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General Discussion / Capt Sim 757

« on: April 01, 2010, 03:56:17 PM »

Ok...I finally broke down and bought my first payware airplane. The Capt Sim 757. The 757 is my favoriate airplane to fly in so I figured what the heck...its on sale.

Based on all the reccomendations from people "everyone" said I had to buy this airplane. I have to agree....its great.

The only down side is the manual. I am having a hard time really learning where everthing is. Anyone know of some other good training resources for this airplane?

Thanks!

General Discussion / Many Thanks

« on: March 21, 2010, 02:39:26 PM »

I just wanted to take a moment and send a public "thank you" to VATSIM supervisor Mike Sweeney for helping out vZME last night.

Atlanta was hosting their very popular Atlanta Live event. As their next-door neighbor, Memphis saw a large spike in traffic within our airspace as we provided en-route services onto the ATL arrivals.

I have never seen so much traffic showing up on my scope and apparently neither had my computer...as I struggled to maintain a connection to the network. I tried many different servers to no avail.

Mike gave me some great pointers on how to massage my visibility range and center to exclude the lion's share of the traffic inside ATL's airspace that I didn't need to know about. After a series of adjustments between visibility range and center, I was able to find the right combination that only included a small overlap of neighboring ARTCC's and only included my heavy traffic load.

With upset pilots, a disgusted, stressed and annoyed controller (me) sometimes the easy solution just slips right past you.

Thanks Mike. These pointers really helped and made my connection for the rest of the night more stable.

General Discussion / One Six Right

« on: March 21, 2010, 02:03:19 PM »

There are a few good ones on You Tube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dp-CYggiSI

General Discussion / Who is the final authority?

« on: March 13, 2010, 11:03:26 AM »

Quote from: Scott DeWoody

If you are referring to threads that create some thought provoking questions/ideas and you don't like or agree with them, my recommendation is just not to read them.

Thought provoking is good! It is just when thought provoking turns into a broken record. And, yes...not reading them is an option that I often take advantage of.

General Discussion / One Six Right

« on: March 12, 2010, 02:17:33 PM »

I just noticed that the great aviation documentary "One Six Right" has been added to HuLu.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/118168/one-six-right

This is just a great movie on not only the history of KVNY but general aviation in general.

General Discussion / Who is the final authority?

« on: February 22, 2010, 06:01:27 PM »

As a staff member, I try to keep "current" by seeing what is going on the in the world of VATUSA by reading the forums. I think I am going to remove that from my VATSIM routine.

I work to run Memphis how I think it should be run. I follow the rules as presented and work to make Memphis a kick ass ARTCC. If I have a question I ask someone. NO one has ever said "Matt, you can't do that cause you are in violation of blah blah blah"

These tired topics get old...really old. Don't we all have better things to do than have the same discussion over and over again?

General Discussion / Check-In Responsibility

« on: February 11, 2010, 11:59:25 AM »

Quote from: Tom Flanary

However, I think you have a VATSIM success story on your hands. I started VATSIM when I was 13. I was a pilot first, then a controller. I fell in love with controlling. When I graduated High School, I went to Embry-Riddle. When I stepped foot into my classes, I was already an I1 on VATSIM, and while I didn't know absolutely everything, I knew 99%. All of my ATC courses I took, I was miles ahead of my classmates, who were just learning the ATC material for the first time. Got an A on every test without studying, and graduated with a degree in Aeronautics and minor in ATC. Now, I'll be working for the FAA soon as a controller, and I strongly believe that VATSIM had a major part to do with that. So when I teach my controllers, I teach them like I'd want to be taught, with realism and being true to the real thing. And 99% of them eat it up. I'm not one of the only one of these ATC zealots that have gone to the FAA. EZ from ZLA, Marc Sykes, and many other guys that I know. And personally, I couldn't of done it without VATSIM.

As a flight instructor...I think this is just great. We strive for this type of enthusiasm and this is how we "breed" the next generation of pilot, ATC or whatever. Getting someone interested in aviation as a career path has been tough. There are many many reasons for this...really beyond the scope of this thread. But, in any event...Tom, thank for sharing this story.

The Classroom (Controller Tips) / Runway RVR

« on: February 09, 2010, 07:57:30 AM »

Great tip! I can't tell you how many times I have heard controllers struggling with this. RVR is a great piece of info...and a required piece of info if shooting a CAT2 or higher approach.

Matt Fuoco
vZME DATM

General Discussion / PIREPs

« on: September 29, 2009, 08:23:42 PM »

I was curious what everyone's take on PIREPs is. Does anyone try to incorporate real reported PIREPs into any flight advisories for pilots? The NOAA ADDS site has access to all of the PIREPS that are submitted by pilots. While yes I know a lot of pilots within VATSIM may not have adequte weather rendering engines to take advantage of the real world weather..often pilots want to give me a PIREP which is great...but other than write it down for me...it really adds no value to the network as a whole. This kinda got me thinking.

Has any thought been put into a PIREP system for VATSIM? Something that would integrate with the various radar clients I think would increase the level of realism that is provided to the pilots (and controllers).

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