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Facing a severe shortage, the FAA is racing to hire thousands of air traffic controllers. But training them can take years. We visit a school in Florida that's trying to get them on the job faster.

"That's where we come in," says Michael McCormick, who worked as an air traffic controller and manager at the FAA for over 30 years and now runs the air traffic management program at Embry-Riddle.

Air traffic control outages, runway construction, and an announcement by United Airlines that over 20% of FAA controllers at Newark walked off the job have all contributed to the delays.

Facing a severe shortage, the FAA is racing to hire thousands of air traffic controllers. But training them can take years. We visit a school in Florida that's trying to get them on the job faster.

"That's where we come in," says Michael McCormick, who worked as an air traffic controller and manager at the FAA for over 30 years and now runs the air traffic management program at Embry-Riddle.