Would anyone care to start a group and fly once a week?  Personally, for the last couple of weeks I've been having a room on ther Zone labeled for Simviation Members, but have had no real bites.  It would be great to be able to get together one evening per week and fly for an hour or so...

Kevin

JB, it might not be that bad.  If you wanted a true dedicated set up, you'd of course have to have a computer set aside for just that part of the system, but you could probably make due with leaving your computer on and just setting it up as an IP game.

Same for voice, if so interested.

Yeah I definitely don't recommend the zone.  IP games are the way to go, IMO.

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Hyperion,

What I meant above was more of a permanent SimV flight server....24 hour 7 day/week setup.  Like the WSPilots setup.... but specifically for SimV.  Leaving a "general use machine" connected to the net with open ports and sensitive information on it is just ASKING for problems  .

That approach would need a dedicated server and a dedicated DSL /broadband line.  Lots of bucks for hardware and also monthly.    Not to mention the problems that come with hosting such stuff  ................ which if you go to the WSPilots server and check out DS20LA's comments (the host) in the various forum threads ......... clearly becomes a pain in the butt.

DPR... if I know enough in advance .... Sunday mornings are possible at least for now.  But aren't you in the UK?  This international issue is one of the difficulties in setting this up..... people in different time zones.  We should all talk in GMT... so we know what we are talking about no matter where we live.

It would be nice if we could publicise a "SimV Fly In".  But if we get too many people........ we'll need live ATC too  .

best,

...............john

John, I am in the US...  Chicago to be exact! 

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LOL...!

Hi Kevin...!
Would it also be necessary to seperate the Flight Sims, eg:
FS 2002, FS 2004...?
I've got both sims, but I only fly FS 2002... ... ...!

Cheers... ...!

Paul...Piper J3 Cub...80 knots...500 ft AGL... ... ...!

So let's see here about "tying down" some more details of this first single flight possibility.  If we can get it to work once... then maybe it happens on a more regular basis.

My first thought here is for DPR.......

If you are going to "host" this... you'll need to spend some time setting up the FSHost software on your machine... and then you'll need to test it to get it working.  I'd guess this is going to take some real effort.  Sorry I can't help..... I know NOTHING about this setup stuff. 

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Realworld Timeframe:  Sunday "morning" (in the USA)  ......... what exact time?

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Hosting Server:  IP game with DPR running FSHost as the "server".  Do we run default ports open?

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Weather:  I'd suggest real time Jeppesen weather on update format.

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Simulation Timeframe:  I think we should pick an exact  time of day.... synchronize our watches so to speak..... so that everyone is flying in the same lighting conditions.

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Communications:  Default sim chat... or do we try to use Teamspeak?  If we use Teamspeak... can we use an existing teamspeak server somewhere?

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Aircraft Type:  How about the first event is for a single specific aircraft?  So everyone is flying the same one as to speed and range and so on.

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Departure Airport:  I think "low and slow" is the place to start.  So a LARGE airport that is located near some good (default) VFR scenery (within 1/2 hour flight time) would be the place to start.  Alaska or Jackson Hole, Wyoming, comes to my mind..... but of course I am from the USA. 

A large airport will allow people to "pop up" in the multiplayer simulation at distruibuted locations... instead of all popping up on top of each other and having to sort out THAT mess without ATC.   Maybe we should pre-assign strarting gates/ramps/locations?  upon landing....people can just easily taxi out of the way.

Suggestions?

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Arrival Airport:  I think this should be within about a 50- 70 minute flight range from the departure airport.  That would keep the overall session to about 1 1/2 to 2 hours....... allowing for taxiing....any go-arounds.... and getting everyone on the ground again.

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Feel free to add to this above list.    This is just what I thought of as "issues" that need to be planned out.

best,

...................john

oldhorse,

Thanks for the suggestion.  You do have a point.

I just went to the link you gave above ...... and unfortunately it is loaded with pop-up ads.  And it says to join....go the messages forum.  But nowhere on the page is there a link I could find to the messages forum.  I clicked every hotlink on the page... and no place could I "join". 

Maybe the site is underutilized....because of the ads and the difficulty in finding the "sign up" function   .

I am not sure how a site would feel about a group from ANOTHER site descending "enmasse" upon that site to hold a "members" event.  Not to mention about how SimV would feel about having us do so.

SO it is a good idea... but we have to think about it a bit, I guess.  

best,

..................john