The Civil Aviation Authority Training Institute (CAATI) was established in 1990 in response to a growing demand for qualified personnel to manage the Air Traffic Control Units in Jamaica ...
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Trainee Air Traffic controllers and their instructors at their graduation in November 2007
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Seven trainee Air Traffic Controllers have successfully completed a newly-introduced Air Traffic Control Complete Course # 1 (ATC-C1) at the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority Training Institute .The new programme aims at providing comprehensive ATC training to allow graduates to be placed wherever the need is greatest within the air traffic control system.
The seven-part course which started in March 2007 had both theory and practical components and covered all aspects of Air Traffic Control. The course outline is as follows: -
- Aerodrome Control
- Approach Control Non-radar (Procedural)
- Approach Control Radar
- Area Control non-radar (Procedural)
- Area Control Radar
- Radar Contingency Proficiency Training (Radar failure)
- Autotrac Flight Data Display [FDD] Situation Data Display [SDD]
The first two segments of the programme which was completed in June 2007 had a graduate population of ten student controllers. Among the graduates were three trainee controllers from the Turks and Caicos Islands, one Dominican and six Jamaicans (two joined at the Approach Control Level).
The graduate from Dominica has already been certified as an Air Traffic Controller.
The Jamaican trainee controllers went on to complete the other five levels of the course. This graduate population was further increased by the addition of one more trainee at the Area Control Procedural Level and another at the Area Radar Level.
These graduates will now receive on-the-job training at either the Norman Manley Control Tower, the Sangster Control Tower or the Kingston Air Traffic Control Centre, after which they will have earned a validation for the area of operations that they were assigned.
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