We have a great slate of presentations coming up for you at the AVSIM 2004 Conference and Exhibition, so be sure you're registered for both the Saturday and Sunday Sept. 18/19 sessions. There's news about both IVAO and VATSIM regarding their upcoming Virtual ATC Client IvAp and SquawkBox v3. You'll hear about flight simulation applied to a wealth of real-world training environments as well as practical advice for your own simulated flying. There's a session of AFCAD creation and a first for Avsim's conferences—a workshop on scenery design.

In a Special Feature for this conference we've invited engineers from United Air Lines' Denver Flight Center to present a panel of sessions on various aspects of real world simulation. This includes another 'first', a video demonstration showing the results of the Full Motion to PC Simulator Comparison announced today! Oh, and you can expect to hear from Microsoft's Flight Simulation team—we suspect their presentation will illuminate some 'myths' surrounding FS configuration and performance issues.

Well, here's the lineup:
 

Flight Simulation Community Presentations:
Flight Dispatch: Plan Like the Pro's	Michael Collier
Flight Simulator; A Training Aid for Air Traffic Controllers	Brian van Hout
Virtual Airlines and the Online Experience	Nate Johns &  Matt Johnson
IVAO ATC Client Software	Allen Sindel
gates.to/FSNet	Ugo Grandolini
Common Cockpit Helicopter Training	Robert Richards
FS Scenery Round-Table Discussion	Bill Womack &  Mark Smith
AFCAD Creation	Ken Weik
Cockpit Building (presentation pending)	Ron Wiens &  Peter Cos
What Is AVSIM? Our history, "the story so far", the past socials and the conference, and what the future holds for AVSIM	Matt Johnson
UAL United Airlines Flight Center Presentations:
Introduction	Bob Ireland
History of Flight Simulation at United Airlines	David Pepper
ACARS/FANS simulation	Steve Ferro
Full Motion to PC Simulator Comparison (Evaluation of PC vs. Full Motion Simulators using the FlightViz simulator debrief tool)	Jason Hartman
The Downside of New Advancements in Simulation Fidelity and Avionic Technologies;	Tom Bennett
The Role of Standards in the First One Hundred Years of Flight Simulation—An Airline View	Tom Bennett
You Can't Do This in an Airplane!—The Reduction of Windshear Accident Rates through Simulator Training	Robert Ireland
And a presentation from Microsoft's Flight Simulations Team—Stay tuned!

During the coming week we'll be posting outlines of the presentations we've planned together with brief presenter bios. See you in Denver!

Questions regarding the conference presentations should be addressed to Maurice Pratt, Conference presentations coordinator.