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.
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.
I am willing to bet half of journalism jobs go to children with no literary, historical, or real-world experience.
Screwing veterans and white men,who went to ATC schools,all other federal agencies are AA cesspools.why should the FAA be exempt!
Affirmative action will result in people being killed.
Because women and minorities are vastly under-represented in the government work force.
So what? The vastly larger “off the street” pool includes all types of engineers, geeks of all types and peeps who have always had a fascination with aviation even if they didn’t go into the military or go to an aviation school.
I don’t see why this is seen as a bad thing by so many on this thread.
Yeah, that’s the ticket, hire a bunch of ragheads and give them time off to pray. Oh and while you’re at it, “reconfigure” the facility bathrooms by removing the toilets and leaving just a hole in the floor so they will “feel at home.” Now there will be no need for them to learn to fly, they can just vector planes into each other.
I had friends who were air traffic controllers.
It is so antiquated that I’m surprised it even worked.
FAA and Unions control the entire system.
Which means it doesn’t work very well.
I once tried to get in as an ATC here in Canada. I didn’t make it through the interview and test process, particularly the verbal test section. I would hope that the FAA has similar standards to be followed before it would hire someone (to then be trained) for the job. And that permanent full-time employment would be conditional on successfully passing the training.
ATC is a very tough, demanding job requiring a certain type of person. A certain level of intelligence is required, but also skills in juggling multiple numbers (headings, flight numbers) and names in your mind simultaneously, while under pressure. I didn’t have it.
I don’t see anything wrong with trying to diversify the workforce - presumably there are women and minorities out there who would be really good at this job, but for some reason in this past they haven’t found their way to it. But ability has to be the predominant consideration in such a position.
My friend is ATC for over 20 years and has never flown a plane or had a plane crash on his shift....
If they were pilots,,, wouldn’t we have to pay them more?
How many of them are illegals? With Ebola?