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Old 5th Dec 2008, 11:18
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classicwings
 
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I wish you the best of luck, but you seem to assume that NCL will fall over themselves to employ you when in fact, if you haven't already validated your licence, you realistically are on the same level as an existing ATSA at NCL who has the experience and aptitude to be put forward for all the courses.
Niknak,

Just to further my reply to your post, I could raise the point that whereas a current ATSA employee at EGNT could be recommended for training to become a controller, the advantage that I would have is that I would be approaching them with my student aerodrome licence (and FISO licence) already under my belt ready to be trained up to validation straight away, as opposed to the ATSA. On the flip side of this though, I suppose one could argue the fact that the ATSA could well have the advantage of having more practical experience/familiarity of the unit and of the aerodrome/ ATC procedures in general, having actually worked there.


Anyway, I will cross that bridge when I get to it.

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