splitduty wrote -
So-all you people who have never validated, or were unable to validate on LL radar, pontificate as to how easy it is! Look around the TC ops room and explain why all the other app sectors are full of people who didn`t make the grade at LL-------BUT----- now operate quite succeessfully on these so called busier and more complicated sectors. Don`t make me laugh
1) They involve a different type of controlling and require a different mindset -
I have never been valid on either at TC, but have been in the business a long time at more than one unit -
any ATCO worth his or her salt should be able to recognise and accept that different disciplines (app/area) and even more so, different sectors (north/south or cap/mids etc) require different techniques.
Techniques that in some cases, some people cannot come to terms with.
2) People who have failed at LL APP who then go on to validate at another APP sector in the room have, by then, had the benefit of receiving a heck of a lot more training/instruction than normal.
Would they have validated at the other App sectors if they had not had the benefit of extended training (and extended exposure to real, not simulated traffic)?
It's a question that cannot be answered with one hundred percent certainty, but no one can deny that extra time training, regardless if on the same or a different sector can only be beneficial and will surely help 'weaker' trainees.
Either that or the whole ethos of the training system vis a vis granting extra hours to see if a trainee can get over a particular hurdle is flawed.
Therefore,
viaEGLL, splitduties point is somewhat flawed!
No one is denying LL APP is intense, however, the 'little' airports (the ones that operate mixed mode day in day out to a single runway as it were) are not the sleepy hollows that I'mnotanERIC implies.