Around The World Flight 2012

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Hi All

I’m calling from 184 (Manchester South) Sqn. We have a project this weekend that we would like to get as many Air Cadets and staff involved with as possible. We are doing a 48hr “Flight Around The World” (FATW) in our brand spanking new flight simulator. It involves every cadet on the Sqn working in shifts as pilots, co-pilots, navigators, cabin crew, air traffic, flight operations and as a media team.

The aims of the flight are detailed below

a. To give the cadet SNCO team leadership & project management experience

b. To provide whole squadron team building that is aviation related

c. To raise Squadron funds

d. To provide the cadets with an experience they couldn’t achieve alone

e. To improve the cadets awareness of the aviation industry.

The media team will be manning the Sqn Twitter & Facebook pages at all times from 2000hrs Friday to 2000hrs Sunday. They’ll be updating social media pages with pictures, videos, flight updates and interesting facts about the locations we’ll be flying over/to.

It would be fantastic if you could get involved with our project by keeping them busy by tweeting, commenting and asking questions about the FATW.

You can find us in the following places:

a. Twitter: @184sqnATC - Please use #184sqnATWF

b. Facebook: Facebook

c. Live video feed live from 2000hrs Friday

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fatw184atc#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=12834812&utm_medium=social

If you have any questions about FATW then feel free to ask. Likewise, if you’ve done something similar in the past and have advice for us, we’re listening :slight_smile:

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Sounds like an excellent project, well done!

I’ve created link to this page at [size=5]http://tinyurl.com/184sqnATWF[/size]

ACC members may find that link useful to help direct other Cadets / Staff to find this infomation page.

wilf_san

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That sounds like a spectacularly epic project! Well done!

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Sounds very interesting. What is the flight sim like?

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Here’s link to a pic from the Sqn facebook page. It’s set up is very similar to a RAC. I think it’s slightly better in that it works :wink:

It’s built inside a wooden frame, with 2 vauxhall vectra seats, so the flight crew have an enclosed cockpit. There is internal lighting for the pilots and a decent sound system to make it sound realistic. There will be some better pics on the fb page.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=295783563872614&set=a.205921699525468.44081.202239946560310&type=1&theater

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Can we have more photos? :smiley:

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Here’s one from the twitter page. I’ll try and get some more uploaded later when I’ve got it all fired up.

https://twitter.com/i/#!/184SqnATC/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FwWMgnh8Z

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What an awesome idea! I wish I’d thought of that.

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What will you be flying?

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We’ll be flying the Airbus A380. We wrote to Airbus to tell them and they sponsored us £500 and offered us a tour of the factory during Easter next year. They are even sending down a representative to follow our progress on the Friday night.

Thanks Airbus :slight_smile:

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That was jolly decent of them.

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Why is the webcam only on from 2000hrs?

I think you’re using slew mode from 1930hrs :wink:

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In case we screw up the first take off :wink:

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Trent 900 on the 380…I’d worry more about cruise!

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Trust me if anything scuppers this flight it will be human error! :unsure:

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As someone who works in the aerospace engine world…I would agree, only because flight simulator can ignore faults!

What’s the best bader addy to mail at some point about your sim. I would love to travel up and see it at some point. OC Adj or general?

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[quote=“5432golf” post=1714]As someone who works in the aerospace engine world…I would agree, only because flight simulator can ignore faults!

What’s the best bader addy to mail at some point about your sim. I would love to travel up and see it at some point. OC Adj or general?[/quote]

If you email the general account I’ll warn the appropriate person to check the inbox.

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Due to a technical problem we now have a new live feed

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10 mins until take off. If anybody spots any problems with the live feed drop us a line. It looks/sounds great from SHQ though.

Thanks

184

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[quote=“184sqnATC” post=1737]10 mins until take off. If anybody spots any problems with the live feed drop us a line. It looks/sounds great from SHQ though.

Thanks

184[/quote]
I can’t see the video (only a black screen) and the audio is intermittent, unreadable :frowning: