{"id":75180,"date":"2026-04-10T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75180"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:39:03","slug":"the-faa-wants-to-recruit-gamers-for-careers-in-air-traffic-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75180","title":{"rendered":"The FAA Wants To Recruit Gamers For Careers In Air Traffic Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Aviation Administration is officially recruiting video game players to be part of the next generation of air traffic controllers. Part of that push has been accompanied by a new ad campaign aimed at gamers that uses video game footage and Xbox sound effects to make the pitch that players can earn a six-figure salary by applying their in-game skills to the real world.<\/p>\n

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shared a statement about the campaign’s outreach to a subset of people who may have some of the necessary skills to work in air traffic control.<\/p>\n

“To reach the next generation of air traffic controllers, we need to adapt,” said Duffy. “This campaign’s innovative communication style and focus on gaming taps into a growing demographic of young adults who have many of the hard skills it takes to be a successful controller.”<\/p>\n

According to The New York Times<\/a>, the government already noted a high correlation between air traffic academy graduates and video game players. The story cites a 2024 internal poll conducted by the FAA which reportedly claims that only two out of the 250 graduates weren’t gamers.<\/p>\n

Although the report notes that there over 11,000 air traffic controllers currently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federal Aviation Administration is officially recruiting video game players to be part of the next generation of air traffic controllers. Part of that push has been accompanied by a new ad campaign aimed at gamers that uses video game footage and Xbox sound effects to make the pitch that players can earn a six-figure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":75182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75183,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75180\/revisions\/75183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}