Issue 17 - June 2015
airways the magazine for IVAO United Kingdom and Ireland
12HR RFE!!!
ARE WE MAD? THE REAL FLIGHT EVENT HAS BEEN ANNOUCED. FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED. PAGE (NO.6)
airways CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS
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The welcoming message to airways, and his overview of the division over the previous month.
TRAINING ROOM
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In this edition of the Training Room, we will understand Departure Separations
DESTINATION GUIDE
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This month we look at Shannon Airport
EVENTS UPDATE
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An update for the events coming up this month for IVAO United Kingdom and Ireland.
BA VIRTUAL
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15 years and still going strong!
AWARDS
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Congratulations to all the members who have gained an award.
Find out who is online, with the Webeye. Click Here
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airways MESSAGE FROM DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS BY DANNY RICHMOND (GB-ADIR) It has been an exciting couple of months for the United Kingdom and Ireland Division, with a number of changes and announcements made. Firstly, we have implemented a new system to prevent traffic hoppers (the word used for people who move controlling areas depending on where the traffic is). Under rule 5.2.1 you must not connect unless you can control for 30mins. Due to the high number of people breaking this rule we will be warning offenders with an email explaining what they have done wrong. After this, any further offences will result in a supervisor being informed. Secondly, the next RFE has been announced! This time it will be bigger than ever with full ATC for 12hours. This has never been attempted before and we are glad to be the first (Read more Page 6). I hope you enjoy this edition of Airways Magazine.
(Image Above) Author: Joshua Rees – The Sun’s Up.
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airways THE TRAINING ROOM Departure Separations In this edition of Airways we will be teaching you how to depart aircraft from an aerodrome with the correct departure separation. Departure separations are used so that after one aircraft takes off, the next aircraft does not take-off with less than the number of minutes needed. To do this we have three different types of separation: Vortex Separation Route Separation Speed Separation Vortex Separation Vortex is the turbulence which is generated by the passage of an aircraft in flight. The most amount of this turbulence is created when the nose gear lifts from the ground. Due to this turbulence when have to separate aircraft by time to allow for the turbulence to calm. Below is a table showing the separation: 1st aircraft vortex cat 2nd aircraft vortex cat Separation required Heavy Heavy Heavy Heavy Medium Medium Medium Medium Small Small Small Small Light Light Light Light
Heavy Medium Small Light Heavy Medium Small Light Heavy Medium Small Light Heavy Medium Small Light
1 minute 2 minutes 2 minutes 2 minutes 1 minute 2 minutes 2 minutes 1 minute 2 minutes 1 minute
Route Separation Route separations are in place to prevent other aircraft catching up with another who have departed on the same SID as the other. Therefore the current system is in place: 1 minute separation - The aircraft fly on tracks diverging by 45° or more immediately after take-off. 2 minute separation - The preceding (first) aircraft has filed a true airspeed 40 knots or more faster than the following (second). 5 minute separation - The preceding (first) aircraft has filed a true airspeed of 20 to 39 knots faster than the following aircraft.
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airways 10 minute separation - Any other case ATC Units may have their own reduced separations. These will be detailed in the airport information on our website. Speed Separation Due to the various amount of speeds aircraft can reach, they have all been categorised in different groups. Group 3 All jet aircraft excluding: -C500/501/550/551 -BA46 and derivatives -CL60 -CRJ1/2/7/9 -J328 -E135/145 -CARJ
Group 2 -C500/501/550/551 -BA46 and derivatives -CL60 -CRJ1/2/7/9 -J328 -E135/145 -CARJ -L188/P3 -AN22 -D328 -L328 -SB20
Group 1 -A748 -CN235 -ATP -AT43/44/45/72 -BE20 -DHC7 -DH8A/8B/8C/8D -E120 -F27 -F50 -G159 -JS31/32/41 -SF34 -SW3/4
Group 0 -BE99 -DC3 -DHC6 -E110 -SH33/36 -PA31 -PA23 -C404 -C172 -C152
Only the most common aircraft types are included in this table as it would be impossible to group every single type of aircraft made. If you work an aircraft that is not included in the above list, look for a similar aircraft and group it together with it. To work out the required speed separation, you first need to calculate the required separation for vortex/route. Once you have that figure, you then need to add on any required speed separation. Group 3 aircraft are the fastest - Group 0 aircraft are slowest. When a faster aircraft follows a slower aircraft, the minimum separation is increased by one minute for each successive group. Example 1: If we have a 2 minute route separation but a group 2 aircraft is first to depart followed by a group 3 aircraft, we would need to increase the separation by 1 minute, to 3. Conclusion By putting all of these separations together will give you the departure separation you must give for a safe and efficient departure.
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airways DESTINATION GUIDE Shannon Airport - EINN Shannon Airport is Ireland’s third busiest airport behind Dublin and Cork and is located near the western coast of Ireland. Shannon was the first to have a transatlantic arrival from New York in a DC4. Now we have numerous passenger airlines which go transatlantic from this airport, these include: Aer Lingus, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, and US Airways. Shannon is famous for its transatlantic flight, but the most popular route is to London Heathrow. New York is in third position after Stansted by handling 119,343 passengers in 2014. Shannon has 4 disused runways and 1 active runway. Runway 06/ 24 is an asphalt runway with a Cat II ILS. Parking is all on 1 apron with 27 different parking spots. There is also a light aircraft parking area to the east of the aprons. To control at Shannon you require an AS3 rating which is 3 silver stars, this can be gained by controlling for 25 hours and passing an IVAC theory exam.
EVENTS UPDATE BY ALEXANDER CLOVER (GB-EC) After the highly successful Heathrow RFE on the 14th March 2015, IVAO UK are in the planning of the next Real Heathrow, on Saturday 19th March 2016, we will be hosting our famous The Real Heathrow from the vACC. The vACC being hosted from Milton Keynes. We are hoping to be able to get the rooms back which we used in March. However, this year is different. We are going to be doing a 12 hour RFE which will be starting at 09:00z and finishing at 21:00z. As this is a long RFE we have split it into two shifts, the first shift being from 09:00z until 15:00z. The second shift being from 15:00z until 21:00z. Members are welcome to stay for the whole 12 hours and control however, this year the pre-rfe meetup (aka. going out for drinks etc...) will be on the Friday before the RFE and if you wish to attend the pre-rfe meetup then you will more than likely want to do the second shift. This means when the RFE finishes at 21:00z, the members who are staying over in hotels will be going back to a room and ordering whatever food they want to be delivered to the hotel. More details will be revealed later in the year. This is an invite to all UK and IE members to attend the upcoming RFE in March if you know you will be able to get the time off to attend the RFE then please send me a email with the shift time(s) you want to do to gb-ec@ivao.aero also CCing gb-hq@ivao.aero.
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airways The World’s Favourite Virtual Airline BY SIMON KELSEY – SENIOR CAPTAIN, BAVIRTUAL As BAVirtual enters its fifteenth year, Simon Kelsey looks back at the airline’s history and ahead to the future. It was around the turn of the millennium that Steve Ellis first came up with the idea of creating a Virtual Airline modelled on the real-world British Airways. The concept proved sound: within months of the launch in April 2000 more than 200 pilots had joined the fledgling airline, all sending their Pireps in by e-mail in the days before dynamic database-driven websites. Despite that early success, however, the road over the last fifteen years has been anything but smooth: twice the airline has been forced to close because of its own success. The first of those closures came just twelve months after the initial launch after the Pirep backlog became unmanageable; the second in 2009 when, at the height of the credit crunch, the sponsor providing BAV’s server bandwidth was unable to continue doing so for free. There have been other highs and lows on the journey as well: from the historic 2002 agreement with British Airways which represented the first time a Virtual Airline had been recognised by its real-world counterpart, to the devastating news in October 2014 that BA were terminating the agreement and ordering the closure of the BAV website. Yet each time the organisation has bounced back and returned stronger than ever. I am now in my second spell at BAV: having been a member during the “BAVII” era of the mid-2000s, I returned in late 2010 and haven’t looked back since. There are many positive things I could say about the airline: the schedules, for instance, tirelessly updated in line with the real British Airways flying programme. The documentation and training material, much of it put together by real type-rated pilots within the organisation. The Classic schedules, offering an opportunity for those who like their flight decks powered by steam and Jet A the opportunity to re-live the golden age of commercial aviation, and my own baby: the BAV Flying Club, which I was given the privilege of establishing late last year in order to offer yet another point of variety – of the low and slow kind. Yet perhaps the most striking thing about the organisation is the community. Never in my own sixteen years of Flight Simulation experience have I come across such a pleasant, mature, genuinely helpful bunch of people, bound by the same passion for aviation and British Airways. From aspiring teenagers to real-world pilots, retired airline captains and everybody in between, there is both an immense quantity of knowledge and a tight-knit, yet welcoming atmosphere where questions may be asked freely and wisdom imparted generously. In keeping with the VA’s history of technical innovation, in just the last few weeks support for both XPlane 10 and Prepar3d has been added to the existing stable of FS9, FSX and FSX:SE. The innovative new BAV Wear application represents a step change in VA flying: airframe hours, wear and servicebased failures may be transferred from pilot to pilot, with each individual airframe in the fleet accruing its own usage and with its own tech log. It doesn’t end there, either, with a fully-featured Pilot Training programme currently under development. With tens of thousands of hours of both real and virtual aviation experience going in to the project, it is set to be the most innovative, comprehensive and highest-quality Flight Simulator training available anywhere within the Virtual Airline world. Whatever the next fifteen years may hold, one thing is for certain: the World’s Favourite Virtual Airline will continue to innovate, develop and rise to whatever challenges may come its way.
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airways AWARDS BY DANNY RICHMOND (GB-DIR) On behalf of the staff and members here at IVAO United Kingdom & Ireland, congratulations on gaining one of the awards.
Juan Zea Fernandez completed the 2015 VFR Ireland Tour. Jack Plumb gained the controller rating of APC. Graeme Wright gained the pilot rating of PP. Benno Goslicki gained the pilot rating of PP.
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