UKV1121 - Chris Sutcliffe Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Dear Members, January has been a settled month for Fly UK, with everything continuing onwards and upwards! We have a lot planned for the first half of this year, so plenty has been going on behind the scenes to prepare for it. Looking back at January, we had 421 unique pilots who flew with a UKV callsign and filed a combined total of 3539 PIREPs. We received 1966 mainstream PIREPs, 106 codeshare PIREPs, 1328 tour PIREPs, 102 flying club PIREPs. 60 pilots completed tours in January. - Fly UK 2011 Wish List - Your VA. Your Ideas. The staff team are currently in the process of going through new ideas and plans for Fly UK during 2011. We are asking you, our members, what you would like to see change or happen at Fly UK in 2011. No matter if it is a little change to the website that has been bugging you for a while or if you have some bigger ideas on how we can improve Fly UK and maintain our edge over other virtual airlines, we'd love to hear from you. You can make a difference so please reply to the wish list topic in our community forum detailing anything you would like us to include and take into consideration for the Fly UK during 2011. We know some of you also fly for other virtual airlines. Is there anything they have and we do not that you would like to see it at Fly UK? If you are not yet a member of our forum, register here. - Fly UK Online Night's Update Our Online Night's continue throughout February as we all get together and fly, be it on IVAO, VATSIM or the FSD server. Having everybody flying the same route at once is proving fun and entertaining for all. For February we have varied the times and days a little with 2 Sunday afternoons, a Friday Night & a Tuesday Night - we hope this will allow as many of you to get involved as possible! We have been keeping attendance logs for the online events. You can view the January attendance and February attendance logs in the forum. The events are the most fun when everybody flies - so don't hesitate to give it a go! If you need any help getting started with Online Flying, please visit our Online Flying page for complete guidance. - New Repaints We are pleased to inform you that Fly UK repaints are now available for the following aircraft. - CLS A330-200 (FS2004 & FSX) - CLS A340-300 (FS2004 & FSX) - PMDG MD11-F (FSX) -- Problem with textures now fixed. - feelThere/Wilco A330-200 (FS2004 & FSX) -- Now in full Union Spirit livery. - iFly B737-700-WL/B737-800-WL (FS2004) - PMDG B747-400/B747-400F (FS2004) * -- Updated repaint - PMDG B747-400 - Special Freighter (FS2004) * -- Cargo repaint for passenger version of PMDG B747-400. - PMDG B747-400 Named Aircraft (FS2004)* - feelThere/Wilco A340-300 Named Aircraft (FS2004)* The new repaints are now available on our downloads page. * - There is a delay with FSX repaints for downloads marked with an asterix above. The FSX repaints will be available to download by Wednesday 16th Feb at the latest. Many thanks to our aircraft repainters UKV1145 - Steve Trueman and UKV1592 - Chris Jones for working on these repaints. - Staff Team Changes There have been a number of small staff changes in January: - We welcome UKV1452 - Tom Agnew to the team as an Operations Manager. - Pete Gill is now a Training Advisor as well as the Fleet & Downloads Manager. - Ross Queripel has moved primarily to the Web & Systems department to assist Jeff. He will still help out in the Training Academy when required. - Jason Pijnaker is on tempoary leave from the staff team due to a big house move & other real world commitments. - Matt Palmer is leaving the Fly UK staff team due to other real world commitments. We welcome Tom & wish him, along with Pete & Ross all the best in their new roles. We also hope Jason has a smooth move over to the UK. Lastly we wish Matt all the best for the future & thank him for his efforts at Fly UK. - 2011 Real World Events & Meetups We have released details of several real world flight simulator events taking place this year in order to give people chance to plan which ones they might be able to and want to attend. - Xtreme Simulation Weekend - RAF Cosford - 22nd/23rd October 2011 - FSC Weston 2011 - Weston Super-Mare - 14th/15th May 2011 - Sherburn Aero Club Flight Simulator Group - Monthly Meetings We will be officially exhibiting at RAF Cosford and it'd be great to see as many members as possible. Likewise a regular group of members attend Sherburn - everybody is welcome! These events work best when the most people attend - so we certainly look forward to meeting some of you. We're also planning a simulator day at the B747 simulator in Coventry in April and a meetup at Manchester airport in the summer. Details of both these events will be released nearer the time. - Screenshot Competition - Sponsored by UK2000 Scenery Thank you to all members who submitted entries for the January screenshot competition. Voting has now closed and congratulations to UKV1592 - Chris Jones who came in first place with his winning shot 'Homeward Bound'. Well done to runners up UKV1625 - Graham Hammill in second place and UKV1658 - Martijn van Elferen and UKV1430 - Hussein Elmelity in joint third place. The February competition is now up and running and the theme is 'Seconds from Touchdown'! To enter the competition and be in with a chance of winning a UK2000 Xtreme scenery package, please visit the screenshot competition section of our forums. Full information as well as competition rules can be found here too. - Aerodrome NOTAMs - Flight Dispatch Pages For those of you who like to be realistic we have now added aerodrome NOTAMs to the airport tabs of the flight dispatch pages. They can be found under the weather information. Remember you can also access airport ops info pages via the flight planning page. - Online Events As always, we have an exciting events programme for February planned. We rely on as many people as possibly flying to make them exciting and busy for everyone. Come on Teamspeak before and join in the chat - you'll find it's a great event where everybody get's chatting and has a great time. If you're quite new to Online Flying, our Training Academy are here to help you get going - these events are a perfect introduction for people new to the Online Flying world. Fly UK Online Nights - All Networks: - Geneva to Brussels - 22nd Feb - 1900z - Paris to Vienna - 27th Feb - 1900z Early Morning Weekly Group Flights - IVAO: Kaliningrad > Warsaw - 19th Feb - 0700z - Warsaw > Silac / Silac > Prague - 26th Feb - 0700z Flying Club - Montana US Visit - 20th Feb - 1500z - FS Host Server VATSIM Event - Gatwick Real Ops 2011 - Gatwick to Arlanda - 20th Feb - 1540z For full information on any of the above events, please visit the event page via our events calendar. - Salzburg Multi Start Event - IVAO - 12th March We have released details of our multi-start event to Salazburg taking place on IVAO on the 12th of March. There are 15 departure airports. The idea is that everyone departs from different airports and aims to arrive in Salzburg between 0800z and 0830z. For more information and to confirm your attendance, please visit the event page. Please ensure you confirm your attendance by the end of February as this is when departure airports will be allocated to each pilot on the attendance list. --- ENDS --- For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us: The CEO Team - Chris Sutcliffe, Jeffrey Shen and Tom Hurrell Email: ceo.team[at]flyuk.aero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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