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Control Center

About Control Center

Control Center (CC) is a web application used in VATSIM Scandinavia for training, mentoring, and bookings. This is the core of the training operations where students submit applications for ATC training, check the status of their training, read training reports, and make bookings for positions online.

As a mentor you are required to keep the trainings you are responsible for up to date with training reports and internal comments when necessary. You can send requests directly to training staff here as well for different actions.

Mentors will be granted access in CC. If you do not have the access you think you should have, contact training staff.

Control Center is open source and available on GitHub. If you find a bug or have an idea for a good feature, feel free to create an issue there.

Section: My Students

This page has an overview of all students currently assigned to you as a mentor.

Clicking the training state will open the full training page.

Note in particular that the "Last Report" field will turn red if it passes 2 weeks as a reminder for you to either publish a missing report or notify training staff that the student hasn't arranged a session in accordance with Student Training Policy.

The same overview is also embedded on the front page of CC.

Section: Training

Student information

In this module you will have access to relevant information about the student and the training. Additionally there is a button for requests that is covered in the section below.

Requests

From the same module, mentors can send requests to training staff. This will create a task in CC for the person you send the request to and notify them by e-mail.

Custom request

Can be used for almost anything. It is a free text field. Typically used to request solo for T1 trainings, complete refresh trainings, pause trainings, etc.

Solo endorsement

Sends a request to issue a solo endorsement for the student. Note that the relevant theoretical exam must be issued and passed before a solo endorsement can be given.

Solo for T1/T2 trainings are not issued as Endorsements. Contact training staff or use a custom request.

Note for staff: while Rating Upgrade and Theoretical Exam Access requests are sent automatically to VATEUD when the task is approved, Solo Endorsements must be added manually in CC before approving the task.

Rating Upgrade

Usually not used by mentors, but can be used to request a formal rating upgrade in case a training is completed and there is no need for an exam. Rating upgrades are mainly requested by examiners after CPTs.

After a T1/T2 Validation, contact training staff or use a custom request as these trainings do not require a formal rating upgrade.

Note for staff: T1/T2 Endorsements will be issued automatically when marking a training request as complete.

Theoretical Exam Access

Requests to issue the theoretical exam for the student from VATEUD.

Timeline

This section is where most events for the training is shown from, with the most recent events on top.

Internal comments

Training staff and mentors can add internal comments to the timeline, as shown above. These are NOT visible to the student, but should be limited to concise and relevant information regarding the training.

Personal or sensitive information shall not be written in internal comments.

Use these comments to keep training staff informed about the training, for example if there will be slightly more than 2 weeks between sessions. In this case a short explanation in the timeline is very useful. This way training staff spend less time following up individual trainings. For more substantial issues or concerns, contact training staff directly.

Example of a good and informative internal comment:

Training Reports

This section shows all training reports for a certain training request. Each report can be expanded by clicking the date. This is also where you create new training reports from the "Create" menu in the top right corner.

If another mentor had a session with your student you can use the "Report one-time link" and send it to the mentor which will allow them to submit a single training report for the training.

The Training reports page contains guidelines and additional useful information.

Training Interest Confirmations

This section shows the history for all training interest confirmation e-mails sent out to the student with the dates they were sent, deadline, and when they were confirmed.

As seen above, unconfirmed interest e-mails will be shown as well.

E-mails to confirm training interest are sent out to trainings with state "In queue" and "Pre-training". Students with trainings makred as "Active training" will not receive these e-mails.

The training will be automatically closed if the interest is not confirmed within the deadline.

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This section shows all tasks (requests) for the training and their status.

Section: Sweatbox Calendar

The Sweatbox Calendar is a simple way to keep our use of Sweatbox somewhat organised and ensure that sessions don't collide and create issues for each other. It is internal to our vACC and does not propagate to any other systems.

Existing bookings

In the main section each booking is shown with start and end time, position, the corresponding FIR and which mentor booked it. Additionally there is a notes field.

Creating a Sweatbox booking

This is almost identical to creating a regular ATC booking.

Under "Mentor Notes", write which type of training is being done or which Sweatbox server will be used if there are conlficts with other training sessions.

Booking notes are visible to everyone that has access to the Sweatbox calendar.
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