This is total bullshit what the FAA wants to do.They want to hire air traffic controllers off the street (meaning Blacks) before hiring people from the military and who have gone to college to be an air traffic controller. All for political correctness called diversity . Two Illinois congressmen have introduced legislation that would force the FAA to abandon a controversial new recruitment process to fill an anticipated 10,000 air traffic controller openings over the next 10 years. Republican Rep. Randy Hultgren and Democrat Dan Lipinski introduced the Safe Towers Act on Friday. The bill, if passed, will force the FAA to go back to its long-standing recruitment policies favoring graduates of college air traffic control training programs and ex-military controllers over off-the-street candidates. As we reported earlier this year, the abrupt change in the policy left graduates of college programs figuratively standing in line with untrained candidates for jobs they would normally have had first crack at. Hultgren told the Chicago Tribune the new hiring practices have threatened the safety of passengers and caused unjust economic injury to qualified candidates who paid for education with the expectation of having an inside track to a controller job. The Safe Towers Act is targeted at making sure we have the best and brightest in our control towers, Hultgren said. The new process starts with a biographical questionnaire that seems to emphasize self esteem and personality traits. Many college graduates whove passed the ATC course say theyve failed the biographical quiz and their education is wasted. Although the FAA denies it, critics say the new metrics are designed to increase diversity in the ATC ranks, which are dominated by white males. The bill would scrap the questionnaire and reinstate the college and military pipeline system. It would also create an advisory committee to advise the FAA on ATC training. The FAA seems happy with its new recruitment program. This year, more than 22,500 untrained candidates applied for ATC jobs and 837 were chosen. Another 1,600 jobs went to college graduates and military veterans.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:39:13 +0000
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