Tosirius

USAjob.gov and yes you get VA priority. Its how I got hired. There are prior experience bids that go out every so often. They will start you at a higher rate when you get to a facility.

I don't know what would scare me more, my scope going black during busy traffic or seeing a plane start squawking 7500

Working as a controller now, each plane has a time that it's supposed to hit a controllers airspace. The center will call sometimes if the plane did not pass through. I've only been controlling for three years, but each plane working under a specific flight plane is monitored heavily

From what my trainer told me." Fake it till you make it.-RW

When you control you have a scope. If a plane in your vicinity is hijacked the pilot will start to squawk 7500. All planes have a squawk its like how we know who they are. It would be scary to control this type of situation because you don't know way the plane is going to do. If you were controlling traffic(airplanes) and your screen went black it means that you lost radar on every aircraft. So you have to work non-radar. We all train for it, but I feel it would be fairly tough to do.