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Half of air traffic controller job offers go to people with no aviation experience
Chicago Tribune ^ | July 30, 2014 | Jon Hilkevitch

Posted on 07/31/2014 7:50:44 AM PDT by george76

More than half of the latest batch of air-traffic controller job offers nationwide went to people with no aviation experience as part of a program designed to expand hiring among the general public, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.

About 22,500 people without an aviation background initially applied. Of those, 837 were offered jobs. The remainder of the roughly 1,600 new controller slots went to more traditional applicants, including military veterans with aviation experience and accredited aviation school graduates.

The hiring breakdown marks a major shift in FAA recruitment strategy, which is now geared toward trying to keep ahead of a wave of controller retirements while also attracting more minorities and women to the nation’s largely white and male controller work force in airport towers and radar facilities, officials have said.

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For almost the last 25 years, until the off-the-street hiring process was implemented in February, the FAA recruited controllers heavily from among military veterans possessing aviation experience and from the 36 FAA-approved college aviation programs across the U.S., the Tribune reported this spring.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; airtraffic; aviation; controller; faa; holderspeople; noexperience
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1 posted on 07/31/2014 7:50:44 AM PDT by george76
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How many of them are democrats?


2 posted on 07/31/2014 7:51:32 AM PDT by GOPJ ( NBC - - "Nothing But Crap" network ... jerk smirk scum...)
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To: george76

“attracting more minorities and women to the nation’s largely white and male controller work force in airport towers and radar facilities, officials have said.”

Quotas are more important than air safety.


3 posted on 07/31/2014 7:52:49 AM PDT by detective
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To: george76

All professions should follow suit. Brain surgeons would be a perfect test case.


4 posted on 07/31/2014 7:52:56 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: george76

but you still have to be able to count up to 20 without taking your shoes off


5 posted on 07/31/2014 7:53:57 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: george76

TRANSLATION: Half of air traffic controllers are there because of affirmative action, and affirmative action alone.


6 posted on 07/31/2014 7:55:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: george76
Yeah - that makes sense.

From McDonald's drive up window to the ATC cab in one easy step courtesy of Eric Holder.

Only problem is, the international language of aviation is English, not Jive.

7 posted on 07/31/2014 7:56:25 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: detective

This decision is going to kill a lot of people.


8 posted on 07/31/2014 7:57:03 AM PDT by Textide
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To: george76

The libs and crazies have been working in govt jobs for decades, just waiting for someone like BHO to come along, so they can implement their hairbrained ideas.


9 posted on 07/31/2014 8:01:09 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: george76

looks like VFR for a while.


10 posted on 07/31/2014 8:02:16 AM PDT by eyeamok
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"FAA officials defended the switch Wednesday, saying the process that includes a personality test-like biographical assessment helped the agency “select from a larger pool of qualified applicants than under past vacancy announcements” and reduced testing and training costs."


11 posted on 07/31/2014 8:04:40 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: eyeamok

Well, we hired a president with no experience in running anything, not even a lemonade stand. This is just an extention of that. I hope the flying public is comprised of all dems.


12 posted on 07/31/2014 8:05:45 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: george76

I am willing to bet half of journalism jobs go to children with no literary, historical, or real-world experience.


13 posted on 07/31/2014 8:06:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: molson209
but you still have to be able to count up to 20 without taking your shoes off

The math part of the testing has been replaced by a 'personality' profile. (I kid you not).

14 posted on 07/31/2014 8:06:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: detective

“We are living in the age of insanity.” — George Putnam


15 posted on 07/31/2014 8:07:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My question is... what happens to the planes while the ATC’s are:

Listening to rap music on their headphones
Praying to Mecca
Phoning the Abortion Clinic

???


16 posted on 07/31/2014 8:08:57 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Textide
This decision is going to kill a lot of people.

Isn't that part of their plan ?

17 posted on 07/31/2014 8:11:22 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: molson209
But you still have to be able to count up to 20 without taking your shoes off.

Or twenty-one, without taking your pants off.

18 posted on 07/31/2014 8:12:27 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We’re supposed to be happy that fully 50% of them are competent. Among the TSA, that figure is closer to 5%,


19 posted on 07/31/2014 8:13:54 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: BenLurkin

“We are living in the age of insanity.”

Sounds like something Noah would have said.


20 posted on 07/31/2014 8:15:26 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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