Hello White14,
I explained the day of Phase 1 in my last post.
If you're from far away you'll get a hotel room for 1 or 2 night before the day of testing. There is also an oppurtunity to get one 1 or 2 nights after.
The travel expenses are reimbursed (so you'll pay them yourself and get them back.) You also get an extra 10 euro's for the bus trip from the hotel to Eurocontrol and back.
At Eurocontrol you get some breakfast and lunch vouchers to have something to eat.
After the first part (the FEAST test) you'll have to wait about an hour or an hour and a half for the results.. This is when the tension builds up
You'll get a letter that says if you passed or failed. When you passed, you go to the SDM test, if you fail, you go home.
After the SDM test it's time to go back home, or to the hotel.
After a few days you'll get an e-mail saying that you passed or failed. If you passed you'll get an invitation for phase 2. I don't know what the time between the fases is. It's not a standard.
When you get invited for phase 2 it's the same story. You get a hotel room for the amount of days you need.
At the day of testing you go to Eurocontrol, you'll get the vouchers and you start with a group discussion. You'll get some information and have to solve a problem TOGHETER!! Make sure everyone says some usefull things. When you'll solved it, a women will come with some additional information that might change your solution.
After that it's time for an individual test, make a flight plan. After that you'll have to present your plan to 3 observers, you'll get some questions and then it's waiting again, till everyone presented their plan.
After that you'll go discuss your plans in another group discussion. You'll probably take something out of each plan and make a final plan.
Then you'll have some lunch and go to the Ops Room. That is where the fun begins! You'll get to sit next to a working Air Traffic Controller for about half an hour. Afterwards you'll have the feeling you could sit there the rest of the day. Just ask him anything you want, they explain it all and you'll learn something!!
Then again, it's time to go home. You'll get a call probably the same day. Again it's pass or fail.
Fail means, game over
Pass means you'll have to go to the interview. It's 1,2 or 3 days after the phase 2 test. So you'll probably stay in Maastricht then.
The interview takes about 60 to 90 minutes. They ask you things about your motivation, family and much more. At the end of the interview you'll have to solve 2 or 3 problems. You'll have to explain the way you think.
If you're lucky you can call them in the afternoon, otherwise it's around a week later.
Fail or pass, same story.
If you pass you'll get an invitation for the medical examination. I've got mine 22 february so I can't tell you anything about that..
Hope you'll find this usefull. If you have anymore questions just ask!
I'll answer you next week. I'm going on a holiday tomorrow so no time to check the forum then!!