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Update: I chose the old NCATT cert path over the new NCATT-A route back in 2016
I was working at a Gulfstream service center in Savannah and my lead gave me two weeks to pick a cert track, so I went with the legacy NCATT route instead of the newer NCATT-A one because the older test had more hands-on wiring stuff on it. Looking back I think I made the right call since I ended up doing a lot of connector and harness work, but some guys who went the other way moved into glass cockpit jobs faster than me. Anyone here still holding the old cert, and did it ever cost you a job when a recruiter asked for the new one?
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theabennett16d ago
Funny thing, I swore back in 2016 that the legacy NCATT was the only cert worth having because of all that hands-on wiring time. Then I watched a guy I trained with at a Savannah hangar get passed over for a Gulfstream G500 avionics slot in 2019, not because he could not do the work, but because the posting literally said NCATT-A required. That changed my mind fast. The old cert still proves you can build and fix a harness, which a lot of these newer guys honestly cannot do. But if a recruiter has a checklist and your cert is not on it, you never even get in the room to show them what you know. These days I tell younger techs to grab both if they can, since the legacy one gets you the bench skills and the new one gets you past the door.
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