Briefing | Monday 23rd-29th June 2014 |
Overview | June's event, produced by our own Ken Greer involves a flight around the south coast and Kent to spot some of England's famous castles and forts. It will require VFR scenery such as Generation X, Just Flight or the freeware Tileproxy. No additional scenery is required for this event. |
Start Time and Place | The event will take place between Monday 23rd and Sunday 29th June. You can fly this event when ever you would like but a group flight is scheduled for Thursday 26th June from 1900 local time (1800 UTC). The start location will be Shoreham (EGKA) and after your flight you will end up at Biggin Hill (EGKB) |
Weather ...or not | Before starting we will check the weather. If it is unsuitable for our trip as planned, then we will fix it. Something we can do in the simulator - wouldn't it be nice if we could do it in real life! FSInn has a "CAVOK" button. Click this and you get calm clear weather. Those using SB will need to turn off the on-line weather updates, and select calm in the FS weather options. |
Flight Planning | So the layout of the event is as follows:
Your flight plan for the West Plan should show: A Plan-G file and information about the castle you will be spotting during the route can be found here |
ATC | At the time of publishing this event plan, ATC has not been confirmed. |
Radio Discipline | Take care not to let our Teamspeak chat cut across ATC. Stop any conversation immediately the R/T comes alive, then continue if "he wasn't talking to us". This is difficult because when transmitting on Teamspeak you can't hear the R/T. So be brief on Teamspeak, and be aware that ATC might be trying to get through. If anyone hears an R/T message which seems to be being ignored, just say "ATC is calling G-CIXN" if you have identified the callsign, or "ATC is calling us" which is a cue for everyone to be quiet on Teamspeak until ATC call again (which they will). Remember too that if asked to "Stand By" by ATC, you do not reply - not even "Roger", but simply wait until you are called again. Remember also that there are several different ATC frequencies in use, and you may not be able to hear when communications are taking place. Make sure you have set and know how to use a Teamspeak mute switch. |
Acknowledgements | Event planning:Ken Greer Briefing:Ken Greer and Edward Warnell. |