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Interesting requirements to become an air traffic controller...

edited to add - I think we're kinda fucked unless they incentivize this role a bit more.  In my life, I've heard of exactly 1 person who was an ATC. 

Friend's brother is a retired air traffic controller after spending some time in the air force.  He's long retired.

It's super high stress and thankless.

Right now, there are around 15k air traffic controllers.  At $150k/year, that's around $2.25B per year to guarantee the safety of roughly 2.9 million passenger trips per day.  2.9 million passenger trips per day works out to around 1 billion trips per year in/out of US airports.  A additional $3 FAA surcharge per trip could easily fix this problem.

Basic Air Traffic Controller qualifications 

All applicants to the air traffic controller program must meet these minimum requirements: 

  • Be a United States citizen 
  • Be under the age of 31 
  • Pass a medical examination 
  • Pass a security investigation 
  • Pass the FAA air traffic pre-employment tests, including the Air Traffic Controller Specialists Skills Assessment Battery (ATSA) 
  • Speak English clearly enough to be understood over communications equipment 
  • Have one year of progressively responsible work experience, or a Bachelor's degree, or a combination of post-secondary education and work experience that totals one year 
Edited by boilerhorn

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