Wow - an article in the local paper hailing this new ATC sim provides some interesting figures quoted by the CEO himself. Is he just pulling numbers out of the air?
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au
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It is a critical part of meeting the shortage of air traffic controllers that are emerging. We need to train more of them,” Mr Russell said.
The technology is an Australian first, and Airservices hopes to train more than 100 air traffic controllers each year.
“We are taking a number of recruits from overseas. At the moment we have about 25 air traffic controllers from other parts of the world …but we know that isn’t going to be enough, we have to get people locally.”