Kyprianos Biris Posted February 2, 2005 at 07:46 AM Posted February 2, 2005 at 07:46 AM Updated notam with a typo correction VATSIM Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) Issued by Kyprianos Biris (810309), 02-Feb-2005 02:51 UTC __________________________________________________________________________ This is a Region *NoticeToAirMen* to all ~27,000 members of VATSIM Europe Region. 1 - Announcing Eurobook for Pilots Never before has VATSIM come so close to real Air Traffic Forecast & Management Units like the ones used in the real world. On January 18, 2005 the "Eurobook" team announced a big change for this excellent tool. Eurobook was initially launched as a centralized ATC reservation system only, and over the past months, Arek Olesiak from Poland, created a completely new reservation system for all pilots flying in Europe. Basically, with upgraded Eurobook, pilots can now pre book their flights in a central database, and these are projected in textual and graphical form on colored maps. Pilots can login to book via the central Eurobook website or via their local vACC / FIR / Division or Virtual Airline websites, as long as their webmasters perform the (easy) integration into the system. While the pilots book their flights there, they also have access to other tools like flight plan databases and VATSIM prefiling. This latest development increases the potential of a total activity forecasting for ATCs (old Eurobook) and Pilot activity (new addition). In the near future ServInfo (http://www.vsim.com/hangar/utils/servinfo/) will also be updated to include Eurobook for pilots. The aim for this tool is to become a VATSIM wide facility when it will also be renamed to VATBOOK. With this tool, virtual Air Traffic can be projected and this adds another step towards a total integration of VATSIM network towards forecasting tools like the ones used in real Air Traffic Management Units. If you surf to Eurobook you can see a map of Europe which is showing active and inactive FIRs in different colors, together with detailed statistics on forecast ATC and flights presence. If you click on a certain FIR you will get a more detailed status about booked flights that are expected in this FIR at certain times. You can filter the times and dates according to your needs. More details and information about all this can be found in the section "Information" of the website of EUROBOOK for pilots. If you wish to book a flight and your local vACC or VA has not registered its local flight-booking-interface with Eurobook, you need to register. This is to avoid misuse of the system, and we ask for your understanding here. Make sure you do NOT use your regular VATSIM p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]word. The data is basically safe on EUROBOOK's server, but the safest way is to keep it strictly with you. Expect more and more VACCs and VAs to join EUROBOOK. If your Virtual Airline is interested in joining us, please register as an organization at Eurobook website. You can reach EUROBOOK for pilots at : http://www.euro-book.net/ 2 - Announcing EURoute On November 14, 2004 Michal Rok, ACCPL1, announced EURoute : After 6 months of development, over 8000 page views and with three vACCs using it as of today, I have a great pleasure to show you our most recent development. EUroute is a flight plan database that easily integrates with your vACC website, does not require any special programming skills or server-side software, and provides high quality routes by checking all flight plans with real-life Eurocontrol servers. You can read more about EUroute at http://www.pl-vacc.org/euroute. Thanks to my friends from Hungarian and Malta vACCs for participating in beta tests of this software. These tests helped us nail down some bugs and we're now going public. 3 - New VATSIM official forum On December 2, 2004 VATSIM network set the new official forum into action. This is the place to communicate will all VATSIM members worldwide. http://forums.vatsim.net/ You login with your VATSIM "Name Surname IDnumber". Your details are transferred there as an already registered member as soon as you join VATSIM. For example, you want to check the latest in Events and Fly In's scheduled around the VATSIM globe? Then the "Fly-In Notices" sub forum is the one for you. Happy browsing. 4 - New VATEUD staff members Europe Region would like to welcome : Martin Georg, the new Europe Division Director (VATEUD1) Nicklas Jansson, the new VATEUD5 and Krzysztof Szerszen, the new VATEUD6 More information on www.vateud.org -> Staff & Contact Info We also thank predecessors Pedro Sousa, Jose Pereira and Kemal Baki (in same order) for all their hard work in the past. 5 - New VATEUR staff Europe Region www.vateur.org would like to welcome new Deputy Region Director Chris Dobison, VATEUR2, from UK. Chris, a real Air Traffic Controller, has been monitoring Region issues for months before coming on board. 6- Lithuania vACC Arunas Stankevicius, notified us that "Lithuania VACC" is looking for people who would be interested to be team members in this new forming up VACC. They need controllers, scenery makers, pilots etc. Maybe others would be interested in establishing Lithuanian or Air Baltic Virtual Airlines. The website is http://www.lt-vacc.org and anyone interested can contact Arunas in [email protected] 7 - New website for Czech vACC As of December 24th, Czech VACC (VACC-CZ) has a new web layout which can be found at http://www.vacc-cz.org. The design and contents offer basicaly everything the virtual visitor needs in order to safely fly his aircraft in Czech airspace and everything a virtual ATC will need. 8 - New website of vACC-SAG vACC-SAG has been revamped with a lot of internal dynamic database functions as well as aesthetic improvements. Check it out at http://www.vacc-sag.org 9 - Pilot clients under development "SquawkBox3" http://www.squawkbox.ca/ and "FSInn" http://www.mcdu.com/ , the two pilot clients to serve VATSIM in 2005, are nearly complete and already being beta tested on the network by approved members. When both software are released, the pilots will have two, bug free, tested software to choose form. VATEUR will not comment further on latest developments since this is a subject dealt with by VATSIM Software Development department. We just wanted to let you know that many months' of hard work is nearly complete 10 - VATSIM Pilot Resource Center New pilots, do not forget that the VATSIM PRC is *for you* and it contains all the information you may need to start in VATSIM. Visit http://vatsim.net/prc to access this rich database of information you need. Members interested in providing ATC should contact their local Division / vACC Training Department for further information. Keep in mind that PRC is published around SquawkBox 2.3 and two new pilot clients are coming soon. To get the latest information you will need to keep checking VATSIM website announcements http://www.vatsim.net or the VATSIM official forum (see above). Also do not forget what your local VATSIM community has for you. You can find who to contact for "local help" via their website. Go -> www.vateur.org -> find your Division -> Find your vACC (Country or FIR) -> and seek for local Training Departments, Tutorials etc. Regards, Kyprianos Biris VATEUR1 http://vateur.org Hellenic vACC | Olympic Air Virtual Europe Region Director 2001-2011 Pilot: P5 | ATC: C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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