latest News and Update for Member - April 2019

[UKV1197 - Derek Butterworth]

Dear Members,

Well this month its the 15th anniversary of Fly UK, so look out for special things going on and extra awards if you join in. There is a 15 year service award available for those that have the service, this must be requested manually by the members that qualify.

Last month's activity at Fly UK had an average of 340 unique pilots per week filing a PIREP in March. We received 2049 Mainstream PIREPs, 705 Tour PIREPs and 611 Flying Club PIREPs. Membership numbers currently stand at 954

The clocks have changed in UK to British Summer Time, so our events and schedules, being zulu time, are now 1 hour behind our local time.
 

Skyways Magazine

A Birthday edition will be available soon. Keep a look out for it on the website.
 

SkyTrack

As per NOTAM Sierra, SkyTrack 1.8 is now available for download. This release changes the default unit of weight from pounds to kilograms. It also contains the following fixes:

• Fix issue where it would not be possible to resume recording following a full system crash if using FSUIPC or XPUIPC.
• Fix crash if the application is closed using the task manager on Windows 7 while the 'stop recording' dialog is still open.

The new version is available on the downloads page.
 

Birthday events

Every first Saturday of the month, there is a Simmers meeting at Sherburn Flying club. For our Birthday on the weekend of the 6th April, can we try and get more members and staff to meet up at Sherburn to celebrate our 15th Birthday. Ken Hall UKV1142 is our main man at the meetings and has attended there all the time that Fly UK has been operating.

Please put the date in your diary and post your intentions in the forum post in real world events. Birthday cake may be up for grabs and sometimes there are free rides going, offered by the flying club members to simmers.

Website link is https://www.sherburnaeroclub.com/

Also

Every first Sunday of the month, there is a Simmers meeting at Gatwick. For our Birthday on the weekend of the 7th April, can we try and get more members and staff to meet up at the Gatwick meeting to celebrate our 15th Birthday. Richard Jones UKV1412 is our main man at the meetings.

Please put the date in your diary and post you intentions in the real world meet up section of the forums. Birthday cake may be up for grabs.

Website link is http://www.gatwick-f...bMenuItem=venue
 

Operations
A big month for ops, as most of our scheduled operations change to summer schedules and we also have some fleet moves and changes. With the introduction of the 747-8i we move five B744 airframes to Gatwick where they boost the long haul services available there. Also moving is the Edinburgh A320 fleet which has swapped base with Manchester's 737-800's. Edinburgh also adds some long haul services as a trial.

Finally we see the seasonal route rotation on some LHR routes between the 747 and 777 fleet. We've also moved some routes around for the B738 and A320/321 fleet.
 

Fleet
Delivery flights for new 747 and 787 airframes are now complete and are live in service. We now look towards the new types joining Aurora in May.
 

Documentation

The Pilot Handbook has been updated to version 2.32 to reflect changes to our Discord age policy and conditions of use.
 

Flying Club

The Flying Club Xmas tour was retired on 01 March 2019. ALL LEGS MUST BE COMPLETED BY 30 April 2019.

This month, our Wednesday Flying Club flights, held on the FSD Server, will be a mixed collection. 

Wed 03 Apr 2019 at 1900z ** APRIL TECH EVENT ***

Wed 10 Apr 2019 at 1900z ATC Event LIVERPOOL

Wed 17 Apr 2019 at 1900z Aurora Vancouver Fly-in    

Wed 24 Apr 2019 at 1900z Dangerous Airports - Courchevel

Please visit our Flying club page for more information and flight plans and to register your attendance.

Online Events

Events are currently held on the FSD server on Saturday at 0600z and repeated on VATSIM, Tuesday at 1830z and Thursday at 1300z. 

Remember, online events have no rank restrictions so it's a chance to fly different airframes.

Our IVAO event is on a weekly basis on Sundays at 1230z and is the return journey from the Saturday event.  Please see the Event Calendar.

FSD/VATSIM

Week 1 Gibraltar to Madeira
Week 2 Madeira to Ponta Delgada
Week 3 Internal Domestic flight in Portugal with a touch and Go
Week 4  Internal Domestic Flight in Portugal with Missed approach and diversion if required

Please visit our Online Events page for more information or to register your attendance.


Screenshot Competition - Sponsored by UK2000 Scenery

The winner of the March Screenshot Competition is UKV3373 - Stuart Hyett with  "Sky Cargo is Airborne". Congratulations Stuart

The theme for the April Screenshot Competition is "small props". For more information and how to the enter the competition, please see the link below:

April Competition -
small props