Fly UK's Weekly Round-Up

[UKV1121 - Chris Sutcliffe]

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Fly UK's Weekly Round-Up

- Issued Sunday 19th September 2010 -
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This Weeks Overall Statistics:

We had 196 unique pilots who filed a total of 530 pireps this week totalling 838 hours.

IVAO Flights: 70 * ^
VATSIM Flights: 57 * ^
FSD Flights: 13 * ^
Offline Flights: 335 * ^

Mainstream Flights: 305 ^
Event Flights: 21 ^
Tour Flights: 129 ^
Training Flights: 20 ^
Flying Club Flights: 19 ^

FSP Pireps: 36

* - figure does not into account flying club pireps
^ - figure does not take into account FSP pireps
Green - increase compared to week before last
Red - decrease compared to week before last

Data taken at 2300z on Sun 19th September 2010.

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Top 10 Most Active Pilots This Week:

Based on total number of pireps:

UKV1146 - Valentine Vascik - 24
UKV1464 - Steve Birchall - 14
UKV1257 - Chris Horsley - 13
UKV1608 - Michael Abbott - 12
UKV1283 - Dave Baggs - 12
UKV1504 - John Littler - 10
UKV1154 - Tim Brownson - 10
UKV1960 - Barry D Pring - 10
UKV2066 - David Campbell - 8
UKV1514 - Thomas James Ward - 8

Based on total number of hours:

UKV2066 - David Campbell - 47:04
UKV1470 - Jacob Rogers - 43:16
UKV1860 - Michael Shere-Massey - 42:37
UKV1146 - Valentine Vascik - 37:09
UKV1353 - David Rawlins - 31:46
UKV1608 - Michael Abbott - 30:05
UKV1431 - Peter Davies-Carr - 27:25
UKV1233 - Robert Wells - 27:17
UKV1839 - Peter K Robson - 26:34
UKV1908 - Matt Davis - 23:03

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Special Mentions:

Congratulations to Andrew Kornev - UKV1448 for being the second ever pilot to pass George Shepherds 'Virtual PPL' course. Well done Andrew!

Thank you to Brian Hudson - UKV1238 who has been issued with the Spirit of Fly UK award for putting together a new Flying Club tour which will be released soon.

A round of applause for Donald Martin - UKV1584 for becoming the first Fly UK pilot to gain a VATSIM P1 Rating. A job well done!

Many thanks to Chris Jones - UKV1592 who has re-joined Fly UK and has already completed a Fly UK repaint for the feelThere/Wilco A320 which will be available to download later this week.

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New Members:

Welcome to the our latest new recruits who have joined the Fly UK community over the last 7 days.

UKV1124 - Shaun Waite
UKV1139 - Tyson Dohrer
UKV1211 - Ben Thompson
UKV1253 - Ross King
UKV1239 - John Thomlinson
UKV1271 - Gabriel Logan
UKV1208 - Michael Male
UKV1282 - Dom Cozzi
UKV1292 - Andres Gurendez
UKV1320 - Felix Nicol
UKV1413 - Clive Joyce
UKV1421 - Nitin Chandran
UKV1428 - Peter Manning
UKV1457 - Marcelo Silva
UKV1498 - Neale Lawrence
UKV1499 - John Baxendale
UKV1516 - Matthew Kemp
UKV1545 - Andrew Sale
UKV1556 - Leon Venn
UKV1553 - Immanuel Dalrymple
UKV1562 - Paul Bailey
UKV1358 - James Smith
UKV1359 - Richard Robinson
UKV1364 - Neil Goodacre
UKV1567 - Dan Swallow
UKV1600 - David Susman

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Birthdays this Week:

Happy Birthday to the following Fly UK members celebrating Birthdays this week!

UKV1354 - William Kus - 22nd Sep
UKV1340 - Pierre Castonguay - 23rd Sep
UKV1517 - Russell Wilkes - 23rd Sep
UKV1611 - Michael Barralet - 23rd Sep
UKV1379 - Dale Munro - 23rd Sep
UKV1544 - Richard Gagen - 24th Sep
UKV1559 - James Cardon - 25th Sep
UKV1566 - Steve Bishop - 26th Sep

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Training Tip of the Week:

- Online Flying - When you first connect to a new frequency wait 10 to 15 seconds before transmitting. You may inadvertently interrupt a conversation.

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Random Fact of the Week:

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their heads have been cut off. :huh:

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Jeffrey Shen will be bringing you next weeks update.

Happy Flying - Have a good week!