November 2005 Newsletter
I received an update on Ron Jorgensen’s condition: Right now Ron is not
able to develop any more Toughman Challenge flights. He is having major
problems with his left eye and has had five surgeries so far (the retina keeps detaching). This
time they filled his eye with something to help hold the retina in place but he
is still not able to see. The left eye was his 'good' eye. He tried using the
computer with just the one eye but he got terrible headaches so the computer
has been unplugged. It will be at least
another 6 months before he is able to work on the computer.
Check out the FS 2004 Hangar! Thanks to Allan Lowson we have a Florida
Airlines repaint of the default FS 9 DC-3.
This repaint was requested by Bill Odell who was a pilot for Florida
Airlines after he retired from the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Franscisca Roele bgam011 has a repaint of the MAAM-SIM DC-3 in Bluegrass
Colors available at
www.flightsim.com The file
name is maambgac.zip and if that doesn’t
work search the file library for roele.
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I know that there is an “About Us” page on the web site that say that
Bluegrass Airlines began in March of 1999, but I have come across a web-page
that I believe dates back to March of 1998.
Early Bluegrass Web-Page
That indicates that we will be celebrating our 8th anniversary
just about the time the G.A.A.R. 2006 (our fifth annual G.A.A.R.) is finishing.
Speaking of the G.A.A.R., the web-site is just about completed, but won’t
be open for business until January 1st. 2006. It is scaled down to only 20 sectors flown
every 2nd day. The flights
are scheduled to be flown February 1st to March 9th. (two
of the sectors are flown in one day). We
aren’t circumnavigation the entire continent, flights will all be east of and
mostly to the south of Ayers Rock.
Almost all of the airports will be new to the rally, and the shortest
runway is 3,205 ft. The longest flight
is 306 N.Miles but the average flight is about 175 N.Miles
Aircraft will be limited to classic aircraft that flew in the 1930’s,
1940’s and 1950’s. Leave your
FSNavigator and GPS’s in the hangar and come fly by the “seat of your pants”
with a little help from NDB’s, and a few VOR’s and ILS’s.
If any of our pilots plan on flying the G.A.A.R with FS2002 send me an
email (bill@billvons.com) and I’ll send you the Flight Information files so
you can advise me on any airports or navaids that are missing in FS2002.
West Coast ATC
The names of our TeamSpeak Channels have been changed. The new names and purposes are:
BLUEGRASS Pilot’s Lounge
To be used as a meeting
place for general chat and help from other pilots.
WestCoast ATC Oct 2005 Time
|
ATC |
Server 1 |
Server 3 |
bgad004 |
|
61 H 14 M |
|
bgad007 |
|
25 H 26 M |
|
bgad009 |
7 H 16 M |
140 H 59 M |
|
BGAD013 |
|
0 H 50 M |
1 H 21 M |
bgad032 |
|
1 H 8 M |
|
bgad042 |
|
8 H 38 M |
|
bgak002 |
|
1 H 17 M |
10 H 20 M |
BGAN011 |
|
24 H 29 M |
|
BGAN017 |
|
4 H 10 M |
|
bgas001 |
|
8 H 19 M |
|
Welcome to New Pilots
bgas018 |
Arlie
Dicknite |
bgak012 |
Joe
Porter |
bgak010 |
Stub
Persons |
bgas009 |
Brian
Parker |
bgak009 |
Gorden
Volker |
bgad014 |
John
Jordan |
bgad013 |
Steve
Goodman |
bgad012 |
Eric T.
Schellekens |
Congratulations to pilots with promotions
bgad009 |
Nathen Miller |
Sr. Captain |
bgad004 |
graeme mckenna |
First Officer |
bgak033 |
Tom Burrill |
Sr. Captain |
bgad013 |
Steve Goodman |
Captain |
Oct-05 Pilot Hours |
|
|
|
|
Hours |
bgad004 |
58.32 |
|
Sid
Tatton |
BGAD007 |
40.85 |
Nathen
Miller |
bgad009 |
132.32 |
Steve
Goodman |
BGAD013 |
3.52 |
John
Lawler |
bgad017 |
17.17 |
Gayngel
van den Ing |
bgad022 |
92.60 |
Smithy |
bgad032 |
41.13 |
John
Gilbert |
BGAD033 |
12.40 |
Jay Lamos |
BGAD040 |
3.17 |
don |
bgad042 |
8.57 |
Brent
Brazeel |
bgak001 |
20.93 |
Gordon
Volker |
bgak009 |
4.23 |
Stub
Persons |
bgak010 |
1.17 |
Coleman
Green |
bgak011 |
1.37 |
Pat Daley |
bgak029 |
2.72 |
Tom
Burrill |
bgak033 |
18.80 |
Paul van
den Berg |
bgak036 |
10.82 |
Tim Arnot |
BGAK054 |
1.92 |
Bob Welch |
BGAk060 |
3.08 |
Allan
Lowson |
bgam007 |
16.53 |
Joe Weber |
BGAN002 |
27.00 |
Barry
Kleiber |
BGAN010 |
16.93 |
John
Franco |
BGAN011 |
32.88 |
Michael
Ahl |
BGAN013 |
102.18 |
Paul Roth |
BGAN016 |
4.27 |
John
Kolmos |
BGAN029 |
4.67 |
Don
Hulick |
bgan033 |
3.35 |
Allan
Carmel |
bgan036 |
1.70 |
Meryl D
Coon |
BGAN038 |
0.73 |
GEORGE
LEACH |
BGAN039 |
1.50 |
Paul
Mensch |
BGAN047 |
17.53 |
Bill Von
Sennet |
bgas001 |
34.58 |
Bill Agee |
bgas006 |
4.28 |
Don
Leveille |
bgas007 |
0.70 |
Jon
Carlson |
bgas012 |
9.92 |
Lyle
Hasty |
BGAS017 |
6.93 |
Charles
Wert |
BGAS039 |
0.60 |
Jim
Urquhart |
BGAS041 |
103.08 |
Dean
Johnson |
bgas044 |
14.93 |
AP
Hendrix |
bgas047 |
6.40 |
Tom McCoy |
bgas057 |
7.60 |
Patrick
Stewart |
bgas060 |
48.13 |
Don’t forget to
check out the forum and screen
shot pages.
That’s all for
now,
Bill Von Sennet
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