VATAME Quarterly Report

Q1 2014

Dear VATAME Members, Please find the local division reports attached to this quarterly report. I have looked into the numbers and the activity reports you sent, and I am very satisfied to see that we have made some positive changes over the past year. More traffic, more local training and more VACC’s activity. We are looking forward for new Sceneries around VATSAF and VATME to come in the next quarter, and we are full of hope that new sceneries can help us keep develop the region and attract new members. Starting May 2014, we are expecting some major staff changes over the Region of VATAME; Mahmoud Fadli, VATME1; Mahmoud is the founder of VATME division. He is one of our most dedicated and valuable members I have known. Thanks to Mahmoud, nine different VACC’s have been created over the years sharing a common VATME roof. I would like to personally thank Mahmoud for his time and major efforts to keep this division active over the years. VATAME is currently searching for new candidates to fill the position of VATME1. Thomas Mathieu, VATAME2 Thomas is known to me as the “African Contractor”. Thomas spent the last couple of years building and establishing African activity over VATSIM. Thomas joined the VATAME team as a deputy director about a year ago and due to some personal commitments, Thomas decided to step down and give others the option to fill the VATAME2 position. Tom, thank you for MANY hours of hard and dedicated work that you put into this region! Regards,

Amir Paz, VATAME1 Regional Director,Africa&Middle East www.vatame.net a.paz@vatsim.net

VATCAF - Quarterly Report Q1/2014

04th

April 2014 (Revision A)

Staff Jasmin Gostevcic was appointed FIR Chief of the Entebbe FIR. He directly

started an online day and joined with the Nairobi FIR a twin online day every

Saturday evening. The ATC numbers for the Entebbe FIR are strongly growing

up since January.

Traffic numbers still decreasing in central Africa.

ATC numbers decreasing compared to Q4/2013, best result in first quarter was

March.

Traffic This is a quick divisional summary for the region staff. The complete quarter traffic

counts can be reviewed in Appendix B. January

2014

February

2014

March

2014

Quarter

total

TOTAL AIRSPACE Movements 790 aircrafts 643 aircrafts 539 aircrafts 1972 aircrafts

TOTAL ATC GIVEN TIME

(all positions) 63 hours 34 hours 71 hours 168 hours

TOTAL ATC CTR GIVEN TIME 24 hours 28 hours 39 hours 91 hours

TOTAL ATC APP GIVEN TIME 9 hours 2 hours 6 hours 17 hours

AIRSPACE Movements

(compared to average Q4/2013) 10 %

decrease

27 %

decrease

38 %

decrease

25 %

decrease

TOTAL ATC GIVEN TIME

(compared to average Q4/2013) 26 %

decrease

60 %

decrease

16 %

decrease

34 %

decrease

ATC Hours Logged (FSS/CTR/APP/TWR/GND) The ATC hours of Q1/2014 sort by regions in the central African division (January -

March):

West Central East

FIR Overall FIR Overall FIR Overall

Accra 30 Brazzaville 0 Nairobi 29

Kano 20 Kinshasa 3 Seychelles 14

Abidjan 0 Luanda 16 Dar-Es-

Salaam

0

Roberts 1 Lusaka 3 Entebbe 24

Mogadishu 0

AFRC_W_FSS 6 AFRC_C_FSS 12 AFRC_E_FSS 2

Overall 57 Overall 34 Overall 69

AFRC_FSS

(above FL

145)

8

Training 2 Rating upgrades were recorded. A C1 recommendation was issued in January

after successful exam passing and one S1 rating was issued to a new controller

in the (currently inactive) Kano FIR.

Currently 2 candidates are in training. The formerly built Guides for

Ground/Tower, Approach and Center which are available in the VATCAF con-

troller resources are a really big help because it minimized theoretical lessons,

especially for the approach sessions. In the past quarter there were live and

simulated training sessions at Accra (DGAA), Lagos (DNMM) and Nairobi

(HKJK). For all candidates temporary position approvals for their training air-

port are offered.

Divisional Instructors: Jonas Staehle (I1), Christian Iber (I1).

Division Issues and Conflicts In February one training rating was missed to extend after a training session

causing a supervisor query for Aaqib Afzal. The division’s miss to extend the

rating was directly fixed with the correct approval. No post supervisor action

was recorded thereafter.

Events (past and future) and Online Day activity

Event Movements Q1/2013:

o C1 Exam at Accra Control (January)

o Crossing the Namib & Grand Luanda FIR Opening (January)

together with VATSAF

o Nelson Mandela Memorial Flyin (February)

together with VATSAF

o Holiday Express – Paradise Island Hopping (March)

together with VATWA

Planned events for the next months:

o Kinshasa FIR Live 2014 (April 6th

2014)

o Nairobi Real OPS. Booking schedule with more than 200 bookable

flights created. Event duration will be around 6 hours (May 17th

2014).

An overview over all planned events in 2014 can be reviewed in Appendix A.

Active Online Days in the division

o Accra (DGAA): Every Sunday 18 till 20.30 UTC (19 till 21.30 UTC in

winter season)

o Nairobi (HKJK): Every Saturday 17 till 19 UTC (18 till 20 UTC in win-

ter season)

o Entebbe (HUEN): Every Saturday 17 till 19 UTC (18 till 20 UTC in

winter season)

o Luanda (FNLU): Every Friday 18 till 21 UTC (17 till 20 UTC in winter

season)

Free Input Traffic level is still decreasing, which you can see in VATCAFs long time dia-

gram:

Quarter Report drafted by Christian Iber (1106201)

Division Director of VATSIM Central Africa Division

E-Mail: vatcaf.director@ichris.de

Appendix A – VATCAF Events Agenda 2014

Last Update: 04 APR 14

Month Date Event Location Status

January

05 JAN C1 Exam at Accra DGAC completed

26 JAN Crossing the Namib & Grand

Luanda FIR Opening FNLU, FYWH completed

February 15 FEB Nelson Mandela Memorial Flyin East FSS,HKJK completed

March 08 MAR Holiday Express – Paradise

Island Hopping FSIA,VRMM completed

April 06 APR Kinshasa Live 2014 FZZA, FZIC, FZQA Planning

May 17 MAY Nairobi Real OPS HKJK Planning

June 01 JUN <Roberts FIR + NAF> GLRB,GFLL,… Idea

July <Mogadishu / Addis Abeba> HCMM,HAAB Idea

August

September

October

November <Accra Real OPS> DGAA Idea

December

Appendix B – Traffic movements of main airports in VATCAF

Traffic movements January - March.

Main Airports Overall

HKJK 314

FSIA 201

DGAA 124

DNMM 106

FNLU 97

HUEN 72

FLKK 65

FZAA 58

GLRB 57

HCMM 52

DIAP 34

HTDA 31

FCBB 25

HRYR 11

HBBA 8

Domestic

Airports Overall

DNAA 48

DBBB 41

HKMO 38

FGSL 33

GFLL 26

FOOL 25

FKKD 21

Domestic

Airports Overall

FPST 19

DNKN 19

DNPO 19

HTKJ 11

DXXX 9

Statistics recorded by Thilo Berger and evaluated by Chris Iber

VATIL Report

Staff

New division staff operating from January 2014

VATIL 1

Almog Atar

Division Director

VATIL 2

Yarden Ben-Dor

Deputy Director

VATIL 3

Liav Nefesh

Training Director

Elai Bachar

ATC Chief

Instructor

VATIL 4

Shlomy Luxenburg

DCRM

VATIL 5

Ohad Shalev

Webmaster

Izhar Haviv

'IFS'

Flight Academy

VATIL 6

Amir Friedland

OPS manager

ATC Hours Logged (CTR/APP/TWR/GND for LLBG)

TWR/GND: 312

APP: 99

Tel Aviv CTR: 95

Departures/Arrival – Ben Gurion Airport

Departures: 1320

Arrivals: 861

Approx. 727 movements per month

Training

VATIL ATC academy3 month summery - July2013

1. During Q1 of 2014 VATIL training department began working as an 'academy'

for both ATC and Flight.

2. The ATC academy

3. During the summarized period, the ATC academy continue its main mission to

instruct and qualify air traffic controller for the Israeli FIR. Each course in the

academy included several ATC cadets which reduce the need for man power and

time in order to qualify.

The following VATSIM members were qualified:

# Name VATSIM ID Rank Station

1 Erez Savir 882854 C3 LLLL_CTR

2 Ido Buch 1021234 C1 LLLL_CTR

3 Elai Bachar 1160884 C1 LLBG_APP

4 Shachaf Yasurr 1189209 S3 LLBG_TWR

5 Amit Hananiya 1262796 S1 LLBG_GND

6 Rom Shaked 1263180 S1 LLBG_GND

7 Asaf Katz 1239216 S1 LLBG_GND

8 Israel Rotaru 1277555 S1 LLBG_GND

9 Ray Frenkel 1241902 S1 LLBG_GND

10 Shai Selbiger 1251535 S1 LLBG_GND

11 Joel Strikovsky 1136335 S1 LLBG_GND

12 Gregory Verba 936417 S1 LLBG_GND

13 Omer Lanis 1166368 S1 LLBG_GND

14 Ziv Dayan 1227819 S1 LLBG_GND

4. Current active ATC personnel in VATIL (C1 and above):

# Name VATSIM ID Rank Station

1 Almog Atar 864395 I3 LLLL_CTR

2 Liav Nefesh 886889 I3 LLLL_CTR

3 Shlomi Luxemburg 860003 I1 LLLL_CTR

4 Ohad Shalev 879983 I1 LLLL_CTR

5 Amir Paz 813714 I3 LLLL_CTR

6 ItayArnon 814280 I1 LLLL_CTR

7 Izik Bakshi 815057 I3 LLLL_CTR

8 Amir Friedland 1180261 I1 LLLL_CTR

9 Erez Savir 882854 C3 LLLL_CTR

10 Elai Bachar 1160884 C1 LLBG_APP

11 Elad Zeierman 837042 I3 LLLL_CTR

12 Ran Ben-Shmuel 851544 I1 LLLL_CTR

13 Or Bahtari 1137757 I1 LLLL_CTR

14 Ido Buch 1021235 C1 LLLL_CTR

Division Issues and Conflicts

NIL.

Events

Februray: 'Mediterranean Triangle'- event between VATIL-VATLEB and

CVACC

Februray: 'IFS graduation night'- full ATC coverage in Israel during the final

exam for course number 30

Special Event:

VATIL and Israel Museum project:

1. VATIL and Israel museum continue their co-operation for 'Purim Holi-

day' during the exhibition of the history of aviation in Israel

2. VATIL staff and members displayed the Flight Simulator and Israel

scenery during the holiday.

3. Control room event which took place at the museum for 48 hours, the

control room was open for all the museum visitors which learned about

VATSIM network and the work of real and virtual ATC in Ben Gurion

airport.

Flight Planning course :

1. Flight planning course for VATIL members took place at EL AL campus.

2. During the 4 hours course the participants have learned about all the ba-

sic and

advanced features of PFPX and TOPCAT.

3. The next part of the course (cockpit preparations) will take place in the

following weeks.

Almog Atar

Division Director

VATIL

VATSAF Report

01/04/2014

Staff: Director: VATSAF1 --- David van der Byl Deputy Director: VATSAF2 --- Deon Mathews Membership Manager: VATSAF3 --- Ryan James Training Director: VATSAF4 --- Vacant Events Director: VATSAF5 --- Vacant Communications & Marketing Director: VATSAF6 --- Vacant Webmaster / Web development services: VATSAF7 --- David van der Byl Events Co-ordinator: VATSAF8 --- Vacant Conflict Resolution Manager: VATSAF9 --- Costa Vranas Senior Pilot Instructor: VATSAF11 -- Vacant Senior ATC Instructor: VATSAF12 -- Vacant

ATC Hours Logged (CTR/APP/TWR/GND):

Hours logged by all ATC for the last 6 Months:

CTR APP TWR GND Total

October 2013

27

4

-

-

31

November 2013

53

8

-

11

72

December 2013

23

18

1

7

49

January 2014

27

6

-

16

48

February 2014

32

20

26

18

96

March 2014

69

9

8

-

86

Membership: New Members to VATSAF (Last 6 months):

October 16

November 20

December 21

January 25

February 17

March 19

Training: o ATC Training:

Jaco Klopper (S3)

Adriaan Smit (S1)

Jason Adriaan (S1)

Zaid Soules (S2)

Peter Sandiford (S1)

o Promotions:

Ryan James (C1)

Division Issues and Conflicts No reported issues or conflicts

Events Every Wednesday VATSAF host VFR flights which is normally run by an instructor and

is used to introduce new pilots to the network as well as offer training to existing pilots.

Special Events Mandela Memorial

Prepared By:

David Van Der Byl Deon Mathews

Division Director Deputy Director

VATSAF

VATSIM Middle East Quarterly Report

10 APRIL 2014

Staff VATME1 Mahmoud A. Fadli has announced that he will be stepping down as Division Di-

rector by the end of April. There are a limited number of qualified candidates for re-placement. Fadli cites time considerations and concerns as a basis for his resignation. Fadli nevertheless will be available to continue to assist VATME, host its servers and websites, and offer any and all assistance needed to continue operating the division. He has formally inquired about the possibility of a regional staff position.

ATC Hours Logged (CTR/APP/TWR/GND)

Countries CTR APP TWR GND DEL Total

UAE 119:39 197:44 84:26 43:00 1:35 444:49

JORDAN 335:46 0:04 91:57 14:27 442:14

SAUDI 55:46 118:21 138:16 8:37 321:00

IRAN 49:05 39:03 63:27 10:59 162:34

LEBANON 84:17 2:49 16:29 103:35

EGYPT 38:49 17:17 0:56 0:19 57:21

BAHRAIN 10:21 1:06 11:27

OMAN - - - - 0

Training Promotions

o --Upgrades— In the process of gathering information. Expect supplemental report.

Training levels are lower. Winter is a slow time for the Middle East. o --Downgrades—

None

Division Issues and Conflicts VATME is concerned with protocols and protections offered to all training materials for

its students. A recent incident concerning personal issues within a vACC and a transferee to VATME resulted in that transferee’s legitimately earned rating being withdrawn with-out any DCRM investigation on an ‘order’ from an EC member. VATME protested the move and the rating was reinstated after it was determined that no evidence exists. VATME believes that the matter was a personal matter between a vACC and the trans-feree, and because VATME no longer used the training system which was allegedly used as a basis for the “investigation” of the member’s status, no oversight existed and no communication was ever received by VATME concerning the issue prior to matter being sent to the regional office. VATME wishes to formally place its view on the record that it would advise VATSIM to create one, central training system controlled only by the BoG where members’ training records are private and secure and not subject to exploitation or abuse. Privately operated training systems, while commonly secure, are nevertheless prone to abuse as witnessed in VATME’s situation.

o As a result, VATME will object to any directive that requires the use of any training system other than the one it presently uses, the AWTS Training System. VATME is not confident that other training systems maintain strict protocols over the privacy of data, and is not convinced of any other system’s complete independence from inter-vACC conflicts and personal-member conflicts.

VATME is aware that some members may come to the division in hopes of “getting away” either from trouble or for the pursuit of a “fast rating.” VATME wishes to advise that if a vACC has any suspicions regarding a member that has transferred to VATME, that it kindly contact VATME and inform them about their concerns. VATME has wit-nessed many vACCs going straight to the division office, involving the EC and BoG when in reality, such over-reaction is not necessary. VATME is always ready, willing, and able to hear any and all concerns regarding transferees, and would appreciate cooperation from other vACCs in this regard.

Specific vACC Updates: UAE o We are constantly working with local and regional virtual airlines to provide top

class service within the casual days as well as the events if we're being informed about them in advance

o We are in process of recruiting more members of VATSIM to become con-trollers at Emirates vACC regardless of their status

o Recently we launched something called ''ATC Training and Booking Center'' which allows us

to provide feedback to our students after a session and it helps us stay informed about the student training as the session report would stay in the system and the next

mentor would be available to go over it to see what the student has practiced in the past

the link to the the training center is available here http://uae-vacc.net/train/ o As I said previously the ''ATC Training and Booking Center'' now allows us to provide book-

ings to the local stations as well as GULF_FSS so our controllers would be able to book the

positions that they're going to be online on so the pilots could see in advance where the planning ATC service is going to be.

o Additionally we are trying to upgrade Abu Dhabi's movement and traffic capac-ity as Dubai is the key and main airport in our vFIR Abu Dhabi gets one opera-tion per day and that’s why we would like to give it a chance and get some more ATC controllers to control on this airport to show and attract the incoming traffic.

o Emirates vACC is really popular vACC for any visiting controllers within last months of my work as the ATC Training Director I faced over 15 controllers re-quest which about 75% was accepted within our vACC regulations of visiting policy

o Additionally coming back to my role of the ATC Training Director we're con-stantly training, mentor and provide ATC support for our local as well as visiting controllers which sometimes is documents, sweatbox files, voice support and many many more to help out our guys out there so they would enjoy controlling as much as they can. To get this done I'm listening and observing different train-ing techniques that controllers, mentors, instructors and examiners use all over the virtual world.

Specific vACC Updates: LEBANON o We are working on a high quality scenery for OLBA. The reason for the new

scenery development, that is the current one, is outdated, and the taxiway + grass has been imaged from Google Maps or Google Earth. Also, new scenery has been developed in February 2014 by Mr. Hable that serves the area around the airport and if I am not mistaken it covers pretty much the whole country, the files are downloadable after becoming a registered member of LSCX community at http://wwww.lebanonsceneryx.com

o We are working on the creation of the new relationships across VATSIM Middle East and Europe by having more events

o We are in the process of recruiting more and more VATSIM members to become controllers at VATSIM Lebanon regardless of their status

o We are planning to launch a new feature at VATLEB that allows VATSIM pilots to book their slots during any of our events so it ensures effective count measures as well as post-event feedback if necessary

o We are planning to have our online nights either every Saturday or Friday from 16 - 20z

o We are in the process of new website design + logo Specific vACC Updates: JORDAN

o VATSIM Jordan has recently had a staff change. At the lead of VATSIM Jordan is Hazem Al-Maaitah (hazem-maaitah@vatjo.net). His new Deputy is Captain Mohammad Malhas (mohammad.malhas@vatjo.net). VATME1 continues to be heavily involved in JOvACC as well.

o VATSIM Jordan has partnered with FlightSIm.JO, which is a fixed-base simulation-training center in Jordan which presently has 3 fixed based simulators, one of which is a B737-800. FlightSim.JO has agreed to let VATSIM Jordan use its facili-ties, for free, for a period of 3 – 4 hours every Friday for live training events, meetings, and other purposes. This is a very valuable addition to our community.

o VATSIM Jordan is holding weekly online nights every Friday.

Events VATSIM Jordan online nights every Friday VATME Capital Cities Tour event in planning – more to come soon.

Free Input VATME presently has many concerns regarding VATSIM as a whole that it wishes to

address. First and foremost, VATME is concerned that the slow rate of activity in-creases for our division have less to do with competition with IVAO than it has to do with the complexities of joining VATSIM. Presently, the application process is confusing to members and presents a firm obstacle. Moreover, the lack of a central training system makes it even more difficult for VATME to continually attract new members. As VATME competes with IVAO, there are certain expectation that members from our part of the world have come to expect, especially with respect to centralization. To that end, VATME would like to inquire as to where it would be appropriate for VATME to highlight its observations with the hopes of beginning a constructive dialogue with VATSIM so as to improve the quality of the network and make the process of joining and training more fluid and easier to understand.

/s/ Mahmoud A. Fadli Mahmoud A. Fadli CID 819693 Division Director VATSIM Middle East Division mahmoud.fadli@vatme.net