Originally Posted by
cynicalint
20 things I've learned since becoming an air traffic controller
"Zero stress and an £80,000 salary: 20 things I've learned since becoming an air traffic controller"
It's not just aircrew who could look at higher paid jobs...saw this in the torygraph today, I assume contents to be taken with a pinch of salt but indicates the salaries available to other branches and trades outside the RAF.
Indeed, numerous mates of my generation went on to 2nd careers on the civil side. Although most of them (sqn ldr/wg cdr) tended to into office jobs at NATS. Still nicely paid, of course, on top of their RAF Pensions. We even had an Air Cdre who bailed out about a year after promotion, and went to Eurocontrol!
I have no idea what the current 'move across' might be, though. And there's no direct licencing read-across for operational ATCOs, to a very fifferent environment. So they would not only have to paas the civil training, buy also unlearn a lot of their past experience. ISTR that NATS wasn't very keen on ex-Mil ATCOs in the past.