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Dear All, I am very pleased to announce the brand new awards system for VATSIM UK members. The community team has been extremely busy over the past 8 months managing some very exciting projects which we hope will improve the experience of our members. This is just one of the new programmes we have planned for the future and we are very happy to be able to release this to the membership. Each department has their own set of awards which can be granted to members upon completion of
Leon Grant

Leon Grant in Community

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Pilot Training

Pilot Training Fast Track Schemes

Hold any real-world pilot license? If so, see below and you could be eligible for our Fast Track scheme's which can take you all the way from 'nothing to everything'! Over the past year or so I have been approached several times by members of the community asking if we offer any 'fast track' schemes for members who hold real-world pilot licenses, i.e. PPL (A), CPL (A) and ATPL, and in the past, we haven't. However, the question we've been asking ourselves is, if the CAA or FAA is willing to
Daniel Crookes

Daniel Crookes in Pilot Training

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United Kingdom

New Marketing Director

Folks I am delighted to announce that Trevor Hannant is the Division's new Marketing Director. Trevor has played a key role in the department as Events Manager and has some great ideas for moving the department forward. I would like to thank everyone who applied for the role. Please join me in welcoming Trevor to the DSG!!
Simon Irvine

Simon Irvine in Staff Changes

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United Kingdom

Gunnar Lindahl - Q&A - Sunday 30th September 1900z

I am delighted to announce that the VATSIM President, Gunnar Lindahl will be holding a Q&A on Sunday 30th September from 8pm local.  This will take place in the VATSIM UK teamspeak. You will have the chance to ask Gunnar a question on the night, or if you can't be there or want to put in a question in advance please send a question via our Twitter account, @vatsimuk using #askgunnar or email [email protected].  We look forward to seeing you there.  
Simon Irvine

Simon Irvine in United Kingdom

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Technology

Web Services Assistant

Hi all, Following the recent opening of applications for a Support Assistant within the Web Services team, I am pleased to confirm that George Barlow has accepted my offer to take up the role. George has a long standing interest in web technologies and is no stranger to the Division. As we restructure the team and give individual's clearly defined responsibilities, George will take ownership of our front-line support. The Web Services team deals with an vast number of requests and it i
VATSIM UK Web Services

VATSIM UK Web Services in Staff Changes

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ATC Training

EGNX: Training Aerodrome Update

Effective immediately, East Midlands (EGNX) as a training aerodrome will be moving to TG2 from TG1. The training places of those who are already training on EGNX will not be affected. The trial of using East Midlands for training again went well and at present TG2 has a large number of students going through the system on a lower number of aerodromes (compared to TG1). We are therefore moving East Midlands to TG2 to increase the capacity. If in the future, TG1 starts to have capacity issues
Andy Ford

Andy Ford in ATC Training

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Pilot Training

P2 Syllabus Update

Hi All, The P2 (Flight Fundamentals Course) syllabus has been updated in line with the recently changed P4. The CTS reports have been adjusted to include each lesson as an item to be marked, as opposed to the old method where each item on the report was criteria to be marked for each lesson. After each lesson is completed general comments about the lesson and information the mentor wishes to provide to the student will be posted in that lesson on the mentoring report. The mentor will t
Daniel Crookes

Daniel Crookes in Pilot Training

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ATC Training

Example Theory Questions

We have published a selection of example theory questions for all levels of ATC examination in the UK. These questions are intended to give exam candidates an idea of the sort of things that they might be asked by the examiner after completing the practical aspect of the exam and the level of detail they need to read into. These questions are provided without answers. It is intended that students will do the necessary reading in their own time to understand the subject matter and become con
Andy Ford

Andy Ford in ATC Training

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ATC Training

Matt Collier

Effective immediately, Matt has decided to step down from his role as TGI in TG1 in order to continue in his role as Web Services Assistant full-time. Thank you Matt for all your hard work in the ATC Training Department and best of luck in your continuing web role.
Andy Ford

Andy Ford in Staff Changes

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Pilot Training

Pilot Training Staff Changes Department

Bon Soir! I would like you all to join me in welcoming @Matthew Wilson back to the Pilot Training Department Staff team in his role as Pilot Administrative Manager. @James Gibson will be vacating this role into his new role of Development Flight Instructor, a new role in the department.  Why do we need more people? The VATSIM UK Pilot Training Department is currently training over 40 students with 103 people waiting for training, therefore we are developing new ways of speeding up trai
Daniel Crookes

Daniel Crookes in Pilot Training

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Pilot Training

P4 Syllabus Update

Hi All, As mentioned in the Q2 department report we have been working on new Syllabi and lesson plans for our courses and the first one to release will be for the P4 (IFR Pilot) course. The actual content of the rating and the way in which we examine the course will remain the same. This change introduces lesson plans for mentors to follow which will speed up and focus training. The CTS reports have been adjusted to include each lesson as an item to be marked, as opposed to the old met
Daniel Crookes

Daniel Crookes in Pilot Training

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United Kingdom

Region Report(s) Published

As part of the reporting structure of the division we prepare quarterly region reports which are passed to the Europe Region director, via the Executive Committee to the vice president of Regions (VATGOV4).   As these provide a reasonably condensed summary of the divisions performance in the previous quarter, we have begun to publish these as they are completed. You can find these here: https://vatsim.uk/download/info/?downloadID=00414   Future reports will be added to the ab
Chris Pawley

Chris Pawley in United Kingdom

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ATC Training

Tower Syllabus Updated

Version 1.1 of the S2 (TWR) Syllabus is now available for download. The document has been updated based on member feedback to clarify a number of points and to add some extra reading material. We have also introduced a section for attitude towards self-learning. The progress sheets will be updated in due course to incorporate the new criterion.
Andy Ford

Andy Ford in ATC Training

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United Kingdom

Marketing Director (VATUK4)

This is notification of the beginning of the application process for the position of Marketing Director (VATUK4). Application Closing Date: Sunday 26th August at 2259z The Marketing Director shall: Sit on the Division Staff Group; Have oversight for all marketing within the division; Manage and direct marketing strategy; Be responsible for the Events Manager and Social Media Manager; Be responsible for the planning and execution of division events;
Nathan Donnelly

Nathan Donnelly in Vacancy

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Marketing

- Alex Ashley

All, It is with deep regret that over the last few days I have come to the difficult decision to resign from the role of Social Media Manager. With an increasingly busy personal life and with my acceptance of a role at a flight simulation service, I feel that I no longer have the time nor the energy to deliver what the community deserves. Since joining the team at the start of the year, I have been thrilled by the support I have received from both the staff group and membership alike -
Alex Ashley

Alex Ashley in Staff Changes

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Technology

Getting Started With Core

Core, the service that runs at https://core.vatsim.uk, is the backbone to the Web Services department. It has been a long time since it "just" handling sign on to all of our other services. Now, it is a platform that facilitates feedback, handles Visiting/Transferring applications, creates TeamSpeak registrations and more. Soon, it will become the shop window of the division too, handling our public facing website and the content that it provides. To give you an idea of how much it is used.
VATSIM UK Web Services

VATSIM UK Web Services in Web Services

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Marketing

- Layth Al-Wakil

Good Evening All, After some careful consideration I’ve decided to inform the DSG of my intention to step down from the role of Marketing Director. When I originally took on the role I knew that my personal real-world commitments would start taking up more time, however they have taken more time than I had anticipated. Furthermore, I’ve also had to re-locate to New Zealand which has an 11 hour time zone difference making communication with everyone in the UK a bit harder, this ultimate
Layth Al-Wakil

Layth Al-Wakil in Staff Changes

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ATC Training

S2 and S3 Theory Questions: Revisited

Many of you who have taken your S2 and S3 theory exams recently may have noticed that quite a few of the questions weren't exactly relevant and some were, well, too easy. It turns out that some of our theory questions are very old, with some of the S3 questions dating back to the pre-GRP days when S2 didn't exist and S3 was in-part a TWR rating. You will all be glad to know (or maybe not, if you were hoping for an easy pass!) that we have removed a lot of questions and added new ones to ref
Andy Ford

Andy Ford in ATC Training

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ATC Training

Training Group Manager

The application period for the position of Training Group Manager has now concluded. I would like to say a big thank you to those who took time to apply, we had a strong pool of applications this round. We are pleased to announce that Lee Roberts has been appointed as a Training Group Manager. Lee will be working closely with Nick and Alex as we look to change up the way that we manage our training groups. Instead of our traditional TG1/TG2 structure, the TGM's will be split by level -
Andy Ford

Andy Ford in Staff Changes

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ATC Training

S3 Training at Heathrow

With the appropriate staff and support now in place, we are pleased to announce the resumption of Approach Radar (S2->S3) training for UK Students at Heathrow. Heathrow will draw from the existing waiting lists of TG1 and TG2. When a training place becomes available, it will be offered to the first eligible student on one of the lists. Completion of training will result in the awarding of an S3 rating and the Heathrow APP Major Endorsement. Solo Approach Validations (SAV's) will be handl
Andy Ford

Andy Ford in ATC Training

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United Kingdom

Changes to CTS Emailing

Due to the incredibly large volume of emails currently flowing from the CTS (because there's a lot of ATC and Pilot sessions right now!) which pushes us very close to our monthly quota, we're going to be be removing a couple of the email categories. These ones have been removed partly due to the amount of traffic they generate and also their perceived usefulness. They are as follows: Notification to mentors that a session request has come in. Notification to mentors that they h
Andy Ford

Andy Ford in United Kingdom

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