snippercr

My brother just got his letter today officially hiring for a job at Lockheed martin flight services. He graduated UND in december 2004 with a degree in air traffic control and had been waiting on the FAA for this whole time. He has type 1 diabetes and the task of them giving him the required "Special Type 2 Medical" has been taking forever. They kept making him wait and wait and wait and then kept requiring these long over-time tests that he was really getting fed up with the FAA.
Plus with the crappy contracts, pay cuts, benifit loss... he was really starting to doubt whether or not he wanted to work ATC at all. Just a few months ago he read about LHM hiring FSS specialists and he applied. Today he just got accepted. He is way more excited about this than I ever saw him about ATC. Plus the pay and benefits are really good too. He starts training mid january and goes to virginia sometime middle march to start his job there.
I am a junior at UofI to become a pilot so I know I will always be filing my flight plans and getting my wx briefs from him! Also, based on the amount he will be making... the regionals seem like crap (although the pay for regionals is crap compared to ANYTHING )

CloudPilot57

Sweet! What's the salary range for something like that?

Seeburg220

Your brother was smart to go with LM and stay away from the FAA. Pay, morale, working conditions are at an all-time low. Until a legitmate, ratified contract (and not something the FAA says is a contract) exists, it is not worth the heartache to get involved with. Wish your brother the best of luck with his new job.