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2025-05-16 Science & Technology

Denver air traffic controllers temporarily lose radio communications with aircraft

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [140 views ] Top

#1 Not uncommon when a network component is ingesting a trojan or random system patch and forced to restart.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-15 16:26|| 2025-05-15 16:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Very high paying government jobs go unfilled for a reason. Unlike many civilian job recruitment standards, Air Traffic Control standards cannot be significantly lowered to permit the recruitment of DEI hires. Therefore, government mandated DEI hiring percentages cannot be achieved.

The consequence appears to be a nationwide shortage of Air Traffic Control personnel. Some things can simply not be faked. Successful completion of the challenging Air Traffic Control school appears to be one of them.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-16 05:37|| 2025-05-16 05:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I wouldn't be surprised if those who couldn't cut it in ATC, but are still good enough DEI hires, get put in GTC, and the demographic audit is an umbrella Tower Personnel type category.

Or there's the hire who checks more boxes than a tic tac toe game, and xer is put on an important sounding station which is just a closed system computer which simulates something important, requiring input and the occasional alert,

"Captain, sensors indicate a shortage of blinker fluid in units 18 through 24 on runway 18, condition 8, which requires your notification and response."

"Very well Scarlet Shutterfly, transfer 4 mikes of fluid type B4 from units 25 and 27, enhance, and make notice if the temperature exceeds plus minus 2 degrees on the y axis. Fabulous work, you are a valuable member of this organization."

And everyone else is snickering like when Dad sends the 10 year old into the auto parts store for headlight lubricant.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-16 11:22|| 2025-05-16 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 I wouldn't be surprised if those who couldn't cut it in ATC, but are still good enough DEI hires, get put in GTC, and the demographic audit is an umbrella Tower Personnel type category.

How would you like to be a member of our HR team? You can always attempt the course again at some future date.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-16 11:30|| 2025-05-16 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Hadn’t the previous administration flat out forbidden qualified wrong-category applicants even from being allowed to test? I seem to recall one of he first things the new secretary did was put out a call for those people to please reapply as soon as can be managed.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-16 11:41|| 2025-05-16 11:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Please do atempt to tell me government recruitment and promotion percentage goals do not (or have not) existed for several decades.

DEI has been around for a while.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-16 12:05|| 2025-05-16 12:05|| Front Page Top

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