The Paris-Québec Fly-In
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 14:13 EST



The Paris-Québec Fly-In, celebrating the 400 years since Quebec City's birth, and also the second birthday of VATFRANCE. The event will be held on saturday, december 7, 2008, from 1300Z to 2100Z.

Come celebrate with us Francophonie and aviation. Fly the route between Paris-Charles-De-Gaulle (LFPG) and the Jean-Lesage airport in Quebec City (CYQB), your whole flight with ATC services provided in french, on both sides of the pond. Of course, english-speaking pilots are more than welcome to participate in the event.

Further information about this event is at http://www.vatfrance.org/joomlavat/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=171

Atlanta Live
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 14:12 EST



Don't miss out on the last Atlanta Live event of the year!

DATE: December 7th, 2008

START TIME: 6pm Eastern / 2300z
WHERE: KATL / Atlanta ARTCC

What is "Atlanta Live"?

Atlanta Live is an event that implements a real flight schedule for all flights in and out of the Atlanta area with real world ATC staffing and techniques. This includes some of the scheduled general aviation and executive transport flights. It doesn't get any better than this as ZTL controllers push the Atlanta airspace to the max, pumping traffic in and out as fast as they can!

Don't miss out on the last Atlanta Live before the new year.

For more information http://vztlartcc.org/pages.php?p=AtlantaLive.

VATPAC - SouthEast Shockwave 6-7 Dec 08
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 18:28 EST



VATPAC will be holding their next major event on the weekend of 6th-7th December 2008. The event, titled SouthEast Shockwave, will see contiguous en-route coverage in an arc running from Brisbane in the north to Adelaide in the South. All enroute centres and underlying approach services at major airports along this arc will be manned.

The event promises to provide a full spread of air traffic control services over the most populated portions of Australia and covers the busiest airspace in the country. The event will be conducted over two sessions, the first will be between 2300 UTC and 1100 UTC (1200 - 2400 AEDT) on Saturday 6th December 08 and the second between 0300 UTC and 1100 UTC (1400 - 2400 AEDT) on Sunday 7th December 08.


For more information http://vatpac.org/panic/SoutheastSW/.

Squawkbox 4 Open Beta Now Available
Posted Sunday, August 24, 2008 22:22 EST

Brian Gefrich and Joel DeYoung are pleased to announced that after a long wait, a public beta of SquawkBox 4 is now available to try on the VATSIM network. This version of SquawkBox works with Flight Simulator 2002, 2004 and FSX. It has been tested on Windows XP and Vista. Download this latest beta version and help find and resolve the last outstanding bugs.

The main Squawkbox site can be found here:

http://www.squawkbox.ca/

Please use the Squawkbox forums to report or discuss any issues:

http://www.squawkbox.ca/forum

The following issues are already known to occur:

- Transponder module may toggle to "ACTIVE" when connecting to a server, regardless of current setting. You may still set the transponder to STANDBY mode after the connection is made.
- Switching your sound device in the settings while receiving a voice transmission can cause crashes.

Download the SB4 open beta via one of the links found here:

http://squawkbox.ca/downloads

Taking R&D from Virtual to Reality
Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 6:37 EST

Can a fun, virtual air traffic simulation game translate into “tried and true” research and development? CAASD is exploring the possibilities through a partnership with the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (VATSIM), a global aviation community on the Internet avid about flight simulation. VATSIM is comprised of over 100,000 registered users consisting of pilots, air traffic controllers, and new users interested in learning about online flight simulation and air traffic control. The network offers CAASD an opportunity for concept exploration and validation within the research and development (R&D) community that has yet to be explored. Says Principal Software Systems Engineer Frank Sogandares, “We hope to conduct virtual future National Airspace System (NAS)-level and global simulations with the group. These simulations can offer better insights into how aviation systems behave as operational changes are introduced.”

To read the complete article, please visit :
http://www.mitrecaasd.org/comm/news_details.cfm?item_id=645