Bluegrass Airlines
May 2003 Newsletter
Air Mail Division News
BGA Air Mail pilots flew
24.82 hours in April and visitors flew 1.08 hours
Alaska Division News
Alaska Division Pilots flew 189.54 hours in April and these visitors flew a total of 100.58 hours:
Bill Von Sennet (BGAS001) = 0.35
Bill Odell (BGAS004) = 50.39
Bill Agee (BGAS006) = 49.84
Capt. Coleman
Australian Division News
Australian Division Pilots flew 222.46 hours
visitors flew 86.46 hours in April:
The Great Aussie Air Race of 2003 is history and
final standings have been posted.
Pilots may continue to fly the legs of the race and submit them as flight
reports to the Australian Division, but the standings will not change. 72 pilots completed all 37 legs of the race
and they all expressed thanks to Bluegrass for hosting a “top notch” event. Rob Finn is already well into the planning
stage for the 2004 race and is seeking comments from anyone interested on the
Bluegrass Forum.
Northern Division News
02 May 2003
MEMORANDUM
From:
BGA Northern Division Director
To:
BGA Chief Executive Officer
Subj: NORTHERN DIVISION STATUS REPORT - APRIL 2003
1. In accordance with operational requirements of Bluegrass Airlines Divisions, the following is a summary of flight activity within the Northern Division during the month of April 2003.
BGAN007
Brent Perry 10.70 hours
(career total:
351.90 hours)
BGAN018
Lou Vickery 3.16 hours
(career
total: 59.70 hours)
BGAN032
Paul Russell 5.50 hours
(career
total: 11.01 hours)
BGAN033
Don Hulick 17.10 hours
(career
total: 40.10 hours)
BGAN035
Gene Ward 17.65 hours
(career
total: 39.15 hours)
TOTAL TIME BY DIVISION PILOTS IN APRIL: 54.11 hours
VISITORS
BGAS001
Bill Von Sennet 16.20 hours
BGAS005
Kevin Johnson 12.42 hours
BGAS006
Bill Agee 25.94 hours
BGAS031
Gary McCarty 23.98 hours
BGAS036
Jason Krogmann 1.08 hours
BGAK014
Tony Brown 2.00 hours
BGAK028
Brent Brazeel 1.82 hours
BGAM005 Stephen Gertau 22.40 hours
TOTAL TIME BY VISITING PILOTS IN APRIL: 105.84 hours
TOTAL TIME WITHIN THE NORTHERN DIVISION: 159.95 hours
2. A tremendous number of contrails criss-crossing the Northern Division skies in April by visiting pilots. A lot of mail got delivered and a lot of other "stuff" got delivered too ... :o).
R/Sr. Capt. Bob Thompson
Southern Division News
Southern Division Pilots flew 536.86 hours and one
visitor Brent Brazeel bgak028 flew 0.73 hours.
The Southern Division pireps pages have become the
community pireps pages for all Bluegrass Pilots and I have noticed an immediate
increase in the number of flights this month, and the percentage of reports
that have comments. As a result of the
increased workload I have been updating the pages much more frequently than my
previous method which was to update once a week either on Thursday evening or
Saturday.
Turbo Division News
These visitors to the
Turbo Division flew 26.52 hours in April:
Most of the hours were
flown by Ed Burke bgad011 on his Baghdad Airlift missions.
Not a whole lot
of news for April, the Turbo and Airmail Divisions keep plugging along, looks
like the new Baghdad Airlift is attracting some attention.
Capt. Joe
From
the C.E.O.
The main Bluegrass Airlines page now has a link for flight reports. This takes you to a Flight Report page that has links for the report forms of each division. (It also has links to the main page of each division for your ease of navigating back there.)
As of May 1st,
2003 (we actually already started this) flight reports are sent to the director
of the division in which you have flown.
If you are an Alaska pilot, but are flying in the Caribbean you would
click the Southern Div. button to report the flight. Likewise a Southern Division pilot flying in Alaska, British Columbia
or the Northwest Territories would click on the Alaska Division button.
We have divided the
world into sections that are assigned to each division. Since some of our pilots fly “freelance” or
charter flights all over the world, we divided it geographically. First we drew a line around the world following the 36degN Latitude
(In the US this is a line from Kill
Devil Hills, NC passing south of
Nashville, Tulsa and Las Vegas)
North of that line is the Northern Division, except for flights in Alaska, British Columbia and the Northwest
Territories which go to the Alaska
Division
South of that line from Hawaii east
to the Atlantic Coast of Europe is the Southern Division.
South of that line from the
Atlantic Coast of Europe to Hawaii is the Australian Division.
The Alaska Division is Alaska, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.
Turbo Prop and Jet flights are
reported to the Turbo Div.
Air Mail Div gets reports of 1930’s
Air Mail flights.
If your flight is a posted schedule
by a division (such as the Northern Division flights to Wilmington NC, and
Florida) report it to the division which posted it.
If your flight traverses more than
one division, report it to the division from which you took off.
If you are on a “freelance” flight
and are unsure where you are in relation to the 36 degree N latitude pres
“shift Z” and the long-lat coordinates will be at the top of your screen. Also a neat trick for finding out what the
current winds at your altitude are.
For the geographically challenge
among us the Berlin Airlift is in the Northern Division, while the Baghdad
Airlift is in the Australian Division.
All reports also go to Capt. Bill
for inclusion in the pireps page (click the “View Pireps” link on the main
page) At the bottom of each months pireps page there is a link to
view that months complete flight reports as submitted with comments.
If you
are flying in a division other than your own, your pirep will be forwarded by
Capt. Bill to your division director.
The data
from the pireps page will be used to update the main roster just after the end
of each month. Sometimes the manual
process of updating a divisions roster leads to errors (I know it happens to me
at the Southern Div), but the main roster should have the accurate total of all
hours you reported during each month.
If you report hours flown in April after the first of May they will be
included in the hours for May.
I know
change can cause confusion, but if you put in the effort to file your reports
this way, it will save a lot of work for me, and lead to more accurate
reporting of visitor hours for each division.
The division directors put in too much effort to not be aware that the
pilots are flying in their division and enjoying the fruit of their labors.
The
feature of the month is going to be a little late, as I am still finishing up
on the administration end of the Great Aussie Air Race. It will be a United Airlines historic route
using the Boeing 247D. You can
download the aircraft from avsim.com and and the panel from a link at the
bottom right side of our main page.
I just
returned from a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and fired up Fs2002
to check out the Wright Brothers monument at Kill Devil Hills. Amazingly it isn’t there. So I have redone KFFA - First Flight Airport. Coleman Green has created a monument which I
placed on top of a hill. We weren’t
able to make it look exactly like the original, but it is a vast improvement
and well worth downloading. As this is the “Centennial of Powered
Flight”, you can be sure a future
monthly feature will be using KFFA.
Hopefully FS2004 “The Century of Flight” will include a rendition of the
monument.
Don’t
forget to check out the forum and add your input. The main roster has been updated with all hours for April.
That’s all for this month, thanks
for being part of Bluegrass Airlines,
Capt. Bill
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