America desperately needs more air traffic controllers

Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by lazystar on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:00PM (#42940393)

Thanks for the link, I was curious if I'd be a candidate and it turns out I was eliminated by the very first qualification:

"must have 20/20 vision in each eye, no contacts"

This will be more and more of a bottleneck as time goes on; growing up in-doors and looking at computer screens all day will increase nearsightedness.

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by throwaway2037 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:47PM (#42943025)

    > must have 20/20 vision in each eye, no contacts

The page doesn't say that. It says:

    > Applicants must demonstrate distant and near vision of 20/20 or better in each eye separately. The use of bifocal contact lenses for the correction of near vision is unacceptable.

Some light Googling will tell you that glasses or contact lenses to fix distant or near vision are fine.

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by lazystar on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:52AM (#42950269)

thank you for proving cunninghams law still applies! much appreciated.

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by throwaway2037 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:13PM (#42953585)

Cunningham's Law (the guy from the original Wiki): I had to look it up on Google:

    > The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.

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