Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controllers, supervisors, and managers were surveyed to determine how they feel about their working conditions. This updates a similar study done in 1985. Eighty-four facilities were surveyed on various issues including staffing adequacy, training of new controllers, morale, and safety of the air traffic control system. Five thousand ninty-eight out of six thousand four hundred sixty-nine questionnaires were returned. The Flight Safety Foundation, an independent international membership organization dedicated solely to the improvement of flight saftey, evaluated the questionnaire results and provided its views on safety. The Foundation concluded that the air traffic control system is not unsafe, remains essentially unchanged from 1985, and is less than desirable. FAA has planned or undertaken several nationwide initiatives to address work force concerns. These include plans for improving its recruitment and hiring techniques, revolutionizing the way it trains air traffic controllers, and using a pay demonstration project to attract personnel to hard-to-staff facilities.
Aviation Safety: Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force. Report to Congressional Requesters
1989
59 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Air Transportation , Psychology , Air traffic control , Air traffic controllers (Personnel) , Aircraft safety , Flight safety , Operator performance , Surveys , Congressional reports , Education , Morale , Stress (Biology) , Stress (Psychology) , Work capacity , Workloads (Psychophysiology)