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Date Posted: 10:53:08 06/06/08 Fri
Author: DC
Subject: Re: Why doesn't UND teach us enroute?
In reply to: gb 's message, "Re: Why doesn't UND teach us enroute?" on 08:23:36 05/26/08 Mon

As a "tower flower" and a TRACON controller I think UNDs ATC program prepares students very well for the academy and even the "real world" of ATC. As I said I am not a center puke and I dont know or want to know what its like working in a center, but I am sure UND has contributed to your success there in some way.

Sure you may not graduate from UND knowing how to input a flight plan or do a 6 7 10, but those things are basic, something you will learn at your facility. Would it be worth paying thousands more so you can play with some of the equipment and learn how to input a flight plan? Or amend a routing, I dont think students are really gonna care. If anything make a power point on it, it would have close to the same effect....

I am not sure what system the center uses, but at my facility we run STARS, I know Norcal and Socal run ACD (Arts Color Display) Honolulu runs Micro E Arts, and my point is, sould we have multiple labs as well to make students feels comfortable workking differnt types of radar systems???
I think the equipment, the cirricullum are fine, the most important skill you can bring is the ability towork the traffic and put two together.

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