Duffy: Effort to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers ‘wildly successful’

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is targeting video gamers to serve in air traffic controller roles, an effort ...
Government Executive

FAA sets records in effort to hire gamers as air traffic controllers

The agency received over 12,000 applications in less than two days, making the effort “wildly successful,” according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
AOL

FAA looks to unconventional source for new air traffic controllers: Gamers

A new air traffic controller hiring campaign from the Department of Transportation (DOT) is targeting gamers to address a longtime staffing shortage. The DOT's new ad shows clips of video games and ...
AOL

FAA looks to gamers as 'next generation of air traffic controllers'

The Federal Aviation Administration is looking for the "next generation of air traffic controllers," and gamers might be the ones to fill the role. The FAA announced April 10 that it would open the ...
Los Angeles Times

Gamers as air traffic controllers? That’s the career pitch

Parents have long worried that video gaming corrupts their kids’ brains. Now the U.S. government is proclaiming that all is not lost, and that in fact a lucrative career path awaits as an air traffic ...