Tom Guerrette

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Looks to be a challenging event for sure! So far you have yet to disappoint.

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The judges could access the information.

I'd be happy to let you guys use Cape Air's VAFS to track the landing FPM if the judges would like, even if it's just supplementing your visual judging of the landing.

I think the first two criteria are certainly reasonable ways to judge the landing, provided everyone has BVA's version of Nantucket. However, deciding how hard/soft the landing was is certainly something that can present some challenges, as aforementioned by Cameron and Devon. How do you plan on judging how soft/hard someones landing is, just by watching it (which can work, to a certain extent)?

Welcome! There is no policy against newbies -- or anyone -- starting a topic about anything they feel is relevant! Pleased to see you enjoyed your first flight with us. If you look at the ATC Timetable you will see that we have controllers lined up for the Boston Area tonight and tomorrow night. Hope to see you there!

Probably wouldn't need Clearance at the arrival airport if it's going to be mostly arrivals. In addition, you can't force people to depart/not depart from a certain area. If the event is a KMIA and someone wants to fly there from KPBI, while it wouldn't be preferred -- we can't tell them they can't fly from KPBI.

Building on that idea, I think it could be where you assign one country/outlying territory, then have it go into the selected airport. For example, the assigned airport could be KBOI, and you could assign it to where you could only fly in from a Canadian airport. Or, the airport could be KEYW, and you could only fly in from the Carribean. Wouldn't that defeat the 'long haul' part? Caribbean - KEYW really isn't that far.

That's certainly an interesting idea for an event. What is the goal of the event? Is the goal to get everyone landing at the 'destination' airport at the same time? The "Overload" in the title makes it seem like there will be a 'traffic overload'. If that's the case, it would make the event a bit logistically complicated because pilots would have to time their flights to arrive within a certain time to get the "overload" factor. I don't think having the airport staffed the entire day would be practical from a traffic perspective (I also think it would be difficult to find controllers to staff it for an entire day). Three to five hours is a bit more practical. I'm sure this will be appreciated by long haul pilots -- however, it's not much different then them using the ATC Timetable (which is very accurate) to determine where to fly to to get ATC services, and usually lots of other traffic of varying types (short-haul, GA, etc), adding to the realism factor. I think it's an interesting idea but needs to be a bit more unique -- and more appealing to people that don't fly long-hauls.

This sounds like a good question for next weeks website poll. (Whether or not people like the double plays)

Today, Southwest Airlines/AirTran Airways officially received a single operating certificate from the FAA. From now on, all flights will be operated with the Southwest Callsign (WN/SWA/Southwest). For all you Citrus fans, your going to have to get used to saying "Southwest". http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 05008.html

If this keeps going on, all where going to have left is one big Legacy carrier, and one big Low-Cost carrier. Who will win? (I really hope the government doesn't let that happen).

As of Wednesday, the COA - Continental call sign is official defunct, as UAL and COA now operate under one operating certificate. All flights are operated under the United Airlines call sign of "United". See the article below: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Pilots-Un ... 51129.html

We could do what UALR did to PQI (Dan should remember) to TEX one night. That might be fun.

Evan, you have that Geteway marked on the Events calender as November 4-13. Should that be fixed to say December 4-13?

I think the last time did SoCal was last summer or something...can't remember perfectly. While I didn't like it personally, I know many people did, so I'd be willing to go back to Cali.

Thank You, Dan, Andrew, and Evan for staying up so late to work on this Scenery. Your hard work is appreciated. Have fun in the event tonight!

We had a storm like this last year that effected the Cape, Long Island, Connecticut, and the rest of New England. To my recollection it was an interesting couple of evenings -- full of high winds, rain, lightning, and busy controllers! I don't think this will be the last storm to pay us a visit, especially since this is the first one to reach hurricane strength so far in the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season (Eight named storm though).

Sounds good to me!

You mean New York! No, I meant Boston.

This getaway was normal length (a week - 9 days), we've had longer (Alaska was ten days, I think). Sometimes the new airspace etc is a hastle for the controllers so they'd rather take a step back and fly. Some of us (me) are just homesick and want to get back to Boston!

Yes, I use FF.

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