Merry Christmas from the Training Departments!

We're entering that time of year where many of us have a little less time to spend online and as such you'll see less mentoring and a slower response time to tickets. From today (18th December) to Monday 8th January, students in both Pilot and ATC Training programmes are not required to have a session request or availability in the system. This includes those forwarded for exams, who should expect their exam to be conducted in January. 

Between Pilot and ATC training there have been in the region of 2000 mentoring sessions and exactly 165 exams performed. We're incredibly grateful to all our mentors and examiners, without which we wouldn't be able to achieve this amazing feat. Whether you're a new mentor, or have hundreds of hours with us, we hope you will continue guiding our controllers and pilots in 2024!

A wholehearted thank you from Darren and myself to those that have given up their time, energy and expertise to be on staff in 2023 - your efforts are hugely appreciated and you undoubtably do not get thanked enough. To those that have recently left the departments, we wish you the best of luck with your future plans and hope we will continue to see you either behind or on the VATSIM radar screen.

From myself, a special thank you to those on the current ATC Training staff that have supported me in my brief 'caretaking' role of the department since November. I've appreciated your ability to adapt and keep things moving forward.

Happy Holidays everyone.