Another ATCO in the forums - anyone else?!![]()
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..![]()
Affirmatron.
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?
Another ATCO in the forums - anyone else?!![]()
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.
mugwuffin - i've just been through the college training to be an ATCO and have been at Swanwick for about a month and a half now, on Lakes and North Sea... I knew your dad - white haired fella? Didnt have much to do with him as I'm an area controller tho...
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.