Richard Jenkins Posted December 5, 2004 at 12:24 AM Posted December 5, 2004 at 12:24 AM Well, actually, several of us BoG guys are thinking about opening Tahiti Oceanic as a little getaway. RJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Stagg 900323 Posted December 5, 2004 at 12:25 AM Posted December 5, 2004 at 12:25 AM I don't understand... what do you mean by gateway? Matt Stagg Boeing 737NG Pilot VOZ Virtual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andres Braun 848109 Posted December 5, 2004 at 12:46 AM Posted December 5, 2004 at 12:46 AM Great, As a Chilean Controller, there are plenty of flights from Eastern Island to Tahiti Faa, so It'll be nice to have Tahiti Oceanic... Great idea guys! Andres Braun ZLA Senior Controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Jenkins Posted December 5, 2004 at 01:13 AM Author Posted December 5, 2004 at 01:13 AM I didn't say "gateway". I said "getAway". RJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Blackburn Posted December 5, 2004 at 03:13 AM Posted December 5, 2004 at 03:13 AM Well, actually, several of us BoG guys are thinking about opening Tahiti Oceanic as a little getaway. Richard, Your comment may have only been in jest but I am sure Comp[Mod - Happy Thoughts] Air would welcome you, the BoG and indeed any and all pilots to their December flyin to Fiji on the 10th. Details, along with charts for the area are available here! Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Finney 810884 Posted December 5, 2004 at 04:19 AM Posted December 5, 2004 at 04:19 AM Sounds an excellent idea! Regards www.kadair.org.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Stagg 900323 Posted December 5, 2004 at 10:09 PM Posted December 5, 2004 at 10:09 PM I didn't say "gateway". I said "getAway". Sorry my bad I was reading that with no sleep and it looked like gateway Matt Stagg Boeing 737NG Pilot VOZ Virtual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javier Larroulet Posted December 17, 2004 at 06:57 PM Posted December 17, 2004 at 06:57 PM Superb idea! Sounds nice to start activating the oceanic firs in the south pacific corridor between south america and oceania Javier Larroulet (C3) - Chile vACC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuri Kirsanov 826710 Posted December 19, 2004 at 02:05 PM Posted December 19, 2004 at 02:05 PM Good day,everyone! I'm russian VATSIM instructor, but actually, I'm controlling NTTR_CTR for about a week already. We have a superb scenery for 6 Tahiti airports, AFCADs for them and charts. I'm controlling from 0700 till 1500 UTC from Monday to Friday. Of course, from time to time I can't hold that shedule, but I'm trying. So, everybody are welcome to Tahiti! PS. 1. We have also a great sector for ASRC. Link to our pack is ftp://avia.preferance.ru/Free/NTAA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beverley Howard-Smith 8396 Posted December 19, 2004 at 08:18 PM Posted December 19, 2004 at 08:18 PM I am a little confused here as I am not sure what is being proposed. Is it being suggested that Tahiti Oceanic be maintained by its own body and therefore has its own controllers? If so, are you certain you would be able to get enough controllers to make it interesting for the pilots. Or is Tahiti Oceanic already controlled by ?????? in real life and that virtual would copy this. Beverley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javier Larroulet Posted December 19, 2004 at 11:22 PM Posted December 19, 2004 at 11:22 PM Beverley, the thing is that up until now Tahiti Oceanic had no control at all (except for certain exceptions). I believe the BoG's idea is to activate the FIR as a part of VATPAC, in order to provide a little bit of regularity cheers! Javier Larroulet (C3) - Chile vACC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Stagg 900323 Posted December 19, 2004 at 11:30 PM Posted December 19, 2004 at 11:30 PM There isnt really that much flights accross the pacific in our area. the main one is accross the Tasman Sea (which isnt the pacific but it sort of is) between Australia & New Zealand. I been accross the pacific twice flying KLAX-YSSY it is a very nice flight hopefully our corner globe starts getting more traffic every where! Cheers, Matt Stagg Boeing 737NG Pilot VOZ Virtual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javier Larroulet Posted December 20, 2004 at 01:59 AM Posted December 20, 2004 at 01:59 AM There's also some sporadic traffic from SCEL to NTAA... having Tahiti Oceanic online would be, I believe, an incentive for us in Chile to man Santiago Oceanic (formerly known as Easter Center) more often. The rest of the oceanic traffic we provide in that direction goes to Aukland Oceanic (SCEL to Sydney, Aukland, etc) but it's sporadic too cheers Javier Larroulet (C3) - Chile vACC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuri Kirsanov 826710 Posted December 20, 2004 at 08:44 AM Posted December 20, 2004 at 08:44 AM Yes, Tahiti Oceanic Center is under my control, but this isn't separate FIR, it's just my initiative. There were 3 inbound flights, and 3 local VFR flights yesterday. Yes, that's not too much traffic, but I hope more people would come to fly VFR on Cessnas or something like them. It's very beautiful region and you can even use water-based planes. I was planning to make Search&Recovery missions on such plan: 1. SR pilots gather at NTAA (or other airports) 2. Pilots who want to be rescued start their flight from any airport in the area. 3. At some moment they call for emergency and turn off transponder (of course I still can see them) 4. After that they "fall down" in some different direction and land on island or on water (yeah, you'll have to turn off crashes, but...) 5. I call SR service on different frequency and tell them something like this "SRJ103 is type B738, last seen in sector B4 (I'm going to put sectors map on French Polynesia map), last altitude XXXX, last heading XXX". 6. SR people (not all, of course) start their search. We can make it in two ways - either when planes and helicopters searches for crashsite, and when planes form first stage of search and after finding crashsite helicopters goes there for recovery mission 7. When helicopter arrives, it must land for example, for 10-15 minutes (imitation recovery of pilots and p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]angers) and then head back to the airport. If anybody have suggestions about that plan - feel free to answer in here. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence Scanlan Posted December 29, 2004 at 12:31 PM Posted December 29, 2004 at 12:31 PM Hi Folks Just a "Heads Up" on the discussion re OCEANIC Control in this region. Tahiti falls within the OCEANIA region and hence it is the responsibility of VATPAC to administer this area. Because of the lack of traffic and ATC in this region there has not been a lot for the VATPAC Staff to do. However with the increased interest in this area we intend to try and open it up more often and to encourage more controllers to operate in this region. Technically speaking, anyone wishing to control in this region should approach the staff at VATPAC and obtain a "Visiting Controller" approval but we have not been concerned as we are happy to see the area manned. Plans are on the drawing board to open up the OCEANIC areas in the Pacific and set some basic guidelines for its use so that we are all operating to the same standard. Terry Scanlan OCEANIA - Regional Director Terry Scanlan http://www.hars.org.au http://www.worldflight.com.au Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuri Kirsanov 826710 Posted December 30, 2004 at 08:40 PM Posted December 30, 2004 at 08:40 PM I'd like to obtain "Visiting Controller" status and I would like to help you with Tahiti FIR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence Scanlan Posted December 31, 2004 at 01:34 AM Posted December 31, 2004 at 01:34 AM Yuri, you are most welcome and we thank you for your interest in this region. I will p[Mod - Happy Thoughts] this message on to the VATPAC Staff and someone will contact you to arrange the details. Happy New Year to you Terry Scanlan OCEANIA - RD Terry Scanlan http://www.hars.org.au http://www.worldflight.com.au Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuri Kirsanov 826710 Posted January 3, 2005 at 10:38 PM Posted January 3, 2005 at 10:38 PM Thank you very much! For now I'll stop controlling there till I get official license for control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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