America’s new air traffic control crisis: an instructor shortage
Instructors complain of long hours, inadequate compensation
The shortage of air traffic controllers keeping watch over America’s skies prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to embark on a massive recruitment drive. Now, the FAA has another problem: There are not enough instructors to teach all those new recruits the ropes. Teachers at the FAA’s training academy in Oklahoma City, mostly retired former controllers in their 60s, are increasingly required to work from 7 a.m. […]
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