Help With Flying On VATSIM

[Dave Blake]

If any SunAir Express pilots have any questions or needs some help getting started flying on VATSIM just post a message here.

SunAir Express has 2 pilots that would be happy to help you out get started with VATSIM: Marty Becker - SAX054 and Steve Monk - SAX745.

[Pylet]

Don't forget about Command Captain Chris Saunders, SAX411, whom is not only a VATSIM ATC but a real life ATC for ZDC.

[Marty_Becker]

I wonder if there is any interest for some online ATC training sessions? FSHost and Teamspeak could be used to help low-time/no-time VATSIM pilots get some experience "locally" before venturing onto VATSIM. To my knowledge, VATUSA does not have any type of pilot training like some of the European VATSIM regions/divisions have. FS-Navigator can be used as an ATC radar client. Short flights can be conducted that focus on radio phraseology, clearances, SIDs, STARs, vectoring, etc. Unlike being on VATSIM, we could stop at any point, discuss situations, questions/problems, then continues with the training flight.

[RichW]

VATSIM doesn't have a pilot training program but elements of the old Pilot Resource Center (PRC) is still available via this link: http://www.vatsim.net/pilots/

vZLA also offers a pilot certification program, visit this link: http://pilotcerts.laartcc.org/page/Home

It really is fun to fly with live ATC. I jumped on last night and flew from KRNO to KSFO. RNO Approach, ZOA, SFO Approach and SFO Tower were all open.

Rich