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Old 1st October 2006 | 14:14
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EDDK-2001
 
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Thanks for your infos. Actually I have contacted Navcanada already, they said they would be interested, BUT, they also said theres no way to get that f... security clearance. i took a few phone calls and a bit of luck to find the right person here at the embassy who is responsible to find out that it shouldn't be a problem to get that sec.clearance.

so now, knowing that on the one hand, navcanada would be interested and on the other being aware that the whole immigration thing would take a while but other than that shouldn't be a big problem, its now time to find out if working in Canada is really what I'm looking for.

That's why I was posting here. Is the job any better than in Germany? I mean, the DFS really sucks right now. They are getting prepared to be sold by the government etc.

So what are the working conditions like? What are you paid (ok, that depends - I'm working Tower (we only do the Tower business, they took away the Approach part from the Tower controllers unfortunatelly), in Germany we have a Tower rating with IFR seperation responsibilities within CTR, lots of VFR, i guess Cologne is not the busiest, but as well not the lasiest in the world).
How many hours do you work in the average?

Lots of questions before making that decision,
Christine
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