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Controversy surrounds hiring of air traffic controllers - Fox 2 News Headlines
May 14, 2014 8:49 PM MDT
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -
A dramatic change in the FAA's hiring practices for air traffic controllers has grounded the career plans of a lot of highly qualified applicants, and there are some concerns it could put the flying public at risk.
For the past 24 years, most controllers got their training at one of 36 universities across the country with an air traffic controller program. Lewis University in Romeoville is one of them. But earlier this year, the FAA opened up the applicant pool to anyone off the street -- no schooling necessary.
Chris Thurlby is a 2012 high honors graduate from Lewis, with $85,000 dollars in student loans, but very little chance of getting a job.
He and other would be controllers no longer take the AT-SAT, an aptitude test of aviation skills, but instead must take an online biographical questionnaire. It's part of what is widely viewed as an affirmative action push, and one the Air Traffic Controllers Union calls flawed.
That test disqualified and frustrated Mark Jacobs, a 4.0 student who scored a 98 on the AT-SAT.
They say the biographical questionnaire is meant to determine your suitability based on an aviation background or education or work experience, all of which I have, therefore you are not qualified, said Jacobs.
I think hiring people because of skin color is racist.
I think hiring people because of skin color is racist.
Of course it's racist and that's what the gop needs to say. Repubs are the anti-racists since they oppose affirmative action and dems are the racists.
I don't know why the gop won't say that. They are always on the defensive on the race issue even though they occupy the moral high ground.
It's bad enough when post office jobs are handed out based on skin color, but it's hundred times worse when judges and generals and air traffic controllers get their job based on skin color.
Controversy surrounds hiring of air traffic controllers - Fox 2 News Headlines
May 14, 2014 8:49 PM MDT
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -
A dramatic change in the FAA's hiring practices for air traffic controllers has grounded the career plans of a lot of highly qualified applicants, and there are some concerns it could put the flying public at risk.
For the past 24 years, most controllers got their training at one of 36 universities across the country with an air traffic controller program. Lewis University in Romeoville is one of them. But earlier this year, the FAA opened up the applicant pool to anyone off the street -- no schooling necessary.
Chris Thurlby is a 2012 high honors graduate from Lewis, with $85,000 dollars in student loans, but very little chance of getting a job.
He and other would be controllers no longer take the AT-SAT, an aptitude test of aviation skills, but instead must take an online biographical questionnaire. It's part of what is widely viewed as an affirmative action push, and one the Air Traffic Controllers Union calls flawed.
That test disqualified and frustrated Mark Jacobs, a 4.0 student who scored a 98 on the AT-SAT.
They say the biographical questionnaire is meant to determine your suitability based on an aviation background or education or work experience, all of which I have, therefore you are not qualified, said Jacobs.
Was the interview done in ebonics?This reminds me of a story a few years back about an east coast city that couldn't find enough blacks to pass their written test ( because they can't even read let alone know the answers) so they replaced the test with an interview!!
This is so dangerous that it defies description. How many times will these unqualified dregs crash planes before no carrier will have a plane in the sky in the US.
Global warming.This is so dangerous that it defies description. How many times will these unqualified dregs crash planes before no carrier will have a plane in the sky in the US.
Obozo will order the media to blame the crashes on something else. Maybe bad weather - that's seems to be a popular excuse for our WH ape whenever anything goes wrong.
