If the overtime protection thing is an issue, use contract personal to teach, test and check out new controllers? Simple fix. Nothing to lose by NOT washing out 95% of your students. Looked it up. USA wash out rates are 15-20%. This'll piss off somebody, but they have better controllers. We rant al...

Out of the 4 people I started training with, 2 of us got licenses. In the end it comes down to whether or not you can do the job, you can study all you want but you have to have the right mindset to be able to do the job on a consistent basis and in all different situations. Its not an old boys club...

All we want you to do in that situation is push the ident button on your transponder. When you do that your target starts to flash and we are able to figure out who we are talking to amongst the mess of unidentified targets on our screen. I'm not sure if there are any aeronautical regulations that c...

I'm not a pilot so I don't claim to know anything about their FOM, but something is seriously wrong with the way they operate. The amount of times they come over declaring minimum fuel or needing to divert is exponentially higher compared to any other carrier I've dealt with. It's so bad it's a runn...

Wow. Is that typical? If so, it would be financially attractive to quit my current job and go to NavCan. Just in case rookieatc missed this... I would genuinely like to know whether 100K a year after starting as ATC is realistic. I have a few acquaintances who are at the point of making career chan...

....how many years as a pilot and how many flying hours ? I just thought it might be interesting to see the number of paths towards what most would consider some kind of career benchmark. Year one of ATC The assessment sessions must be getting easier and easier these days at NAVCAN. HAHA touché. Yo...

Year one of ATC

First of all, how do you know for a fact that these course dates and number of students for them are accurate? Second like it says multiple times throughout the application process just because your preference is IFR doesn't mean that you will get streamed that way and vice versa. How do you know th...

I can tell you, that without question, the ITA will be the hardest test you'll write on your path to becoming atc. Don't make the mistake I did and just browse through the cd and think you've got it. Keep studying it, make sure you know what it's trying to teach you. There is a lot of weight on the ...

PS... rookieatc... Could you answer the question though if this aircraft would raise an eyebrow to ATC if they saw it passing outside their control zone? Or would they have blown it off as a homebuilt or something flying without a transponder? Would it have set off alarm bells for you personally? S...

Really pdw? OR maybe he shut off his transponder and looked like a goose flying south to ATC. What makes you so certain he communicated the "rest of the way"? A 172 with no transponder looks like nothing more than a bird (target with no altitude, airspeed, or other info available) to ATC, so how he...

Here's the latest: I plan an IFR flight to the US, with a requested routing that is obviously designed to avoid both single engine overwater flight, and forecast enroute heavy cloud layers with embedded icing. I plan and file the route carefully after considering all factors. You're routing is obvi...