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MATS will be updated this week.
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Thanks Browny. I hope you have many successes.
Joel
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Congrats Tracy. Job well done! 👍
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Hi Chris,
Orbx and OZx are two different downloads. OZx is freeware that has many many little airfields.
If you have the available funds, I'd look into TrackIR. It's a small infrared device that tracks your head movement to simulate you looking around the cabin. I have it and never look back. Being able to simply look out you window, or down at the gauges and back out the front is invaluable.
Happy flying and see you on the VFR track!
Joel
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The CID SSO script can also return their region. If they region is Oceanic then you let the script pass. If not they need to follow the current conventions I would think
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Good evening all,
I would like to announce some restructure of the operations department.
Kurt D'Amico has been Deputy Director, Operations for a significant time and his contributions have been outstanding. Kurt is a pivotal senior staff member and will continue as VATPAC12 in a renamed Deputy Director, Policy. The DDP will continue to be responsible for VA Liaison as well as contributing to document development.
Peter Storey was previously the AIS Manager and tonight is elevated to Senior Staff as Deputy Director, Aeronautical Information. Peter's role in researching and developing the AIRAC releases in VATPAC is an essential role for the services we provide. Peter has been allocated VATPAC22.
The other team members of AIS are Eoin Motherway (Chief Information Officer), Sean Harrison and Ryan Steffe (Advisers).
Everyone please congratulate Peter on his appointment to VATPAC22!
Well done everyone and keep up the great work.
Joel Richters
Director Operations
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Just to add to the good question posed by Kirk. Canberra is not H24 and has an open and closed time. While the tower is manned the airfield is Class C. While the tower is not manned it is Class G.
This means if there is no Approach or Tower controller online, VFR aircraft are free to operate to an from without a clearance. An enroute controller should stipulate in their ATIS if they are providing top down services at Canberra. IFR aircraft should also give a departure call as if they were departing from any other unmanned aerodrome.
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There is currently no limit on the maximum number of sectors an en-route controller can extend coverage to.
There is, and it's 5, and then only in one circumstance.
The sector(s) you extend into have to be adjacent to your primary sector. One sector touches 5 others. Most of the others touch four or less.
Jackson
YNUL shares boundary's with 6 sectors
YBKE shares boundary's with 6
YISA shares boundary's with 7
Granted you would not try to cover all those sectors, and you would not have a vis range suitable to extend to those sectors.
If you cannot control the whole sector, then you can not extend to it. You are limited by the range of your visibility. You can only set 4 visibility points each with a range of 400nm*. So if this precludes you from controlling a whole sector than you cannot extend.
* although you can set visibility to 600nm, this will only effect the range you can see, not the range that pilots will be able to see you. If you want to know if a pilot can see you, set your range to 400nm and type ".showvis".
Joel Richters
Director Operations
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Just to remove confusion, I will clarify the policy regarding extended coverage by an enroute controller.
A Enroute (C1) controller or above when logged on to a standard sector may extend their controlling boundaries to any sector that has a common lateral boundary. There is no limit to the number of sectors that can be extended to. The only impost is that if a sector is being extended to, than the whole sector is to be controlled.
Joel Richters
Director Operations
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congrats Tim
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NOTAM 16JUL16 - WORLDFLIGHT 2016 PROCEDURES IN VATPAC AIRSPACE
1. INTRODUCTION
On 6 Nov 2016 at 0900 AEST, the WorldFlight group will commence their annual around-the-world flight. This will depart from Sydney (YSSY) for their first stop in Queenstown (NZQN).
The event will re-enter VATPAC Airspace in the early hours of 12 Nov 2016 en route to Alice Springs. It will then travel to Melbourne, Hobart and Canberra before its final leg to Sydney which will arrive at approximately 1850 AEST.
It is anticipated that significant traffic levels will be present along the routes to these locations. Past events have seen in excess of 200 aircraft on the first leg with the last flights departing Sydney over 2 hours after the official departure time.
This NOTAM will provide pilots with information about ATC requirements with regard to air traffic management. Pilots should endeavour to comply with these requirements to minimize delays and disruption.
2. PRE-DEPARTURE CLEARANCES
ATC may elect to issue pre-departure clearances instead of a normal airways clearance. This is only available to pilots of jet aircraft that have planned via the routes listed below. When pre-departure clearances are in use, pilots will be notified by ATIS, for example:
"PDC AVBL. ACFT IN RECEIPT OF PDC TO MNTN 5000FT AND DEPART VIA [iNSERT DEPARTURE]"
In order to reduce radio congestion, pilots of eligible aircraft shall contact airways clearance delivery by text only and request "PDC REQ" with the ATIS identifier. For example: "PDC REQ with INFO A". ATC will respond with one of the following:
"QFA25, RUNWAY 34L, SQUAWK 2034" (if PDC is AVLB)
or
"QFA25, PDC NOT AVLB, CONTACT ME ON 123.45" (if PDC is not AVLB)
Please note that ATC will not be actively checking flight planned routes for conformance. Pilots must not use this procedure unless they have planned via an approved route. Failure to do so will result in the clearance being invalid and may result in a loss of separation.
The following are the only approved PDC routes:
(a) YSSY-NZQN: DCT OPTIC Y84 TONIM P766 OMKIN P766 ADKOS DCT
(b) YBAS-YMML: DCT AS A461 LEC H119 ML DCT
© YMML-YMHB: DCT ML H169 CLARK W519 HB DCT
(d) YMHB-YSCB: DCT HB J163 MAKRL POLLI CB DCT
(e) YSCB-YSSY: DCT CB W423 CULIN Y59 TESAT DCT
If you were successfully issued a PDC, contact ground and request taxi.
3. SYDNEY AIRWAYS CLEARANCE DELIVERY
Two airways clearance delivery frequencies will be in use at Sydney. To balance radio traffic and workload, it is essential that pilots use the correct frequency for their parking location.
Aircraft parked west of Runway 16R/34L - use 133.80 MHz
Aircraft parked east of Runway 16R/34L - use 127.60 MHz
4. REPORTING "READY"
Pilots should not report "ready" to the Tower controller until:
(a) the aircraft is at or approaching the holding point for departure
(b) the aircraft is the first aircraft at the holding point
© the aircraft is configured such that the pilot can taxi the aircraft onto the runway and take-off without delay
5. AIRCRAFT CLIMB AND DESCENT SPEEDS
After departure, pilots of jet aircraft are expected to utilize either a standard, NADP1 or NADP2 climb profile. In any case, upon passing 3000 FT above aerodrome level, pilots are expected to accelerate to 250 KT or minimum clean speed (which ever is higher) without delay. Pilots should notify ATC immediately if they expect to deviate significantly from a normal climb profile.
On descent, pilots of jet aircraft are expected to descend at Mach 0.78 into 280 KT above 10 000 FT AMSL. Pilots must comply with Standard Terminal Area Arrival Speeds (STAAS) listed on STAR charts unless an alternative clearance is issued by ATC. Pilots must notify ATC immediately if they are unable to comply with STAAS or other speed restriction issued by ATC.
6. HOLDING FUEL
During legs within VATPAC-administered airspace, ATC anticipate a maximum airborne delay of 1 hour. Pilots should carry sufficient holding fuel to absorb this delay.
7. CONTACT
For operational matters, contact Joel Richters, VATPAC Director Operations, at [email protected]
8. DISTRIBUTION
This NOTAM is issued by VATSIM Australia Pacific (VATPAC) and shall be distributed via:
(a) VATPAC Forums
(b) VATSIM Forums
© WorldFlight Forums
9. CANCELLATION
This NOTAM self-cancels at 12 November 2016 2359 AEST.
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Updated to version 2
Remember meeting tonight at 8pm AEST to discuss airspace arrangements.
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The below roster is for Panic Stations Melbourne this Sunday 15 May 2016. The target time is 2130 AEST. All controllers will be required to meet on TS at 2000 AEST for a mandatory operations brief from myself. Please email [email protected] if you are not able to attend.
Enroute
Zach Biesse-Fitton ML-ELW_CTR
Joel Richters ML-SNO_CTR
Ryan Steffe ML-FLW_CTR
Eoin Motherway ML-HUM_CTR
Ryan McDonald ML-WON_CTR
Richard Quigley ML-YWE_CTR
Melbourne TCU
Wilson Stewart ML_APP
Jacob Holmes ML_DEP
Melbourne ADC
Tim Larkin ML_TWR
Theodore Pham ML_GND
Paul Tyquin ML_DEL
Reserve ADC controllers:
Matthew Cook
See you all for Panic Stations!!
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Very nice. Love it!
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I will be looking at the roster later this week. Depending on the applications I will advise by Friday if FLOW will be available during PS
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/jueahk8ab3ir8lj/VAT-Spy.rar?dl=0
Use mine, ive made a lot of my own changes also.
Hi Kirk, can you tell me what changes you made?
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Fsinn is the best in my opinion, if you can make it work. Have look through these forums and on the VATSIM forums for videos and tutorials to help set it up. Though failing this I would use vPilot.
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Why is there no passengers waiting in Brisbane?
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Maybe we should get the Air Force to shoot down offenders lol
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ENR 1.1 Paragraph 41.1.3:
Aircraft should not be operated in the circuit at an indicated air- speed of more than 200KT.
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Good evening all,
I have been working on diagrams for TMA's for pilots to reference. These are drawn to scale and include the airspace boundries, airspace levels and important restricted areas.
For those who don't know:
SFC: Surface
LL: Lower Level i.e. C LL 3500 means the lower level of Class C is 3500 and below this is Class G.
BCTA: Bottom of controlled airspace
CTR: Control Zone
Just a quick reminder...
Class A - FL180 and above. Only IFR aircraft can fly in Class A.
Class C - All pilots must request clearance from ATC and be assigned a squawk code
Class D - All pilots must request clearance from ATC when available. Standard squawk codes are given to VFR aircraft, unique codes are given to IFR.
Class E - IFR aircraft must request clearance before entering. IFR aircraft may depart into Class G, however clearance must be given BEFORE entering. All VFR aircraft require no clearance.
Class G - No clearance required.
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My issue is with the colour. The writting blends into the background, and its out of position on mobile devices
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Where is the like button
Updated VATPAC Virtual Airline Affiliation Policy
in News
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Hi all,
I would like to thank everyone who has participated and provided feedback to the updated VATPAC Virtual Airline Affiliation Policy. The updated policy can be found below. It will be updated on our website shortly.
Please contact either myself of Kurt for copies of the updated Affiliate logo.
Kind regards
Joel
160716_Virtual_Airline_Policy_v2.pdf