The Festival of FlightGear, May '17

[IAHM-COL]

Confirmed ATCs

• Bangkok Center (at Bangkok Suba VTBS): VTBB_CT (120.5) - ATC411
• Phuket Approach: VTSP_AP (124.7) - IH-COL [05/06 16:00UTC-22:00 UTC AND 05/07 17:00UTC-22:00UTC]
• Phuket Tower: VTSP_TW (118.1) - elgaton
• Phuket Tower: VTSP_TW (118.1) - Panipakkore [05/07 08:00-10:00UTC]
• Lumpur Control (at Kuala Lumpur WMKK): WMFC_CT (123.75) - Oscar
• Mandalay Approach: VYMD_AP (119.7) - jwocky
• Singapore Center (at Singapore Changi WSSS): WSJC_CT (127.3) - omega
• Singapore Approach: WSSS_AP (120.3) - SHM

Recommended Scenery

If you are not using terraGIT, consider the following scenery expansion packs

• VTSP:https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-SCENERY/VTSP-fg-CustomScenery/archive/master.zip
• WSSS: https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-SCENERY/WSSS-fg-CustomScenery/archive/master.zip
• VYMD: https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-SCENERY/VYMD-fg-CustomScenery/archive/master.zip

Elgaton wrote

This is the thread to discuss everything related to the Spring 2017 edition of the Festival of FlightGear.

Spring 2017 edition: May 6th and 7th, 2017
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Peninsular South-East Asia (West Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore)

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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 2017 edition only.
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Festival repository
I have created a repository to store OpenRadar files/ground networks/Route Manager files - you can find it here. Pilots and ATCs are invited to install its contents before participating (see the instructions in the README file within).
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Flight/ATC planning:
Pilots and controllers are invited to register their flight plans/sessions at Lenny's website.
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Charts:
to be added
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ATCs:

• VTBB_CT (Bangkok Center, at Suvarnabhumi Intl.) - Itouchpods
• VTSP_CT (Phuket Radar) - IH-COL
• VTSP_TW (Phuket Tower) - Parnikkapore
• WSSS (Singapore Changi) - Raven
• WMKK (to be determined) - MD-GRK
• WMKK (to be determined) - Oscar
• [b]VVTS[/b] (Tan Son Nhat) - J. Maverick 16
• VYMD (Mandalay) - jwocky

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Past Spring editions:

Spring 2016 edition: May 7th and 8th, 2016
Time: All weekend Sat 00:00-Sun 23:59 UTC
Location: Japan
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.

[IAHM-COL]

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic. ... 43#p301293

No Malaysia?

If we're going to include Malaysia I will ATC for KLIA (WMKK)

Yeah! Peninsular Malaysia is within the range. Insular Malaysia is not.
Therefore, Kuala Lumpur (WMKK) is a really nice position. It'll be great to have you there

[IAHM-COL]

IH-COL reports his position for the Festival of FlightGear SEASia 2017!!

Hi All

It was not an easy decision.
In reality, I flirted with several of the options in this marvelous land of South East Asia.

After balancing things that matters to me the most, including:
1) a great airport for FGers to visit
2) an aiport currently underdeveloped or Poorly developed (so I can build a new scenery package for the festival)
3) Natural beauty surrounding the approaches

I decided!!


IH-COL will control Radar for Phuket, VTSP --- Thailand

The 2nd International Airport of Thailand, by deplanements, after Bangkok's Suba, a major tourist hub. Amazing shores, incredible geological formations. True expression of paradise!!




This airport has a really nice new terminal and buildings that are waiting to be developed for FlightGear



(I'll open an scenery thread and invite my fellow developers to join me in developing paradise!!)

Also it offer phenomenal view on landing from either Rwy


And the terraGIT v2.3 scenery is updated with a very complete apt.dat




Looking forward to Serve you as Radar control in Phuket, next year's May!

IH=COL

[SHM]

Beautiful place

[Raven]

Is it okay if i be the ATC for my home country, Singapore?

[IAHM-COL]

Naturally

[oscar6662]

I was thinking about, WMKK_CTR or the ocean control of there is one...

[IAHM-COL]

@oscar... Cool

Try coordinating with MD GRK a dual position in Kuala Lumpur? Like ground + center?

[Catalanoic]

Nice! We can discuss related scenery plans on the dedicated thread.

[IAHM-COL]

Sure Catalanoic. It will be great if you join me developing Phuket, but I am going to make an obvious early disclosure:


The scenery I am going to make for VTSP is not to upload to terrasync, nor I would spend a second making it terrasync friendly. It will be available as an FGMEMBERS-SCENERY custom package and in terraGIT --this is enough for me.
I wont authorize you or anyone other to upload them "under their authorship" as you've done with several buildings in terrasync (like EGOD work, which is listed as your authorship in terrasync's database, but I know that is not true, and I suspect that to be in violation of copyright under the GPL letter, by presumption of lack of author recognition).

If you are OK with that, I look forward to work with you, whom I consider one of the most talented FG developers for FG scenery around.
Otherwise, with this early disclaimer, I would understand if you preffer to work many other places possible around, and just as you've done with Edinburgh, just leave the sceneries off the grid.

I am creating, off course, a dedicated Phuket thread


IH-COL