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发表于 2014-6-4 19:50:10
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I don’t agree with you, even I think you are wrong regarding the career path to be an Air Traffic Controller of Australia!!
Pls note that what LZ asked is how to become an Air Traffic Controller of Australia, neither a Professional Pilot, nor a LAME or AME. To be a Professional Pilot you need to get a PPL; To be a LAME or AME you need to obtain your LAME or AME license (or CAO 100.66 – Maintenance authorities in future); To be an ATC Controller you need to obtain your ATC license.
If you got a PPL you may have the chance to transfer to ATC but you still need to attend lots of exams, and this is not the common way, because once you have PPL why do you want to slip back to be an ATC, a vocation with a bit boring, very high stress but less pay than pilots. If you got LAME or AME license you have rarely chance to transfer to ATC license directly because the majority of the training requirements are different, in fact you may need to study ATC course nearly as a new beginner.
The path mentioned in #5 is a correct way, but there are various training organisations that can grant you to be an ATC except Airservices Australia.
If you get ATC license, you surely will not worry about getting a job with relatively good wage & benefits, but it's not easy indeed for our Chinese.
The more info are below:
http://www.casa.gov.au/index.htm
http://www.casa.gov.au/atc/index.htm
http://www.casa.gov.au/atc/licence.htm
原帖由 whisper 于 2008-12-24 17:49 发表
I cannot agree more.
ATC is very critical position in air safety, there was a mid-air crash in Mel in Oct. or Nov. (cannot really remember), they reckoned the indian pilot was killed because he failed to communicate with ATC.
If you are really interested in this industry, you can choose to be either a pilot or LAME (or AME). the career path would be:
Professional Pilot: spend 25K to get a PPL (private pilot licence) then start working for flying schools to accumulate your flying hours, as soon as you reach 1500 hours, you can work for regional airlines, over 3000 hours, you can expect to work for Qantas, if over 10000 hours, you can be expected to be paid $250K annually;
If you can join, air force, they will train you all free of charge.
LAME or AME: you can do an engineering degree at UNI (maybe TAFE?), or start apprenticeship with MRO company, around 3 years, you can take exams organized by CASA, if you pass, you can expect to be paid around $30-150 per hour.
I have been in this industry for 4 years and should you need more info, I would be more than happy to assist.
it's estimated an increasingly demand for pilot and LAME in next 20 years. |
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