The Oakland ARTCC on VATSIM strives to be one of the most professional and realistic ARTCCs in VATUSA, and controllers are expected to know and learn a significant amount of information. Our mission here is dedicated to the highest quality ATC services delivered with a sense of friendliness, individual pride, and ARTCC spirit. Our airspace covers the harrowing Bay Area airspace including San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, as well as challenging mountainous airports like Reno, Lake Tahoe, and Mammoth Lakes. We've got something for everybody!
Learn MoreTop Controller | Monthly Time |
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Rohit Chadalavada "RC" - 1648173 | 67:30 hrs |
Mathew Howard "MO" - 1600697 | 38:26 hrs |
Brett Wells "BW" - 810036 | 31:48 hrs |
Matthew Tedesco "MT" - 919571 | 27:03 hrs |
David Hunt "DH" - 1614584 | 26:42 hrs |
Top Facility | Monthly Time |
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Norcal Approach | 112:19 hrs |
Oakland Center | 91:15 hrs |
San Francisco Ground | 86:32 hrs |
San Francisco Tower | 77:46 hrs |
Oakland Ground | 57:13 hrs |
Top Controller | Weekly Time |
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David Hunt "DH" - 1614584 | 04:21 hrs |
Brett Wells "BW" - 810036 | 03:34 hrs |
Pete Wise "PW" - 1253925 | 02:18 hrs |
Brandan Dadoun "BD" - 1329591 | 01:45 hrs |
Ken Greim "KG" - 1652151 | 01:20 hrs |
Top Facility | Weekly Time |
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San Francisco Ground | 05:10 hrs |
Oakland Center | 03:34 hrs |
Oakland Tower | 02:18 hrs |
Norcal Approach | 01:45 hrs |
San Jose Ground | 00:31 hrs |
Top Controller | All Time |
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Matthew Chicoine "MC" - 815543 | 3532:10 hrs |
Brett Wells "BW" - 810036 | 2639:20 hrs |
Dominic Nguyen "DN" - 1200795 | 2361:17 hrs |
Michael Mund-Hoym "" - 1038942 | 2161:05 hrs |
Nick Navarro "" - 1082318 | 2040:34 hrs |
Top Facility | All Time |
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Oakland Center | 15031:17 hrs |
Norcal Approach | 12477:53 hrs |
San Francisco Tower | 5440:16 hrs |
San Francisco Ground | 4213:55 hrs |
Oakland Ground | 2228:51 hrs |
Was very friendly and clear with instructions, by far my favorite controller in the Oakland airspace. Always very friendly and always clear on instruction.
The "Bingo on the Bay" event was great fun! It was a super neat way to get a good mix of GA and airliner traffic flitting about the same airspace, and not to have all of the GA traffic on top of each other going to the same places. Genius! My only critique is in the documentation for the event. There was WAY TOO MUCH of it, and it made it seem much more complex than it really was which might have scared some potential participants away. A simpler step-by-step -- (1) fill out this form anytime before or during the event, (2) type "/bingologin" to connect this Discord to your VATSIM account, (3) type "/bingocard" to generate your card, then (4) for each picture type "/bingopicture", select an image, then type a name (without spaces) to identify which landmark it is. That was all one had to do, but, the walls of text and multiple Google docs and Discord channels one had to navigate to boil it down to those four steps was a bit much. Hopefully with the process now ironed out a bit, the instructions can be simplified for next time! Cheers!
Great job at the end of the Oakland event tonight! I counted 50 aircraft under your control at one point when all other controllers left you! Calm, helpful, organized.