Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720644170
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Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Controller Staffing and Training at Four FAA Air Traffic Control Facilities
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289101107
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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GAO examined conditions related to air traffic controllers at Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic control facilities in several areas in the Nation, including Chicago's O'Hare Airport. FAA officials have stated that staffing levels in the radar room at the O'Hare Airport tower are unsatisfactory, and GAO agrees. Staffing is at 68 percent of its authorized level, and overtime use is higher than at most airport towers in other cities. Controllers attribute the shortages to Chicago's high cost of living and an attempt by the controller organization to discourage controllers from seeking positions at O'Hare. In addition, controllers, for a time, did not volunteer to provide on-the-job training to trainees. FAA has implemented new recruitment and training programs and given supervisors greater responsibilities in the training process. These actions should help correct the staffing problems. At the other centers examined, FAA management felt that the staffing was adequate, as did a GAO evaluation of these facilities. GAO found that trainees had satisfactorily completed developmental training at four facilities but controllers at the four facilities had not met the requirements for proficiency training and adequate records maintenance. FAA provided no methods to track currency in operational performance of supervisors and staff specialists. When computers are not available, controllers must be proficient in handling air traffic by radar. Training in this area has been inadequate due to a lack of a simulated environment for training. However, GAO found no correlation between aircraft accidents and controller staffing levels or training.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Air traffic control
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Author: GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIV.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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GAO's review of air traffic controller staffing, at the Chicago O'Hare and Denver Stapleton Airports and at the Chicago and Denver enroute traffic control centers indicated staffing level problems only at O'Hare. Some problems with controller training were noted at each facility. FAA is taking steps to alleviate the staffing problem at O'Hare and to correct some of the training problems. GAO also found no correlation between aircraft accidents or violations of FAA's separation standards for aircraft and controller staffing level or training. (Author).
Author: David A. Dobbs
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437917267
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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This report provides the results of the Dept. of Transportation¿s Office of Inspector Gen¿s. review of controller staffing at 3 FAA facilities in Calif.: the L.A. International Airport Traffic Control Tower , the S. Calif. Terminal Radar Approach Control, and the N. Calif. TRACON. This review was conducted at the request of Sen. Dianne Feinstein of Calif., who expressed concerns about potential shortages of trained and experienced controllers at these locations, which are some of the Nation¿s busiest facilities. Ensuring these air traffic control facilities remain adequately staffed with qualified air traffic controllers is critical to the safety and efficiency of the entire National Airspace System. This review was conducted between June 2008 and Jan. 2009.
Author: Gerald L. Dillingham
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756728052
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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This report identifies potential scenarios for future air traffic controller attrition and the Federal Aviation Agency's (FAA) plans for dealing with such attrition. Because of the significant hiring in the early 1980s to replace strikers who had been fired, many thousands of FAA's controllers will soon become eligible to retire, potentially leaving FAA with too few fully trained controllers. This report: (1) identifies likely future attrition scenarios for FAA's controller workforce, and (2) examines FAA's strategy for responding to its short- and long-term staffing needs, including how it plans to address the challenges it may face. Charts and tables.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Author: Gerald Lee Dillingham
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Category : Air traffic control
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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"Each day, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controls the take-offs, landings, and flights of over 50,000 aircraft. To accomplish this mission safely and efficiently, FAA must have a sufficient number of adequately trained air traffic controllers working at its air traffic control facilities. Over the next decade, FAA will need to hire and train nearly 17,000 controllers to replace over 15,000 current controllers, most of whom will be retiring. This massive hiring effort will occur as FAA begins to implement the next generation air transportation system (NextGen), which will integrate new technologies and procedures into air traffic operations and fundamentally change the role of air traffic controllers from controlling individual aircraft to managing air traffic flow. Hence, FAA will need to train experienced controllers to use the new technologies at the same time that it hires and trains new controllers to operate both the current and the new technologies. This testimony addresses FAA's progress and challenges in hiring, staffing, and training air traffic controllers in the current air traffic control system and in preparing them for NextGen. It is based on prior GAO work, updated with reviews of FAA documents and interviews with FAA officials, controller union representatives, and other stakeholders."--Highlights.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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