FAO Scuzi - ATCO Questions
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Another ATCO in the forums - anyone else?!
Almost. Passed my Class 1 Medical on Tuesday (By the skin of my teeth). Assuming that NATS medical gives me the go ahead I'm due to start at the college in April.
1 - Spatial awareness (choosing which of the shown 'nets' would fold up to make the shown cube), dyslexia tests, literacy and numeracy, colour blindness, tests to spot repeating letters in a sequence, and letter combinations. Useful in the real world, as it's tempting to get the callsigns DLH123 and DHL123 confused when you're under pressure! The first, of course, being Lufthansa and the second DHL..
Thanks for that...when I went the spatial test was some weird thing involving what looked like 10x10 cubes with chunks removed that you had to rotate in your head...I found the folded-up cube thing a lot easier than that was.
Now to convince the wife moving out of Exeter wouldn't be a bad thing.
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I for one think you guys are worth those salaries (assuming you don't land planes and post on OCuk at the same time! 
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)What are you saying Scuzi?
Don't you like my cunningly disguised username?
P.S. I presume you didn't see my post in the US Air thread. I had had to stalk you through your posts to work out your identity. Gav was telling me you've got the beamer correct?
Don't you like my cunningly disguised username?
P.S. I presume you didn't see my post in the US Air thread. I had had to stalk you through your posts to work out your identity. Gav was telling me you've got the beamer correct?
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I tried the ATCO entrance exams.
Got 100% in the theoretical papers but failed the spatial awareness paper
Other than learning the example booklet you're pretty much stuck.. unless you do a lot of those 'cube' problems in spare time
Got 100% in the theoretical papers but failed the spatial awareness paper
Other than learning the example booklet you're pretty much stuck.. unless you do a lot of those 'cube' problems in spare time
Haven't got it yet unfortunately, 1st March I'm told.
For those of you who are going through, that's what you have to do when you validate...buy a validation car - the less practical the better
Another ATCO in the forums - anyone else?!
Does a virtual controller on VATSIM count?? I would have loved to do ATC but I decided to finish uni first incase I didn't get in and needed a backup plan. Got first IT job I applied for an started on £25k straight out of uni so a swapping a monday-friday for shift work would be hard but I still would love the job! Toyed with the idea of commercial pilot too but its all 'glamourised' out of proportion. Did flight dispatch job for the past summer and you get a really good inside look at how unglamourous it really is. Still flying and getting paid for it would be amazing. Think will just have to stick to flying the wee PA-28s down at the local airport and limit my passion for aviation to the odd hour of flying here and there.
By the way you don't happen to know Mark W, a lad from N.I who started training for ATC last march? He worked with me at Belfast airport for a while.
Name doesn't ring a bell. Chances are that if he was at Aldergrove, he was posted to a tower/approach unit and not down at TC/AC.
No no it was just a summer job at Aldergrove when I knew him - now he is doing area control training. He said there isn't as much demand for aerodrome controllers as far as i remember.
