Originally Posted by WexCan
Seems if I do get in I'd prob have to go the area route -website says you need to be 20 to get a radar license, so for me that would allow me to start early 2007 and finish when I'm 20.
Wonder how that works.
When will you be 20? You need to be 20 to hold a radar rating (should that be a 'surveillance' rating in new-speak?), but you don't get one of those until you validate on a radar position at your unit. This could be anything up to a couple of years after you leave the college in Bournemouth, whether that be at an aerodrome where you validate in Tower first, or at an area unit, where it can just take a bloody long time. If you end up working at a tower-only unit, you'll never hold a radar rating, so it's not an issue.