Today was our last day of ITR class. Dave wasn't here today because he was having surgery, so Ed took over. First we started off with a lecture from a different Dave on academy airspace procedures and such. It was all basically over phraseology and procedures we'll need to know in RTF, so he was just helping us out by reviewing it.
Ed talked to us about approach procedures, we completed a course evaluation (which gave us a chance to give input on the course), and then we took a break for lunch. When we came back Ed took us down to the international lab where we got to run a few scenarios again. This time we ran the vectors scenario again, and the only change was one aircraft that requested no-gyro vectors. Then we moved onto a scenario that was just VFR pop-ups. This means that the pilots would call up with a request and the controllers had to enter their call sign, aircraft type, VFR or IFR, and destination into the computer, and then provide them with any additional instructions pertaining to their requests. The final scenario that we ran for the day was an altitude scenario. There were two corridor intersections: one at the top of the screen and one at the bottom. It started off with three aircraft coming at each other at the top of the screen from different directions. They'd all be at 5,000 feet. You'd have to figure out which aircraft type could climb or descend faster than the others and take one up to 6,000, one down to 4,000, and leave one at 5,000. You could only use the altitudes 040 through 060, and you couldn't change any headings or speeds. After those three aircraft crossed paths, they would just disappear and you'd get another three at the bottom of the screen in the same situation. You don't have to worry about the top half conflicting with the bottom half, since they all disappear before it would become a problem. Eventually you get four aircraft coming at each other instead of three, and it just becomes a little more difficult to figure out which ones to climb or descend to avoid a conflict alert. It's still all pretty easy though, and I think everyone in the class has gotten much better in the labs in only 2 days. Granted, the scenarios we've been running are only the part-task scenarios for RTF, but it's still been fun.
We had to leave the labs at 2pm to go downstairs to meet our new RTF instructor and choose our seats. Right after that she took us over to the headquarters building for an exciting (sarcasm here) presentation done by ATO. There were a bunch of other classes in there and the ATO people just went over what great assets we all are to the organization, what's expected by us as controllers, and where we lie on the totem pole (the very bottom, in case you were wondering). At the end they took questions, and let us know that if they didn't have the answers they'd make something up that sounded good... or get back to us, lol.
RTF begins tomorrow! All ten of us are now officially Academy Graduates and that means starting tomorrow we also get pay raises to the AG level of pay! :)
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Do you know if you get a raise after your finished with RTF?
We don't get a raise right after finishing RTF. Our current level of pay will stay that way until we get checked out on whatever covers the D1 level at our individual facilities.
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