You think it’s any different at a low a lower level facility. Somehow at every facility hardships come up right after certification. Tell your Rep if you would like to evoke Article 60. I would.
However, to say that the system works for lower level facilities is completely in accurate. I can tell you from first hand experience. I had to transfer under the old system making the same level pay I had been making just to get back into the state I’m from, still in the lower half of the pay bands. Under the new system I saw my dream facility pick up a crap load of people all from 11’s and 12’s, while I got passed up and my facility was able to release 3 cat 1’s. Which they did to lower priority facilities. I just don’t understand when someone likes to talk about high level experience comparatively, when they had nothing special about them that placed them in that position. You admitted that. If that really meant something then for N90 they would say “we are a hard to staff facility, with a low success rate and we need nothing but level 11 and 12 controllers to ensure success.” You said yourself that you have much more experience at a level 11 than anyone at a level 4-9 facility, if I recall correctly. Some of the harder approaches to work in the country are level 9 up downs. Some of the more complex towers are level 6-7 class D’s. Yet it is commonly implied that level 11-12 experience makes them somehow a more qualified controller.
I got 3 kids, still at low level facility, so hopefully my minimal experience at a busy class D will be overlooked and I can be afforded the same opportunity you were. Apparently no experience is better than some experience.
