How long is USAF Tech School for Air Traffic Control?

also...how hard is the tech school? does anybody know the washout rate?...i'm thinking of crosstraining.How long is USAF Tech School for Air Traffic Control?
Tech school itself only serves to weed out the absolute weakest students who would never had handled working a live position.





Plan to be at Keesler for around four months--you may have a bit of down time waiting for classes to be put together, but that rarely takes more than a few days. As for the 73 days does not equal fifteen weeks, you will not go to school 7 days a week. 73 days of instruction does indeed equal out to about fifteen weeks.





First part of school is Fundamentals: classroom environment hitting the books and listening to lectures. They'll cover the basic concepts and terms you'll need to start learning to work. Everything they go over is important, both for testing at school and as a foundation for ATC. Most instructors have ';tells'; while they lecture. They aren't supposed to tell you what will be covered in the tests, but if they emphasize a point, highlight it in your notes. I had an instructor that would stomp on the floor and raise his voice to key us in on things.





After you pass through Fundys, you'll be assigned to either Radar or Tower, and go through the sim labs. This is where you'll start to actually start working. New instructors will teach you new tasks daily, and evaluate you on how you perform those tasks. These new instructors also begin the time-honored air traffic controller tradition of being horrible human beings. They will do anything and everything to stress you out. No mistake will be too small to be unimportant. You must not perform anything out of sequence, nor forget a single word of phraseology. Students in labs commonly practice phraseology obsessively: at meals, during PT, even in their sleep. No, i am not exaggerating. Nightmares about controlling are fairly common. I knew a guy that puked in a trash can before a progress check because he was nervous. It's not because what you are doing is difficult--it isn't. It is because of the atmosphere that the instructors create. If you are mentally and emotionally tough, you can graduate easily. Study, but don't over-study. Get plenty of sleep. Try to stay out of the casinos.





Keep in mind that three level training is much harder than school. While there are no CDC's in ATC, there is still lots of book work--it's just tailored to the individual base you are stationed at. Upgrade training is a long process, but working by yourself is a blast. The job is totally worth it.





Good luck.How long is USAF Tech School for Air Traffic Control?
haha, yeah 73 days is like a little over 10 weeks.
It is 73 days long, thats 15 weeks.
ummmm...15 weeks does not equal 73 days...