Cross Platform Cross Community Christmas Group Flight

[ATC_ROO]

Cross Platform Cross Community Christmas Group Flight 2016
Saturday the 17th of December at 20:00z
EET Rovaniemi 17th December 2016, 22:00:00
CET Paris, 17th December 2016, 21:00:00
UTC/Zulu London 17th December 2016, 20:00:00
EST New York, 17th December 2016, 15:00:00
CST Mexico City 17th December 2016, 14:00:00
MST Edmonton 17th December 2016, 13:00:00
PST Los Angeles 17th December 2016, 12:00:00
AEST Brisbane 18th December 2016, 06:00:00
JoinFS IP: roo.servebeer.com
Teamspeak 3 IP: xmas.maldair.com
Start airport ICAO: EFRO.

FULL DETAILS HERE!

[Karl]

Rats, working that day :upset:

[ATC_ROO]

Pull a sicky
Plus even though you might miss the main group flight, I would have thought the event may still be going when you get home.

[Karl]

Pull a sicky
Plus even though you might miss the main group flight, I would have thought the event may still be going when you get home.

Given that I work 48 hour shifts, I doubt it. I think the 17th is my 1st day. Maybe it will be slow and I can just hang out on the computer

[ATC_ROO]

I've been that busy promoting this with other groups I've neglected us a little.
Are their many MSFLIGHTees (besides myself) that think they'll be able to attend?

[Pops0]

Thanks for all your work! Hoping to attend, all depends on my family workload.

[ROBERT DUNN 2]

I'll be there come hell or high water, possibly unconfigured and scrambling. If you all check the doppler and forecast for Pacific northwest U.S. and lower mainland British Columbia, high water warnings are issued for my final drive (26,000 GVW box truck again) leaving Seattle for Las Vegas on Dec. 1st. Hell has agreed to a continuance of negotiations until after the first of the new year.

[ATC_ROO]

Good luck bob.

[bradogilvie]

I may be able to attend, I will hopefully be flying in an Electra

[ATC_ROO]

I'm going to be AFK for a few days due to real world stuff, so I apologise if I don't reply to any questions during this time.

I'm being inundated with emails asking about this event, so if people pop by here looking for me please let them know I'll be back at the end of the week.
Please do hammer the test JoinFS server (stable version) I have running so potential problems show up before the day.

[Novawing24]

I've put a plug for it in the NovaWrap last week and this week so hopefully we should see some old and new faces alike joining us on the day

[ATC_ROO]

Thanks Nova.
I'm hoping to put the final email together tonight with connection details and general info.
I'll post a copy here when it's done.

But full details can now be found on the webpage at the start of this post anyway.
Please spread the word to anybody you think may not know about this.
There are lots of aviation communities that aren't well advertised hiding away in nooks and crannies on the Internet.
Other than that we are ready to go.

[ATC_ROO]

As I mentioned above here is the email I have just sent.

I hope to see MSFlights represented by as many of us on the day as possible.

Firstly this is the last email I will be sending people regarding this flight, so you can now add me to your spam folder if you wish





The 8th Cross Community Group Flight will be taking place this coming Saturday at 2000z.


You and your group are invited, but don't feel too special as everybody else is also invited.
If you manage a group please do remind your members as I know this has crept up on people slightly, especially with Christmas around the corner.


This event has had an extremely large amount of interest and I'm expecting at least 60 people on the day, some believing that 100 or more may likely attend.


For those who have not heard of these flights before it's a chance for different flight simulator communities to get together for a short time and discuss aspects of our hobby with people you may not have met before.


This event is Christmas related as the big man isn't too far away and so has a Christmas related theme with airports based in Lapland.
Christmas themed Callsigns are very very welcome during the ATC part of the event.


By now you should be ready to get going but in case you're not and have yet to try it all out, connection details for the test setup can be found on the event information page.
http://roo.servebeer.com/cccgf.html


****Details for the day!*****


JoinFS IP =roo.servebeer.com (or 195.147.167.227)


Teamspeak 3 IP = xmas.maldair.com

IMPORTANT!
1. Please DO NOT tick the Auto Broadcast feature in the JoinFS client.
Ticking this may (or may not) duplicate aircraft in the session causing a mess.

2.In your simulator please set your Tail Number only.
Leave the Airline Callsign set to none and the flight number blank.
You can input a Callsign in to the Tail Number field such as BAW123 or a reg such as N1234.
ATC will only see the Tail Number on radar so if you set the Airline Callsign and Flight Number fields, ATC will not see this but will see a random Callsign and Flight Number.
The next ATC would see a different Callsign and Flight number resulting in you being called all kinds of things by ATC.

Besides having FUN they are the only two important things.

JoinFS
The latest Stable version of JoinFS will be used.
The stable version on the day is likely to be a different stable version to that available now, due to it being constantly updated.
But don't worry!
If you download the stable version now and it does get updated, the program will let you know that there is an update when you next open it.

Teamspeak

Maldair.com have kindly offered us their Teamspeak server for the day (thanks Tim).
The address above is the one to use on the day and you can join it at anytime from 1900z onwards.
When you join the Teamspeak server you may want to add a fictional trigraph before your name to associate yourself with your group.
For Example: I'm a member of MSFlights so my name in TS would be [MSF] ATC Roo, or [RAF] ATC Roo if I'm a member of the RAF group, or [AVA] ATC Roo for American Virtual Aviators.
I made those 2 up but you get the picture I'm sure.
There will be a very very very short flight breifing before the group flight so that everybody is on the same page, please do join Teamspeak as early as you can.
The departure time for the flight is 20:15z but some slower aircraft may get airborne slightly before that time, this is to try and keep the group together as much as possible during the flight.


All that is left to say is...
Please setup and test before the day.
Please remind your group that the event is this coming Saturday (Sunday for you Aussies)
and if there are any questions not answered in this email or the event page please do drop me an email.

Speak to you on Saturday,

ATC Roo
MSFlights.net

[ATC_ROO]

Well it looks like we're all set.
Phew...
I've had confirmation from lots of different groups.
Some fly old warbirds, some GA, some big tin and some specialise in ATC.
Whilst some pilots operate to real world procedures and have various realworld licences and others have just realised what an ILS is.
It will be a good old mix on the day, until then I'm putting my feet up and having a beer.

It's going to be a busy event.

[N85988]

I just want to take a moment and thank everyone responsible for putting this event together and those who supplied the servers to make this event happen. I had a really great time. I was amazed by how many showed up for this event. Thanks to everyone who took controller positions to add to the fun. I'm looking forward to the next cross-community event. Happy Holidays.