January 2005 Newsletter
Features of the Month
Toughman
Challenge # 9 by Ron Jorgensen
Offset approaches in the fjords of
This is the last Toughman until after the
Great Aussie Air Rally of 2005
Australian Division
The route is
finalized and all the flights have been tested for “The
Great Aussie Air Rally of 2005”. The
Web-Site opens and registrations will be accepted beginning January 15th
This years
event consists of 54 flights which are to be flown beginning February 1st. There are no required reporting dates, so you
can fly them as time permits. There
isn’t any scoring, but the roster and view flight reports pages will be updated
frequently.
You can view
the ports of call now at: GAAR 2005 Ports of Call
Multi-Player Flying
While we have
enjoyed flying on BushNet, Bluegrass Airlines is now affiliated with West Coast ATC. They have set us up with two private
TeamSpeak channels which we can use for in-flight communications and chat
meetings.
So sign up as a
pilot, using your Bluegrass ID.
i.e. bgas001 It will work best if you use lower case as
your ID is displayed while you are flying and will take up less space. It also may help keep all the pilot sorted in
order, but I’m not positive about that.
Once you get
set up, log in and click on “Pilots Start Page” then “Join Virtual Airline”. Then page down to
When you make a
flight, connect to the West Coast ATC 24 hour Free Server. (IP provided on web-site and in TeamSpeak
instructions). In the “Player Name” box
enter your callsign i.e. bgas001.
File a flight plan
for each flight to get credit from WestCoast ATC. They pay you, and
On February 1st
we begin the GAAR 2005 and we are going to invite all of those pilots to join
us on WestCoastATC. The result should be
that you can tune in and find someone to fly with almost anytime.
There are two
rules that are important.
1. If you use FS 9 (2004)
lock your frame rates at 20. Click on
Options…Settings…..Display….Hardware and
adjust the slider for “Target Frame Rate” to set 20. This reduces the workload on the server.
My headphones with a boom microphone cost about $25 and I paid
about $6 for a “Y-adapter” cable so that my headphones and speakers are all
plugged in at the same time. If you have
speakers, you can get by with a cheap clip on microphone. (That’s how I started out) Even if you choose to fly “silently” you can
use teamspeak to listen to the other pilots and you will know when the runway
is clear, etc.
If you use the default kneepad in FS 9, click here to download a
modification that lets you see the WestCoastATC FSHost page while you’re
flying.
Welcome to New Pilots
Serdar Badoglu bgad039
Jay Lamous bgad040
Grady Loyd bgak059
Bob Welch bgak060
Michael Magnus bgak061
Dan Wills bgak062
We are glad to
have you with us, and look forward to reading your flight reports.
From the C.E.O.
I extend to all
of you a Happy New Year! I hope that it
will bring you health and happiness. My
thanks to all the pilots for flying. It
wouldn’t be any fun if no one showed up.
And many thanks to all who have worked behind the scenes in creating
content for
Coleman
Green - Scenery – Painting - Panels
Bill Odell
- Tough Man Challenge #1,#2, Iditarod –
Ron Jorgensen –
Tough Man Challenge #3,4,5,6,7,8,and 9
Rob Finn –
Great Aussie Air Rally 2004 and 2005
Kevin Johnson –
February 2004 Feature
Allan
Lowson - Imperial Airways
Norm Holman
- Imperial Airways
Chris Fry –
Imperial Airways
Brent Brazeel –
Pirpeps processing program.
Tim Pinkawa
- Setting up our forums.
In addition to
the
Just for an
example, for GAAR 2004 here are a few of the credits
Real time
Registration, Flight Reports and Scoring.
Created and Hosted by Todd Whitehead.
Logo Design by
Dave W.
Award
Certificates Designed and Distributed by Carl and Corry Phillips
Mark Smith
Developed the kneepad addons for Flight Information and GAAR Map.
All of the
following promoted GAAR 2004
Tom Gibson’s California Classics
So, where do we
go from here? I’m always looking for
new ideas. Even better if you have any
talent at writing, send me a “Feature of the Month” You don’t have to be a web-master, if I can
read it with Word I can save it as a web-page.
That’s all for
now,
Bill Von Sennet
P.S. You may have missed the reports showing how
many pilots flew for each division and the hours.
We have a new
page (links at the bottom of each roster) that list all the pilots that have
flown, their hours, and the total hours for each division. December 2004
Report
Don’t forget to
check out the forum and screen shot pages. We need your screenshots! They will stay on the web-site for one month.
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