Vatsim's Cross the Pond (westbound) 2009

See http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/Rhinehornet/CTP09_westbnd.gif now!

Vatsim's Cross the Pond occured on Saturday the 14th of March, 2009.
Dispite an ongoing DDOS attack on a few of our servers, up to 1000 virtual pilots and virtual controllers logged on to Vatsim for the flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Departing Amsterdam, Munich or Zurich, pilots flew via pre-planned NAT tracks in booked slots, much like the real world, to fly to Toronto or Newark, spread over all 4 NAT tracks.

My flight was KLM657, an MD-11 (PMDG MD-11) flying from Amsterdam to Newark, an 8 hour flight. we got off to a bad start when we missed our takeoff slot and had to be assigned a new NAT slot, which put us back about 15 minutes and with a change of track. Instead of tracking via NAT A, we were now on NAT C. FMS Route had to be changed airborne and as such it was a very busy departure. In the Oceanic airspace, we were outside Radar Coverage, so gave position reports like the real aircraft do. SELCAL's were used and so on.


My (final after changes) flightplan was as follows:

N478F340 BERGI UL602 GOW UN580 TIR UN572 GOMUP/M080F360 59N20W 60N30W 60N40W 59N50W PRAWN COVAN/M083F380 HANAA ALB SHAFF6

EET/EGTT0021 EGPX0104 EGGX0245 CZQX0420 CZUL0545 KZBW0703 KZNY0734 REG/PHKCE SEL/AFLS OPR/KLM PER/D NAV/RNP10 GPSRNAV RMK/TCAS EQUIPPED

An Offset for SLOPS procedures was a 1 Nautical Mile to the Right offset between GOMUP and PRAWN

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• CTP
• Cross
• the
• Pond
• Vatsim
• MD11
• PMDG
• PMDGMD11
• ATC
• Atlantic
• CrossThePond
• CTP09

[BernhardRottweiler]

Nice. For full realism select the tape gauges when flying KLM MD-11.

[musicalaviator]

@BernhardRottweiler See my Cross the Pond 2011 video where I fly PMDG MD11 (KLM) ex EHAM in FSX/NL2000v4/AerosoftEHAM with the tape gauges too ;)

[ThunderDonkey]

why did you got clearance from delivery while you were already flying?

[musicalaviator]

@ThunderDonkey That wasn't normal Clearance, That was Oceanic Crossing Clearance. You will notice it contained a crossing time and a SELCAL check.

[musicalaviator]

@Appleshaz For cross the pond (and real life flights across the atlantic) Airlines are required to meet a slot time (so that all the planes don't arrive at the same place at the same time). For CTP you book your slots on the cross the pond website and you get a time for your departure. If you miss that time by more than 5 minutes you have "Lost your slot" and need to get another one. This can mean a ground hold, an airborne hold, or a change to a different parallel route.

[ryanair737400]

god i wish i knew how to use vatsim, i always try to follow the tutorials but never get it right

[applesweeter]

What id VatSim?

[aceridgey]

Very nice video, impressed about the documentation.

Im an IVAO man myself but enjoyed the video and music,

by your name on youtube you composed the music also?

[JustAnOrdinarySimmer]

"Perhaps you should trade your Airbus in for a boeing so it doesn't call you names passing 20 feet."

lmao, that was freaking awesome man i LOL'd

[tasspus]

Wow! What a great video! =D Nice filming, and very good editing!