Hi folks,
First of all, a big thank you to Adam for all of the fantastic progress he made as ATC TD - I hope to build on the great work we started together and see it through to fruition.
Secondly, regardless of past confusion or posts - Central Training is still going ahead.
In the coming months I am keen to update the membership regularly on the CTIB's (Central Training Implementation Board) progress on delivering CT in its various phases. We will be rolling it out in phases for
I am delighted to announce that Sam James will be taking over as ATC Training Director with immediate effect. Sam has been Adam's deputy and has been working hard over the past few months with Central Training and we hope to retain some, if not all of what has been worked on. Sam brings real world experience, along with many years of VATSIM experience to the role.
I am also announcing some additions to the Lead Mentor team. Matthew Collier is replacing me in SCONI and Sebastian Rekdal fil
Good afternoon all,
There comes a time when everyone has to take a moment to sit back and look what what's going on. That time for me, as far as VATSIM is concerned, came fairly recently. I'll explain more about my decision in a moment, however last week I wrote to Simon and explained that after the implementation of Phase 1 of the Central Training project, I intended to resign my post as ATC Training Director in VATSIM UK. Following a protracted discussion, which I think was hard for both
Dear all,
In conjunction with the Pilot Training team, I am very pleased to announce the introduction of Training Tuesdays.
One of the biggest difficulties that the ATC Training Department face is generating enough traffic to make training viable on the live network, which in turn leads to mentors attempting to use Sweatbox more to generate traffic to train students. The vicious circle develops itself by pilots then seeing a lack of air traffic online in the UK and instead flying e