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What are the Requirements to Become an Air Traffic Controller?

If you're looking for an exciting, challenging and rewarding career in the field of aviation, then becoming an air traffic controller just may be the perfect fit for you. Air traffic controllers work to control the flow of air traffic, coordinating the movements of aircraft ensuring that planes fly at safe distances apart.

Air traffic controllers control the nation's skies twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. There are over 350 air traffic control locations across the United States full of some of the most exceptional air traffic controllers who work in approach control facilities, control towers, and/or route centers.

This is a job that requires total concentration and focus at all times, which is part of what makes it such a challenging field. The work can become stressful and at times even exhausting due to the fact that working night and weekend shifts is highly-common and probable. An air traffic controller should be highly-motivated, committed, dependable, self-confident, and decisive.

Requirements to become an air traffic controller include:
  • Completion of an air traffic management degree from a Federal Aviation Administration certified school, also known as a FAA certified school.
  • You must be a U.S. citizen.
  • You must achieve a qualifying score on the Federal Aviation Administration pre-employment test.
  • You must complete a training course at the Federal Aviation Administration Academy.
  • You must be under the age of 31 to become an air traffic controller, unless you have previous experience and are over the age of 31.
  • You must pass an extensive medical examination and a thorough background check. The medical examination will include but is not limited to: substance abuse, hearing, and vision screening.
Those interested in becoming air traffic controllers with previous air traffic control experience may not have to complete all of these FAA educational requirements. Air traffic control experience includes any previous military air traffic control experience. Upon graduation from the FAA Academy, you may be assigned to any one of the 350 towers or centers around the country to begin your exciting, challenging and rewarding career.

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