Exclusive: Airservices Australia is looking to recruit up to 140 trainee controllers a year. They want you – if you can pass the test
Photograph: Penny Stephens/The Guardian
Students earn about $53,000 per year in early training when studying for the air-traffic control diploma, and $80,000 during final field training. “Some people do get really nervous and that does make it hard,” Wendt says. “But once you’re operational, we have checks every six months anyway. So we try to get the students over that hurdle, and the exams do weed out a lot of the people who don’t have the right skills for the job.”Salaries are attractive for those who do work in the field.
“It starts off really slow with just a few planes and you think this is easy, and then very quickly you’re like ‘Oh my God’, you’ve got 20 or 30 aircraft all on the ground or in the air flying and you’re responsible for each and every one.”Photograph: Penny Stephens/The Guardian
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