Apprenticeship training course
Air traffic controller (level 5)
Directing aircraft on the ground and through controlled airspace.
- Qualification level
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5
Equivalent to higher national diploma (HND). - Typical duration
- 15 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Transport and logistics
- Maximum funding
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£27,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Civil Aerodrome Controller
- Civil Approach Controller
- Civil Approach Procedural Controller
- Civil Area/ Terminal Controller
- Military Area Radar Controller
- Military Terminal Aerodrome Controller
- Military Terminal Radar Controller
- Military Weapons Controller
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Safety: Comply with Health & Safety obligations as an employee and as an air traffic controller
- Safety: Escalate safety concerns through the appropriate channels
- Security: Manage aviation security in own area of operations following organisational procedures to report and react to any breach
- Planning: Manage planning, problem solving and decision making using knowledge, experience and evolving information. Manage the use and update of situational data displays
- Planning: Maintain spatial awareness within the designated area of control
- Compliance & Legislation: Manage compliance with legislation, aviation procedures and regulations within own area of responsibility
- Communication: Manage communication with users, staff and external agencies, selecting appropriate methods and language
- Communication: Use correct terminology, context and tools and maintain a safe and effective operation
- Communication: direct the movement of aircraft
- Communication: pass effective and pertinent information to aircraft
- Communication: maintain radio and radar contact with aircraft
- Teamworking & Resource Management: Safely takeover and handover control of the operational position at the start and end of an allocated period of air traffic control
- Teamworking & Resource Management: Assess and respond effectively to light levels of traffic volume and complexity
- Teamworking & Resource Management: Effectively manage difficult and challenging situations and people
- Teamworking & Resource Management: Effectively manage working relationships and interactions between differing types of controllers situated at the same and differing sites (domestic and international)
- Teamworking & Resource Management: Cooperate effectively with other parties to achieve appropriate environmental protections
- Air Traffic Operations: Effectively Manage Air Traffic using understanding of appropriate theory, experience and current operating directives
- Service Level Agreements: Manage team and facilities to deliver results according to agreed levels of performance
- Personal Effectiveness: Undertake responsibilities and accountabilities
- Personal Effectiveness: Maintain resilience, effectiveness and operational safety when a plan is not followed
- Personal Effectiveness: Acknowledge and react positively to any errors identified
- Personal Effectiveness: Recognise and respond appropriately to fatigue. Take responsibility for personal medical fitness to not endanger airspace users when personal effectiveness may be reduced
- O1: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding through a variety of assessments and examinations
- O1: Demonstrate practical capability as an Area/ Terminal air traffic controller to the defined assessment standard and level
- O2: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding through a variety of assessments and examinations
- O2: Demonstrate practical capability as an Approach controller to the defined assessment standard and level
- O3: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding through a variety of assessments and examinations
- O3: Demonstrate practical capability as an Approach Procedural controller to the defined assessment standard and level
- O4: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding through a variety of assessments and examinations
- O4: Demonstrate practical capability as an Aerodrome controller to the defined assessment standard and level
- O5: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding through a variety of assessments and examinations
- O5: Demonstrate practical capability as a Military Weapons Controller to the defined assessment standard and level
- O6: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding through a variety of assessments and examinations
- O6: Demonstrate practical capability as a Military Area Radar Controller to the defined assessment standard and leve
- O7: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding through a variety of assessments and examinations
- O7: Demonstrate practical capability as a Military Terminal Radar Controller to the defined assessment standard and level
- O8: Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding through a variety of assessments and examinations
- O8: Demonstrate practical capability as a Military Terminal Aerodrome Controller to the defined assessment standard and level
Full information on Air traffic controller (level 5) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.