Non-Qualifying ATC Experience

3MileFinal Newcomer Houston, TX

Does anyone else feel the FAA's list for Non-Qualifying ATC Experience on ASAP is a load of bull and bit of a kick in the balls???

DASAUTO Banned

No.

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SSgt Young StuckMic Marine Corps Liaison California

well i do think its silly for the FAA to have a program for military people that actually have experience working traffic and not just saying on glidepath or being a strip runner.

Radium Epic Member SoCal Tracon

while supporting the troops is important, the goal is quality CPC(FPL)s. A big leg up is working traffic comparable to what the FAA does... hence the application.

Makes perfect sense to me.

SkylinesSuck Senior Member asleep at work

Well said

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atcmaninva Junior Member MARYLAND

Running a GCA approach is a little more involved than what is stated. If in fact you were referring to somebody running a PAR final. However, I understand that translates in to absolutely nothing within the FAA. So I believe that GCA should not be qualifying experience. And yes there are alot of BS military controllers that had their courtesy ratings due to their rank or position. So weed out all the BS.

duranme Trusted Contributor San Diego (SCT)

Yeah dude... GCA's can get slammed with up to FOUR aircraft.

four dude, i cant believe i have to talk to more than two...

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atcmaninva Junior Member MARYLAND

Some GCA facilities get delegated more duties than vectoring for a PAR final. Some actually get delegated some approach control functions.

atcmaninva Junior Member MARYLAND

Oh yeah and the final controller may only get to run 1 or so aircraft at a time. What about the person vectoring the aircraft for the approaches! Typically done by the GCA...

duranme Trusted Contributor San Diego (SCT)

correct me if im wrong (and im not trying to be asshole-ish) but are there gca's that have more than 3 useable altitudes? ive seen about 7 of them and all of them are like sfc-4000 with an mva of 2000 or something similar (2 useable altitudes, like i said), and airspace wise its enough to run a tight radar pattern and nothing else.