Quick update

Hey,

It's been too long since I wrote a blog and the reason is just plainly a lack of time. Therefore just a quick update on how things are going.

We've all finished our Basic Course and left with the consent of Skyguide in the meantime and have moved to Luxembourg to do the Rating Course, which we started last week already, at the Institute of Air Navigation Services (IANS) in Luxembourg.
We haven't started sim as yet, but during our stay until July, we are planned to do some 300 simulator runs and by the time we end those, we are expected to be capable of handling somewhere about 60 planes per hour, all in our sector, whereas until now we had about 15 at most during a 40-minute exercise. Quite a change, but luckily, we have a few months to get used to it. :-)

Why haven't I written a blog before? As said before, too much to do. Been studying the pre-course study material EUROCONTROL sent us before we arrived at the IANS, been studying the subjects of which we still had exams in Switzerland on our last day there. My parents even arrived in Switzerland to come pick me up well before I even started my last exam. The irony of leaving a place, I guess. They don't want to let us go easily which, I guess, is a fair attitude in this business.

After moving, I've been busy keeping up with the theoretical subjects and the LOP which we have to know by heart by next week. This includes, but is not limited to, the map of the (fictitious) sector we'll be working on in the sim, the (fictitious) letters of agreement, separation standards, ...


That's about what I can tell you right now, before I go to bed. I might put another blog online soon, maybe going into a bit more detail about our life during the last days in Switzerland (I actually started it already, but it just doesn't finish) and our first in Luxembourg, but that is still to be decided really. Could be I just omit it, but if you really want to know, feel free to leave something in the comment box. The more requests, the more likely you'll get to read and see (photo report) about our visit to the Zurich Zoo.

Good bye for now.