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Welcome to the next installment of Newbie Night. This event offers the chance for inexperienced members to take to the virtual skies and for experienced controllers and pilots to offer their expertise. Whether you are completely new to flight simulation or have been flying for years and never connected to VATSIM, it will be the night for you with plenty of people available to help on the VATPAC Discord. To Join the Discord visit this link. This event is for: - Newbie pilots who want to learn and gain confidence flying with live ATC. - Experienced controllers who are patient and willing to teach. - Experienced pilots who are patient and willing to share knowledge. This Week Fly between Coffs Harbour (YCFS) to Sydney (YSSY) to experience class C and D airspace as well as enroute airspace. The flight will depart around 0700z (1800 AEDT) with ATC requested/available until around 1100z (2200 AEDT). An example of procedures from a Class D airport in a non-radar environment to a Class C primary airport in a radar environment can be found here: https://forums.vatpac.org/pilots/tutorials/ifr-albury-to-melbourne/ Routes The following routes are recommended to fly from Coffs Harbour to Sydney based on real world operations. Jet aircraft: DCT CFS J70 CORKY H12 BOREE (Coffs Harbour is suitable for jets up to B738/A321 size) Non-jet aircraft: DCT CFS W214 OLTIN W180 TESAT ATC Positions Name Login Identifier Radio Callsign Frequency Coffs Harbour Tower CFS_TWR Coffs Tower 118.200 Brisbane Centre (Downs) BN-DOS_CTR Brisbane Centre 135.600 Brisbane Centre (Mudgee) BN-MDE_CTR Brisbane Centre 133.000 Sydney Approach North SY_APP Sydney Approach 124.400 Sydney Tower SY_TWR Sydney Tower 120.550 Sydney SMC SY_GND Sydney Ground 126.500 Charts Airservices Australia charts: https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/current/dap/AeroProcChartsTOC.htm Scenery Due to the many simulation platforms now in use, scenery is at the discretion of the pilot. NOTE: if you are running any simulator based on Microsoft's Flight Simulator X platform, due to the older navigation database Coffs may be known as YSCH rather than YCFS. This is its old ICAO code.