Think about this next time you’re on a plane coming into land in the US: there is such a shortage of air traffic controllers that the authorities are ”accelerating” the training of new ones, according to The New York Times. The good news: they start on a simulator — what one instructor describes as “a big Xbox”. And the bad? When they begin their apprenticeships in a real control tower they have to shift gears because “they’ve been kind of desensitised to the fact they’re actually dealing with real traffic.”