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Come join AAvirtual, the new growing virtual airline in it's first community fly-in since opening date. We will be flying on the VATSIM/VATUSA network from New York to Philadelphia. New York is one of AAvirtual's most prized and successful hubs, in addition to our new Philadelphia hub which is the basis for all of our new US Airways integrated operations. Come kick of the summer season with all of us at AAvirtual - we're bound to show you a good time Join us on our TeamSpeak, Saturday: social.aalv.net (No password) to stay up to date and communicate with everyone participating. This will be Saturday, and we hope to have KMIA and KPHL ARTCCs online ready for full a…
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San Diego International, also known as Lindbergh Field, is the busiest single-runway commercial service airport in the United States and second busiest single use-runway in the world with approximately 550 departures and arrivals, carrying 50,000 passengers each day for a total of 17,250,269 passengers in 2012. Landing at the airport from the east (Rwy 27, the most common approach) offers dramatic close-up views of skyscrapers, Petco Park (home of the San Diego Padres) and the Coronado Bridge from the left side of the aircraft. On the right, Balboa Park, site of the 1915–1916 Panama-California Exposition, can be seen, along with the San Diego Zoo and several freeways. …
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Summer is here. For those of us in the south, we have been enjoying the warm weather for a few weeks now. Cottages are open, boats are in the water, and motorcycles are filling the road ways. However, the day still ends sometime between 8:30 & 9:00pm when the sun finally sets below the horizon. This isn’t the case for everyone. Canada’s Northern Territories and Alaska, the first day of summer is the peak of all day sunlight as the sun never sets in some places. Wouldn’t it be great to go golfing at 1:00am with the sun still high in the sky? This month we celebrate the peak of 24 hour sunlight in the north with a trip to Ketchikan Alaska on the Summer Solstice.…
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FlightSimCon is the annual flight simulator show and convention for all of us simmers. The event is being held at the New England Air Museum at Bradley Intl Airport, just outside Hartford, CT in Windsor Locks. Most of the big manufactures will be attending/exhibiting, including ORBX, A2A, Aerosoft, REX, GoFlight, to name a few. Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, June 11th at 10h00edt (14h00z) and 21h00edt (Sunday 01h00z) for our June 2016 fly-in where we will depart Halifax Stanfield Intl (CYHZ) and head west to the Boston Virtual ARTCC where we will fly our approach into Bradley Intl (KBDL) and visit the 2016 …
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Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. The nearest inhabited land (50 residents) is Pitcairn Island at 2,075 kilometers (1,289 mi), and the nearest continental point lies in central Chile, at 3,512 kilometers (2,182 mi). Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, March 16th at 20h00est (Sunday 01h00z) for our March 2013 fly-in where we fly a long haul route from Lima Peru (SPIM) to Easter Island (SCIP). This is an open invitation to all pilots no matter what your flying experience to attend this Canadian Xpress sponsored event that will be flown on the VATSIM network. More information …
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It is spring break, time to stand in airport lines for the second busiest flying weekend of the year. Isn’t it grand, lines of hyper kids and already stressed out parents, who can’t wait to head to places like Disneyland and the other theme parks in the warm sunny south. For this month’s fly-in, there are no hyper kids or stressed out parents, because we are doing the return leg. Spring Break is over and it’s time to go home, so its tired kids and parents who are financially broke who can’t wait to get home and send their kids back to school. Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, March 21st at 10h00edt (…
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Spring Break for most, is a week away somewhere warm, sunny and south. Well not everyone goes south for spring break. Spring Break is also the second busiest time of the year for the major ski areas across Canada and the northern US states, after Christmas. Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots and virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, March 22nd at 21h00edt (Sunday 01h00z) for our March 2014 fly-in where we fly Porter Airlines real world routes and one of their more popular flights from Toronto Billy Bishop Island Airport (CYTZ) to Mont Tremblant International Airport (CYFJ). There is a real world no-jet restriction at Toronto Island airport which will be …
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[Mar.26] Canadian Xpress March Fly-In - Ski Weekend In 1938, an explorer from a wealthy American family from Philadelphia named Joseph Bondurant Ryan came to the region prospecting gold. Accompanied by Harry Wheeler and Lowell Thomas, the American journalist, they climbed to the summit of Mont Tremblant with skis wrapped in seal skins for traction. After an exhausting trek to the summit, it's said that Joseph Ryan vowed to transform the landscape into a world-class alpine village. Only one year later, his dream was realized. On March 12, 1939, Joseph Ryan opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the pedestrian village today. In its early years, Lowe…
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Over the last 6 months, Canadian Xpress pilots have been participating in our 5th Year Anniversary Tour and the monthly challenges which were created by our Events Manager Dave (CXA007). This month we let the cat out of the bag and fill everyone in on where these routes came about. The 5th Year Anniversary Tour has been following the route of the 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race which is a 7 team round the world race in 65 foot, 27,000 lbs sail boats. Crewed by 9 and supported by a hundred or so, the teams race for 9 months covering some 72,000 km in all seas and weather conditions. This month the race stops in Newport Road Island the teams depart for the start of Leg 7 to Lisb…
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On May 18th, 1980 at 8:32pst, Mount St. Helens after 2 months of increased seismic activity, catastrophically erupted. The eruption triggered an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale causing the North face to collapse into the Columbia River basin and reducing the mountain’s summit elevation from 9,677 ft to 8,365 ft. By 17:30pst that evening after more than 9 hours of a vigorous plume of ash, reaching 16 miles above seas level, the ash column began to decline. On that day 34 years ago this month, Mount St. Helens released 24 megatons of thermal energy, 1.5 tons of sulfur dioxide and 2.8 cubic kilometers of debris. Sadly the event also killed 57 people, and nea…
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Kamchatka is a peninsula situated in the Russian Far East. It is situated near two tectonic plates and therefore shows a rather high volcanic activity. The Volcanoes of Kamchatka have been declared a National Park and were recognized as an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. Volcanoes are the main attractions of the Kamchatka in which the largest active volcanoes are located on the peninsula - Shiveluch, Klyuchevskoy, Ichinsky, Koryaksky, Avachinsky, Karymsky and Kronotsky. Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, May 18th at 21h00edt (Sunday 01h00z) for our May 2013 fly-in where we will depart from Khabarovsk (UHHH),…
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The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) across eight Alpine countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland. The Alpine region has a strong cultural identity. The traditional culture of farming, cheese making, and woodworking still exists in Alpine villages, although the tourist industry began to grow early in the 20th century and expanded greatly after World War II to become the dominant industry by the end of the century. The Winter Olympic Games have been hosted in the Swiss, French, Italian, Austrian and German Alps. …
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Dear CEO's, This is an invite to your airline pilots to another Aeolus event. Our 2nd monthly event has been voted and the event is sunny Fort Lauderdale(KFLL) to the challenge of St.Maarten(TNCM) as chosen by spark jet (congratulations) We invite all pilots to join our event which we promise it to be enthralling. The event will take place on the 9th of November. I know some pilots will have some time differences and we respect that. if you can join it'll be fun to fly with other pilots of other partner airlines and get a bond going between our companies. On this event we accept any …
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Normally at Canadian Xpress we avoid simulating real world events so that we stay neutral on current events in the world. However, we think this month’s fly-in is a subject that everyone can relate to no matter what your background. November 11th is Remembrance Day in Canada, the UK and all the commonwealth nations. In the United States it’s called Veterans Day. Regardless of the name, the meaning is the same. It’s a day to remember and to pay respect to those who have fought and gave their lives in the line of duty. Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, November 15th at 10h00est (15h00z) and 21h00est (Sunda…
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With one of the most dangerous approaches in the United States, Eagle County Regional Airport serves the world-famous ski resorts of the Eagle-Vail area in Colorado. The Airport is largely seasonal, with the greatest number of scheduled flights operating during the winter months. During the ski season, Eagle County Regional Airport is the second busiest airport in Colorado after the Denver International Airport. Eagle serves as a great alternative to Denver for skiers in the Eagle Valley because of its close proximity to the major international ski resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Copper Mountain, Keystone and Breckenridge. Due to the abundance of flights into Eagle Count…
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The acronym SDU-CGH is probably not familiar to most of us discovering Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In fact, as surprising as it sounds, with 1,130 commercial flights a week there are no two airports in the world with more aircraft movements. Canadian Xpress® would like to invite all pilots and virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, November 23rd at 21h00est (Sunday 02h00z) for our November 2013 fly-in where we will fly from Santos Dumont (SBRJ) to São Paulo (SBSP) and then fly the return leg back to Santos Dumont (SBRJ). This is an open invitation to all pilots no matter what your flying experience to attend this Canadian Xpress® sponsored event that will be flo…
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This month, we re-fly an event from October of 2012 and return to Saint Maarten. Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, November 28th at 10h00est (15h00z) and 20h00est (Sunday 01h00z) for our November 2015 fly-in where we fly from Miami (KMIA) to Princes Juliana International (TNCM) for a spectacular approach over the famous Maho beach, where aircraft fly just feet above the heads of beach goers as they enjoy the white sands and clear waters of the Caribbean. This is an open invitation to all pilots no matter what your flying experience to attend this Canadian Xpress sponsored event that will be flown on the VATSIM…
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Samos Airport is named after Aristarchos of Samos, an ancient astronomer and mathematician, and lies within 5 km from the nearby town of Pythagorio. The airport features a single short runway serving both arrivals and departures. The airports surroundings leave little room for error or mistake on the behalf of the pilots – with nearby mountains and sea at the end of the short runway. Samos is the island airport with the most notorious landing approaches in Greece. It involves pure stick and rudder demanding hand-type of flying in between mountains. There are often strong Meltemi winds blowing from the north during the summer months which further contribute to the diffic…
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An aurora is a natural light display in the sky (from the Latin word aurora, "sunrise" or the Roman goddess of dawn), especially in the high latitude like Canada’s Arctic regions, caused by the collision of solar wind and magnetosphere charged particles with the high altitude atmosphere. The charged particles and solar wind are directed into the atmosphere by the Earth's magnetosphere. A geomagnetic storm expands the aurora zone to lower latitudes. Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, October 18th at 10h00edt (14h00z) & at 20h00edt (24h00z) for our October 2014 fly-in where we will travel from Vancouver (CYV…
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The bright dancing lights of the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. 2013 is the peak period of an eleven year cycle. Canadian Xpress® would like to invite all pilots and virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, October 19th at 21h00edt (Sunday 01h00z) for our October 2013 fly-in where in this season of Northern lights chasing, as we will depart Iqaluit (CYFB) in Nunavut Canada and head north east to Thule Air Base (BGTL) in Greenland. We will fly in real time conditions as Fli…
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Hello all, There is a new Air Berlin Virtual Airline. We are Virtual Air Berlin, we (to date) are the most modern Air Berlin VA in the the virtual airline community. Here at Virtual Air Berlin we simulate the operations of our real world counterpart, the official Air Berlin. At Virtual Air Berlin you can have competition between fellow pilots on day to day operations by checking out the leaderboard and rankings. We are a warm and friendly airline, where you can socialize with other pilots on our Teamspeak and forums to learn new things regarding aviation to develop your flight knowledge. At Virtual Air Berlin, we have our custom coded points system built in to our PI…
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In August, 1949, Joey Smallwood, Premier of Newfoundland, had the opportunity to see Churchill Falls for the first time and it became his obsession to develop the hydroelectric potential of the falls. After years of planning, the project was officially started on July 17, 1967. The machine hall of the power facility at Churchill Falls was hollowed out of solid rock, close to 1,000 ft (300 m) underground. Its final proportions are huge: in height it equals a 15-storey building, its length is three times that of a Canadian football field. When completed, it housed 11 generating units, with a combined capacity of 5,428 MW (7,279,000 hp). Water is contained by a reservoir cre…
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Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland. It is the seat of government and the country's largest cultural and economic center. The major cities closest to the capital are Iqaluit and St. John's in Canada and ReykjavÃk in Iceland. Nuuk contains almost a quarter of Greenland's population, and also has the tallest building in Greenland. Nuuk is the seat of government for the Sermersooq municipality. In January 2016, it had a population of 17,316, making it one of the smallest capital cities in the world by population. The airport was constructed to serve the largest town in Greenland, yet due to space constraints at the location in a mountainous area and problems …
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Tropical monsoon climate, infinite beaches, and thousands of islands to discover, South East Asia lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic and volcanic activity. Canadian Xpress® would like to invite all pilots and virtual airlines to join us on Saturday, September 21st at 21h00edt (Sunday 01h00z) for our September 2013 fly-in where where we will feel the heat and the beauty of Vietnam. Departing from Hanoi (VVNB) we will fly to mythic Phuket (VTSP) where you can expect a Saint Marteen like approach! This is an open invitation to all pilots no matter what your flying experience to attend this Canadian Xpress® sponsored event that will be flown…
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Hello World, we are a indian based virtual airline, and we are currently operating real operation, i knw some of you may like it or some of you may not, but we like real operation that is why we have a small pilot been hired in our VA, so that we can manage it well, and as we grow we would be hiring more staff according to requirment's, join us today @ http://ifly-va.com and i hope everyone have a good day and happy Flying...
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I would like to wish congratulations to S7 Virtual for their new acars system also to thank the staff for the good cooperation we had during the development. You can see what features they have by visiting this website
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Just a quick note, before anyone else decides to make another EasyJet virtual airline. STOP. The biggest Easyjet VA has received solicitors letters hard and soft copy in order to remove all easyjet branding. They are not allowing an inch of space when it comes to using their logos. Easyjet Va is now Eazyjet
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Sky Traffic Virtual Airways Hiring Airbus Pilots for a new VA in SJU,PR ICAO : TJSJ www.skytrafficva.com Check out our new liveries for Airbus Aerosoft X A319, A320 and A321, New routes available and smartCARS for download
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Hello All! AAVirtual is currently looking for some reliable and talented people to come join our team for an awesome virtual airline experience. Currently, we have two positions open and we need you to fill them! Position: Events Manager Experience: Over 50 hours in our virtual airline Requirements: Must retain good connections and relations with the various VATSIM ARTCC's and must have over 100+ hours flying on VATSIM Position: Training Manager Experience: VATSIM P1 or higher Real world aviation experience Familiar with phpVMS system (bidding, PIREP, ACARs etc) 300+ hours on VATSIM You think you have what it takes to fill these requirements and become the …
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