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.
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How many of them are democrats?
“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.
All professions should follow suit. Brain surgeons would be a perfect test case.
but you still have to be able to count up to 20 without taking your shoes off
TRANSLATION: Half of air traffic controllers are there because of affirmative action, and affirmative action alone.
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.
This decision is going to kill a lot of people.
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.
looks like VFR for a while.
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.
I am willing to bet half of journalism jobs go to children with no literary, historical, or real-world experience.
The math part of the testing has been replaced by a 'personality' profile. (I kid you not).
“We are living in the age of insanity.” — George Putnam
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
???
Isn't that part of their plan ?
Or twenty-one, without taking your pants off.
We’re supposed to be happy that fully 50% of them are competent. Among the TSA, that figure is closer to 5%,
“We are living in the age of insanity.”
Sounds like something Noah would have said.
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