The FAA Is Recruiting Gamers For Air Traffic Control Jobs

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3 жыл бұрын

The Federal Aviation Administration is expanding its ranks to some unlikely candidates: gamers. The FAA is looking to fill thousands of air traffic control positions and are actively recruiting gamers because the job using many of the same skills as video games.
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@pilotguy8685 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a pilot. There is a huge shortage of controllers right now. Glad this is happening. It does not matter where the controllers come from, if they come from off the street, the FAA will give them the same, if not better training than the colleges.

@allthingsmegan1 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. We are just waiting for the next application window. Willing to move our family anywhere my husband just wants a controller job

@pilotguy8685 2 жыл бұрын

@@allthingsmegan1 good luck to your husband!

@allthingsmegan1 2 жыл бұрын

@@pilotguy8685 thank you 😊

@Drcoconut272 3 жыл бұрын

if you want air traffic controllers, maybe you should make the application website work.

@aj3751 3 жыл бұрын

LMAO yeah I've been getting tortured all weekend

@johnpage7398 2 жыл бұрын

@@aj3751 is that tutoring on a website or in person..... How do i get in?

@jaymonty6530 2 жыл бұрын

It’s the federal government. It’s a test to make sure you have the patience to deal with technology from 2001.

@haveagoodday629 2 жыл бұрын

It’s working now www.faa.gov/be-atc

@spades9048 3 жыл бұрын

I have always considered it a video game. They’re just all dots on a screen and make sure they don’t hit.

@vercoda9997 3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense, if you understand gaming. There are many, many types of thought processes involved in gaming, and an ability to track, memorise and concentrate on several simultaneous data streams would certainly be a mental skill that some gamers would have and use a lot. Target those people, for their ability to track complex data, and sure, makes sense that those gamers would be useful people with specific skill sets to shift into air traffic control, particularly given the way that such data is presented.

@terrycline2294 3 жыл бұрын

That will be great. When there's a crash they can just hit reset so cool

@EsotericSauce 3 жыл бұрын

lol angry boomers

@hailboognish81 3 жыл бұрын

Being the wife of an ATC that’s been in for 15 years, and was hired off the street with zero experience.... I’ve come to the conclusion that NO ONE unless you’re ATC or married to one.... understands the job and how it all works. Most of these comments are ridiculous, extremely uninformed and ignorant.

@jermainemyrn19 2 жыл бұрын

How much do they typically work?

@jaymonty6530 2 жыл бұрын

People just don’t know. That’s why people who do know need to answer questions and provide help in the comments. 👍

@jaymonty6530 2 жыл бұрын

@@jermainemyrn19 40 hours a week. Unless you have overtime. But there are rules. They discourage you from working more than 2 hours in position without a break. And they stick to that 95% of the time. You legally can’t work more than 10 hours in one shift. And you have to have 9 hours off between shifts.

@jermainemyrn19 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaymonty6530 im almost 30. Are they going to not let me apply?

@lboogsJuice33 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaymonty6530 I take the test on Tuesday ; a little nervous . Any advice ?

@aineptune2658 2 жыл бұрын

"So, what's your K/D?"

@Ultrasoul3d 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a link to apply?

@massacreking 3 жыл бұрын

Im already a sweaty Mountain Dew connoisseur.

@dflkfhgpoidsfhg 3 жыл бұрын

were do i apply i ran air traffic towers in flight sim

@dflkfhgpoidsfhg 2 жыл бұрын

@@Hedgeflexlfz dam man that's not nice to talk about your mom like that

@dylanellis2183 2 жыл бұрын

I applied I play games but I didn't get it

@rodneyperez566 3 жыл бұрын

That was exelent news amazing because we can be a professional in gamer i love playing video games ps4 , xbox , are the best consel in the world

@jefferykubu504 3 жыл бұрын

Am a great gamer from nairobi.....how can I apply

@L30GH05TDUD3 Жыл бұрын

DCS and MS Flight Sim gamers finally have a proper excuse to keep on with their shenanigans 😂

@ffllcchh 3 жыл бұрын

Vatsimmers are waving!

@darthlinathegreat7489 Жыл бұрын

I am a experienced video gamer ever since I was 3 yrs old so yeah I can do it, I also know aviation and I have studied languages and many things so yeah player one ready😎👍!

@massacreking 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine the Rage Quit meltdown

@TravisRitenourautismvlogs 2 жыл бұрын

atlanta is more busy then lga fact Atlanta has held the title of world's busiest airport from 1998-2019 a 20+ year stretch Atlanta lost the title due to the pandemic but Atlanta is still the busiest airport in the us

@exoressdelivers70 2 жыл бұрын

New York is the busiest 'air space' in the nation. Air space is not the same as 'airport'. More planes fly 'through' the air space controlled by New York than the air space controlled by Atlanta.

@micahclark4021 3 жыл бұрын

And the waterboy is now the best football player in the world cause we saw it in a movie

@Plentix Жыл бұрын

im a 4x apex predator give me a salary

@gerrysgaming5754 3 жыл бұрын

Yo Is that the girl from snap chat news?

@Pitbull3.0 3 жыл бұрын

...Of course they are! 😳🙄

@skegniknak 3 жыл бұрын

Yes please

@jamaryfutch6722 3 жыл бұрын

Night don’t have time to make a resume

@nealdutta4069 3 жыл бұрын

I'll apply.....lol. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse. If having to chose a joystick.....Ill take a playstation controller.....lol.

@PsyQoBoy 3 жыл бұрын

You'll need an adapter though.

@eXtremeFX2010 3 жыл бұрын

Ok..my 22yr old son applied and he has his own Gaming Twitch Channel plus managed $8million per year store... Lets see if he gets a call.🤔

@robo18able 3 жыл бұрын

Why does he want to be an ATC ? 🥴🥴

@eXtremeFX2010 3 жыл бұрын

@@robo18able Because he's Good! At anything he does... Still waiting for that call....

@robo18able 3 жыл бұрын

@@eXtremeFX2010 No doubt he is. I mean he is earning so much, why get a job then

@eXtremeFX2010 2 жыл бұрын

@@robo18able No problem...I can clarify. He's not earning $8million...He was running and managing an $8million store chain and only getting $13 per hr working 48-50 hrs per week.

@robo18able 2 жыл бұрын

@@eXtremeFX2010 I see. Good luck to him. I have been working as ATC for 4 years. It is really interesting job. He would surely enjoy working there.

@texas87horns 2 жыл бұрын

Ok so “actively recruiting gamers”, does this mean gamers just bypass the required bachelors degree for ATC? Or do all requirements for ATC still apply with gamers being first choice because of skills?

@posiedons1 2 жыл бұрын

On the site for applying, It is written "Have three years of progressively responsible work experience, or a Bachelor's degree, or a combination of post-secondary education and work experience that totals three years" under requirements.

@jaymonty6530 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, there is no degree requirement to get hired by the FAA.

@emptyhad2571 3 ай бұрын

Ofc a boomer is asking

@SR-bh5jd 3 жыл бұрын

Gamers and work?

@luntershaptopfukinov6413 3 жыл бұрын

All well and good until they take a chug splash, pick up the golden scar, and go full send on the approaching aircraft.

@NFarin 3 жыл бұрын

VATSIM Controllers where u at?

@taraaliyeva1813 3 жыл бұрын

a job for me

@hugoochoa5869 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! I doubt they have the work ethic!!!!!!

@RaheelPervaiz123 3 жыл бұрын

I'm 31 ???

@emptyhad2571 3 ай бұрын

Too old

@WaynerTheGamer 3 жыл бұрын

😎🖒🖒🖒

@FrejaBlight 3 жыл бұрын

^.^ Hummmmmm

@KrustyKlown 3 жыл бұрын

As long as they have been playing "Allah Akbar K-boom" II or III.

@SamotOremor 3 жыл бұрын

glasses... fake

@Petar1stProduction 3 жыл бұрын

So no college students? That is very unsafe

@aj3751 3 жыл бұрын

The college degree (CTI) was basically gutted under the Obama administration. A law was passed that the agency would *have to* hire 1:1 college grads/military veterans (Pool 1) and people with 0 experience (Pool 2). Makes me wish I knew all this before graduating high school

@jaymonty6530 2 жыл бұрын

College students can still apply. It’s just the same pool as everyone else. And just because someone passed the CTI program didn’t mean they would make a better controller than the next person. It gives you a decent foundation of the rules of the job, but the FAA is still going to teach you their way, then you have to learn facility specifics. Military veterans and CTI grads wash out just like everyone else.

@CreamCobblerFiend 9 ай бұрын

Why?

@cccck481 3 жыл бұрын

They better check their mentality. When planes start crashing, the only thing their new controllers will have to say is, “Reset, Reset.” “Let me try that again.”

@leroyjenkins1568 3 жыл бұрын

I think you need to check your mentally, reset? Grow up you are in the real world no reset button here

@cccck481 3 жыл бұрын

@@leroyjenkins1568 I think you need to check your weak trolling. You Tried

@aj3751 3 жыл бұрын

You don't know much about the job, do you?

@cccck481 3 жыл бұрын

@@aj3751 you don’t know much about the job or humor do you?? Weak. #YouTried💩🤣

@EsotericSauce 3 жыл бұрын

@@cccck481 you literally used a decade old joke #youtried