sugar. At the edge of a cookie there’s a handoff between cookies, where cookie A says “hey, cookie B, an Ant X is about to walk on you. Don’t let them crash into any other ants, k? They’re your responsibility now.”

Anyways, I’m going to go let my caffeine kick in.

Kind of. It is more the same system, just some towers are operated by the military and some by the FAA. Each has their own airspace they are responsible for, but civilian aircraft can fly through airspace managed by military ATC and vice versa.

I’m not sure why it is like that nowadays. I guess in the beginning of ATC in the US it made sense for air bases to control the nearby airspace, and it probably just went from there, with maybe consolidation of towers as a cost-cutting measure along the way.

Caveat: it’s been years since I’ve had to know any of this, so this might be outdated or misremembered.

They use the same ATC systems and protocols, so handoffs between airspace should be the same whether it’s a military or FAA tower.

My guess is the Air Force. Iirc, the Army and Navy also operate their own ATC. I didn’t know they did approach control for civilian aircraft, but that seems to be the case.

Only alternative is to become a music teacher or Discworld Assassin. I don’t make the rules.

They’re space corgis, I’ll have you know.

And I’m the one with the boring underwear. The cuts I like tend to come in solid colors, maybe sometimes with flowers.

I knew a music teacher that only owned black underwear, on the in theory that if her underwear showed during a student’s recital it wouldn’t be obvious. (Her recital uniform was all black.)

Are your a music teacher?

I got my measles booster this year and it was no worse than a COVID shot. Scheduling at my local pharmacy it was easy and I got no pushback. (CT, USA)

I’m from the era where we only got 1 shot and now the recommendation is 2 shots for best coverage. I may have gotten a second shot as a kid but I have no record or recollection of it. I figured it’s better to be sure.

Maybe, if something speaks to me. Downside of face tattoos is wrinkles. I’m middle-aged, and wrinkles are right around the corner for me.

Right now a cute critter on my wrist would make me happy (and, side-benefit, keep me from biting my wrist when I get super stressed–no biting wrist friend! [I’ve tested this with temporary tattoos and it works for me.])

But do you know the trucker’s hitch?

Come to academia. At least 25% of my coworkers have visible tattoos (generally ankle or forearm).

I’m strongly considering a wrist tattoo, on the side facing me but not the underside.

I sure hope not. I don’t want to have to deal with new plumbing at my age, the factory-issued set gives me enough problems

I’d expect everyone is robed in heavenly garments, to save the embarrassment from having been raptured with your pants down.