Autumn 2015 edition: November 7th and 8th, 2015 (FSWeekend 2015)
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Switzerland and Austria
ATC: will be offered on Mumble (with MPChat as a backup).
Setting up Mumble | ATC Tutorial (how to interact with controllers) | Phraseology
Manned airports and ATC channels:
- LOWW Tower (ElGaton) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LOWW_TWR - ATIS on FGCom (122.950) - Note: it seems the FGCom server has crashed, so the ATIS will be provided only if it comes back up.
- Wien Center (KIWI34) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LOWW_CT
- LOWI (N3266G) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LOWI_TWR
- LSZS (legoboyvdlp) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LSZS_FIR
- LSGG (IAHM-COL) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LSGG_TWR
- LSZH (aiannuzzi99) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LSZH_TWR
- LFSB/LSZM (Thefan630) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LFSB_TWR
- LFLL (daweed) - Channel: FRANCE ATC Services Channel -> LFLL - Lyon Saint-Exupery
- LIPA (J Maverick 16) - Channel: NIATCA ATC Services Channel -> LIPA - Aviano Air Base
We kindly ask pilots to file flight plans/follow published procedures if able; doing so will greatly speed up the work for us controllers.
Suggested scenery:
- LOWI: custom scenery by ot666, D79 and others (forum thread | mirror of the original Gitorious repository)
- LOWW: scenery pack by laserman
- LSGG: enhanced scenery by IAHM-COL and Firefly available via TerraSync - an osm2city version can be downloaded here
- LSZB: scenery pack by laserman
Charts:
- Austria: Austro Control eAIP site (choose "Actual version" -> "Part III - AD" -> "AD 2")
- Switzerland: Eurocontrol (free registration required) | vACC Switzerland (no registration; recent, but might not be the latest version)
- Pilots flying from/to LSZS (Samedan) should read the special pilot briefing to make themselves familiar with the peculiar approach procedures.
- France: SIA (choose the version of the AIP currently in force -> Part 3/Aerodromes -> Section AD2).
- Italy - Aviano: SkyVector (pointers to the Italian MIL AIP appreciated)
Flight plans: file them on Lenny's website. (Flight planning tutorial)
Repository: we will provide ground networks (to avoid starting on runways), route manager files (to let you enter updated SIDs/STARs in your autopilot) as well as OpenRadar files (for controllers). Get them from here (installation instructions are in the README file).
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Old editions:
Spring 2015 edition: May 2nd and 3rd, 2015
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Argentina/Brazil (SBRJ/SBGL and south)
See progress and feedback from this post onwards.
2014 edition: November 1st and 2nd, 2014
See the dedicated thread