SunAir Express Virtual Airlines Forum

I'm planning a flight from KORD.

For everyone's infromation, in the real world the MD80's are no longer in production. But I am sure they will continue to be flown by airlines until it become economical to replace them.

Since the SAX MD83 flights have seen very little use we are thinking about retiring the aircraft. If we do retire it we could replace the MD83 and have another aircraft fly the MD83 flights like the A320, B737 a mix of both, or maybe a new aircraft type. If you want something new to fly the MD 83 fl...

I am pleased to announce that Captain Dave Straw SAX743 has successfully passed his SunAir Express check ride and is now left seat rated for the B747. Please congratulate Captain Dave on his achievement.

Well done Dave and enjoy flying the big iron!

Keep 'em flying!

Tampa International Airport - KTPA Sunday - May 20, 2007 Arrival Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM EDT (18:00 - 19:00 UTC) Help celebrate the 15 year anniversary of the concept of virtual airlines and SunAir Express Virtual Airline's 15th year of continuous service! Join SunAir Express Virtual Airlines with a VA...

This was posted on http://www.avsim.com/ Posted: Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 1:09 ActiveSky v6.5 is a comprehensive weather engine for FS9 and FSX that offers features such as advanced weather depiction, a private weather server system with live data or historical archives, weather planning and much m...

This was posted on http://www.avsim.com/ Posted: Friday, March 2, 2007 - 20:03 Microsoft has some exiting news to share as of this afternoon! The ACES team has been busy working away on the next two updates for Flight Simulator X; Service Pack 1 and the DirectX 10 update, but they also wanted to giv...

SunAir Express rates its pilot using an on-time rating based on scheduled block times (gate to gate). A flight is rated on-time if the pilot’s block time is within 12 minutes +/- of the SunAir Express scheduled block time. You may be wondering, what is a good on-time rating? I am sure everyone wants...

I am pleased to announce that ATL hub Captain Bob Jones SAX464 has surpassed the 1,000 flight hours mark and now holds SunAir Express' highest rating of Command Captain.

Congratulations Bob and keep 'em flying!

Here's what I do for preflight: 1. Print out the flight plan form from the SAX POC. 2. Verify the route using simroute.com and fltplan.com. 3. Select a flight level using latest WX using fltplan.com. 4. Setup FS9 with the aircraft position at the gate, payload and fuel onboard. 5. Setup FS9 GPS and ...

I am just wondering about how long does it take you to preflight before you are ready for pushback and startup on your SAX flights.

Feel free to share what you do for preflight.

Captain Dave Straw SAX743 has successfully passed his SunAir Express check ride and is now left seat rated for the B767.

Please congratulate Captain Dave on his achievement. Well done Dave and enjoy your new heavy call sign!

Keep 'em flying!

I'm sure that FS9 (and FSX) has flight lessons on VOR navigation.

Captain Anton Gergely SAX754 has successfully passed a SunAir Express check ride and is now left seat rated for the A320.

Please congratulate Captain Gergely on his achievement. Well done Anton !

Captain Al O'Brien SAX067 has successfully passed a SunAir Express check ride and is now left seat rated for the B747.

Please congratulate Captain O'Brien on his achievement. Nice going Al !

Can anyone help me with saving long flights? I know how to save the flight on FS, but how do you keep FASCARS in sinc? Can FASCARS be saved or do I have to restart it? Thanks for your input. Jim Tilley Sorry Jim, FSACARS does not allow you to resume a "saved flight". You can still save a ...

Captain Roy Brent SAX680 has reached a major milestone as the first Sunair Express pilot to log 2000+ flight hours. Captain Brent has logged over 800 hours this year alone. Amazing!

Well done Roy! No one has to tell you to "keep 'em flying".

Here's a review from Wired News about Windows Vista.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/revie ... =rss.index

As "good as it may be", it looks like if you don't really need Vista now the best thing to do is wait. That is what I plan to do, wait.

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Captain Jim Tilley (SAX741) has successfully passed a SunAir Express check ride and is now left seat rated for the B767. Please congratulate Captain Tilley on his achievement. Way to go Jim!

Congratulations goes out to Command Captain Dave Vega SAX702 on passing the 1000 flight hours mark! Dave has logged over 230 hours this year alone. He is the STL hub chief and a STL hub pilot. And when Dave is not flying, he is either setting up routes, painting SunAir Express aircraft or debugging ...

The route map for the SFO Hub Alaska cargo flights has been updated to correct some errors. Check it out at http://www.sunairexpress.com/map_ksfo.html . It's the map at the bottom of the page.

You may also want to wait for the DirectX 10 video boards to come out before jumping on the FSX bandwagon. If you want to test your system to see if it is ready for Windows Vista go here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ and click on the GET READY button then install the "Windows Vista Upg...

Posted on http://www.avsim.com : Sunday, November 5, 2006 - 18:25 Now that FSX has been out a while, we thought we would do a quick and simple survey of owners of either the standard or deluxe versions. A simple 10 questions long, you can take the survey here: http://www.avsim.com/poll/fillsurvey.ph...

Anyone having trouble finding the new cargo flight's data in the POC, the aircraft all have an N-Number ending with a "C". Example: N411SC