What about those NATS employees that are now single rated under the harmonised licence (with the merging of the Area Radar Control Rating into the APS rating)? Or those that did ADC and APR courses but were posted to TC, LL/KK Twr only or Aberdeen where the chances of using your tower ticket are measured in years?
NATS has been screwing up peoples licences and career prospects for years, and wasting a huge abounts of money dual rating folk at the college and then posting them to units where one or the other will never get used! The company is now full of single rated guys through no fault of their own, so why not look at recruiting the single rated guys they trained in the first place?
The fact that NATS shys away from rehiring single rated ex employees is that the NATS HR machine is too proud to admit that NATS NEEDS more valid controllers than CATC is producing. All very well having the numbers coming into CATC, but when they fail to validate what was the point in the first place?
When will NATS eventually drag itself out of the old Civil Service days and realise that all it is successfully doing is continuing to cut it's nose off to spite it's face? A controller with even a single validation is surely a more valuable asset than a stude from the college that fails to validate having had thousands of pounds thrown at them!
Come on NATS, grow up!!!!
