VRA - not qualified??

chickymcnuffin Rookie

It just showed up on ASAP that my husband is "not qualified" for the VRA announcement? How do they figure that???

LawnGnome Unregistered

It could be a number of things. There are a lot of items to click yes or no on....that is where I would start. Ensure you clicked them all appropriately before submitting the application....If you cannot figure it out, you can call aviation careers and they can take a look at the application with you and see what flagged it not to accept. From there you can determine if it was just a mistake on your husbands part or that your husband may not be qualified to apply for that announcement.

chickymcnuffin Rookie

What's weird is that he's had this submitted for 5 months and it has never said that until now. And he's had more than 52 weeks ATC experience and everything and we went through to make sure everything was checked right, and it was..... I don't know! He's gonna call in the morning, though!

Thanks for the reply!

SkylinesSuck Senior Member asleep at work

He wasn't a Navy Air Craft Carrier "Controller" was he?

chickymcnuffin Rookie

Nope - Marine Corps. He called and they said it was because he doesn't have a CTO.

GolfJuliet F*** Terrorism

Noob question...how can you have the experience but not a CTO?

ssmyers Rookie

depends on if you ever got tower qualified. some people have nothing but radar experience throughout their career. But that shouldn't disqualify you. The VRA announcement just says you have to have 52 weeks of radar or tower experience. Only the CTO announcement should have the cto stipulation.

SkylinesSuck Senior Member asleep at work

I have 7 years of ATC experience with zero tower experience. I didn't even go through the tower portion of Technical School. I'd guess at least half of USAF controllers are like that. You'll find it a lot more likely to get dual qualified if a person started out as Tower then went to Rapcon instead of vise versa. Radar facilities (at least in the USAF) have a lot less staffing and need people a lot more than towers, so Rapcon's don't give up their people easily.

noid Curtis E. Carr Jawja

Did he apply to a CTO announcement or a VRA announcement?

kalpha_25 Newcomer

It sounds like the facility they were hiring for was tower only. Not that that makes much sense, considering they are going to train him for it. If he was in the military then he already knows that when dealing with the government you must first throw logic and common sense out the window.