Usual age of successful applicants?
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Usual age of successful applicants?
Hi All
I have a son who is 17 doing an A level equivalent computing course at a local college. I was just wondering when is a good age to start applying for NATS courses? I suspect that most successful applicants are older so maybe he should get some other experence first before applying. Last year he top scored at Biggin Hill at the NATS trailer & we visted Bournemouth College before it moved.
Is there anyone out there at Swanwick who could show us round we are just in Guildford so its an easy run down.
Inglis
I have a son who is 17 doing an A level equivalent computing course at a local college. I was just wondering when is a good age to start applying for NATS courses? I suspect that most successful applicants are older so maybe he should get some other experence first before applying. Last year he top scored at Biggin Hill at the NATS trailer & we visted Bournemouth College before it moved.
Is there anyone out there at Swanwick who could show us round we are just in Guildford so its an easy run down.
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Inglis,
I applied when I was still doing my A-Levels, and started with NATS eight months after leaving it. My only job before ATC was a paper round.
I say get him to go for it.
I applied when I was still doing my A-Levels, and started with NATS eight months after leaving it. My only job before ATC was a paper round.
I say get him to go for it.
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I started my 'cadet course' when I was 23, having completed 'A' levels, 2 years as a 'non-state' assistant, and 3 years at university.
I qualified at my unit at 26, and returned to CATC to do area procedural and radar just after my 30th birthday. I recently did a formal unit 'assessment' 2 weeks after my 55th birthday.
On none of these courses was I the oldest, (or youngest), candidate.
If you want to do the job, and are prepared to accept that, in ATC, you will never stop learning, go for it!
I qualified at my unit at 26, and returned to CATC to do area procedural and radar just after my 30th birthday. I recently did a formal unit 'assessment' 2 weeks after my 55th birthday.
On none of these courses was I the oldest, (or youngest), candidate.
If you want to do the job, and are prepared to accept that, in ATC, you will never stop learning, go for it!
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