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New CT S1 Training Programme Launched!

Hey folks, I'm pleased to announce the launch of our new CT S1 course. Main points: Comprehensive e-Learning/Moodle courses All S1 training completed within the New Controller Training Group All practical S1 training sessions conducted using London Gatwick   *Once process/event is complete, send a ticket to ATC Training to continue the process   I've just joined the New Controller Training Group (TG) - How do I join a Group session? You
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ATC Training Department - Staff Structure

I am pleased to officially announce the new ATC Training Department's staff structure is as above with the following staff filling the roles as below: TG1 TGMs - Fraser Cooper, Paul Murphy, Nick Marinov TGIs - Gregg Donohoe, Michael Pike, Matthew Collier TG2 TGMs - Leon Grant, Oliver Rhodes TGIs - Johan Grauers, Charlie Watson, Luke Collister TGE (Enroute - EGTT, EGPX, EGGX) TGM - Matt Weddell TGI - Phillip Speer Heathrow TGM - Philip Harris TGI - Sebastian Rekdal New Co
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VATSIM Connexion 2017: Website & Tickets Launched

Following on from the announcement last year that VATSIM would be holding a conference in London this summer.  VATSIM is delighted to announce that the website for Connexion 2017 has been launched and tickets are now available to book. This is a global convention open to all VATSIM members. The event website is here. The discussion thread is here.
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Nova sanguinem - Welcome to...

Following on with the Latin theme... I'm pleased to welcome the following to the ATC Training Department staff team: Gregg Donohoe - TG Instructor for TG1 Gregg is a long standing member of the Division having previously held various roles including SCONI RTSI - It's a real honour to have him back and brings a bucket load of experience, enthusiasm and knowledge to the role Charlie Watson - TG Instructor for TG2 Charlie has been heavily involved with the UK Division for the past co
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CTS Phase 1 Preparation - Exitus acta probat!

Hi folks, In preparation for CT, myself and the Web Services team will be in the next 3 weeks merging all Training RTSs into the 2 new Training Groups (TG1 and TG2). As a student you may begin to notice small cosmetic changes to the CTS, however you should still be able to request mentoring provided you are listed as an active student with a mentoring place. For those members who are not currently training or are currently in a waiting list for training you will most likely receive an email
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Community

Pollice verso (with a turned thumb - or some such Latin'ish blah-de-blah)

Dear All You have been used to being able to extend your thumbs in an upward direction, now it's time for something completely different (only not that different and basically exactly the same)..... In addition to the ability to 'thumbs up' posts within the forum, members will now be able to use 'thumbs down'. Presently you are able to 'thumbs up' a maximum of twenty times each day, this will continue; A maximum of two 'thumbs down' votes may be cast by any one member on any si
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Web Services

Change of Domain

All, As 2016 draws to a close and we start looking at the list of tasks that 2017 presents, we're presented with a great opportunity to start the year with a fresh domain to better represent the VATSIM UK brand (and make it slightly easier for folk to remember).  @Alex Hartshorne is working incredibly hard to ensure VATSIM UK is correctly represented and as such, from the 1st January, we'll be migrating to our new home - https://vatsim.uk  All old links will continue to work as expecte
Anthony Lawrence

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Gatwick eLearning Course (DEL/GND)

Hello all, Over the past months we have been writing a Gatwick Ground & Delivery familiarisation e-learning course. The course is now complete. You are now all able to self enrol on to the course. https://moodle.vatsim-uk.co.uk/ This course is designed for any member who wishes to further their knowledge of controlling either on Gatwick Ground or Delivery. Additionally, this will make up one of many future e-learning courses available for airfield familiarisation. These c
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[MINUTES] CTIB Meeting - 16th December 2016

Hi all, I'm pleased to release to you the minutes of our last CTIB meeting. A massive thanks to Oliver Rhodes for doing a fantastic job of compiling a 3 hours meeting into the minutes you see here! Some fantastic progress made and great effort by all to date. Thanks, Sam
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Operations

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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Web Services

Plans for 2017

Overview With the new community cohesion plans, Community Championships/Leaderboards, Central Training, and Pilot Training exercises all announced, it is a good opportunity for me to outline the plans for our department as we go forward and some of the technical challenges we need to overcome. Quarter 1 The most noticeable change for our members that are embarking upon ATC Training will be the rebranding of the RTS System to the CT System to complement the new trai
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Home is where the heart is...

Dear All From 00:01z Thursday 15th December, you will be asked if you would like to select one of 8 region-based communities from the following list: Scotland | Northern Ireland | Northern | Wales | Midlands | East Anglia | South West | South East Members do not have to join a community in which the facility they are training at is based.  There may however be benefit for the member to choose the community in which the majority of their day-to-day VATSIM activity (flying/controlli
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[MINUTES] DSG Meeting - 21st November 2016

Folks The minutes of last month's DSG meeting are now available for download here. I'll be making a short post when the minutes are published to add some colour to them and give a short overview of what is happening in the Division.  I will aim to post the minutes and write this blog within a couple of weeks of the meeting taking place.  It's worth pointing out that this was the last DSG meeting of 2016 although we do have an "all staff" meeting in mid December. Most of what is po
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Web Services

Open Source Web Services - Update 3

At the start of 2016, I outlined our plans for moving to an open source model for our core web services.  During the year this has always been a big focus for the team and has helped massively as a reminder of why we need to thoroughly document our code and ensure only high-quality commits to our repositories. 12 months ago we wouldn't have been able to open source straight away - our code styling and formatting was largely inconsistent, we had areas that were written in a different manner
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ATC Training

S2s and Sweatbox

To resolve any confusion between who can and cannot run Sweatboxes as an S2 across the Division and to prepare ourselves for the onset of Central Training, from now onwards, S2 Mentors are permitted to run Sweatboxes without restriction. Naturally, as with all Sweatbox mentors regardless of rating, we would encourage those who are not particularly confident with its’ features to attend a ‘Introduction to Sweatbox’ seminar which will be regularly held and details of these will be promulgated on t
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ATC TD - Autumnal Updates

With so much going on over the last few months and with so much fantastic change coming, it's time for an update on what has actually been happening 'behind the scenes' and what is to come... OBS-S1 Program First of all some stats from the last 2 months: Number of OBS-S1s attending a Group OBS session: 98  Number of students from those Group sessions subsequently achieving their S1s to date: 47  Just for perspective - that's pretty much the same number trained in the 8 months prec
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Web Services

Open Source Web Services - Update 2

Dear all, As we approach the end of the year, I felt it was a good time to provide an overview of where we are in terms of open sourcing the Web Services platform. This has not yet been completed, however I'm very keen that this doesn't hold the project up.  This was always a nice to have by the time we open sourced, but we'll continue to develop this and release in due course. The team continue to work on this - we've now split the new site down into key modules, each of whic
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ATC Training

Heathrow Ground Training

Dear all, On behalf of the Heathrow RTS, I am pleased to inform you all that we have successfully completed the Heathrow GMC Training Trial (LL GMC Trial). This trial has indeed made a huge impact on how the Heathrow RTS will deal with training requests in the future. Our primary focus is to reduce the amount of 'unnecessary' one-to-one mentoring sessions by delegating the responsibility of understanding the Heathrow theory to the student himself, through a self-study system. I am ther
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Community

“You used to be much more...muchier. You’ve lost your muchness.”

Dear All VATSIM UK is pleased to be able to introduce a region-based community structure of colloquial delights, with a drop of slight insanity better to accommodate the mixed bag of nuts we all make up. Starting 15th December 2016, you will be invited to join one of the new 9 region-based communities: Scotland Northern Ireland Northern Wales Midlands East Anglia South West South East British Overseas Region-based commu
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CTIB - Seeking more team members

Hi folks, Following on from my previous ATC TD update, we are looking for more people to get involved and help with the creation of moodle courses for S2, S3 and C1 ratings. Also, we're particularly interested in those S2 rated controllers or above who have particular knowledge of the following aerodromes to assist in a side project intended to improve standards and the resources we give to our members: - Birmingham APP - Glasgow TWR/APP - Liverpool TWR/APP - Luton TW
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Staff Changes

South East RTSM

All, Please join me in welcoming @Fraser Cooper as the new South East RTSM. He will be taking over the great work @John Batten has been doing keeping SERTS running smoothly. He brings real world aviation experience with him as well as some exciting ideas to further improve training. Welcome to the ATC Training team Fraser!  
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ATC Training

Military Radar (APC) Moodle course RELEASED

A massive thanks to @Callum Presley and colleagues for their hard work developing and testing the new Military Radar (APC) course on our moodle platform. I'm delighted to announce that it is now available for S3s to enrol and complete. Once you have passed the Final Exam, simply submit a ticket to the Military RTS and we'll get the endorsement processed. It'll be great to see some more of our Military APP positions manned in the future. Enjoy!
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Staff Changes

ATC Training Assistant

Folks, Please join me in welcome Alex Beard who is joining the ATC Training team as our new ATC Training Assistant. He's taking over my former role so any tickets or issues pertaining to ATC Training from an admin perspective will be dealt with by him. Alex has been a very mature, keen and motivated member of the Division, contributing many hours of mentoring both in SERTS and Essex and also on the Group OBS mentoring team and he has also been very helpful to me in my previous role as ATC T
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