Good evening, all,
In my last blog post, I spoke about how I'd come to the epiphany that not everyone on our OBS > S1 waiting list was waiting for training. For reasons described in that blog post, many people were on our 'waiting' list that were not actually waiting. Many of you will know that I am a man of action and I promptly sought to remedy this.
With thanks once again to the legendary @Callum Axon, we now have the capability for prospective controllers to self-enrol on the OB
All,
We are now accepting applications from S1 rated members to mentor at Heathrow. Please see the following extract from the next update to the ATC Training Handbook:
S1 rated members may also mentor at Heathrow, at the discretion of the TGI, if they:
● Have no significant negative feedback;
● Have previous Gatwick mentoring experience:
● Have at least 20hrs on Heathrow GND/DEL positions post award of endorsement.
There is a minor inconvenience
All,
The ATC Training Department is seeking motivated individuals to join our new Moodle Team. This team will support Training Group Instructors (TGIs) with the ongoing upgrade of existing Moodle courses and the development of new training resources.
Reporting to the ATC Training Manager, ideal applicants should:
Hold at least an S1 rating
(We would ideally like a plethora of members across all rating levels)
Have recent mentoring experience
(Preferre
Good evening,
We've had really rather a lot of discussion during my tenure so far about the capability for S1s to mentor others hoping to achieve their S1 rating. Whilst we've allowed S1s to mentor at Gatwick Ground for some time and more recently expanded this to Heathrow, there have been two key impediments that have prevented us permitting S1s to mentor others on Sweatbox:
On average, our S1 controllers - whilst competent - represent some of the least experienced controllers on V