The CIX VFR Club is a group of Flight Simulation enthusiasts who enjoy flying extremely realistic simulated light aircraft, chiefly around the United Kingdom, across a computer generated landscape made up of real photographs, and within an Internet community environment. We have around 700 registered members in 63 countries, which reflects the world-wide appeal of aviation simulation.
Latest News |
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Happy New Year to all our members and visitors to this site.
We look forward to you flying with us on our many events and
other activities. If you are visiting this site as a Flight
Simulation enthusiast, and have never experienced the challenges
of visual flight, dead-reckoning navigation and small aircraft,
why not join us. You can apply for membership on this
page.
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High Flight |
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Members very much enjoyed the challenges of flying small aircraft
around high mountains during our December Christmas Caper.
Author John Lygo had created a tortuous tour visiting a number
of small airstrips buried among the valleys of Papua New Guinea's
Bismarck, Owen Stanley and Gilbuna Ranges. Managing fuel/air
ratio with the mixture lever is critical to get the performance
needed to fly at altitudes sometimes above 11,000ft. The following
images show some of the members' flights. (Click
on the image below to scroll through the screenshots).
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Club Nights |
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The Club runs informal group flights on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays
at present. These are mostly tours of interesting
places with spectacular scenery, with the occasional
tricky landing thrown in. Whilst flying, members
enjoy informal chat and banter on our Teamspeak
channel, which makes these events very sociable.
New members are always very welcome on these tours,
and beginners are given all the help they need to get going.
The current tours are listed on the simple calendar
on the right. Commencing on Thursday January 9th we are running "workshop flights" for new members and new pilots to ease them into the world of on-line flying with other pilots and Air traffic Control. It's the ATC that gets new pilots all nervous, just the same as in the real world, and these sessions are designed to help overcome nerves. (Similar help is actually available on our other weekly flight nights, but Thursdays will concentrate specifically on getting new pilots airborne and comfortable in the on-line world). |
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January Event |
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In January, we are continuing the theme of flying
as high as it is possible in a light single engined
aircraft. This month we will be back in the UK,
with a short flight from Clacton to Norwich and
back. Howevetr, something goes wrong, so you will
need your wits about you! Checkout the Briefing
on the Monthly
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The Events for 2020 are now listed on the Monthly Events page. The briefing for January is also now available via the link on that page.
Hover the mouse over the Day to see the details.
More and more members are flying with X-Plane since the launch of Version 11. X-Plane is constantly being updated with new scenery, new and improved features. Starting in Autumn 2019, the Club's X-Plane experts are responding to this by creating new website material for X-Plane - tutorials, aircraft, tips and tricks from the world-wide user base. We hope to launch these pages in 2020.
We normally offer two flight training courses: - a basic "get
you flying" course and a comprehensive General Flying
Course, which is modelled closely on the real world
Private Pilots Licence course. However, one-to-one
training availability is currently limited, so we are
running "newbie help nights" on Thursday evenings
commencing January 9th starting at 19:00UTC. We guarantee
that these evenings will be relaxed, fun and informative.
Join in on TeamSpeak. Other Informal training on specific
topics can also be arranged. Just post a request on
the forum.
We can also run Radio Telephony courses, again modelled on
real world practice.
Click on the Training menu tab above for full details.
Throughout January 2020 Neville is updating the Club's military aerodrome data sheets.
Click on the icon above to see which of our club members are online now
If you would like to know more about what we do, please browse this site at your leisure. A summary of what we do and why can be found on this page.
