arcn4

Hi man, thanks for doing this ama, it's legitimately interesting. I applied to NATS about 5 or 6 years ago and got to the final round of the application process but ended up blowing it. Since then I've been thinking of reapplying once I’ve got things like the driving licence out of the way. So my two questions, what would you recommend to look at for applying/reapplying, and how much say do you have in which airport your based at either during or after training?

Thanks for the response, I will give the CAP 493 a read, through from what I skimmed of it definitely looks like a lot of it will need extra googling to understand.

With the AIP's, I just grab the current AIRAC from the NATS AIP page, and just use the number under the Aerodrome Geographical and Administrative data and just ask for a visit? Would I then just be shown around and essentially have a tour of the facility and how everything is run?

Sorry if I’m badgering on a bit, but this idea of being able to phone the tower and visit just seems so crazy that you can do that. Because if that’s something I can do, I will try and give it a shot, also I just want to make sure I don't end up phoning the people in the tower directly which might be a tad awkward.