USA TOUR Event | SAT JUNE 4TH 17:00 - 20:00 UTC

[LesterBoffo]

Do I look like an airline? lololol!

Well just chalk it up to one of those times when you're walking down some street and it suddenly occurs to you.." Do I feel like an airline?" "I wonder if my ham is missing me?" "Why do Anna's Hummingbirds overwinter in the Pacific NorthWest?" " Mon Deiu! has my car been eating by giant rats?"

[legoboyvdlp]

Haaaaah!

[IAHM-COL]

IAHM-COL's Beatification

Hi All,
I wonder if from now on you should be calling me "your sanctity IAHM-COL"!
But I just got the exclusive honor of inventing the fictional ICAO code of the Holy-Pad

___Explanation___

As a side-track of the presidential leg, and noticing this is all about transporting heads of state...

Well... it happens that the Vatican City (or the Holy See), is a recognized autonomous administrative entity (in other terms, a country on it's own right). In this point of view, in the center of Rome -- Italy,the Vatican City is the smallest country of the world by area.

An airport does not fit on in. But this "country" only aerial hub is the helipad used mostly exclusively by the Holy Father, or high church officials (and rumors said, recently some very needed urgent patients of a neighbor Hospital). This helipad's official name is

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Portus helicopterorum Civitatis Vaticanae,


, which translates to English (from Latin) as
"The Helicopter Port of the City of the Vatican", and which I very familiarly reffer as to The Holy Pad.

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

As you can see from the Wiki, this heliport has no IATA or ICAO code.

Was I saying? oh yes...
As a side-track of the presidential leg, and noticing this is all about transporting heads of state, I decided to create for the database the Holy See Heliport, since it was not present at all in the database.

After making it, I asked the Gateway guys, to allow me to upload an unexistent ICAO airport.

They replied, that I had to give a fictional ICAO code, following these rules:
X = For Fictional
LI = For regional ICAO prefix (most /all Italy)
NN = two more digits or letters that I invent myself, and thus, creating the only unofficial ICAO code for the Holypad.
*(by now you probably know that unofficial is my thing )*

Accepting this sanctification, then I decided to name it XLIVC (X for fictional, LI for Italian, VC for Vatican City).

And once this was approved, I had the honor of submitting the layout as seen in the screenshot below

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Now, another head of state that has at least his proper landingpad.

[IAHM-COL]

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PS: For those curious, XLIVC does not make sense for a Roman number (AFAIK)
XLIV = 44
but C is 100 and to make 144 needs to be before, not after, somehow like
CXLIV would make 144


[SHM]

Nice

[IAHM-COL]

Very good.
The holy father is ready to go.

After pushing the Vatican City Helipad to the Gateway, now I constructed it for Flightgear on TerraGit

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git pull
install/e010n40


Then, I prepared the Pope Helicopter Livery, his Holyness official transport is an Augusta Westland aw139
(I had committed a few corrections to make the helicopter take flight again, and thanks to Lester, it is actually a very well behaved helicopter!)

The commit list 55559 .. f7578e include the fixes and the Pope's Livery
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/aw139/commits/master





Finally, if you wish to take off from the Helipad in Rome, consider launching Flightgear in the following specified coordinates, which will sit you on the parking pad of the Vatican City Helipad.

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--lon=12.44610569 --lat=41.90190302 --heading=14


Note: Althougth I assigned XLIVC for ICAO, since we are not updating the apt.dat.gz database, flightgear can't launch there directly in the absence of coordinates.

[IAHM-COL]

Last lap in preparation for the USA Tour Leg 47th

We are meeting this Saturday (June 4th) to fly the presidential aircraft to Washington, District of Columbia.

No information had been released to the public on what's the agenda on this secret meeting

The following is the list of confirmed (really Official) participants

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• Boeing Business Jet on VIP collection (Colombia: Freedom and Order, IH-COL - callsign: FAC0001) : GIT* | Zip Snapshot
  
• Boeing 777 (UK: To her Majesty's Secret Service: Legoboyvdlp ): GIT* | Zip Snapshot
  
• Airbus 340-313X (Bundesrepublik Deutschland BRD 16*01: JWOCKY): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• CC 150 Polaris - Airbus A310 (Canada, The True North; Strong and Free: Skyboat): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• Embraer EMB-120 (Uruguay: Lesbof): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• Boeing 707 (U.S.A: Airforce One transporting cryogenic J.F.K: Side): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• Airbus A330-200 (France: T-URBO - Callsign COTAM01): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• Fokker 70 (The Netherlands, Koningin Beatrix: MV-DV, callsign: PH-KBX): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• Boeing 757-200 (Iceland, oscar6662): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• Boeing 747-8i (India, SHM - Callsign AIC0001): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• Embraer Jet 195 (Poland, SP-BAN(?)): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot
  
• A340-600 (Algeria, PilotDjim): GIT* | ZIP Snapshot

IMPORTANT NOTIFICATIONs:

* If you download the files with the zip snapshot listed above, rename the folder of the aircraft by removing the "-master", examples, after unzipping VIP-master, rename to VIP
* The aircraft indicated with GIT* can also be obtained using git repository FGDATA Next generation with submodules. The branch in this event is currently the default branch being checkout by the repository. Just update the respective submodule if not done already

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Aircraft/VIP  # IH-COL
Aircraft/777 # Legoboyvdlp
Aircraft/A340-313X # JWocky
Aircraft/A310 # Skyboat
Aircraft/EMB-120 # Lesbof
Aircraft/707 # Side
Aircraft/A330-200 # T-urbo
Aircraft/fokker100 # MV-DP
Aircraft/757-200 # Oscar6662
Aircraft/747-8i # SHM
Aircraft/E-jet-family # SP-BAN
Aircraft/A340-600 # pilotDJim


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Scenery

You can prepare the scenery for the USA tour with terraGIT

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git pull
install/USA.Tour47


or scenery for KMEM at: https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-SCENERY/KMEM-fg-CustomScenery

SERVER

Looking forward for the next USA tour. Remember to verify you can connect to the FGMEMBERS' server, on its new IP address:

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I.P. Address: 172.93.103.204
Port: 16605


IHCOL

[KL-666]

Is that woman in the first post not the one that treated prisoners at Abu Graib as animals?

Kind regards, Vincent

[IAHM-COL]

I hope she is not! ( )

I took the image from Wikimedia Commons. Its an example of the military salute proper martial posture.

[KL-666]

Ow ok, they all look the same

Kind regards, Vincent