Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110430:13:17:00
Us. >> this may look like a grown man playing with a model airplane but he's an instructor at the faa's traffic control training facility and this is their low-tech classroom. a scale model of an airport runway with all kinds of different aircraft. do you think the traveling public would be surprised that the air traffic controllers who are directing their flights in and out of airports are actually learning to do it with model airplanes? >> i would say probably 80% of our time spent on the job training plugged in working live traffic. here's an opportunity where we can use simulation training...
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