varloid

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by varloid 2y ago
https://123atc.com/facility/ADW
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by varloid 2y ago
After lowering the standards so that 95% of people who took the test would pass.
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by varloid 2y ago
Do you think that makes someone 5 times more likely to be a good ATC than having served as an ATC in the military, which would get you 3 points? Or infinitely better than being an active ATC, which earned 0?
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by varloid 2y ago
The ATC academy can only handle ~1800 students per year. The issue is high failure rates at the academy and then at the facilities graduates are sent after graduation; increasing the quality of applicants should be the FAA's #1 goal.
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by varloid 2y ago
Across 2023 and 2024 the en route academy pass rate was ~66% and terminal pass rate was ~73%. Of that, ~25% of en route trainees fail at their facility and ~15-20% of terminal trainees fail at their facility. There are ~2 en route trainees
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by varloid 2y ago
> I.e the aptitude test battery is WORSE than the biodata scale. You're mistaken, it's the opposite. The first one found that AT-SAT performance was the best measure, with the biodata providing a small enhancement: > AT-SAT
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by varloid 2y ago
> Performance on the AT-SAT is not job performance. No, but it was the best predictor of job performance and academy pass rate there was. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA566825.pdf https://www.faa.
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by varloid 2y ago
They decided that at least some amount was acceptable - the minimum score on the AT-SAT was changed so that 95% of test takers would pass because the original threshold where 60% passed excluded too many black applicants. This was despite p