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.
The FAA wants to recruit children as ATC because most people who have been alive for longer have seen how quickly the FAA will fuck them over and try to get them to work for free while striking is illegal. I wouldn’t even consider working ATC before like $150k/yr based on all the “work without pay during the shutdown” fuckery I’ve seen from the FAA during my lifetime
I escaped from the airport in a plane as Trevor in GTA 5. Put me in, coach.
Fun fact: there’ve been a bunch of ATC simulator games back in the eighties to mid-nineties, but the most successful ongoing series seems to be ‘Air Traffic Controller’, which is of course Japanese. Aside from Windows, it notably includes versions for PSP, DS, 3DS, and several mobile ports that are probably only released in Japan.
Supposedly the series includes layouts of real airports, mostly Japanese ones.
Better pay them massive signing bonuses. Otherwise they be like fuck no, thank you kindly.
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.
Will they really get paid, though?
Wasn’t that a Robin Williams flick?
Idea: atc roguelike, the highest setting is the U.S. where you randomly don’t get paid sometimes
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)
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
they sure arnt reporting this in the MSM, because last freaked out alot of people from both sides.
“What’s up chat, today we’re going to be routing traffic at LAX–whoa, is that Elon’s private plane?”
Future News Headline
FAA under scrutiny after air traffic controller terrifies numerous passengers because he was bored.
Don’t pilots already do that?
What do you mean there’s no quick load on this game?
Dude, you can’t save scum your way to coordinating the airspace.
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
Bad idea! You know they’ll all rage quit.
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