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SimFly.EU are hosting the “Ireland Alive” event this weekend.

You are invited to take part in the Ireland Alive event at SimFly.EU this Sunday from 12:00GMT/Zulu. During this event you will see the island of Ireland become alive with air traffic as well as a fully manned ATC service for all major Irish airports. If you are part of a virtual airline take the time to setup some routes so you can earn some money as we have it good authority that there will be many paxians awaiting transportation

How to take Part?

This is a multiplayer event that can also be used in conjunction with AFTS (Advanced Flight Tracking Service), if you do not know how to connect to SimFly.EU multiplayer services please read this page on the SimFly.EU website. All versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator are able to take part, full ATC coverage will be given, (don’t worry if your ATC skills are not too hot).

IVAO are running a “what if” scenario today at 20:00 UTC:

What if…Dominican Republic is an event designed to concentrate our efforts on a region considered to be an establishing division. While it is not a “grand opening” event that will guarantee a new division will be created, it is designed to stimulate the region with the hopes that new members will join the area and help form a new IVAO division. What if…is to give the IVAO members a sense of what it would be like if we had a full division in this region.

NYARTCC are organising a fly-in to New York, complete with prizes of free Imagine Simulation scenery packages.

The Major League Baseball All Star Game is coming to New York and that means that a LOT of air traffic is coming too. Join ZNY on July 13th from 2100-0100 zulu for a MLB All Star Game Event at LaGuardia Airport (KLGA) and Newark Liberty International Airport (KEWR).

Controllers

Sign up to control in the ZNY Forums.

Pilots

Click here to sign up to arrive at Newark Liberty International (KEWR)

Click here to sign up to arrive at LaGuardia Airport (KLGA)

Free scenery software from Imagine Simulation will be given away to lucky participants. Please visit their site and purchase some of their fantastic software as a thanks for supporting the flight simulation community.

This Saturday (28th June, 2008), IVAO will be hosting their Lisbon Airport Flight Operations Event.

The Event

The “Real Flight event” is designed to reproduce the real operations of a major airport around the world. In this case we will be reproducing the real operations of Lisbon Airport (Portela, LPPT) using “MS Flight Simulator”. The flights are scheduled using a real timetable of Lisbon Airport adapted to IVAO’s rules and operations.

How to participate

In order to be a part of this event, you should have MS Flight Simulator and a valid IVAO ID. If you still don’t have an IVAO ID you can register and get one for free HERE.After that you should use the “Open slots” page in the event website in order to check the free slots to choose from, and choose one of those flights. At last but not least turn on the Flight Simulator , connect IvAp and let’s fly. ATC users should use the IVAO schedule system in order to reserve a position for this event.

How does this event works ?

All pilots are allowed to choose a maximum of 2 flights, (1) one departure and (1) one arrival. At the begining the pilots should take look at the “Open Slots” page and choose the flights that he want’s. The “Event Schedule” page is to check the slots already reserved.

Information about the airport

IVAOPT provides all the pilots and ATC’s with charts and info about Lisbon International Airport. This information should only be used for Flight Simulator and not for real world operations. For more information please click HERE.

Awards for Pilots

All pilots that wish to participate on this event will be granted with a division award. In order to receive the award you should land or takeoff within a 15 +/- minutes time window between the slot time and the actual time. This check will be performed later by our staff.

The Scenery

For increased realism we recommend the use of the following sceneries

• Project Lisbon Photoreal (freeware)
• Aerosoft Lisbon 2008 (payware)

iEntertainment Network, the award-winning developer of the World Famous WarBirds TotalSims series, announced today that a brand new version of the massively multiplayer online simulation, WarBirds, has been launched. WarBirds 2008 has added Two New Terrains, Ten New Aircraft including the famous WW II British Lancaster bomber and the Modern A-67 Dragon Counter Insurgency Aircraft, new three screen graphics capability with Matrox TripleHead2Go hardware, over 50 new personal aircraft paint schemes so Players and Squadrons can personalize their aircraft, new cloud and weather features, and dozens of other major improvements to continue to improve the online combat flying experience of TotalSims.com WarBirds.

WarBirds has been called the best World War II combat operations game ever produced. The award-winning title allows players from around the world to enter a persistent online battlefield and take control of more than 120 different aircraft and vehicles, including fighter and bomber aircraft, tanks, or naval ships in realistic recreations of actual World War II combat.

This new update to WarBirds has added two famous terrains to the over 12 large flying terrains already available to players. The Atoll Terrain was made famous in the Fighter Ops Simulation which operated on AOL in the mid 90’s. The New Ardennes Terrain represents the location of the famous Battle of the Bulge of World War II and will be used for Great Tank Battles as well as air combat.

Ten new and updated aircraft with more than double the polygons and detail of previous aircraft have been added to the simulation. New aircraft include the Famous British Lancaster bomber, which accomplished the famous Dam Busters mission of the 617 Squadron and the proposed A-67 Dragon, Counter Insurgency Aircraft, from US Aircraft Inc., for use around the world in the War on Terrorism. Dragon Aviators can now operate the remote cameras and shoot Hellfire’s, Sidewinders, and drop JDAM bombs in all of IENT’s offline arenas. Also included is new Three Screen Graphics using the Matrox TripleHead2Go.

New players, with either PCs or Macs, can download and try WarBirds 2008 by going to http://www.TotalSims.com/ to experience the fun and challenge of real time, multi-player combat flying.