FAA hired 2,000 air traffic controllers through gamer campaign

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the FAA hired more than 2,000 air traffic controllers after a recruitment push aimed ...
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From Academy to Certification: How Air Traffic Controllers Train for the Job

FAA Academy graduation is only the midpoint of a controller’s training. Full certification can take years more.

Orange Coast College to become second California school to offer air traffic controller training

The school received funding to get simulators and equipment for hands-on training, renovate classroom space and implement a ...

The US hired 2,000 gamers to fix the air traffic control crisis

The United States department of transportation boasts that it is employing gamer air traffic controllers in record numbers ...

Play video games? You, too, could become an air traffic controller

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is touting the success of a campaign targeting video gamers to train as air traffic ...
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What air traffic controllers do -- and how you can become one

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They are the unseen voices keeping America's airspace from turning into a sky-high traffic jam. But what exactly do air traffic ...
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How Angelo State University is training the future of air traffic controllers

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAN ANGELO, Texas (Nexstar) — In a nondescript building on Angelo State University's campus sits a simulator that is training ...

The FAA Needs More Air Traffic Controllers. Now Video Gamers Are Part of Its Plan to Fill the Gap

The agency says recruiting gamers helped it hit 94 percent of its hiring target so far this year.

What’s behind Sydney airport’s heavy delays and near-miss incident?

Air traffic controllers are short-staffed and exhausted – and new recruits face a difficult aptitude test and must train in ...