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1. What s included in the latest issue Page 2 Featured Airport Information Page Page 3 January 2014 HR Report Page 4 February 2014 HR Report Page 5 January s Winter Wonderland Screenshot Competition Page 6 February s Big City Screenshot Competition Page 7 Fly UK Online Events Page 8 Fly UK Flying Club Page 9 Speech Recognition and Checklist Processing Page 12 Am losing it Page 13 In Soviet Russ plane flies you Page 16 Stu s Review Page 17 VOR Approach February 2014 Screenshot Competition Big City City of Gold by Jason Dilley Allan s Facts O Edition 13 O March 2014 No reproduction of any part of this publication in any form or by any means without written consent from Fly UK Virtual Airways is permitted Any views expressed in this publi cation do not necessarily re flect those of Fly UK Virtual Airways Editor Craig Tyler UKV2189 The Skyways Team e Stuart Mcintyre UKV2183 e Adam Salisbury UKV1375 1 Aplastic bottle takes around 450 years to decompose might be retarded fishing line takes 600 years to decompose 2 Next time your fishing line breaks don t throw it in the water A Monofilament 3 Nearly 50 of all bank robberies take place on Friday 4 Einstein couldn t speak fluently when he was nine His parents thought he Elevation 10 000FT 3 048M 10 000FT 3 048M Low Cost Operations Main Terminal Apron B2. Plane Sailing Graham Hammill UKV1625 RYANA Fly UK Online Events Well we have had a good start to 2014 with figures up on this time last year The newly introduced Thursday afternoon event on VATSIM for 2014 has a regular members on which we hope we can build Top tips when flying online be sure you are used to the aircraft you are flying never try a new aircraft online till you are happy with it offline Always ensure you know what the controller has ask you to do if not ask him to re peat the instruction and if still not sure ask him to text the information as this is usually easier to understand Our Event Calendar for March and April 2014 is sorted and is below April as its our 10 Anniversary we are flying the different operations of Fly UK to celebrate it and May s event are being chosen by Howard UKV1316 and John UKV1420 who both Fly on the Thursday VATSIM events IVAO Saturdays 0700z VATSIM Tuesdays 1930z and VATSIM Thursdays 1400z Please note zulu time becomes 1 hour behind Local UK from 30 March so events in April will be 0600 1830 and 1300 local time in UK March 1 4 6 EGLL gt EDDF g 11 13 EDDF gt EIDW 1518 20 EIDW gt EHAM 22 25 27 EHAM gt EGGP 29 EGGP gt EGJJ April 1 3 EGGP gt EGJJ 5 3 10 Cargo EGSS gt LEMD 12 15 17 Multi start 19 22 24 Fly2 LFSB gt EGSS 26 29 1 Highland Connections EGPH gt EGSH By Derek B
3. 2nd Mar UKV1622 Rudy Lyngvig 2nd Mar UKV1774 Jacob Whitby 2nd Mar UKV1701 Jonas Lundborg 3rd Mar UKV1728 Dan Fog 3rd Mar UKV1311 Robert Orr 4th Mar UKV1349 Ramzi Mejri 4th Mar UKV1555 Graham Smith 4th Mar UKV1432 Greg Martin 5th Mar UKV1559 John Mcdonald 5th Mar UKV1730 Reece Wellington 5th Mar UKV1690 Chris Fuller 5th Mar UKV2117 Paul Ayles 5th Mar UKV2183 Stuart McIntyre 5th Mar UKV1352 John Lowke 6th Mar UKV1518 Goncalo Gregorio 6th Mar UKV1592 Dale Ketchen 6th Mar UKV1964 John Kerr 6th Mar UKV1126 Tyler Richards 8th Mar UKV1496 Matthew Weekly 8th Mar UKV1254 Andrew Wiggins 9th Mar UKV1601 Joshua Bird 9th Mar Screenshot Competition January 2014 Winter Wonderland In association with UK2000 Scenery Over white silence Zvi Bernstein UKV1282 pkgs It s Cold Outside James Rendall UKV1475 Want your screenshot to feature on this page By entering the Fly UK Screenshot Competition you could be in for a chance to win a UK2000 scenery of your choice and have your shot featured in next edi tion Screenshot Competition February 2014 In association with UK2000 Scenery Want your screenshot to feature on this page By entering the Fly UK Screenshot Competition you could be in for a chance to win a UK2000 scenery of your choice and have your shot featured in next edi tion Big City
4. audio hardware 10 Unlike my app which uses a number of simple text files to represent a set of checklists for an aircraft SimVoice reads from a single XML format file that contains all the checklists in the one file much tidier and each line represents the checklist item and also includes the accepted response s from the pilot Whilst this is a much more elegant and flexible solution the downside is that the user needs to be watchful that the XML format is Beech Duke Turbine checklist i lt checklists gt 2 lt checklist name Before Starting gt 5 lt item name Cabin door escape hatch and baggage secured vcommand Affirmative Checked gt lt item name Airplane weight and balance checked instruction vcommand Affirmative Checked gt 5 lt item name Flight controls vcommand Affirmative Checked gt 6 lt item name Seat belts and harnesses secured vcommand Aftirmative Secured Checked gt 7 lt item name Parking brake set vcommand Aftirmative Set Checked gt 8 lt item name Circuit breakers vcommand Affirmative Checked In gt g lt item name Alternate static source vcommand Affirmative Checked Normal gt 10 lt item name Cabin Temperature Mode vcommand Affirmative off gt i1 lt item name Landing gear handle down vcommand Affirmative Checked Down gt 12 lt item name Condition levers
5. cut off vcommand Aftirmative Cut off Checked gt 13 lt item name Propeller levers set to high REM vcommand Affirmative Checked Set gt i4 lt item name Power levers set to idle vcommand Set Checked Affirmative gt 15 lt item name Left subpanel switches off vcommand Affirmative Set Checked Off gt 16 lt item name Battery switch on vcommand Affirmative On Checked gt 17 lt item name Annunciators Checked vcommand Aftirmative Checked gt 18 lt item name Fuel selectors left and right vcommand Affirmative Set Both On gt lt item name Engine and Fuel Pressure annunciators illuminated vcommand Set Checked Affirmative gt lt item name Left and right fuel pump switches vcommand Affirmative Set Checked On gt lt item name Engine and Fuel Pressure annunciators check off vcommand Affirmative Checked Yes gt lt item name Fuel pressure Check vcommand Aftirmative Checked Green gt lt item name Check Voltmeter vcommand Attirmative Checked gt lt checklist gt a PI Pa Pa Pd jH LWI Poe D wo J amp L scrupulously maintained and the syntax of each line is strictly adhered to otherwise the application will throw up an error Above is an illustration of the Before Starting checklist section for a Beech Duke Turbine where lt checklist name Before Starting gt opens the checklist section and the mandatory lt checklist gt terminates it The
6. of all the folders in the root directory and displays the list in the Available Aircraft window see Illustration below When the pilot selects an aircraft from the list all the checklist sections for that aircraft are displayed in the Available Checklists widow adjacent This window supports a list of up to 20 checklist sections with window expanding automatically to display them all A mouse click on the radio button beside any checklist section will start the ball rolling with the first item being read out by the co pilot A response by the pilot with a command like Checked Confirmed Set etc will have the co pilot advance to the next item Confirmation of what item is being read out is displayed in the text window above the aircraft list Now it s all hands free and when all the items in that section have been read out and processed a command of Next checklist will advance to the following section At any stage the pilot can intervene manually and select any particular checklist section by clicking on the radio button adjacent had just reached the final stages of developing my Checklist Reader application when happened across news of a similar app that had just been released as open source Of course my interest was immediate and so downloaded and ran the program straight away to checkout what the opposition was doing Sim Voice Checklists as the application is called wa
7. so we are 90 up on last year at this point This is YOUR magazine Your comments me and feedback help a lot If you have any questions or suggestions e mail s flyuk aero If you would like to submit an article review or information send your piece to the e mail above Deadline date for next edition 14 Sunday 27th April 2014 Picture Credits Page 1 header Pete Gill Page 3 top right Zach Mehdizadeh Page 4 top right Zach Mehdizadeh Page 7 header Craig Tyler with thanks to Derek Butterworth Mick Banham and Reza Kaihani Page 8 header Graham Hammill Page 9 the page Paul Bayley Page 10 the page Paul Bayley Page 11 the page Paul Bayley Page 12 bottom right Charles Griffiths Page 13 top centre Lars Hansen Page 17 the page Stuart Mcintyre Page 18 the page Stuart Mcintyre Page 19 the page Stuart Mcintyre Page 20 the page Stuart Mcintyre Page Back Page header Tom HcHale 21
8. zo Ef wi E da Li 4s i si AE pan r i x7 i At 3 DME you should be at about 1000ft and you must now switch off the autopilot auto throttle and flight director and hand fly the rest of the approach This is your decision height or MDA minimum de scent altitude you need to be visual with the runway or go around start making a slight left turn and vis ually get lined up with the runway using the PAPI lights to guide you from here it s up to you captain Debrief hope you can see now how easy it is to fly the VOR approach done correctly it s a piece of cake and really rewarding when those wheels touch the ground I ve not gone into over detail with this tutorial but highlighted the main steps you would need to take to get the aircraft on the ground The key is be ing able to read the charts correctly taking the time to extract the important information VOR frequency Altitude leaving the VOR and turning final Outbound course DME to start your turn Inbound course Minimum descent altitude Other information that is very handy is the rate of descent table which gives you in ft min how fast you have to descend Through the next few issues plan to do NDB approaches RNAV RNP approaches as well as a couple other challenging approaches so stay tuned By Stuart McIntyre UKV2183 20 Announcements Fly UK Online Events At this point in 2013 97 PIREP s total for 2014 is 176 PIREP s
9. 2th Feb UKV1213 Henry Hill 13th Feb UKV1223 Grahame Radford 13th Feb UKV1683 Dan Wilkes 13th Feb UKV1737 Terry Danos 13th Feb UKV1917 Nathan Chivers 14th Feb UKV3384 James Smith 15th Feb UKV1409 Harry Piercey 15th Feb UKV1600 James Beaumont 16th Feb UKV2032 Peter Sawley 16th Feb UKV1480 James Highton 17th Feb UKV1502 Graeme Crawford 18th Feb UKV1163 Nicolas Abdelnour 19th Feb UKV1717 Jeff Best 19th Feb UKV2765 Jordan Gallacher 19th Feb UKV3743 Colin Paxton 19th Feb UKV1292 Anton Blake 20th Feb UKV1350 Marconi Menezes 20th Feb UKV1428 Peter Manning 21st Feb UKV1470 Paul Cools 21st Feb UKV1584 Alan Scott 21st Feb UKV3752 Sam Sheppard 22nd Feb UKV1224 Alex Tudor 23rd Feb UKV1195 Mark Garforth 24th Feb UKV1424 Derek Boxer 24th Feb UKV1268 Adam Brough 25th Feb UKV1216 Karl Taverner 25th Feb UKV2122 Wojciech Binkowski 25th Feb UKV1176 Johan Grauers 26th Feb UKV3732 Joe Lewis 26th Feb UKV3386 John Hill 26th Feb UKV1634 Ken Dixon 26th Feb UKV1598 Roger Pilgrem 26th Feb UKV1605 Geoff Scott 26th Feb UKV1745 Anders Christiansen 26th Feb UKV1323 Jamie Beddow 27th Feb UKV1510 Ruben Caetano 28th Feb UKV3365 Jamie Woodington 1st Mar UKV1658 Peter Andre 1st Mar UKV1309 Guillermo Patterson 2nd Mar UKV1622 Rudy Lyngvig 2nd Mar UKV1774 Jacob Whitby 2nd Mar UKV1309 Guillermo Patterson
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11. amberlain 29th Jan UKV1401 Jack Plumb 30th Jan UKV1554 Christopher Conroy 1st Feb UKV2156 Andy Mclernan 1st Feb UKV1217 Leo Malagar 2nd Feb UKV1196 Joseph Davis 2nd Feb UKV1497 Rory Kruger 2nd Feb UKV1593 Lucian Vasile 2nd Feb UKV1616 James Collins 2nd Feb UKV1196 Joseph Davis 2nd Feb UKV1497 Rory Kruger 2nd Feb UKV1593 Lucian Vasile 2nd Feb UKV1616 James Collins 2nd Feb UKV1641 Leo Malagar 2nd Feb UKV1737 Jamie Munn 4th Feb UKV2074 Alex Twigg 4th Feb UKV1197 Derek Butterworth 5th Feb UKV1354 Luis Ortiz 6th Feb UKV1286 Nick Shaw 7th Feb UKV1429 William Bolingford 7th Feb UKV1662 George Hunter 7th Feb UKV1710 Andrew Cross 8th Feb Fly UK February Monthly R Monthly Report Beginning Monday 3rd February 2014 Ending Sunday 2nd March 2014 Within the last month a total of 4 161 PIREPS totalling 692 hours were filed IVAO Flights 315 VATSIM Flights 522 FSD Flights 86 Offline Flights 2 739 Mainstream Flights 2 130 Event Flights 7 Tour Flights 1 419 Training Flights 38 Flying Club Flights 495 figure does not include flying club PIREPS Green increase compared October equal compared to October Red decrease compared to October Birthdays UKV3712 Marc Cadmore 9th Feb UKV1565 Martin Abbott 10th Feb UKV1524 Daniel Libman 11th Feb UKV1608 Jamie Borland 12th Feb UKV1724 Phil Ngoma 1
12. e Johns 12th Jan UKV1439 Guenter Reiners 12th Jan UKV1488 Alan Smith 12th Jan UKV1724 William Bruce 12th Jan UKV1762 Peter Slater 12th Jan UKV1235 John Mosuela 13th Jan UKV1418 Harry Stewart 13th Jan UKV1191 Gavin Watt 14th Jan UKV2140 Mudrik Ali 14th Jan UKV2767 Phil Derbyshire 15th Jan UKV1220 Frans Santbrink 16th Jan UKV1311 Michael Starckey 16th Jan UKV1339 Shane Gibney 16th Jan UKV1754 Emil Joensen 16th Jan UKV1295 Jo Dow 17th Jan UKV1306 Trevor Walden 17th Jan UKV1233 Robert Wells 18th Jan UKV1982 Steve West 18th Jan UKV1725 Jack Ellis 19th Jan UKV3375 Vincent Pizzey 20th Jan UKV1512 John Littleford 20th Jan UKV1330 Chris May 21st Jan UKV1343 Darren Chadwick 21st Jan UKV1403 Jos Lopes 22nd Jan UKV3394 Matthew Charman 23rd Jan UKV1441 Tommy Gilbert 24th Jan UKV1500 James Crawley 24th Jan UKV1704 John Metcalfe 24th Jan UKV1483 Richard Wraith 25th Jan UKV2971 Jason Vos 25th Jan UKV1535 Kevin Byrne 26th Jan UKV1215 Richard Barkus 27th Jan UKV1659 Chris Gibbons 27th Jan UKV1594 lan Fielding 27th Jan UKV2954 John Hendry 27th Jan UKV1344 Doug Wilkinson 28th Jan UKV1455 Ignacio Robla 28th Jan UKV1635 Stephen Tyhurst 28th Jan UKV1875 Richard Otevrel 28th Jan UKV1405 Thomas McGreevy 29th Jan UKV1528 Mark Ramsden 29th Jan UKV1585 Dave Robinson 29th Jan UKV1586 Carl Ch
13. experience Whilst currently have installed on my PC It s Your Plane FS2Crew 737 NGX and JS41 versions and that wonderfully configurable Multi Crew Experience as a Strictly amateur and part time programmer recently thought it would be fun to put together a small application in VB Net that could interface with the Windows Speech Engine to process aircraft specific checklists that the user could construct in a text file format The application would step through each checklist item consecutively in a hands free environment using the default Microsoft Text to Speech TTS voice as the co pilot that reads out each checklist item to be processed and waits for confirmation to advance to the following item The app called Checklist Reader operates separately from Flight Simulator and after initialisation can be put into the background to run with voice interaction only This is how my application work A series of text files are created one for each checklist section for the specific aircraft The text files are created with the name reflecting the particular checklist section contained i e Before Taxi txt Approach txt etc A single line of text in the file represents the checklist item to be read by the co pilot i e Master Battery ON The folder that these checklist files are saved in is named to represent the subject aircraft i e Cessna C172 etc At start up the Checklist Reader application gets the names
14. front Airport KNEW for the oe Start of a flight along the Mississippi River The area is generally flat and with the Ss river to follow it meant that navigation was easier However there were S228 tempting bridges to fly under we do break the rules sometimes some very low indeed and a real challenge The area is also dotted with chimneys cooling m towers and radio masts so everyone had to keep a watchful eye especially if eee flying below 500ft All part of the fun The flight ended at Jackson some way from the river having flown over a large dam on the Ross Barnett Reservoir which sadly wasn t well modelled in FSX 9 Flying Club pilots joined the flight The Club plans to continue the journey up river later in our programme Future plans for the Club events include the second part of our Columbia River route a special Fly UK 10th Anniversary flight in April which will be the second of our technical events this year no doubt this will be a busy month and our May event will be a fly in to Southampton because the Flying Club is holding a real world meet up that weekend on Saturday 19th May at Poole in Dorset If you are interested there are details in the forums so if you can t join us for real that weekend then why not pay a virtual visit instead Don t forget the Flying Club meets every Wednesday evening for an informal flight why not come along and enjoy the fun By Jim Lowery and Mark Dring Speech Recogn
15. have is that the liveries that come with it are Too nice The planes look factory fresh which they certainly shouldn t be Not to worry though there s a paint kit and a ton of user made liveries that look like they should Weathered well used and in some cases with fuselage patches The interior is equally well done Crisp clear textures and this time they ve got the weathering right You ll be hard pressed to find a single painted surface that doesn t have scuff marks or isn t worn down to the bare metal Plus there are fun little details For example there s a small fan mounted on the pilot side And yes there s a switch for it on your breaker panel And if you look on the shelf behind the pilots seat you ll find a small key Not an ignition key but it does unlock something in the plane Won t tell you what though you ll have to figure that one out yourselves And all of this comes with zero impact on your frame rates When it comes to flying it there are a few things that you ll have to get used to First of all this is a Russian plane so most of the gauges and switches are labelled in Cyrillic They re explained in the manual though and besides given the lack of complexity of this bird you quickly get used to it What is a little harder to get used to is that the instruments are in metric Speeds in km h and altitude in meters Good for flying in Russia less so for flying just about anywhere else The engine start up i
16. ich allows the user to set the threshold for the command recognition for their voice The best way to adjust this is to run the app and go through a number of commands then open the debug window and from the displayed data note down the lowest value in the confidence column and adjust the value to suit It s a form of voice training that proves to be rather effective This illustration shows the confidence values recorded when ran through the first few items of a checklist The Confidence level had set was 93 so you can see that all the issued responses by me were understood The exception was at 10 58 26 when some sound was picked up by the microphone and the app translated it as both on an accepted command but didn t process it because it was below the value set as my Confidence Level If your system doesn t support Windows Speech it s not a problem In the options window simply configure a key press to use instead of a voice command to progress to the next checklist item After the key press the app will play the associated WAV file which still gives a level of functionality you can just say Checked or something appropriate when you press the key if you want to be more realistic Just be aware that you ll need to record WAV files for all the checklist items since without the Windows TTS voice you ll hear nothing The preferred audio output device can also be selected from a drop down list of installed
17. is tened Without thinking reached into the cupboard withdrew TWO mugs and almost called Want a cComee before realising that Kath wasn t really there Ihave to ask Am I losing it The invisible Co Pilot Note the Radar Contact Menu Radar Contact By Charles Griffiths UKV1546 12 Here s a small quiz Name for me please your three favourite Russian built civilian aircraft No Me neither suppose it s a left over from the Berlin Wall plus the fact that most of the Russian built planes rarely fly in Western Europe Even Aeroflot only has two russian built models in their fleet at pre sent the IL96 300 and SU100 95 Rarer still are payware add ons depicting any of these planes But they do exist SibWings have made an absolutely wonderful AN 2 Anushka r i or am a a ee For those of you who haven t a clue as to what the AN 2 is or looks like it s a rugged STOL bi plane used for just about anything Passengers freight parachuting crop dusting you name it The closest thing to compare it to would probably be the DHC3 Otter The AN 2 prototype flew for the first time in 1947 so obviously it s got a few years on its back But to give you an idea of how wide spread this plane actually is production didn t stop until 1991 and in that time well over 18 000 of them had been produced No that s not a typo eighteen thousand And there are several thousand of them still flying today Before the act
18. is no user manual at the time of writing so why not go and check it out it ll cost you nothing and that s what this is all about You ll find a download of this application on Paul s Code Page and the videos on Paul s YouTube Page By Paul Bayley UKV1513 11 Sometimes Only sometimes mind get to thinking that encroaching old age scrambles the grey cells When it comes to separating reality from virtual reality especially in FS I m fairly certain that we Ve all taken the time during a flight to dash into the kitchen make a cup of coffee and race back to the compat er before ATC demands a response Well Several weeks ago a couple of in the know Fly UK pilots introduced me to a natty little program Called Radar Contact which bought Among its varied features is the option to choose a co pilot chose nice clear voiced British female with whom I ve since become very attached She s now permanent on all my flights Another superb feature is that your chosen co pilot can not only fly the plane but also handle all Commis With the result that one can now happily take a little time away from the flight deck without having to res Spond to AIC Brilliant no more spilt coffee or mad rush to get back This Morning was on a lengthy flight to Bali fancied a coffee and handed all the controls to Kath my co pilot Inevitably while was in the kitchen ATC made contact and heard Kath respond As I
19. ition and Checklist Processing Many years ago in the good old days of Microsoft DOS as a CAD manager in a large architectural practice was intrigued by the concept of using speech recognition to issue the basic drawing and editing commands vocally to gain greater efficiency Unfortunately my attempts to develop something functional in this regard met with little success due mainly to the primitive nature of speech recognition software available at that time Even with extensive voice training of the software the incidence of misunderstood commands was so frequent and frustrating that any thoughts of gains in efficiency ended as a pipe dream put such thoughts to one side As time passed voice recognition software improved but so did the CAD interface and the OS with added GUI toolbars mouse menus etc etc providing greater productivity thereby precluding speech recognition as a viable option Regardless of my initial disappointment my fascination with speech recognition software and its potential usage has remained with me and now for the last five years or so have been using proprietary software add ons as a virtual co pilot in a variety of aircraft in both FS9 and FSX There are a number of these applications available at varying prices and functional abilities All require some input of voice training initially and having done that your co pilot is there at your vocal command thus enhancing the world of flight simulation
20. k modern turbo prop effortlessly zipping through the air it s an airborne dump truck The biplane configuration gives you massive lift and thus the STOL capability but you re not going any where fast It cruises at around 100km h and you really have to think ahead when turning because just banking it will take a while On the other hand it is incredibly stable Once you have it trimmed it ll putter merrily along without fur ther input from you The only thing that it doesn t like is crosswinds 14 Big and slow makes it very vulnerable to gusting and if you re navigating without the GPS you really have to take wind drift into account or you ll end up somewhere else So it s slow there are no nav aids and no AP In case you haven t guessed by now this is very much a plane meant for bush flying And it excels at that Granted haven t tried doing everything it can do mainly because I m not very good at bush flying but it can do some very interesting things Take off in 170m and land in 215m obviously depending on the payload and you can land it at 30mph There s no stall speed mentioned in the manual because it can t stall In fact it has the very best engine out procedure that have ever read Keep the wings level and pull back on the stick o What happens is that around 40mph the slats automatically deploys and at around 25mpbh it will simply descend at parachute speeds until it hits the ground You can probably des
21. le like this note that the VOR course needle isn t quite correct that s because you are directly overhead the VOR and it will fluctuate until you start going outbound LU eel70 i186 DOH 65170 1as186 leas 17 17 dle in the centre this is you tracking the 200 degree radial outbound from the beacon At 4 4 dme start the descent to 2400ft using Vertical soeed and using the green banana on the first officers display unit to gauge where you will reach 2400 DIH s170 tas 181 oes 200 ive 14 oe 10 3 Pe ba i y At 10 DME start the turn by using heading select but be careful not to turn too far and cut the inbound course too much during the turn change the captains course selector to 043 and re arm the VOR LOC start slowing the aircraft to 160 knots once inbound at 6 7 DME start the descent to the MDA of 1030 FT drop the gear and slow to your VREF using the rate of descent chart on the VOR chart you can see at 140 knots you need to descend at about 900 FPM 870 so dial this into the v s window on the MCP upon reaching 6 7 DME 19 eil55 L 148 1607 15 5 ee EA z Te A i x ri aa fa Fa k F a Fi F bF 4b Y Si M r P r E S i On the chart it says we need to be at our MDA 1030ft at 3 DME using the green banana on the first offic ers display unit you can see roughly it s about right k aidi 10143 DOH esl44 mas 143 043 GOH 14i sil 141 6 1314 8z i 3 lm v R g d J P z z l i aN
22. line syntax is constructed so that the lt item name represents either the name of the WAV file to be played or in its absence the TTS voice output reads the quoted text as the checklist item being processed The location of the folder containing the WAV files is configured in the General Options window To be frank don t record any WAV files simply because I have an appalling voice quality which just hate listening to and in any case have an Ivona TTS voice installed which sounds just great very realistic and humanlike and has the added advantage of pronunciation fine tuning whenever necessary dt Mt Clearly vcommand is the acceptable response s to the checklist item spoken by you the pilot As you can see from the illustration these can vary as much as is necessary which you can select from the fairly extensive list of Accepted Commands refer to illustration on the previous page that are inbuilt in the application So there you have it Sim Voice Checklists is a very nice little freeware application that does the job beautifully of allowing virtual pilots to process even the most extensive of checklists absolutely hands free and without the need to refer to a hard copy of the checklists cluttering the desktop all at no cost and just a little effort Paul has a few videos on his YouTube account that show Sim Voice Checklists in action and he also has one on setting up the app after installation there
23. omplex so added a couple of points the yellow dot is where you descend from 3000 to 2400 the red line is your turn to the inbound course and the blue dot is where you start descending to the MDA 1030ft Once you re established in the hold stable at 3000ft and 180 knots you can continue with the proce dure Double check at this point the captain s course is set to 200 for the outbound leg and the NAV1 and NAV2 are set to 115 4 for the VOR Approaching GOW VOR whilst still using LNAV in the hold change the captains display unit to VOR and set heading 200 but don t engage heading select until your overhead the VOR You can still view the range rings on the first officers DU Overhead the VOR click heading select followed by VOR LOC on the MCP arming the VOR mode you will most probably need to change the heading up to 30 63173 115186 gt 193 16 TRK ri MAG degrees either side of 200 once starting the turn to get yourself on track especially if you re a little early or late starting the turn 18 65174 108186 GOW 68174 tas186 P fen crs 200 a 185 17 180 185 Ng Broa s NA eg LNAVZVNAV 220 D LO a lene X fer GS 174 i aa S i Ha AN a Xe t2004 See K a When the aircraft has a good track you will pick up the VOR and you are flying beacon outbound Set the next altitude constraint of 2400 on the MCP Once you have carried out the above steps your instruments should look a litt
24. ondon Stansted Airport is situated in Essex about 30 miles north east of London Itis well known for its low cost carriers and cargo operators With 3 passenger terminals it holds its own as one of the premiere London airports At Fly UK we operate 4 x 747F s 4 x MD11F s and 4 x 757F s in our Cargo fleet the most popular flight being UKV8621 EGSS BIKF B744F as well as 3 x 737 700 s and 2 x 757 200 s in our Low Cost division Stansted is the main base for cargo operations for Fly UK operating from stands 1 2 3 and 4 at the main cargo centre with our Low Cost division operating from stands 20 21 22 and 23 from Apron B always enjoy flying in to or out of Stansted especially on VATSIM as there is usually good ATC coverage either from TWR or from London Control The airport layout is also very good with an inner and outer taxiway for inbound flights to taxi on one and outbound to taxi on the other avoiding any conflict so make sure you pay attention to what the control lers have given you for taxi clearance As far as scenery goes there is really only one option UK2000 they do a freeware and also a payware version of the airport both very well produced and are definitely worth check ing out especially if you fly the Low Cost or Cargo routes as this will be an airport you will visit again and again Interesting fact did you know that in the event of a high jacking Stansted is the UK Gov ernments designated airport fo
25. pproach for runway 05 after LANAK we will fly direct to the VOR descending to 3000ft and enter a holding pattern with inbound course 231 degrees and right hand turns with a timing of 1 min After the hold we will proceed beacon outbound on heading 200 at 4 4 dme GOW we will start descending to 2400 At 10 dme GOW we will turn for a 043 offset inbound course at 6 7 dme we will start descending to our MDA which is 1030 ft before disconnecting the autopilot and visually land ing the plane Programming the FMC Within the FMC you only have to setup 3 items LEGS page HOLD page and FIX page Before arriving at LA NAK preferably before top of descent go to the LEGS page all you need is LANAK at FLO70 followed by GOW on the HOLD page setup the hold with 231 inbound course with right hand turns and 1 minute legs Finally the FIX page and set GOW as the fix with 200 10 as the rad dis 4 4 as the second and 6 7 as the third You generally don t want to put any more info in there as I ve found it can mess up the display unit and confuse the AP At this point you should also set your NAV1 and NAV2 to 115 4 GOW VOR and set the captains course to 200 outbound and the first offic ers course to 043 inbound Flying the Approach If you have setup everything correctly your Display unit should look like this note have VOR course lines turned on in the PMDG options T e TA ees tt ole 1EB Fe ror gt It looks a little c
26. r flights that request to land in the UK This is because of the layout of the airport the aircraft could be isolated away from the main passenger ter minal or runways allowing the airport to continue operating while negotiations are under way or even while a rescue mission is underway The Airport staff receive special training on how to deal with these incidents By Stuart Mclntyre UKV2183 VOR Approach Non precision approaches are my personal favourite approach as it s much more interesting than setting up an ILS and letting the plane land itself There is lots of chart reading and airmanship involved and this can sometimes intimidate newcomers but the satisfaction of getting it right is definitely worth it With this short explanation hope you all have a go For the purposes of this tutorial will be presuming that you will be flying to Glasgow from the south in the 737 800 I am using the NGX for screenshots That you can program and fly a holding pattern and that you are also fairly proficient in hand flying the aircraft as there is no auto land capability on a non precision approach Mostly all flights into Glasgow from the south route on the LANAK1A arrival this terminates at LANAK usually at FLO7O So this is where will be starting the tutorial before flying to the hold at GOW VOR then starting the VOR approach The chart for this approach is located here Landing Briefing Today we will be flying the VOR DME a
27. s programmed by Paul Endersby a Senior Software Engineer living in Tadley UK So not surprisingly his credentials in the programming field are way beyond my modest hobby approach and it Sin Voile Rii Cpueldhiors certainly shows in the comparative level of sophistication displayed in b a ae this program Fundamentally the objectives of each application are essentially the same That is to run a series of checklists for any given aircraft by means of speech recognition and text to speech TTS using Windows Speech Engine and allow for the checklists to be fully editable by the user However Paul Endersby s program really shines with some particularly good features that make it stand head and shoulders above my modest Checklist Reader In the first place his interface with the Windows Speech Engine is such that each pilot response to any given checklist item is vastly more configurable by the user unlike mine that limits the responses to a much smaller predetermined vocabulary programmed in the app Secondly Checklist Reader uses the default Windows TTS voices which makes the co pilot voice a little clunky and unrealistic whereas Sim Voice has the option to allow user generated WAV files to be attached to each command So you can record your own or preferably a friend or partner s voice as the co pilot making it much more realistic and lifelike He has also included an adjustable Confidence Threshold value wh
28. s something else to put it mildly The Ctrl E short cut has been disabled so you have to go through the manual sequence yourself Unfortunately the process isn t very well described in the manual so spend an hour or so experimenting and reading forums before figured it out But it is so worth it The starter is nothing like you re used to First it has to be primed like all vintage planes Then you can t just crank a starter motor and let er rip The AN 2 starter spins a fly wheel and when that is up to speed you pop the clutch which will then en gage the main engine Not unlike bump starting a car suppose Definitely low tech Usually takes a few attempts before it catches but have to admit that the first time got it right and wit nessed the marvellous sounds of a 1 000hp engine spluttering into life while belching smoke was cack ling like a maniac out of sheer glee Then there s the navigation equipment or rather lack of same honestly didn t think there was a plane with less equipment than my PBY but there you go There s one comm radio and a dual channel ADF And that s it Granted there s a retro fitted FSX default GPS as a pop up but that s for situational awareness only it s not connected to anything Certainly not connected to the AP because there isn t one So how does it fly Bearing in mind that I ve never actually flown an AN 2 or any other plane for that matter it feels right This isn t some slee
29. troy this plane but you ll have to work at it So to wrap this up here s a few pro cons Con It s not quite finished There are still a few bugs that they re working on and they re still tweaking the flight model None of the bugs are game breakers but they are there The manual isn t quite up to scratch There s an additional Pilots Guide you can download but would ve preferred if they d included everything you need in the actual download package You can t use it in FlyUK activities There s no way it ll ever be added to the fleet and it is far too heavy to be used in the Flying Club Pros It s something completely different It handles like nothing else you have ever flown For the price tag you get a massive amount of content Even given the lack of systems the VC model ling and sounds are right up there with the best payware companies It s fun It s a quirky little plane that simply oozes personality and with the low speed and stable flight model it is tailor made for some VFR bush flying Final verdict like it Really like it But as said have a thing for vintage planes Granted it s very specialized and you can t use it on official FlyUK business But don t care Maybe half my sim time is actually logged the rest is doing odd flights in odd planes And l m pretty sure that once get to know it better the AN 2 will be taking over for my PBY on my RTW tour By Lars Hansen UKV1757 15 Stu s Review L
30. ual review it should perhaps be noted that absolutely love vintage airplanes Possibly bordering on a fetish I ve logged untold virtual hours in my beloved PBY Catalina adore swan ning about in my Tiger Moth and couldn t be happier than when I m carefully watching the gauges in my DC 2 looking for signs of over heating Maybe it s just because I m getting older and find myself surrounded by increasingly younger people who wouldn t know how to use a hammer unless someone made an app for it but there s something to be said for the age when you could actually tell airplanes apart Don t get me wrong I m not a Luddite love the comfort and speed provided by our increasingly complex jets and do love flying in them But all these polished darts that surround us simply don t have the charm of these loud clunking piston powered oldies So bear that in mind when reading on The SibWings model is the AN 2T 12 passenger wheeled version It s only as far as know available from their own web shop and it ll cost you a very reasonable 15 99 That s about half of a good Carenado plane Can t complain there FSX only and there is no trace of 2D panels 13 Space constraints won t really allow me to burden you with screen shots so a brief description will have to make do Plenty of pics on their site anyway The exterior is absolutely stunning Full of details HD textures and bump maps Very very good The only complaint might
31. utterworth Richard Jones and Mike Higgins 7 January 2014 Using the Instruments Our January event was the first of our quarterly technical events designed by Clint where we go a bit beyond flying the blue line I m not decrying the fact that some pilots especially newcomers will use AP and the GPS to fly our routes we probably all started out that way However although the main aim of the Flying Club is to have fun we do try iim to encourage members not to switch the autopilot on and to learn and prac tice using the instruments The event found us flying in Norway beginning at ENKR Hoybuktmoen Air Fa port at Kirknes and flying touch and go s to Hammerfest using NDB s to navi gate and LOC DME s to approach the runway It all sounds technical but in fact is really easy when you know how and more to the point doing it without the autopilot FMC or whatever and just using the ADF and DME instruments manually gives a real sense of satisfaction when it all comes together and you are lined up for that touch and go It seems that some of our regular flyers are a bit wary of the technical events and this one was perhaps no exception being attended by six of our experienced pilots hope to be able to encourage some others to join in by providing some preliminary taster flights prior to our regular event Watch the forums for news of this February 2014 Mississippi Magic The February event took us to New Orleans Lake
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