The ATC staffing crisis is solved!

NovemberEcho

NovemberEcho

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They went with the Covid strategy. If you cut the number of openings, it means your staffing percentage increases!

www.reuters.com

FAA cuts target for air traffic control staffing

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it was sharply reducing its target for air traffic control staffing as it vowed to modernize scheduling and increase the time employees spend managing ‌traffic.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
 
“The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it was sharply reducing its target for air traffic control staffing as it vowed to modernize scheduling and increase the time employees spend managing ‌traffic.”

Isn’t that the problem now?
What am I missing?
 
NovemberEcho said:
They went with the Covid strategy. If you cut the number of openings, it means your staffing percentage increases!

www.reuters.com

FAA cuts target for air traffic control staffing

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it was sharply reducing its target for air traffic control staffing as it vowed to modernize scheduling and increase the time employees spend managing ‌traffic.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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What I don't understand is why you guys don't just walk out. It's absurd what they're doing to you.

Yeah, I know, reagan, etc, but with ops like they are now, do you really think they could 1984 you?
 
🦈💜 said:
What I don't understand is why you guys don't just walk out. It's absurd what they're doing to you.

Yeah, I know, reagan, etc, but with ops like they are now, do you really think they could 1984 you?
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The administration would find some way to do something even dumber and more dangerous just to "stick it" to ATC, probably.
 
Soul Brotha' said:
“The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it was sharply reducing its target for air traffic control staffing as it vowed to modernize scheduling and increase the time employees spend managing ‌traffic.”

Isn’t that the problem now?
What am I missing?
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Management doesn’t like our recuperative breaks. They don’t understand that you can’t spend 4 straight hours on position without severe degradation in your mental abilities. Hell on some sessions even an hour is exhausting. On an 8 hour shift, I think average time on position is something around 4-4.5 hours. This pisses management off so much when all they look at is spreadsheets rather then the human element. The longer one is on position the probability of making a mistake due to burnout increases dramatically. The human brain can not work on the level required non-stop for more than an hour or two. Might be able to get away with it for a little while, but definitely not for 6 day weeks for your entire career.
 
Hello Peter, what's happening? Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up.
 
NovemberEcho said:
They went with the Covid strategy. If you cut the number of openings, it means your staffing percentage increases!

www.reuters.com

FAA cuts target for air traffic control staffing

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it was sharply reducing its target for air traffic control staffing as it vowed to modernize scheduling and increase the time employees spend managing ‌traffic.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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These are unserious people who think they can simply “will” and pray their way to solutions.

You mean you don’t want to stay past your minimum retirement age? WHAT?!
 
It just continues to get worse. 12 more years and I can go, until Trump and Duffy try to take that away from me too.

I look forward to sitting on position past the point of exhaustion on my never ending 6 day work weeks to satisfy a bean counter in DC. They reduced my facilities staffing number by 20 controllers, and there’s still 0 way we can run our operation without massive amounts of OT.

I’ve already really started to not care and that’s only going to get worse as we go along. I’ll do the bare minimum and that’s pretty much it. Are we great again yet?
 
Imagine if someone had the foresight to reach out to populations that have the aptitude but not the exposures to their opportunities in air traffic control.

Like finding some smart, science-forward young people that never saw themselves as ATC and creating generations of people excited about their opportunities.

Much like what organizations like Young Eagles, NGPA, OBAP, WAI and PAPA did.

Oh… wait.
 
Air traffic has increased globally. I wonder how the rest of the world deals with ATC staffing issues while maintaining safety. Certainly not a problem unique to the US. What are Europe and Asia doing right that we aren't? What abouts our 2 closest neighbors?
 
arkavgal said:
Air traffic has increased globally. I wonder how the rest of the world deals with ATC staffing issues while maintaining safety. Certainly not a problem unique to the US. What are Europe and Asia doing right that we aren't? What abouts our 2 closest neighbors?
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Europe and Asia have no GA traffic. They also (per square kilometer of airspace) have nowhere near the traffic loads that the US does.
 
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