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TG TWR and TG NC Vacancies

The ATC Training department is recruiting for S2+ rated members to join our team in various roles. The role(s) The Training Department is responsible for developing and implementing training schemes for the award of VATSIM controller ratings. We are looking for members to join and work closely with our existing team to help us continue to deliver high quality training to our students and to improve the efficiency of training. On a day to day basis, depending on the strengths of the a
Adam Farquharson

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Member Services

C1 / C3 Transfer and Visiting now open.

Hi All, We are delighted to say that we are now accepting applications for visiting and transferring C1/C3 Controllers We have completed, a review of the Visiting and Transferring Controller Policy and the following changes have been made to make the process more open and fair. New Visiting Groups The aim of the new Visiting and Transferring training process is to ensure visiting controllers are of an equivalent standard to home controllers, which is required by the VATSIM Tr
John Batten

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Marketing

Marketing Assistant Resignation

Good morning,    Unfortunately I have to announce that @Piers Austin-Foss will be stepping down from his position as Marketing Assistant. Piers joined the team in June 2021 to assist with the day to day running of the marketing department. In that time, Piers has held the responsibility of managing our general aviation event series and more recently covering the responsibility of managing our media. Piers has kindly offered to be stay involved with the GA club and graphics team, 
Loui Ringer

Loui Ringer in Marketing

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ATC Training

ATC Training Staff Changes

Hi all, @Reece Buckley and @Nathaniel Leff are both leaving their roles within ATC Training. Reece has been an integral part of the team in the recent months in which he has been managing approach training as the only TGI. Nathaniel leaves us after multiple years running Heathrow training as he acclimatises to a career change. I wish both of you all the best in any future endeavours and look forward to seeing you around on the network. Nathaniel will be sticking around while we search
Adam Farquharson

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Web Services

Nathan Davies

Hi all, It is with regret I announce the departure of @Nathan Davies from the Web Services Team. Nathan joined the team in August 2017 to contribute to the running of our Helpdesk. We quickly uncovered his skills in system administration and the rest is history! Over the last 5 and a half years, Nathan has provided countless hours of support to keep our systems online, secured and backed up. Him and I have spent many a late night diagnosing and fixing issues with our platforms behind t
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ATC Training

Resignation

Hi all, After almost 2 years in the staff team I have decided to step down as Approach TGI. I started in the New Controller TG alongside @Kye Taylor and @James Taylor (They are brothers) where we worked well and achieved lots together. I then moved to the Approach TG in March 2022 where I ran the training group on my own for circa 9 months. Despite being told there would be another TGI to support me in the near future I continued on my own until January 2023 when @William Jennings and
Reece Buckley

Reece Buckley in ATC Training

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Web Services

Web Services Appointments

A few weeks ago, I announced that we were on the lookout for people to join our Web Services Team. The team and I have been overwhelmed by the number of people with valuable skills who expressed an interest in contributing to the running of our systems. We enjoyed speaking to a large number of those that applied and seeing how much talent exists within our community. Today, I am delighted to welcome three new people to our team. @Ben Esen @David Etheridge All three joi
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Marketing

Marketing Events Update

Hello Everyone,   First of all I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the new year. Loui, Piers, and I decided it might not be a bad idea to give an update of our plans for this year, as it's been over a year and a half since the last announcement! Following our usual break at the beginning of the calendar year, we have moved into full steam ahead with events. We are aiming for two per month, excluding GA events, which Piers will provide an update on in a separate post. An event ev
Ben Wright

Ben Wright in Marketing

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ATC Training

ATC Training 2022 Q4 + Year Review

There was generally some good feedback from publishing the quarterly stats when I did so last month. If this type of thing is something that you would like to see continue then please keep letting us know (by liking or commenting on this post or reaching out to me another way). Exams Incomplete exams are excluded for clarity: S1 - 26 exams, 23 passed, 3 failed. This is a 62% increase in the number of exams conducted and a 11% decrease in the pass rate. S2 - 5 exams, 5 passed, 0 failed
Adam Farquharson

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Member Services

New Member Services Director

Hi All, So as of today I have taken over the keys for the Member Services department. I want to thank @Lee Roberts for all is hard work and leadership he has given the department in his time as Member Services Director.  My plan for the next week is to get to know the team and work out our plans for the department going forward. Top priority is opening the Visiting and Transfer applications for C1/3 Controllers. A lot of hard work has gone into this by many people over an extended
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ATC Training

ATC Training Staff Changes

Hi all, As I'm sure many of you have seen, there have been some staff changes within the ATC Training Department in the last month. @Kye Taylor has stepped down from his role in the Tower Training Group (resignation post). Kye, I know I've said this privately but I'll extend the message (even more) publicly, you've had a huge effect on the training and experience on the network of hundreds of members. The difference you've made during a difficult time cannot be understated, thank you!
Adam Farquharson

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United Kingdom

New Member Services Director

The DSG is pleased to announce that @John Batten is appointed as the Member Services Director. This recruitment round has been especially challenging as we negotiated this appointment with external parties and have held extensive discussions with the relevant applicants. Ultimately this has meant that our outgoing Member Services Director ( @Lee Roberts ) has remained in role much longer than anticipated in order to transition this function to our new appointment. For this we thank him. John is
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Pilot Training

The Flying Programme Launch

Introduction ✈️ On the 13th of March 2021, Pilot Training put out a prospectus forum post describing The Flying Programme. Envisioned as an expansion of the P0 Initial Pilot rating, The Flying Programme proposed sessions, group flights, and seminars open to all home members on VATSIM UK to assist in starting out on the network. On the 13th of February 2023, The Flying Programme will be released. A special thanks to @Ben Carpenter, who has led the TFP development team since March 2
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Web Services

Join Our Web Services Team!

The VATSIM UK Web Services Team is made up of a small group of people that maintain and develop the online platforms for the Division. These systems are used by anyone that interacts with us; home members, visitors, staff and the public. We don’t often open applications for people to join the team so if you have ever wanted to get involved in what we do, now is a great time to apply! We did open a similar vacancy in early 2021, but due to some matters outside of our control, we did not appo
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Staff Changes

Operations Staff Changes

I have good and bad news to announce. Starting with the bad, I regret to announce that @Thomas Mills has resigned as one of our Sector File Coordinators. Thomas was appointed at the same time as Luke as the first 2 sector file coordinators in November 2020. He has given us two whole years of work, 292 commits and just shy of 90,000 line changes on git. We are able to boast such a timely sector file release for most AIRACs in the year, thanks to Tom and Luke's hard work. Those of you that ha
Kieran Hardern

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Staff Changes

Tower TGI Resignation

Hello all, Unfortunately, I have decided to step down from my role as Tower TGI. Joining the training team nearly two years ago, as TGNC's TGI, I have had the fortunate opportunity to meet some lovely people within the staff and mentoring team. With @Fergus Walsh at TGNC, we made it a mission to progress students through the OBS->S1 stage and during covid, we did just that!  With the TG TWR change, It was very difficult. Shortly after my appointment, I was soloing the training group
Kye Taylor

Kye Taylor in Staff Changes

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Operations

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
Kieran Hardern

Kieran Hardern in Operations

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Marketing

Media Manager Resignation

Good morning,    Unfortunately I have to announce that @Thomas Greer will be leaving the Marketing Team, as Media Manager.  Tom joined the team in July 2020 to assist with the increased workload that came from our heavy COVID event schedules. Tom played a big part in the weekly management of Midweek Madness and domestic citypair event series. I would like to thank Tom for all of his work over the last few years! Tom has kindly offered to remain part of the Graphics & Rostering
Loui Ringer

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Staff Changes

Appointment - Operations Assistants

I am pleased to announce the appointment of 2 new Operations Assistants @Peter Mooneyand @Harrison Grose. They will be working with me over the next few months to get up to speed with aerodrome operations and I have high hopes for their contributions. Welcome to the team both! We have not appointed an Aerodrome Operations Coordinator in this round of recruitment. After Peter and Harrison are more settled, I will aim to re-open recruitment to this role along with opening again for more
Kieran Hardern

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United Kingdom

Training Department Christmas Message

Hi all, As we approach Christmas and new year, many of us will be taking a break from the network to spend time with our friends and families. With this training levels will inevitably decrease. Between 19th December and 2nd January (inclusive), Training Department staff will not be sending out the usual availability/session request reminders. All students (ATC or PTD), you are not required to keep your usual session request/availability during this time. Many Training Department
Adam Farquharson

Adam Farquharson in United Kingdom

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ATC Training

Waiting List Changes

Currently, all ATC Training Waiting Lists are ordered by list join date. Members on a list do not need to remain eligible for a training place while on the list. This means members on a waiting list who leave the network for a long period of time are returning at the top of a waiting list ahead of the members who have remained active within the division. In order to make the waiting lists fair for all members, from 21st December 2022, all members on the S2, S3 and C1 waiting lists will have
Adam Farquharson

Adam Farquharson in ATC Training

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ATC Training

Changes to C3 Requirements

With the ever increasing demand for ATC Training in the UK and a relatively stable level of mentoring, we need mentors now more than ever. With this we have decided to add a fixed requirement for a member to have mentored in order to be eligible for a C3. We also acknowledge that many members contribute to our division in different ways and wanted to continue to represent that with the new requirements. The policy has been included below and is effective immediately. This policy has be
Adam Farquharson

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ATC Training

Training Department Vacancies [TG APP, DI, TDA]

The Training Department is now recruiting for 3 roles: Approach TG Instructor; Division Instructor; Training Department Assistant. Training Group Instructor role description: Have overall responsibility for training within their designated group; Select and train new mentors; Maintain training standards in their designated group (inc. by ‘sitting in’ on mentoring sessions & exams); Organise group seminars as appropriate; Issue
Adam Farquharson

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