Students in Polk County are preparing for careers as air traffic controllers using realistic simulator, hoping to fill nationwide shortage.

The Federal Aviation Administration's training academy is trying to get thousands more controllers into chronically ...

On a sprawling campus in the middle of the nation, thousands of students learn how to take command of the nation’s skies. The Federal Aviation Administration Academy, near the Oklahoma City airport, ...

Students in a building located at Bartow Executive Airport are using a $280,000 simulator, typically reserved for the ...

It’s here they train to operate in radar control centers, often far away from the planes they are directing. “N800BA, declaring an emergency.

The Trump Administration is speeding up its efforts to address a nationwide shortage of Air Traffic Controllers. Earlier this year, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a push to hire 2,000 ...

It’s what air traffic control students at Keesler Air Force Base are doing as they climb into a lofty career path. Five hundred students a year train in this program, and now a brand new ATC ...

SUNY Schenectady Community College has the most comprehensive air traffic control simulator in the country. SCCC is only the second, two-year college to have the program.