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Help with departure times

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I'm really a novice at this and don't understand the GMT time thing exactly right.I have created flights out of an airport that I used AFCAD to add ATC. I added flights using yRoute (nice program) and compiled it. I know that the times are GMT and I believe that Central Time (my TZ) is -6 or -5 hours from GMT. If I want a plane to depart at 9am CDT, what is that in GMT? I get confused. (-: The reason I ask is that I never see any of the flights that I created and just figured that I wasn't there at the right time. Is there something else that I could be missing?Thanks in advance.

>I'm really a novice at this and don't understand the GMT >time thing exactly right. >I have created flights out of an airport that I used AFCAD >to add ATC. I added flights using yRoute (nice program) and >compiled it. I know that the times are GMT and I believe >that Central Time (my TZ) is -6 or -5 hours from GMT. If I >want a plane to depart at 9am CDT, what is that in GMT? I >get confused. (-: The time difference is currently -5 hours, so a flight departing at 12:00:00 GMT will be 7:00:00 CST.Set your sim start time to be about 6:55:00 local) or 11:55:00 GMT to see your a/c.Also, be positive that there is a large enough gate at the airport for that particular a/c! :)

Thanks Bill. I'll give it a go.

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