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    VFR night should be more realistic

    in Other Events Discussion

    Posted · Edited by joe m - 1323221

    gday.

    i like your idea as ONE way the VFR flyins could be planned.

    'in the real world' flyins happen exactly in the way you critique.

    it is ONE way that group flying might be planned.

    one aircraft must go first necessarily. others must follow, necessarily.

    then pilots must manage and plan their flight to fit in with others.

    sometimes this is straightforward other times it requires more planning.

    almost all flyins i have done 'in the real world' proceed in this way. we are

    all flying a similar route in the same direction and if that does not require

    good planning ask ATC and pilots in the Monday night milk run.

    especially when we are all arriving at destination within minutes and then

    someone decides that blasting in at 140 kts with others at 110 kts will get

    them in before that slowcoach holding everyone up. these flyins are

    in interesting country - it's VFR, that is the point, not at 34000 feet where

    the view is very different. the busy situations you describe are only

    encountered in particular places. VFR flyins are for the situation, the view,

    VFR planning and flying experience.

    radio calls are by necessity 'bog-standard' after all, that is why they are

    standard radio calls. they come third in aviate, navigate, communicate.

    we are not in the circuit for very long compared with the overall flight.

    it is only a part of the VFR flyin experience.

    happy flying VFR.

    regards

    joe

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    Wilkes-Barre KAVP flyin Wednesday 0900

    in General

    Posted · Edited by joe martin

    if you are looking for some online + other pilots flying Wednesday 25 0900

    there is a flyin at KAVP - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton [USA] with  the 

    Virtual USA Flying Club   http://www.discord.gg/hutMwWR

    if you can fly in USA airspace. 

    there will be TWR + APP ++ [but you can avoid that and listen out if you prefer]

    this is a good way to get more familiar with USA airspace.

    as with our VATPAC VFR events you can set daylight and fair weather

    or IFR is okay for this one too.

    briefing is at 0900 AEST.

     

     

     

    saturday, sunday, afternoon flyin

    in General

    Posted · Edited by joe martin

    gday. I am planning a short Saturday or Sunday afternoon VFR flyin [90 mins].

    ·         we are flying for the view and the company, suggest 140kts max.

    ·         remain below CTA steps, mindful of their boundaries

    ·         use CTAF frequencies with 10 nm of airfields, Centre if available and needed by the pilot, monitor 122.8

    ·         use VATSIM weather as is, a ‘fair weather’ setting [not sky clear] if not VFR

    ·         communication on Discord voice channel

    fly outbound, land, boil the billy, return via (mainly) different route

    if you find such a flyin congenial please leave a PM.

    joe

    bending the weather

    in General

    Posted · Edited by joe martin

    on the contrary Sean, 

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    Pilots are encouraged to use VATSIM weather whenever possible.  Just makes things easier especially at events or busy airports.  

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    All interactions with ATC they will assume you are using VATSIM weather, [...]

    are pretty good responses. my ground controller this morning was very obliging to the few of us who flew SVFR and it was a good lesson in 'the special VFR flight will not unduly delay an IFR flight' as we were placed in hold at takeoff and orbiting at the class D boundary waiting for IFR flights.

    another question is time, for if we are not to bend time ,a lot of us would only be flying in the dark.

    thanks

    joe

     

    bending the weather

    in General

    Posted

    at an airport when vatsim wx is IFR, full overcast, steady rain, and a VFR pilot bends

    the sim to fair wx, how does ground and tower work with that? i mean, is it a pain?

    vfr ops bend the wx if it is officially not vfr but that is very often OCTA.

    had a great time flying out of Dubuque, Iowa this morning where the controller

    offered SVFR. a few other small aircraft flew in as well. it was very interesting

    once on the ground and with the wx set via active sky watching a vfr flight

    asked to hold while ifr traffic completed an instrument approach. i do not

    usually bend the wx unless it means not being involved in an event. one could

    fly ifr of course but that's cheating.

    New Simmer wanting ATC/Pilot Procedural training!

    in Pilot Training

    Posted · Edited by joe martin

    BUT ...

    don't read 'everything' before you get online and actually fly. do some VFR flights OCTA

    with ATC active and you flying beneath the steps or going around the control areas

    especially in areas that you know - all the while you will be listening 

    to the frequency, the talk, soaking up the atmosphere.

    remember that even a totally new pilot does not just read 'everything' before they

    take their flying lessons. there is a lot to understand and it needs an active flying context.

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    QNH and 1013

    in General

    Posted · Edited by joe martin

    @Blair Shaddocki have been away flying and of course that has sent me down some other rabbit holes but flying to get a handle on what is happening with QNH setting in FSX with only the network and with active sky. For example only the network and a controller says 1019 - set that, and the altimeter reads 100 ft on the ground at Sydney. But of course QNH is not always 1013. But the b key will make it so. 

    Discord practical session

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    Posted

    gday. would someone [older pilot] who is not familiar with all the buttons in Discord

    like to do a practical session? we could try out the buttons and things so that we

    might use the program better. it is straightforward, i suppose but sometimes

    being able to do things and see the result is more instructive than reading about it.

    joe

    QNH and 1013

    in General

    Posted

    ah, another variable Paul! probably not. i have done a sim redo the past week

    and checking Active Sky now i find that Live Weather was not set.

    tell me more 🙂

     

     

     

    IFR Flight Planning in Australia

    in Pilot Training

    Posted · Edited by joe martin

    @David Zhong

    @Russell Diehl

    "

    The DCT is technically required under ICAO standards.

    The departure airport is technically the first point on the route and it is technically a requirement to insert some sort of route between the airport and the next fix, whether that be an airway, SID or DCT.

    "

    David's instruction led me to a review of route description in AIP. the DCT bookends which have always seemed

    a bit strange now make perfect sense. we have named our DEP and DEST in the flight plan and now we

    enter our ROUTE. the route is the plan between DEP and DEST. so, from AIP, ENR 1.10-26

    first example is DEP [route] DEST - YAUR DCT YPMP - the DCT is the only item needed in the route.

    further down there is YBBN DCT LAV H62 CORKY H12 BOREE DCT YSSY which includes a SID and a STAR

    and the DCT is the 'some sort of route between the airport and the next fix' .

    parsers allow us a bit of flexibility [thank goodness] but at least i now know what's with the bookends.

     

     

    QNH and 1013

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    @ Liesel Downes - i had wonderful flight early this afternoon - thanks to a great app controller - down the coastal route out of Sydney.

    check Sydney ATIS which says 1013. Blogs is using Active Sky which reports 1025. [currently NOAA says 1016, VATSIM 1016, 

    AS 1025] 

    " if the QNH in your simulator's conditions doesn't match the QNH in the ATIS or whatever the controller gave you, which could result in the altitude in their scope not matching the altitude in your sim (ignoring radar update times lol). Just make sure the QNH from the B key isn't too far off from what the weather on VATSIM is too "

    so here was an example of your teaching.

    two ways to go then. turn off Active Sky or set 1013, which is what i did. my obliging controller confirmed my altitude.

    so what was the weather? brilliant for a Sunday afternoon fly down the coast.

     

     

     

     

     

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