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Happy New Year - Operations 2024

Happy new year of AIRACs from the Operations Department. I have to start the post with a thank you to my staff for yet another year of hard work. @Luke Brown, Harry, @Peter Mooney, @Adam Arkley, @Kye Taylor, @Chad Byworth and @Harrison Grose, thank you for all you've put in over 2023 and for all the jobs behind-the-scenes that go unnnoticed. Network Traffic The network continues to get busier - and the UK is no exception, with nearly 80000 more movements than last year. Currently
Kieran Hardern

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AFIS/AGO Endorsement Positions Updated

I am pleased to announce that from November 3rd at 0001z, the S1 AFIS/AGO endorsement will cover an additional 41 fields that provide Air/Ground Radio or Aerodrome Flight Information Service. The list is updated on the Endorsement Page of the VATSIM UK website in advance of this change: https://www.vatsim.uk/atc/endorsements Please note that this change co-incides with the 8.33 frequency implementation and all AFIS/AG positions must have the latest sector file and utilise the correct f
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New Aerodrome Operations Coordinators

I am pleased to announce the appointment of 2 new Aerodrome Operations Coordinators: Adam Arkley and Kye Taylor. Both are experienced controllers and have extensive experience on the network - especially in ATC training. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can bring to the Operations Department. Congratulations to them both. I'll be working with them over the next few months to bring them up to speed.
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Operations Staff Changes

Following the resignation of Thomas Mills at the start of this year right before our biggest sector/AIRAC release for years, we've had a large hole in our Operations team that many of the team have stepped in to assist with. I am pleased to announce that following his excellent work on the sector file in recent months, @Peter Mooney has agreed to move into the Sector File Coordinator role. He holds this role jointly with Luke, with Peter focusing more on sector file data and releases, Luke more
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Happy New Year - Operations 2023

Another year, another 13 AIRACs gone. This has been a challenging year, with increased workload placed upon the department, after the loss of some experienced staff. With the introduction of the UK Controller Plugin API, some advances in flow control, and our ever-more present role in traffic planning for big events, it becomes hard to keep up with all our day to day roles!   One of our focuses this year has been to try to increase the list of airports that we can support documentation
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Flow Control - ECFMP Integration

For over a year, the UK has been participating in a Europe-wide flow control coordination system called 'ECFMP'. In discord, you will see us occasionally posting in the "procedure_changes" channel with a Flow Control measure issued via this system. It allows us to request/issue traffic limitations to each other for the purpose of easing pressure on airports or sectors during events. As of today, the ECFMP group have launched a new web interface where these measures are issued. With that com
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Operations Assistant - Ellis Delgado

It is my unfortunate duty to announce that @Ellis Delgado will be leaving the Operations Team. Ellis joined the team in August 2021 as an Operations Assistant and has supported us through several major cycle updates, to include our massive Luton/LTMA changes in early 2022. We thank Ellis for his contributions over the last year! Ellis will be continuing to contribute to our AIRAC cycles alongside being an active member of the division.
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Happy New Year from Operations

It’s time for a quick ‘Happy New (AIRAC) Year’ from the Operations Department. I hope the festive period has allowed you some time to rest and recharge for 2022. It’s a privilege to take over this department from Jack, who’s led it since October 2020. We are going into 2022 with a strong and established team, which we’ll need to achieve all our plans and hit our deadlines for 2022. Thank you @Jack Edwardsfor all your efforts to bring the team to where it is, along with your personal contrib
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Operations Director - Resignation

Good afternoon all. I've throughly enjoyed the last year as Operations Director, the swell in interest and commitment to the network from everyone in VATSIM UK has been a big wave to surf and I'm really proud of the work that everyone in the department has done since we all started last year. It's time for me to move on now and hand the role over to someone else. Before I go, I would like to give you all (the membership) an idea of what goes on behind the scenes and thank some of those
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Operations New Year Review - TopSky and 2020 Statistics

Happy New Year! I hope your festive periods have been relaxing. I'm sure many of you like me, will be looking ahead with more optimism to 2021. The past year has generated some remarkable statistics which show the vast contributions made to the division. The Operations Department has also been working hard on a number of topics recently and there are a few exciting projects in the works as we begin 2021. Top-Sky There has been a growing chorus of voices requesting an official VATS
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Operations Director - Opening Statement

Firstly, thank you to everyone for the warm welcome, I know recuitment for this role has been eagerly anticipated and I hope I can do justice to it. At the present moment, Chris remains responsible for the majority of the department's output. This will gradually shift as we get the opportunity to hand over the various compenents. Getting to grips with the current state of affairs will take some time and I anticipate that during this period, I won't be able to respond to queries as promptly
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Thank you, and goodbye!

Hi all, It's with sadness that I have, tonight, resigned from my position as Operations Manager. Since I became an active member of VATSIM UK in March 2013, I have loved every single minute I've spent on the network as a trainee, mentor, and staff member. Arguably, I have, at times, spent too many minutes on the network... but all for a good cause! Unfortunately, the pressures of balancing my final year in Sixth Form with my social life has left little room for VATSIM, and it would be unfai
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A new set of tools...

Thanks to the hard work of @Alex Toff in particular, I'm pleased to announce a 'Squawk Generator' for use by VATSIM UK controllers. Simply type in the destination code, hit 'Generate Squawk', and one will pop up for you to issue. You can access the tool at: squawks.vatsim.net Additionally, this tool has been open sourced and added to VATSIM UK's organisation on GitHub. To contribute, visit the repository: https://github.com/VATSIM-UK/web-squawk-gen --- Going forward, work has
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Open Source Update - UK Sector File

I am pleased to announce that the migration of the UK Sector File Repository from GitLab to GitHub has now been completed - thanks @Neil Farrington! The new repository can be found here: https://github.com/VATSIM-UK/UK-Sector-File The first and most important thing is that you read (and understand) the Contributing guide which is attached to the project. As we go on it is the intention to develop the Wiki with details of how the sector file is generated from the repository, and a step-
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Reducing Redundancy in Mentoring Reports

ATC MENTORS Following a discussion with @Samuel James, I realised we are both of the opinion that the prevalence of massive chunks of textual procedures in mentoring reports has become excessive. Forgetting the fact that we may of course be seeing changes through the introduction of Central Training for now (see page 7 of the November 2016 DSG meeting minutes regarding 'intense mentoring reports'), the fact that I see so many procedures in reports makes me, as the Operations Manager, worrie
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"She generally gave herself good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)"

Feedback is invaluable for all of our professional development as controllers, pilots, staff, mentors etc. It's also an important part of the development of our services for members. And with that, we are looking to gather your opinions surrounding a pilot and controller feedback system using a short survey... CLICK TO ACCESS THE SURVEY  The survey will only take a couple of minutes to complete and will enable myself and the Web Team to gather enough initial information to draft requir
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Harry Sugden in Operations

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New Forums

You may have noticed a few changes to the forum to help facilitate achieving the goals set out in my earlier roadmap post. So, what are the new places for? ATC Procedure Changes This forum used to sit under ‘ATC Training’ but has been moved to ‘Operations’. It will work in the same way as it has done, with procedures that have been fully incorporated into published documentation moved into the Archive. ATC Rostering & Requests This forum centralises requests by RTSMs for
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