Posted on 12/15/2015 1:45:51 PM PST by george76
Air traffic controllers are well paid, averaging $136,000 per year.
However you have to be under 31-year-old to start, training takes years.
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A major part of the problem is the FAA changed the way it hires controllers about two years ago.
They have recently been hiring more of them off the street, instead of candidates with military or college aviation training.
Now many of them don't make it through training.
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
Translation: Obama wants to hire HIS people and not military veterans or people who paid their own way through flight school.
Damn, then we need Billy Gates, Markie Zuckerberg et al to demand more Indian-accented candidates on H 1 B visas
They even had to turn some of the safety software off because of so many mistakes.
“Off the street”. Sounds like a code to describe certain Obama- favored practices
Not using former military controllers should be a crime. They are the best at what they do, FAA types without mil experience are a distant second, in my experience.
FAA changes hiring practices for air traffic controllers ignoring qualified students and vets:
When I worked for United Airlines, I got a chance to take a tour of the Air Traffic Control Tower at O’Hare. It was fascinating; but, it is a highly stressful job. The guys in the basement looking at blips on the screen are the ones who have the most stress; as, they are the ones keeping the planes from running into each other. The guys in the tower put the planes on the correct runways. And, at the time I took the tour, there was no where near the amount of traffic as there is now.
Chicago is expanding, too.
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/story/30743830/garychicago-airport-reports-growth
That warning label should be in large print on every airline advertisement, even radio.
On purpose, to intentionally increase accidents.
Great.
Now we'll have to learn how to rap in order to read back our ATC clearances.
He does not want the best. He wants the worst, to increase accidents.
Silence from Congress.
A military controller probably isn’t ready for rush hour at Kennedy, but the failure rate would have to be lower. The other sad part of this is blowing off kids that completed specific ATC courses of study at colleges and then are told they don’t meet the desired diversity criteria. The college programs emerged specifically to deal with this expected shortage and now those kids are finding out they wasted their time and money. I won’t even go into the malfeasance on the part of FAA officials gaming the system for candidates that are their preferred color.
Not in mine, and I had 35 years as an enroute ATCS, 13 years in Chicago.
The very best controllers have a 'talent' that has nothng to do with the military.
J/K, hopefully!
No, a military controller can’t walk into the tower at Kennedy and go to work, But he CAN go through the very same training those Kennedy controllers all went through, and end up a very good addition to the team there.
But thanks to diversity and affirmative action requirements, they do not get a fair chance. Sad, they are well experienced and can bring a lot to the ATC Academy.
The other issue is that military controllers should have another advantage due to veteran’s preference.
“The other issue is that military controllers should have another advantage due to veteran’s preference.”
Thats right. But it appears diversity preference points are being awarded, and likely carry more weight.
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