New Pilots Night - 03/07/07 [1900Z]

[David Winters 905945]

The next in our infamous series of New Pilots Nights is to be held on the 3rd July at 1900Z at Biggin Hill (EGKB). Note this is only just over a week away!!

 

New Pilot's Nights are an opportunity for New Pilots (strange that!) to come along to an airfield, meet the pilot mentoring team, meet some ATC guys, ask shedloads of questions and do some flying in a totally non-pressurised

environment where you can make all the mistakes you like with help available (but we don't do undercarriage repairs). As a follow up you can also opt for some one-to-one mentoring with one of the team - one flight or a whole series if you like - to get you going on Vatsim and doing what you want to do. VFR or IFR we usually have the right person to help you along in a hopefully friendly and unpressurised manner. Totally voluntary of course but thus far us mentors haven't recieved any death threats for providing a rubbish service.

 

MUST DO'S:

 

Join the VATSIM-UK Teamspeak server in advance of the night.

 

You should get registered and setup with Vatsim-UK's Teamspeak server, please try and get set up on it before the night, it's virtually impossible to get registered on the night itself so it's imperative that you get set up in advance. We conduct all the training via Teamspeak so if you're not on it you will miss out on how completely and utterly brilliant we are. See this link which also appears as a link on the Home Page:

 

http://www.vatsim-uk.org/index.php?page=teamspeak

 

Once you have been set-up on that you will find a New Pilot's Night room on there plus a couple of mentoring rooms that we use.

Get the Charts for Biggin Hill

 

These as always come from the CAA's AIS website with which you need to register (it's free of course). This link will take you straight to the airfield charts page via the login/registration screen:

 

http://www.ais.org.uk/aes/pubs/aip/html/aipad2.htm

 

We tend to do some VFR circuits just to get going but if someone wants to try some IFR circuits or a short cross-country then we also have some Radar cover arranged. There is no set plan for the night because it totally depends on who turns up, what their experience is and what they want to do - sometimes we get people who are struggling to even get connected to Vatsim (we can help with that as well) and sometimes we get people just wanting to make their first "live" flight, we've learned that there is no such thing as a "standard" New Pilot and therefore we have a flexible approach to what we get up to.

 

Join up with Vatsim in the GA Parking area (or somewhere else suitable for your plane, NOT on a runway!) in an aeroplane you're comfortable with and know where the buttons are! Also can you please set your clock to daylight settings, I usually knock 12 hours off the actual time and set it to June 21st to ensure daylight.

 

Note to existing and experienced pilots

 

Please refrain from flying into/out of Biggin during the New Pilots Night. This tends to make the evening far more diffcult for myself and the mentors and generally disrupt the flow of the evening. Thanks in advance for this!!

 

Regards,

 

David

[Dan Morera 1009190]

Are there plans to eventually do one of these events on a weekend? I'm on a different timezone so by the time this one starts I'm still at work

 

Thanks

Dan

[David Winters 905945]

I'm afraid not at the moment. If you wish, however, we can get you [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned a pilots mentors for one-to-one mentoring. This might make it easier to find a time that suits two time-zones .

 

If you are interested send an email to new.pilots[at]vatsim-uk.co.uk

[Dan Morera 1009190]

Thank you I appreciate it!

 

Dan