August 2005 Newsletter

Bluegrass Airlines Feature of the Month

Bluegrass Country to Tidewater via the Blue Ridge Mountains

DC-3 flights recreating the 1955 Piedmont schedule from Ashland, KY to Richmond, VA

This is a series of 6 flights with a heavy work load for the crew.

Bush Pilot Feature of the Month

Toughman Challenge #14 by Ron Jorgensen

Update on the G.A.A.R. 2005

All pilots should send me an email when they complete the G.A.A.R. so that I can send them an Award Plaque.

Bluegrass pilots should send me an email if they quit flying the G.A.A.R. so that I can add any G.A.A.R. hours since March 31^st to the roster.

The GAAR is winding down, only a few pilots are still enroute.

Multi-Player Flying

WestcoastATC has virtually abandoned AOTC. Most everyone is back to flying on Server 1,2 or 3.

Detailed instructions for removing AOTC from your computer are located at:

www.westcoastatc.com/prefsetup3.shtml

I printed the instructions and removed the aotc client without any problems in about 5 minutes. One of our pilots reported that he lost some gauges when he deleted aotc. Not sure how that could happen, but be forewarned. If I was doing it after hearing that news, I would copy everything in Flight Simulator 9/Gauges to a temporary folder first.

It might be a good idea, to keep serveinfo on your computer. You may be needing it soon.

Here is a snapshot of pilots hours logged on WestCoastATC. Hours logged on ATOC are not shown. They will be added to the system some day, I’m told.

Pilots, remember to report all of your flights using the “Submit Flight Report” link on the main Bluegrass Page.

Pilot	ATC	FREE1	FREE2	FREE3
bgad007		1 H 49 M	0 H 6 M
bgad009		12 H 54 M
bgan004		0 H 25 M
bgan019		4 H 42 M
BGAN047		15 H 57 M
bgas001		6 H 36 M
BGAS011		0 H 34 M
Bgas013	2 H 13 M	6 H 32 M
bgas017		5 H 21 M
bgas046		6 H 8 M		1 H 44 M

July hours as of 0221Z Aug 1^st,005

Welcome to New Pilots

bgad010	Ryan King
bgad009	Nathen Miller
bgad008	Robert Baron
bgas013	Tom Cox

Congratulations to pilots with promotions

bgas017	Lyle S. Hasty	Sr. Captain
bgan016	Paul Roth	Captain
bgan012	George W.S. Adair	First Officer

July Flight Time

Robert Baron	BGAD008	76
John Lawler	bgad017	63
Gayngel van den Ing	bgad022	4333
Norm Holman	bgad026	1180
John Gilbert	bgad033	780
don moore	bgad042	566
Brent Brazeel	bgak001	2716
Gary Filippo	bgak005	356
Coleman Green	bgak011	199
DAVID BOWEN	BGAK017	390
Rick Jasonis	BGAK018	150
Pat Daley	bgak029	54
Tom Burrill	bgak033	1371
Paul van den Berg	bgak036	402
Tim Arnot	BGAK054	781
Bob Welch	BGAK060	90
Iandln	bgam004	120
Allan Lowson	bgam007	84
Joe Weber	BGAN002	2946
Kenny	bgan004	60
Barry Kleiber	BGAN010	1453
George Adair	BGAN012	898
Paul Roth	BGAN016	723
Achim	bgan019	106
John Kolmos	BGAN029	1030
Don Hulick	bgan033	201
Meryl D Coon	BGAN038	89
GEORGE LEACH	BGAN039	4406
Harry Frazer	BGAN042	590
Paul Mensch	BGAN047	2277
Rick Hoffman	bgan051	95
Bill Von Sennet	bgas001	2592
Bill Agee	bgas006	731
Don Leveille	bgas007	322
Victor Buck	bgas011	501
Jon Carlson	bgas012	79
Tom Cox	BGAS013	284
Lyle Hasty	bgas017	2358
Gary McCarty	bgas031	9308
Jim Urquhart	BGAS041	3316
Bill Hendrix	bgas046	1331
AP Hendrix	bgas047	3416
Tom McCoy	bgas057	1614
Patrick Stewart	bgas060	1854
Total Hours		938.18

From the C.E.O.

Our web-site had over 7,500 visits in July

Don’t forget to check out the forum and screen shot pages.

The Rosters and “View Flight Reports” pages are usually updated on Wednesday and Sunday. There will be a break in that pattern this month. Flight reports will be updated Aug 3^rd, 6^th, 9^th, 12^th, 28^th and 31^st.

That’s all for now,

Bill Von Sennet

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