vZDV Training Resources

Have a look through all of the fantastic training aides offered by the Virtual Denver ARTCC Training Department

Training Videos:

  The virtual Denver ARTCC is proud to offer these training videos to help students with some more complicated procedures.
 

VFR in a Class D Airspace

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.
 

VFR Clearances at a class B airport

This video teaches the correct way to give a VFR clearance to aircraft departing the Denver International Airport.
 

IFR Departure From an Uncontrolled Airport

This video teaches the finer points of handling a departure from an untowered field from clearance to radar identification.
 

Full Procedure Approaches

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

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.
 

VRC Setup

This series of videos is to help student new to controlling on VATSIM get their radar client set up for their first training session with an instructor.
 

 

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 severl different guids 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-S2 Knowledge Guide (New students start here)
Denver Center
VFR in the Class B Airspace
Guide - VFR in a Class D Airspace
Ground Separation
ATIS and METAR
Time Management
Aliases
     

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
LOA Routes from KDEN (All of the preferred routes out of KDEN)
Generic cheat sheet (some information outdated)