12-19-2005 Congratulations to Gary Gonzalez on his promotion to S3 controller.

12-15-2005 Congratulations to Ivan Pulido on his promotion to S3 controller and on earning his Voice rating.

11-04-2005 Francisco Vargas has been selected as the next ZMA Air Traffic Manager. Congratulations, Francisco!

10-26-2005 Mark Polston has been selected as the new Director, Air Traffic - Southern Region (VATUSA9). Congratulations, Mark! We all look forward to working with you.

10-12-2005 The next purge of our membership roster will occur on November 1, 2005. All controllers who have become inactive will be removed at that time.

10-9-2005 The time has finally arrived. We will now use the NEW runway numbers at Miami International. Please see the post in the Instruction/Training section of the Forum. There is also an update to the Miami TRACON file and our Alias file on the downloads page.

10-6-2005 Jeff Turner, currently the Chief of Denver ARTCC, has been selected as the new Director of VATUSA (VATUSA1). We look forward to working with Jeff to make VATUSA a thriving member of the VATSIM community.

10-2-2005 We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new Letter of Agreement by and between Miami ARTCC and Jacksonville ARTCC. The full document is summarized in Service Bulletin 20051002, and can be found on the SOP / LOA page.

An update to the Florida Sector File (version 2.1) is now available. This file incorporates the Tampa TRACON into the ARTCC boundary, and cleans up other minor issues. You can download the Sector File here.

7-22-2005 IMPORTANT: For the next few weeks, the duties and functions normally provided by our Chief Instructor will be handled by the Facility Chief. Please contact The Chief if you need an Instructor Assignment, or about any other training matter.