nathan_c Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 Cheers shags, May I ask what was involved in your assessment day? What sort of things did they test for and what sort of mathematics were you required to do? Thanks, Nathan
shags_j Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 Basically same as the online exam. Similar interview to the phone one.
shags_j Posted February 26, 2012 Posted February 26, 2012 FYI: The latest aircraft geeks podcast has a great interview with a long service us ATC. Good episode.
nathan_c Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Congratulations mate, when do you start? I have my assessment centre tomorrow in brisbane (thank god for that), and am a bit nervous especially about the mathematics component, but Ill aim to do my best :) Congrats again.
shags_j Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 They offered May but since I have to sell my house miht try for the July. Best luck tomorrow. You'll be fine.
nathan_c Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Cool good work! Brisbane or melbourne course?? Enroute or tower? :P Im freaking out trying to remember what I did in the online test, its stuff Ive all basically forgotten since high school -_- Btw, I visited brisbane centre the other week and got to sit in with some of the current enroute trainees who are just about finished the course. The atc system is really cool, and seems relatively straight forward (knowing all the standards and requirements isnt easy obviously, but the system they use seems pretty easy if your computer savvy). The trainees I talked to said they were loving the course and recommend it thoroughly. Thought you might like to know that :)
shags_j Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Brisbane course? All courses are Melbourne mate. Enroute for me.
nathan_c Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Nope. They run 2 courses at a time in brisbane, I was shown around by one of the course sim instructors last week. They just dont put it on the website because its not very likely you will get on it. They said they have another one starting soon thats why I asked.
Admin Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Nah i'll be in melbourne. Make sure you let me know when Shags and let's catch up
shags_j Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Definitely Ian. Will be good to put a face to the name.
Chrism Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 FYI: I did it! That's awesome!!!! Well done. Chris
Roy Wales Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 Good stuff Shags No doubt, you'll be settled in by now. Best of luck with the rest of your carreer I got the chance to visit YSCB tower after bad weather grounded training many years ago. What a great perspective it was!
Guest Maj Millard Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 When training for my GA PPL at San Carlos airport in California (just south of San Francisco international) back in the 90s, the tower folks would put on a pizza and refeshments evening, once a month, at the base of the tower. It was great to put faces to the comm voice, and that was also a two way street, as they heard you a lot also during all those touch and goes. When I soloed the last thing my instructor said was " I'll be in the tower if you need me !"...so I gave it my best with three nice touch and gos right in front of the tower for him.......................................Maj...
Guest Maj Millard Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 Additionally the yanks have a landing clearance that we don't here. After the normal landing clearance they can also say "cleared for the option"...Basically it means the runway is yours, do what you wish,.. touch and go, full stop, high/low speed fly past, short field landing, soft field landing, inverted pass above the runway with smoke on !...whatever..........Your cleared for the option..........................Maj...
eightyknots Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 Additionally the yanks have a landing clearance that we don't here. After the normal landing clearance they can also say "cleared for the option"...Basically it means the runway is yours, do what you wish,.. touch and go, full stop, high/low speed fly past, short field landing, soft field landing, inverted pass above the runway with smoke on !...whatever..........Your cleared for the option..........................Maj... That sounds pretty open-ended to me.
shags_j Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 That sounds awesome. Shame could never happen here. Fun police wouldn't like that.
Guest Maj Millard Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 No we don't have a lot of things here that are basic common sense. Here our authorities are about control, other countries freely allow one to fully exercise the privilages of a rating, after you have amply demonstrated that you are qualified to hold and exercise those privilages of that rating.................................Maj...
Philthy Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 No we don't have a lot of things here that are basic common sense. Here our authorities are about control, other countries freely allow one to fully exercise the privilages of a rating, after you have amply demonstrated that you are qualified to hold and exercise those privilages of that rating.................................Maj... Fun Police here...you blokes need to get your heads in the books a bit more. Check AIP GEN 3.4 - 60.
shags_j Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 Phraseologies for approach and landings? In all honesty though, when you are trying to understand some of these international carriers etc, I bet the controllers would be happy for the standardised comms. And if you let the standards lack for locals, then there may be errors caused. Just a thought. Thanks Roy. We are now into non-radar and absolutely love doing it.
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