Ha Ha Ha, We're off to Kandahar!
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Ha Ha Ha, We're off to Kandahar!
Following an ad in this week's 'Flight', I logged on to the website of a certain ATC employment agency in High Wycombe, and found that the SATCO, DSATCO, 3 Watch supervisors, and 5 radar controllers have already been appointed. And the NATO contract hasn't been awarded yet 
So, my fellow PPRuNers, who are you lucky guys that are in line to start collecting your £83,000? Come on, own up, we know you are out there.
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So, my fellow PPRuNers, who are you lucky guys that are in line to start collecting your £83,000? Come on, own up, we know you are out there.
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its nice to see that the "company" recruiting for this once in a lifetime ( however short that lifetime may turn out to be) is not wasting much money on his advertising budget.
one and a half square inches of advert in flight must be a sign that this prospective employer is keeping unecessary expense down in order to pay those £83 k wages !!
one and a half square inches of advert in flight must be a sign that this prospective employer is keeping unecessary expense down in order to pay those £83 k wages !!
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Anyone know what is going on with the NATO contract and if anyone else is bidding etc?
Fox3 you normally have your ear close to the ground
Cheers
SAS
Fox3 you normally have your ear close to the ground
Cheers
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That's cause I am normally asleep in the gutter!!!
Haven't been able to fathom too much on the other bidder...if in fact there is one???!
A summer deployment too...joy of joys!!
Haven't been able to fathom too much on the other bidder...if in fact there is one???!
A summer deployment too...joy of joys!!
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Thanks for that.
As we did not really have a summer here in the land of the long white cloud this year, I am looking forward to twisting by the pool in Kandahar
SAS
As we did not really have a summer here in the land of the long white cloud this year, I am looking forward to twisting by the pool in Kandahar
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I belive that Kellogs Root Brown are the other bidder / main player; Dick Chain*ys Mob? Let me see ; an American modus Operandi up for contract to either a smallish company (in the case of supplying large ATCO numbers) and a completely different way of doing ATC (BRITMIL), or give the contract to the company already running everything else on base? That said the Ozzies are on their way to manage some airspace according to our local rag. Fighter Controllers I think, but it wasnt made that clear. End of the day the Ozzy Mil ATC could take on the contract; as in Somalia / East Timor; provide a safe service and cost NATO bugger all! And there is a Q of people waiting to go; on account of the tax free pay and generous allowances the Oz government pay the Mil (unlike GB!!). I think 6 months worth is equal to about a A$40K bonus !! Just have to close a few bases and hope ASA can pick up the slack - but Hey ... some commercial aircraft already land without ATC at night when the Mil have knocked off at 2200; So perhaps no one would know the difference!!
Time will tell.
Good luck to all the players and may you all get what you wish for!
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Time will tell.
Good luck to all the players and may you all get what you wish for!
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Gisa...
Kellogg Brown Root (KBR) (the UK arm)...pffft gfaw! 
No such thing, still a US company and you are bidding on a piggy back system and that's why you set the conditions of service as you did because they stipulated the requirements...you didn't!
Good luck mate, you are going to need it....
No such thing, still a US company and you are bidding on a piggy back system and that's why you set the conditions of service as you did because they stipulated the requirements...you didn't!
Good luck mate, you are going to need it....
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Fox3,
Actually, there is a UK branch of Kellogg, Brown Root. It's in Leatherhead, Surrey, but the website says it deals in development of offshore driiling, pipework and oil exploration. Nothing mentioned about ATCO's, but these international conglomerates are pretty incestuous, so the UK branch could well be dealing with Gisajob. Even though the contract is in Afg.....tan.
By the way, read post #6 from the mods. We're doing OK so far, but I reckon your last post may get us all sucked into Midland Radar's overhead again, just like the last two K.....ar threads.
Actually, there is a UK branch of Kellogg, Brown Root. It's in Leatherhead, Surrey, but the website says it deals in development of offshore driiling, pipework and oil exploration. Nothing mentioned about ATCO's, but these international conglomerates are pretty incestuous, so the UK branch could well be dealing with Gisajob. Even though the contract is in Afg.....tan.
By the way, read post #6 from the mods. We're doing OK so far, but I reckon your last post may get us all sucked into Midland Radar's overhead again, just like the last two K.....ar threads.
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WW...
Whilst I do have a vivid imagination...I certainly didn't respond to my mind talking out loud (at least I hope not or I will change my medication! ).
Not sure where his post went....
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The MIA post did actually clarify a few things. I for one was under the impression that "SafeSkies was bidding for a stand alone contract' . Consequently I seriously doubted whether they would be competitive especially when considering the other player - KRB. However I now stand corrected / informed, that KRB is the main player and SS are just a sub contractor - endeavouring to create a viable ATC workforce to fulfill a sub contractual bid/ arrangement. If they have won/agreed that sub contract with KRB, and are not just tendering with others to KRB , then I would now think that they are in a good position to almost start counting their chickens. Just a case of getting all their chickens/ ducks in a row before any start date. I wish them well; and if nothing comes of it at least it has given quite a few UK Mil ATCO's in particular, some excitement, hoping that they may be able to leave their current uniformed job and work as ATC elsewhere in the world without completely retraining. Job opps for purely ex mil controllers have always been few and far between. In my day, in order to spread your ATC wings a bit, you had to either fly well south ( and then put on another uniform ) or talk to the nice gentlemen at Hurn with your chequebook in hand.
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SAS,
If my memory serves me correctly, the missing post from Gisajob said that the decision was originally planned for May 7th, but was likely to be postponed till the beginning of June.
PS. It's Safeskies, not Safe Skys. Gisa tore me off a strip for querying his weird spelling.
If my memory serves me correctly, the missing post from Gisajob said that the decision was originally planned for May 7th, but was likely to be postponed till the beginning of June.
PS. It's Safeskies, not Safe Skys. Gisa tore me off a strip for querying his weird spelling.