Video: Another fell asleep at work: the everyday life of air traffic controllers through the eyes of cartoonists
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The air traffic controller must ensure the safe movement of aircraft, Wikipedia and common sense tell us. But keeping vigilant control over what is happening in the air, oh, how difficult it is. In the works of cartoonists, the idea is traced that we are all not without sin: how not to fall asleep at the service in the silence of the night? This is how the English-language analogue of our expression "sleeps like a firefighter" - "sleeps like an air traffic controller" appeared.
1. Tools of labor
"And here, gentlemen, and tools", - happily informs the teacher of courses for future air traffic controllers. Of course, in fact, only hopeless students can rejoice at the appearance of a training kit in the form of a pillow and a blanket with rabbits - excellent students have been sleeping for a long time!
The inscriptions on the caricature also speak for themselves: “Remember, aircraft can land on their own”, the sign “Warm milk and cookies”, etc. And the entire wall is either a visual aid, or (which is even clearer) a window overlooking the battle post of a seasoned air traffic controller, making a loud sound "Z". All in all, Chris Britt's drawing has a lot to look at.
2. Coffee, scotch tape, toothpicks
The traditional way to fight sleep is coffee. Cartoonist Steve Sack suggests delivering an invigorating drink in tanks: a car with fuel for an airplane and an equal amount of coffee for an air traffic controller. Production necessity, after all.
If that doesn't work, there are two options: either scotch tape or toothpicks, says Vic Harville. Good old cartoon tricks, we remember from the misadventures of Tom the cat.
3. Radical method
The blatantly inhuman method of fighting sleep was invented by Nate Beeler. It was worth hanging a portrait of Donald Trump next to the post - and the air traffic controller fell asleep. Still, perhaps, insomnia will begin. So the poor airport employee should be given milk for harm. Moreover, it is warm and with cookies (see point 1).
4. Hall of fame
But it is quite possible to write your name in the history of aeronautics. Cartoonist Jeff Koterba jokingly compares the Wright brothers and Karl Lindbergh to a wakeful air traffic controller: well, they say, rarely, but it happens, we can when we go, and similar stilted cliches, debunked by irony.
5. I hear from sleepyheads!
It remains only to ask in the end: "Who are the judges?" You, gentlemen, cartoonists, have you got anything in your eye? For example, a log? Signature on Mike Keefe's work: “From the Editor. While working on a picture of inattentive air traffic controllers, the cartoonist fell asleep on the table. Disciplinary measures will be taken against him."
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