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Originally Posted by wheredhego  Yesterday a Northwest guy busted an altitude and he knew he screwed up bad. (I asked the captain if he had him in sight as we were following...he said NO, so i told him "right there, the guy with his tail tucked between his wings!").
We listened to NW from then on, and usually ground is the one to give the phone number, but they let the guy off the hook without incident...probably because no FAA guys were around at the time. The FAA guys require the ATC controllers to bust the pilots (watch out for the PRM approaches as they will call you on the monitor frequency) |
Don't assume the guy got away with it. It's not unheard of for the FAA to audit tapes randomly and go after both the controller and the pilot after the fact. An ASAP program WILL protect you in that case.