Hi there,
The 3000RO is very good for singles, not so wonderful for marrieds and average for a family with grown kids, like me (4 adults now!!)
The salary covers everything, i.e. you have to pay for everything except a trip home at the end of your tenure. The gratuity is contained in the salary and there is basic government health care included. Every now and then, like once a decade, they throw in half a salary extra when there's a national day or the like.
You can get a nice apartment for about RO400 a month or a nice villa for about 600 RO a month. Just rough figures; you can do a whole lot better or worse!
You can have very heavy traffic at times because of the growth in the Middle Eastern airlines but there's still the odd spot during a day when you can do a bit of navel gazing/dreaming on position. It's not uncommon to have 20 aircraft on a sector frequency and more than 50 IFRs on the screen(three sectors). I think that our maximum daily overflight movements was around 700, but that's a just a vague memory. Haj will increase the volume even more; usually means about a 30% increase in traffic for us. Annual growth is about 14% per year. It can be fun with lousy freq's and some suspect procedures that we have to endure
Lots of training going on and more coming.
We have always had a good time here and will do so until the door closes. Always remember to come here with an open mind and have a plan B if necessary.
Good luck