Originally Posted by
kcockayne
They weren’t valid. They’d only just finished their Cadet course & quit before even starting at LATCC. We were very much looking forward to them starting - & swelling the ranks of the ATCO4s.
They would all have had validations from somewhere in their final year otherwise they wouldn't have graduated, but I'm not sure where. Our course manager, Mike Hunt (try saying that quickly) told us about it before we graduated but funnily enough some of my course already knew.
We were on the BEA Course (How to fly a Trident in 2 weeks) at Viking House, Southall and some of the guys had gone to the local pub where they'd met 2 of the ex 21 Course guys who were attending IAL's HQ which was nearby. I didn't; there were some stewardesses in the Viking House bar that evening so some of us stayed there!