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Overly Optimistic Ovation
#183 | NOVEMBER 2025
You’re a controller who has concerns about a Mooney pilot trying to end a long IFR flight after midnight. The pilot seems unconcerned—and even offers to fly faster for better flow with airliners you have stacked up on approach. Do you trust the pilot or your intuition that trouble is brewing?
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Kevin Plante
Kevin Plante has been an Air Traffic Control Specialist for 16 years and has been fully certified in several different towers and TRACONs. His ATC experience has been in both USAF and FAA facilities. Kevin currently works at a busy TRACON controlling a wide variety of aircraft into airports of every airspace classification. Additionally, Kevin has worked with the design and modification of PBN procedures, implementation of new equipment/software into ATC facilities, and On-the-Job-Training of new controllers. Kevin has been flying since 1997. He flies for personal travel as well as working as a contract pilot for corporate and charter operators.