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I remember sitting on the ground for 2 or so hours waiting for push one time at Gatwick. Those were the nights! Thanks to everyone who contributed to MWM in some way. 🙏

A huge thank you to everyone who has played a part in making this event work, especially through the lockdowns. As we said above, so much hard work went into this…. streaming, rostering, briefs, controlling and much more. 
 

Hopefully we will now be in a position to run more events in our regular series. 
 

Loui

I can’t say I’m not disappointed but at the same time I can understand the reasons behind the decision seeing the same names every week and growing shift lengths. 
At the last Heathrow MWM I ended up controlling throughout the event due to lack of controllers and one or two no shows. I loved it but 4.5 hours controlling at any time is hard work, at a MWM much more so. 
For a lot of controllers, myself included, it was the only regular opportunity we had to control ‘an event’ with the associated levels of traffic that comes with it. 
Thank you to all the controllers and MWM organisers for their hard work over the past events and of course the great pilots we had an opportunity to control
 

I would like to take a moment to say a MASSIVE thank you for the opportunities MWM has brought. Having the chance to regularly control a busy APP position was something I really didn't think was possible.

I think I can speak for many here, that MWM has helped a LOT in developing my skill set whilst providing a very fun environment.

Let's knock it out the park one last time this evening ✈️

At least we had an Aberdeen MWM 😍🚁

As a newer pilot to flying on the network, the first few Wednesdays I flew into the UK were mindboggling. So much traffic, so many new procedures I had to learn on the fly, even sitting on the ground, waiting for my planned pushback, just listening to other frequencies and learning from everything. Midweek madness was amazing, I will definitely try to make this last one. 

Everyone involved, thank you. You've been amazing!

I am most certainly gonna miss the 15 plane queue at the hold whilst trying to get everyone out as quick as possible on TWR. It was a good run! Hopefully it'll return in the future!!

Proud to be a part of MWM and is truely something that will be missed throughout the community 😢

A huge thank you to:

• The team in organising rosters, airport choices etc.
• All ATC controllers for volunteering their time and effort
• Pilots from around the world, especially those who endured hours of waiting either on the ground or in holds 😉 It's worth it...

 

Here's to the next adventure! 🍻

MWM has been peak controlling for a lot of us, ever since I got my Gatwick Endorsement I've put in interest for it. It's been an amazing year and a class event, but I'm a bit lost on what to do on Wednesday's now!

Cheers to Marketing and Rostering for their week to week work on it.

Been a pleasure running the runway camera, to watch and listen to planes arriving and departing at unreal levels and with such professionalism. 

Well done to all the organisers & controllers who give up their time every week to put it on, it will be missed!

I remember saying to Loui and Ben back in the planning stages of MWM that a weekly event at Gatwick would never work.  Shows you how much I know!!

Thanks to the marketing team for making this an amazing series of events and to everyone who took part.  It's been one of the highlights of the Region's event calendar.

 

 

RIP Midweek madness, quite literally ended in madness

 

Edited September 29, 2021 by Samuel Lefevre

A massive thank you to those who've controlled. Flying into busy, well managed, airspace is what VatSim's all about and MWM certainly provided that.

However, it's worrying that we're short of controllers, we've got a waiting list months long for all levels of people wanting to control and a training team getting people through training at an incredible rate and yet we still don't have enough controllers to run what was VatSim UK's premium event. Understanding why that is would be very interesting. Particularly sad to see the loss of the feature week, the opportunity to fly into smaller airports with full atc and other planes around was great. Not sure what the plans are for going forward but a last Wednesday at the month to a randomly picked (or rotated) airport would be awesome.

A massive thank you to everyone. I remember having been on hold for 20+ minutes on my way to EGKK one evening! I'm sad to see this coming to an end, but since this is mainly due to life slowing getting back to normality, well, it's definitely better this way!

See you all in between FL300 and FL400 😉

Its a shame to see midweek madness come to an end, but what a brilliant event it has been.

Hopefully new doors will open.

Also, just for @Piers Austin-Foss
's sake, please can we add the last names to the signatures, it's all he seems to go by these days. 

On 30/09/2021 at 12:26, Graham Drabble said:

A massive thank you to those who've controlled. Flying into busy, well managed, airspace is what VatSim's all about and MWM certainly provided that.

However, it's worrying that we're short of controllers, we've got a waiting list months long for all levels of people wanting to control and a training team getting people through training at an incredible rate and yet we still don't have enough controllers to run what was VatSim UK's premium event. Understanding why that is would be very interesting. Particularly sad to see the loss of the feature week, the opportunity to fly into smaller airports with full atc and other planes around was great. Not sure what the plans are for going forward but a last Wednesday at the month to a randomly picked (or rotated) airport would be awesome.

Our worry was that having such a busy weekly event was contributing to the burnout that, particularly our area controllers, are experiencing. I know the ATC training team are having similar issues with mentors who've done a lot of mentoring over the past year and a half. Now we're all able to go out and enjoy ourselves a bit more, it's likely people are taking a bit of a break from VATSIM and rightly so! We plan on returning to a more sensible amount of events and we're confident that people will return with time.

Now MWM has gone, this frees up our calendar to run other events during weekdays for those controllers and pilots who aren't free during weekends. We always try and spread events out across the UK, so events at smaller airfields won't be going away any time soon!

Edited October 3, 2021 by Ben Wright

Sad to see that Midweek Madness is ending, however I fully get as to why.

Probably it is best to finish on a high before it goes down in the drink.

I just hope to find an event or two in lieu

A massive THANKS to all who were insane enough to do this!