This sounds fun! Also the Sierras are a separate range from the Rockies

Maybe it's new geography like all the new math... Rocky Sierrans perhaps??? ;-)

It's going to suck with everyone flying to Albany with me...

This Friday we invite you to join us for Friday Night Flights (FNF)! This Friday's destination is San Diego's Montgomery-Gibbs Exec Airport (KMYF). KMYF is a perfect field to bring your bizjets for a fun weekend of sun and fun in beautiful San Diego! So fire up that Bizjet or take your personal prop VFR this Friday night (US-New York East Coast Time - EST) into KMYF landing between 0100z and 0130z (Friday, 9:00-9:30 PM US-EST Time).

The goal of FNF is for everyone to fly into a selected airport, in the participating FNO area, arriving around a pre-selected time! An arrival time will be posted each week along with the FNF arrival field and your goal is to fly anything you wish from anywhere you chose, arriving as closely as possible to the listed arrival window. If you are in the mood for some low and slow, take out that prop and join us. In the mood for something larger, pull that bizjet out of the hanger and we'll see you there. Depending on the field size, you can even fly your favorite airliner in.

Montgomery-Gibbs Exec Airport (KMYF) - FNF Information:

Date: Friday, April 9, 2021  (Saturday, April 10)
Arrival Airport: KMYF - Montgomery-Gibbs Exec Airport
Arrival Time: 9:00-9:30 PM - Friday Evening USA New York Time (0100-0130z)
Network: VATSIM - https://www.vatsim.net/

Suggested Scenery:

MSFS (Freeware): https://flightsim.to/file/5856/montgomery-gibbs-exec-airport-taxiway-fix-and-many-more

x-Plane 11:
None that I can locate (please reply with a link if there is scenery available)

Prepare3d:
None that I can locate (please reply with a link if there is scenery available)

I fly so sporadically now so this observation may be irrelevant, however I feel there is such a lack of "regular" atc online lately that any event draws 80% of the daily traffic. Yes, that's a made up stat just like most, however it just seems ATC along with Pilots have no idea how to handel their respective "equipment..." ATC should be issuing vectors and speed restrictions to avoid the inevitable final approach load described above. Pilots should use VATSPY or whatever map client to help ATC out the same way.

I find it a bit comical that ATC is here complaining about pilots ability to fly (I get it, 60% of the pilots on VATSIM probably would be better off trying to put a round block into a square hole, but...) when most of the issues I experience, again in limited time recently, are inept controllers.

It is what it is though. You can't have a free network of both pilots and ATC without these issues...

Somebody's looking for a pretty title next to his name. You may want to get a few years of VATSIM both flying and controlling under your belt before looking for the glory.

There was an event advertised to go until 05:00z and then all of a sudden almost all tower's and approach controllers bail on Center and it's a cluster - FLOCK!

I don't normally rag on ATC, but those of you who bailed shouldn't be allowed to control anymore. Those that stayed on (Oakland Center) and tried to deal with everyone else's bailing deserve a big raise!

Stuff like this makes me less and less likely to even log into VATSIM anymore.