Becoming an Air Traffic Controller in Spain
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God... What is the logic behind all this? Seems completely retarded that you would need the ACC and procedural ratings to be able to work in a tower. Do you have any information regarding the private companies? Last time I looked the salaries were ****e but maybe they have gotten closer to the salaries of Enaire the last few years?
God... What is the logic behind all this? Seems completely retarded that you would need the ACC and procedural ratings to be able to work in a tower. Do you have any information regarding the private companies? Last time I looked the salaries were ****e but maybe they have gotten closer to the salaries of Enaire the last few years?
We did 3 years total with classroom work interspersed with field training and towards the middle of the 3rd year you were offered choices as to where your final posting might be or sometimes simply told where it would be, you couldn't choose for yourself. Having expressed a preference for ACS Upper Airspace, I was offered either Farnborough as first choice or Heathrow as second so I chose Farnborough.
On graduation I was thus posted to an MOD research airfield where I actually got to use all the ratings I had studied for in the previous 3 years ie Tower, approach, approach radar, area and area radar plus a later 'add on' of PAR.
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Many ATCOs did this type of training in the UK from the '60s through to the '90s with NATS.
We did 3 years total with classroom work interspersed with field training and towards the middle of the 3rd year you were offered choices as to where your final posting might be you couldn't choose for yourself.
In my case, on graduation I was posted to an MOD research airfield where I actually got to use all these ratings ie Tower, approach, approach radar, area and area radar plus a later 'add on' of PAR.
We did 3 years total with classroom work interspersed with field training and towards the middle of the 3rd year you were offered choices as to where your final posting might be you couldn't choose for yourself.
In my case, on graduation I was posted to an MOD research airfield where I actually got to use all these ratings ie Tower, approach, approach radar, area and area radar plus a later 'add on' of PAR.
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Originally Posted by Holaamigos
FEAST is the great leveller and many experienced controllers fall at this hurdle anyway.
