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US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers
www.fox21online.com/news/national/us-hires-over-2-000-video-gamers-as-air-traffic-controllers/article_0a497575-59b7-54f4-bfa0-f7ebfb62eba8.html
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
“Seattle Approach, Cherokee 8121K, 20 southwest of Seattle VOR at 7,500, en route Arlington, request transit Class Bravo airspace.”
-“LMAO, shut the fuck up *****. Why don’t you get gud at being a pilot instead of being carried under tower from support every time looser?”
Replying to @owl@infosec.pub
female pilot voice
[most vile stream of misogynistic insults she’s ever heard followed by screeching]
Replying to @justsomeguy@lemmy.world
female pilot voice
How male-dominated is that profession, anyway?
Replying to @grue@lemmy.world
Very. The quick search I did indicated that 70.7% to potentially 97% of pilots are men.
Replying to @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
Honestly it should be 55% men in my opinion
Historically, when vision tests actually mattered, I could see that. These days most commercial flights could be piloted by practically blind people, outside of “jamming accidents” caused by the military, since the planes can see and detect everything better than any human, and we finally have the final approach lasers installed at every US airport.
These days it should probably be female dominated, just because statistically speaking women are being hired more frequently than men across the entirety of the job market.