#vatsim

[illegal-prime]

I love flightsimming

It's a lot of good fun managing all the aircraft systems, and doing interesting operations and procedures. And if you're on VATSIM, the mass multiplayer aspect is really rewarding and amazing to think about.

Also the views are amazing.

Tris is just such a good vibe

[spiroagnewfan80]

since George W Bush knows how to fly a plane he should play Flight Sim/VATSIM and Stream it I bet Billions would Watch

[etoastie]

All three of the big VATSIM ATC clients don't support Linux, I am heartbroken

[coravanlincolnius]

If anyone who is remotely into flightsim reads this: On 23 december 2024 around 1pm UTC me and a friend will be hosting a groupflight EHAM-EFRO-EHAM on the Vatsim network (please PLEASE keep this in mind, EFRO cannot handle anything beyond a 777 and i will personally be in the 777 already). You can bring any plane you are comfortable with but please remember we WILL be on the vatsim network so i dont want to see A380's and 747s or that kind of large jets. A 777 is fine but if you bring an A380 you'll lock down the whole airfield. So yeah. I will be providing further information as time progresses. TLDR: Groupflight: Departure 1: Amsterdam - EHAM Arrival 1: Rovaniemi - EFRO Departure 2: Rovaniemi - EFRO Arrival 2: Amsterdam - EHAM Departure time from Amsterdam: 1pm UTC (approximately, SUBJECT TO CHANGE) Please interact (like and/or reblog/or comment) if you have the intention to fly along!

[coravanlincolnius]

Here is a picture of VatSpy during CrossThePond. Every SINGLE red dot is someone flying the event! (and highlighted is me as LCN98X lincoln niner eight Xray)

[coravanlincolnius]

So here is my blog about Cross The Pond on the Vatsim network yesterday!

Here we can see me at the gate in Orlando Florida at the start of CTP. Unfortunately my co-pilot had a Crash To Desktop with her MSFS which is VERY unfortunate so my workload ended up being tremendous in the critical phases but i managed fine other than being a bit late with certain things.

Here i am are waiting to enter the runway for take-off!

LCN98X Runway 35L clear for take off! Cross The Pond is a go!

Here you can see me climbing out of Orlando

I cant willingly write this blog without including a screenshot of the sunrise!

Before take-off i had to wait for another united 777, However as i elected to cruise at mach .86 when everyone else basicly was doing .84 and slower i ended up overtaking 3 planes in mid-air! I overtook another plane going to Amsterdam as they didnt meet the altitude restriction and so i got in sooner!

Soon enough i got transferred over to oceanic control and for the next 3 hours of flight it was relaxing without having to listen to ATC!

And unfortunately soon enough the sun started to set again!

To say this was beautyfull is an understatement!

After about another hour of flight i was transferred to the belgian ATC and cleared for the DENUT3A arrival into Amsterdam. And now the big question arose in my twitch chat. Would we have to hold at RIVER or not? (River is one of the 3 IAF fixes for Amsterdam Schiphol which is the Initial Approach Fix) And surely then Amsterdam Radar brought the relieving word: "LCN98X decent to FL070 and after RIVER proceed direct to SPL"(the schiphol VOR waypoint)

In the top of my mind i got really confused when we directly overflew the runway! However rather unusually what i didnt expect is to be given runway 18C!

Then we flew over Purmerend and finally made our approach onto 18C

i saw about so many planes on short final here! I counted 8 planes around me including 2 on the runway! Here after 8 hours and 5 minutes of flight we are on the stand in Amsterdam! Our Cross The Pond has ended. However some people still had 4 hours to fly during CTP!

If anyone is intrested to see the ATC perspective of my arrival into Amsterdam please check:

Credits: Dave Roverts

[coravanlincolnius]

Cross The Pond is underway!

[coravanlincolnius]

ITS THE BIG DAY TODAY! 45 MINUTES UNTILL THE STREAM STARTS!