Dec 3rd: Nobel Prize Fly-in, Stockholm

In the beginning of December, the annually awarded Nobel Prize is awarded to people who have made extrordinary achievements for mankind in the areas of chemistry, physics, medicine, literature, physiology, economics and peace. You can read more about the Nobel prize here The prizes are awarded in Stockholm and Oslo and to celebrate this, VACC Scandinavia welcomes you to experience a typical Sunday evening in real life at Stockholm Arlanda, the by far biggest airport in Sweden!

Roughly 225 international and domestic flights are available in our booking system based on the real schedule. Pilots can expect full ATC staffing the whole evening and high quality service!

Visit www.vaccsca.org/event for more info.

Dec 3rd:Tschüss Dom - Hamburg EDDH Real OPS

Hamburg's DOM - this is a piece of this Hanseatic city's tradition which attracts around nine million visitors every year. Hamburg's DOM - the biggest fun fair in North Germany with a guarantee of fun, nostalgia and thrills galore.

Now after one month of partying, on December the 3rd, its time to say: Goodbye Dom.

Tschüss Dom is a Real OPS Event, taking place on Sunday Dec 3rd 1600-2200z. Flight bookings and other information can be found on the Eventpage

Non-scheduled Flights and General Aviation Traffic are welcome as well.

Dec 1st: Swiss FIR VFR day

Swiss FIR are pleased to announce a new monthly event in Switzerland, especially for all VFR Pilots.

The best time to explore Switzerland, on the 1st of each month, there will be some towers staffed across the country.

For the first time we have the following stations online:

LSGG – Geneva
LSGS – Sion
LSZA– Lugano
LSZB – Bern
LSZR – St Gallen
LSZS – Samedan

Another collection of Swiss VFR Fields can be found here

Nov 26th: IFC Europe Fly In

IFC in conjunction with VATSIM-UK announces the IFC Flyin taking place on Sunday 26th November starting at 1800z. The Midlands RTS ATC team will be staffing Birmingham International Airport (EGBB).

All flights flying into Birmingham and landing between 1800z and 2200z will have their callsigns logged. They will then be automatically entered into a free prize draw that will take place at the end of the flyin on Sunday night . The lucky winner will be announced on the IFC Globalnetwork.com web site later that evening and will be awarded over £300 of flightsimulation products. The whole IFC team will be flying online and will depart from Frankfurt Germany at 1800z to Birmingham.

Come and join the IFC Flyin as a preview to the International Flightsim Convention that takes place at the NEC National Exhibition centre, UK on the 2nd & 3rd December.

Charts and airfield information can be found on the VATSIM-UK website

Nov 23rd: C1 exam at LYBE (Belgrade)

Want to fly somewhere different, and help a wannabe controller at the same time? There is a C1 practical examination taking place at Belgrade (LYBE) on Thursday 23rd November at 1900z.

All traffic is welcome. Visit the Serbia and Montenegro vACC website, download the latest scenery and charts, and enjoy flying somewhere new.

Nov 25th: KBOS Real World Ops

vZBW is pleased to announce the Real World Ops event
featuring KBOS!

Click the above link to visit the KBOS Real World Ops webpage!

Nov 26th: Keflavik Fly-In

Yes we are still alive up here in Iceland and we want to invite all of you to come and enjoy an exciting event with full ATC coverage over Iceland and a fully staffed Keflavik International Airport (BIKF). Keflavik Airport was built by the US Army during WWII and was considered a valuable stop-over link between USA and Europe and during the Cold War its importance was at the highest. On September 30th 2006 the US Army pulled back all armed forces from the airport and officially handed it over to the Icelandic government. With this event we would like to pay our respects to the US soldiers that have defended our country for over 60 years, and at the same time celebrate that Keflavik Airport is now our own.

The event is on 26th November from 1800 - 2100 UTC
Further information available on the event website

Nov 22nd: ZAU ARTCC - the Satellite Special

On Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006, ZAU will be hosting VATSIM Regional Night! We are very excited to offer a different type of Regional Night to the pilots of VATSIM, rather than the typical staffing of KORD and KMDW! Being dubbed, "The Satellite Special," ZAU will be staffing Class C and Class D airports to give pilots a truly unique experience flying into all the smaller airports they usually don't have control for!

Examples of airports that will be staffed:

KBTL - W.K Kellogg Airport, Battle Creek, MI
KMKG - Muskegon Airport, MI
KGYY - Gary International Airport, IN
KDPA - DuPage Airport, IL

.... and many others!!!

The event will begin at 0200Z, and will run as long as the Air Traffic Controllers can possilbly stay online! Further information is available on http://www.zauartcc.org

Nov 19th: Northern Norway event

OK, everyone, time to start up north. On November 19th we are going to have an event in the north of Norway! The events starts at 1700z and will keep on until 2100z.

We will offer ATC-coverage throughout northern Norway, with full staffing of Bodø Control sectors Central, North and East. We will also get ATC to Bodø Oceanic, so traffic crossing the Atlantic ocean is most welcome.

Come fly the Boeing 747 to Bodø (ENBO) or Bardufoss (ENDU), or you might want to take an aircraft like the 767 to Tromsø (ENTC) or Banak (ENNA) Bored by all the jets? Why not take a Dash 8 or Twin Otter, and make use of the many small airports along the coast? Hammerfest (ENHF), Hasvik (ENHK) and Sørkjosen (ENSR) are all challenging airports, even for the experienced pilot. And that ain't even half of what the north have to offer.

So start up you aircraft, and head up north!

Further information is available on the event website

Nov 19th: Fly the North Sea

On Sunday the 19th of November Essex RTS and The Dutch VACC are organizing an unique event between the 2 countries/regions, “Fly the North Sea”. Starting at 12:00 UTC ending around 16:00 UTC. Essex RTS will open London Stansted Airport(EGSS) and the Dutch VACC will open Rotterdam Airport(EHRD). Full ATC will be provided!

Both airports are in the Regional class and handle numerous scheduled, charter and business flights each day. Charts, scenery and further airport information is available on the websites of the Dutch VACC and Essex RTS. For valid flight plans you can consult the EUroute flightplan system. We hope to see you on Sunday the 19th on this unique event!

Nov 6-11th: World Flight - Cleared for Take Off

On Monday November 6th the six full-scale World Flight simulators departed Sydney for a seven day ‘round-the-world charity event. Supported by many home-flyers and under the expert guidance of full ATC live from the World Flight ATC ‘Centre’, crews will visit destinations across each VATSIM region.

World Flight crews would like to extend a warm invitation to all VATSIM members to check out your local crew’s website and join in from home for as many legs as possible!

Full ATC, flight planning support and ACARS is available for each leg!

There’s also many great ways to tune into all the action including live cockpit video and instrument telemetry feeds.

See you in the air!

Great flying – great ATC – great company – great charities!

World Flight Australia (B747) – http://www.worldflight.com.au
World Flight Canada (A340) – http://www.worldflightcanada.com
World Flight Scotland (A300) – http://www.airbusa300sim.co.uk/
World Flight United Kingdom (B767) – http://www.world-flight.org
World Flight United States (B737) - http://www.shamrock224.com/
United Kingdom World Flight (B747) - http://www.747simulator.co.uk/

Nov 11th: vACC Spain Summer Holidays Special

Join the biggest event in the Spanish Skies

- Full Staff in the two most important Spanish airports.
- 8 hours of non-stop ATC Service
- Fully compatible with any other worldwide event
- Lots of fun for every pilot!

DOUBLE REAL OPS LEBL-LEMD
Fly from, to or between Madrid and Barcelona. Experience a REAL Real Ops,with hundreds of pilots from every country.

LEMD and LEBL will be FULLY STAFFED from 14:00 to 22:00 UTC.

Check www.vatspa.net/realops for

- Updated FREEWARE SCENERIES of LEMD/LEBL
- Updated CHARTS
- Flight BOOKING
- Search & File Eurocontrol validated FLIGHTPLANS

VERY IMPORTANT
As the MADRID TMA procedures have recently undergone major changes, you are STRONGLY ADVISED to download new charts for the aerodrome,and the revised SIDS, STARS and ILS approaches.

NOv 11th: Frankfurt Overload 2006

Experience a traffic OVERLOAD at Frankfurt (EDDF), one of the busiest and largest international hubs. In real life Frankfurt handles more than 1250 movements a day and in peak times more than 70 movements per hour.

Frankfurt OVERLOAD simulates on the 11th of November from 17:00z until
23:00z, 6 hours of real traffic with more than 20 top controllers and a great ATC service (in co-operation with all the surrounding centres) in order to get as close as possible to real traffic levels. You will be able to undergo the exciting feeling of departing or arriving at an airport full of movement!

Are you ready for the challenge?
Are you able to manage a flight from or to one of the busiest European and international airports?
Then this event will meet your expectations!

Please read the information available on www.edff-fir.de/overload very
carefully. Send your feedback/questions to overload(at)edff-fir.de

Nov 11th: VATCAN's new FIR nights

VATCAN is pleased to announce a new weekly fly in. Every Saturday evening one FIR within Canada will host a large fly in. We welcome all pilots to take part in this event which will include heavy amounts of traffic and ATC.

The First FIR Night will take place on Saturday, November 11, 2006 in the Vancouver FIR. The host airport will be Victoria Int'l (CYYJ). The event begins at 1800 Pacific (0200 UTC) and will run all night long. Due to the large amount of traffic expected we ask that you fly with charts available from www.czvr.ca

Any other questions regarding this event can be answered here

Nov 11th: Hawaiian Coffee Roast

Honolulu ARTCC are hosting Hawaiian Coffee Roast - 3 Approach Fly-In & Fly-Out on Saturday November 11, 2006 from 1900z to 2300z

HNL_CTR + Tower and Approaches will be staffed.
Charts download from
PHTO http://zhnartcc.net/downloads.php?cat_id=6
PHNL whttp://zhnartcc.net/downloads.php?cat_id=7
PHOG http://zhnartcc.net/downloads.php?cat_id=8

This will be a good time for pilots and VAs to make a day of flying to/from Class B Honlolulu Intl, Class C Maui Kahului Intl and Class D Hilo Intl airports across the Hawaiian Island chain (IFR/VFR).

And Kona Coffee Tower (PHKO) will be perked up in addition to the 3 Approachs/Towers. Mug & Coffee at pilot's discretion !

Nov 4th: Adriatic Plus

Croatia vACC is organizing another fantastic ADRIATIC Event.

As always, we are expecting some load on Dubrovnik, Split and Zagreb airports and many neighbouring airports in our friendly countries, from Italy to Hungary and Austria to Greece, will be online to support your wish to fly anywhere in the region.

All info on the event are available on www.crovacc.org - with only one click, pilots can find all info needed to fly to this event.