Originally Posted by
Will_McKenzie
These are Ab-initio ATCOs who are being posted directly from the college to dual rated units with only an ADI rating. No failing involved and then keeping a competitor in business by sending the ATCOs on their APS courses with them!
I'm talking about before 2008; there were definitely controllers posted to Farnborough who had failed training at Swanwick LACC and rather than waste the money spent training them they were 're-streamed' to aerodrome and sent on an APS course after they had achieved C of C in the tower.