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The massive ATC mega-centre is pleased to welcome a chap from the aerodrome world as new Deputy GM, and I'm sure he will guide us to a bright future, finding 68 controllers to cover the staff shortage might be a good start.
By the way, if you have over 45 minutes aerodrome experience there is a vacancy for Watch Manager at Gatwick, and don't worry, the selection process is designed so that ability and competence-to-do-the-job elements are filtered out.
Oooooooohhhhhhh ...so young ....... so cynical
.......... ..... just play golf with the right people
and you'll be all right.
My advice FWIW ...... Go Area ... and that's all you'll ever do.
Go Aerodrome/Approach and you may actually have a choice of future employers, the future possibility (perhaps) of switching to Area (but get your bid in early), and the chance to actually see pointy noisy things. But the big risk is ... you might end up tower only ......
Sure the pay may be less (unless you are at one of the clear to land, clear to land, clear to land, clear to land units), but in the big scheme of things, variety is the spice etc....
If you can get it, Edinburgh or Glasgow would be a fine choice, variety and lots of nice people to speak to on the radio or coordinate with at Scottish .....
and you don't get to live on the pissy wet south coast
