{"id":94691732,"date":"2011-04-26T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/five-ways-fatigued-air-traffic-controllers-can-stay-awake\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:58:00","slug":"five-ways-fatigued-air-traffic-controllers-can-stay-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/five-ways-fatigued-air-traffic-controllers-can-stay-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways Fatigued Air Traffic Controllers Can Stay Awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/4\/air-traffic-controllers-oia-0418.jpg\" alt=\"Air Traffic Controllers\" title=\"Air Traffic Controllers\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Keys to keeping air traffic controllers awake on the job<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOdds are air traffic controllers have been falling asleep on the job since shortly after Wilbur told Orville to speed up. But like Florida shark attacks, <a href=\"http:\/\/gridskipper.com\/archives\/entries\/250\/250506.php\">suicidal iPhone-plant workers<\/a>, and the Swine Flu pandemic, the media&#39;s found itself a narrative and ain&#39;t letting go until a real story comes along.<br \/>\nWhy buck tradition? Here are five ways air traffic controllers can keep themselves awake while on the job.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eat at Buca di Beppo before starting their shift:<\/strong> Most every time I eat at this Italian family-style restaurant, I get a nasty case of the gurglies that prevents me from sleeping. They might not be at their desk, but a pre-work meal here would keep air traffic controllers from dozing off.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&quot;Uppers and downers \/ Either way blood flows&quot;:<\/strong> These lines from The Who&#39;s &quot;5:15&quot; sum up my approach for keeping it going during a long workday. Here&#39;s the totality of what I consumed while reporting from the 2010 Kentucky Derby: latte, muffin, Derby Pie, mint juleps, snus, Mountain Dew and nothing else<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stream porn on the console:<\/strong> Ever known anyone who fell asleep while watching a nudie movie (drunken frat boys excluded)? Me neither.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Play games with the airplanes:<\/strong> Engaging in competition for fun and profit also gets the blood going. That 767 that&#39;s 30 miles out? See if you can get it to do more laps around your airport than a fellow controller can get a plane to do around his or hers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Play the ponies:<\/strong> Speaking of fun and profit, there are horse races going on at all hours around the world. Betting high stakes on the ponies is a surefire way to stay awake and, unlike other forms of online gambling, it&#39;s legal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Keys to keeping air traffic controllers awake on the job &nbsp; &nbsp; Odds are air traffic controllers have been falling asleep on the job since shortly after Wilbur told Orville to speed up. But like Florida shark attacks, suicidal iPhone-plant workers, and the Swine Flu pandemic, the media&#39;s found itself a narrative and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}