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.
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With the coronavirus lockdown enforcing us all to stay indoors, we invite any and all Flight Simulator enthusiasts who have never experienced the challenges
of visual flight, dead-reckoning navigation and small aircraft, to join us. We run tours and events most evenings of the week, and you can also often find members online during the day. You can apply for membership on this
page.
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Tiger Team |
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The Club has established several group activities, and featuring prominently among them are our Aerobatic and Display Teams, dubbed "2-4-CIX" ( Hard "C" as in "Cat" Not soft "C" as in "Circus"). One of the teams is the "Tigers", a display team of anything from three to nine Tiger Moths in the Club's distinctive display team livery. Display flying involves challenging manoeuvres, often in close proximity to other aircraft, so the Tigers fly mainly fly simple formation patterns for members new to display flying to devolop these exciting skills. Some then go on to fly more advanced manoeuvres with our Chipmunk of CAT teams. To whet the appetite of visitors to our site, here is a short video showing off our Tigers prowess. If you are a visitor to this site and fancy joining them, or any other Club activity, simply apply for Club Membership here. |
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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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June Event |
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June's event celebrated the 100th birthday of our
most Senor member - a man who saw service in World
War two as a Merchant Navy radio operator and learned
to fly in the 1960s at Woodvale. He was one of
the earliest private pilots to gain a full Instrument
Rating, and flew regularly both in the UK and in
the USA. Members departed Woodvale RAF station,
where John learned to fly in 1961 and fly a crosscountry
tour as close to 100 nautical miles as they could. Member
Ben King won the day, flying 103.2nm. |
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July's event is once again a visit to Oskosh in the USA, the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual gathering, which, you will be unsurprised to learn, is not talking place this year. We can still run a virtual version! The Briefing is on the Monthly Events 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 later in 2020.
We welcome our new Chief Flying Instructor, Max Symons.
Max has been a member for many years, running our 2-4-CIX
display teams. He has now taken on this additional role.
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.
Neville Munro's UK airfield datasheets were updated again in July.
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.