If you’ve never worked with radar, you can’t fully appreciate the contribution oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico are making to the safety of air transportation….…Unless, of course, you encounter an Oil & Gas Journal editor who spent 4 years in the US Air Force several decades ago as a “weapons controller.”A weapons controller is—or was, if they no longer have them—like an air traffic controller with an important difference.Air traffic controllers use intermittent positional information provided by radar about airborne objects to tell pilots where and how fast to fly in order to keep aircraft safely distant from one another.Weapons co...