I owe you guys 3 more of these which I will try to get out over the next few months.First will be a fun flight starting at 1400Z on June 14th and ending on the south end of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. I will post it later this week. You should be able to guess the name of that event.Next will be a flight from Nairobi to Israel sometime in July. That should be interesting and give some of you an opportunity to fly in a part of the world that we often overlook. I will somehow round up some ATC for the departure end of the flight and I am sure Ilan will accommodate the arrival.The third flight will be the overly due BBAll run that will be a marathon event keeping those that attend very busy over an 8 hour day in the life of Captain Ball.To explain a little of my absence from the forum and the skies over the last couple of months, I need to bring you up to date on what I have been doing. After receiving the appointment to Governor for VATSIM, I got to work on laying out the plans for a 2 year program for Pilot Training on the VATSIM network. This is a very ambitious plan that will put an extensive pilot resource in place. I just posted a public announcement on the VATSIM support forum here at AVSIM. A link to the Pilot Training Overview can be found on that forum.http://forums.avsim.com/dcboard.php?az=sho...g_id=1333&page=

Mike,will miss the first one, due lousy shift pattern. Get the start of the week off, work weekends.

>After receiving the appointment to>Governor for VATSIM, I got to work on laying out the plans for>a 2 year program for Pilot Training on the VATSIM network. Oh thank god! This has been sorely needed for a VERY long time... Once the program is complete will passing at least a basic knowlege test be mandatory? It'd be really nice if we could stop calls from newbies at KLAX looking for ATC from someone working PHX_V_APP. ;)Ryan

Wilco, thank you!regarding the Pilot training program: good luck, and if any of our real world pilots/ATC (including yours truely) can be of assistance, count us in! ("us" and "our" being VATIL members of course ;-))(edited for shortage in sleep)

Ryan,Read the overview document, I think you will find it very interesting.MikeBev

Thanks Ilan,We will certainly be needing people to proff and validate the regional customizations in each of the phases. Check out the team 1 page that Jim Bartosh put together. Let him know if you would like to help out so we can add you to our resource list.Now for that first PIC on VATSIM flight, I am getting ready to post it as soon as I have the downloads in place.