Aegean Seagull St Patrick's Parade to Dublin

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Aegean Seagull's Saint Patrick's Parade to Dublin!!!

We honour Ireland's Patron St Patrick with flights arriving in Dublin from Athens Hellas and Frankfurt Germany…

This is the second yearly event in Aegean Seagull’s calendar and rest assured it will become a nice tradition for all of us. We have hammered strong friendship bonds with Irish Flight community over the years, so here we come flying to Dublin Ireland from Athens Hellas and Frankfurt Germany deploying Aegean Seagull's Saint Patrick's Parade!!! Everyone can take part in this event, no matter if he/she is pilot of Aegean Seagull. Invite your fellow simmers to this flight…Let’s meet altogether and parade into Dublin's International Airport

Organizing the Flight

We will fly our 737-700, but you can fly any of your favorite aircraft as long as you can cruise with Mach 0.78 in FL380.

We introduce an innovation in this Event of ours. The flight from Athens to Dublin will take some 4.5 hrs, so in case there are pilots that have not all that time available, we will set another departure airport and this will be Frankfurt Main International Airport (EDDF). Flight time will be shorter from there and so more pilots will be able to participate.

For FS2000 users it is imperative to have Athens El. Venizelos LGAV Airport scenery by George Dorkofikis and Ted Katranas since it is the only one that has all parking stands integrated and we will use them quite well.

FS2002 users should use the LGAV scenery by George Dorkofikis, but they should take care to install the special FS2002 patch, which makes the standard FS2000 scenery compatible with FS2002.

For the FS98 users, that are not ASe pilots, we suggest to use the detailed Dublin Airport Scenery created by Terry Gaff. You can find this scenery at www.pcpilotsireland.com.

For FS2000 users we suggest Dublin2K detailed airport scenery created by Terry Gaff.

In case you select the Frankfurt Main as your departure airport, we suggest the German Airports Scenery which is payware. If you do not have it, you can use the default scenery in your FS.

2. Registration

By making your registration to our Event, you will receive a Special Info Package that will include all necessary bits of personal information you need to fly with us with no problem at all. Included in this package will be your assigned time slot, assigned gate for your departure from Athens El. Venizelos (LGAV), the flight plan in SquawkBox and FS Navigator 4.x format plus the official format flight plan. The same applies for pilots who will depart from Frankfurt Main and to say the least it is them who should register first of all, in order to give us the ability to plan well and effectively synchronize their departure with the arrival of the rest of the aircraft over EDDF.

It is not obligatory to register, but doing so you let us know the magnitude of pilots participation, you save time on your flight’s prepation AND you give us the opportunity to organize every detail in such a way that will magnify the fun factor, due to accurate reality simulation.

All you have to do is write your Full Name, Callsign, your e-mail address, country of origin, Flight Simulator type you utilize, Aircraft you plan to fly with as well as the Time you wish to depart from Athens (or Frankfurt) and e-mail them at fodim@hol.gr. We will try to satisfy your wish for your time of departure but only if this slot is not established for another pilot that has opted for it prior to your registration. All registrations will be treated on the "first come - first served basis". Have under mind that the first departure time slot is set for 16:10 UTC (18:10 Local Hellas Time) and the rest will follow with a 3-5 minutes interval depending on the final number of registrated pilots. It will be quite difficult to intervene in this slot procedure once it is started and if you would not like to expect your turn after all pilots have departed Please Do Register !!

3. Pre – Connection Procedures - On Line flight

Be sure to have the latest AIRAC navigation data installed in your SB, which is AIRAC 0202. Also if you use FS Navigator 4.x take care and update its airway and intersection databases. You can do this from Prabal’s Navigation data or NavData. (For links to both sites check our Links page.)

Prior to your connection here is a piece of advice that could prove to be wise. Utilize the ServInfo, a MUST HAVE utility created by Michael Frantzeskakis (check our Links Page) and find out which of the active servers has the smallest ping time for you. You should choose to connect to this server in SquawkBox. Although this is already a standard procedure for the regular and experienced On-Line Flight Simmers, we mention it, so that we reduce the lag factor to the minimum possible level. In this Event the use of Servinfo becomes even more crucial to the pilots that will depart from Frankfurt and meet the Event's main stream in the air. In our planning for departures from Frankfurt, we had the target to let the "Frankfurters" trail the main flotilla of aircraft coming from Athens.

As mentioned above, we will connect to VATSIM network and having contacted the vACCs engaged in our route, we hope that all of them will appear and cover ATC along our route. For the record, you are supposed to know all details about on-line flying otherwise you better leave it for next year when you will be more experienced ;).

4. Meeting Point-Communications

We will meet at the apron of Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Airport (LGAV) at 15:50 UTC (Zulu), which is 17:50 Local Greece Time, on Saturday 16th of March 2002. Remember that we will apply time slots and assigned gates for our departures. If someone misses his/her time slot, he/she will have to wait until another one is available and assigned by ATC. Rest assured that controllers will honor the slot system. SO BE PUNCTUAL.The whole procedure will start at 16:00 UTC (Zulu) and the first departure slot will be 16:10 UTC (Zulu). On connect with VATSIM be sure that you have your Squawk on stand by and please have your aircraft positioned in the assigned gate prior to this event. Not a big deal after all… We will meet in ASe’s company frequency which is rw.kapatel.gr/ASE . This will be our check-in frequency. We just announce our presence and when time comes we all switch to the ATC post to start our departure procedure. PLEASE set your reality preferences to “IGNORE CRASH” while on the ground. No reason why we should lose time by unpredictable aircraft (pilots ?) behavior in LGAV’s, EDDF's or EIDW’s Apron. For reasons well understood pilots departing from Frankfurt will not be able to announe their presence in a voice channel except for the case that there will be no ATC in Germany at the time and we will be all return to company frequency.

Connecting to VATSIM network does not mean that voice capability is mandatory. All controllers will provide ATC services even to text-only-able pilots. But… voice makes things much easier for all of us and is one step closer to reality. So please take care and be Roger Wilco able for this flight.

Also in case you use voice, do not forget to change the voice channel/program when you change to another controller, although SquawkBox 2.3.4 and above does this automatically. It is a commonly made mistake to change your com frequency to another controller and stay tuned to the previous controller voice channel.

Try to use radio laconically and speak loud (not too loud) and clear. You must have your system well tuned in order to take the maximum out of it.. Make some testing of your settings. You must also understand that not all of people have English as their native language…. Just for this reason please use standard ATC phraseology as it will facilitate things a lot. Clear, Simple and Effective communication!

In FIRs that their ATC is not manned we will return to our company official RW freq (rw.kapatel.gr/ASE) and we will leave for another ATC voice frequency when it is available.

5. Aegean Seagull and non ASe pilots

We remind you that you do not have to be a qualified Aegean Seagull pilot to participate in our flight, BUT you must be good at flying your aircraft. Have under mind that ASe is an advanced virtual airline system and its pilots fly with the highest standards available in the FS community. That means that the fun factor will be greatly increased. It is a good opportunity to have a good taste of our operations level and perhaps apply to join us.

6. Flight plan

Here is the flight plan in all its details .

Aegean Seagull's St Patrick's Parade to Dublin !!!

FLIGHT PLAN A/C : 737-700 FLIGHT LEVEL 380 - CRUISE SPEED : M 0.78 - FLIGHT’S DURATION : 4.5hrs
Location	Id	Type	Freq	Course	Distance	Airway	Country
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Airport	LGAV	AIRPORT					Hellas
PIKAD XX	SID			303	13.5	UR193
IXONI	IXONI	ISEC		303	26.7
ELVAS	ELVAS	ISEC		302	22.3
GARTA	GARTA	ISEC		302	49.3
PARNA	PARNA	ISEC		303	30.1
KRK	KRK	VOR/DME	114:70	300	19.9	UA14
TIGRA	TIGRA	ISEC		305	61.6		Exit/Entry
BRINDISI	BRD	VORTAC	113.20	305	56.4	UL612	Italy
VIESTE	VIE	VOR/DME	112.60	311	117.8
POLYP	POLYP	ISEC		311	50.7
ARPIK	ARPIK	ISEC		311	24.2
NUTRO	NUTRO	ISEC		311	37.6
ANCONA	ANC	VOR/DME	110.65	311	39.0
AMLON	AMLON	ISEC		330	51.9
CHIOGGIA	CHI	VOR/DME	114.10	330	50.7	UZ906
BOLZANO	BZO	NDB	362.0	335	92.7	UG60
ENOGO	ENOGO	ISEC		333	23.6		Exit/Entry
ALBEG	ALBEG	ISEC		333	19.4		Austria
KEMPTEN	KPT	VOR/DME	109.60	333	43.6	UL608	Germany
TANGO	TGO	VORTAC	112.50	322	68.2
LAMGO	LAMGO	ISEC		311	24.9
KARLSRUHE	KRH	VOR/DME	115.95	311	10.0
NATTENHEIM	NTM	VORTAC	115.30	310	100.8
UIR50	UIR50	ISEC		326	18.5
BATTY	BATTY	ISEC		329	27.6		Belgium
TERLA	TERLA	ISEC		288	7.3
HORTA	HORTA	ISEC		290	24.7
BRUSSELS	BUB	VOR/DME	114.60	289	20.1
DENUT	DENUT	ISEC		304	38.8
COSTA	COA	VOR/DME	110.05	304	13.2
SASKI	SASKI	ISEC		294	34.2	UB29
GAMLO	GAMLO	ISEC		279	6.7
XAMAL	XAMAL	ISEC		279	10.0		Exit/Entry
ERING	ERING	ISEC		278	16.6		UK
TOBIX	TOBIX	ISEC		278	12.4
SIRGO	SIRGO	ISEC		278	23.7
FERIT	FERIT	ISEC		278	4.0
LAMBOURNE	LAM	VOR/DME	115.60	278	14.5
COMPTON	CPT	VOR/DME	114.35	265	52.0	UG1
KENET	KENET	ISEC		287	9.0
BASET	BASET	ISEC		291	9.9	UB39
CHELT	CHELT	ISEC		312	30.9
RADNO	RADNO	ISEC		312	38.3
BEGDA	BEGDA	ISEC		312	33.2
NEFYN	NEFYN	ISEC		312	29.0
TOLKA	TOLKA	ISEC		312	35.2		Exit/Entry
							Ireland
DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT	EIDW	AIRPORT

Total Distance is some 1631 nm.

Pilots departing from Frankfurt Main should fly a KIR SID and then ask permission direct NATTENHEIM VOR/DME 115.30. From then on the same flight plan as above.

7. IFR details-Info

Transition Altitude for Athens Eleftherios Venizelos is 9000 ft

Transition Altitude for Frankfurt Main is 5000 ft.

Transition Altitude for Dublin Airport is 5000 ft.

If the controller tells you that you under radar control and you will be given radar vectors, please, don’t start saying “BUT why? I have the standard published procedure” etc….You will comply with his/her will, respecting his/her offer to our hobby.

Something that will make our flight having an interesting arrival are the strong winds prevailing in the Dublin Airports Area. Not much time ago a Delta 767 slided off the runway due to extremely strong winds at the time of landing.

8. Flight Duration

Duration of the Flight will be approx. 4.5 hours from engine start up to engine shut down, not counting the delays that may happen due to increased traffic on ground in Athens.

9. Cruising Flight Level and Mach Number

First of all we would like you to participate with aircraft that are able to cruise with M 0.78 at FL380. This will be the standard Flight Level and airspeed for all of us. This way we will ensure that the final Ireland ATC will receive our flight within a specified time window and will not have to wait for us being widely dispersed. Now if you insist to fly with a slower aircraft then you should select a lower FL to keep clear of the M0.78 main stream. In a case a faster aircraft is your choice then please select a different Flight Level as well.

10. Alternative Airport

Our Alternative Airport will be Shannon EINN around 100 nm southeast of Dublin.

11. Fuel on board

For Boeing 737-700 users such as Aegean Seagull’s “Island of Skiros” 37.000 lbs of fuel should be enough to cover the whole flight plus 45 mins of holding plus diversion to the alternative airport of Shannon (EINN) plus medium delay on Athens ground.

12. Missed Approach

Some details about missed approach…

This is something that every pilot, who respects him/herself, should pay some, at least some, attention. As weather conditions are not a controlled parameter to a flight, you can very easily engage a situation well under the minima for the decision altitude in your destination. In that case we execute a missed approach and we either go for a holding pattern and a second approach later either climb and fly direct to the alternative airport. The latest happens when the main destination airport is closed or there is no chance for the weather to become better.

This is the reason why you should study the missed approach pattern at both the original destination and alternative airports (the first one in case of an emergency return). If a controller will have many aircraft in his airspace, it will be quite difficult for him to pay the extra attention needed to you. Besides this way we are as real as it gets…

Please remember our note about strong winds that prevail in Dublin this season of the year and which force quite a number of aircrews to execute missed approches in real life.

13. Saving your flight regularly – Reconnection procedures

We strongly suggest you to save your flight in regular time intervals. This way you can ensure that even if a reboot is inevitable, then you will be within close range of the other aircraft. If disconnected from VATSIM network, take care to ask permission to reconnect from the ATC to avoid being overrun from another aircraft passing the point you disconnect on the very same time with you. Even better would be positioning your aircraft in a higher FL and connect. After you are sure that everything is clear, you may descend again to FL380.

14. Wrapping things up

Our dear Pilots and friends, we think that we have already introduced something special in the history of Aegean Seagull vAS. We hope that you will honor our efforts and fly with us. As it is a Special Event, you are free to invite friends of yours, even if they are not Aegean Seagull Pilots. We want to share this event with as many pilots as possible, because we want to create a strong tradition for our Virtual Airline.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information or question you might have.

PLEASE, DO NOT FORGET TO REGISTER

Finally our best wishes for

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