nats college of atc bournemouth
The CATC does use burnt out ATCOs who did not validate, esp at Area units. NATS is not going to bin these people. It has to be said that some of them do make a tremendous effort to contribute. Others live in a pedantic paradise which does not apply to the real world. The CATC currently uses three ATCOs who hold TC and en route validations. Management would probably pay lip service to agreeing that this number should be increased but would be wary of the extra costs entailed. If they could staff AREA without resorting to this ploy they would do so. There is little difficulty encountered in recruiting aerodrome ATCO instructors as for many it represents promotion from ATCO 3 to ATCO 2. They are desperately short of suitable AREA applicants. Why is this? Could it be that for most folk it is just not an attractive proposition?