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Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce84rvx0e6do
22•1659447091•3h ago

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HelloUsername•1h ago
Source:

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/trumps-transportation-secretary...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9MczWfLpBcw

flibbityflob•1h ago
Have they tried paying them consistently?
phoe-krk•1h ago
Please 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...

spwa4•28m ago
No right to strike? So then we go back to playing high school games. Report in sick. Use one of the many tricks to actually be sick.
probably_wrong•18m ago
I think people here may enjoy John Oliver's report on how bad the situation for air traffic controllers currently is.

Jump to minute 18 for a discussion on floppy disks or, appropriately, to minute 25 for an "honest recruitment ad".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeABJbvcJ_k&t=1539

pjc50•15m ago
This is why shutting down the right to strike is a short term approach: you can't make people choose to start or keep working in your sweatshop, so eventually you run out of staff.
phoe-krk•12m ago
> you can't make people choose to start or keep working in your sweatshop

If you're a government, you can; it's called a draft. The US seems to be preparing for it.

altairprime•57m ago
What 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?

HauntingPin•43m ago
Honestly, it feels like RTS players might qualify considering how much multitasking is required in a game like Starcraft. Maybe they should add a StarCraft 2 competitive rank qualification.
saithound•27m ago
MS Flight Simulator w/ VATSIM [1] l has this, in the sense thar you can participate as a pilot or a controller, although you are not assigned these roles at game start.

Anti-griefing works by keeping the barriers to entry very high, so chances are you won't try VATSIM, even though MSFS is technically available on Steam.

[1] https://vatsim.net/docs/basics/becoming-a-controller

giorgioz•19m ago
After 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

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