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Required downloads
 Pirep + Rules
 Setting up a session
 Flightplans - Tours
 FSHOST Activity

Welcome to St Paul airlines online division. This department belongs to you, the pilots, and YOU are giving rise and life to its activity. Organize your own tours, set up meetings with SPA, communicate, fly together. We supply the tools and you make the fun!
To participate you have to download and install some specific tools-addons: TEAMSPEAK 2 for voice communication, SKYPE for a lighter type of voice communication adapted for 2 to 4 pilots together, [for FSX pilots only, FSHOST for sharing the session and see other pilots aircrafts (not required for FS9)] and PLAN-G for VFR flight-planning and moving map facility.
Here are the direct links to the required downloads (free!):
 
      Teamspeak          Skype          Fshost        Plan g      
You will find all instruction for the setting up of these programs on the respective web sites, following the links provided above.
SPECIFIC SERVER ADRESS FOR SPA FREE OPEN TEAMSPEAK & FSHOST SERVERS
Copy and paste each specific IP adress to the related program
 
                       TS Server                                                                        fshost serber
  IP adress =ocsr.dyndns.org:8005                       Check availability with FSHostSpy
                                                                                     downloadable from FShost page
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Simple rules
  1. The pilot who organise the event is the person in charge and all participants, whatever their rank, should follow his instructions.
  2. Any pilot who does not wish to lead the group, despite the fact that he is the organizer, can choose another participant to manage the flight.
  3. All pilots should have their flightsim set to no damage in case of accident.
  4. All meeting time should be established in ZULU time only.

PIREP

As  “online flying” is a creative activity, generally you will not find fixed predetermined schedules with all the usual entries and flight numbers. Therefore, if you wish to register your online sessions and fill a PIREP, do as follow:

  1. just enter de departure and arrival ICAO (arrival = last landing airfield)
  2. departure (engine on) and arrival time at the last airport (engine off)
  3. Total flight time (decimal)
  4. aircraft used (+ all the usual entries you wish to indicate but not mandatory)
  5. in the comment section enter the name(s) of the pilot(s) who shared the session
  6. as flight number always use the same number, that is 9-online
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How to set up your own online session
The simplest way:
  1. Imagine a tour around any airport (30 minutes to 2 hours)
  2. Launch your flight simulator
  3. Choose an aircraft and go to the departure airport
  4. Launch Teamspeak and FSHOST
  5. Use the Shout Box to call pilots who are present on the web site. Say something like; “Skippy online tour ready for immediate takeoff – go to KMSP – time 11 am – weather fine – for props aircrafts - keep out of the runway”
  6. Wait for some 10-15 minutes so that participants have time to join
  7. As soon as you have radio contact(s) through Teamspeak explain what you want to do... you are the boss for this flight, no matter your rank.

Enjoy your flight!

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 A simple way:
  1. Prepare the tour that you want to set up (departure airport, approximate flight time, arrival airport, etc) and when you want to organise your “event”.
  2. Post an invitation in the forum  > Special Ops Division >  Special Ops Online Multiplayers Flights. In the title just mention: “Online flight – date – time”.
    In the invitation indicate departure and arrival airports + en route stop over – meeting time (ZULU time) – departure time (ZULU time) – Flight simulator time and weather settings – Type of aircraft used: props, turbo props, single or twin engines, jet, etc.
  3. Ask to the participants to enrol answering to your thread in the forum.
  4. Post your event in the SCHEDULE EVENT CALENDER on the SPA home web page.
  5. At the time of the event, put a call in the Shout Box for possible participants who did not register.

Be active, organise your event, share the fun!

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  1. Use PLAN-G or any similar program to plan your online flight and produce a planning and a map of the projected tour.
  2. Advertise your future online event in the forum as usual, a few days in advance and do not forget to enter the event in the SPA calendar.
  3. On the same message you should post the flight-plan and the map.
  4. Try to keep the total flight time with the stopover between 1-2 hours
  5. Specify which types of aircrafts are invited to participate (do not forget that is is great fun to mix helicopters wuth slow props aircrafts).
  6. Maybe you can imagine a whole online tour in 6 or 7 online sessions.
  7. First of all, don’t be shy, put yourself in the first row and do not hesitate to use your imagination. All this is not so serious... it’s just a game to have fun together.
Why not try to organise online events in the region where you live and invite your SPA friends for a commented tour. It is not only great fun... we could learn something!

IMPORTANT:

You do not know where to start your online adventures, you do not know where to go, you do not have flight-planning tools, you want to make it easy... or you are simply lazy. Don’t panic! You have thousands of short VFR hops available in the Bush Operations and Special Operations Division. Just select the one you want to fly online, post your invitation, and you should find somebody willing to share the fun. Just a word about PIREP, in this case, just use the flight number 9-online.

What I suggest is that when you intend to fly any VFR flight, instead of staying alone, just go online and put a word in the shout box. Maybe it will take time until anybody naturally joins the fun, but isn’t it worthy to try. What would you think of a “dream VA” in which most of the flight would be online without the hassle of the big very serious organisations? Because to be frank, what I am looking for is a funny way of flying together, with jokes, laughs and friendship.

Now, just make things happen!

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ONLINE TOURS, Flight-plans and maps
In this Online Flights “Subsection”, I wish to propose some tours and “round robin” that I have especially created for multiplayers online sessions. Each download includes a flight plan (PDF) and a map (JPG). Furthermore, all these tours will let you visit some remarkable places and landscapes.

Please feel free to organise your own online event using my flight plans. I have labelled and numbered each entry so that you can indicate which tour you are scheduling on your invitation. Subsequently the participant can download the map and flight plan in advance.

I hope that this will motivate you to fly online!

  1. Geneva Switzerland Alpine Online tour / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  2. Honolulu Online Tour / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  3. Innsbruck Tyrol to Samedan Swiss Alps / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  4. Wandring from Key West to Miami / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map 
  5. Grand Canyon to Las Vegas / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  6. Across USA East to West 1 - KPEM to 0B1 / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  7. Across USA East to West 2 - 0B1 to K09 / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  8. Across USA East to West 3 - K09 to 5G6 / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  9. Across USA East to West 4 - 5G6 to  KAGC / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  10. Across USA East to West 5 - KAGC to KCRW / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
  11. Across USA East to West 6 - KCRW to 76KY / DOWNLOAD Plan & Map
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