Hey!
Will the point count only for the arrival airport? Lets say I am flying from PHNL to KLAX, will I get 6 points?

Thanks in advance!
Bar Rodoy,
Vatsim Israel

You only receive points for the first landing in each center. In your example, flying HNL-LAX, you would only receive 1 point for your landing in LAX.

While the event does not dictate where you can fly, the spirit of the event is to experience as many controllers as you can that day 

VATUSA is excited to announce the return of Light Up America on Saturday May 30, 2015. This event will feature all 22 ARTCCs within VATUSA for 10 hours. 4 hours of which the entire continental USA will be lit up with Air Traffic Control at the Centers as well as Major Approach and Tower facilities. Enjoy uninterrupted ATC during the event. Simply fly between any airports as much you would like and enjoy the quality ATC Services that VATUSA facilities pride themselves on.

Every facility will be on for at least a 6 hour time frame with the East Coast facilities starting up at 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. As the event progresses, the additional centers will log on at noon in their local time zone. By 3:00 PM all the centers will be online for you. As the event winds down, facilities will be encouraged to remain online, but must remain online until at least 6:00 PM local time. As they begin to close down, we will extend the event even further west with the Anchorage, Honolulu, and Oakland Oceanic control facilities coming online to work your Hawaii and Alaska flights! It will be a great day of flying for you.

We have lots of prizes available to those pilots that do a bit of exploring around the country during the event.

Pilot Briefing and Contest rules can be found here http://tiny.cc/hjcnyx

Humbug.

If you're going for a clean restart then I would actually say neither. FS9 is starting to decompose in its grave and FSX is freshly buried.

Unfortunately for us, there are not many good options right now. X-Plane 10 is the most current public use simulator but it has its own problems and few developers have put an even fewer amount of product out there. P3D and P3D 2 are amazing engines, but are technically not for public use even though a loophole is getting massively exploited.

That being said, you are almost required to invest in an antiqued platform and FSX would be the one I choose. It was hard to walk away from FS9 myself, but today's entry level computers can handle FSX fairly well. The current crop of addons has reached and perhaps exceeded FS9 in terms of realism and quality, not to mention that most developers have abandoned the FS9 platform for future development. I'd say the old girl (FSX) has at least 5 years left in her.

Just for the record, I think it's actually Worldflight (http://www.worldflight.com.au)

Worldflight was a separate event from this.

This whole post has turned into a troll post, when I ONLY WANTED SERIOUS RESPONSES....

Allow me to be candid here. I'm not as nice as the others in this thread, but sometimes the truth needs to sting.

 Your first post raised a lot of red flags. There are many "ratings chasers" on the network who want to get that next rating because they think it's cool. Your first post raised that suspicion because you are disappointed that your facility did not select you as an instructor and that was the sole cause for transfer.  That is the telltale sign of a rating chaser.

All controllers that reach C1 are on the same level, and that includes those that have C3's back when they were awarded. ANY rating above C1/C3 is a temporary assignment that gives you special privileges on the network whether that be instructing, supervising, or admin. As other have said, it is a job to have those ratings not some mark of pedigree. An instructor has to double his VATSIM time or end up not controlling much at all because all of it is spent training new students. An instructor is subject to massive burnout after teaching the S1 rating material for the 500th time to a candidate that is not going to pursue the controlling side of the house. For every 30 S1 I put though as an instructor one or maybe two would reach the finish line as a C1. Talk about seeing return on your time investment.

So an instructor is a different breed, they have a great attitude, genuinely love the network, and want to see it and their student's succeed. They are not doing it just to click the I1 box on VRC.

So to be perfectly blunt. Maybe the reason you haven not been selected as an instructor is evidenced by your attitude to the very serious, helpful and cordial responses to your initial post. They are just not giving you the answer you want to hear. The best staff members and instructors are called to a position. The worst ones seek a position.

Back in 2012, a flight watch experiment was conducted. I am wondering if we could implement this or what the outcome was?

http://forum.vatusa.net/index.php?showtopic=3213

It went down in a huge fireball never to be discussed again.

Hello everyone,

I'm interested in getting some addons for FSX, I've done some basic google searches but I'm skeptical about some of the hits I've got. I've heard that with such a niche market, there's quite a few scams out there. So, I figured I'd come here and ask for your opinions about some trusted sites to get addons. At the moment there is a catch though, I just dropped $300 on hardware, so I'm mostly interested in decent free-ware products, but I will take pay-ware suggestions into consideration for the future.

I'm a computer science student, so programming is something I'm good at (editing sector files is easy, for example). However, I'm mostly involved in software development, I'm not a graphic designer/artist, so when people talk about meshes etc., it's a bit over my head. Any insight into what the addons are actually changing would be appreciated.

A few things I'm interested in/my play style:

• Weather - Better looking and currency (I.E real world)
• I fly mostly in Florida - With school taking most of my time, I enjoy short flights from KJAX to KMIA (and back), sometimes with stops in KMCO. Scenery for these airports would be nice, or is there a Florida package out there?
• Embraer ERJ-145 - Cockpit functionality/ability to start cold and dark. I've seen a video on the Feelthere product, it seems great. If I understand correctly, it comes with the 135/145/145XR. However, at €32.35 (from fsx-download, not sure if it's a good site), I'm only getting 3 new aircraft and it costs more than I paid for FSX (worth it?). I'm really only interested in the 145, is there a decent free-ware alternative?.
• Anything else you guys suggest - Free-ware or pay-ware.

I'm not asking for anyone to do the grunt work of searching sites with thousands of addons to find what I'm looking for. Like I said, I just need a point in the right direction to sites that you guys trust for this kind of stuff.

Thanks, as always!

-Rich

Weather - Active Sky Next
Airplane - Feelthere ERJ is not the greatest out there but it is your only option for that series. It's not awful bit there are better developers out there.
Scenery - MegaScenery Earth Florida complete state. Taxi2Gate KMCO. FlyTampa KMIA.
Other- anything by PMDG, FlightBeam, or FS Dreamteam.

Avoid - anything by blueprint