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How long from OBS to C1?

Every current C1-and-above controller on a VATUSA home roster, measured from their OBS→S1 promotion to their S3→C1 promotion.

Typical controller · median

Distribution · time to C1

Read this before comparing facilities. The numbers only cover controllers currently on a VATUSA home roster. Anyone who left, transferred out or went inactive and was removed isn't counted. This is also not a measure of any facility's current training wait time: controllers are listed under the facility they're in now, and many earned some or all of their ratings elsewhere. Times also include breaks, inactivity and personal pace, and many of the promotions happened years ago under different training programs.

Division at a glance

Based on controllers with a complete OBS→S1 and S3→C1 record. The mean sits well above the median: a long tail of controllers who parked at S3 for years pulls the average up.

Compare a controller

Enter a CID or name to pull that controller's promotion history and compare each stage with their facility and the whole division. Stages still in progress show the time so far, and missing stages are noted. Any VATUSA CID works, even one that isn't on a home roster.

Fastest & slowest in the division

Rating ladders show the full promotion history on file. Highlighted labels mark the measured OBS→C1 window; the rest are ratings earned afterward.

Fastest 10

Slowest 10

By facility

Sorted by median time to C1. Expand an ARTCC to see its fastest and slowest controllers. Small facilities have unstable medians. Facility is each controller's current home, not necessarily where they trained, so this doesn't reflect how long training takes there today.

fastest median slowest √-scaled days

ARTCCNMean MedianSpread (fast → slow)

Omitted controllers

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Stage by stage

Time between consecutive promotions, across every home controller who has finished that stage, including current S2s, S3s and C1s. Older records that skipped a rating (e.g. S1→S3) are left out of the stages they skipped.

StageNMedian MeanMiddle 50% · median

Median days per stage, by facility

Grouped by current home facility, not by the facility that granted each rating. Green is faster than the division median for that stage, red is slower. Hover a cell for its sample size. Click a column heading to sort.