Please join me in welcoming Tommy Rogers as our new Deputy Air Traffic Manager.  His background and experience will allow him to contribute to vZDV's future, bringing some great leadership to the organization.  Some of his previous roles include:

ZOB Events Coordinator
ZOB Instructor
ZOB Training Administrator
ZMA Air Traffic Manager
ZAB Air Traffic Manager
ZTL Training Administrator

I received this from VSOA today:

Souther Air Transport virtual (www.southernairvirtual.com) is a new VSOA airline that would like to use your airspace on Friday night about 7:30mst 9:30est 02:00z. We would like to simulate a fire near KPSO (2V1 Stevens airport in flightsim). A bunch of tankers will deaprt KCOS about 2:30z and file a VFR flight plan: KCOS.AMS.24N.KPSO (2V1)(fire drop)KDRO. They will leave KCOS head south toward AMS vor, then over Jicarilla Apache Nation airport (24) and enter a holding pattern there. There will be two spotter aircraft that will depart from Durango and Orbit near Stevens and Apache Nation airport. They will be in contact with the C-130's once they reach Apache Nation airport and beging holding. They will be in contact with the tankers on VA voice channell, and the tankers will be in contact with the spotter aircraft, and monitoring the denver atc if they are up. At Apache NAtion the spotters would like to assume MARSA for the tankers, and have all tanker squawk mode S, the two spotters will continue to sqwauk mode"C" and be in direct contact with any Denver ATC that is up. After the tankers make thier drop at stevens they will make thier turn toward durango and sqwk mode C , and will be back with denver ATC. The only point we want MARSA is from APache airport to Stevens airport (kpso) so the spotters can direct tanker traffic. IF any conflicts happen we will break off the excersice, and all aircraft will head towrards Durango for recovery. We just wanted to give all the controllers a heads up on friday night, to make a smooth as possiable for everyone. This will be our fisrt training excersise with everyone online, and we want it to be proffesional, and work with all controllers, and other aircraft in the denver Atc area, to not cuase conflicts with anyone. All aircraft will remain VFR at all time, and will monitor Denver ATC to avoid any trouble. Any feedback would be great, and I hope this wont be a problem. Thank you

No signups needed, just show up if you can.

Thanks,
David

Please join me in congratulating Nils Hoefnagel as February's Controller of the Month!  Nils clocked over an unprecedented 80 hours this month, setting a very high standard for months to follow.

I have released version 2.1 of the Sector Datastore program. See below for a list of fixes/additions. I have updated the downloads located on the downloads page.

For more information about what Sector Datastore is, see here.

Bug Fixes:
Fixed error that caused no landing configuration to be displayed
if winds were exactly 20 kts and IMC conditions were present.

Fixed Problem where page two of several KDEN SID/STARs failed to
display

By request from the ATM, I have migrated the forum back to phpBB.  The forum link is pointing to the site as of 7:46PM Mountain on 2/14/2010.

You will have to use your old username & password from the forums and unfortunately, I do not have access to change passwords.  Please create a support ticket under category Forum for help with this.

All training requests should now go through the forums again as well.

Thanks,
David

Please join me in congratulating Josh Moffat for being the vZDV January Controller of the Month.  Josh controlled over 64 hours last month!

vZDV is now accepting applications for the position of Deputy Air Traffic Manager.  Please see the forums or VATUSA.net for details and requirements.  Applications will be open until 18 Feb 10 or until filled.

Thanks to Noah Bryant for updating the Denver Center to include new and different splits.

It can be found here or on the Downloads page.

David

The Virtual Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center is proud to announce the release of Sector Datastore 2.0.

The majority of you probably don't know what Sector Datastore even but if you do, you'll remember the great program that we used years ago to look up important charts and data for controlling.

He's our newest Springs TRACON controller. Congrats Scott (who got a 100% on his written by the way!)!

Bobby Cosgrove (by David McDaniel)