Oakland ARTCC on VATSIM

About vZOA

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!

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Current ZOA Flights 23
  • San Francisco (SFO) 15
  • Oakland (OAK) 0
  • San Jose (SJC) 2
  • Sacramento (SMF) 3
  • Reno (RNO) 2
  • Monterey (MRY) 1
ZOA Operations
  • San Francisco (SFO) SFOW
  • Oakland (OAK) OAKW
  • San Jose (SJC) SJCW
  • Sacramento (SMF) SMFS
  • Reno (RNO) RNON
  • Monterey (MRY) MRY28
Online Controllers
There are no controllers online.
Recent Promotions
Sep 16
Malik Abdussalam was promoted to S1!
Sep 15
Andrew Senger completed the Oakland CD Knowledge Check!
Sep 02
Rohan Guskin was promoted to S1!
Sep 01
Andrew Senger completed the Orientation Quiz!
Aug 31
Quintin Boggs was promoted to C1!
vZOA Top Controllers
Top Controller Monthly Time
Rohan Guskin "RG" - 1613141 38:39 hrs
Giovanni Go "GO" - 1483188 28:49 hrs
Noah Reif "NR" - 1634699 19:18 hrs
Mason Kuhuski "MU" - 1730892 15:03 hrs
Dominic Nguyen "DN" - 1200795 14:11 hrs
Top Facility Monthly Time
Norcal Approach 59:37 hrs
Oakland Ground 51:34 hrs
Oakland Tower 42:45 hrs
Oakland Center 35:30 hrs
San Francisco Tower 20:54 hrs
Top Controller Weekly Time
Malik Abdussalam "MD" - 1726435 04:50 hrs
Rohan Guskin "RG" - 1613141 02:42 hrs
Ken Greim "KG" - 1652151 01:33 hrs
Aaron Cannon "AC" - 1340261 00:47 hrs
Quintin Boggs "QB" - 1563534 00:18 hrs
Top Facility Weekly Time
Oakland Ground 06:00 hrs
Norcal Approach 02:20 hrs
Oakland Clearance 01:32 hrs
San Jose Tower 00:18 hrs
San Francisco Radio 00:02 hrs
Top Controller All Time
Matthew Chicoine "MC" - 815543 3881:31 hrs
Brett Wells "BW" - 810036 3087:34 hrs
Dominic Nguyen "DN" - 1200795 2639:17 hrs
Michael Mund-Hoym "" - 1038942 2161:05 hrs
nick navarro "" - 1082318 2040:34 hrs
Top Facility All Time
Oakland Center 16709:08 hrs
Norcal Approach 14066:30 hrs
San Francisco Tower 6540:53 hrs
San Francisco Ground 4946:34 hrs
Oakland Ground 3441:48 hrs
Recent vZOA Feedback

Feedback for Brett Wells

This is really for ALL controllers online today for HotPlane summer-awesome job by all of you! If only people learned to respond to radio calls in a timely manner haha. You guys are awesome and make this hobby and community so fun and rewarding. Don't ever change!

  • Submitted by Chace Hart flying AWE235, 236
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  • ATC Position: OAK_CTR

Feedback for Josh Warn

Thank you very much for controlling my flight FDX1234 to Oakland for the ZOA Live 2024 Hot Plane Summer Event on the 3rd of August 2024, around 00:00 or 01:00 zulu time if I recall correctly. It was a busy event with a lot of traffic around several airports in the area, but I was quickly and smoothly vectored for a visual approach to Oakland after coming from the pacific. Personally helped me out a lot by giving me simple turns and eventually a direct turn to my initial approach fix to make things easy for my flight, and while being sequenced into oakland in between multiple arrivals I've never had to enter any holds, fly any delay vectors, or follow any other special constraints, all the way to short final. In my opinion, it was fantastic and smooth controlling for such a busy event. They were helping out a lot of other flights as well, including some go arounds at other airfields. It was a busy event, with a lot of transmissions being stepping upon each other, but they were very kind and patient to everyone flying even as they focused on vectoring arrivals around norcal. Thanks to other staff and pilots involved for the wonderful event as well. I heard a lot of beeping noises and fun chatter in the background behind all the controllers, and I'm glad everyone enjoyed controlling us as well.

  • Submitted by KAMAL BALOOCHI flying FDX1234
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  • ATC Position: NCT_APP

Feedback for Andrew Selder

Great job working a busy position!

  • Submitted by Anonymous
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  • ATC Position: NCT_DEP

Feedback for Ken Greim

Only 4 stars cause he didn't say goodnight back, smooth vectoring.

  • Submitted by Jack Soeth flying UAL1260
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  • ATC Position: SJC_APP