Terminal Class pass rate

Stinger said:

Latest Tetra class this week passed 2 out of 6.

Were the 4 failures retained?

5/6 passed, placement is tomorrow. One withdrew on the second day of initial tower cab.

In order of priority, LNK FAI ACK MLU BIL with no alternatives.

Phewwwww Fairbanks, Nantucket, and Billings? Wooooof

Thoughts and prayers to whoever gets stuck at Nantucket.

That might be one of the worst lists I have seen

Billings is the NCEPT loophole, congrats to whoever that is.

JNev said:

Phewwwww Fairbanks, Nantucket, and Billings? Wooooof

Billings is the best new hire terminal facility in the entire NAS. All you need is a cert and a heartbeat and you get your dream facility immediately after checkout. 😛

Foogy said:

Billings is the NCEPT loophole, congrats to whoever that is.

I’m lost so choosing BIL is a bad thing?

So they're making people go to Alaska now? Not been paying attention when did that start?

mrobs15 said:

So they're making people go to Alaska now? Not been paying attention when did that start?

I think it started with our class.

FC said:

I’m lost so choosing BIL is a bad thing?

Recently it's proven to be a good choice for people wanting to transfer out, good thing. Just a ling check out time. Not a bad facility if that's your type of place.

5/6 passed today.

List order:
1. LNK
2. FAI
3. STT
4. LFT
5. ABI

Peter Ryden said:

5/6 passed today.

List order:
1. LNK
2. FAI
3. STT
4. LFT
5. ABI

How close was the one who didn’t make it?

CallMePDub said:

How close was the one who didn’t make it?

Extremely close. About 15 points shy on local #2

2 mandatory OCONUS or they chose those?

JNev said:

2 mandatory OCONUS or they chose those?

Mandatory. FAI has been mandatory for the past two classes

Peter Ryden said:

Mandatory. FAI has been mandatory for the past two classes

Oooof. Rough

Sorry Pete, you know i would have taken fairbanks

JNev said:

Why does MAF get people on like every 3rd list? Don’t they have like 20 trainees?

We had 3-4 leave on NCEPT around the same time that 2 controller were promoted to sup. Then had 1 controller retire and one age out so went DoD. Also had our NCEPT staffing number increased by 2 or 3. Was a pretty big net loss so had a big influx of trainees. A lot of them are almost done now though.

Hi, all. Could anyone who's been through the more recent classes (from what I understand- the current pass/fail ones are a fairly recent development) please give me their thoughts on how much Basics and general head knowledge factor into success with Tower training across the street? Obviously, it's best to try as hard as one can, every step of the way... but I'd read other forum posts from Academy grads who claim they'd barely passed the academic bits but were great at separating planes. Is this common? Or would memorizing the .65/AIM/etc. be the best thing one could do to prep post-Basics?