Originally Posted by throw a dyce
EGPD is very short of staff.You won't get £75 K though,unlike our friends at the College of all Knowledge. In fact you will be the second lowest paid in Nats,and on the Airport side have to have Tower,Approach Procedural,and Approach Radar tickets.Nice part of the world if you like clean air and quality of life,but difficult to validate on the Airport side.Housing getting expensive as well.Maybe we should get more £ to attract staff,but that's a different forum
Do you really need a procedural ticket for Aberdeen. NATS no longer run a full procedural course for its employees as it is not required at any of their units. Instead they run a short radar fail element in the Approach Radar Course at the college and then ( I believe) do a small unit specific procedural course as part of the Unit training plan, to enable controllers to work without radar. I suppose they might pay one of the other colleges to put their Aberdeen ATCO's through a procedural course.