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Shortage of air traffic controllers is growing
KDVR ^ | December 10, 2015

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Colorado; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aa; affirmativeaction; airtraffic; airtrafficcontrol; atc; atcs; avaition; controllers; diversity; faa; faaairtraffic; flying; pc; quotas
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1 posted on 12/15/2015 1:45:51 PM PST by george76
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Translation: Obama wants to hire HIS people and not military veterans or people who paid their own way through flight school.


2 posted on 12/15/2015 1:47:37 PM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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Damn, then we need Billy Gates, Markie Zuckerberg et al to demand more Indian-accented candidates on H 1 B visas


3 posted on 12/15/2015 1:48:40 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Muslim silence = complicity. Muslim immigration: END it, can't mend it)
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They even had to turn some of the safety software off because of so many mistakes.


4 posted on 12/15/2015 2:16:58 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: george76

“Off the street”. Sounds like a code to describe certain Obama- favored practices


5 posted on 12/15/2015 2:30:56 PM PST by PGR88
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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.


6 posted on 12/15/2015 2:31:24 PM PST by wrench
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This is Obama's fault. He thinks diversity is more important than competence.

FAA changes hiring practices for air traffic controllers ignoring qualified students and vets:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3372195/posts

7 posted on 12/15/2015 2:35:02 PM PST by grundle
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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.


8 posted on 12/15/2015 3:01:29 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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Chicago is expanding, too.

http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/story/30743830/garychicago-airport-reports-growth


9 posted on 12/15/2015 3:10:37 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
They have recently been hiring more of them off the street, instead of candidates with military or college aviation training.

That warning label should be in large print on every airline advertisement, even radio.

10 posted on 12/15/2015 3:10:43 PM PST by TYVets
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On purpose, to intentionally increase accidents.


11 posted on 12/15/2015 3:16:13 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: PGR88
Off the street. Sounds like a code to describe certain Obama- favored practices

Great.
Now we'll have to learn how to rap in order to read back our ATC clearances.

12 posted on 12/15/2015 3:19:27 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: wrench

He does not want the best. He wants the worst, to increase accidents.

Silence from Congress.


13 posted on 12/15/2015 3:20:02 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: wrench

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.


14 posted on 12/15/2015 3:48:30 PM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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"....FAA types without mil experience are a distant second, in my experience."

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.

15 posted on 12/15/2015 3:56:39 PM PST by diogenes ghost
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Now we see where 0dungo will stick some of his imported scuzmuz buddies...

J/K, hopefully!

16 posted on 12/15/2015 6:35:15 PM PST by W. (Make that rubble BOUNCE!)
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To: mountainlion; MeganC; george76

17 posted on 12/15/2015 7:10:02 PM PST by BBell
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To: USNBandit

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.


18 posted on 12/15/2015 7:25:27 PM PST by wrench
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The other issue is that military controllers should have another advantage due to veteran’s preference.


19 posted on 12/15/2015 7:30:13 PM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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“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.


20 posted on 12/15/2015 7:45:42 PM PST by wrench
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