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in the past year there were an average of 9,728 planes — carrying 1,270,406 people — in the sky at any given time. Here's How Many Planes Are in the Air at Any Moment
Now how many of these 1,270,406 would want Air Traffic Controller (ATC) who knew what he was doing regardless of the color of the ATC?
YET.... In 2014, it was reported that in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration had stopped giving preferential treatment to air-traffic controller applicants who had passed classes from the 36 FAA-approved college aviation programs across the United States,
because too many of the people who passed these classes were white males.
At the same time, the FAA also stopped giving preference to applicants who were military veterans with aviation experience.
Air traffic controller - Wikipedia
Take the case of Andrew Brigida. Born and raised in Mahopac, a hamlet 30 miles north of Manhattan, Brigida’s family moved to Arizona, where he attended Arizona State University. He signed up for the university’s air-traffic-controller major. In May 2013, he earned two aviation-related B.S. degrees and took the demanding, eight-hour computer-based Air Traffic Selection and Training exam; he scored 100 percent.
“The [FAA] is implementing changes to improve and streamline the selection of [air-traffic controllers]. Your standing in our current applicant inventory is being impacted by these changes.
“Specifically, the current applicant inventories, including your application, are in the process of being closed and will no longer be utilized . . . Any prior application that you submitted will no longer be considered.”
REASON: He was White.
He wasn’t alone; 2,000 to 3,000 other highly qualified applicants got that news and had their names “purged” by the FAA. Late last year, as the lead plaintiff in a federal class-action lawsuit, he sued the FAA and other Obama administration agencies and officials.
The change came after an all-but-unnoticed announcement by President Obama’s new FAA head Michael Huerta, in May 2013, of his intent to “transform” the agency “into a more diverse” workplace. That was accompanied by a suspect analysis that purported to show women and minorities as “underrepresented.”
https://nypost.com/2016/01/03/the-quota-driven-drive-to-make-flying-more-perilous/
An aviation lawyer Michael Pearson is a retired air traffic controller who now practices law in Phoenix, Arizona representing a man suing the FAA over its diversity test, told Carlson the test is intentionally designed to “weed out” experienced candidates, especially those with an aviation background.
A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA, including the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, determined that the workforce was too white.
They had a concerted effort through the Department of Transportation in the Obama administration to change that,” Pearson said. He likened the situation to the Department of Veteran Affairs hiring physicians who didn’t graduate from medical school for their hospitals and claiming the VA can train them better.
Obama-era FAA hiring rules place diversity ahead of airline safety, attorney tells Tucker Carlson
Trouble in the Skies
The FAA requires applicants to fill out a biographical questionnaire before another screening.
Those that answer the questions in a way that the graders don't like will not go further.
For example on the exam there are several questions that really beg the question..."what were they thinking of"?
The best answer to the question
"...when was the last time you worked full time: Answer You haven't worked in the past 3 years.
Best answer to this question:
Name their worst grade in high school: Answer: Science.
You get 10 points for being bad at science, according to the scoring sheet.
Yup the FAA wanted ATCs who couldn't understand "Science".
Another question where the person answered got 5 points was if they knew a great deal about Air traffic control...while if you were a trained pilot... 2 points!
Kid you not!
The test as it shows was to screen out people with aviation experience because the workforce was "too white".
Tucker Carlson Tonight 6/1/2018 – Breaking Fox News – June 1, 2018 | BuzzyBuzz
Now how many of these 1,270,406 would want Air Traffic Controller (ATC) who knew what he was doing regardless of the color of the ATC?
YET.... In 2014, it was reported that in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration had stopped giving preferential treatment to air-traffic controller applicants who had passed classes from the 36 FAA-approved college aviation programs across the United States,
because too many of the people who passed these classes were white males.
At the same time, the FAA also stopped giving preference to applicants who were military veterans with aviation experience.
Air traffic controller - Wikipedia
Take the case of Andrew Brigida. Born and raised in Mahopac, a hamlet 30 miles north of Manhattan, Brigida’s family moved to Arizona, where he attended Arizona State University. He signed up for the university’s air-traffic-controller major. In May 2013, he earned two aviation-related B.S. degrees and took the demanding, eight-hour computer-based Air Traffic Selection and Training exam; he scored 100 percent.
“The [FAA] is implementing changes to improve and streamline the selection of [air-traffic controllers]. Your standing in our current applicant inventory is being impacted by these changes.
“Specifically, the current applicant inventories, including your application, are in the process of being closed and will no longer be utilized . . . Any prior application that you submitted will no longer be considered.”
REASON: He was White.
He wasn’t alone; 2,000 to 3,000 other highly qualified applicants got that news and had their names “purged” by the FAA. Late last year, as the lead plaintiff in a federal class-action lawsuit, he sued the FAA and other Obama administration agencies and officials.
The change came after an all-but-unnoticed announcement by President Obama’s new FAA head Michael Huerta, in May 2013, of his intent to “transform” the agency “into a more diverse” workplace. That was accompanied by a suspect analysis that purported to show women and minorities as “underrepresented.”
https://nypost.com/2016/01/03/the-quota-driven-drive-to-make-flying-more-perilous/
An aviation lawyer Michael Pearson is a retired air traffic controller who now practices law in Phoenix, Arizona representing a man suing the FAA over its diversity test, told Carlson the test is intentionally designed to “weed out” experienced candidates, especially those with an aviation background.
A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA, including the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, determined that the workforce was too white.
They had a concerted effort through the Department of Transportation in the Obama administration to change that,” Pearson said. He likened the situation to the Department of Veteran Affairs hiring physicians who didn’t graduate from medical school for their hospitals and claiming the VA can train them better.
Obama-era FAA hiring rules place diversity ahead of airline safety, attorney tells Tucker Carlson
Trouble in the Skies
The FAA requires applicants to fill out a biographical questionnaire before another screening.
Those that answer the questions in a way that the graders don't like will not go further.
For example on the exam there are several questions that really beg the question..."what were they thinking of"?
The best answer to the question
"...when was the last time you worked full time: Answer You haven't worked in the past 3 years.
Best answer to this question:
Name their worst grade in high school: Answer: Science.
You get 10 points for being bad at science, according to the scoring sheet.
Yup the FAA wanted ATCs who couldn't understand "Science".
Another question where the person answered got 5 points was if they knew a great deal about Air traffic control...while if you were a trained pilot... 2 points!
Kid you not!
The test as it shows was to screen out people with aviation experience because the workforce was "too white".
Tucker Carlson Tonight 6/1/2018 – Breaking Fox News – June 1, 2018 | BuzzyBuzz
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