The Federal Aviation Administration is expanding its ranks to some unlikely candidates: gamers. The FAA is looking to fill thousands of air traffic control positions and are actively recruiting gamers because the job using many of the same skills as video games.
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I'm a pilot. There is a huge shortage of controllers right now. Glad this is happening. It does not matter where the controllers come from, if they come from off the street, the FAA will give them the same, if not better training than the colleges.
"So, what's your K/D?"
Ok so “actively recruiting gamersâ€ÂÂ, does this mean gamers just bypass the required bachelors degree for ATC?
Or do all requirements for ATC still apply with gamers being first choice because of skills?
Is there a link to apply?
VATSIM Controllers where u at?
Gamers and work?
Air traffic controllers have one of the highest suicide rates of all professions and if you make a mistake you can go to prison for a long time
society is a joke…sad to say.
Yo Is that the girl from snap chat news?
Ok..my 22yr old son applied and he has his own Gaming Twitch Channel plus managed $8million per year store…
Lets see if he gets a call.ðŸ¤â€Â
…Of course they are! 😳🙄
Being the wife of an ATC that’s been in for 15 years, and was hired off the street with zero experience…. I’ve come to the conclusion that NO ONE unless you’re ATC or married to one…. understands the job and how it all works. Most of these comments are ridiculous, extremely uninformed and ignorant.
I have always considered it a video game. They’re just all dots on a screen and make sure they don’t hit.
Jesus christ, NO
HIRE TRAINED, CERTIFIED, EXPERIENCED VETERANS- SAME AS PILOTS!
Vatsimmers are waving!
u over 30? Ef off. Aholes
And the waterboy is now the best football player in the world cause we saw it in a movie
Makes sense, if you understand gaming. There are many, many types of thought processes involved in gaming, and an ability to track, memorise and concentrate on several simultaneous data streams would certainly be a mental skill that some gamers would have and use a lot. Target those people, for their ability to track complex data, and sure, makes sense that those gamers would be useful people with specific skill sets to shift into air traffic control, particularly given the way that such data is presented.
Yes please
glasses… fake
As long as they have been playing "Allah Akbar K-boom" II or III.
were do i apply i ran air traffic towers in flight sim
^.^ Hummmmmm
So no college students? That is very unsafe
if you want air traffic controllers, maybe you should make the application website work.
I'll apply…..lol. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse. If having to chose a joystick…..Ill take a playstation controller…..lol.
They better check their mentality. When planes start crashing, the only thing their new controllers will have to say is, “Reset, Reset.†“Let me try that again.â€ÂÂ
Yeah! I doubt they have the work ethic!!!!!!
Sorry, I prefer ransomware hacking. It pays better and no kneeling during the playing of the Russian anthem.
Am a great gamer from nairobi…..how can I apply
😎🖒🖒🖒
Great! Welcome back to the train…unless they’ll hire model collectors as conductors.
Night don’t have time to make a resume