Starting April 19, anyone else?
 

G'day atomicant_au,
I'm starting Apr 19. Living inner 'burbs just west of melb 'bout a 25min drive to AsA. Let me know how you go.

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.:D

Blippy,
Last I spoke with Casey, a few weeks ago, a July course was a slim possibility but August was the most likely next one.

has anybody else received the on the merit list email in dec 2009 and not had their referees checked? i think i must be at the very bottom of list. lol

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.

Same here Caveman and Nick. I contacted ASA about 4 weeks ago and they were meant to have completed my referee check before Easter, still waiting.

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.

Good luck to the new guys for there first day tomorrow. :ok:

Don't forget to wear a tie.
Also, shorts are only acceptable if accompanied by long socks.
;)

enemyMIG.. you are cruel. Why don't you go ahead & tell them the statistics whilst you're at it ;-)

Now, now gemmy :=

You know that 89.73% of all statistics are made up

But they are 100% correct 65% of the time

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!

Hi can anybody on this thread shed any light on comming over to Aus as a rated Controller? T&Cs, pat etc..

pm me all info appreciated

Can anyone in the College confirm or deny that the last course had only 2 out of 10 check out.

that's correct, the course that finished up this week only 2 made it through (though I'm sure they started with 8 not 10)

Thanks for the info, congrats to the 2 who made it. Now the hard work starts.
I feel sympathy for the 6 who didn't.

From memory there have been no failures from the course in the last few years for not passing the theory exams. The people that drop out have failed during the sim phase of training.

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.

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.

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???