Mark Tomassoni 813617 Posted March 26, 2006 at 12:12 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 12:12 AM Here are a few shots from the convention, now you can place the names with faces!! Had a great time, we all set up our laptops (15) in one lineup and dimmed the lights. http://marktom[Mod - Happy Thoughts]oni.com/Vatusa%20convention.htm Mark Tom[Mod - Happy Thoughts]oni ATM KZID http://online.vatsimindicators.net/813617/407.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris McGee Posted March 26, 2006 at 12:39 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 12:39 AM Mark, Looks great man! Wish I could have made it out there to join the guys. Hope you had a great time, and maybe I'll see you next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Horan 901577 Posted March 26, 2006 at 12:49 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 12:49 AM Looks like a great time so far! Matt www.vatsim.net/prc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Mifsud 928114 Posted March 26, 2006 at 01:44 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 01:44 AM Looks like you guys are having a great time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Williams Posted March 26, 2006 at 06:15 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 06:15 AM Looks like a bunch of nerds board out of their skull! So happy I didn't waste any money going to Chitown for this. Thank you, Lance W. Hundreds of Real-World Airlines and Routes for you to fly at www.ndbair.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey Lopez 883899 Posted March 26, 2006 at 06:20 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 06:20 AM lance couldnt agree more...count me in next year guys no doubt (KANSAS CITY 4 NXT YEAR) or any city that WN fly n/s from kc too will work =DDDD The thoughts and/or words or any general things that are expressed above are not a direct reflection of the views of the actual poster myself, Rey Lopez, and should be disregarded and left unread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Williams Posted March 26, 2006 at 06:22 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 06:22 AM LOL Rey! Thank you, Lance W. Hundreds of Real-World Airlines and Routes for you to fly at www.ndbair.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Graham 923971 Posted March 26, 2006 at 06:26 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 06:26 AM Next year it is in Las Vegas. View My Logbook! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Ridderhoff 873800 Posted March 26, 2006 at 09:15 AM Posted March 26, 2006 at 09:15 AM Next year it is in Las Vegas.Really truly? If so, cool. I might just be able to make that one. Heck, that's driveable from the SLC area in a single day, no prob. /s/ Josh Ridderhoff ZLC Senior Controller Fly ZLC! | ZLC Pilot & Controller Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zameda 810257 Posted March 26, 2006 at 09:57 PM Posted March 26, 2006 at 09:57 PM Mark - AWESOME PICS! They really don't do justice to the amount of fun we had at this convention. I'd like to thank everyone that attended the convention and made it such a resounding success! And to those of you who feel it's a waste of money or time, all I have to say is you reap what you sow........ An official announcement will follow regarding next year's convention, but here's a hint: America's Playground! Salud! Mark Zameda VATUSA6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Bartolotta 912967 Posted March 26, 2006 at 10:54 PM Posted March 26, 2006 at 10:54 PM Woootttt! VATUSA Convention Pride! What a blast, I can't wait for next year! Nick Bartolotta - ZSE Instructor, pilot at large "Just fly it on down to within a inch of the runway and let it drop in from there." - Capt. Don Lanham, ATA Airlines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Corman 881190 Posted March 26, 2006 at 10:58 PM Posted March 26, 2006 at 10:58 PM An official announcement will follow regarding next year's convention, but here's a hint: America's Playground! America's Playground... Funway USA! Sweet! http://www.funwaycafe.com/NewFiles/fwuhome.html I guess it is just deciding which of their locations. Neil C President and CEO, Virtual Frontier www.virtualfrontier.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Brummett Posted March 26, 2006 at 11:17 PM Posted March 26, 2006 at 11:17 PM Great fun..good to see old friends from last year in DC, and meet new ones. Z put on a helluva show this time around, and I had 10 times as much fun at this then I did at the DC convention (not dissing the VATSIM convention, but we had a great time at the host hotel this time around). Mark Brummett Website owner, http://www.zkcartcc.org ZKC Events Co-ordinator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Tomassoni 813617 Posted March 26, 2006 at 11:20 PM Author Posted March 26, 2006 at 11:20 PM I thought this was Americas playground! http://www.sesameplace.com/sesame/pa/index.html Mark Tom[Mod - Happy Thoughts]oni ATM KZID http://online.vatsimindicators.net/813617/407.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alderson 846320 Posted March 27, 2006 at 01:42 PM Posted March 27, 2006 at 01:42 PM Hi Mark, Yeah welll...that too I guess. Thanks for the great pics (except for the one of me...not sure I even HAVE a good side. ). Great meeting you and everyone else after all this time. . Bill Alderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Savatic 825464 Posted March 27, 2006 at 02:57 PM Posted March 27, 2006 at 02:57 PM Great meeting you and everyone else after all this time. Yes Bill It was amazing meeting everybody and getting to a put a face to a name. You know... Now that I think about it, it was pretty cool who we had show up: Elvis Presly Peter Griffin..... Ahh...good times UND ATC Major ZAU MS GO FIGHTING SIOUX "Success isn't really a result of spontaneous combustions. You must set yourselfs on fire." -Arnold H. Glasow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alderson 846320 Posted March 27, 2006 at 03:22 PM Posted March 27, 2006 at 03:22 PM Yeah and who was that Heywood fella again? Forget his last name. Bill Alderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Heaney 879309 Posted March 27, 2006 at 03:31 PM Posted March 27, 2006 at 03:31 PM America's Playground? Must be in Iraq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Williams Posted March 27, 2006 at 04:25 PM Posted March 27, 2006 at 04:25 PM Looks like a bunch of nerds board out of their skull! So happy I didn't waste any money going to Chitown for this. Actually, that was meant as a compliment. I wish I could have gone to Chicago. I hope to see more shots soon. Thank you, Lance W. Hundreds of Real-World Airlines and Routes for you to fly at www.ndbair.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Bartolotta 912967 Posted March 27, 2006 at 08:15 PM Posted March 27, 2006 at 08:15 PM Great meeting you and everyone else after all this time. Yes Bill It was amazing meeting everybody and getting to a put a face to a name. You know... Now that I think about it, it was pretty cool who we had show up: Elvis Presly Peter Griffin..... Ahh...good times Ahh man that was halarious! And Bill, you actually looked like you thought there was a Peter Griffin in the room! Nick Bartolotta - ZSE Instructor, pilot at large "Just fly it on down to within a inch of the runway and let it drop in from there." - Capt. Don Lanham, ATA Airlines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Polston 810032 Posted March 27, 2006 at 08:44 PM Posted March 27, 2006 at 08:44 PM Nice pic's Mark. Great meeting everyone there! I'm sure next year's convention will be great as well. Another big thanks to Mark Z for doing a great job planning this convention. Mark Polston vZTL ARTCC | VATSIM Supervisor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Kaplan 896249 Posted March 27, 2006 at 09:27 PM Posted March 27, 2006 at 09:27 PM Nice pic's Mark. Great meeting everyone there! I'm sure next year's convention will be great as well. Another big thanks to Mark Z for doing a great job planning this convention. I'd like to echo this. I had a blast out in Chicago. Things ran so smoothly, not a single hitch. The icing on the cake for me was the ZAU tour. Mark Z should be commended by everyone for his efforts not only in working out the logistics for the convention, but also setting up that tour. All of us who went got to plug in with individual controllers (I got the southwest area -- Bradford4 arrival high altitude) who could not have been more courteous (while working traffic the whole time!). Thanks again to Mark Z, Jeff and everyone else who helped make this happen. Mike Kaplan - Purdue University Flight/ATC student Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alderson 846320 Posted March 28, 2006 at 12:39 AM Posted March 28, 2006 at 12:39 AM Hey Nick? I did! Bill Alderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Brummett Posted March 28, 2006 at 12:49 AM Posted March 28, 2006 at 12:49 AM Echo... To summarize, the previous four weeks for me have been, for lack of a better term, hellatious. A lot of stuff going on in my work/personal life, and worrying about all this. Since I was tasked with the responsibility of getting the network running for the convention flyin, and our budget pretty much limited us to one connection, I had to spit in the wind and hope a default Linksys wireless router with beefed up firmware would do the trick. I was a basket case the first two days of the convention, not knowing whether or not this thing would come off the way I wanted it to. It worked better than Id have hoped, and hope everyone involved in the flyin in Chicago enjoyed themselves. I spent most of the morning running around making sure the thing would work. Now I sorta wished it hadn't worked so well; I'm sure I'll get the call for next year now. Mark Brummett Website owner, http://www.zkcartcc.org ZKC Events Co-ordinator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Smith Posted March 28, 2006 at 04:42 AM Posted March 28, 2006 at 04:42 AM had great fun! Thanks Mark for organizing such a great event! Best, Chris Smith Chris Smith Hundreds of Real-World Airlines and Routes for you to fly at http://www.ndbair.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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