ATC academy
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General
The ATC academy manages the education of VACC-Austria's permanent and visiting controllers. The main purpose consists in the training of new controllers, quality control of our active controllers, arrange CPT's and over the shoulder sessions. The current ATC academy management, can be found on our homepage.
How to start your education
How to become an Student 1 controller
Required theoretical lessons
- Basic lesson
- Theoretical lesson for the clearance/delivery position
- Theoretical lesson for ground control
- Eurotest
- A lot of theory is done allready, now you have your first VATSIM controller rating and its time to geather some practise experience, well done.
Required practice lessons and trainings
- Practical lesson LOWS_DEL
- Staffing LOWS_DEL
- Practical lesson LOWW_GND
- Staffing LOWW_DEL/LOWW_GND
- Training high traffic procedures for ground controller
- Please note, additional training due to the traffic situation and your knowledge can be required.
How to become an Student 2 controller
Required theoretical lessons
- Theoretical lesson for tower control
- Eurotest
Required practice lessons and trainings
- Practical lesson LOWS_TWR
- Practical lesson uncontrolled airfields (info station)
- Staffing LOWS_TWR
- Practical lesson LOWW_TWR
- Tower CPT
- Theoretical & practical lessons LOWG_TWR/LOWK_TWR/LOWL_TWR and LOWI_TWR
- Staffing a tower of your choice
- Training high traffic procedures for tower controller
- OTS training
- OTS Tower
- Please note, additional training due to the traffic situation and your knowledge can be required.
How to become an Student 3 controller
Required theoretical lessons
- Theoretical lesson for approach and departure control
- Eurotest
Required practice lessons and trainings
- Practical lesson LOWS_APP
- Practical lesson flight information service
- Staffing LOWS_APP
- Practical lesson LOWW_APP
- Approach CPT
- Theoretical & practical lessons LOWG_APP/LOWK_APP/LOWL_APP and LOWI_APP
- Staffing an approach position of your choice
- Training high traffic procedures for approach controller
- OTS training
- OTS approach
- Please note, additional training due to the traffic situation and your knowledge can be required.
30.) Tower OTS
Last step as a tower controller, it's time to proofe your skills during a high traffic situation. The checkers will watch the traffic flow, your phraseology and will prepare special situations you have to deal with. When the tower OTS is passed, you have proofen, that you are a very good tower controller and the training can go ahead in 3D.
31.) Theory Approach
After passing your first OTS, you will learn how to handle arriving and departing traffic. The mean topic is how to ensure separation between the aircrafts. As there are several approaches to handle the aircrafts safly in 3D, the approach station is one of the most interessting station for controlling.
32.) Practical lesson LOWS_APP
Starting your practical lesson at Salzburg is a good idea, because the airspace is not complicated and the amount of traffic is not that high. So you will practice you theoretical knowledge learned in the theory approach lesson.
33.) Additional training
You know, depending on traffic and your skills some additional tranings may take place at Salzburg as an approach controller.
34.) Practical lesson LOWW_APP
The introduction into an approach airspace is completed at Salzburg. Now it's time to get an intrudoction into the largest approach airspace, in Vienna. Your mentor will show you how to guide the aircrafts in the new sector.
35.) Additional training
Normally, a single training at Vienna is not enough, so you will spend some time with your mentor until you get the clearance to staff this position by yourself.
36.) Eurotest Approach
In the Eurotest you have to proofe, that you are familar with the approach theory.
37.) Approach CPT
As like at the tower CPT you have to pass the approach CPT to show your mentor and your checker, that you have laerned enough to staff the approach position at your own.
38.) Rating S3
You passed the Eurotest, the CPT and earned the new rating, congratulations! Your mentor will request the rating upgrade and some days later you will be able to log into the network using your earned rating.
39.) Staffing LOWS_APP/LOWW_APP
Another big step is done, you will be able to staff the approach sector at Vienna or Salzburg on your own!
40.) Practical lesson as/with LOWW_F_APP (can be done on a simulated session)
To practise your skills (especially feeding the aircrafts on the localizer) you will train a high traffic situation on and with the director station present.
41.) Theoretical & practical lesson LOWG_APP/LOWK_APP/LOWL_APP and LOWI_APP
After some training on the approach sector, you will learn about the airspaces for the other main airports in Austria.
42.) Additional training
Especially at Innsbruck, you will probably need some more training session to get familar with the speacial procedures there.
43.) Staffing an approach station of your choice
Basis education of all Austrian airports is complete. So you are free to choose an approach sector of your choice and staff the position by your own.
44.) High traffic procedures Approach
Some of our events bring us a large amount of traffic in a short amount of time. So will will practice staffing an approach station while the sector is split up into several parts. After that exercise you are completly trained on an approach station.
45.) OTS training
You feel familar with the aproach position and decide that you want to proove your skills during an other OTS test. Talk to your mentor for the last training to be well prepared for your OTS.
46.) Approach OTS
Last step as an approach controller, it's time to proove your skills during a high traffic situation. The checkers will watch the traffic flow, your phraseology and will prepare special situations you have to deal with. When the approach OTS is passed, you have prooven, that you are a very good appraoch controller and the training can go ahead for the center stations.
47.) Theory Center
After passing your approach OTS, you will learn how to handle a mix of departing/arriving and overflying traffic. The mean topic is again how to ensure separation between the aircrafts. As part of the top-down service at VATSIM, you will access your knowledge of all the approach and tower stations.
48.) Practical lesson LOVV_CTR
The theoretical introduction into the center airspace is completed. Now it's time to try to handle the traffic on the network.
49.) Additional training
You know, depending on traffic and your skills some more additional tranings may take place as a center controller.
50.) Eurotest Center
In the Eurotest you have to proove, that you are familar with the center theory.
51.) Center CPT
Thats the last regular controller practical test. You will show your mentor and a checker, that you are able to handle the traffic at the center station on your own.
52.) Rating C1
You passed the Eurotest, the CPT, and earned the new rating, congratulations! Your mentor will request the rating upgrade and some days later you will be able to log into the network using your earned C1-rating.
53.) Staffing LOVV_CTR
Your education is almost complete. You are free to staff the center position without your mentor.
54.) Practical lesson LOVV_I_CTR
As VFR traffic also is going fly in your airspace, you'll have an extra look on how to deal with that kind of traffic on the center station.
55.) High traffic procedures Center
Like in you approach lesson you will learn in this session how to deal with sector splits and handle the aircpraft in high traffic situations.
Education is done. You are free to staff ANY station within the Austrian airspace. The only thing to do is practice, practice and yes, practice ;-)