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Hope to see you in the air,

It would appear the Vatusa Events Feed is out of wack again. See error below.


This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
      <channel><title>Upcoming Events from VATUSA</title><description>This RSS feed will publish the next 30 days of events.</description><link>http:/www.vatusa.us/events_feed.php</link><item><title>08/08/2015: Boston Tea Party</title><description><b>Time: 23:00</b><br /><br /><b>Time: 16:00 - 23:00</b><br><br><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/cambru22/media/Tea%20Party%20Banner_zpsrs0l8etv.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j14/cambru22/Tea%20Party%20Banner_zpsrs0l8etv.png" border="0" alt=" photo Tea Party Banner_zpsrs0l8etv.png"/></a><br><br><br>The 16th Annual Boston Tea Party is coming! On Saturday, August 8th, Boston's finest controllers will gather on the campus of Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH for the 16th consecutive year as we present our own Boston Tea Party! ZBW airspace will be fully staffed for our premier event and we will have some fantastic prizes lined up as well. Visit the Tea Party page for details.</description></item><item><title>08/15/2015: Cross the Gulf</title><description><b>Time: 23:00 - 03:00</b><br /><br /><img src=http://i.imgur.com/b9LV64D.jpg /><br />http://i.imgur.com/b9LV64D.jpg<br /><br />ZHU (Houston ARTCC) and VATMEX (VATSIM Mexico) invites you to participate in Cross the Gulf on August 15th! <br><br>For that, you will have to select EITHER of the following routes: from Cancun (MMUN) to Houston/George Bush Intercontinental (KIAH) OR from Mexico City/Lic. Benito Juarez International (MMMX) to New Orleans/Louis Armstrong International (KMSY)<br></description></item></channel>

When I put the URL http://www.vatusa.net/feeds/events_xml.php on any browser I get this:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.vatusa.net/feeds/events_xml.php
Line Number 48, Column 38:      <title>04/03/2015: ZFW FNO Casino & Suicide Ops</title>
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Only works with FSX?

Sorry, guys out the last few days attending a funeral. Trying to resolve our website issue. Hope to have it corrected shortly.

Good luck with the new job Zach.

Correct me if I am wrong, but my take on the descend via according to the 7110 is that if there is the word "expect"  on the STAR either rnav and non-rnav, a controller cannot use the phrase "descend via". There are some rnav arrivals that have the word "expect with the crossing" and some do not. I believe DEN has a STAR that you can "descend via." Not sure there are many of those types around. According to real world FTW_CTR controllers DFW will be getting all new arrivals that will be rnav sometime in 2014. Currently, vZFW doesn't have any arrivals  that would mandate a controller to use the phrase "descend via..." on the arrivals. I am hearing "decsend via" a lot in Vatusa where technicaly, this is incorrect in most cases.

Great choice, Mark. Congrats, Scott!