HAREWOOD COURSE
Air-Traffic Control
The first group of air-traffic-control trainees to receive flying training has returned to Christchurch for an eightweeks’ training course provided by the National Airways Corporation. The men began their basic training at the Department of Civil Aviation's Aeronautical College at Christchurch Airport in January, 1966. Since then they have spent a year as assistants to trained airtraffic controllers.
On Monday they returned to the college. In the next eight weeks they will receive pre-flight training at the N.A.C.'s training centre at the airport. After this they will go to the Canterbury Aero Club for flying training for 60 hours each to enable them to obtain pilots’ licences. In August the trainees will return to the college for an intermediate air-traffic-control course which will last eight weeks. Afterwards they will go to secondary airports for general consolidation and field training. The superintendent of the college (Mr J. Irvine) said there were now, for the first time, four concurrent training courses in air-traffic services under way at the college.
To cope with the extra numbers the college has obtained two prefabricated buildings for use as classrooms.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31360, 4 May 1967, Page 14
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