No lemons controlling ATC tonight - it was 'orange plated service' from clearance to shutdown. Thanks to all for the great event tonight. Hope you enjoyed it as much as i did. Cheers, Gez

Thank you for the definitive answer, its great to learn; and great that people take the time to help people to learn!

Thanks again,
Gez

semi training events.

Hi, I know we pilots, unlike controllers, don't have to be certified (maybe a bad choice of phrase) to be on the vatsim network, and i know there are lots of training resources and tests (e.g. vatstar etc), but is there any scope for some events where the traffic is lower level and ATC have the ability to give constructive feedback to pilots.

I sometimes do something and think, ooops, i think i missed something there but ATC kindly tolerate my mistake, but I'd really like to be better. A difficult balance between 'amateur hour' and full on real ops, so maybe isn't possible. I sometimes think to PM the controller with a q but the last thing they want is for that to happen during a busy public event. Plus maybe they want to be controlling and not teaching!

I'll continue trying to improve the with training resources available, of which there are plenty; but i thought id put this thought out there.


Cheers,
Gez

UPDATE:

Original Post now has the mandatory routing between these fields.

Thanks, I'll be following that routing then! All good, looking forward to it,

 

Thanks both for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it.

I don't want to add to the complexity for the good ATC people so I should probably fly "responsibly/realistically" and take a scenic routing another day (I like VFR to IFR, I didn't realise you could do that, but thinking about it I saw a "flight DVD" once with a real world scheduled flight which went IFR to VFR on some small Caribbean island so it must happen sometimes in the real world. I'll consider that for the future.

One of the reasons for going a "longer way round" is to make a longer flight. Being in the UK - having to fly in the early hours - it's nice to get a few hours in, but not too many hours that it gets too late/well early the next day (hence my not considering Seattle)

Maybe I could fly to Bozeman (doesn't matter if it is controlled) then from there to Denver. Then I get a longer flight and to enjoy the ATC from two cities :-) Just means a bit more planning in advance, which should be fun.

Sorry, as I said, I'm just getting my head around all this VATSIM stuff; thanks again for helping out.
Gez

Just wanted to say thanks to all for an amazing event yesterday; the controllers were spot on (and the chap handling Ground in KSFO was doing a great job under immense pressure :-) )

Is there anyway to sign up for notification of future Calscream events (once you've all recovered from this one  )?


Thanks again,
Gez