I spent a day behind the operation scenes at one of my favorite airports; LAX ... ground inspection, and visited several airfield construction sites. Then, I visited the new LAX Traffic Ramp tower ...

Air traffic control didn’t pose a great challenge in the earliest days of Los Angeles International ... a new 80-foot tower began rising from the ground near the old one in January 1951.

An understaffed control tower at LAX means longer work hours and more ... at LAX and end the practice of using this as a training ground for inexperienced controllers.” New hires are not ready ...