Ohad,

Thanks for taking interest in our division! I would recommend taking a look into the ZLA Pilot Certification program (www.pilotcerts.laartcc.org/page/Home) if you're interested in learning the procedures for flying in the USA. Let us know if you have any questions!

Excellent!

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Loyd,

Welcome to VATSIM! If you simply want to fly, you don't need to do anything except sign on and takeoff. The tests are only a requirement for ATC.

Looks confusing to me, too... Email your Training Administrator, Harold Rutila, and let him know your concerns.

You can transfer on or around April 2nd, 2009.

The best way to handle situations such as these would be to contact the Training Administrator or Air Traffic Manager privately with your concerns. If I am understanding correctly, you haven't done this? I know the staff in Denver is more than willing to answer any questions you may have regarding your training, and their procedures. If you still have problems, I'd be glad to assist you to the best of my ability, but you would need to contact me privately as well. My email address is on the staff page and in my forum signature.

Terry,

Miami ARTCC is seeing a push to open the military fields again, such as Navy Key West or even Homestead. If you live in Florida and want to control in that general area, I highly recommend Miami. You'll even get me as an instructor (if that's a good thing, lol)

Nick,

There is a topic pertaining to situations similar to this one in the Training Admin forum, which your ATM/DATM/TA all have access to. Hope that clears this up  

The following are the S-1 requirements which have been outlined in the VATUSA Controller Ratings Guidelines document that all TA's agreed upon and then confirmed again in our meeting back near the end of last year. This is the "Student Level Practical Exam Evaluation" form. You can find the entire document in the staff training forum below, most recently in the "Friendly Reminder" post.

[!--quoteo--][div class=\\\'quotetop\\\']QUOTE [/div][div class=\\\'quotemain\\\'][!--quotec--]Pre-Control Setup
and Configuration

1. Radar Program Configuration
2. Network Procedures
3. Position Relief Briefing
Flight Plan
Procedures
4. Accessing Flight Strip Data
5. Flight Plan Amendments
6. Follow Preferred Routing Procedures
7. Non-Standard Routing Procedures

Clearance Delivery
Procedures

8. VFR and IFR Clearance Procedures
9. Squawk Code Assignments
10. Clearance Issuance
Ground Control
Procedures
11. Movement and Non-Movement
Areas
12. Taxi and Ground Movement Ops
13. Helicopter Taxi Operations

Local Control
Procedures

14. Runway Selection
15. ATIS Issuance
16. Spacing and Sequencing
17. TIPH and LAHSO Operations
18. VFR Traffic Pattern
19. Wake Turbulence Separation
20. Converging or Parallel Runway Ops
21. Missed Approach Procedures[/quote]