Aims Community College has been approved to start an air traffic controllers program allowing students entry into the industry at a higher rate.
Aims will now offer the Enhanced Air Traffic – Collegiate Training Initiative, also known as E-CTI. The E-CTI is a part of the Air Traffic-Collegiate Initiative Program between selected colleges and universities in the U.S. and the Federal Aviation Administration.
There are two paths to becoming an air traffic controller within the collegiate initiative program: enhanced and standard.
The enhanced initiative allows qualified institutions to provide students with the same training and curriculum they’d receive at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City under the path within the standard initiative program, according to Aims Aviation Technology and Air Traffic Control professor Patti Phillips.
“In general, it’s important to address the current air traffic controller shortage, which I personally think is pretty severe,” Phillips said of the E-CTI program at Aims. “This will allow students who finish the program to go directly to an en route or tower facility, and the end goal is to get more air traffic controllers in the field at a higher rate.”
Aims’ E-CTI program will be based at the Gateway Building on the Windsor campus, along with other aviation programs.
Phillips, who spent 30 years as an air traffic controller, said before the start of the E-CTI program, the only path to being an air traffic controller was to go through the academy in Oklahoma City. Students in the enhanced training initiative must still pass assessments and meet medical and security requirements before beginning at a facility.
“I anticipate most students will go to the enhanced CTI program because it’s a quicker way to get into the job,” Phillips said.
Aims is one of 11 schools to work with the FAA on the E-CTI program, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Phillips said Aims has its certification for the E-CTI and the college should have its first graduates this spring. She added the FAA is allowing waivers for current students to be eligible for the E-CTI program as long as they have completed the curriculum required by the FAA.
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