What do i do to score this job?

What does an air traffic controller do? and do you have to score high on the asvab to get this job in the AF?

• also if i were to transition this job to a civilian job is it a high paying job??

• Answer:

  Airport Tower Controllers regulate a specific airport's traffic. They use two-way radios to give pilots permission to take off and land. They also direct ground traffic, which includes taxiing aircraft, vehicles, and airport workers. Tower Controllers normally direct air traffic within three to thirty miles of an airport. When planes leave this assigned airspace they are passed on to an En Route Center. En Route Controllers regulate flights between airports. They contact pilots by radio and control their position in the airways between tower jurisdictions. Using sophisticated radar and computer equipment, they maintain a progressive check on aircraft and issue instructions, clearance, and advice. When an aircraft leaves the airspace assigned to an En Route Center, control passes on to the next center or to a Tower Controller. If a pilot is lost or having trouble, the center gives orientation instructions and directions to the nearest emergency landing field. En Route Controllers work in teams of two or three. The Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT = AR + 2WK + 2PC + MK) score is used for entry into the US military regardless of job specialty, and four separate Aptitude Indices are used by the Air Force for determining eligibility for specific jobs: Mechanical (M = GS + 2A/S + MC), Administrative (A = WK + PC + NO + CS), General (G = AR + WK + PC), and Electronic (E = GS + AR + MK + EI). The minimum qualifying AFQT percentile score for Air Force entrance is 40 . In addition, entry into the ATC career field requires passing a flight physical and a Reading Aloud Test, vision correctable to 20/20, and a minimum score of 53 on the G composite (25). Applicants with qualifying scores on the AFQT and on the G composite are selected for ATC training in one of two ways. Some are selected for ATC training prior to Basic Military Training (BMT). Other applicants enter BMT with a guaranteed job in one of the four broad US Air Force career clusters (M, A, G, or E) and are assigned to a training specialty as part of a classification process during BMT. In either case, ATC candidates are provided only with minimal descriptions of the nature of a controller‘s actual job duties, and the information that is provided tends to describe only the more attractive aspects of the job.