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"The purpose of the academy was to deliver to the ARTCC's a person trained and familiar with the tools of the trade (software, etc) and some basic ATC information.  Prior to this each ARTCC had to take a new guy or gal through all this and there was a lack of consistency and speed with this process.  The academy solves this first problem and the ARTCC's have provided feedback at their delight in the quality of the students they have been getting; it has lightened the load of their instructors to focus on their specific airspace and procedures. \n  \nSo you should expect to get specific training on any airspace you plan to control and it sounds like you do understand that.  I hope your local ARTCC training folks can work with your schedule and get you moving. \n  \nWhich is the second feedback item we hear of (and see), is academy students tend to move through the controller ranks a bit faster than those of us who did it the old way. \n  \nTo Brian's comments, the academy was first on the list of priority to get up and running; this year will see the integration of the ARTCC's training with the academy completed. \n  \ntraining at vatusa dot org can provide you with a clearer answer than I have given if you have more specific comments or feedback to provide on our training systems, and thanks for asking. \n"
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