#ACTIVE SKY NEXT TRIAL HOW TO#
Thankfully the ground controller was very kind and sent me a private message explaining what Unicom was and how to proceed. I realised at this point I was totally out of my depth. By some miracle (I still don’t remember how) I eventually made it to J1 ready for departure.
once I’d worked out how to face the right way. The garbled noises that came out of my mouth were not what I planned! To this day, I will still write down my clearance request and then read it out. but stupidly didn’t write it down! I pushed the “talk” button and my brain instantly turned to mash potato. I planned it meticulously with what I would say. I spent a bit more time listening and eventually thought I’d finally figured out the way to do a clearance request. scared of having my account removed on day one!
#ACTIVE SKY NEXT TRIAL PROFESSIONAL#
I remember thinking how professional and serious it sounded, and how much trouble I might be in if I got it wrong. I spent probably a good hour sat there listening to ATC before finally plucking up the courage to do a “Radio check”. My Vatsim journey started a few years ago at Gatwick on stand 54. If you’re thinking of taking your first ever online flight during the “First Wings” event here’s my “origin story”, perhaps others will share theirs here too. It has been learned over time - it works. The alternative of just saying ODD-EAST, EVEN-WEST, would perfectly suffice to ensure separation. Nothing is gained by slavishly applying the special conditions of NATS operations to VATSIM, where varying degrees of pre-flight document sourcing are enty of pilots are on their own random routes. here for an hour and then clearing-off.and directly compromising flight safety, by instrumentally creating head-on collision conditions. So, the situation is one in which a slavish application of today's real-world WEST-ODD levels is partially applied by pilots - and the actions of Shanwick. It gets worse, because I've had aircraft flying East on the NAT-A, despite the track having zero Eastbound levels in the real world.and they are at an ODD level according to the standard rule. Other pilots have taken the NAT-A and - according to standard rules for flight levels, applied the semi-circular rule and are flying west at even levels.they have not received their overriding ODD level command because of the special conditions because Shanwick are not online all the time and they may even have assumed the reported ODD levels are a glitch? Whatever.
I was given my clearance by Shanwick delivery and advised my cleared level would be F元70. Curiously though, according to the TMI-332 release, special restrictions mean that the track is Westbound only and operating at ODD levels, between DOGAL and ELSIR. Now- today we have one NAT track- ALPHA going Westbound in the real world, and this is being applied on VATSIM too. November 2020- an "unusual" year in aviation terms- we can agree I think?
#ACTIVE SKY NEXT TRIAL CODE#
It is entirely against Vatsim philosophy and the Code of Conduct. Anyone new to Vatsim hearing the above rant, could only be put off. If the pilot had a disagreement such as the above, he should NOT conduct any related discussion "over the airwaves" in public, but should, out of common courtesy, discuss the matter by private means: PM or e-mail, or such-like.ģ. Therefore the GND controller (no other controller at EGLL at the time) was perfectly within his rights to instruct the aircraft to hold.Ģ. As far as I am aware, authority of a GND controller covers all licensed aerodrome surfaces, except for the runways, by delegation.
The pilot immediately criticised the GND controller publicly, saying that he had no authority to hold the aircraft at TITAN and would be filing a critical report. The reason, perhaps unknown to the pilot, was that another aircraft was ahead in the departure order, and would be crossing in front of him. This morning at EGLL (11.40z) a pilot was publicly quite rude and 'out of order' in comms with EGLL-5-GND.ĪTC asked an aircaft to hold at TITAN (for 27R departure) when the aircraft had aleady reached TITAN.
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