US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers
7 days ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango to c/games
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/58231228
That’s not fair to either monkeys nor footballs
If you've been on the various Flight Simulator networks like VATSIM and IVAO, you'd know plenty of gamers would quickly transition to IRL ATC with minimal additional training. And they're used to handling some seriously chaotic and dumb shit with a straight face and perfect protocol.
Check some vids or people's ATC setups on /r/flightsim
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US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy reported on Sunday, Aug. 9, that 94% of the hiring goal has been met, with the most ever employed in a single year.
He wrote in a social media post: "2,000+ "best & brightest" candidates in the pipeline — reaching the Academy quicker than any class before them, thanks to the most streamlined hiring process."
In April, it was stated that there were almost 11,000 controllers in service, with more than 4,000 trainees in the pipeline.
The pipeline is the 1-3 years of training it takes before they're certified to be air traffic controllers.
Wait, why is this a good thing? You can protect yourself. This is bad.
Air Canada 307 requesting clearance to land
You have clearance to land ON YOUR MOM lol
AirForceProud could run a whole airport by himself.
He would just have to watch out for hot-air balloons doing Mach 3.
Callsign Sandwich performing a 180 and returning to airport.
There's about 2000 folks that can shove that one in their mom's face.
I’m surprised there isn’t an entire genre of ATC games out there
There are, from random clicker sims to running actual air traffic in flight sims with such realism it took me a while to be certain it was a game (and not a air traffic union or something) when I looked up the website
Colab idea: ATC Sim and the planes are people flying in a flight sim so you talk to real people and instruct them.
Check out IVAO
I remember there being a fun one on iOS back in the day.
Breaking news: Pilot dragged out of the cockpit by swat team because of false bomb reporting by air traffic controller.
When you Air Traffic Controler tells you to drop 10K feet and enter the landing pattern but you do it wrong and they start waxing poetic about fucking your mom. /s
There are some hardcore people in the aviation video game space. I'm sure there's 2000 people in the country who are fully qualified to be an ATC that learned it from a hyper realistic simulator.
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