If they are looking at new avenues of finding employees to hire, wouldn't this technically be a DEI thing? Gamers are diverse... (That's all DEI was, is finding new candidate pools...)
"...The FAA has been forced to spend the majority of its roughly $3 billion annual equipment budget simply keeping obsolete systems alive. In some facilities, controllers still rely on technology that uses floppy disks. (Yes, you read that right â" floppy disks.)
Replacement parts for certain components are no longer ma
To be fair, the entire governmental apparatus of the United States seems to be going "Ideology? Super. Caring about reality? Fuck off."
Giving a shit about the details right now is forest for trees stuff. The electorate has handed over the keys to the child in the backseat, thinking, "Well it can't be that bad, and the adults were telling us stuff we didn't like to hear. Yee haw, cut those programs! Tax us less! Money is magic!"
Honestly a lot of times old equipment works better. I'd rather the FAA hire some engineers to get replacement parts made instead of moving the entire thing to "the cloud" or some trash windows boxes.
Gamers know that when you get "killed", you get another life, and another, and another.
If they are looking at new avenues of finding employees to hire, wouldn't this technically be a DEI thing? Gamers are diverse... (That's all DEI was, is finding new candidate pools...)
I mean... you could also try modernizing the environment.
The system as it currently exists is incredibly archaic. Even the stuff that works is aging out.
https://www.aviationtoday.com/... [aviationtoday.com]
"...The FAA has been forced to spend the majority of its roughly $3 billion annual equipment budget simply keeping obsolete systems alive. In some facilities, controllers still rely on technology that uses floppy disks. (Yes, you read that right â" floppy disks.)
Replacement parts for certain components are no longer ma
To be fair, the entire governmental apparatus of the United States seems to be going "Ideology? Super. Caring about reality? Fuck off."
Giving a shit about the details right now is forest for trees stuff. The electorate has handed over the keys to the child in the backseat, thinking, "Well it can't be that bad, and the adults were telling us stuff we didn't like to hear. Yee haw, cut those programs! Tax us less! Money is magic!"
Honestly a lot of times old equipment works better. I'd rather the FAA hire some engineers to get replacement parts made instead of moving the entire thing to "the cloud" or some trash windows boxes.