Across the Atlantic Ocean MP event.

[PavlinS]

Pavlin is proposing a new MP event for a people who would be interested to join - KJFK-EHAM flight. There is a specific flight plan that will be followed and it will be broadcasted on YouTube.
The event is scheduled for 11:00 Zulu on Saturday, 03.03. 2018.

The flight plan will be announced in alwaysdata.net

The event will be performed with Boeing 777 from the it0uchpods git lab:

https://gitlab.com/it0uchpods/fg777_seattle

I created a livery for this event, so if someone wants to use it or to see me properly:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I3G1Nwr7eYE2CZ7CaY8vwDOe1q3ojmY_?usp=sharing

btw this is how it looks on the plane:



It is created for 777-200 family, so add it in this folder, please.

The real flight is performed by KLM on 777-200ER. Link to the flight history of it:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/kl642#106ebca5

I'll be glad of more people join me.

The event has a goal - to remind people that we used to be united and we were all members of MP. I have nothing against VATSIM, but let's keep it out for a discussion here. I'll be glad if that happens, thx.

And finally, thx to the interested people to join me in advanced.

[IAHM-COL]

In will be able to launch in Edinburgh for the arrival last hours

[PavlinS]

Interesting.
Checkup this map can be useful, we are going to pass LON VOR-DME at EGLL:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u7FFD8gSaQCgoyBvohJtFU3NEXXDlGAg&usp=sharing

But I can't tell you in which time. The flight is 7 hours by measurement test [ I try it to checkup]. So, I though prob. if we did not make a huge delay it will be somewhere 14:00 Zulu afternoon. But I repeat, I am not sure.

[PavlinS]

There is a person who can come to do ATC at KJFK. I tough to change the time for 12Z. It's a pretty nice early morning in New York. But that means overnight landing at Amsterdam. Any other interested to change the time?

[V12]

Nice idea. I have fictional Concorde KLM livery in the old style :

[SHM]

Won't it be better to make the route after the NAT tracks for that day is out?

[PavlinS]

Excuse me, SHM, what you mean? What are NAT tracks, the forecast?

Btw, V12, would you please send me a link to the aircraft if you are going to join? I want to see you properly.

[SHM]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Tracks

North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), is a structured set of transatlantic flight routes that stretch from the northeast of North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean. They ensure aircraft are separated over the ocean, where there is little radar coverage. These heavily traveled routes are used by aircraft traveling between North America and Europe, flying between the altitudes of 29,000 and 41,000 feet inclusive. Entrance and movement along these tracks is controlled by special Oceanic Control Centres air traffic controllers to maintain separation between airplanes. The primary purpose of these routes is to allow Air Traffic Control to effectively separate the aircraft. Because of the volume of NAT traffic, allowing aircraft to choose their own co-ordinates would make the ATC task far more complex. They are aligned in such a way as to minimize any head winds and maximize tail winds impact on the aircraft. This results in much more efficiency by reducing fuel burn and flight time. To make such efficiencies possible, the routes are created twice daily to take account of the shifting of the winds aloft and the principal traffic flow, eastward in North America evening and westward twelve hours later.

Interesting article from PIlot point of view
https://aerosavvy.com/north-atlantic-tracks/

[V12]

Btw, V12, would you please send me a link to the aircraft if you are going to join? I want to see you properly.

https://github.com/BAWV12/Concorde

[SHM]

I will make the route for the flight, if you want the day before.