Amid a soaring need for air traffic controllers nationwide, the solution may have just landed inside a classroom in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Nashua Community College recently launched an enhanced air traffic control program .

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Gone are the days of students having to spend time at the Federal Aviation Administration campus in Oklahoma City to become controllers. All the necessary training is now done on a runway model and a very realistic simulator, giving students the chance to go through all the paces of an air traffic controller right in the Granite State.

"Every day folks are showing up to ask about our program," said Douglas Mitchell, aviation professor and department chair at Nashua Community College. "The

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