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RAF92_Moser
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject: VATSIM
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with VATSIM. I want to be involved with it to enhance my ATC phraseology...where there's always room for improvement. Is it a good program to get into? Any personal experiences? _________________ "Well, I gotta go...Yeh I'm running out of change"

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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: VATSIM
depends Moser, As long you state clearly that you are a newby and that you are willing to learn, it shall be OK, unfortunatly you can encounter the "proverbial" A$$ there that tears your head off if you make a mistake, at the of the day it's you who decides if you like it or not, but it could be a good learning expirience.

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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: VATSIM
Excuse my ignorance; but what is "VATSIM"? Wolfe _________________ Reality is just an escape from your imagination....

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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:43 pm
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- Uhu_Fledermaus

depends Moser,

As long you state clearly that you are a newby and that you are willing to learn, it shall be OK, unfortunatly you can encounter the "proverbial" A$$ there that tears your head off if you make a mistake, at the of the day it's you who decides if you like it or not, but it could be a good learning expirience.

I tried it out today...on two different flights. Some of the ATC operations are different from what I have experience in. I did have my head torn off my some German dude, but the second time I advised ATC I was a student pilot and I tried my best to follow along. The Brits were more forgiving than the Germans. In the end, I did learn a lot, but made a lot of silly mistakes. Like barometric pressure...1024...I'm like how is it only 10.24 inches? But then it struck me that they use Millibars in Europe I guess.

In the end, it feels like a real ATC. I get really embarrassed by my confusion and not so good radio calls.

Wolfe, VATSIM is an online ATC for flight simulators. About an average of 400 pilots and at least a hundred controllers are logged during daytime hours.

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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: VATSIM
Well, I did tell ya

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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:59 pm
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- RAF92_Moser

I did have my head torn off my some German dude

I hope you reminded him of the lost British Airways pilots' retort when asked by Frankfurt ATC if he'd never been there before.

("Yes, but it was during the war and I wasn't able to stay long!")

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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: VATSIM
- Shades - RAF92_Moser I did have my head torn off my some German dude I hope you reminded him of the lost British Airways pilots' retort when asked by Frankfurt ATC if he'd never been there before. ("Yes, but it was during the war and I wasn't able to stay long!") "Yes, twice, in 1944...but it was dark and we didn't stop...."

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