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FAA: ‘No Experience Necessary’ for Air-Traffic Control – Job Openings List Requirements for Critical Positions

Monday, February 17, 2014 11:07
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No experience? No problem. You, too, can be an air-traffic controller, guiding hundreds or thousands of flights from airport to airport across the country.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the position offers an “exciting, challenging and rewarding aviation career.”

Qualifications are to be a U.S. citizen, be able to start training no later than your 31st birthday, pass medical, security and pre-employment tests, and have either a bachelor’s degree or three years of progressive work experience.

And be able to speak English “clearly enough to be understood over communications equipment.”

But not necessarily any experience.

In fact, the agency specifically addresses that concern, stating, “Members of the general public can apply for FAA air traffic control specialist positions through specific job vacancies announced on USAJOBS that do not require previous air traffic control experience.”

Forbes’ aviation transportation contributor John Goglia has reported that the FAA is set to hire some 10,000 controllers over the next decade, with a front-loaded 6,000 needed in just five years.

The positions would be in one of the 315 FAA offices around the nation.

Read more at WND:

http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/faa-no-experience-necessary-for-air-traffic-control/#zAaG2HI9ABdTc0YE.99

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