Hiring Bid Air Traffic Control Specialist - Trainee: FAA-ATO-18-ALLSRCE-57792

[Algernon]

You only need to be 31 or younger when the bid opens, think you got another two chances, not just one.

"Be age 30 or under (on the closing date of the application period)"

From FAA website

 

[RedRedApril8]

Emailed the medical POC a few days ago and got an email this afternoon saying that my MMPI results just came back (Feb 27th) and that they were cleared! My HR POC told me last week that it was the last bit they were waiting for. Looks like this week could be my week!??

 

[GulfBravoPapa]

 

[GulfBravoPapa]

Looks like a fun time to go to Oklahoma....

 

[yungsodapapi]

I love OKC it literally rains calliflower can’t wait to save on my food budget!!

 

[DL0509]

Another benefit to Anatole was the car ports. It cost extra but worth it if you are there during hail season.

 

[Itsallgucci]

Happy Sunday everyone. Hope you all have a great day with your families. Headed to church to pray for FOLs

 

[yungsodapapi]

Happy Sunday everyone. Hope you all have a great day with your families. Headed to church to pray for FOLs

Weekends off don’t exist at the airport I’m at sadly ?

 

[RedRedApril8]

Weekends off don’t exist at the airport I’m at sadly ?

Saaaaaame

 

[nickmeyer93]

24/7 towing here... what is this "weekend" you speak of?

 

[CaptCrunch]

24/7 towing here... what is this "weekend" you speak of?

Cook in a rehabilitation hospital. Someone has to feed these geriatrics.

 

[ClearanceClarence]

Can anyone describe what the biggest differences between being a terminal and enroute trainee/CPC are? I know there’s a greater need for enroute, though terminal seems to be slightly more desirable. I’ve also heard terminal (in general), is slightly lower pay, but that it tends to have higher pass rates in the academy and in training. Is terminal simply ‘easier’ work?

 

[GulfBravoPapa]

Terminal: level 7 or below tower or up-down facility. You may or may not get radar experience.

If you're at a standalone tower you will work clearance delivery, ground control, and local. Arrivals, departures, pattern traffic. Depending upon airport maybe helicopters or other small aircraft. Very little airspace owned, little to no vectoring.

Up-down facility: a combined tower and tracon will afford you radar training. You will work the same tower positions listed above but your facility will also have a radar approach which actually owns real airspace. You'll have to go back to OKC to attend RTF at some point and thus training will be longer than a standalone. Likely your radar will be an arrival and a departure position, potential combined, potentially combined in the tower cab. Learn to use an ABCDE keyboard.

Enroute: level 10+ facilities, typically higher failure rate at the Academy but higher pay. Much longer training process once at the facility. Depending upon the center you may or may not work non-radar. High altitude enroute (think about how many times a day you can ask how the ride is) where you will sequence into whatever the majority of airport in the area is. A lot more automation tools are available to center controllers including a QWERY keyboard. Many sectors also own to the ground and may occasionally run approaches into uncontrolled airports. Centers are significantly larger facilities and can have upwards of 300 employees... This means you'll also have more amenities at work such as a kitchen, gym, quiet room, etc.

I will repost this in response to above.

 

[DL0509]

Also don't get caught up in thinking terminal is easier than enroute or vice versa. I've met several controllers that can vector like a boss but can't sequence two planes in the pattern at all.

 

[seriousreindeer]

Has anyone NOT passed medical yet? It seems like things are going well for everyone!

 

[jballen004 Tubadude2]

If you go back to the 14th of March there were a handful of folks who were tier 2’d.

 

[HanZobro]

^
I had to provide someone from the aerospace medical division (flight surgeon?) my full VA medical record, which I received last week. I’m not sure if that’s going to be something that stalls my progress for awhile or if it will be nothing.

 

[ClearanceClarence]

Well, got my MMPI-2 tomorrow. I’m slightly nervous going in from all of the tier 2 referrals, but the voices in my head say it’ll be fine so I’m not too worried.

 

[DontSayRoger]

Hey everyone, welcome back to the program of “who wants an FOL?” Stay tuned for more waiting, false hopes, and endless email refreshing!

 

[KEEPER4560]

Well, got my MMPI-2 tomorrow. I’m slightly nervous going in from all of the tier 2 referrals, but the voices in my head say it’ll be fine so I’m not too worried.

Don’t worry about it too much. Easier said than done but its actually a really easy day. Did mine in like 45 mins.