British Airways Virtual event - OverNighter 3 - London/Tokyo

[Lee James]

Hello to you all,

 

Not sure exactly where I should put this but British Airways Virtual is looking for ATC services on VATSIM Japan for the morning of Sunday 4th October from 09:00 local Tokyo time for about three hours for the following event...

 

British Airways Virtual presents....

 

OVERNIGHTERS #3 - HEATHROW TO TOKYO

The Ultra-Long Haul Real Time

Overnight Event for BAV Pilots

 

(... can you stay up long enough ? ...)

 

THE FLIGHT?

BA 005

London Heathrow Airport (EGLL)

Tokyo Narita (RJAA)

 

WHEN IS IT?

Saturday afternoon/Sunday morning

3rd and 4th October 2009

 

Departures from: 12:30GMT (13:30BST, 14:30 CET);

Arrivals from: 23:50GMT (00:50BST, 08:50 local time in Tokyo)

Enroute Time: 11 hours 40 minutes

 

Tokyo local time: GMT + 9 hours (DST not in effect, so Tokyo is in fact +8 hours ahead of the UK at the moment)

 

Routing: To be advised

 

British Airways Virtual, in [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ociation with VATSIM Japan and IVAO, is proud to announce the third of our long haul OVERNIGHTER online flights! This time, we head off to the Land of the Rising Sun and the spectacular all night city of Tokyo for the last BAV long haul of 2009. British Airways has a daily scheduled flight from Heathrow to Tokyo Narita airport each day. This flight BA005 normally leaves the UK at 1:45pm in the afternoon and arrives around 9:05am the next morning. For our event, departures will begin at 12:30GMT (13:30 local) and will be staggered with pilots utilising 36 slot times of 5 minutes separation, over 3 hours (12:30Z – 15:30Z). These slots will be available for both VATSIM and IVAO, allowing for some 72 departure slots. Pilots may choose which network suits them for the event.

 

London to Tokyo takes around 11 hours and 40 minutes to 12 hours, depending on winds and speed in the 747-400 (slightly longer in an Airbus A340), so this will be a long one. What is better for this event is that you will depart in the early afternoon in the UK and arrive in the very early morning of Sunday, UK time (about 1:00am UK time which is 9:00am local time in Tokyo). Will you be able to keep awake through the night and fly safely all the way across Northern Russia? Can you stay awake long enough to complete the flight?

 

Those of us who do shift work for a living may well be used to this and can cope better - but for those of you who have never done this kind of "shift" we will be posting a few tips for you in the BAV forum!

 

UK Charts and Procedures (for EGLL) can be found here:-

 

http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/in ... mid=2.html

 

Subscribers to Navigraph may be able to get up-to-date charts for Narita (RJAA). The real world flight plan for the day will be available and some weight and fuel options for you will also be made available to help your planning.

 

Feel free to post any questions you might have and we'll try to answer them. The new Fly-in Booking System will be operational before the event and a Fly-In Number will be allocated in due course, to allow our pilots to obtain BAV hours for their logbooks if successful in completing the flight!

 

 

So keep it here!

 

 

Regards,

 

Lee James - 747 Training Captain

Florian Harms - Events Organiser

 

P.S. - (... we need ATC at over Tokyo and northern Japan if possible from 00:00 UTC (09:00 local time). So far, we have 42 pilots signed up of which 31 are on VATSIM. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Domo Arigato Gozaimasu - Thank you all.

[Keisuke Yamane]

Dear Lee and Florian.

 

 

Thank you very much for planning the splendid event to Japan!

 

I try to placement of controllers

Domo Arigato Gozaimasu!

[Lee James]

Keisuke,

 

Thank you for your kindness.

 

I can now confirm that all 39 departure slots out of the UK for this event, are now FULL! We have 39 aircraft flying to Tokyo on Saturday 3rd October with departures from 12:30Z, of which 3 will depart from EGSS (Stansted) and 36 from EGLL (Heathrow).

 

Arrivals should begin around 08:30 Tokyo time on Sunday morning 4th October.

 

Looking forward to talking to you all!

 

 

Syonara,

 

 

Lee

[Keisuke Yamane]

KONNICHIWA Lee!

 

Thank you for information.

Please enjoy sense of journey with ATC of Japanese provincial accent

[Keisuke Yamane]

Hi Lee

 

I inform you of controllers of us who will welcome you

 

 

RJCG_CTR (Sapporo Control)

811527 K.Y(SUP)

 

RJTG_CTR (Tokyo Control)

(adjusting)

 

RJAA_APP (Narita Approach)

995509 R.I(S3)

 

RJAA_TWR (Narita Tower)

810741 K.K(C3)

 

RJAA_GND (Narita Ground)

(adjusting)

 

 

We might merge RJTG_CTR and RJCG_CTR.

If we can arrange more controllers,this will be separated.

 

We are looking forward to your flights

 

 

 

Thank you very much!

[Lee James]

Friends,

 

Tommorrow (Friday 2nd OCT 2009) at 12:15Z (13:15 local) is the deadline for all last minute pilot entries/alterations for the British Airways Virtual OverNighter London to Tokyo event.

 

Departures begin from Heathrow at 12:00Z on Saturday and so far we have 47 confirmed departures on VATSIM out of Heathrow, all on 5-minute slots from 12:00Z until the last departure around 15:30Z.

 

Arrivals into Tokyo should begin around 07:45 local Tokyo time (23:45Z) on Sunday morning.

 

In addition, we have five freighters (747 and MD-11F) departing from Stansted EGSS.

 

After 12:15Z tommorrow, I will update this message and post the full list of callsigns and departure slots, as a guide to help you guys in your planning.

 

May I thank you all on behalf of us at British Airways Virtual for anything you are able to provide for us on Saturday.

 

Kind regards,

 

 

 

Lee James

Training Captain

747 Fleet

British Airways Virtual

 

Pilot of SPEEDBIRD NINE DELTA VICTOR (BAW9DV)