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Hi Guys and Gals, The AVSIM File Library is calling all enthusiasts! The growing community needs your help, and we have now opened more volunteer staff positions. We are currently accepting applications for Library Managers to assist us with the AVSIM File Library. Are you a student looking to build your resume? Or perhaps an avid simmer looking to give back to the community? Any and all are welcome to apply. Would you like to join our cause? POSITION OVERVIEW: AVSIM Library Managers, as a team, help process files uploaded to AVSIM, help with all AVSIM Library content, and answer e-mails. AVSIM has numerous pre-written e-mail template responses (and you can also create your own) for a variety of situations in order to speed up the e-mail answering process. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Processing new uploads (daily) and ensuring all newly uploaded files meet AVSIM criteria before processing them and making them available to the public. Contacting authors (through e-mail) if something is wrong with their uploaded files and explaining needed corrections. Our community appreciates a positive attitude and professional calm demeanor when dealing with any contributor, member, or staff member. Managing User Accounts: Updating the e-mail address on member accounts Deleting member accounts Helping members who have forgotten their log-in details Managing all library files and content (updating details, deleting files, adding/removing file(s) required link(s): When needed - editing the description and title fields of files. On occasion - correcting/updating the author field of files. Linking associated files (e.g. updates and/or corrections). Answering library members' and file authors' e-mails - providing assistance. REQUIREMENTS: To be considered for this position, an applicant must provide information (e.g. written introduction, summary of background, experience in similar positions) Access to either TeamSpeak or Teamviewer for training purposes. Able to install, to configure, and to utilize Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client. Have an account with AVSIM Library and AVSIM Fora. Have schedule flexibility to allow approximately 5 - 10 hours per week. If you're concerned about possibly volunteering 10 hours per week, we want to be real with you here. It's very rare that's going to happen. We work together as a team and most days you just need to check in a few times daily when you have time to make sure the queue is empty and e-mails are answered. So long as we work as a team, and do a fair share, there should never be a day you have to volunteer more than an hour a day. OTHER SOFT SKILLS/ABILITIES: Have a good understanding of Simulators. Have a good understanding of the AVSIM Online! Fora. Have a "Winner" attitude. Be a team player. Communicate effectively. Must be detail oriented. If you are interested, applications may be submitted using our "Contact Us" form from the forum menu or by sending an email to: library (at) avsim dot com. Thank you for considering giving back to the community! Happy Contrails

Through the gracious offer from Marty Arant, consultant to Laminar Research, we can now provide an audio of Rob's Key Note address on Saturday evening at the Awards Banquet of the 2013 FANCON. In his Key Note, Rob addresses the future of flight simulation and the passion that he sees in our community and the need for that passion in the future. This is a zipped MP3 file and it is just over 12 megs in size. You can find it here. Thank you Marty! We really do appreciate it.

Just Flight, the UK publisher of numerous flight simulation add-ons and an innovator in our hobby, today announced they will be exhibiting at the FANCON next month in Wichita, KS. Just Flight joins our growing list of exhibitors. By announcing its presence, once again, Just Flight strongly signals its support of the North American market and hobbyists in flight simulation. If you want to meet some of our hobby's longest serving providers of add-on's and innovation, you should register for the event today. You can register here. If you would also like to exhibit you can get the necessary information and register here. View attachment: jflogo.jpg

AVSIM is very pleased to announce that Robert Randazzo, of PMDG, has accepted our invitation to be the KEY NOTE speaker at the Awards Banquet on Saturday night, May 4th. The Awards Banquet will be held at the Holiday Inn, the FANCON hotel after the meal service. Following Robert's Key Note Address, Reader's Choice Awards and the AVSIM BRAVO ZULU Awards will be presented. We are still waiting to hear from Rob what his topic(s) will be, be we are confident that they will be informative and worth the price of admission. Captain Randazzo is not only an avid simulation enthusiast, but an active pilot and of course, the head of one the best known commercial organizations in our hobby. Register for the FANCON today and do not miss out on this event.

We are pleased to announce the opening of registrations for the 2013 FANCON to be held in Wichita, Kansas at the Kansas Aviation Museum, which will also be held in conjunction with the Cockpit-Fest U.S.A. event. The hotel for the FANCON is the HOLIDAY INN WICHITA EAST I-35. The Saturday night Awards Banquet will be held there and a special room rate is available for all FANCON and Cockpit-Fest attendees of $77.00 per night plus taxes. This will be a large event with dozens of cockpits and exhibitors present, and hundreds of attendees from around the world. This is the first FANCON held in the U.S. since 2007 and we encourage everyone who can, to attend! We look forward to seeing you there and we'll be updating the registration and news page as necessary. You can read more detail and register here.

We are pleased to provide the community an update on the AVSIM sponsored Richard Harvey Endowed Scholarship. First, some background. At the passing of Richard Harvey, team lead for the FLY! series of flight simulators, in early 2003, AVSIM opened a scholarship fund in Richard's name at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Hundreds of community members and commercial organizations contributed to the Scholarship fund. The Scholarship reached over $10,000, at which point it could fund itself from year-to-year. In other words, it became self-endowed. Every year AVSIM receives an update from ERAU on the status and funding level of the scholarship. We are pleased to report the following: Fund Balance as of June 30, 2011: $16,106.36 Fund Balance as of June 30, 2012: $15,700.08 Amount Awarded in 2011 - 2012 Academic Year: $750.00 We will receive the profile of this years Scholarship recipient later this spring.

AVSIM announced at the Saturday Awards Banquet that our Board of Directors have agreed to provide a donation to both the Kansas Aviation Museum of $2,000.00 and a $1,000.00 donation to the Cockpit-Fest USA organization. Throughout its existence, AVSIM has donated thousands of dollars to museums and deserving organizations around the world, including sponsoring scholarships at Embry-Riddle Aeronautic University. We are proud to continue that tradition with our donations announced last night to KAM and the Cockpit-Fest organization. We are confident that both organizations can put the donations to use to further our common interest in aviation.

This is the Power Point presentation that was presented on Saturday night by Robert Whitwell at our Awards Banquet. Congratulations to all the winners and contributors to our great hobby. The various trophies for the winners will be sent out shortly. You can view that presentation here.

We will post the entire presentation made last night at the Awards Banquet later tonight, but I thought folks would like to see the outcome of the Reader's Choice voting. It was very close in a couple of categories. So, here you are. Congratulations to all the winners. You will be hearing from Robert Whitwell regarding where to send your trophy. You can view the voting results here.