Air Traffic Control Career Prep: A comprehensive guide to one of the best-paying Federal government careers, including test preparation for the initial Air Traffic Control exams. Paperback – May 27, 2014

My son ordered this book and once it came, he was buried deep in the book and the software program that was included. Because of this material and the information and program, he is seriously considering a career as an ATC. He is a college grad, but it's been a long time since I've seen him excited about a career opportunity like this. I realize this is a second hand evaluation, but I did observe the book and CD being used and both seemed to meet the expectations held by my son.

This book and interactive study guide helped me quite a bit.The PC program more so than the book.The program is like a game, and very accurate to the actual test.Some minor differences:in the "landing the planes" game, when you set a new heading, the planes arch to that new heading, appropriately to approximate physics. However, in the actual test, the planes do immediate 90' angle turns.This messed me up a bit when taking the test, because, part of your grade is determined by how few course corrections you make. Also, it caused me to miss judge my very first course correction, and I crashed a plane. Bummer.But I still did get a 90.6 on the entire test.The book is good for... well not much. it actually has a lot of errors in the answer key, but if you don't realize those errors, you probably shouldn't be an air traffic controller anyways.I highly recommend that you just play that game over and over again. Keep playing it until you have mastered all of the sections, and then play it some more. Play that thing up until the morning before your test. I cannot stress enough how beneficial this game is to your overall grade.It will boost by a factor of 'amazing' your quickness of thought, your committal under stress, and your confidence in knowing that you are right.Man, that letter factory game will eat your lunch if you are not prepared for it.And all of these games in this program are designed somewhat harder than the actual test.Get This Game.Play it over and over.and study some of the other things.It WILL give you a substantial advantage.

ok starting with a little bit of info on me. I am a private pilot with most of my ratings and i went to embry-riddle so i do know alot about flying and air traffic already. But for the book, this book was both good and bad for a couple reasons. Bad because there are several spelling errors that normally wouldnt be of any concern but some of the errors actually gave you the wrong information about the exercise that you were in. Good because it did give you alot of practice problems and covers most all the information that is on the test. also the CD that it comes with was BIG help because it was almost identical to what was on the test. All and all the book was good not great but good, i did pass the test and the book helped me get a hired score for sure.

Came in handy. Very useful book. Scored in the top 10% of my class however as a white male I got the worst possible locations for the opportunity in this career, so I passed on the opportunity.

This book is totally outdated. As of 2017 FAA has started a new format. Not a single word in this book will help you. I took the test, and believe me you will only waste your time and money if you decide to buy this like I did. Nothing can prepare you for the new exam.

The whole point of this book is to try to raise your score on the ATSAT test and this book MIGHT help. Like an IQ test, you can't really study for the ATSAT. Using this book and the accompanying CD only helps you become familiar with what you are going to see on the test. That alone can certainly help you improve your score since you won't be so overwhelmed when the test starts. Be very careful though because the actual test and instructions are different than what you'll see in the book and CD. Read and follow the real test instructions carefully.There are many flaws in the book and practice CD software including design flaws as well as outright incorrect answers. While the author has done a pretty good job of verifying the content of the book the publishers have thrown in some pretty crappy software. The book spends a lot of time teaching you Air Traffic Control which does NOTHING to help you prepare for the test. In other words, there are NO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL questions on the ATSAT. For this reason the other often purchased ATSAT prep book, Peterson's, is even more worthless because it doesn't even come with a marginal practice CD or written test examples.With all that said though I still believe this book is a worthwhile investment toward the chance of an outstanding career. If you have been selected to take the ATSAT you might as well spend a few bucks to gain any advantage possible. Most everybody feels that the actual test is easier than the practice CD.Good luck and happy vectoring!

I was downright upset that my book came without a CD for the software it says comes with the book right on the cover. I still tucked in to the book anyway. I realized that the software is found on the website and you use your code from the book to authorize yourself to get the software. Both the book and the software are excellent! I am still disappointed that the book came late, but it happens sometimes.

I bought this book a few years ago (I have since been hired and am an air traffic controller). The book gives you a vague idea at best of what you will see when you take the test. I would recommend checking sites like stuckmic as opposed to getting this book as they will have more and better information and you can post questions and participate in conversations in the forums if you like. It is also useful to follow the forums to find out when others who applied to your job posting are getting offer letters and such. Getting hired is quite a long ordeal so it's nice to know that you aren't the only one waiting months for the next phase of the hiring process.