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Starting in September, new employees have a whole new way to get personalized answers to their questions: online. The Online Sponsor Program is a new pilot initiative that came out of Leading Edge 2.0. Its goal is to ease the transition of being a new employee by providing new employees easy, online access to answers to their questions.

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Just a quick note to provide a great link to an explanation of benefits for newly hired air traffic controllers.

New ATC Benefit Explanation

A public thank you to Mark Miller for lead! Do you have a great resource? If so, send it along and we'll post it here.

Link: https://employees.faa.gov/news/focusfaa/story/?newsId=59339

By now you've probably heard from family and friends concerning the stress and difficult job requirements you will face in this career field. The demands are high, very true, but as you will hear in this transcript from a pair of Miami Center Controllers, life in the FAA is anything but "Normal".

Hopefully you have had the opportunity to let the audio sink in. Just imagine yourself in the heat of battle, newly checked out and relaying life altering instructions to medical personnel. My point is, we do a very important job everyday! We are not perfect (very close), but we are real people who really care about doing the job right and helping keep the public safe. Take it from Ken Anspach:

“It sounded like an emergency room situation,” recalled Anspach. “I felt like I was drawn right into it. My heart was racing. I’ve been under a lot of air traffic control situations — just been really busy — but I haven’t really felt that pumped up in a long time.”

I wish you well as you study and prepare yourself for this career, but just remember what you are preparing for...You can read the entire article on the FAA Focus this week.