Date: 18 Sep 2002 VATSIM Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) Issued by Kyprianos Biris, 9/18/2002 __________________________________________________________________________ This is an IMPORTANT mail sent to you based on Email on VATSIM member database. You WILL NOT be receiving such messages often. VATSIM memberhip requires you to be able to receive these mails. To cancel it you will have to request VATSIM memberhip to cancel your ID completelly. This is a NOTAM towards all ~16,000 Europe Region members. A Yahoogroup NOTAM list we previously had has been cancelled replaced by this service provided by VATSIM mail server. ----------------------- 1 - Operation OneSky - Europe online PILOTS !!!! arm your TCAS and join in the fun when ALL Center- Positions throughout the VATSIM Europe Region plus one or more major Airports with all positions per country will be guaranteed fully staffed on Saturday, October, 5th 2002, 1600 to 2200 UTC (GMT, Zulu) on VATSIM network! Read more on : http://vatsim-eur.org/onesky.htm This will be the biggest event ever in VATSIM Europe's history - make sure you fly that evening all across Europe. We highly recommend you not to fly National flights but intercontinental. This is the purpose of this event ; to connect all Region and simulate some "as real as it gets" 6 hours. ALL Region enroute ATC and major APPs are 100% guaranteed for this event. 2 - New VAT-EUD1 Pedro Sousa VATSIM Europe Region is happy to announce that Europe Division now has it's long awaited Director. VAT-EUD1 now is Pedro Sousa , a choice that took us long time to decide upon. Congratulations Pedro and good luck with your new post. 3 - New VAT-EUR2 Mark Wilson Last month we had a change of guard in the position of VATSIM Europe Region Deputy Director (VAT-EUR2) Phil Dowling's position was replaced by Mark Wilson. We thank both for their valuable inputs to the hobby. 4 - Security od configuration files If ever asked, DO NOT send the configuration files of Procontroller or SquawkBox (pcsb.ini , squawkbox.ini) to anyone. On the contrary, if ever asked so, please REPORT this to your Division staff. DO NOT ever give your password to anyone, not even VATSIM staff, they do not need it. 5 - Email in database A reminder to the members that is most important to keep the email-adress up-to-date at VATSIM using the ID maintenance page via the VATSIM main page. When you change email address please update it in the database. 6 - New vACC staff Denmark vACC has a new director John Svendsen ACCDK1 and Sweden vACC has a new director Nicklas Jansson ACCSE1. VATSIM Europe Division welcomes both members of staff in their demanding post. 7 - VA & Events staff Virtual Airline representatives (CEO's , Hub Managers) and persons involved with events please contact VAT-EUD6 Andre Koehsel who is coordinating communiucation of all EUR Region events related staff members. His email is in our website http://vatsim-eur.org -> Staff page and please when contacting him include description of your staff position. 8 - Europe Division (EUD) website In October VATSIM Europe Division will have its own website which is still under perparation. http://vatsim-eur.org will remain the Region website and the new Division website will be http://vatsim-eur.org/eud 9 - Official new announcements Don't forget that official VATSIM news come out from the Simflight newgroups. Just go to news://news.simflight.com and subscribe your newsreader (emailer) to *vatsim-eur* newsgroup. Over there you can also ask for help by other members and get replies to your questions regarding online flights & ATC in VATSIM Europe Region. 10 - LGAT in Greece Closed / New Athens VOR Hellenic vACC in Greece http://avsim.com/greece/hvacc informed us that "Athens Hellenikon" (LGAT) Closed permanently and they do not accept flights to/from LGAT anymore. The new airport is "Athens Venizelos" (LGAV) and it is NOT included in default MS scenery. In HvACC website you can find very nice freeware scenery for (FS98, 2000 & 2002) which are frame rate friendly and very easy to install. HvACC also has all the charts needed. Additionally there is a new Athens VOR (ATV) cancelling the old ATH which affects LGAV SIDs & STARs. The new procedures are already in the NAVDatabase of most FS navigation equipment in AIRAC 2.09 cycle and in HvACC website you can find simply installed addon scenery that updates MSFS navaids in the area. 11 - New VOR in Barcelona / operations in Madrid Spanish vACC informed us that, (as in real life) a new VOR (SLL) has been installed in the city of Sabadell in the vicinity of Barcelona (LEBL). This new VOR is of outstanding importance for SIDs and STARs from/to Barcelona (LEBL). Also, a file containing all the VORs in the vicinity of Madrid (LEMD) is available for download, as they are not available in the default scenery of FS2002. Rafael Povedano has also prepared the file and these VORs are absolutely necessary for SID and STAR operations from/to Madrid (LEMD). You can download these files in our web page at http://www.simuvuelo.org/vatsim-es 12 - Warsaw TMA changes in Poland Polish vACC informed us that Warsaw, EPWA Terminal area has few changes resulting from new NAVAIds and FIXes. Please visit their website for more information http://www.pl-vacc.org/ 13 - New software on their way The new Radar Client, ASRC, to replace ProController has a webpage where you can preview it and discuss issues in its forum. ASRC will be EXCLUSIVE to VATSIM controllers ONLY. Its a whole new system along with server FSD code and NOT just a radar client software. For more details visit http://www.asrc.info/ where Mike Evans and David Hendleman , the developers, have all the information available to public. The new SquawkBox3 has a webpage. You can discuss questions about it in the forum with developer Joel De Young. For more details visit http://www.squawkbox.ca/ 14 - Usefull sites / tools Do not forget our extremelly handy tools *ServInfo* http://avsim.com/hangar/utils/servinfo/ and *WhazzUp* & *FSUIPC* from http://www.schiratti.com/ as well as updated NAV Databases from http://www.navdata.at/ Kyprianos Biris VAT-EUR1 VATSIM Europe Region Director