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Margin for Error: None: Through the Skills of the Air Traffic Controller
A Faulty System is Made to Work

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I was an Air Traffic Controller at the New York " Common Eye " Radar Approach Controller Facility at JFK International Airport when Captain Waters visited to do research for this book. Pictures of controllers at radar scopes and busy at their positions do our profession justice. Captain Waters gives the reader an indept picture of the complex job of separating and sequencing aircraft by controllers using outdated equipment. It is now 2008 and unfortunately little has been done by the FAA to modernize and improve the safety of the Air Traffic Control System. This an other books by Captain Waters are a "must read " for anyone interested in the inner workings of the Aviation Industry.

This book was published in 1980, and then again in 2001 but not updated. All material is at least 23 years old.

A fascinating--and sometimes hair raising--account of how the air traffic control system really works and what can be done to improve the situation. As an experienced airline pilot, Captain Power-Waters knows what he is talking about and lays the facts before the public. Anyone who travels by air should read this book.
Con Hitchcock, Director of the Aviation Consumer Action Project and Aide to Ralph Nader.

A well writen book for the ATC that explains the tricky points of this business. A bit out of date info is provided thought due to the oldness of the book.

A must however for the (or wanna-be) Air Traffic Controller.

An airline pilot pays tribute to the behind-the-scenes of the nation's air traffic controllers. The Retired Officer

Captain Brian Power-Waters is intimately knowledgeable concerning the air traffic control system. As an airline captain, he brings the knowledge associated with his twenty-six years as a line pilot. Coupled with his close relationship with air traffic controllers for over twenty years, he is acutely aware of and acquainted with the problems of both professions. Captain Power-Waters provides us with a first time insight into the workings of the air traffic controller profession. The challenges and the many problems encountered in the current air traffic control system.

Great book - see his site at http://wwww.brianpowerwaters.com.

I thoroughly enjoyed Margin for Error: None, and I thank you for every chapter. There are a lot of men and women controllers out there that feel the same way I do about people like you. Thanks again. Gary Lashbrock, Miami Tower.

Margin for Error: None outlines his views on the nation's air traffic control system. Included were such chapters as "Danger, FAA at Work" and "Controllers Mate It Work." Baltimore Sun

Captain Power-Waters "tells it like it is" through the use of many examples. Unfortunately, those who should read this book-FAA officials-probably won't. C.W. Glines (author of numerous books on aviation) in Airline Pilot Magazine.