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Home | History Book Pages | Vocational Visit to National Air Traffic Services, Prestwick 2010
For our third vocational visit of the year approximately 20 members of our club visited NATS on Tuesday evening, 21st September. It was an interesting evening, and the two staff members who took us through a presentation and then demonstrated the work on the radar screens were clearly enthusiastic about their work and their new premises – deservedly so.
Having run the gauntlet of stringent security before we were allowed to enter the premises, we then experienced a real sense of adventure – as if we were central to a James Bond movie -when our leader slowly raised the venetian blinds from the lecture room to allow us to peruse the state of the art floor beneath us where men and women were scattered around, each engaged in their own special tasks. It was an excellent opportunity – although someone did ask if the building was bomb-proof!! It was good fun trying to track aircraft through the sectors open to us.
Further in formation about NATS for budding Air Traffic Controllers can be found here