UKV1197 - Derek Butterworth Posted August 1, 2017 Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 (edited) Dear Members, Our summer holiday season is with us, we hope you enjoy the break from work/school and can still find time to fly with us, when the sun isn't shining. The past month's activity at Fly UK had an average of 348 unique pilots per week filing a PIREP in July. We received 2,364 Mainstream PIREPs, 963 Tour PIREPs and 494 Flying Club PIREPs. Membership numbers currently stand at 1,095 Member survey We once again thank everyone who took part in our member survey at the beginning of this year and those results and feedback continue to shape the VA and its future course. Some changes have already been seen, some still to come. However much has changed in the Flight Sim community in the past 6 months since that survey was taken place, arguably the biggest shift in the FS landscape we've seen. This does has a big impact on how we operate so we will be taking the opportunity for a small update survey in the coming weeks to get some updated views on specific questions. Please keep an eye our for this and help us continue our VA journey. Staff A number of vacancies will be posted shortly, if anyone wishes to join the staff team then please view those announcements and how to apply. We welcome Sam Cogan who has stepped up to the exec team and takes on the lead of the web development team. Also Jordan Booker joins us as Fleet painter for X-Plane; many of you will have seen his impressive work on the forums. Operations We have now commenced operations with the leased A330 with 2 airframes based in LGW and 2 in MAN, serving peak season holiday routes and long haul holiday charters. We have also introduced a new look and livery which will roll out across the Fly2 fleet in the coming months. Tours Due to some technical issues (PC crash), several new tours have been defered, but will be released during August. This will include a new tour targeted at the Dash 8 and similar aircraft in our fleet! Training Academy Please note, we are not accepting any new students for the ATC training course currently due to holidays, We have 10 members who are now approved for providing some ATC service at various grades on our FSD Server, so please fly on the server and file a flight plan if you are in UK airspace and you might see other Fly UK traffic and get a friendly controller too Charters (Ad-Hoc) Work is nearly completed on several charters in the America's. Negotiations are ongoing in relation to sports charters in the Autumn. Flying Club A major revamp of the flying club has been taking place over the past few months and will start rolling out in or around early September. Wednesday Evening Flying Club Flights WED 02 AUG 2017 USA CXC to PAWD WED 09 AUG 2017 AUSTRALIA YYRM to YMNG WED 16 AUG 2017 THE BAHAMAS MYX9 to MYXG WED 23 AUG 2017 CANADA CYDQ to CAP6 WED 30 AUG 2017 USA KBKF to 7V2 Online Events: Events are currently held on IVAO, Saturday at 0600z and repeated on VATSIM, Tuesday at 1830z and Thursday at 1300z. Please note we are changing the Thursday events from VATSIM to IVAO from the 10th August, as we are finding there is more ATC coverage available during the day on IVAO. The Saturday event from IVAO will move to our FSD server from the 12th August. The Tuesday evening event will continue on VATSIM. IVAO/VATSIM Week 1 Montreal to Washington Week 2 Washington to Toronto City Week 3 Faroe Islands to Sumburgh Week 4 Copenhagen to Genoa Week 5 Altenrhein to Elba View Event Page Please visit our online events page for more information or to register your attendance. Screenshot Competition - Sponsored by UK2000 Scenery Congratulations to UKV1335- Will Preecein the July Screenshot Competition. His winning shot was "Narvik approach" Well done! The theme for the August Screenshot Competition is " Going on a Summer Holiday". For more information and how to the enter the competition, please see the link below: August Competition - Going on a Summer Holiday ---ENDS--- Derek Butterworth - Buisness Support Director derek.butterworth[at]flyuk.aero Matthew Lewis- Operations Director matthew.lewis[at]flyuk.aero On behalf of the Fly UK Staff Team Edited August 1, 2017 by UKV1197 - Derek Butterworth 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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