{"id":195251,"date":"2026-04-13T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195251\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:52:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-faa-looking-to-video-gamers-to-fix-critical-air-traffic-controller-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195251\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Faa Looking To Video Gamers To Fix Critical Air Traffic Controller Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FAA is turning to an unlikely talent pool to fix a critical shortage of air traffic controllers- video gamers.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign highlights skills gamers already use &#8211; quick thinking, focus and managing complex situations under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Recruits are promised paid training, strong benefits and the potential to earn more than $155,000 within a few years.<\/p>\n<p>The push comes as the agency works to modernize aging systems and rebuild a workforce hit by retirements and pandemic slowdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FAA is turning to an unlikely talent pool to fix a critical shortage of air traffic controllers-&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-195251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}