not a usual transition but there are similarities in the jobs that attract personality types; lots of autonomy, outdoors, high degree of comaradarie among your peer group. I'd add firefighters to the group as well.

Local community college here in town just added an Air Traffic controller major. 2-3 years of schooling and the FAA is banging down the door offering 6 figure jobs to the graduates.

the students are flocking from the pilot program to the controller program.