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General Discussion / Re: Holding PTT Switch Down Long Enough
« on: November 26, 2019, 12:04:17 PM »
Three full seconds is most certainly a bit of overkill.  With the old voice system it didn't matter since simultaneous transmissions would simply merge, and the next one would be heard over the extraneous dead-air (or, really, it wouldn't be, because it would still be buffering with that insipid delay, lol).  But a "quick three-count" is probably okay.  If anything, you get that 0.1 seconds of block tone as the two transmissions overlap slightly, which I personally find kind of badass.

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Events / Re: Live From the WYNDE City: 0000Z-0400Z
« on: October 18, 2019, 10:05:23 PM »
You guys really brought out an all-star cast tonight.  Great job.  My own sim crashed out enroute, but, I stream-hopped the rest of the night and heard nothing but truly outstanding service.

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General Discussion / Re: Holding PTT Switch Down Long Enough
« on: October 17, 2019, 06:48:11 PM »
Great advice, Shane.  In the transportation shop I used to work at, we trained our drivers to mentally add the word "click" to the beginning and end of their message while keying and unkeying.  "(click) 315 to base, Silver Spring tally 36, 8 minutes late. (click)"

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General Discussion / Re: New World Series Event
« on: September 09, 2019, 05:35:35 PM »
That one's going to be a bit harder because we won't know until very close to the event which two teams will be involved in the World Series, and, we need to coordinate with the ARTCCs which host those areas & hope they can pull the necessary staffing together to pull it off.  So, it will be a tough one to wrangle together, but, not impossible.

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Events / Re: [July 20, 22:00-01:00Z KOSH] VatVenture 2019
« on: July 22, 2019, 01:49:42 PM »
Quote from: Ben Speidel on July 21, 2019, 10:38:44 PM
P.S. I'm a fan of the Class D events for Wisconsin you've been doing within Chicago Center.  I like the opportunity to fly GA to the locations less traveled on the network.
Sadly I had to work this past Saturday, but, I wanted to jump in & "second" this last bit!

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Events / Re: [19 July 2019 2300-0400z] Greater Detroit 2019
« on: July 20, 2019, 04:50:53 AM »
Glad to hear it!  Two people in succession keyed up and said "WWOOOWWWW" as though they'd heard me say something they thought was rude.  Maybe they were reacting to something on text that I didn't see.  Pleased to know I was just being paranoid!

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Events / Re: [19 July 2019 2300-0400z] Greater Detroit 2019
« on: July 19, 2019, 11:03:14 PM »
If Benjamin Matthews is reading this, or if someone reads this that can pass the message:

While I was flying in the Lake Erie area tonight, I made a remark over my livestream that seemed like it drew a reaction over the ATC frequency.  I might be just being paranoid about a coincidence, but, if my remark did come over the channel somehow, I just wanted to apologize.  I was attempting to express amusement about the situation that occurred, but I'm sure that if it did come over the channel, out of context it probably sounded like I was annoyed or rude or both.  I was surely NOT annoyed, but if I was rude, it was completely unintentional and I'm very sorry if it was taken that way.

Thanks for the great service, and if I did owe you that apology, I hope it's accepted.

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General Discussion / Re: Ground Control (View-Only) via iPad
« on: July 14, 2019, 07:15:19 PM »
If it would require you to make a separate connection to VATSIM in order to use it, it would be against the Code of Conduct to use it at the same time as your ATC or pilot client.

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News / Re: Cleveland ARTCC has a new Facility Engineer!
« on: July 06, 2019, 08:47:08 PM »
Let's all congratulate him by making him feel old as dirt.

... wait; too late

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Events / Re: Padres vs Rockies FNO [23:00-4:00z]
« on: May 11, 2019, 01:04:38 AM »
My sincerest apologies to all of the controllers who worked the event tonight.  i suffered a very unfortunate glitch with "swift" and wound up spamming the Guard channel repeatedly until I figured out what was going on.

At one point I recieved a PM from a friend who was online as a pilot.  When I responded, that response went over COM2 for some inexplicable reason.  Unfortunately, it was set on 121.5.  All of the ensuing PMs that I then got from controllers & a SUP, I was able to answer via PM -- but when I tried typing back to my pilot friend it just went over COM2.  Once I finally figured it out I (a) tuned COM2 to another frequency and (b) gave up trying to PM my friend back.

Proof is here if you don't believe me:
https://youtu.be/w9964VqNabo?t=8740

Apologies again.  I know it was disruptive, and I know I wound up looking like an idiot.

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General Discussion / Re: Most scenic US flights?
« on: May 10, 2019, 01:10:19 PM »
Quote from: Brad Littlejohn on May 10, 2019, 11:43:27 AM
Let's answer that question with a question: How daring do you want to be?
As daring as I can given the takeoff and landing performance limitations of a Beech Baron.

Thanks for the recommendations, Brad.  The Intergalactic Spaceport sounds interesting, as well!

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General Discussion / Most scenic US flights?
« on: May 10, 2019, 06:39:38 AM »
ZSE's "Fly the Gorge" event a couple weeks ago got me thinking -- where are some other really scenic flights one can make in the US?  Obviously there's the Grand Canyon, the Manhattan skyline, the various resort airports around Colorado, the Florida Keys -- maybe around Mount Rainier, too -- what are some other "pretty" US flights you've done that you recommend?

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News / Re: A discussion on voice CTAF
« on: May 07, 2019, 05:41:34 PM »
Quote from: Nolan Danziger on May 07, 2019, 12:01:33 PM
With Voice CTAF, will we be able to simulate real world ops like shooting a lightning fast straight-in approach to a packed field while not making radio calls? ;D :P
You can do that now... ;-)

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Events / Re: [April 27th 2019 2300-0200Z] VATSIM First Wings
« on: April 24, 2019, 06:08:45 PM »
In case anyone here is interested in the event and not monitoring the equivalent topic on the main VATSIM Forum:

Quote from: Andre Almeida 1333905
The briefing pack will indeed be published soon, in the meantime I can leave you the recommended routes if you'd like to start planning your flight:
Quote
KRST - KDLH: GEP J21 DLH
KDLH - KRST: DLH J21 GEP
KRST - KCID: RST V503 FARVI
KRST - KRFD: EMORE V24 GLARS V171 DAVIS
KRFD - KRST: DAVIS V171 LNR V24 EMORE
KRFD - KCID: RFD V63 MIHAL V172 LISBO
KRFD - KDLH: RFD V9 MSN V228 DLL V345 EAU V129 DLH
KDLH - KRFD: DLH V129 EAU V345 DLL V228 MSN V9 RFD
KDLH - KCID: DLH V13 FGT V82 RST V503 CID
KCID - KRST: FARVI V503 RST
KCID - KDLH: CID V503 RST V161 FGT V13 DLH
KCID - KRFD: LISBO V172 MIHAL V63 RFD

https://forums.vatsim.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=78446

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Events / Re: Fly the Gorge [21 Apr, 2200z-0200z]
« on: April 23, 2019, 07:10:12 PM »
I wonder if perhaps coordinating with the VP of Supervisors, to make sure you have some support by way of online SUPs who can proactively tackle some of the separation & conflict alert issues, would be fruitful.

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