Originally Posted by 261A
If you are a very good student at ATC college would they put you onto area or aerodrome
There are supposedly three criteria, in rough order of priority from most important: numbers required in each discipline; aptitude shown at the (early) stage in college at which you are allocated rating courses, and your chosen preference.
When the preferences alone are looked at, airports rating courses are usually oversubscribed, particularly aerodrome as folks like looking out of the windows at the aircraft. Set against that is the fact that some people seem more suited to radar work than others, and a general perception that Area is the most difficult discipline (can't think why though
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