And President Trump’s hiring freeze is less than a month old. It takes longer than that to train an ATC. Nobody who would have been hired if there wasn’t a freeze would have been in that, or any tower.
January 31, 2025 at 12:56 am
William Henry
Graduating 6th grade with third grade educational levels at the age of 18 makes you a intellectual genius in many big cities.
As someone I know has said ( we should have hired the Irish and Chinese to pick cotton ).
Ronald Reagan did it right in ’80. Clean house , start over…. Military controllers at the big hubs until new hires could handle it, uncontrolled airspace everywhere else, see and be seen.
Last time we had a prez with balls RR fired them all. Best course to do it again? Immediate reapplications based on merit.Balls are back; PDJT is the man
A friend of mine hired on for ATC after the Reagan house cleaning. They do NOT start noobs on busy, critical-approach towers like Reagan National, EVAH. You have to make your bones on smaller, simpler airports, and get promoted several times before they’ll trust you on a place like DCA….
I express shock as well at seeing this. I remember the CEO of Denver Airport being interviewed for the FAA Directorship back in ’23. I knew things were bad, I just didn’t realize HOW BAD they are right now. I think SKYNEWZ would get better ratings than CNN. Spot on with this one, Chris. https://www.denverpost.com/2023/03/01/senate-phil-washington-confirmation-hearing-faa/
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So precise. Spot on. Absolutely loved it.
There was a report in 2023 that enumerated the shortfalls in ATC hiring, training, and utilization.
https://www.faa.gov/NAS_safety_review_team_report.pdf
It carefully tap-danced around the hiring practices of the Biden Administration, simply saying that “diversity” was the ultimate goal.
Interestingly, it did conclude that “recreational drug use” should not be a disqualifier for employment.
Somehow, the idea of stoned air traffic controllers makes me want to stick to surface transport, permanently.
clear ether
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My go to guy for this kind of info.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3gD_lnBNu0
Good info. Jibes with this that I found, with more detail on your part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfgllf1L9_4
But yeah, go ahead and blame Donald Trump. After all, he was only a kilometer or two away.
And President Trump’s hiring freeze is less than a month old. It takes longer than that to train an ATC. Nobody who would have been hired if there wasn’t a freeze would have been in that, or any tower.
Graduating 6th grade with third grade educational levels at the age of 18 makes you a intellectual genius in many big cities.
As someone I know has said ( we should have hired the Irish and Chinese to pick cotton ).
My family was poor as shit. We had to pick our own damn cotton.
Much like almost all of the citizens of the Confederate States of America.
Such a horrible tragedy. Thoughts and prayers for the families.
One report I saw said Reagan ATC has had only 19 of 30 spots filled for a long time
Ronald Reagan did it right in ’80. Clean house , start over…. Military controllers at the big hubs until new hires could handle it, uncontrolled airspace everywhere else, see and be seen.
Last time we had a prez with balls RR fired them all. Best course to do it again? Immediate reapplications based on merit.Balls are back; PDJT is the man
A friend of mine hired on for ATC after the Reagan house cleaning. They do NOT start noobs on busy, critical-approach towers like Reagan National, EVAH. You have to make your bones on smaller, simpler airports, and get promoted several times before they’ll trust you on a place like DCA….
I express shock as well at seeing this. I remember the CEO of Denver Airport being interviewed for the FAA Directorship back in ’23. I knew things were bad, I just didn’t realize HOW BAD they are right now. I think SKYNEWZ would get better ratings than CNN. Spot on with this one, Chris. https://www.denverpost.com/2023/03/01/senate-phil-washington-confirmation-hearing-faa/