i have to back up what Spitoon says here, its not the instructors that are the problem, its the managers making the decisions. It is more and more evident that NATS is now a business out to make as much money (or save as much by cutbacks) as possible, and not focus on the standard they are getting out of the college.
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Air/Ground is a licence endorsement whereby when you get to your unit, you are able to work a 'split sector' almost, of one person doing Air (take off and landings) and the other on clearance delivery and manouvering on the Apron and up to the holding points ready to handover to the Air controller who controls the landing and taking off. Without it, you are told you cannot progress to your unit (or so we thought) as all NATS units apparently operate Air/Ground.