October 2004 Newsletter

 

 

Features of the Month

 

The second installment of the Imperial Airways Feature is online.  Imperial Airways Chapter 2.

 

Ron Jorgensen has provided Toughman Challenge #6.   This month is single engine mountain flying.

 

DC-3 Airways is sponsoring the World Rally 2004.  Many Bluegrass pilots will be participating.

For credit on the Bluegrass Roster you can submit each flight or just one pirep for all of them.

 

Check out the web-site:  DC-3 Airways World Rally 2004

 

 

 

Air Mail Division

Activity:  3 Pilots and  28.98 hours.

 

 

 

 

Bush Pilots Division

 

Feature of the Month:  Toughman Challenge #6

 

Activity.   8 Pilots and 64.47 hours

 

Welcome to new pilots Andrew (no last name given) and Vern Mick.

 

Australian Division

 

Activity:  8 Pilots and 236.67 hours

 

 

Northern Division

 

Activity:  8 Pilots and 175.95 hours

 

Welcome to new pilots Chris Fry and Paul Mensch.

 

Southern Division

 

 

 

Activity:   11 Pilots and 515.78 hours

 

 

 

 

From the C.E.O.

 

 

September was a rough month for our pilots domiciled in Florida.  Four major hurricanes made landfall with some of our pilots getting hit with 3 hurricanes and others with 2 hurricanes.

 

In some cases, they had to evacuate their area and return later to find downed trees and flooding.  Fortunately no one was hurt and no one lost their home.

 

In every case, they lost power and internet connections.  Some still are not back on-line from Hurricane Ivan.

 

I’m thankful that God has kept them safe, and am sure that many of you had them all in your prayers.

 

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Microsoft is releasing an FS 2004 update this month.  Mainly it will place bridges at locations that have been missing them.   It will also correct some stability problems. 

 

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Bill Lyons has been written up over at www.flightsim.com  in recognition of his 8 years of contributions to the flightsim community.

 

38 Bluegrass pilots flew 1021.85 hours

 

Web-Statistics:   5,348 Visits from 3,428 unique visitors.  The number of unique visitors seems high to me.  It could be that many of our regulars have disabled cookies, so they are counted as unique each time.  These stats are for www.bluegrassairlines.com only.  Berlin Air Lift, Imperial Airways and the airport facility directory pages are hosted on another domain and not included in these stats.

 

That’s all for now,

 

Bill Von Sennet

 

P.S.  Don’t forget to check out the forum and screen shot pages.

 

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