APS course Cwmbran 15 th oct.

[bigbenmurphy]

Anyone else on here booked onto the radar course in Cwmbran a week Monday?? Hello from me anyway, will see you there.
DB

[Badger001]

Cwmbran

I start 7th Jan. Not much help I know but if you have any hints and tips.....

[Badger001]

I start Basic on 17th Nov and Radar on Jan 7th. Not much help I know but if you have any hints and tips......

[GAPSTER]

No hints or tips??

[360BakTrak]

Tip 1, stop repeating yourself.

[reportyourlevel]

Basic straight onto radar seems unusual, are you ex-mil?

[Andy Mayes]

Basic straight onto radar seems unusual, are you ex-mil?

Not unusual these days, it depends on what discipline the sponsoring unit needs at the time, I personally did Basic then straight onto APP, I didn't do ADI till a year later and there were several on that course who had only APS. All civil.

[ZOOKER]

How can you do APS if you haven't done APP? What happens if the radar suddenly fails?

[Andy Mayes]

How can you do APS if you haven't done APP? What happens if the radar suddenly fails?

The UK APS course covers radar outages, or as one college puts it: "equip entrants with the skills required to confidently deal with traffic in the event of a radar failure".

Does NATS even run APP courses these days?

[Badger001]

I am ex-mil but our unit has tower controllers coming out of it's ears. Hence the radar course.

[man friday]

How can you do APS if you haven't done APP? What happens if the radar suddenly fails?

The same way as the centre guys have ACS and no ACP :-)

[DeanCross]

I shall be there but not on APS. Which hotel have you got?

[criss]

What's the point of APP in a busy sector? You won't handle it anyway.

[Badger001]

Dean,

Hotel? Nah, I'll be slumming it in a rental. Full details not worked out as yet though.

Hoping for someone to come in with me for a house rather than a single room. Am liaising with the college at the moment.

Cheers