Nah the answer is pay your people enough to live and hire enough people to comfortably manage the skies. I know, wild shit.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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Lmao, yeah, make gamers do one of the most stressful jobs on Earth.
The most stressful job with super strict restrictions because of how stressful it is. Cannot apply if over 30. Once hired must retire after 35 years or at age 65, whichever comes first. Cannot work more than 8 hours without an 8 hour break between next shift. Plus tons of other shit to keep people sane. You literally have the lives of people in your hands. One mistake is too many.
lol at you panicking about the hours off legislation
Its so little compared to developed countries
I watch a lot of flight sim vids and, on the serious servers, the ATC are incredibly locked in. Some of the ATC setups are insane too. They have so many screens and spreadsheets monitoring all the maps, radars, and out of tower views. And they do all this for "fun". If you listened to their radio chatter, you would have no idea it's sim.
They fight over slots in the most busiest of airports too so they can handle the most intense traffic.
Yeah but its not real. No one is going to die if you mess up.
I'm quite sure anyone that undertakes ATC training is made well aware of that. The advantage with these gamers is they're already very advanced in their knowledge and skillset, so they're a lucrative pool of candidates that require much less knowledge and situational training. Similar to how we have a lot of sim racers who very quickly transitioned into successful racing careers, rather than years and years of coming up through different classes.
People who are investing that much time and energy into hyper realistic flight sim LARPs are pretty often going to have higher paying jobs already. At least that's been my experience. I know a few people who do this kind of thing and they are all making 3x as much as a new hire ATC grunt makes.
I mean I'm sure its going to rear some good candidates. But this isn't racing either. This is thousands of people's lives in your hands every day and thats different when its not a sim. Racing, you're only going to wreck yourself and other racers who signed up for it. Here, you could kill entire families with one mistake. Its a different weight entirely. Not to mention all the regulations to beat back insanity. Do racers have to do this? No, becauss their job is fun.