radarman
4th Feb 2004, 03:55
What the hell is all this idiocy that's causing so much grief from those poor guys trying desperately to get a foothold on the ATC ladder? Spacial awareness, HR interviews. sorting shapes, shuffling numbers, pushing buttons before the monkey eats the banana? What's all this got to do with whizzing aluminium around the sky? Some years ago the ATC airboxes were wringing their hands about the lack of suitable candidates for training. Someone sensible said that all you needed to do was rope in a couple of dozen of the 'anoraks' from the roof of T2 and you'd have a course with a guaranteed 100% pass rate. Keen, enthusiastic, and they knew half of it anyway. Did anybody listen? Nah! Said that in future all candidates would need a degree. Fat lot of good that did! When I was instructing on Area Radar it was always the courses that spent most in the bar that got the best results.
Do we really need all this touchy-feely HR cr@p and psychobabble to select controllers? Am I the only one that feels all ATC training needs is a swift return to common sense? Let's hear from some ex-ARTS instructors on this.
Do we really need all this touchy-feely HR cr@p and psychobabble to select controllers? Am I the only one that feels all ATC training needs is a swift return to common sense? Let's hear from some ex-ARTS instructors on this.