"To be honest, I haven't heard specifically, but I was given the impression that there wasn't a different course for enroute melbourne and enroute Brisbane, that the paths would diverge after the 12 months in Melbourne, and the city specific training would be the 6 months probation as such. As I said, I have no hard evidence of that, it was just the impression I was given
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Enroute training is the same for both Brisbane and Melbourne - once you pass your initial 44 weeks you then go to whichever of those centres houses the zone you are assigned to ... you then spend the next however long it takes you (usually 3-4 months I gather) getting your first endorsement in the zone - once you have that you are an actual ATCO (and that is also when your training bond kicks in)
The tower and the enroute intakes can start together but they split up fairly early on in the piece - I think I remember someone suggesting around week 9 or 12 ish ...
In any case good luck
