Airservices Australia Psychometric Testing
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Hi Cranny
Got the removalists sorted today and left work for the last time, so not long now til the move south.
Then the fun begins with looking for a house near the airport etc.
Then the fun begins with looking for a house near the airport etc.
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Caveman, there's a few of us down there with you! I'm on the December OOM and was asked by e-mail early February to update my references but none of them have been contacted yet.
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Good Luck to those of you starting course on Monday.. great timing for you to start with a 4 day weekend next week!!
Time flies at the Academy, feels as though we only started last week ourselves, however we are into week 8 come Monday!!!!
To those of you on the Merit List.. hang in there - It's worth the wait.
Time flies at the Academy, feels as though we only started last week ourselves, however we are into week 8 come Monday!!!!
To those of you on the Merit List.. hang in there - It's worth the wait.
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3 days of induction done
Hi Guys, just completed 3 days of induction for ATC 36, we have been bombarded with "war stories" about the rates of success on previous courses, like the App course sent to the UK where 1 out of 40 passed.
Hope to get something useful done tomorrow like applying for travel expences befor the 4 day weekend!
Hope to get something useful done tomorrow like applying for travel expences befor the 4 day weekend!
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At what stage did the 6-8 find out that they failed - was it during the course work, or during the simulator phase? I assume that if you don't make the required 70%+ on the various exams you'd find out soon enough and could try to go back to your old life. What sort of warning do you get, and what sort of support do you get after you've been dropped??? I know the dole isn't a whole lot less than the training wage, but it would be nice to know there's some recognition of the sacrifices people are making in taking the training plunge and giving them support while they pick up the pieces.
However you only get 2 supp's for theory so it is still very possible to fail during this stage.
As far as support if you don't make it, some people will be offered positions within the company in other roles, however you can not count on it.
Other than that support if you fail is virtually non existent.
There is a lot of pressure on you while you are training, however all I can say is if you make it it is worth all the hard work.
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All good stories grow with time????
Well that sounds more realistic, some of our instructors have been contradicting each other as a good story gets corrected by someone with the technical knowhow and not just an expanded opinion from another perspective. I think its mostly just reality check for the new students to shock us into getting motivated to self study and accept the reality of the job, ie you ca or cant do it in the sim. my 2cents worth anyway.
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UK App courses
well 40 on one course did sound large, considering our system struggles with sim time and instructor numbers, the UK cant be that much larger than us???