Platinum Airways Urges Its Pilots to “Stretch Your Legs”
Platinum Airways, the very virtual Open Skies airline, is facing a sporty month of June. Urging its pilots to Stretch your legs, the Open Skies virtual airline’s Destination of the Week will visit four major sports events in North America and Europe.
June promises to be an excellent month for sports fanatics and Platinum Airways’ Destination of the Week will fly them to their destination. Stretch your legs kicks off with the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix, held at Montréal (CYUL) on 10 June. Next on the calendar is the US Golf Open in San Francisco (KSFO) from 14 to 17 June. From there, Platinum Airways’ Destination of the Week theme crosses the Atlantic, to witness the start of the Championships at Wimbledon on the outskirts of London (EGLL) (25 June to 8 July). Stretch your legs ends with the Euro 2012 soccer final in Kyiv (UKKK) on 1 July. Pilots are encouraged to … stretch their legs during their stay at the DOTW.
As per usual, all DOTW destinations will be accompanied with navigational charts, links to scenery files (FS9, FSX and X-Plane) and other aids. If only payware additional sceneries are on Continue reading
LAUSA AIR AEROMED CHALLENGE – MAY 2012 – WIN $50
LAUSA A
ir pilots: LAUSA Air sponsor Air Medical Group has offered $50 to pilot pay as an Aeromed challenge.
The pilot with the most verified Aeromed hours [Aeromed 80-95] wins £25.
The pilot with the most verified Aeromed flights [Aeromed 80-95] wins £25.
Ops from KMCO to EGKB – Pilots must complete full mission sets and return the aircraft back to base to qualifty.. 
DAVIN ITANO
Operations Manager
LAUSA AIR GROUP
Letter from Air Escort Medical Flight CEO to LAUSA Air pilots:
Dear LAUSA AIR Pilots,
My name is Joe Gonzales, CEO of Air Escort Medical Flight. My company provides worldwide medical flight and medical escort services to patients requiring medical attention during flight. This month we celebrate Continue reading
Air Fresno to Declare Chapter 11
Citing an over extension of it’s routes and loss of passengers to other carriers Air Fresno has contacted noted local Fresno attorney Corin Agabajian with it’s intention to declare insolvency. The airline has not made a profit since leasing a number of Embraer jets and expanding its routes northward to Seattle and into Arizona with stops in Phoenix and Tucson. “I think with the airline in Chapter 11 we can get out from under these leases with Embraer and in a few months be able to resume regional turboprop operations that will be supported out of Fresno”. Since March many flights have been cancelled for lack of ticket sales, employee layoffs and other cost cutting measures just have not met expectations. The airline does still own a small fleet of Beech 1900D’s that have been stored at the Mojave Spaceport since the summer of 2009, Air Fresno CEO Peter McKay stated that once the Embraers have been returned efforts to restore them to flying condition will be made. The airline declared Chapter 13 bankruptcy in 2003 due to a number of accidents and the subsequent law suits that saw the carrier lose its operating insurance.
Virtual United States Air Force Education and Training Program Launched
AETC’s role makes it the first command to touch the life of every New Virtual Air Force member.
AETC’s mission is to develop New Virtual Air Force Pilots today… for tomorrow. This is a volunteer force comprise of Civilian, Active Duty, Reservists, and Overseas (worldwide) participants making a total force of some of the best pilots ever to take the virtual skies.
This new Training Command mirrors our real world counterpart, to fulfill those core values, and to pay homage to our comrades in arms with the respect and dignity of carrying on the Air Force roles, by providing education to interested persons, in a way that can be enjoyed by all from this New Virtual Training..
Air Education and Training
As real as it gets
LAUSA Air Pilot Pay
Innovate or vacate. That seems to be the creed of the modern airline industry and its virtual counterpart. Better products come from better ideas, and the company with the better ideas, thrives.
Recently, Lausa Air has jump started a groundbreaking (daresay, revolutionary) initiative designed to reward its virtual pilots, not with virtual paychecks and virtual swag, but with cold, hard cash… through PayPal. This is “a pilot incentive program with real-live sponsors for its virtual pilots,” said a Lausa Air representative, “and with this new program, we can show our pilots how much we appreciate their dedication and loyalty to Lausa, and the Lausa Air Brand.”
Long-time Lausa supporter, Air Medical Group (www.airmedgroup.com) has again stepped up to be a part of the landmark proposal. “We would not be in a position to offer our pilots such substantial returns were it not for Joe Gonzales, the Air Medical Group, and their continued support,” the representative continued, “nor would we want to be. They have been with us from the beginning, and we are proud to be partnered with such an innovative and dedicated organization that helps so many all around the world.”
Using VAFS to track pilot activity, the pilot reward system acknowledges the aviators with the highest hours per month, and also the aviator with the most number of segments flown. Because Lausa Air has routes ranging from 50 nm to those in excess of 8,000 nm, ideally, no single pilot would be able to have both the highest hours and most flights in any given month. With this hierarchy, the regional pilots of Lausa Air’s City Flyer have a chance to be Continue reading
Sky Blue Radio Turns Five!
Sky Blue Radio is blowing out the candles for the big five! Five years ago, May 13th, Sky Blue Radio took to the internet airwaves beginning a tradition of excellence in flight simulation news and entertainment.
As a big thank you to our listeners Sky Blue Radio is going to party, party and burn it to the ground with wall to wall DJ’s all weekend long starting May 11th, 2012. And it wouldn’t be a Birthday Party unless we had presents! Gifts for our Sky Blue Radio listeners; as a thank you for tuning in for five years. Generous contributions from Sign Zeppelin, Flight1, vRoute, Captain Sim, Blue Print Simulations, FS Add ons, Aerosoft, PilotEdge, Wilco Publishing, Flightsim Labs, Go Flight, and Computer Pilot.
Tune into Sky Blue Radio all this week to listen for and identify the first tune aired on Sky Blue Radio those five years ago. Send the title, the artist along with your name, address, email and any other contact information to contest@skyblueradio.com. You could win a fabulous gift courtesy of Sky Blue Radio.
Sky Blue Radio broadcasts 24/7 around the world. Listeners can tune in to Sky Blue Radio by accessing our web site at skyblueradio.com. Listeners may also tune in via their com 2 radios on 123.45 with our Wee Tune Beastie application available for download on our web site. We are now available via Black Berry or iPhone through radiotuner.mobi/SkyBlueRadio; Android listeners can access Sky Blue Radio by downloading Retro Radio, then search for Sky Blue Radio.
Mirage Executive Charters VA – May Update
Established 3.1.2012 – Simulating Part 135 Operations!
Mirage Executive Charters has completed its second full month of operations! In this time we have hired 34 pilots and have flown an astonishing 622 flights! At MECva we provide our pilots with the opportunity to give a sense of purpose to your flights by offering simulated monthly contracts with large and small corporations/businesses to transport executives and employees all over the country and the world. This month’s contract is with Beam Communications, based out of Atlanta, GA. We transport various executives and employees to their satellite and service centers across the Southeast and Texas! We also provide weekly transport for the Stewart-Haas Racing team to the NASCAR races each weekend as well as flying a special Cessna 208 Caravan for The Flying Elvi skydiving team! If you prefer to fly regular routes, we update routes weekly with new charter reservations so that people ALWAYS have something new and fresh to do! All of this is done using the VAFS system!
A route map for the Beam Communications contract is available here – http://files.enjin.com/158916/beam_map.jpg
Along with this month’s new contract, we also have added the Cessna Citation X (Eaglesoft) to our fleet. This greatly increases our range and gives us the ability to start expanding our pilot bases and reach international destinations!
Mirage Executive Charters va aims to provide a high quality virtual airline experience by using all payware aircraft as well giving pilots the ability to use other freeware and default aircraft that are similar to our official fleet to complete flights. This gives everyone the ability to fly our routes and be a member! Our website is truly something unique in the VA community. Pilots have their own profile page and are able to send friend requests, chat and send messages to all other members! We also have our own Teamspeak 3 server where our pilots spend their time while in flight!
Currently our pilot bases are Continue reading
