Chris,

[!--quoteo--][div class=\\\'quotetop\\\']QUOTE [/div][div class=\\\'quotemain\\\'][!--quotec--]Lee

Not sure what the communication issue is but we responded to you a while back and have had your request up on our site for a while now and our team is in place ready to staff it.

Chris LaSalle

ZJX ATM[/quote]

Ok, I received an email from you that was completely blank - no message in the email body at all!  I responded to that message stating that no text was evident in your email and so far have not had a reply to that.   However, if you have this all set, then don't worry about it - we are most grateful for whatever you are able to provide for us.

May I thank you and the team here at VATUSA for all your help.  I will post the final list of outbound departures here in this thread by Friday 17th OCT 2014 before 22:59z (17:00 Florida time).

Again, our sincere thanks.


Kind regards,

Lee James
Events Manager
British Airways Virtual

Hello, Lee!  Sounds like a great event.  My suggestion would be to contact the Jacksonville ARTCC Event Coordinator, Connor O'Brien, at o39brienconnor at yahoo.com.  You could also cc: the Jacksonville Air Traffic Manager, Chris Lasalle, at clasalle at aol.com

All the best for a great event!

Thanks Don!

Have emailed them as you suggested.  Let's hope we can get cover over KMCO as well!

Take care,

Lee

Brad,

Just want to thank you for coming online in time to bring us in to Las Vegas yesterday!

Neil and I had a pretty flawless flight from London with no issues at all!   I usually get something happen during a long haul (an OOM or a shutdown of some kind) but nothing happened and both Neil and I got some pretty choice video which will now be edited and uploaded to YouTube in the coming weeks.

Brad, we really appreciate you coming online for us - I know you seemed to get one or two newbies calling up yesterday who did not quite seem to know what they were doing!   I guess when a Controller comes on everyone wants a piece of him!

Anyway, we had a fantastic flight - and made the trip in 10 hours and 28 minutes.

Thanks again,

Kind regards,

Lee James & Neil Warman
Senior Captains
British Airways Virtual

[!--quoteo--][div class=\\\'quotetop\\\']QUOTE [/div][div class=\\\'quotemain\\\'][!--quotec--]Enjoy the nice long flight Lee![/quote]

Cheers guys!   Brad, Neil and I are skilled enough (is that the right word?) to handle whatever you want us to do.   Both of us have the FSDT Scenery for 'Vegas and will be flying FS2004 using Squawkbox for voice communication.   We are also both current with US procedures and have the current charts.

Its 06:52 UTC here now - takeoff in just over the hour.   Now prepping the aircraft.

See 'yer!

Lee

Hi,

UPDATE!    NEW DEPARTURE & ARRIVAL TIMES!  EDT-08:00UTC;  ETA-18:30UTC (10:30 Pacific Time)

( .... ADMIN - not sure exactly where to post this so please move if required .... )

As some of my virtual flying colleagues know, I stopped my virtual flying on 6th March for the duration of Lent - or in my case until 14th April 2014!   In support of my efforts, many of my flying colleagues at BRITISH AIRWAYS VIRTUAL, along with many others, have kindly made donations to the St. Catherine's Hospice in Crawley, West Sussex, UK both in person and online and then chosen a favourite destination from a list of 21 possibles, the most chosen of which I will be flying, along with my BAV colleague Neil Warman, in real time online with VATSIM.   The flight will be filmed and a video will be posted in YouTube in due course.

This post is to advise you that, not only has my "celibacy" now finished and I am now certified to fly again, but that the winning destination most voted for as the favourite was:-

[size=]LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA![/size][/color]  

The flight mentioned above will now take place this Saturday, 19th April 2014.   At 12:00z (13:00BST, 14:00 European Time and 05:00 Pacific Time), Neil will be taking off from London Gatwick EGKK in a British Airways 777-200 (callsign BAW4CW) and I will be taking off from London Heathrow EGLL in a British Airways 747-400 (callsign BAW9DV).   We hope to obtain the real world route on the day (amended for a Gatwick departure by Neil) and are now trying to arrange ATC on VATSIM out of Gatwick and Heathrow, enroute  and into the Las Vegas area, for the flight.

By way of this post, I would like to ask for any ATC available over the Los Angeles ARTCC area and Las Vegas Tower/Approach to be online around 3:55pm Pacific Time (22:59 Zulu) on Saturday 19th April for our arrival.

You guys are welcome to follow our progress or even join us on the day - and we also are happy to have anyone else who would like to donate in support of the St. Catherine's Hospice charity, to do so via the following link from our event page here:-

http://www.leejames.f2s.com/My_Website/LENT.html

Scroll down the page and click on the ST. CATHERINES link in the middle of the lower part of the page to go to the Hospice's donation page.   Minimum donation for our purposes and UK based pilots is one Pound (UK£1.00) or whatever you can afford in any of the currencies shown on the donation page.   If you do donate, please contact me with the amount donated using the email address shown on the page - the amount will only be used for calculation purposes and will not be disclosed publically.  

The total reached so far, which includes a £245 ($411) donation from Gatwick Airport, is:-

[size=]£575.00 (($966)[/size][/b]

Neil and I would like to say a big thank you to all who have supported us in this and for your kind donations to a very real charity that looks after people who are nearing the end of their lives, providing comfort and assistance as they reach the end.

Looking forward to seeing some of you online on Saturday and thank you for allowing me to post this!


Cheers,


Lee James
Events Manager & Senior Captain
British Airways Virtual

Neil Warman
777 Training Captain
British Airways Virtual