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Not even a year after we published this news article about 100,000 flights, we have already passed another 30,000 flights. At the time of writing this post, Virtual Norwegian has received 130,615 flights in total. Thanks to everybody who has been or is still a member with us - it's really fun to see how active a virtual airline can be

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Yep, correct  ^_^

If you use FSX, I highly recommend vPilot though. Squawkbox and FSInn haven't been updated for ages, vPilot is the only client that there is active support on (from the creator), as far as I know. They all have their pros and cons of course, so you'll have to test and see which you find better to use. vPilot is the easiest one to get started with I'd say.

There are no requirements to use any programs with VATSIM, except a pilot client so you can log in to VATSIM. Just like you can fly (pretty much) whatever you'd like - from the default Cessna to PMDG aircraft. It's all up to you

As far as I'm aware, nobody can refuse you from offering text only service. Just like nobody can force the pilots to use voice.

Virtual Norwegian has been around for many years. In October 2009, it was decided to rebuild Virtual Norwegian. We started completely from scratch with a new and fresh staff team. With time, we added more and more features, including our version of "CrewBriefing", which has been a huge success for Virtual Norwegian.

In May 2014, after months of work, we launched our brand new system created by ourselves, including our own pilot client, Virtual Norwegian Pilot Client (VNPC). After the launch of our new system, Virtual Norwegian really took off and we have never seen so much activity.

Now we are about to leave 2014 behind, and throughout 2014, we have had quite a big goal: to reach 100,000 flights (counted since October 2009), and yesterday this goal was reached!
We would like to thanks all of our current and previous members for making this happen in such short time.

If you are interested in joining Virtual Norwegian, we are always looking for more pilots. Visit us at www.virtualnorwegian.net today!
What is it that makes Virtual Norwegian so great?
- We have our own custom pilot client/ACARS
- Our schedules are added directly from the real timetable and updated automatically weekly
- We have routes to around 100 destinations all over the world from our hubs in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, UK, Spain, the United States and Thailand.
- Fleet is kept up to date, including wet leased aircraft *
- Active on both the VATSIM and IVAO networks
- Simple and easy to use website, including our CrewBriefing based on the real briefing system Norwegian uses.
- Friendly and helpful community
- Up to date ATS-routes, with correct max/min and odd/even flight levels for all airways etc

* Wet leased aircraft are added when they are available in the timetable only



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Usually you should be level at the planned level before the waypoint, not after, I'm not mistaken.

Here's some info about the speed (N) you were wondering about by the way if you ever see another letter and wonder what it means

Insert cruising speed in TAS in terms of Kilometres per hour -K followed by
4-figures, (e.g. K0830) or, Knots - N followed by 4-figures, (e.g. N0485) or True
Mach Number when so prescribed by appropriate ATS, to the nearest hundreds (e.g.M082)

Anders

Hi Alexander,

there are multiple places to find current tracks and guides. I've written a short guide for oceanic procedures based on the ICAO NAT 007 document (airspace manual), which can be found here. You can also find the current tracks on this link.

I've not included any information on SELCAL in this guide, but this can be found in some of the other guides around there.

The other guide I could (sort of) recommend is VATSIM UK's: http://www.vatsim-uk.co.uk/oceanic-procedures

Reason why I say sort of recommend, is because there are some things in their guide that isn't quite correct. For example the clearance - why would you say both the track name and the full routing, when you are supposed to read back the TMI number in your read-back so you wouldn't need to use the full routing...also the coordinates in their examples (thinking of the FPL example in particular) don't follow the rules stated in NAT 007 (and a lot of other documents), and some other small things around.

For the coordinates your FMC/MCDU, it's not too difficult to add them. If we use today's track A as an example: ERAKA DCT 60N020W 62N030W 62N040W 62N050W DCT PIDSO,

you would simply convert 60N020W to 6020N. (Remove N0 and change the W to N). Your flight plan should contain the 7 character coordinate though, and not the ARINC 424 format.

Another thing I've noticed with quite many on Vatsim (even experienced pilots), is that then pronounce 6020N (from their FMC) as "6 0 2 0 north/november" - that should be "6 0 north (0) 2 0 west".

Hope that helps you out a bit

Anders

Hi Stephen,

I'm not 100% this is correct as I haven't seen any info it, but I'm guessing you'd do a random route until 40W, and from 40W you'd join a track, and your clearance would consist of a random route and a track.

 

then join a NAT?

NAT means North Atlantic, not North Atlantic Track as many people think. Check the glossary of terms in ICAO NAT document 007 (page 14). It's sufficient to refer to them as a "track", e.g Track A

Hopefully that'll help you out a bit. If anyone have any info on how they do this real life (clearance wise), that'd be lovely so we could use it on Vatsim as well

Anders

Hello Rich,

you should type in the ICAO code for your aircraft when you log in (same place where you type your callsign)

Anders

Virtual Norwegian is a virtual airline based on the real airline Norwegian Air Shuttle, one of Europe's largest low cost carriers.
As a pilot in Virtual Norwegian, you get to choose among flights to over 100 destinations, operated from our hubs in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, UK and our recently added hub in Bangkok.
Make a short hop in Scandinavia, or perhaps a longer flight into the heart of Europe, or maybe even try a long haul flight from Scandinavia to either Bangkok or New York?
Choose between several airframes, such as the Boeing 737-300/800, our brand new Boeing 787-8 or our historic MD80 or Fokker 50.

Our schedules are updated weekly, and the ATS-routes and callsigns are updated continously, so you are guaranteed up-to-date flights.
Norwegian is rapidly expanding, and around November, several new routes will be launched, including flights from several German airports to several Spanish airports and from some of the northern capitals to Florida.
And with an order of over 250 new aircrafts, it's not going to stop just yet!

We got a large and friendly community, with about 400 active pilots, where everyone are willing to help each other, whether it's through our forums, support center, email or Facebook.

We can also offer something rare among virtual airlines, a highly realistic CrewBriefing, based on the real one!
You can check out a preview of our automatically created documents from the CrewBriefing here: http://cb.virtualnorwegian.net/preview.pdf

Why not join us today for lots of fun?


The Virtual Norwegian Staff
http://www.virtualnorwegian.net

 

 

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So that's probably the reason