NATS / Air traffic controller
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Those in the know or in the trade specifically, what are your experiences of the training, would you recommend it?
Just ought to add I woulbt be considering it for thr money as I'm already on a very good wage plus I also
do 12hour shifts on a rotating four on, four off days nights. I work as an engineer in the refrigeration/boiler trade. I fancy a change of career and I want to start thinking about it now, nearly 30 and it's time to do something before getting too stuck in a rut.
Just ought to add I woulbt be considering it for thr money as I'm already on a very good wage plus I also
do 12hour shifts on a rotating four on, four off days nights. I work as an engineer in the refrigeration/boiler trade. I fancy a change of career and I want to start thinking about it now, nearly 30 and it's time to do something before getting too stuck in a rut.
I've been looking in to this recently. Seems quite a rigorous and difficult selection process. I've had a go at the exercises on their website and did fine but obviously they are nothing like the real life scenario.
Would be interesting to hear about the difficulty of the initial tests that are part of the selection process and what they are entail
Would be interesting to hear about the difficulty of the initial tests that are part of the selection process and what they are entail
My sister went for this a while back. I think one of the first few rounds was a test which involved a lot of memorising details about different plane models (stats like range). Quite unusually for my sister, who's always been a bit of a straight-As teacher's pet, she didn't bother learning much. Needless to say, she couldn't answer the questions then, though she felt if she'd made the effort it would've been fairly straightforwards.
Not sure that helps much, other than to say if you get sent any information and you want the job, take the time to commit it to memory!
Not sure that helps much, other than to say if you get sent any information and you want the job, take the time to commit it to memory!
cs02rm0 said:
My sister went for this a while back. I think one of the first few rounds was a test which involved a lot of memorising details about different plane models (stats like range). Quite unusually for my sister, who's always been a bit of a straight-As teacher's pet, she didn't bother learning much. Needless to say, she couldn't answer the questions then, though she felt if she'd made the effort it would've been fairly straightforwards.
Not sure that helps much, other than to say if you get sent any information and you want the job, take the time to commit it to memory!
Yeah there is a word document with a whole host of information that they say should be memorised prior to the first assesment day.Not sure that helps much, other than to say if you get sent any information and you want the job, take the time to commit it to memory!
Bit frustrating that the 3 test centres are all 6 hour+ drive away from where I live. Long way to go to fail the tests but if I don't try i'll never know
Applied for this twice back in the early 90's (in my early 20's). Got through the selection process but failed the interviews. The reason was around love of all things aviation. Bacjk then they would test your love of aviation by showing you model planes and asking you name them.
Unfortunately I was no plane geek and was more interested in the role as a career rather than a vocation.
Unfortunately I was no plane geek and was more interested in the role as a career rather than a vocation.
Me & the Mrs went for this a few years back. Assesment day was quite intense. Some of the tests was nice and simple, The memorising details of planes etc was quite interesting - Because we didn't receive the original file with all the plane details on it so was completely clueless!. The test for rotating 3D shapes in your mind was quite difficult, seemed to be quite a few stressed looking faces all around.
If your going to go for it, Make sure you study for it. Hard. If you don't have a general interest in commercial planes your probably going to struggle they asked alot of questions like Which plane is most likely to fly this route, What speed can this plane fly at, Which altitude etc etc. They also seemed to assume an existing basic knowledge of flight paths, flight levels etc.
If your going to go for it, Make sure you study for it. Hard. If you don't have a general interest in commercial planes your probably going to struggle they asked alot of questions like Which plane is most likely to fly this route, What speed can this plane fly at, Which altitude etc etc. They also seemed to assume an existing basic knowledge of flight paths, flight levels etc.
The testing of the plane names, airports etc, are all in the fairly basic doccument they give you, it assumes no prior knowledge of anything aviation, the hard bits are the speed data tests, (still had a good number of questions left) and the 3d shape stuff, you cant really revise much for it, maybe take an iq test or something to get the feel of answering stuff fast.
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