New York (AirGuide - Inside Air Travel) Wed, Dec 17, 2014 - With Thanksgiving, the busiest travel time of the year, behind us, there is a growing problem that could affect air-passenger safety - an impending shortage of air-traffic controllers, reports Steven Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research.
They are taking introductory courses now, but by next year they should be ready to try their hand at the centerpiece of the program--the new $600,000 air-traffic control tower simulation system set up at the college.
AOPA has already made it perfectly clear that it thinks government is a device for extracting fees from the airline-traveling public and then using them to finance an air-traffic infrastructure that the small-plane community can use pretty much at will.
Europe's air traffic is predicted to double by 2025, and EUROCONTROL, the multinational air-traffic organization, warns that maintaining cost-efficiency and safety requires the European air traffic control system to increase capacity by 25%.
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