Wednesday, March 3, 2010

JFK airport is kid friendly

It must be great to have a dad who's an air traffic controller. Especially if he works the tower at JFK in New York. And double extra great if he lets you talk to the pilots on the air traffic control frequency.

That's just what one controller did last month when he brought his two young children to work with him. In fact, one of his colleagues thought it was such a great idea, he brought his daughter in the next day and she got to talk to two pilots in the air.

And really, what could go wrong?

Just think of the memories-in-the-making those kids were having as they guided airliners with hundreds of passengers in and out of one of the busiest airports in the world. It's what every future air traffic controller needs - hands on experience. Even if the hands are sticky with candy and soda.

Of course, the beauty of an idea this good is that it has legs. How about bring your kids to work day at the fire department. Ambulance dispatchers. Blood donation center workers. Mayor for a day. What harm could they really do?

Obviously they couldn't exercise any worse judgement than their parents.

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