fujii,
The instructors are teaching what you need to know to pass the academy course. They are required to hold endorsements for the airspace/aerodromes they are teaching and are themselves checked regularly similar to field controllers.
Is what they are teaching up to date? Are MBZs and GAAP Towers still in the curriculum? Are out of date sep standards still in the curriculum? It is okay to say they are teaching what you need to know to pass the academy course, but is the academy course up to date?
Has ASAs total balls up of the last 10+ years in regards to training been the big contributor to the less than 40% check out rate?
Has the 'exNAB Genius" further destroyed ASAs ability to replace the retirement tsunami that is about to be realised.
Is a rating on a fictitious piece of airspace with fictitious pilots equal to a current rating in the real world. Before you get excited fujii, I personally know many of the instructors (good people on the whole, and they will know who I am on this forum). I reckon all will agree, that all things being equal ( ability to impart knowledge, etc) that the best instructor is the one with recent real world experience.
Although instructors may not have been in the field for a while, they will have a comprehensive knowledge of ATC procedures so they can prepare you for your final posting.
Rubbish, procedures change. If the College can't keep the curriculum up to date due to a lack of bodies and an incompetent boss then they are not preparing the trainees for final field posting.
How many years ago did MBZs go the way of the dinosaur? When did we get rid of visual seperation about FL125? All of this is still in the Academy Course.
Fujii, it would be great for current controllers to have a break from 24/7/365 controlling and deliver the training to the ab-initios, but this won't happen because ASA has been taken over by people who are large on 'big picture', 'worlds best practice', and 'continuous improvement' whilst lining their own pockets.
These individuals realise that the government cannot let ASA 'fail', alot like the RAAF, and also realise that the government cannot admit that the government lacked any kind of oversight of the disaster.
When it comes tumbling down, the architects of the stuff-up, will be rewarded with promotions, directorships to cover up the train wreck. These narcissistic individuals realise that there are enough people below them who actually give a sh!t and that these people, who have been shafted for years, will fix up the disaster that the expense account rorters created.
This is not a slur on those who are delivering the training to the ab-initios, they are doing this in spite of the train wreck ASA have become under the current CEO, who continues to pretend that he is fixing the stuff-ups of the past CEO. Six years now, that argument is getting very old.