Comment by metalman

As part of my student pilot training, our class was taken to the air traffic tower, to meat and see the air traffic controllers at work and build some trust as in many emergency situations fir a pilot, its ATC who can save your sorry lost ass. There were a bunch of them working,handling local and international flights,multi screen work stations. One guy stood out, he was directing several flights during the landing phase, while talking to us, then it became clear that he was also directing planes on the ground, a collegue of his came up to confer, he started telling us a joke, but of couse had to pause here and there while he attended to these other trifles but his timing was so impecable, that the joke was still funny. So thats who you want, and you cant train THAT, whatever it is, but perhapps can identify and foster those that have...IT. The controll tower itself is strait out of a sci fi movie, with a glass walkway ,the only way in, to find a completely blank stainless wall, that then opens to reveal a completly blank elevator