Free Flight, Free Speech

Spring 2016 edition: May 7th and 8th, 2016
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Japan
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The Festival of FlightGear is a biannual "fly-in" event taking place in Spring and Fall:

• the Spring edition is held in March in a region outside Europe;
• the Fall edition is held in Europe and coincides with the FSWeekend "real world event" at Lelystad.

This first post will be the only one containing up-to-date information about the Festival and will be updated to provide you with links to the latest airport charts/ground networks/Route Manager files/helpful resources for the Spring 2016 edition only. The Fall 2016 edition will be planned and discussed in this dedicated thread.

ATCs

• RJAA (Tokyo Narita) - SHM and PilotDjim
• RJTT (Tokyo Haneda) - oscar6662 and it0uchpods
• Tokyo Center (based at RJGG) - elgaton (availability: 18 to 22 UTC)
• RJBB (Osaka Kansai Intl.) - IAHM-COL (availability: 16 to 24 UTC)
• RJFF (Fukuoka) - KIWI34
• RJNA (Nagoya) - ACI
• RJTY (Yokota AB) - J Maverick 16
• RJGG (Chubu Centrair Intl.) - aiannuzzi99, ATCJay

ATCS, please register your positions at http://flightgear-atc.alwaysdata.net/

AIP charts:

• eAIP Japan (requires a free registration)
• Also, consider freely available charts on opennav (no registration required)

Contritube with OpenRadar files, Route Manager files, Groundnets, Navaids and Fixes

All contributions welcomed. The repository for this type of material is managed by A. Menti (elgaton)
https://github.com/ElGaton/festival-fli ... arch-2016/

Contritube with Scenery Development

Currently these repositories are the forefront of This festival development efforts:

• Tokyo (RJAA/RJTT): To be determined
• Kansai (RJBB): https://github.com/mherweg/RJBB-fg-CustomScenery
• Chitose (RJCC): https://github.com/legoboyvdlp/RJCC.RJC ... tomScenery
• Fukuoke (RJFF): https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-SCENERY/RJ ... tomScenery
• Chubu (RJGG): https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-SCENERY/RJ ... tomScenery

Feel free to send pull requests, or to request push access

Thanks, IH-COL

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Old editions:
Fall 2015 edition: November 7th and 8th, 2015
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Switzerland and Austria
See progress and feedback from this post onwards.

Spring 2015 edition: May 2nd and 3rd, 2015
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Argentina/Brazil (SBRJ/SBGL and south)
See progress and feedback from this post onwards.

2014 edition: November 1st and 2nd, 2014
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Iberia (Spain/Portugal)
See the dedicated thread

Hi All

For development of Chubu Intl. Airport (RJGG)


See:

• Repository: https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-SCENERY/RJGG-fg-CustomScenery
• Dedicated thread: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=239

IAHM-COL will be ATCing Kansai Intl. RJBB


@All

Early starting, preparations for the FG Festival Japan, Spring 2016.
To honor traditions, I will be ATCing during the Festival of Spring. This time, I will choose to serve as CTR in the Airport of Osaka: Kansai Intl.


This very impressive piece of the mastering of Japanese Engineering was built during the 70's. In this area of Japan, were land surface is scarce, the ingenious Japanese had decided to build the very first airport on a man-made artificial island. And, they succeeded, not only at that, but also at making one of the longest airport terminals in the world.

A very exciting approach, that meets the water to anyone overshooting ... and that looks just great when you try out.

How is Kansai in FlightGear?

I will fly in both festivals.

Kansai is not bad.
The current layout is a decent developed 810.
It contains the artificial island in a good shape, and objects can definitely be uploaded over terrasync (as in they won't be just floating in waters)

In any case I am looking forward to make a more detailed 850
IH-COL

I want to volunteer my atc service.

Nice T-URBO

I have created a GitHub repository for storing OpenRadar routes, Route Manager files and ground networks. You can find it here - contributions are welcome. I'll also look into adding missing fixes and navaids for inclusion in apt.dat.

Finally, I'd like to (tentatively) announce I'll be manning RJAA (Tokyo Narita) - it is already modelled (with 3D buildings and an 850 layout) in X-Plane, so it will be quite easy to port to FlightGear. Moreover, it's quite near to RJBB, so there's a good chance (ATC permitting) we'll be able to offer full ATC coverage. I'd like, however, to hear other opinions and to check the scenery status in FG before making a firm commitment.

Neat stuff elgaton

1) can you give me push access to the repo?
2) SHM has also reported interest in Narita, so that means you guys will be coordinating positions
3) T-URBO says he volunteers ATC. He has not indicated an airport yet.
4) I am going to be doing Kansai
5) Thanks for looking into improving Fixes and Navaids. That was a very orphan TODO


@ALL: See first post on this thread for updates

IH-COL

IAHM-COL wrote:1) can you give me push access to the repo?

Done.

IAHM-COL wrote:2) SHM has also reported interest in Narita, so that means you guys will be coordinating positions

Great! (As an alternative, I can - depending on the number of controllers - be at Tokyo ACC:

That would give complete coverage during flights in central Japan. If additional ATCs show up to cover ground positions... even better.)