US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers

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• Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Report: 42% of commercial pilots confirm being given tower instructions to “do a barrel roll”.

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  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Delays expected as radio traffic devolves into immature giggles whenever a flight into Pensacola (PNS) or Charlotte (CLT) is spotted.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Try spinning, that’s a neat trick

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• 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People have other skills , people can enjoy video games and be good for aviation. This doesn’t mean one equals another. The US government is basically a monkey trying to fuck a football …

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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s not fair to either monkeys nor footballs

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• unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Air Canada 307 requesting clearance to land

  You have clearance to land ON YOUR MOM lol

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, they are basically doing the job as a hobby already.

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• maltasoron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • cosmos8188@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Signature of superiority.

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  • Exec@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    therefore access cannot be granted at this time.

    I guess they didn’t have enough time to comply with the GDPR /s

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  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait, why is this a good thing? You can protect yourself. This is bad.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Breaking news: Pilot dragged out of the cockpit by swat team because of false bomb threat by air traffic controller.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  AirForceProud could run a whole airport by himself.

  He would just have to watch out for hot-air balloons doing Mach 3.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Callsign Sandwich performing a 180 and returning to airport.

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s about 2000 folks that can shove that one in their mom’s face.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m surprised there isn’t an entire genre of ATC games out there

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can play as an ATC in online flight sims

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Colab idea: ATC Sim and the planes are people flying in a flight sim so you talk to real people and instruct them.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Check out IVAO

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Never played MS flight sim, huh?

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  • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember there being a fun one on iOS back in the day.

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• grumbo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do we prevent further incidents like this from occurring?

  Assemble an army of g*mers.

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  • deliriousdreams@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  News page blocked for the EU :(

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