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https://youtu.be/h8wSW1sxnJI A re-design of city area according to geographical position of objects. We bring out the best of MSFS in build photogrammetry around the city area, by fixing textures, structure, bridges, shores and added back many missing buildings and features. The main objective of this scenery is to show Japan Nagoya city at its best, with addition of feature buildings to further enhance the simulation experience. Features 1. over 300 handcrafted iconic building models in Nagoya city centre 2. custom handcrafted bridge models 3. handcrafted Nagoya castle and landmarks 4. beautiful night effects 5. many building rooftops are landable helipads 6. compatible with other developer airport addons 7. Bonus: recreation of Shirakawa village with its heliport (Terao Disaster Prevention Grounds) How to use helicopter to do sightseeing to the Nagoya city and Shirakawa 1. search Nagoya City to start a flight with your helicopter 2. search TDPG (Terao Disaster Prevention Grounds) as ICAO to start a flight with your helicopter

Hey guys, Lately I've been flying a bit in Japan. Fortunately, there's good freeware landclass and vector information for japanese lands, so this isn't exactly my problem. My problem is... I'm struggling to find good airport sceneries for Japan. This is kinda sad. I have these two excellent sceneries from Pacific Island Sim (Chubu Centrair and Nagasaki), but that's all. I've found some stuff by Wing Creation, but their rendition of Narita is just too expensive... Moreover, I simply cannot find good airport sceneries for Hokkaido area, which interests me a lot. :( Is Japan really lacking good airports? Does anyone has any good tips in this subject? Should I just sit and cry? Best regards,

I'm looking for a 777-300ER repaint in the old JAL cigarette livery. I've searched the community livery thread and the library here and couldn't find one. I did find one for the 77L though. Does anybody have one or know where I could download one from? Thanks!

I just published my review of Kansai International Airport (RJBB) by Technobrain. https://twinfinite.net/2022/03/microsoft-flight-simulator-kansai-airport-review-rjbb/ The TLDR is that it's a very good airport, but a few corners were cut, possibly because it's the first airport of this size by TB on MSFS, so it stops a bit shorter than top-notch. That being said, it comes with plenty of positives and it's most definitely the best rendition of Kansai for MSFS (by a large margin). On the very positive side, Technobrain abandoned its previously rather crazy pricing schemes, which is very welcome. In case you want to make your own opinion, there's plenty of video content inside showing every corner of the airport.

Just had some moments of bliss as I climbed out from Amami Ōshima and the first rays of sunlight hit the cockpit. And as I headed south towards Okinawa, I was again struck by how beautiful this sim can look. Not completely related, but apparently the concept of ikigai is held to be the reason why Okinawa boasts the longest living people on earth. The ikigai principles comprise “an intersection between 4 distinct elements: what you’re passionate about, where your skills lie, how you can earn a living and what the world needs”. Not a bad code to live by.

I'm looking for a JAL Cigarette livery repaint for the 777-300ER. I've searched the community livery thread and the file library here at AVSIM and didn't find one. I did see one for the 77L though. Anybody have one or know where I could download one? Thanks!

Flight Details Callsign: AFR291 Departure Aerodrome: Kansai International (RJBB/KIX) Departure Time: 0335z Arrival Aerodrome: Paris Charles de Gaulle (LFPG/CDG) Arrival Time: 1600z Flight Time: 12h 20m Aircraft: Boeing 777-200ER / F-GSSU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So we arrived at Kansai International Airport about 2 hours after the aircraft had landed, received our flight documents and headed out the aircraft. The aircraft was expected to spend around 3hours on the ground after arrival so it was left in a cold and dark state. Sitting on Stand F35 at Terminal 1 we started to bring her to life. Whilst the Captain was preparing the Flight Deck I did the walk around since I was Pilot Flying for this sector, I deemed the aircraft fit to fly and headed back into the aircraft. We departed Kansai about 13minutes late and were slowly starting to go through our step climbs. We expecting some moderate headwinds over Russia until we reached Scandinavia. During our cruise over Western Russia we were expecting to arrive with a little bit more fuel than expected due to the winds not living up to our expectations, we contacted ATC via CPDLC and asked if we could dump some fuel. Taken very short final into Paris's RWY26L, winds were 329 @ 13kts at this point. On blocks in Paris after the long but pleasant flight. Passengers in the terminal graphing our aircraft as see prepares for her next voyage to another part of the world. Hope you liked. Shaun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzP6Gw_3Qkw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzP6Gw_3Qkw Resuming 787 Service 787 Service Restarts, 787 Service Expansion Japan Airlines Virtual is please restart Boeing 787 Service on June 1st, 2013. JALV has successfully restarted flights to San Diego, and Boston. We are very excited to have the Boeing 787 re-join our fleet, the 787 enables us to reach new destinations, efficiently, and in a new style of comfort. As well each Boeing 787 we fly has a bit of Japan on it, inside and out. In addition to current destinations served by the 787, we are proud to announce, Boeing 787 service expansion at JALV. New Destinations include: Helsinki (EFHK), and existing destinations that will be upgraded to Boeing 787 are Singapore, Beijing, Delhi, Moscow, San Francisco, Sydney and Bangkok Boeing 787 Service Plan, Start Dates: June 1, 2013: RJAA – KBOS (Boston) JAL8/JAL7 RJAA – KSAN (San Diego) JAL65/JAL66 RJAA – WSSS (Singapore) JAL719/JAL712 & JAL711/JAL710 RJTT – WSSS (Singapore) JAL35/JAL36 RJTT – ZBAA (Beijing) JAL21/JAL22 July 1, 2013 RJAA – EFHK (Helsinki) JAL413/JAL414 RJAA – UUDD (Moscow) JAL441/JAL442 RJAA – VIDP (Delhi) JAL749/414 RJTT – KSFO (San Francisco) JAL1/JAL2 RJAA – YSSY (Sydney) JAL771/JAL772 RJAA – VTBS (Bangkok) JAL707/JAL718 Thank You and we hope to see you flying Boeing 787 with Japan Airlines Virtual! Let’s fly to the sky; together, forever! http://jalvirtual.org About Japan Airlines Virtual Japan Airlines Virtual was established on April 1st, 2007. At the start we were a relatively small, unknown virtual airline in Japan. However, we had dedicated staff team and just as dedicated pilots who flew for JAL VIRTUAL1 during those years. Overtime however more pilots joined our ranks and flew for us! By then we knew that JAL VIRTUAL1 would become something special to us; the staff team. Over 5 years later, JAL VIRTUAL1 has become a great virtual airline with a dedicated staff team, who through many hour of painstaking work hope to have brought the best experience possible to our pilots. We continuously update JAL VIRTUAL1 with everlasting schedule updates, website improvements and events. We hope to bring the best experience to our pilots! Let’s fly to the Sky! VIRTUALLY SKYWARD – JAPAN AIRLINES VIRTUAL Looking for Staff We are currently looking for individuals to fill these staff positions at Japan Airlines Virtual. Events Director The Event Director plans, organizes and promotes all events for Japan Airlines Virtual. They must be able to notify all pilots about the event, and maintain a list of pilots planning to attend the event. Furthermore, Event Directors coordinate with applicable ARTCCs to ensure proper ATC coverage. Chief Training Executive The Chief Training Executive is the head of the entire training program. This position reports directly to the CEO & VEO. All other positions related to the training are subordinate to the CTE. Chief Pilots: Airbus Aircraft, Bombardier Q400, M.C. Donald Douglas MD11, and Other Aircraft Chief Pilots are the lead pilot of their respective aircraft. They provide assistance and training to pilots of JAL Virtual of their aircraft. They also write Standard Operation Procedures (SOP's) of their aircraft for the VA. Interested? Please fill out the application form here: http://jalvirtual.org/en/index.php/Pages/careers or http://jalvirtual.org/ja/index.php/Pages/careers Thanks Japan Airlines Virtual Staff Sunday, June 02, 2013 http://jalvirtual.org https://www.facebook.com/jalvirtual https://www.youtube.com/user/JALVirtual

Staff Recruitment Japan Airlines Virtual (JAL Virtual) is currently looking for new staff to join the staff team at JAL Virtual. We are in urgent need of having these staff positions filled. Please apply today! Open Staff positions. Vice Executive Officer (Vice CEO): The primary functions of the Vice Executive Officer is to work with the CEO on major decision making within the company. An effective second in command. VEO has veto power along with the CEO on the Board of Directors. Hub Managers: RJAA, RJBB, RJOO, RJTT. Hub managers are responsible for ensuring their hub(s) runs smoothly. This includes providing routes to and from their airfield, charts, scenery and acting as first line supervisors to members in their hub. Chief Pilots: 787, 777, 767, 747, 737, MD11. Chief Pilots are the lead pilot of their respective aircraft. They provide assistance and training to pilots of JAL Virtual of their aircraft. They also write Standard Operation Procedures (SOP's) of their aircraft for the VA. Training Division: Chief Training Executive and Vice Training Executive positions are open. The main responsibility of the training staff is to develop and run a training academy at JAL Virtual. More information and how to apply can be found here. http://jalvirtual.or...p/Pages/careers Thank You http://jalvirtual.org

As of today, the UHD Mesh Scenery v1 series has a new region: Japan The main differences (and improvements, compared to HD Mesh Scenery) are: High resolution DEM elevation data. Based on the AW3D (© JAXA) 30m data, and where AW3D has holes, filled up with SRTM 1sec (30m) data. Latest landclass data based on the "AVNIR-2 high-resolution land use land cover map 2016 February release (version 16.02)" (© JAXA) Massively increased mesh density ... by roughly factor 2.5 to 3! This is not only beneficiary to the better representation of the higher res DEM data, but also - once more - improves landclass and forest detail! Because of this, the "UHD Mesh Scenery v1" Scenery is very heavy on hardware resources and will only run smoothly on modern, higher end PCs. Its very important - before even considering a download - to have at least 16 GBytes of RAM and a modern / powerful GPU! Detailed infos and download links are here: http://www.alpilotx.net/downloads/x-plane-10-uhd-mesh-scenery-v1/ There is also a "release video" on youtube, to give you a impression about what to expect: If you are - only - looking for comparison screenshots, here are the official ones accompanying the release of UHD Mesh Scenery v1 - Japan. Just follow the link to my Google Photos album: UHD Mesh Scenery v1 - Japan (most screenshots in the first part of the album come in pairs - they are comparisons between UHD and HD quality! The first of each pair is HD, the second UHD - but there are also caption for each picture to make this clear)

Press Release: Japan Airlines Virtual turns 10! 4/1/2017 WATCH OUR VIDEO On this day 10 years ago in 2007 a new Virtual Airline was born and its name was Japan Airlines Virtual. JAL Virtual was started by an avid 13-year-old aviation enthusiast, we started on a free host under the domain jalvirtual.x10hosting.com, our website was very basic and we had no PIREP system whatsoever, we were using a web form to submit ours pireps. A small VA starting in an area with many established and well respected airlines at the time, at the start it was rough, inexperience and lack of skills plagued us for the first 6 months, however after that we steadied ourselves and became a more professional organization with the registering of our domain name jalvirtual.org/jalvirtual.com. After two years, it was time for the first big upgrade of JAL Virtual. We were one of the first adapters of the then new and revolutionary PHPVMS pireps system, a system that we use to this very day. For our airline, this system is our backbone and a key pillar to our success, due to the nature of this software we were greatly able to offer many different features and expand our scope of activities. During this period, we experimented with many different things such as training programs, greater cooperation with online flight simulator network’s and virtual airline alliances. Some of them were great successes and some of them failed but from experimenting and trying, we learned a lot. A great influx of new pilots joined our ranks, an amazing sense of community was established between our members, teamspeak voice chats/flights were very common, new friends were made and connections established. By this time, we were experiencing double digit flights per day and over 1,000 flights a month. Also, updated our image and brought back the circle crane logo, just like our real-life counterpart. Now to the present, we have made it to 10 years, today, we are now 10 years old, its breath taking to see our amazing story unfold and evolve over that span of time, it brings great joy, pride and strength to every member of JAL Virtual. Everything, that we have done with our members, other VA’s, online networks and the flight simulator community in general, matters. Everything that we have built up as an organization over the last 10 years has now blossomed like a Sakura tree. It’s all worth it in the end. Fly into tomorrow virtually! – We can look back into our past, look upon proudly. Our future, is more important, we are at a milestone year, and milestone years deserve, special attention. Our third evolution is coming over the next few months, that is an entirely new system, new website. Also throughout the coming months we will be having 10 events for our members and the community. Please see the previous post for that. We are now 10 years old, what will the next 10 years bring JAL Virtual? We can only watch and see. But for now, we celebrate this milestone and look into the future. For the Love of Aviation. Touy Smith Founder and CEO of Japan Airlines Virtual. http://Jalvirtual.com admin@jalvirtual.com

I'm looking for a JAL Cigarette livery repaint for the 777-300ER. I've searched the community livery thread and the file library here at AVSIM and didn't find one. I did see one for the 77L though. Anybody have one or know where I could download one? Thanks!

JAL VIRTUAL launches new website. JAL VIRTUAL is pleased to announced after 6 months of development, we have completed our new website designed by us, designed for you the pilot. This will be the most radical development in the history of JAL VIRTUAL! Our website uses the latest website technologies with elegant design and style with a unified theme to it. We are bringing the best to you for many years to come. We hope you appreciate the time, effort and investment we have brought to you in JALV2014. A beta period of one month will begin right after the launch of the new site to kink out the bugs that will last until August 10th, 2014. We hope this new website serves us for many years to come. In addition to our website we have many news things included in our changes most notably a dedicated training academy, rewards and schedules overhaul. Our integrated training academy on launch will feature aircraft certifications for B747, B737, B767 and A320 aircrafts and in the future we hope to bring Q400, B777 and various airbus aircrafts into the fold, we plan on gaining VATSIM ATO status asap and there will be other areas of training that will be covered in the future too. Our rewards store (JAL VIRTUAL MILAGE BANK-JALVMB) has been completed every time you fly, login, do a tour or an event you gain JALVMB points! JALVMB can be used for various items including: Pilot Upgrades, Special Liveries, Route packs and even sceneries! Also we have completed a massive schedules overhaul updating our schedules for JAL GROUP, SKYMARK (yes we have the A330) and Oneworld codeshares are schedule database now is over 5000 routes! We have a staff vacancy open-we are looking for an events director! We are currently recruiting for an Events Director. The Events Director will handle all events within the VA, contacting VATSIM Regions/Divisions to help secure ATC coverage throughout the course of the event Requirements for Events Director: - Knowledge of the phpVMS Admin System - Is widely available/flexible with times - Ensure that all member suggestions are adhered to - Communicate with other staff members - Can access the TeamSpeak3 with a Microphone - Fluent in written & spoken English/Japanese All applications should be submitted here: https://docs.google....m?usp=send_form We look forward to reviewing your applications. Thank you. Japan Airlines Virtual has for over five years provided an experience for virtual aviators unlike any other. With progressive ideas and raising the bar each and every time, our standards and quality are among the top notch of any virtual airline today. We offer a truly unique experience in virtual aviation and we stand out from the established crowd. Japan Airlines Virtual is standards, quality, choice, and always assisting its pilots for the best virtual flight experience. From Tokyo, Osaka, from Japan to Asia and the world we hope to be your virtual airline of choice. Our mission as the ‘virtual’ flag carrier of Japan is to be a virtual airline of standards and quality. Representing JAL-Japan Airlines in the Virtual Space as JAL- VIRTUAL-Japan Airlines Virtual. We want to recreate almost every aspect possible of the JAL GROUP for Flight Simulator. We strive to be the virtual airline that represents Japan to the world! Dream Skyward! Fully integrated website and PIREP system; Highly customized Phpvms (JAL Virtual was one of the first users of Phpvms) Flight tracking software: J-ACARS flight recording system developed for Japan Airlines Virtual. Also we have kACARS, FSACARS, FS-Pax, XACARS, support. Unique online flight tracking supporting VATSIM, and IVAO. Up to date and real JAL GROUP, Jetstar Japan and Skymark schedules. Codeshare schedules from Oneworld and JAL partner airlines Bilingual VA – Japanese and English Top notch support to our members. http://jalvirtual.org