Do video game players make ideal recruits to be air traffic controllers? The FAA is targeting gamers directly in its new hiring push.
The Federal Aviation Administration is officially recruiting video game players to be part of the next generation of air traffic controllers. Part of that push has been accompanied by a new ad campaign aimed at gamers that uses video game footage and Xbox sound effects to make the pitch that players can earn a six-figure salary by applying their in-game skills to the real world.
I know my hours of playing Tetris got me a job at the store bagging groceries. Employee of the month!
Tetris = bagging
Starcraft = air traffic control
Minecraft = architecture
Sims = HR
Pokemon = animal control
Assetto Corsa = Uber
I think Doom is more on par w HR
That’s been the norm for years in au/nz
What do you mean there’s no quick load on this game?
Dude, you can’t save scum your way to coordinating the airspace.
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FAA under scrutiny after air traffic controller terrifies numerous passengers because he was bored.
Don’t pilots already do that?
Idea: atc roguelike, the highest setting is the U.S. where you randomly don’t get paid sometimes
You also have to work 2-3 positions at the same time, without the required equipment to accurately monitor the location of planes, with faulty alarms going off multiple times per day, and you get blamed if you lose concentration for a second at the wrong moment.
Do you want ATC to tell planes to do a barrel roll?
Bad idea! You know they’ll all rage quit.
“What’s up chat, today we’re going to be routing traffic at LAX–whoa, is that Elon’s private plane?”
Until the next government shutdown…
Wait… but the current one is still going on though!?!? (The 3rd one this fiscal year I mean, since October 2025)
they sure arnt reporting this in the MSM, because last freaked out alot of people from both sides.
anyone remember 2013 which is when I first learned that government shutdowns were a thing that existed and when they were an extraordinary occurrence? :'D
i’m gonna be honest, the idea that the government can allocate funding but not appropriate the funding is sophistry of the highest order
Will they really get paid, though?
yes but not a high salary, but a pretty low one if they can BECOME an atc.
Can’t wait for gamergate at gate 9.
Wasn’t that a Robin Williams flick?
the problem is that, its extremely restrictive to get in even to start school, plus you can be over 31, plus other DQs.
I think I read once that there was maybe two schools the nation that could certify you. Hell it might have been one. So incredibly hard to get into, any producing an incredibly small number of trained individuals.
and then TRUMP made the ones that were being waitlisted, or waiting quit or something. and i heard you dont have a choice after you actually become one, let alone you have to live in ohklahoma for the training. to be fair the salary isnt that high to begin with for such an extensive “education”, better off going to college and getting a degree in something useful or even working retail for a while. assuming thier physically capable maybe the trades for some of them,.
Better pay them massive signing bonuses. Otherwise they be like fuck no, thank you kindly.
