c. Time limitations .
(1) An ATCS or CTO rating will be required within the time limitations listed in table 4-1.
(2) Training time will be counted as starting the day after an individual is formally assigned to the facility for duty.
(3) Before obtaining a rating, a controller may be position qualified as soon as training and individual progress permits and may obtain an ATCS facility rating as soon as he or she is position qualified on all positions that apply to the rating.
(4) Any person, regardless of previous ATC experience in other than tower, who starts training in a fixed control tower for initial CTO rating, will complete the initial 6-month experience requirements of Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR), part 65, unless they have satisfactorily served in an ATC tower position (either TDA or table of organization and equipment (TOE)) for at least 6 months.
(5) Time limitations are shown in table 4-1 and will not be exceeded without a waiver regardless of the reasons that training was stopped.
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|Table 4-1. Time limitations for facility ratings |
|____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________|
|Type facility | Calendar |
| | months |
|____________________________________________________________________________________|_____________|
|Control tower | 7 |
|____________________________________________________________________________________|_____________|
|Without nonradar approach control | 7 |
|____________________________________________________________________________________|_____________|
|Ground control approach (GCA) | 4 |
|____________________________________________________________________________________|_____________|
|Radar approach | 18 |
|____________________________________________________________________________________|_____________|
|Army Flight Following Service (AFFS) | 3 |
|____________________________________________________________________________________|_____________|
|Flight Operations Center (FOC) | 3 |
|____________________________________________________________________________________|_____________|
|Flight Coordination Center (FCC) | 3 |
|____________________________________________________________________________________|_____________|
(6) A controller who returns to a facility at which he or she was previously rated after an absence of 6 or more months must complete all phases of the facility training manual (FTM), excluding the facility rating examination phase, to become recertified.
(7) Authorized reasons to stop ATC training are as follows:
(a) Medically grounded as determined by the commander and/or flight surgeon.
(b) Emergency leave.
(c) DA directed schools.
(d) Suspended from ATC duties due to a safety related incident.
(e) Equipment outages which close the facility. Trainees may continue academic training during a training time limit stoppage.
(8) DA Form 3479-6-R will be used to indicate the specific number of days and reason why training was stopped.
(9) Request for waiver of time stated in table 4-1 will be submitted
through channels to Commander, USAAVNC, ATTN: ATZQ-ATC-MO, Fort Rucker,
AL 36362-5265.