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VATGlasses was originally developed by Lenny Colton as a Windows application and released in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The original tool has been deprecated and is no longer compatible with the VATSIM Status API.

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Lenny first published the VATGlasses website in early 2022, with coverage for the UK only. The site has now expanded with many countries taking part and is moving towards global coverage. Thank you to everyone who uses and supports the site!

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Our servers are very kindly provided by Marijn de Mul, at no cost to us. Thanks to Marijn, we have closed both our Patreon and our PayPal donations portal. Thank you to everyone who supported VATGlasses monetarily during its first two years online!

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Aircraft icons are provided by SimAware and are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The remainder of the VATGlasses project is proprietary and should not be reused without permission.

Data is maintained either by local staff or the VATGlasses team. We are not accepting any new VATGlasses-managed areas, but local staff are always welcome to add their sectors to our GitHub. Data should not be reused without permission.

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We have a parallel site for testing new data updates before publication. The site and its repository are both private. Please create an issue on the GitHub for access. N.B. Only staff members who actively maintain a data set will be granted access.

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Data for unsupported areas is taken from VAT-Spy. If your FIR is displayed incorrectly, please consider adding your airspace to our repository. It's possible to add full sectorisation for both en-route and airports, or to only add airports and leave en-route sectorisation dynamic.

• Airborne sectors are displayed on the map, based on altitude.
• Use the slider in the top-right to select an altitude.
• Some sectors may cover only high or low altitudes.
• Click on a sector to see its name and owner.
• All sectors covered by one controller are the same colour.
• Only online sectors are shown. To see offline sectors, too, click here.

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• Airport Labels as follows:
• A - Approach/Departure
• Low airspace close to the airport. May be a nearby major Tower at satellites.
• Covers Tower if offline.
• T - Tower
• Runways and some very low airspace.
• Covers Ground if offline.
• G - Ground, Ramp, or Apron
• Taxiways, ramps, and/or aprons.
• Covers Delivery if offline.
• D - Clearance Delivery
• ATC route clearance for departures.
• I - ATIS
• Automated broadcast with weather, runways, and procedures.
• Airports with empty labels are either covered by an En-Route controller or have aircraft on the ground.
• En-route controllers provide all services (from Delivery to Approach/Departure) at all airports they control.
• Click on an airport marker to see who to call before departure.

This is the beta version of VATGlasses, which is used by maintainers to test their changes.

This site should be used by maintainers only. Lots of the data is old and/or inaccurate.

For the latest, accurate ATC sectors, visit the main VATGlasses site.