FAA Announcement AAC-AMH-08-PUBNAT1-08232

My wife got the email today for the Oakland (Burlingame) test. She was given a choice of the 16th-26th. It's happening fast this time. I hope she has time to study.
 
OTS recent college grad just Applied 2/13 for a 2/15 closing. Was contacted 3/1 and told I had till 3/7 to reply, called and I'm testing in OKC on 3/18.

After reading many of the posts on here and "Ask an ATC" it seems like this is going much faster, but I wonder if they are just speeding up the AT-SAT test times to increase the volume of the candidates to choose from and then the process slows back down. What exactly happens now after the test is taken and I receive my score with regards to training in OKC?
 
WooHoo... I got the email today! Finally, I was getting nervous. Im scheduled to take the test on March 24th in Daytona Beach, FL.
 
FedererFan said:
OTS recent college grad just Applied 2/13 for a 2/15 closing. Was contacted 3/1 and told I had till 3/7 to reply, called and I'm testing in OKC on 3/18.

After reading many of the posts on here and "Ask an ATC" it seems like this is going much faster, but I wonder if they are just speeding up the AT-SAT test times to increase the volume of the candidates to choose from and then the process slows back down. What exactly happens now after the test is taken and I receive my score with regards to training in OKC?
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After you test you will be assigned to a facility. You then interview. Next, you get a tentative offer. You have to complete the psych, background check, medical and some paperwork. Next, you will get a firm offer and your OKC class date.
 
Ohhh, so you know where you are going before you even go to OKC? Do you move directly from OKC to your location when are finished with the classes? Sorry, I really don't know what to expect at all.

Also (to anyone who knows) what are the chances of my husband and I being assigned to the same location. We don't both need to work at the same tower, but at least the same city/area (i.e. Midway & O'Hare or St. Pete & Tampa). Can we tell the FAA, "Hey look, we're married and have 2 kids we need to stay together." or do they even take that into consideration?
 
hey im on here cause i also applied for the posting the only problem with me was i put in the email address wrong like an idiot. I put gotmail instead of hotmail and now i dont know if im gonna get the e-mail so if anyone gets the notification for NY can u please please please please please please tell me so i can call someone. hopefully the person sending them is smart enough to catch my error. Thank You. and yes i called the ASAP people and they told me to change it on there site but it doesnt change the application only my profile which was correct already
 
I signed up got an email then replied to that email and got another. I then called and sceduled my test, I take it 3/20/2008. I do have a question for someone that may have went through the process awhile.
I have a good job with the Post Office in Maintenance and am considering changing over. Ive read that pay while in OKC is around 20k plus per diem and that i can expect somewhere in the mid 40's when you are assigned to your duty station. Does anyone know how long it would be before a person could expect to make around 70k year with all premiums, being as this is what I would need to make it effective, as well as to calculate the loss of pay it would cost me. any help would be great. also I am in the DFW area and I have heard that they are real short here. anyone form the DFW TRACON or ARTCC that might know what my odds of getting a position there would be?
 
wve_iii said:
I signed up got an email then replied to that email and got another. I then called and sceduled my test, I take it 3/20/2008. I do have a question for someone that may have went through the process awhile.
I have a good job with the Post Office in Maintenance and am considering changing over. Ive read that pay while in OKC is around 20k plus per diem and that i can expect somewhere in the mid 40's when you are assigned to your duty station. Does anyone know how long it would be before a person could expect to make around 70k year with all premiums, being as this is what I would need to make it effective, as well as to calculate the loss of pay it would cost me. any help would be great. also I am in the DFW area and I have heard that they are real short here. anyone form the DFW TRACON or ARTCC that might know what my odds of getting a position there would be?
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It depends on what level facility you get a job at. Some smaller places won't see 70K ever, some locations you can hit 80K in 3-4 years.
 
I think im only going to consider any ARTCC or the DFW TRACON and probablt turn down anyhting else. So as long as I stick with a Level 11 or 12 do you think that would be worth it to switch careers. I think the long term income will be worth the short term loss. Ive read alot about the job and I think it is something i will like to do and fits my personality well. plus I am FERS now and I was looking at the retirement and it looks much better than what I have now. By the way does anyone know if you go into management in ATC do you still get the 1.7% per year for the first 20 years or is that only for time actually held as a ATCS?
 
JT ATC said:
Before the AT-SAT was implemented the FAA had about 65% success ratio for new hires to become controllers. Afterwards, it shot up to 92%. I'm a rated controller and i've seen alot of smart people not being able to do this job. I 100% agree with the fact it takes a certain type of person to become a controller. I know a handful of people way smarter than me that never made it as a controller...
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I would LOOOOOOOOOOOVE to see where you got these figures. 19 AT-SAT taking wannabe's have showed up at A80 a year and a half ago. 4 have gotten checked out on ONE ( 1 ) position. Appx. 10 have washed out/been fired or now work for Lockheed Martin. There is no way, unless you are an FAA spokesman, that 92% of AT-SAT taken folks have become controllers. A controller is one who has received his facility rating, check out on ALL positions required. Not Flight Data and a Hand-off.
 
wve_iii said:
I signed up got an email then replied to that email and got another. I then called and sceduled my test, I take it 3/20/2008. I do have a question for someone that may have went through the process awhile.
I have a good job with the Post Office in Maintenance and am considering changing over. Ive read that pay while in OKC is around 20k plus per diem and that i can expect somewhere in the mid 40's when you are assigned to your duty station. Does anyone know how long it would be before a person could expect to make around 70k year with all premiums, being as this is what I would need to make it effective, as well as to calculate the loss of pay it would cost me. any help would be great. also I am in the DFW area and I have heard that they are real short here. anyone form the DFW TRACON or ARTCC that might know what my odds of getting a position there would be?
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Expect about 3.5-5 years. Course you could sit at Miami Center for over a year without even starting to train. Which would then push it back even farther.
 
ATLTRACON said:
I would LOOOOOOOOOOOVE to see where you got these figures. 19 AT-SAT taking wannabe's have showed up at A80 a year and a half ago. 4 have gotten checked out on ONE ( 1 ) position. Appx. 10 have washed out/been fired or now work for Lockheed Martin. There is no way, unless you are an FAA spokesman, that 92% of AT-SAT taken folks have become controllers. A controller is one who has received his facility rating, check out on ALL positions required. Not Flight Data and a Hand-off.
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I read the article wrong. 92% of people who take the AT-SAT actually pass THE TEST, not become controllers. My bad.

Oh, and it's in the FAA's "Plan for the future 2007-2016" under section 6.6
 
I heard ZLC ATC's had there vacation scheduled out for the whole year a while ago. If they want a specific day off they didn't schedule for vacation, they have to use a sick day(s). I heard it wasn't hard to do... be sick of the FAA's crap that is. It's funny how more sick days get used in the summer than the winter.
 
:) This will be the first job I've ever had that had paid sick days, but this was always my philosophy: Go into work when you really are sick, you could be sick at home or sick at work, at least at work you get paid. Besides it's more fun to use your sick (of work) days to go do something fun and, now, still get paid!!
 
ATLTRACON said:
Then it is all fabrication and speculation. Just like there is not a staffing crisis. 58 weeks in a row of OT and 1 day off.
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Ya, that I know. Luckily I have enough friends, family, colleagues, etc in the FAA that I know exactly what I'm getting myself into. Unfortunately you are at one of the, if not the toughest/busiest TRACONS in the world. You have a lot more people washing out than a majority of the other facilities
 
Has anyone gotten a firm offer that applied under the most recent PUBLIC NATIONAL announcement? I think there is going to be a PEPC in DFW in the near future and i am wondering if when you go there and do the interviews and everything and they offer you a job will they give you the location you will work at? or do they just send you to OKC with a list of possible places youll be placed? Ive heard that the FAA is trying to put more people where they want to be because of so many transfers putting facilities in the same boat? anyone know if this is true.
 
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