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Re: Wednesday Information x-ray: busy circuit

Postby Ysop » Sat Oct 22, 2022 11:16 am

Grenchen airport will be our home base for this week's session.

Pilots are kindly asked to familiarize with VFR procedures of this airport.
http://www.airport-grenchen.ch/flughafen.asp?l=en&s=779
http://www.airport-grenchen.ch/flughafen.asp?s=778&l=en

ATC service will be provided. Kindly note, that there is no radar coverage, so position reports are important.
Come in from any fly to wherever you like, but the action should concentrate on LSZG.

Meet and chat 18:00 UTC
Communications: Mumble
Aircraft: Light aircraft/GA aircraft of your choice. Kindly inform us in the discussion thread if anything unusual.

As a teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbkzsDBSasg
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Re: Wednesday Information yankee: phrase it right

Postby Ysop » Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:56 pm

Following last weeks's event we'll be again at Gretchen airport, but taking the chance to concentrate on ATC communication.

We'll take the time to meet at jitsi, looking at a map and go through the different phases of start-up, taxi, departure, arrival.
This should help to get the right phrases without aviating at the same time.
Of course we'll jump into action after the briefing!

Jitsi link will be published via mumble. You don't have to fire up flightgear during the briefing.

Kindly note, that meeting time is 19:00 UTC=20:00 Paris.
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Re: Wednesday Information zulu: ATC special II

Postby Ysop » Tue Nov 08, 2022 10:53 pm

This week we will continue to stay at Gretchen LSZG and use also Langenthal LSPL

It is planned to keep everything VFR to sharpen our ATC skills. Grenchen tower will be staffed.
To practice without flying at the same time we'll meet on jitsi first.

time
19:00UTC=20:00 Berlin

Maps needed:
LSZG
http://www.airport-grenchen.ch/flughafen.asp?s=779&l=en
especially http://www.airport-grenchen.ch/content/ ... 9550694444
LSPL
https://ch.ivao.aero/download/charts/vfr/LSPL-VAC.pdf (Thanks IVAO!)

Communication:
https://meet.jit.si/FGFS-GA-Wednesday (of course you can leave the camera off)
Mumble server: radio-mumble.flightgear.fr channel Special Events/GA-Wednesday

recommended reading
https://www.caa.si/upload/editor/file/f ... 16d2b1.pdf (recommended!)
https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/fil ... lf/115.pdf For upcoming events
https://wiki.flightgear.org/ATC_phraseology

This evening is intended to gather practice and experience, so we will hit the ground running, when we'll have professional guidance on the 16th.

If anybody want to try out above communication channels without any pressure before the event, just drop me a pm and I can start everything an hour earlier.
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Re: Wednesday Information Alpha - Professional ATC event

Postby Volador » Sun Nov 13, 2022 5:05 pm

Wednesday 16th Nov 2022 information Alpha or 'A' is for ATC

19:00 UTC prompt please.

This week we will be joined by a professional ATC for a ground briefing and chat, some Q and A then some practice at Grenchen LSZG with some live feedback and appraisal. We aim to keep the topic to VFR and regional rules for the Grenchen area.

All ATC communication with our professional guest controller will be via Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/FGFS-GA-Wednesday and to give him a warm welcome at 19:00 UTC it would be very nice to have your camera on, we can always switch to voice only later as we go into the flying exercises. The Jitsi link is a web interface so it's possible to run this from a modern smartphone if you wish to save CPU GPU on your system and headphones are advised to prevent feedback. Please do test this before Wednesday so we can hit the ground running.

Locations will be at Grenchen LSZG and use also Langenthal LSPL to catch your breath. Please do take some time to be familiar with the pattern and altitudes for Grenchen (link below) as the aim is to focus on communications rather than being told off or getting tickets for flying over residential areas.

time
19:00UTC=20:00 Berlin

Maps needed:
LSZG
http://www.airport-grenchen.ch/flughafen.asp?s=779&l=en
especially http://www.airport-grenchen.ch/content/ ... 9550694444
LSPL
https://ch.ivao.aero/download/charts/vfr/LSPL-VAC.pdf (Thanks IVAO!)

Communication:
https://meet.jit.si/FGFS-GA-Wednesday

recommended reading
https://www.caa.si/upload/editor/file/f ... 16d2b1.pdf (recommended!)
https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/fil ... lf/115.pdf For upcoming events
https://wiki.flightgear.org/ATC_phraseology

Top tip for landing on a runway full of rabbits: Don't flare until you see the whites of their eyes.
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Re: Wednesday Information Alpha or 'A' is for ATC

Postby benih » Mon Nov 14, 2022 8:02 am

Hi, can you please revise the links? They are broken :)
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Re: Wednesday Information Alpha or 'A' is for ATC

Postby MariuszXC » Wed Nov 23, 2022 5:28 pm

So it looks that Wednesday Information Bravo or 'B' is for saying Bonjour! to the neighbours.
Route: viewtopic.php?p=406953#p406953

Usual times and comms.
Let's start with mumble and if necessary keep the jitsi option open.
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Information Charlie, Zurich IFR. C is for Cat l ILS runway

Postby Volador » Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:08 pm

Information Charlie, Zurich IFR with professional ATC guest

Everyone, please tune in at 19:00 UTC for an initial briefing on the jitsi channel.

Communication:
https://meet.jit.si/FGFS-GA-Wednesday

Chat and initial questions / discuss the plan. Please make the effort to have your camera on initially for a nice welcome once again :)
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Information Delta: 'Dang it, it's cold' xmas special 2022

Postby Volador » Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:24 pm

Information Delta: Dang it, it's cold xmas special 2022

Wednesday 21nd December 2022 Flightgear Christmas Special. All welcome! Ho! Ho! Ho!

Yet again, we have an important VFR mission to deliver presents to kleine kinder in three remote, cold, wintery locations in Northern Finland, so perhaps "little children" should be "pikkulapsi". Expect some Christmas cuteness. Flying time around 50mins but allow for stops (to admire our Blender handy-work - if you can find it!) and recovery from sliding around in the snow and ice, allow 1hr 30mins. You might need skis or bush wheels.

Route & schedule
19:30 - 21:00 UTC, 20:30-22:00 CET
Departing: ENDU
Route:

https://skyvector.com/?ll=68.7592702285 ... 846N01833E

Custom scenery:
You *must* have this scenery to enjoy the experience
https://github.com/TheFGFSEagle/SantaIntl

Communications
Mumble: radio-mumble.flightgear.fr Channel: Special events/GA-Wednesday

Simulator options
Time: Evening
Season: maximum (late autumn)

Environment Settings:
Snow line: minimum
Snow thickness: maximum
Ice cover: maximum
Aurora Borealis 70% or more intensity

Custom Weather:
XXXX 012345Z 15005KT 9999 -SN OVC060CB SCT050TCU M20/M30 Q1005

Aircraft:
Any GA (General Aviation) consider a craft with skis because, dang, it's gonna be cold....
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Re: Wednesday Information Fortrott: Fireworks!

Postby Ysop » Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:26 am

Recycling this nice event and scenery work by TheEagle:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=39213&p=396581&hilit=fireworks#p396581
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Re: Wednesday Information Golf: Busy Glasgow

Postby Ysop » Sun Jan 01, 2023 5:45 pm

We'll give the new year a good start with operations in and out of Glasgow EGPF.

It can be IFR or VFR, main task is to keep the control zone busy and us entertained.

Familiarization with the charts helps a lot. Also it helps to make a good impression on the 11th, when we have again professional advice.
http://uvairlines.com/admin/resources/EGPF.pdf

Maybe we have voluntary ATCs, otherwise published routes are to be flown.

Usual times, communication via Mumble.
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Re: Wednesday Information Golf: Busy Glasgow

Postby Volador » Tue Jan 17, 2023 9:44 am

Wednesday 18th Jan 2023 will be 19:00 UTC at Glasgow with our guest ATC (irl) Marcus. Both IFR or VFR

Comms Mumble (fingers crossed)

Please use the discussion thread to post your aircraft type so that we don't see any blue default gliders which can spoil the experience.
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Re: Wednesday Information India: Irresistible Slopes

Postby Luffleine » Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:54 pm

It's in the middle of winter, everybody wants a lift from down in the cloudy valleys up to the Alpine summits, and what for? For enjoying the chilly fresh mountain air, the bright sun, the views from above glaciers, across rocky summits, and for skidding down the snowy slopes on skis, boards, sleds, some on their bellies .... and some in their crazy boxes with propellers and wings! We want to use one of these wintery Wednesdays for taking up speed on the slopiest airstrips of the French Alpes and getting airborne on runways ending like cliffs. Of course this means we want to also master touching down the plane on the foot of the airstrip slope as softly and targeted as a cat lands on the carpet when jumping down the sofa!

The particularly cool thing is that tomorrow we have a special guest with real-world Alpine aviation experience, and we are very happy that he is willing to accompany us on our learning curves as FISO (flight information service officer) and instructor based at Alpe d'Huez (LFHU). So, let's make the LFHU runway the center of our Wednesday flying fun!

Here are the first basic facts, and later edits of this message will probably bring in some more detail:

LFHU tower:
As you can see from this ATC event posting (with important Mumble info) ...
http://flightgear-atc.alwaysdata.net/sh ... entId=5738
... we are going to have three extensive hours of Mumble tower ATC at LFHU. We can find this Mumble channel under ATC --> Europe --> France --> LFHU.

Scenery:
https://www.moohw.com/Events/GA-WEDNESD ... FHU.tar.gz
This scenery pack of 345MB contains the surface patches with the nicely sloped runways of Alpe d'Huez and Courchevel. Only in connection with the slopes the short runway dimensions make any sense with 10-seater turboprop machines. The parking and turning spaces off the side of the uphill runway end are another crucial feature which will allow us to meet and coordinate in the sim in a similar way as real people coordinate on real airports.

Weather:
According to windy.com the cloud coverage tomorrow evening is expected to be little in the valley in front of Alpe d'Huez. So, my suggestion is to use live METAR data. If we're unlucky and it doesn't work out, we can use a very realistic METAR string with little cloud coverage I got when spawning at LFHU just a few minutes ago, that would be: 242030Z AUTO 36011KT 9999 FEW033 02/M02 Q1032, and I'm going to test how landing is with this cross wind from north right after posting this.... update: Yesterday's situation with 11kt wind from north, i.e. coming down from the mountains as crosswind from left was pretty much unlandable. So, here is our suggested METAR string for today as posted by Woosh in the discussion thread:
XXXX 012345Z 21004KT 12SM SCT025 FEW200 08/M02 Q1015 NOSIG
We have some low clouds, we should be cloud-free up in the mountains, and wind from southwest is usual for Europe. I expect it to introduce some added lift when blowing uphill around the LFHU runway.

Spawning:
Let's spawn only at airports in the valleys and get to the mountain airstrips only by flying. This way we don't have any issues of (a) spawning underground below the patched runways, (b) creating chaos in narrow parking and taxi areas, and (c) we'll automatically create the kind of multiplayer-busy patterns and approach paths we are all looking for on Wednesdays. Then let's show what we've come to learn in the past about keeping our planes under control, the airspace safe, and the collision risk far away from patterns and approach paths ... and runways. There are five valley aerodromes nearby: Le Versoud (LFLG), Aix-Les-Bains (LFLB), Chambéry Challes (LFLE), Albertville (LFKA), Saint-Remy-De-Maurienne (LFKR).

Of the interesting mountain airstrips we have three in the vicinity: Alpe D'Huez (LFHU) with its ATC service, Méribel (LFKX), Courchevel (LFLJ). Have a look at the VFR charts and you will see that in Alpine regions no airport is like the other, no pattern looks alike. The rocks and winds impose harsh constraints, and the charts represent the quintessence of experience by generations of pilots.

Looking forward to meeting you all in the air and on the airport terrasses tomorrow! Bring your gloves in case there might be a spontaneous snowball battle.
Sincerely yours,
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Re: Wednesday Information India mountain professionals

Postby Ysop » Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:08 pm

Thanks to Woosh this is our challenge:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=39025&start=3165#p409721
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Re: Wednesday Information Juliett VFR challenge Norway

Postby Volador » Wed Feb 15, 2023 6:41 pm

@Whoosh, I've only just had time to load up the slides before tonight's event, what a superb effort and contribution! Really looking forward to this later on :D
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Re: Wednesday Information Kilo: ATC training EGPF

Postby Ysop » Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:41 pm

This Wednesday is planned to consolidate our ATC skills.

First part of the session will be around 30min and centred around a generic airport.
We'll meet via jitsi.
Everyone has the chance to go through an example of a departing or arriving flight. We'll shift the corresponding dots around on the map.
This way there is full concentration on communication without the pleasureful hassle of flying an airplane.

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Possible scenarios are:
- departing VFR aircraft
- arriving VFR aircraft
- aircraft staying in the traffic pattern
-...

If any question comes up, this gives the chance to discuss for the benefit of everyone.

In the second part we'll fly around EGSH to bring learned items into a live training environment.
Charts: https://www.vatsim.uk/airports/EGSH

Thanks in advance to Marcus for giving us professional guidance and Volador for preparing the generic map.

communication:
https://meet.jit.si/FGFS-GA-Wednesday
For voice we'll use Mumble.

If you are not using from the FGAddon-stable
C172
C182
DA40
DH6
drop us a note in the discussion forum, so screenshots are not being spoiled by the yellow glider.

Kindly show up in time 19:00 UTC.
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