Bristol Vacancy
I never said people from those units WOULD apply, thats just where the vacancies are being advertised. Management are obviously too tight to fork out for a Flight Int'l advert!!
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Anybody thinking of applying to Bristol should ask at their interview what the future will look like in five years time IF the ATC contract goes to NATS because....Bristol could find itself as another NATS 'stand-alone' tower should radar move across the Severn, which for anybody seeking the challenge of approach radar, might be mind-blowingly boring....
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Although we could all be down on the south coast in ten years time
Not on a NATS Area ATCO's (i.e. Band 5 ATCO 2) salary.
NATS commercial contracts with non-BAA airports are actually cost-driven and price-sensitive as London City, Farnborough, Luton, Cardiff and Belfast can testify.
Try checking out the real ATC world; Bristol Radar from Swanwick?
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So where do they do Luton Approach Radar from? And Thames Radar
This is not the case with Bristol.
The provision of Luton and Thames radars is via a subcontract arrangement between NATS En-route (NERL) and NATS Airports (NSL) whereby NATS Airports pays NERL for service provision.
TC is a Band 5 ATCO 2 unit because the requirement is for all operational ATCOs there to hold at least two sector 'validations'; the fact that some of those who transferred in from Luton when approach radar relocated do not hold more than one sector competence is an anomaly.
If any further approach radar functions were to be transferred to TC (and ultimately to Swanwick) and it's a big IF...then the ATCOs would most probably now be required to comply with the unit competency requirement and hold two 'validations'. Or it's possible that they might instead, be employed as ATCO 3s with single competency, thereby reducing the cost of the contracted service to the aiport.
Thus, Ebenezer's comment isn't that wide of the mark.
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Just for the record, when they visited us, the NATS team said they wouldn't rule out anything as regards where the 'Severn TMA' radar function would be in the long term. No one mentioned "band 5 ATCO2 salary", that's something ebenezer read that wasn't in my post.
Anyway, I didn't move back here from Belfast to end up working down at Swanwick, god forbid I'd have to work with the same miserable tw@ts I saw at West Drayton every day, many moons ago. Nope, I'm happy up here in Ziderland, you can keep yer south coast sink hole.
Anyway, I didn't move back here from Belfast to end up working down at Swanwick, god forbid I'd have to work with the same miserable tw@ts I saw at West Drayton every day, many moons ago. Nope, I'm happy up here in Ziderland, you can keep yer south coast sink hole.
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TC is a Band 5 ATCO 2 unit because the requirement is for all operational ATCOs there to hold at least two sector 'validations';
What Band should I be on with the 10 'sector validations' (5 1/2 sector groupings) I hold ??
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What Band should I be on with the 10 'sector validations' (5 1/2 sector groupings) I hold ??
Didn't think that the 'more than one validation' requirement at TC was a 'new rule' though. Maybe someone can clarify????
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Well, how's about the same salary as an ACC controller working for AENA at Madrid!!??!!
Pero el jefe de la gerencia del flujo en Barcelona es mejor