Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply
- phoe-krk - 10360 sekunder sedanPlease correct me I'm wrong:
> The ad also highlights the salary on offer to controllers, saying it is $155,000 (£115,000) after three years of work.
Unless the US government shuts down again, at which point you stop being paid, you are required to keep working, you have no right to strike[0], and the competences you've built across this job are largely hard to directly make use of elsewhere so the incentive to job-hop is low.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...
- red_admiral - 4368 sekunder sedanI know this is culture-war stuff, but on the balance I think it's true that the FAA deprioritised applicants from the AT/CTI programmes, that is training courses speficically to become ATCs.
My main source is https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa..., and I'm assuming in particular that the screenshot of the letter in footnote 1 is genuine. In the section ended by footnote 16, there is a claim than in 2014 the FAA sent out just short of 3k job offer letters whereas in 2019 that had dropped to below 1k.
That sounds like cutting off your own recruitment pipeline.
It's also evidence that the FAA did not drop the standards for qualification and certification, which is reassuring.
- altairprime - 9712 sekunder sedanWhat video game on Steam allows me to practice air traffic control? How can I determine if I have a skill at the logistics of managing planes on a radar screen? Where can I join a multiplayer lobby where at game start we're assigned to either give radio commands to planes, or interpret radio commands and respond on behalf of planes, with at least two players for each? How does anti-griefing work in that environment?
If that game existed, I would try it.
Does it?
- flibbityflob - 11406 sekunder sedanHave they tried paying them consistently?
- latexr - 5504 sekunder sedanIf you’re considering it, you should probably watch Last Week Tonight’s investigation first.
- vinni2 - 3904 sekunder sedanWhere is the mighty AI when you need one.
- giorgioz - 7459 sekunder sedanAfter Theme Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Park_(video_game) and Theme Hospital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Hospital videogames now it's the turn of:
THEME TRAFFIC CONTROLLER
- charcircuit - 3499 sekunder sedanAI should be able to handle the bulk of this work. "14,663 active controllers" is too much when you could have a single gamer + AI combo running it for multiple airports.
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- altmanaltman - 6104 sekunder sedan> The Xbox one logo appears at the start of the video before dissolving into a montage that cuts between images of men playing various online computer games and people, including women, in air traffic control towers looking at their own computers.
> "You've been training for this," the ad says.
Wow looks like Microsoft were not kidding with their 'this is also an xbox' ad campaign. Also really console gamers is who you target for this role? USG is becoming a joke
- cyanydeez - 6306 sekunder sedangreat at a skill but dont need money, ve disrespexted by politicians as pawns
- londons_explore - 12883 sekunder sedan[flagged]
Nördnytt! 🤓