SunAir Express Virtual Airlines Forum

Another good web site for charts is FS Charts.com http://fscharts.com/

hey im flying right now still 3 hrs left but i just realized i wanted to add a way point to the fmc legs .. i dono how to add one in once i have it programed can anyone help? thanks -Nate The only way I know how to add a waypoint to the FS9 FMC is to start over with a new flight plan. After enterin...

You should be able to find may Terninal Instrument Procedure charts at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) web site for Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF). Visit this web site and scoll to the bottom of the page. https://164.214.2.62/products/digitalaero/index.cfm

If you are looking for flight simulator aircraft checklists, the following web site has them for most of the aircraft types that SunAir Express flys.

http://freechecklists.net/

Congratulations goes out to Senior Captain Johnny Taptos (SAX715) on passing the 500 flight hours mark! Captian Taptos has also been flying for SAX for just over 6 years now.

Well done Johnny and keep 'em flying!

Here is a very useful tutorial written by Bernardo Srulzon (bernardosrulzon@fsstation.com) that should help you to understand all the information found on an approach plate.

http://sunairexpress.com/images/How_to_ ... Plates.pdf

You can view and download Terminal Procedures Publications charts from many web sites. You will find links to some of these web sites listed on the SAX Pilot's Lounge web page. http://sunairexpress.com/lounge.html A very good web site for charst for all U.S. airports is the FAA Digital - Terminal Pr...

When flying IFR you must follow DRVSM (Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minima) throughout the continental United States and Alaska, as well as the Oakland, Miami and New York Oceanic airspaces. RVSM reduces the vertical separation between aircraft to 1000 feet in opposite directions from FL290 ...

Some pilots have had trouble connecting to a FS9 multi-player session when behind a router. And when you use FSHost and are behind a router you must open the following ports on your router or you may prevent other pilots from connecting to the session. Using your router's "Port Forwarding"...

How are we doing? What do you like or dislike about SunAir Express? What can we do to make SunAir Express better? Bad or good, we want to know what you think about SunAir Express. We may not be able to apply all of your ideas, but you never know until you ask. Please post your comments here as a new...

I have noticed that a few pilots are Right Seat rating on a new type aircraft. When you are ready for your upgrade type check ride flight so you can be Left Seat Rated just follow these check ride instructions. How to take a checkride: 1. The pilot will choose any flight from the SunAir Express flig...

Way to go Lyle! Sounds like you had a good time on your 45.4 hour world tour. Great way to celebrate your birthday, too!

Looking for info and screenshots for FSX? Check this out: http://www.avsim.com/pages/0106/FSX/qanda.html

Are you B747 type rated? Do you feel like doing some long-haul flights? Want to fly around the world? If you answered YES to all of these questions then this can be your next flight assignments: LEG# - FLT# - ORG - DES - BLOCK - DIST 1 - 10 - KTPA - EBBR - 8.5 - 4343 2 - 58 - EBBR - WSSS - 11.4 - 57...

SunAir Express requires that all pilots set their flight simulator “Crash Detect” setting to “ON” for all flights logged to the Pilot Operation Center. I have notices some high touchdown rates in the POC FSACARS logs, some above -1000 FPM. With that high of a touchdown rate I am suprised that the ai...

Dave Vega told me about this Boston airport scenery upgrade last weekend. Besides the upgrades to the airport and termials, you can see smoke coming out of some smoke stacks in the areas. And it even has highway traffic (cars & trucks) moving in and out of the airport. It's really nice, and like...

Great article. Thanks for posting it Marty!

Congratulations goes out to Command Captian Lyle Kirgan (SAX272) on passing the 1000 flight hours mark! Captain Kirgan has added over 350 flight hours just this year alone. Well done Lyle! Captian Kirgan's career with SAX goes back to January 1994 on America Online using ATP. I was his first hub chi...

I have to vote for the Jepp route format, too. The only hassle is keeping the DPs and STARs version numbers up to date. Not a fun thing to do every 60 days or so.

My nephew said that I might be interested in this FREE open-source flight simulator called "Flightgear". I haven't had time to download and check it out yet. But I thought I'd pass the word along to see if anyone else has. I doubt if it compares with FS9 but looking at the web site it does...

Thanks! It's only taken me 12 years for the 1st 1000 hrs. Now on to 2000 hrs!

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Amazing pics Chris! You would make a great sales person for Active Sky.

Captain Chris Saunders SAX411 has surpassed the 1000 flight hours mark and now holds the Command Captain pilot ranking.

Congratulations Chris!

Way to go Juan!