Position Posting: Miami ARTCC Training Administrator
Submission Deadline: Open Until Filled

Miami is a busy international gateway. There is a lot of trans-continental traffic, trans-atlantic traffic, as well as a lot of Carribean island flying. Miami ARTCC has 2 class B facilities, and numerous class C and D facilities, as well as Oceanic sectors. Miami airport is a tier 1 facility, and Fort Lauderdale and Tampa are tier 2 facilities.

Key Responsibilities:
- Reports to the Air Traffic Manager and VATUSA3
- Oversees a comprehensive ARTCC Training Department and academy
- Develops and maintains a training policy, simulation files, and training materials
- Manages and mentors a team of Instructors and Mentors
- Supports the Miami ARTCC's mission of creating quality controllers, while creating and maintaining open, friendly, and accepting community
- Lead and effectively manage a team of mentors and instructors, including facilitating a structure for applications and onboarding new training staff members
- Serves as a leader to coach and motivate controllers while upholding a culture that builds exceptional internal and external pilot experiences
- Perform multiple functions, including project management, instructional design, and instructional writing
- Assess learning needs accurately and propose creative and effective learning solutions
- Initiate and manage throughout the lifecycle of project, including: initiating projects, creating project plans, executing all milestones and tasks, monitoring risk, and evaluating success
- Leverage a diverse set of skills and delivery approaches, including: instructor led, blended, experiential, media based, performance support, and other emerging technologies
- Organization design for Miami Training, inclusive of consulting to understand needs, building project roadmaps, and guiding/managing the org design process in partnership with ARTCC and VATCAR Partners to support ZMA goals
- Supports and participates in initiatives that give back to the VATSIM community
- Supports the recruitment, retention and development of a diverse range of talented people to fill the roles of Instructors and Mentors
- Holds self and others accountable to high performance standards while providing pilots with memorable experiences
- Ability to listen to feedback and take constructive action
- Maintains, updates and manages training program, lessons, sweatbox scenarios, exam rubrics
- Attends periodic meetings to report on ARTCC activities
- Ensures that Miami is following all VATSIM and VATUSA training directives

Requirements:
- Prior I1 experience
- Ability to oversee the quality of the training program
- Be able to meet all activity requirements as outlined in the Miami D1 Training and Administrative Policy and all sections thereof (as appropriate)
- No history of significant or recent behavioral issues

Preferred Skills:
- Teaching/Education experience (on or off VATSIM)
- Leadership, managerial, or supervisory experience (real world or VATSIM applicable)
- Familiarity with the Miami policies and procedures
- Demonstrates the qualities of understanding, patience, restraint, and professionalism

How to Apply:
Please note that this position requires a significant time commitment. Interested applicants shall email their application package with the subject title "ZMA TA Application" to [email protected] with the following:

- Full name, CID, and email address
- Resume, including any applicable real world/virtual experience
- Letter of intent explaining "Why Miami and why this position is for you"
- Your goals for your first six months as Training Administrator

Qualified candidates will be contacted for an in-depth interview.

Chase Dollar is going for his C-1 rating on Chicago Center. Come out and make him earn his rating!!

10/15   2350Z-0300Z

DL

I had an interesting situation come up today. I was talking with one of my pilots, who was flying into a controlled center airspace (a side note, the center controller holds a sup rating, this will play into the scenario as we continue) from an uncontrolled airspace. He was unaware that he was flying into the controlled airspace, and was just continuing on with his flight, and was at the controls the ENTIRE time. After flying in for a while, he got a private message from the controller staffing the center. The message read: "this message is to inform you that you are being removed from the network for not contacting me within 30 min of entering my airspace."  To this, my pilot responded saying that he hadn't received a contact message, and was unaware he was in controlled airspace.  After a bunch of pointless bickering back and forth, the controller finished the conversation by stating "it is the responsibility of the pilot to know whether he is in controlled airspace, and the controllers are not required to send out contact messages."

Now, I've done my homework, the PRC says that IDEALLY the pilot will contact the controller when they enter the airspace. At the same time, it states that the pilot can't be absent from the flight deck while in controlled airspace. I've read through the forums here and at VATSIM, and I keep seeing posts that say controllers SHALL, and usually will send contact messages(but these messages are just from other controllers and pilots). By that same token, I haven't seen anything saying that it is required. A lot of these postings and wordings in documents are contradictory, and we have no official documents outlining something as simple as this. Can the determination of whether a pilot is removed from the network really fall to the discretion of supervisors, when there's nothing written/approved stating who's(pilot, controller, both) responsibility it is to establish contact?

Is it the sole responsibility of the pilot to establish contact with the controller? or does the controller have an obligation to at least attempt to contact a pilot who didn't check in (not checking in doesn't mean they are away from the controls)?


Thanks,

Dan