ATC IssuesA place where pilots may enter the 'lions den' that is Air Traffic Control in complete safety and find out the answers to all those obscure topics which you always wanted to know the answer to but were afraid to ask.
hey Moravcik25! I have my stage 3 on the 23rd aswell! see you there! i am trying to prepare answers for interview questions and also have visits arranged to belfast international and swanwick control centre.
Where are you travelling from? I am flying over from Northern Ireland.
The test with the numbers flying about that you have to make sure don't collide combined with the mental arithmetic was insane! Keeping one eye on the map and numbers flying about while trying to work out 1023+564 with the multiple choice answers A 1586 B 1587 C 1588 D 1589. Not that difficult a question but when you only see the questions and answers for about 3 seconds before the next question comes up it was a nightmare! Not to mention there was about 25 questions.
But apart from that test the rest of it went quite well so i'm quietly hopeful Hopefully find out early next week if I'm lucky.
I am travelling from Scotland on the Wednesday morning, get into Bournemouth for about 10ish I think, hopefully be a nice day and I can relax for the day before the interview, I think having a full day to relax before it worked well for me at stage 2 so fingers crossed we have the same result this time.
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I felt ok after stage 2, I wasn't shouting that I'd passed but on the same note I didn't feel like I performed to badly, there's nothing you can do about it now, so hopefully you get the result you want then the nerves for S3 can start! Good luck
Hey guys. I have stage 2 coming up in a couple of weeks and the email says the dress code is like stage 1 Smart casual. Could somebody pin down for me what I should actually be wearing. Because a suit for an hour in stage 1 wasn't so bad. But for x many hours in the summer I'm not looking forward to. Do I just have to grin and bare it or is there someway I can relax the dresscode?
Personally, I wouldn't say that smart-casual means wearing a suit at all - that's usually termed smart.
I would suggest suit trousers, shirt, proper shoes and maybe a tie, but it really depends on you... If you go for short sleeves, it shouldn't be too bad!
Stage 2 computer test - collision/numbers collision
On the collision test with numbers and simultaneous maths arithmatic sums, for those who've done it stage 2 did you *honestly! * answer what you reckoned was correct for the maths too?
Not sure as it seemed highly demanding to do both, I don't believe I answered any maths questions at least correctly when I was there at CTC doing them.
i know i answered a few questions perfectly- but i was looking at the questions and remembering them, looking at the planes, then looking at the answers, and remembering them, then removing planes, and then, hopefully still having enough time to answer the question before they disappear- the key was that you could answer a previous question IF a new question hadn't been displayed.
On the collision test I answered 1 maths question the rest of the time I didn't get chance. I also missed a few things in the afternoon session that I thought I should have picked up, but didn't. I came out thinking I'd failed badly but apparently I did well enough so don't give up hope. Good luck
Way back (2006) when I did the computer tests, I answered 1 or 2 maths questions then simply stopped the planes/numbers hitting each other - somehow seemed more important
If I remember correctly, I only answered questions if I had the time and that wasn't often. I concentrated on not letting the planes collide...I still had four collisions then found out the keys weren't working properly and the computer crashed!!
The whole NATS Stage 2 for me was a disaster as the computer crashed twice while I was doing the Strip Test.
So I was convinced that I had failed but I didn't.
Good Luck and i hope to see you at the next course
The year has passed, just completed the online application form....hopefully have more success with it this year. Anyone else re-applying at the moment?
Hopefully find out early next week if I'm lucky.
* answer what you reckoned was correct for the maths too?
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