Ladies and Gents,
I've been surfing this wild and wonderful internet and have noticed a few career/employment statistics and info sites that have stated ATC as an occupation that will have a smaller workforce in the future due to improvements in technology.
My question to those of you who are involved is......
"Do you agree with the hypothesis of a shrinking workforce or is this all a fairytale ????"
We all know that technology will slowly overtake some of the duties of a controller but is the day of computer delivered control on the way all too soon ????
And if this is true, will there be a shortage of ATC's in the future ?
And if so will those that remain be left with a life of Finger tapping into keyboards with no real Human interaction, leaving the Profession of Air Traffic Controller on the level of a data entry Clerk ?
Just a curious Bystander with an interest in the future of a Aviation Professionals.......