Hello,
As said in my previous blog, I wanted to write this blog before the 8th of May so here it is.
First of all, I'd like to thank the two anonymous commentators for the kind words. I really appreciate them.
But I'd like to cut to the chase, namely the (probable) outcome of the review board.
The review board in itself went OK. We discussed many things, with the main focus on my results and my own opinion on how things went during my course. During the conversation, there was also a bit of time reserved to give feedback and/or to ask questions.
One important thing (for me) though was that the decision to stop my training is not yet 100% definitive. This actually means that right now, I am still a EUROCONTROL-employee until the decision has been officially taken. I'm not entirely sure about the hierarchy of EUROCONTROL in those echelons, but I think this means that the Director General has to put his signature on the paper stating I'm stopped in the training.
However, I asked the question if there would be any possibility for me to join the next course but unfortunately, recourses are only very rarely done. In the occasion where they are done, they are usually only given to people who are close to the final evaluations whereas the instructors think one is not yet entirely ready for those (but very close to it).
In short, this means that my chances of getting recoursed are pretty much non-existing. The Head of Training and Head of Recruitment, who will write the letter of termination of my contract, will most probably (as in 99.9% certainly) follow the advise of the instructors to end my training.
But I don't want to quit and drop my head just like that, so I'm still willing to try and reach the ATC license. To do this, I have already subscribed for the LVNL Information Days already (July 2nd), I will get in touch with Belgocontrol soon (most probably next week) and I might even consider NATS (the UK ANSP).
I've been thinking whether or not I should write another blog after this, in which I give the final decision EUROCONTROL has made, but I'm still not entirely convinced if it's useful. I'll leave that up to you to decide. If you want to hear the final word of EUROCONTROL, you can leave a comment.:-)
In case I would not write another blog, I already want to thank everyone who read my blog. I hope you enjoyed it, have an (better) understanding of the ATC Training Course and will maybe once become ATCo's yourself or continue to be one.
Kind regards,
Mathias Jacobs-Anseeuw
4 comments:
Hello Mathias,
i've been following your blog for a while now and thanks to you i've learn more about eurocontrol and atc course, so i want to thank you and say that i'm sorry that you're leaving the course(maybe i'm wrong because maybe you can still be accepted :D ), please let us know there answer.
PS:Hope everything goes well after this!
PS 2: sorry for not posting a comment earlier.
Kind regards,
Daniela
I'd want to hear how it goes for you Mathias, for every aspiring ATCO there will be many hardships on the way so if myself and others can see how you handle the situation it might help us in the future. And if you try to get in to another ATCO-program with another ANSP it would be great to know, if not else just to know that you're still going strong =)
Hi Mathias,
I have only found your blog through another trainee, who has just started his training and mentioned your page.
It is quite something to read, I must say, it must be really nice to the people who have no clue what's the training and the selection like. However, if I remember my training that was exactly what gave it a special atmosphere, that you didn't know what's next and everything was new and exciting. Anyway, I guess it depends on the person.
It's a pity that your training has been terminated, but I'm sure you have heard this before: if you don't make it here, you most likely still have a good chance to make it somewhere else. I'd like to give you some advices though for your next training, if you get in somewhere, and of course if you're interested.
Keep a low profile, don't write a blog about everything - it will come out sooner or later and during training the only reason you wanna draw attention to yourself is your extremely good performance, nothing else. Beside the fact that people don't like the whole training being published, there might be some other issues as well (security).
The other advice is to spend more time with studying and less in front of the computer. Although the pass marks might be "only" 70%, but it's not enough if you control only 70% of your traffic safely. Always strive for the best performance, it'll impress your instructors and even if something goes wrong one day, they'll be more likely to give you a second chance.
I hope it'll work it out for you, as I see you don't have motivation problems!
Best regards,
Viktor/MASUAC/DeCo
never heard from you again. Have you reapplied or somthing? cheers*
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