Microlighters

Howit ouens!
How many people out there play flight sim and who will be interested in playing online?
I for one have never done it, but will be dead keen to give it a go.
If anyone has ever played online out there and can assist on getting a session up and ruuning let me know please - its loads of fun apparently.
:D
Cheers, Stephen.

There was a thread a while ago on the Microlighters Yahoo group about guys in CT that did just that - You had one guy designated as the tower (actual tower personnel I think!) and you had to do proper radio work, follow traffic control instructions etc. CAA has a section for virtual aviators as I re-call...

Might be a good way for new pilots like myself to build their confidence & practice their radio work!

Gadget who is also on the forum has played online and has had a lot of fun. Get hold of him and he'll be happy to share info with you. The guys who do this are called virtual pilots.

I am attending an on line flight on Thursday evening to learn more and then If the brain cells allow I will report back and yes why not.

I have a frikken cool F1 Mirage I fly with. And fast.

Cool, thanks Agent, let us know.
check out http://www.wspilots.com for some more lekker aeries.

Do you use Microsoft FSX for this??

FS9 (2004) - thats what all the rest of the guys are using.

Check Avcom. They have regular Wed and Fri flights. Great fun with team speak. Also air race for 3 nov.

Hi. Checkout www.ivao.org. They have a server in South Africa as well. There are ATC controllers all over the world and pilots all over as well flying in a virtual sky. Audio is available where you can talk with the tower and other aircraft via microphone. These guys are very strict and adhere to ICAO rules. You can go through training as ATC or pilot training as well and I know that a lot of international training centres use them to train ATC's

OH. and it's free.

haven't played it though i love to play online games...it will be great to know more about it...hehehehe

I will work on a plan this weekend and see if I can host flightsim2004 and combat flight sim 3 on one of my networks. whatch this space for details. I do believe however that there is an 8 aircraft limit which ivao does not have.

Gadget - you go boy!!
Let us know how you get on. I am trying to connect ot the avcom ssession at the moment and its a hellava misssion.

You can also use Google Earth

Open it, zoom in to earth to a closish range say 2-3km, press CTRL+A - little Easter Egg

Take a look at these sites:

http://www.ava.org.za
http://www.vacs.org.za

These guys have years of experience and will answer any questions.