Safety & Control
Every flight plan in the country is built on a forecast someone had to be brave enough to sign.
Monthly, KES
85k – 300k
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You hold a three-dimensional picture of a hundred square kilometres of sky in your head, and you keep every aircraft in it apart.
Controllers direct aircraft on the ground and in the air, maintaining safe separation and orderly flow.
Air traffic control is the closest thing aviation has to a pure cognitive sport. You build and maintain a mental model of every aircraft in your sector — where it is, where it is going, how fast it is climbing, what it will conflict with in four minutes — and you update that model continuously while talking, listening and typing.
Controllers work in distinct disciplines: aerodrome control handles the runway and the immediate circuit; approach sequences arrivals into a stream; area control manages aircraft en route at altitude.
The training washout rate is high and the selection is unapologetically demanding, because the job cannot be done adequately — only well. Those who make it describe a level of focus they never found anywhere else.
Take over a position with a formal handover of every aircraft and every instruction outstanding.
Sequence arrivals so they land at the exact spacing the runway can absorb.
Resolve a developing conflict by issuing a level, heading or speed change before it becomes one.
Coordinate with adjacent sectors as aircraft cross boundaries.
Take a mandatory break — fatigue management is regulated, not optional.
KCSE C+ or above with Mathematics, Physics and English at C+.
Pass cognitive and spatial aptitude testing — this filters most applicants out before training.
Ab-initio ATC training covering rules of the air, navigation, meteorology and simulation.
Specialise in aerodrome, approach or area control.
Live control under an instructor's licence until validated on the unit.
Controller → Watch Supervisor → Unit Manager. Alternative routes into ATC instruction, airspace design, safety investigation and ICAO/regional regulatory roles.
Recruitment happens in cohorts rather than continuously, so timing matters. Airspace modernisation across East Africa is creating demand for controllers who understand performance-based navigation.
Every flight plan in the country is built on a forecast someone had to be brave enough to sign.
Monthly, KES
85k – 300k
Every single person who boards an aircraft has passed through a system you are responsible for.
Monthly, KES
45k – 250k
We deliver these pathways in person, with someone who does the job standing at the front of the room.