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.

Signature of superiority.

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

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

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

Try spinning, that's a neat trick

That’s not fair to either monkeys nor footballs

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

Callsign Sandwich performing a 180 and returning to airport.

You can play as an ATC in online flight sims

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

Never played MS flight sim, huh?

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

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

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

My favorite series of MSFS videos are of a dude being comitted to following actual ATC rules and yelling at the other players who ignore the tower's instructions.