Originally Posted by
sab1250
I was based in the “sewer” for 4 years back in the day. Honestly I enjoyed it. I lived there for a year too...was a hell of a lot better then the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area...that place is awful! As long as you’re not in east orange it’s fine. I lived in the ironbound across from Newark Penn station. I’m not a city guy at all, but Newark gets an unnecessarily bad rap. Also the employee cafeteria in the basement of the ewr airport is the best! Miss that!
Was number 86 for departure outta there one day though. Pre pax bill of rights of course.
Reminds me of when the EU ATC was a hodge podge collection of nationalistic unions that didn’t work well together in the 90s and as a military aircraft you’d often get a “slot time” after you filed your flight plan for like 5 hrs (record on board in Rota was 23hrs 18min) later so you’d load up the plane and have ops send a “ready msg” to atc at which point a slot time would suddenly appear sometime within the next 30min to 5hr and when it did you had to takeoff within 15 mins or start the process over.