{"id":537,"date":"2026-04-10T20:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=537"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:50:51","slug":"now-the-faa-says-gamers-are-the-answer-to-its-air-traffic-controller-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Now the FAA says gamers are the answer to its air traffic controller shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2265481258.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has struggled for years to have enough air traffic controllers to address shortages, with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/blog\/while-thousands-applied-become-air-traffic-controllers-theres-still-shortage-we-looked-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in January<\/a> that the number of people in the job in the US has declined by around 6 percent &#8220;in the last decade.&#8221; Now the Trump administration is rolling out a recruiting campaign targeting gamers ahead of the opening of the annual air traffic control hiring window on April 17th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Even with the campaign, getting qualified individuals through training and into the role may still be a challenge: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oig.dot.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/library-items\/Air%20Traffic%20Controller%20Training%20at%20the%20FAA%20Academy%20-%20Announcement%20Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the Department of Transportation&#8217;s Office of Inspector  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/910434\/now-the-faa-says-gamers-are-the-answer-to-its-air-traffic-controller-shortage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has struggled for years to have enough air traffic controllers to address shortages, with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}