Our good ‘ole buddy Harry Linsenmayer has been appointed as FE at HCF, taking over where our previous FE, Israel Reyes, left off.

Having just earned his S2 rating, Harry is motivated and energetic to be a part of the HCF team and do his part to keep the inner works of HCF well lubricated and maintained.

Thanks to Israel Reyes in playing his crucial part at HCF and helping us keep Paradise sunny side up!

Congrats, Petey!

Congrats, Omer!

Quote from: Dillon Marshall on June 23, 2018, 11:44:56 PM

We will be staffing PHNL and PHOG, as well as other various airports.

Will it include PGUM?

Regards,

Aharon

No sir, just PHNL and PHOG.

Truer words were never spoken! Lol

Quote from: Krikor Hajian on July 03, 2018, 08:10:19 AM

Aharon,

It seems you're not reading through the details on the FAA's TFR page. Because there is a TFR does not mean that no aircraft may operate through that area. In this case, the TFR is valid from 2600'-20000'. The restrictions and requirements state;

No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM (except as described).
Except as specified below and/or unless authorized by ATC:

All aircraft entering or exiting the TFR must be on a discrete code assigned by an air traffic control (ATC) facility.

Aircraft must be squawking the discrete code at all times while in the TFR.

All aircraft entering or exiting the TFR must remain in two-way radio communications with ATC.

So, what this means, is if you wish to operate through the area defined in this TFR at 2600'-FL200, you must be talking to ATC and on a discreet transponder code. So if you're on an IFR flight plan, this is accomplished. If you're VFR, all you need to do is pick up flight following. So even if the TFR were being simulated, it would have a relatively minimal impact on pilots and certainly does not warrant avoiding that area of the island entirely.

Hope this helps clear things up.

To that point, we couldn't effectively simulate the TFR anyhow.  If a VFR target pops up and is doing his thing, I hope nobody is going to wallop him because of a TFR that has no bearing or impact on VATSIM :-)  I'm not entirely sure that it'd be against network rules in the first place.

And for that reason, we won’t.

Would any of you know if there is any international airport with such runway long enough for widebody planes to take off from for nice one hour or 90 minute flight to PGUM Guam international airport, please?

Regards,

Aharon

Ahron,

Those are rare flights out of Guam, considering the location! However, United does fly GUM to YAP, which is supposed to be about 1.7 hours.