Re:US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
by p_l on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @08:24AM
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The thing is... not everything you need to track, not even all airplanes, will have transponders.
Sometimes the transponders will be faulty, sometimes you have to direct a broken aircraft safely to the ground with no transponder available.
And sometimes you are doing ATC for a zone that does not, in fact, require transponders (those are required only for the strictest controlled zones, not in general)
Sometimes the transponders will be faulty, sometimes you have to direct a broken aircraft safely to the ground with no transponder available.
And sometimes you are doing ATC for a zone that does not, in fact, require transponders (those are required only for the strictest controlled zones, not in general)