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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.

FSNordic, in association with Virtual Finnair and virtualBlue1, are hosting the Helsinki-Vantaa RealOps Event, due to take place on the 25th May, 2008.

This Real Ops event consists of about 200 available flights, including all scheduled and charter flights. Provided by professional controllers, EFHK is of course fully staffed during the event and independent parallel approaches will be in use.

For each pilot we provide a flightplan via your e-mail. Now it’s the time to join this event and experience the summer in Finland

• 180+ Flights
• Fully staffed EFHK
• Parallel approaches

Virtual Skies has opened it’s doors with the promise of a more relaxed and friendly online flying experience for flight simmers:

Virtual Skies is a flight simulation netowork founded to provide dedicated, free and professional service to its members. We currently have regular events and competitions running, aswell as providing some of the best ATC avliable on the internet. We pride ourselves on flexibilty and are always open to ideas and suggestions from our members. Our global and divisional staff are dedicated to ensuring that your expierience flying with us will not only be professional, but also fun.

If you’d like to get online, but are a bit daunted by the existing systems, this could well be for you.

VATSIM has issued the following release regarding VAT-Spy 1.0:

VATSIM is pleased to announce the release of VAT-Spy, a traffic and ATC viewer application exclusively for the VATSIM network. VAT-Spy was developed by Ross Carlson, author of VRC (Virtual Radar Client), an ATC radar simulator for VATSIM.

VAT-Spy was closely modeled after ServInfo, a popular traffic and ATC viewer for multiple online flying networks. VAT-Spy’s feature set includes a few new items such as:

• Smooth panning and zooming on the world map.
• Most fonts and colors on the map are customizable.
• Multi-threaded for high performance and responsive interface.
• Map bookmarks allow you to save favorite views of the map.

In general, the goal for VAT-Spy was to mimic the primary functionality of ServInfo, while providing a more responsive user interface through the use of multi-threading, as well as smooth panning and zooming on the world map.

VAT-Spy is a Windows desktop application built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. To learn more about VAT-Spy, see some screenshots, and to download the application, visit the VAT-Spy
home page.