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Day in and day out, twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week, thousands of aviation professionals known as Air Traffic
Control Specialists, perform their duties in airport control towers and
in darkened radar rooms known as approach controls system and air route
traffic control centers. In these days of big government and complaints
of government waste, the air traffic control system is one ot the best
taxpayer investments. Every day, at around 1:00 P.M. there
are approximately 10,000 (Ten Thousand) aircraft flying in the skies of
the United States. A little more than half of those aircraft are
flying "in the system," Or, under the eyes of air traffic control.
This system has a remarkable safety record that no other mode of transportation
can match. In many schools and jobs, a person only needs to be right
70% of the time. In air traffic control, you must be right 100% of
the time.
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