Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:20 am
#1865016
Mike Tango wrote:..
If really lucky there may be a current GA pilot/controller involved in an ATC training session, but they are not that common these days. ...
This is one reason why I wonder whether the ATCO school at Staverton may be able to provide a better real-world (normally routine, but occasionally perhaps real emergency) GA exposure than that at Swanwick, although they are presumably teaching an identical (and presumably, still, EASA-based) syllabus. Staverton may no longer have 3 hard runways in regular (and occasionally simultaneous) use, but yesterday from the JAM overflow (airside grass) car park I could watch 27 in use for FW (microlight to Citation yesterday), 'heli-north' for RW training, and an autogyro take off from 22 grass. Swanwick students couldn't see that at nearby Southampton, let alone from just outside their classroom (not, of course, that any students there look out of the window during lectures ). Oh, and of course, I believe they still have MP3 on staff (when he's not flying a Cuby or RV4, or vandalising, sorry repurposing, bits of 747 )
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