BTB
Radar skills is still assessed but i believe RS will go with the new structure, Area RS is still trained by Aerodrome though
I know of a guy that failed Area 1 verbals because he knew everything as it was written in the book but he had no ideas of his own - I WONDER WHY? Failed and out of the company. ( His first out was from Radar skills taught by AD instructors!!)
Currently, the amount of word for word needed to learn is about 50 pages of A4. And most of it is forgotten the day after the exam. In ACS2 there are two written progress tests, again word for word, but there is no actual written exam, but there is a verbal. surely the answer here would be to have a mock verbal instead therefore letting the trainee know what to expect and also to start to learn MATS etc in a verbal/practical way.
I guess you could rant on forever about training etc. no-one will be satisfied, and who knows it may change with the new structure.
