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Air Traffic Control
About the Controllers
 The FAA has staffed a tower at the EAA convention
since the 1960s. FAA Air Traffic personnel (including controllers, supervisors
and managers) come from throughout the new Central Terminal Service Area (CTSA)
to provide air traffic control (ATC) services each year.
With the exception of management team members with
Sun 'n Fun experience, all ATC personnel come from FAA facilities within the 17-state
Central Terminal Service Area (comprised of terminal facilities within the old
FAA Great Lakes, Central and Southwest Regions). All together, 48 towers from 15
states are represented.
Controllers are normally limited to volunteering
for a total of seven years at the EAA convention, to allow others a chance to
volunteer for this temporary duty assignment.
The controllers are divided into teams of four
persons each:
- One Veteran controller serves as the
"Team Leader" and another Veteran may work on the team as well.
Each of these controllers will have three or more years of previous OSH
experience.
- At least one member of the team will have one
to two years of OSH experience. This group is identified as the
"Limited"
- The final member of each team will be new to
OSH and is identified as a "Rookie".
These teams stay together throughout the
convention as they rotate through the control towers at OSH or FLD, FISK
VFR Approach Control and the mobile departure platforms (known as
MOOCOWs - which is short for MObile Operating and
COmmunications
Workstation).
Listed below is are the FAA administrative and management personnel for AirVenture, along with their home
facilities:
Air Traffic Manager - OSH ATCT / FLD ATCT
Wanda L. Adelman - Milwaukee Mitchell (MKE)
Operations Managers - OSH ATCT
Elaine Buckner - Minneapolis (MSP)
Tim Fitzgerald - Chicago (ORD)
Boyd Martin - Orlando (F11)
Operatoins Manager - FLD ATCT
Mike Snaer - Ft Wayne (FWA)
Administrative Support
Aimee Miller - Bismarck (BIS)
Kristen VerHaagh - Green Bay (GRB)
Quality Assurance / Procedures
Margit McKee - Palwaukee (PWK)
Front Line Managers
Mary Blake - Minneapolis (FCM)
Brian Gouldthorpe - Miami (MIA)
James Hovick - St Louis (STL)
Mike Howard - St Paul (STP)
Mark Irvin - St Louis (STL)
Dahlette Jacob - Houston (IAH)
Louis Lippett - Ft Wayne (FWA)
Ken Nowosatka - Des Moines (DSM)
Rick Polete - Evansville (EVV)
Dan Ricks - Detroit (DTW)
Steve Ritchey - Pontiac (PTK)
Grant Shinn - Houston (IAH)
Scott Stark - Roswell (ROW)
Kevin Sturgill - Ft Smith (FSM)
Chris Wilbanks - Baton Rouge (BTR)
Mike Yuska - Tampa (TPA)
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