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Duffy: Effort to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers ‘wildly successful’
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is targeting video gamers to serve in air traffic controller roles, an effort Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy described as “wildly successful.”
“This has been wildly successful, and if you think just what these gamers are doing on screens, they’re talking and there’s a lot of things going on,” Duffy said in an interview at the Semafor World Economy Summit.
“They’re used to that, and that’s actually what you’re doing in a tower in a facility, and so they’ve become well suited from the games they play to actually have a great life job that pays well and they can support their families,” he added.
The FAA had 6,000 applicants as of 7 a.m. EDT Friday, just seven hours after the application first launched, Duffy confirmed to Talcott. The FAA will close applications once they hit 8,000, which Duffy predicted would be reached as early as noon Friday.
Duffy originally announced the targeted........