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T-RCED-92-67 1 (1992-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacjqk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: had 58, or about 14 percent, fewer controllers than called for by its standard. In 1991 we found, at both centers and terminals, that the placement of FAA Academy graduates was inconsistent with the standards. Some graduates were placed at facilities that had more staff than called for by the standards rather than at equivalent facilities, in the same region, that had fewer staff than the standards indicated. Specifically, we found that FAA placed Academy graduates at six centers with more controllers than the standards prescribed. FAA headquarters officials believe that many deviations from the staffing standards are based on the regions' special knowledge of operational needs. For example, regions might explain placing more staff at a facility than the standard indicates because of a higher than anticipated attrition rate, a greater work load than anticipated, or the facility's special ability to train controllers. FAA expects the number of controllers to decrease through attrition to 17,721 by the end of fiscal year 1992. In fiscal year 1993, FAA is requesting funds for only 17,871 controllers, although its staffing standard indicates that 18,128 are needed. An Air Traffic official said FAA requested about 250 controllers fewer than the standard indicates because (1) the agency is revising its screening process for hiring new controllers and wants to take on relative'ly few controllers during this transitional year and (2)

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