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Airwego - Press Release / Update - September 2016 Since opening back in 2000 Airwego has constantly evolved. The website has been redesigned several times, aircraft liveries have been updated, schedules have been published and then republished. However the one constant has been our pilots. A group of individuals that enjoy flying with a virtual airline that offers “Minimal Rules but Maximum Fun”. Recent times are no exception to this evolution with many key projects coming to conclusion over the last few months. Towards the end of 2015 the website came under review. While it served our purposes it did need a redesign to reflect our progression as a virtual airline. Over the course of several months a “test” site was developed to explore the inclusion of new and unique features. Favourite pages ( Flight TV & / Statistics) were retained but many received a facelift (Fleet & Downloads) while many were completely redesigned such as our main page and the Bases page. Initially feedback on the new website was positive with some excellent suggestions for further improvements by our crew which were soon implemented. Via our Forum the website continues to be praised for it’s ease of navigation and interesting features. For many years our livery had remained relatively static with only minor changes made. Committing to redesigning the livery was a major decision but that commitment was dwarfed by the number of hours required to repaint an aircraft Fleet featuring both freeware and payware models. Rob (Airwego Resources Manager) and a team of repainters set about repainting our fleet of freeware (TDS / Project Airbus / Dreamwings / PAD) aircraft and our payware offerings that include Aerosoft Airbus, Majestic Dash 8-Q400, PMDG MD-11, Qualitywings B757, Aerosoft Twin Otter, PMDG B737NGX and the Wilco / Feel There E-Jets. After several months of work our new livery was released and still retains our famous “compass” logo that has been in place in 2000. Our schedules have now been completely overhauled with our bases at Bristol (EGGD), Humberside (EGNJ), Manchester (EGCC), Palermo (LICJ) and San Juan (TJSJ) joined by flight operations from Aberdeen (EGPD), Bergen (ENBR), Bodo (ENBR) and Southend (EGMC). Each of our bases has been selected to ensure firstly decent freeware scenery is available and in many cases this is complemented by a excellent high quality payware product also being available. How the airport operates in the real world airport is also key and during the schedule design process the timetables for the relevant airport are often referenced with a “sprinkling” of creativity for added appeal. Supporting all of our routes are a comprehensive suite of ready to use FMC flight-plans based on current navigation databases. As well as being offered in the default FS9 / FSX GPS format these FMC flight-plans are available for key payware products from the Aerosoft Airbus, Majestic Dash 8-Q400, PMDG B737NGX / MD-11, Level D B767, Wilco / Feelthere Embraer E-Jets and Quality Wings B757. Operationally we have implemented two key changes. Perhaps the most high profile has been the introduction of cargo flights from East Midlands (EGNX) in the UK. Utilising a fleet of B757’s & MD-11’s they operate a network of flights across the UK & Europe into key freight hubs. With both of the aircraft available as freeware and payware models (Qualitywings & PMDG) our cargo flights are gaining popularity as it present the opportunity to fly “heavies” on relatively short flights. Our second key operational change sees the introduction of our “Regional” brand. Regional flights are operated by aircraft with a maximum seating capacity of seventy two. This includes the de Havilland Twin Otter, Embraer E170 & Bombardier Dash 8-Q400. The Twin Otter operates from Bergen, Bodo and Bristol on routes requiring its short runway performance. From Bristol this includes flights to the Isles of Scilly, the Lake District and destinations within Wales. Twin Otter routes from Bodo & Bergen link remote communities in Norway in a series of multi-link flights that take in the stunning scenery of Norway. Our other European bases (Aberdeen, Humberside, Manchester, Palermo & Southend) also offer Regional flights linking not only each of our bases but a blend of major international European airports and interesting regional airports with one of our criteria being that they have high quality freeware scenery available. Outside of Europe Airwego has a Caribbean base at San Juan (TJSJ) in Puerto Rico. This base was originally established in the early 2000’s and was reopened in 2015. The fleet is very similar to our European operation with the addition of the A318. A varied schedule from San Juan sees flights across the Caribbean and into North, South & Central America. The route network includes a series of “Island Hop” flights in the Twin Otter taking in some very challenging approaches. San Juan also links into our European route network with flights to both Manchester & Palermo using the B767-300ER. Enjoyment of Flight Simulation is a top priority for Airwego. With this in mind our policy are to keep the rules to a minimum while encouraging pilots of all skill levels to join our community and have fun. Our Management Team have decades of experience in virtual aviation and always look to engage with our pilot base to ensure they enjoy “Flying The Compass”. Thank you for reading. www.airwego.org.uk Airwego - Facebook Airwego - Twitter

Thanks for the comments. A"little" whoosh on No1 would get his attention for sure... :wink: I did take a look at the Hangar FS stuff but it seems to have performance issues during the cruise...couldn't get it over .7mach oddly. The Dreamwings Embraer (as shown in some of the shots above) is aliased to the CRJ panel but as far as I know the VC cannot be added which is a shame.

Until recently I had rarely flown the Embraer E170. Not for any good reason I had just simply overlooked it. With this in mind I set about several flights during August initially planning to use the Wilco / Feel There aircraft. However as this product has problems operating within Windows 10 I took a closer look at the Dreamwing E170 which itself is quite a old product but being less complicated than it's payware cousin suited my needs. (Just need to find a decent panel to got with it.) So here you go...a few shots of the E170 flying around Europe... Tail cam heading into Humberside (EGNJ) All good for the approach. Nice detail on the gear. Taxing at Palermo (LICJ) In your own time my friend.... Hope you enjoyed flying with me....

AWG7208 - Palermo (LICJ) to Bergen (ENBR) With the recent introduction of new Airwego schedules our established base at Palermo now offers a four times weekly flight to our new base in Norway - Bergen. The inaugural flight took place yesterday using one of our new Embraer E-170. With a flight time of just under four hours this important link between two of our bases is expected to be very popular with both pilots and passengers alike. Screenshots below.... Final preparations underway for departure. Turning north shortly after takeoff from Runway 25 with Sicily in the background. THIS SPACE LEFT BLANK AS THE CRUISE SECTION OF A FLIGHT IS NOT THAT EXCITING. Descending into Bergen. All lined up with a little crosswind and definitely raining. Nice profile shot of the Embraer E-170 by Dreamwings. Touchdown and easy on the brakes. Hope you like the shots. Feel free to drop into our Crew-Room for a coffee and a chat. @Airwego

Thank you for the kind comments.

I certainly clocked up a few air miles during May. On approach to Montserrat in the Twin Otter. A new route for Airwego was launched during May with regular flight between San Juan (TJSJ) at Havana (MUHA) using the Airbus A318. Romeo Delta loading up at Bristol. Departing East Midlands (EGNX) with the MD-11. (Repaint of the PMDG MD-11 also available) Heading into Ibiza (LEIB) for a week of some "banging choons"... Just crossing the River Humber (with the Humber Bridge in the background) before landing at Humberside (EGNJ). Well someone has to do the night shift... The Twin Otter...a truly amazing aircraft.

Great name, experienced staff, interesting schedules and a impressive livery. I could spend the next few lines telling you all about Airwego but the best place to find out more is on the website... http://airwego.org.uk/index.php/ Come and "Fly The Compass"...

Thanks for the comments everyone. Jeff is a great guy and dispatches all my flights!

Time to load up for a cargo run from Belfast (EGAA) to East Midlands (EGNX) with the Quality Wings B757 Freighter. Oooo...a mighty RB211! Ground power still plugged in while we load. Cones out and high-vis vest on. Health & Safety all the way. Along with the usually packages and parcels we are carrying a container of "movie props" today bound for the mainland. That's Jeff. He was dispatcher of the month for April. it's nice to fly a cargo flight every now and again to keep things interesting. This is the QW B757 repainted into AirweCargo livery with UK2000 scenery for Belfast loaded up. Hope you enjoy the pics.

The season of Advent has arrived the countdown to Christmas has begun! Many traditions are followed at this time of year and one of mine is a Festive themed charter flight to Northern Finland to see Father Christmas! I used Flight Sim for the last fifteen years (I think it started when I joined Nobel Air) or so to make this flight varying the destination airport occasionally. This years flight was from Manchester to Ivalo flying a 757-200 in Airwego (virtual airline) colours! Our 757-200 was on stand 41 at EGCC and with a scheduled departure time of 0620 we arrived in the cockpit around 0530 to make our preparations. Runway 5L was in use at EGCC and this treated the passengers on the left hand side of the aircraft to a view of the terminal buildings as we rotated. Our departure route sees a turn to the north towards Newcastle before we head out across the North Sea. Just over one hour into the flight we are the sun begins to rise. When we are around 200 miles our from EFIV we begin to prepare for the approach. The weather is generally good, light snow on ground and a air temperature of -15deg C! After landing we will stay on the ground for a few hours before departing back to the UK with a cabin full of happy children who will have given Father Christmas the list of presents they would like! The 757-200 has recent joined the Airwego Aircraft Fleet to support a series of Festive Charters running up to Christmas. more information can be found at www.airwego.org.uk.

A few more Airwego screenshots from the last few weeks of operations.. We have so far recruited a great bunch of pilots who are genuinely enthusiastic about the VA but a few more wouldn't do any harm!

I rarely take to the virtual skies without my screenshot grabber running. FS (FSX in my case) can generate fantastic screenshots and with so many variables thrown in what emerges are some very unique and hopefully atmospheric images. So below are just a few random shots as I have flown around the UK & Europe. THE OFFICE A FAVOURITE OF MINE WITH THE MOON IN THE BACKGROUND! PASSENGERS DISEMBARKED AND PREPARATIONS BEGIN FOR ANOTHER SECTOR. APPROACH INTO EGHH - BOURNEMOUTH CROSSWIND APPROACH IN EGHH - BOURNEMOUTH. LOVE THE PHENOM 100 JUST NEED A DECENT PANEL TO GO WITH IT! AIRWEGO B737-800 DESCENDING. Hope you like the shots!

Screenshots and Flight Sim are great...but I always feel it is a little better when there is a bit more detail given about the reasons for the flight. In the '00's Airwego (virtual airline) had a flight on their schedules called the "Helsinki Red Eye". The aircraft departed Manchester (EGCC) for Helsinki (EFHK) late in the evening for the outbound sector to Helsinki. After the turnaround at Helsinki the aircraft would return to Manchester arriving around 6am. Flight crews would be assigned to the this flight sector for five successive days before returning to more conventional parts of the schedule. With the relaunch of Airwego this flight has returned to the schedule with a few changes. It operates from Bristol (EGGD) and for the moment just once a week but with the same late departure. The skies are still relatively busy on the outbound leg but on the return ATC is very quiet with the odd long haul call sign heard but as your travel west the traffic becomes heavier and you cross South East England which is alive with intercontinental flights arriving at Heathrow and early domestic departures entering the busy skies. Here are a few screenshots of the flight I did yesterday...enjoy... Preparations underway at Gate 27 at EFHK. Lined up and ready to go at Runway 22. The Master Caution light was dealt with before takeoff. It was a low fuel warnwing in Centre Tank#2. It was a uneventful cruise section of the flight at FL370. London Centre cleared our descent. Lining up for approach on runway 09 at Bristol. and after a touch over three hours we are on stand 22! It was a very enjoyable flight and nice to arrive in the dawn light at Bristol!

Airwego is a UK based Virtual Airline originally formed in 2000. Our schedules see Airwego aircraft fly to destinations in both the UK and Europe from bases at Humberside and Bristol Airports. By some standards we are a small virtual airline in terms of the number of aircraft we operate and the number of destinations we fly to but...we are big in experience terms with a management team with over thirty years of Flight Simulation & Virtual Airline experience! Over this time we have come to appreciate that there are many types of virtual aviator of varying skills levels, time available to dedicate to the hobby and a infinite number of hardware and software combinations. However they all have one thing on common and that is to enjoy the hobby and have fun!. ...and fun we have had in our past... Airwego opened for virtual operations in March 2000. Planning and designing the virtual airline had started a few months earlier. While the name “Airwego” may sound strange at first it came about during a late night conversation between Ian and Richard. After several hours of brain-storming on several topics the subject of the what to call the new virtual airline came around. There we several suggestions from Lionwing Airways, Air Chester until Ian’s quizzed his daughter on the topic and the reply came back “Here we go" which very quickly morphed into Airwego! With this important piece of the planning in place a website and fleet livery could be designed! In 2000 web designing technology was far less sophisticated than it was to become. Automated flight reporting, fancy gizmo’s showing who was on-line or on-line voice communications…no…none of that. A counter showing how many visits to the page was pretty much the top of the tree in terms of website design! A early version of the website and the infamous 737 - "Purple Ronnie". But gizmo’s and fancy websites don’t make a virtual airline…the pilots do! So with a management team of three and a handful of pilots, who had left the global “we fly every aircraft ever made aren't we grand” airline, to stick with Richard, Ian & Bernie Airwego opened it’s doors and took off on a grand adventure in the virtual skies! The original policy of Airwego was to be a relatively simple operation with a sensible aircraft fleet and interesting list of destinations. Manchester Airport was the principle base but flights also operated from Liverpool and Humberside Airport. Destinations in the UK and Europe featured using Boeing B737’s, Airbus A320 & ATR42’s but with the expansion of the management team to include the legendary Steve “it wasn't me” Chase and Danny “where’s the runway” Cleavely the resources were in place to make Airwego more dynamic and unique. Steve’s passion was helicopter’s. With a day job as a helicopter engineer at Humberside airport he was in a very envious position which gave him a great insight into the daily operations of a airport and more importantly one that service the gas and oil fields located in the North Sea. With this in mind Steve was tasked with creating a scenery package for Humberside and also with replicating helicopter operations in the virtual world for the benefit of those virtual aviators who wanted their wings to rotate! Steve duly delivered a superb scenery for the airport and a virtual rotary operation that was supported with excellent repaints, detailed missions & schedules and program of constant development. Can you guess what we called it….VertiGo! The 2002 version of Steve's Humberside Scenery. An early version of the VertiGo logo. By early 2001 the management team of Airwego was settled with Richard taking the role of CEO (so pompous) Ian looking after the Aircraft Fleet (also assisted by a young creative chap called Adam), Danny dealing with new recruits and publishing press releases, Steve running VertiGo and a very smart fellow by the name of Chris Dale looking after Flight Operations. Alongside the introduction of VertiGo the fixed wing operations of Airwego also moved forward over the next couple of years with the introduction of long haul flights (and the 747), a special holiday charter livery called Sunspots, AWG Shuttle flying out of Humberside to small UK regional airports, a small Caribbean “retro” operation that flew the DC3, DC8 & Twin Otters and for a short period of time a small cargo division called..AirWeCarGo! The divisions of AirweGo. Despite the expanding operations the management team always kept the pilots point of view in mind when making any decisions with these decisions often taken at the Annual General Meeting – the AGM. The AGM was the opportunity for the management to meet up somewhere in the UK for a weekend and spend several hours of a Saturday afternoon discussing Airwego and deciding on what was working and what was not. A lot of progress was made in these meetings usually motivated by the fact that a night out had been planned on the back of it which would involve a meal and a few drinks. The following day would involve a aviation focused activity with notable tours around Humberside Airport, a few hours at Duxford Air Museum and aircraft spotting at Birmingham Airport. Times change and Airwego did. More depth was added to the operation with ready made flight-plans available, the Airwego Schedules recreated in Flight Simulator as AI traffic, the livery was updated, some automation of the daily flight reports and also personnel changes. Derek Jones joined the team after Danny moved on after several years of loyal service as did Richard with the expansion of his family. Ian assumed the reins of Airwego and continued to guide it very professionally for several years but the demands of the virtual aviator changed and newer, slicker virtual airlines appeared that slowly eroded away at the pilot bases of long established virtual airlines. Tragedy struck when Steve passed away which inevitably saw the closure of VertiGo. Airwego carried on until 2013 when through a combination of events the management team could no longer sustain the operation. Danny & Richard had remained friends after leaving Airwego and flew together with several virtual airlines but never quite felt the old magic. A conversation and the discovery that Brian Mason (ex Airwego pilot and now operator of Channel Express Virtual Airline) and preserved what remained of Airwego from 2013 sparked a idea that perhaps Airwego could be restarted with Danny & Richard at the helm. Brian was very supportive of the idea and assisted with repainting aircraft and using his contacts in development of the website. In the background Danny & Richard began to prepare for launching Airwego in the Autumn of 2014. So here we are. We have tasked ourselves with making being part of a Airwego as fun and enjoyable as possible! Please visit our website, Facebook or Twitter pages for more information. www.airwego.org.uk https://www.facebook.com/airwegouk https://twitter.com/Airwego Thanks for reading!

Hi... I am a complete "newbie" to FSX. I have downloaded the base FSX packages (pa32x_fsx_models.zip) and installed them into FSX. However...could somebody be so kind as to give a step by step guide as to how to install liveries and make the aircraft appear in the FSX Aircraft menu please? Many thanks....