Autumn 2015 edition: November 7th and 8th, 2015 (FSWeekend 2015)
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Switzerland and AustriaATC: will be offered on Mumble (with MPChat as a backup).
Setting up Mumble |
ATC Tutorial (how to interact with controllers) |
PhraseologyManned airports and ATC channels:LOWW Tower (ElGaton) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LOWW_TWR - ATIS on FGCom (122.950)
LOVV Wien Center (KIWI34) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LOWW_CT
LOWI Innsbruck (N3266G) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LOWI_TWR
LSZS FIR (legoboyvdlp) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LSZS_FIR
LSGG (IAHM-COL) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LSGG_TWR
LSZH (aiannuzzi99) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LSZH_TWR
LFSB/LSZM (Thefan630) - Channel: Event FG Festival -> LFSB_TWR
Participating ATC outside Austria/Switzerland:LFLL (daweed) - Channel: FRANCE ATC Services Channel -> LFLL - Lyon Saint-Exupery
LIPA (J Maverick 16) - Channel: NIATCA ATC Services Channel -> LIPA - Aviano Air Base
We kindly ask pilots to file flight plans/follow published procedures if able; doing so will greatly speed up the work for us controllers.Suggested scenery:LOWW: scenery pack by lasermanLSGG: enhanced scenery
by IH-COL and Firefly available via TerraSync -
an osm2city version was also preparedLSZB: scenery pack by lasermanOther airports can be downloaded via TerraSync.
Charts:Austria: Austro Control eAIP site (choose "Actual version" -> "Part III - AD" -> "AD 2")
Switzerland: Eurocontrol(free registration required) |
vACC Switzerland (no registration; recent, but might not be the latest version)
Pilots flying from/to LSZS (Samedan) should read the
special pilot briefing to make themselves familiar with the peculiar approach procedures.
For additional ATCs outside the Austria/Switzerland area:
France: SIA (choose the version of the AIP currently in force -> Part 3/Aerodromes -> Section AD2).
Italy - Aviano: SkyVector (pointers to the Italian MIL AIP appreciated)
Flight plans: file them on
Lenny's website. (
Flight planning tutorial)
Repository: we will provide ground networks (to avoid starting on runways), route manager files (to let you enter updated SIDs/STARs in your autopilot) as well as OpenRadar files (for controllers).
Get them from here (installation instructions are in the README file).