Britannic Virtual Airline Newsletter

By Geoff Butler Chief Pilot

Updated 26/09/2008 20:17

 Last Call for Flights  

Pilots are reminded that flights to Croatia Turkey Greek and Some Spanish resorts will cease on the 1st November when the winter timetable starts. 

Ski flights will start on 1st December 

Next Multiplayer Fly In  

The next leg will be from Pamplona to any UK airport of your choice before we head for Norway and Sweden and off to Rovaneimi for Christmas. Departure time from Pamplona is 1500 BST.  There will be no ATC for this flight other than tower on departure. Your route is your choice. This will be on the Sunday 28th Sept.

 Alf's Training Events 

Alf has started to do some extra training events in between our multiplayer flying days. Please keep an eye of the forum for details.

 Real World Airline Mergers 

Thomson Fly and First Choice charter airlines are merging shortly to be known as Thomson Airlines this follows on from My Travel and Thomas cook merging into one company.

St Maartin

One of the best tourist and plane spotting places in the world is St Maartin located about 900 miles South of Bermuda. I have found some scenery here for you its excellent. All you need to do is copy the scenery folder into your add on scenery folder and then add the scenery as normal. Some excellent videos of this airport on u tube will give you the flavour. try all the other clips when you get there

	View U Tube
	Get  Scenery

FS2 Crew Level D 767 program

I have been flying using this program which does checklists etc it is vast improvement on earlier versions. On the whole quite impressive. The downside it conflicts with Fs Passengers and cannot be used also the active sky weather program can stop. You can check this program out on this website

Fly in Last weekend 

The fly in went very well last Sunday thanks to all those that supported it. This month's will be the Gibraltar challenge details will be in the multiplayer newsletter.

New Look Flight School

I have added and revised some of the flight school. This includes more on Oceanic Operations in the North Atlantic with Video links  and checklists on the Oceanic website. There are some excellent video clips on mode s  transponders and one on level busts and pilot controller misunderstandings and mistakes which may help you. A radio procedure manual which talks adding all this will hopefully give a good understanding of airline operations now for flight sim pilots and hopefully my efforts will let you enjoy flightsimming that much more realism wise. I have enjoyed making it for you.

  Virus

The virus that has plagued the website for the last month we hope has finally been erased. I do advise all pilots to run a virus check with the free AVG software as the anti virus software that is with Virgin media failed to detect it. It is also worth doing a safe mode load and run the antivirus in dod mode. and run your software as this virus did not clear itself all out. It is my belief our website was hacked into. We have changed the passwords and since reuploading have had no problem Google blocked us and have now scanned it and cleared the site again. so hopefully we. It was getting to the stage where I was having to consider closing the VA for good as I did not want anyone else getting infected. That hopefully is now not required. 

New Look Britannic Website

We have looked and monitored flight reports and put a poll on the website for a while now.  It was found that most pilots prefer to fly roughly 2-3 hour flights. With this in mind we have concentrated the VA mainly in Europe. We have decided that our Homebase Airports will be in England, Eire, Sweden and Germany mainly to European destinations, Eygpt  Canary Islands. Special Events are the same. With regard to Long Haul we are very much going to leave this for you to decide. We have put some suggestions up on the page. Please read through the website for more more ideas. BCA27 George Sinkins is our only Canadian and he is welcome to fly as he wishes. Our policy was  that anyone can join us from any country four years ago. We had a couple of American Pilots but they have since left us. 96% of our pilots are UK or Eire based. Of course this still remains should pilots wish to join us. We have introduced intermediate stops for the 5-6 hour flights so pilots could break their journey up and continue another day. For example flights from UK to Turkey could land at Munich or Austrian Airports. Again more detail is in the website.

Recruitment

We have had 55 applicants this year so far 3 have passed training and are on the rosters the other 52 nothing heard from them since.

Real World Oceanic Airspace and Flight Level Busts

There are some excellent short video presentations on flying the Atlantic on this link. Just click on the dvd image and cover of on the right track . Documents can be downloaded as well It explains it very well.