Toofle wrote:ahboy25 wrote:
Apart from the 2 rounds of interview, orientation, there's going to be your medical check which will take either one day or 2 separate days. There'll also be a contract signing which could be on the same day as your medical. Lastly, signing of contract for your sureties. All these has to be done before the start of the course.
My group had 18 people, but there were 2 other groups. Think another group had about 12. Not too sure about the last group. But I think the next intake is going to have about 34 pax +/-, significantly larger than my intake of 24 pax.
Thanks for the useful info. May I ask what is being checked during the medical? Blood pressure, hearing..? The ultimate nightmare is to pass all the rounds, but fail the medical, lol.
Ahh I see. Makes sense in light of the air traffic volume being slated to increase in the future.
Medical involves your stand checkup, blood pressure, ECG, urine test, blood test, cholesterol and a general colour blindness test involving a computer. X-ray checkup. Then you move on to specialist checks which are your eyesight and hearing.
Eyesight checks involves how short sighted you are (wear specs on the day, not contacts), detailed colour blindness checks and I some check involving your cornea or something.
Hearing test would involve you being placed in a box and doing a beep test (guys who went for NS medical checkup would know), they'll also do a physical checkup of your ear and inner ear.
As to your second part, it seems like they're trying to push more people to the aerodrome stream with T4 and T5 coming up, and also to man the RAM tower. In terms of increase in traffic, I would think that all streams would be affected. Approach and area I think would be affected quite a bit more (just my general opinion).