As an Air Traffic Controller, you will join the Air Force through the Officer Aviation pathway. During your training at RAAF Base East Sale, you would have been selected for Air Traffic Controller based on your preference, performance during training and availability of positions.
As an Air Traffic Controller you will build your knowledge and skills delivering Air Base Air Traffic Services at one of the many military airfields and joint user airfields around Australia. Air Force Air Traffic Control Officers are responsible for all traffic, not just military traffic, at the airfields where military Air Traffic Control is provided (including Darwin, Townsville and Newcastle airports, which share a runway with the Air Force base).
Air Force Air Traffic Controllers do more than just control from a tower or in front of a radar screen at a military airfield. You may be called upon to control the airspace above a battlefield, whether that is over the land or the sea. This sees Air Traffic Controllers often working extensively with the Army and Navy, including controlling from Navy ships.