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What: Macaronesia “Islands of Colours” Achievement Flights When: Saturdays, Starting Sept 21st, 8 am PT, 11 am ET, 1500 UTC Where: Discord or TeamSpeak3, connect to(ctrl-s):ts3.digitalthemepark.com Additional Info: www.digitalthemepark.com *** Earn your next DigitalThemePark achievement badge! *** As the continuation of our Discover-Europe series, join us for group flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator, P3D, FSX, or X-Plane exploring the Macaronesia area. We have created 10 wonderful legs to explore this region for this set of achievement flights. You will want to fly your favorite low and slow aircraft. For more information and topics covered, please visit www.digitalthemepark.com Note: We suggest connecting before the event to ensure your headset fully works and you are familiar with TeamSpeak3. Download TeamSpeak3 at www.teamspeak.com, connect to ts3.digitalthemepark.com, and message Zoolander64 or one of the other [STAFF] members as we stay connected 24/7 and usually fly or are not far away from our computer. You can also use the FlightSim.Com-DigitalthemePark Discord, but most will be on TeamSpeak. DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3) while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark uses dedicated servers “in the cloud” for all its 24/7 dedicated VoIP and Multiplayer services.

Greetings, Drums, I always look forward to our TeamSpeak chats. As you know I am running 3 x 46" small bezel Samsung LED TV's. and as the poster said above, I will also never look back. I am able to adjust the screen to represent the actual size of the gauges in a real cockpit. A real treat. For FSX, DCS, racing sims; splendid. For desktop work, I find I use the center screen most of the time through peripheral applications to the right and left, due to the raw distance away from center. Not a bad thing, just had to get used to it. I don't find the dot pitch to be an issue, but I can see a graphic designer squawking a bit. 40' to 42' seemed to be a sweet spot compromise if dot pitch is an issue. Note key word: Compromise. I have also flown with 55", and, well, that is just excessive FYI: That was a funny, as most people find 46" excessive...or is it?

Greetings Bob, I am Todd, aka Zoolander64, on TeamSpeak. Although I stay connected all the time, let me know when you are expecting to connect again and I will personally walk you through all that goes on. It can get pretty busy at times with all the activities. You will find this group mature, fun and eager to get you flying with others. All levels of flying skill are invited plus we really get into the training thing. Need help with a recent addon, aircraft or flight procedure, even tuning you system? We have many experienced folks. Hope to be aviating with you soon.

EVENT: Chat w/Michal Rok of Vroute TOPIC: Vroute Flight Planning Tool and Everything Keith TIME: October 19th, 1pm PST, 4pm EST, 2000 GMT (one night only) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Greetings Aviators, We are please to welcome Michal Rok of Vroute to finish off our week. He is going to share with us his background and development of Vroute, an online flight and planning tool. Michal will share with us the story on how he became the developer of vroute and how pilots can benefit today from it. Michal has been fascinated with aviation simulation since 1990, the times of Apache simulator on Atari 65XE. He developed his interests in parallel becoming an aviation engineer, a pilot and a programmer - eventually blending all three areas together to create an application for pilots. Vroute, originally created as a website for VATSIM divisions that would help pilots in flight preparation, is now 8 years old and has become probably the most extensive public source of flight plans in the world. We welcome Nichal and excited to hear more about his background and Vroute. This is an event you will not want to miss. Note: We suggest getting connected before the event in order to make sure your headset fully works, and familiar with DTP. We appreciate your understanding that we refuse to "seat" folks after the event has started. ### DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through the use Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3), while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark Flight Division uses dedicated servers "in-the-cloud" for TeamSpeak, FSX Multiplayer and FSHost Multiplayer.

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EVENT: Chat w/Keith Smith of Pilot Edge TOPIC: Pilot Edge and Everything Keith TIME: September 21th, 5pm PST, 8pm EST, 0000 GMT (one night only) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Greetings Aviators, We are please to welcome Keith Smith of Pilot Edge to finish off our week. He is going to share with us his background and development of Pilot Edge, a professional air traffic control for flight simulators. Aviation and computing have been Keith’s core focus for the past 25 years. He started out with SubLogic Flight Simulator II on the Commodore 64 as a young boy and never quite grew out of it. Keith brings a combination of passion for aviation safety with a deep technical background in software development and system architectures that allowed him to envision and subsequently develop PilotEdge. Keith served as the VP of Pilot Training on the VATSIM network and developed a pilot training system that has been utilized by more than 700 pilots to date. He is an instrument rated pilot and regularly flies a Lancair 360 out of Lincoln Park, NJ. Yes, he uses PilotEdge to stay sharp. We welcome Keith and excited to hear more about his background and Pilot Edge. This is an event you will not want to miss. Note: We suggest getting connected before the event in order to make sure your headset fully works, and familiar with DTP. We appreciate your understanding that we refuse to "seat" folks after the event has started. ### DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through the use Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3), while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark Flight Division uses dedicated servers "in-the-cloud" for TeamSpeak, FSX Multiplayer and FSHost Multiplayer.

Yes, this is a favorite flyer in multiplayer for us. Easy to learn and fly this aircraft in formation. I am showing close to 4p PT, event starts in one hour. Early seating encouraged.

EVENT: Fireside Chat w/Mike from Lotus Simulations TOPIC: Lotus Simulations and the L-39 Albatros TIME: September 7th, 5pm PST, 8pm EST, 0000 GMT (one night only) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Greetings Aviators, We are please to welcome Mike Johnson of Lotus SImulations to end our week. He is going to share with us his background and development of Lotus SImulations and the Lotus L-39 Albatros jet trainer for FSX. Mike is the founder of Lotus Simulations and has been involved in 3D graphics in one form or another since graduating from the Vancouver Film School's computer graphics program in 1993. Mike worked in the video gaming industry for ten years prior to starting FS development, including stints at Electronic Arts and Namco. Mike holds both US and Canadian PPLs and has been a flight sim junkie since the age of twelve, starting out his flying career with Flight Simulator version 2. We welcome Mike and excited to hear more about his background and creation of the L-39 Albatros. This is an event you will not want to miss. Note: We suggest getting connected before the event in order to make sure your headset fully works, and familiar with DTP. We appreciate your understanding that we refuse to "seat" folks after the event has started. ### DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through the use Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3), while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark Flight Division uses dedicated servers "in-the-cloud" for TeamSpeak, FSX Multiplayer and FSHost Multiplayer.

Greetings, We stream all events the following day, all day on the AVSIM TeamSpeak (avsim.digitalthemepark.com) and on demand.

EVENT: 737 Procedural Training by Randy Burke (737 Type Rated, FAA GA Aviation Ops Inspector) TOPIC: Missed Approaches & Holding Patterns TIME: August 26th, 1pm PST, 4pm EST, 2000 GMT (Every Sunday until we run out of material) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3)

EVENT: 737 Procedural Training by Randy Burke (737 Type Rated, FAA GA Aviation Ops Inspector) TOPIC: Missed Approaches & Holding Patterns TIME: August 26th, 1pm PST, 4pm EST, 2000 GMT (Every Sunday until we run out of material) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3)

EVENT: Chat w/Staff Sergeant Niedzielski of the 385th BG TOPIC: Experiences as a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner TIME: August 25st, 1pm PST, 4pm EST, 2000 GMT (one night only) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Greetings Aviators, The 91st Bombardment Group and DigitalThemePark are pleased to welcome Staff Sergeant Niedzielski of the 385th BG, 551st Squadron to kick off the weekend. He is going to share with us his background and experiences in World War II in a B-17. His squadron was assigned to Great Ashfield, just north of Elmswell, Suffolk, UK. While he was with the 551st, he flew as a ball turret gunner (belly). His crew flew 29 missions from July 1944 to February 1945. During that period, they were forced to put down two B-17's due to battle related engine failures in Belgium and France. Stories like this and others will be shared. This is an event you will not want to miss. Note: We suggest getting connected before the event in order to make sure your headset fully works, and familiar with DTP. We appreciate your understanding that we refuse to "seat" folks after the event has started. ### The 91st Bombardment Group is here to honour and remember the great sacrifice of those lost in WWII. Today, they try to bring the era back to life by flying the glorious ladies of the past, the B-17s and their Little Friends in FSX Simulation. They are dedicated to recreating the era in all its glory, providing everything from 24/7 COMM's, Custom RAF Scenery, Authentic B-17 Paint Schemes to Routing, Flight Planning and Mission History. DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through the use Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3), while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark Flight Division uses dedicated servers "in-the-cloud" for TeamSpeak, FSX Multiplayer and FSHost Multiplayer.

EVENT: NGX Procedural Training by Randy Burke (737 Type Rated, FAA GA Aviation Ops Inspector) TOPIC: Introduction and Short Flight TIME: August 19th, 1pm PST, 4pm EST, 2000 GMT (Every Sunday until we run out of material) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Greetings Aviators, We are pleased to welcome Randy Burke, a type rated 737 (and many others certs) pilot and FA Aviation Ops Inspector for the FAA. He is going to share with us his background and knowledge on various 737 procedures, tips and tricks. Randy was a flight instructor at Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa and taught single and multi-engine aircraft along with ground school. After Spartan he became a First Officer at American Eagle on the Saab 340 and transitioned to the ERJ as a First Officer. In 2008 he left American Eagle and went to work for the FAA where he works today. He is the General Aviation Ops inspector handling several different aspects of aviation. Various duties include performing CFI checkrides, coordinate airshows, investigate accidents, and various other functions. Different from our other events, this is a "live" interactive event. We will all meet "on the tarmac" in the NGX. You are the pilot! In the first event, Randy will be conducting the training consisting of a short flight between Houston Hobby and San Antonio Airports. Expect the flight to be about a little over an hour. Discussed will be startup, programming the FMC and techniques for flying the 737. Note: We suggest getting connected before the event in order to make sure your headset fully works, and familiar with DTP. We appreciate your understanding that we refuse to "seat" folks after the event has started. It you just want to listen in, that works as well. ### For those not yet in-the-know, DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through the use Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3), while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark Flight Division uses dedicated servers "in-the-cloud" for TeamSpeak, FSX Multiplayer and FSHost Multiplayer.

EVENT: 737 Procedural Training by Randy Burke (737 Type Rated, FAA GA Aviation Ops Inspector) TOPIC: Introduction and Short Flight TIME: August 19th, 1pm PST, 4pm EST, 2000 GMT (Every Sunday until we run out of material) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Greetings Aviators, We are pleased to welcome Randy Burke, a type rated 737 (and many others certs) pilot and FA Aviation Ops Inspector for the FAA. He is going to share with us his background and knowledge on various 737 procedures, tips and tricks. Randy was a flight instructor at Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa and taught single and multi-engine aircraft along with ground school. After Spartan he became a First Officer at American Eagle on the Saab 340 and transitioned to the ERJ as a First Officer. In 2008 he left American Eagle and went to work for the FAA where he works today. He is the General Aviation Ops inspector handling several different aspects of aviation. Various duties include performing CFI checkrides, coordinate airshows, investigate accidents, and various other functions. Different from our other events, this is a "live" interactive event. We will all meet "on the tarmac" in a 737 (geared toward using the PMDG 737 NGX). You are the pilot! In the first event, Randy will be conducting the training consisting of a short flight between Houston Hobby and San Antonio Airports. Expect the flight to be about a little over an hour. Discussed will be startup, programming the FMC and techniques for flying the 737. Note: We suggest getting connected before the event in order to make sure your headset fully works, and familiar with DTP. We appreciate your understanding that we refuse to "seat" folks after the event has started. FS9, FSX, Prepar3d, or X-Plane all works as long as you have a advanced add-on 737. It you just want to listen in, that works as well. ### For those not yet in-the-know, DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through the use Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3), while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark Flight Division uses dedicated servers "in-the-cloud" for TeamSpeak, FSX Multiplayer and FSHost Multiplayer.

Greetings All, For those interested, DigitalThemePark has another set of GA flights starting. The Rocky Mountains "Sawtooth" Achievement Flights are set in beautiful central Idaho. This set of flights will tour, at and below canyon rim level, the many scenic and narrow river canyons in this area, including the canyons of the Salmon and Snake Rivers. This is a bush country route. Some of the backcountry strips are extremely challenging: very short with difficult approaches. This calls for your best bush plane. The RealAir Scout, the Carenado C185, the Sibwings Birddog would be good mounts. You will need a plane that can take off and land in strips of as little as 1500 feet, climb to 10,000 feet occasionally, and, ideally, cruise around 100 kts. Those who lean toward eggbeaters are welcome to bring their choppers. Do not be dismayed, however. Each leg starts and ends at less challenging airports. Many are not paved, but everyone should be able to take off and land at them without too much trouble. All intermediate airstrips in each leg are optional. Pilots are not required to land at any airport other than the final strip for each leg. Our first flight will be today, Friday, Aug 3rd @ 1p PT / 4p ET (2000 GMT). These flights will be flown as Real time / Real weather / Real Charts. For more details, connect your TeamSpeak to avsim.digitalthemepark.com and someone will be there to introduce you as a DTP citizen. Within the TS channel, on the right side, you will find more details of the route(s) and points of interest. I would suggest getting connected early in order to make sure your headset fully works before the actual flight. We like to be prompt and warm up our aircraft right at the designated time. btw: Feel free to connect anytime. There is always something going on.

Greetings All, If you require more information on Real Environment Essential, have questions, or need support, Tim and Reed from REX will be in the AVSIM TeamSpeak today, Tuesday at 2p PT/5 ET (2100 GMT). This is going to be a relaxed environment to ask your detailed questions. I would suggest reading the Essential manual, to be prepared with any questions you may have. Real Environment: http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/ AVSIM TeamSpeak: http://forum.avsim.net/page/AVSIM%20Pages/avsim_teamspeak_server.html

Yes, this is going a lot of fun.

EVENT: REX Game Studios Tim and Reed discuss REX Essential TOPIC: REX Essential and history of REX Game Studios TIME: June 1st, 3:30pm PST, 6:30pm EST, 2230 GMT (one night only) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Greetings Aviators, Double Event! We are also pleased to welcome Tim Fuchs and Reed Stough, senior partners of REX Game Studios. They are going to share with us their background and knowledge on the recently released REX Essential. This long-awaited release not only enhances visual realism, but matches that realism to the underlying weather platform, creating a whole new world in Flight Simulation. Over the past year their team has worked diligently, and as a result of customers' feedback, they've added over 50 enhancements to the software solution for FSX and Prepar3D. Enhancements include performance improvements, intuitive navigation, a new customizable, industrial-strength weather engine, FlightAware integration, a powerful new flight planner, "cloud" sharing, backup services and much, much more. They will also share a little history, stories and challenges of creating this wonderful product. This is an event you will not want to miss. Note: We suggest getting connected before the event in order to make sure your headset fully works, and familiar with DTP. We appreciate your understanding that we refuse to "seat" folks after the event has started. ### For those not yet in-the-know, DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through the use Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3), while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark Flight Division uses dedicated servers "in-the-cloud" for TeamSpeak, FSX Multiplayer and FSHost Multiplayer.

EVENT: A2A Scott and Cody discuss Accu-Sim P-51 TOPIC: Accu-Sim P-51 Mustang TIME: June 1st, 5pm PST, 8pm EST, 0100 GMT (one night only) LOCATION: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Greetings Aviators, We are pleased to welcome Scott Gentile, CEO of A2A Simulations and Cody Bergland, a consultant for A2A, to end our week with a smile. They are going to share with us their background and knowledge on the recently release A2A North American P-51 Mustang. The P-51 was an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II, the Korean War and several other conflicts. During World War II, Mustang pilots claimed 4,950 enemy aircraft shot down, second only to the Grumman F6F Hellcat among Allied aircraft. They will also share a little history, stories and challenges of creating this wonderful aircraft. We might even hear a few known secrets and the organic nature of the A2A aircraft. This is an event you will not want to miss. Note: We suggest getting connected before the event in order to make sure your headset fully works, and familiar with DTP. We appreciate your understanding that we refuse to "seat" folks after the event has started. ### For those not yet in-the-know, DigitalThemePark is a multi-gaming community of virtual citizens. It provides organization and congregation of gamers through the use Voice-over IP (TeamSpeak 3), while promoting the interests of gaming, software, and hardware. DigitalThemePark Flight Division uses dedicated servers "in-the-cloud" for TeamSpeak, FSX Multiplayer and FSHost Multiplayer.

Greetings, One of my self assigned duties at DigitalThemePark is to offer training from the very basics of flying to the complex aircraft. I am far from all knowing, but I can get somebody to the point where they feel comfortable to pick up a flight manual or learn the finer points. I also read up, ask questions, study the material so the information they do receive is accurate. In fact, just today I talked to two Horizon Airline pilots to answer a question. We used to hold, what we called V.PPL, or Virtual Private Pilot License courses. It was the same material you would find if you wanted to learn to fly from a local airport including the written training material one would receive. Attendance was minimal and some nights nobody would show up. I have not discounted the idea that it could have also been the instructor, me, as I can get into some details that others may not care about. I have passion to teach these course, but hard to feel that pleasure of transferring knowledge to an empty room. Now, take our NGX, B17, P40, etc classes and I get asked every day. Mostly how to run the systems, how to start, etc. Not many question or requests for actual raw aviating on these birds. Not sure I know where I was going with this, but maybe just to state what I notice at DTP. I would love to start up the V.PPL courses again, or just jumping in the A2A Piper Cub to teach the basics. Angle of Attack has wonderful video course as well. They are presented in a manner that is informative and entertaining. I highly recommend. Also, some of our events are geared toward GA flying in VFR conditions. So I agree with you Cody on your observation and open to any ideas to get folks excited in all aspects of aviation.

Great find. We fly a lot of A2A aircraft at the A2A Flight Club(connection info in signature). Mainly aircraft other than the B377, but several of us own that aircraft, myself included. I would like to fly that with you in multiplayer. I can also help with the VOR Navigation and route planning. I also need a few long haul flights. As part of our DiscoverUS flights, we have a San Diego to Hilo trip coming up that I want to be prepared for. Cheers

Greetings, I had this same issue. It was frustrating, but found the solution that worked for my system. In the Windows sound control panel dialog make sure your spekers are set to the default sound device, your headset as the default communication device. There are 4 tabs at the top of the dialog, select the last tab; I think it is label "communication". Make sure the radio button is selected as none or not to reduce sounds. When ATC talked, it would reduce my other sounds, and this cured it. Of course, if you only have one audio out device, the setting to not reduce sounds, works as well. I hope this is the solution for your system as well. Keep us posted.

Greetings All, For all interested we have a Poker Run this Friday(tomorrow) at 1pm PT / 4pm ET (2100Z). All are invited. We really have a lot of fun on these events, plus you don't have to know anything about the card game. Just fly and have fun. Location: avsim.digitalthemepark.com (TeamSpeak 3) Poker Run Details: http://dl.dropbox.co...ionPokerRun.pdf Calendar of Events: https://www.google.c....com&ctz=Etc/PT This is just one of the many events that go on almost every day. We welcome folks that may be new to TeamSpeak or multiplayer. We have not only flights going on both scheduled and impromptu, but training in many aspects of aviation, procedures, and aircraft!

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