Training Resources

 

Training Videos:

The virtual Denver ARTCC is proud to offer these training videos to help students with some more complicated procedures.
 
This video walks you through the basics of working multiple VFR planes at a small, Class D airport. Learn about the traffic pattern, sequencing, transitions, arrivals and departures.
This video teaches the correct way to give a VFR clearance to aircraft departing the Denver International Airport.
This video teaches the finer points of handling a departure from an untowered field from clearance to radar identification.
There are more ways to hold an aircraft than just vectoring to final. This video theaches the ins and outs of full procedure approaches.
Holding is something that rarely needs to be done on VATSIM, but when it does, your scope is probably pretty crowded. This video teachs how to instruct aircraft to hold.

 

Also have a look at the awesome ATC training videos put together by the University of North Dakota Aerospace Program here.

 


Training Documents:

 

7110.65 Study Guides

These guides take the 7110.65 and condense it by removing all the information not relevant to VATSIM. The information is then sorted into several different guides based on the position the information relates to.
Aircraft Types
Basic ATC
Clearance Delivery
Ground Control
Local Control (Tower)
Radar Control
 

Training Guides

These training guides offer a wealth of information from walkthroughs to just simple information.
S1 Knowledge Guide v2.03
S2 Knowledge Guide (read Chapter 4 and higher)
Denver Center
VFR in the Class B Airspace
Guide - VFR in a Class D Airspace
Ground Separation
ATIS and METAR
Time Management
Aliases

Clearance Delivery

Cheat Sheets

Print them up, keep them next to your computer or tape them to your monitor. These cheat sheets are very helpful.
KASE (two pages, meant to be front and back)
D01 Airspace Charts (all the D01 airspace diagrams from the D01 SOP)
KDEN Departure Headings
KDEN Gates
KDEN SIDs (All of KDEN's SIDs on one, easy to read page)
Equipment Suffixes
VFR Airspace Services Cheat Sheet
Class D Local Control