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Operation OneSky - Europe Online
Updated: 9th October 2002
Event debriefing

 

This event was the materialisation of a "life-long" dream and combined efforts of many of us who have been here in the virtual skies since the early days. This dream came true on October 5th, 2002.

Despite some natural network problems due to temporary server connectivity issues and procontroller/squawkbox clients not being designed for such loads, that frustrated controllers and pilots alike for some of the time, the mere fact that the event broke any previous network load factors speaks for itself and is nothing but an unprecedented success.

We all had lots to learn which will go a long way into designing the future of our hobby. A future that, given the current development plans with the new client programs (ASRC/Squawkbox3) and updated server FSD environment, is not too far away.

Total online members reached a staggering 798 concurrent connections, according to VATSIM5, Harvey Stein, which broke the previous record of 714. This is the official number as confirmed by VATSIM Network staff who record connections.

Download the ServInfo file recorded by Damir Nozica at 18:49 UTC with 802 connected users online.

 New   Download an Excel spreadsheet with flight data recovered from servers during the event. A total of 2005 arrival & departure events were recorded during the 6 hours of OneSky event. Thanks to Stephen Odgaard they are presented to you in tabular format with display filters for each column. If you flew that evening you are in there.

 New   Some OneSky flight progress screenshots by Dean Constantinidis , VATPAC10. The crew of our 10 friends from Oceania Region woke up at 3:00 and 4:00 am LT to participate.

WhazzUp screenshots taken from us :

16:10 UTC, ten minutes into the event, most positions are online and pilots on their way

17:14 UTC, The Europe Region "web" is developing. Only airborne targets displayed to declutter

17:47 UTC, the event in full progress. From Oceanic centers to Russia all online at once.

19:33 UTC, 3.5 hours after event's start and the area between UK, Denmark and Hungary is really busy.

22:49 UTC, fifty minutes after event officially ended and some night owls still keeping up to it.

THANK you all for participating in this event,

The VATSIM Europe Region staff.

 

Event Announcement

  

Experience all Center-Positions within the VATSIM Europe Region staffed at least from 1600 to 2200 UTC on October, 5th 2002.

Each country will provide complete staffing for one or two international Airports.

First time our three Divisions will cooperate to create a situation seen never before. A whole VATSIM Region online side to side. From Dublin to Ankara, from Moscow to Lisbon and many many more, you will be able to experience ATC and flights around you as in real life ; non stop all the way !

Arm your TCAS and be there that evening ;-)

 
Recommended

 

There are no special regulations for that evening except for some pilots flight planning recommendations:

1) Try to perform an inter-continent (not national) flights to make proper use of this great and unprecedented service of VATSIM Europe Region controllers and please be nice and patient ;o) because you are participating in traffic never seen before that is hard to manage by every controller involved.

2) If you use RogerWilco for your voice communications then PLEASE !!! set Modem Connection speed to "Slow Modem" regardless how fast your internet connection speed really is. Otherwise RogerWilco sometimes kind of "abuses" your PC as server, what gives huge lags to everybody within the same voice room. Thank you!

3) Use ServInfo to check expected ATIS info, servers performance, traffic spread per airport (controller) and many more. Of course the good ol WhazzUp is obviously not to be neglected !

4) Controllers in this event (as everywhere) will be expecting pilots to be updated to AIRAC 2.09 Cycle. Make sure your Navigation equipment are up to date by visiting NAVData website.

5) During the event, ATC OBServers will be asked to disconnect since this evening we will be using network resources to the maximum. Please show understanding and avoid unnecessary network bandwith consumption.

Besides these ... simply have (realistic) fun !

If you have any questions please post them in the simflight.vatsim-eur forum available via news server subscription or via the VATSIM Main page > Community > Forum link.

Looking forward to have You with us!

 
Participants

 

List of participating Virtual Area Control Centers (VACCs) with all Center positions staffed guaranteed from 1600 to 2200 UTC to choose from, plus the Airports staffed with Ground, Tower and Approach/Departure positions.

Keep checking back; list is being updated as final confirmations are coming in!

VATEUD Division :

  1. Albania - Tirana UIR (LAAA)

  2. Austria - LOWW (Vienna), LOWI (Innsbruck)

  3. Belgium - EBBR (Brussels)

  4. Croatia - LDDU (Dubrovnik)

  5. Czech Republic - LKPR (Praha Ruzyne)

  6. Denmark - EKCH (Copenhagen Kastrup)

  7. Estonia - EETN (Tallinn Ulemiste)

  8. Finland - EFHK (Helsinki)

  9. France - LFPG (Paris C.D.Gaule)

  10. FYRoM - Skopje UIR (LWSS)

  11. Germany - EDBB (Berlin Terminal Area), EDDK (Koeln/Bonn)

  12. Greece - LGAV (Athens Venizelos)

  13. Hungary - LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy)

  14. Ireland - EIDW (Dublin)

  15. Italia - LIMC (Milan Malpensa), LIRF (Roma Fiumicino)

  16. Malta - LMML (Malta Luqa)

  17. Netherlands - EHAM (Amsterdam Schiphol)

  18. Norway - ENGM (Oslo Gardermoen)

  19. Poland - EPWA (Warszaw Okecie), EPKK (Cracow)

  20. Portugal - LPPT (Lisbon), LPPO (Santa Maria Oceanic FIR)

  21. Slovak Republic - LZIB (Bratislava M.R.Stefanik)

  22. Slovenia - LJLJ (Ljubljana)

  23. Spain - LEPA (Palma de Mallorca), LEMD (Madrid Barajas)

  24. Sweden - ESSA (Stockholm Arlanda)

  25. Switzerland - LSZH (Zurich Kloten), LSGG (Geneva Cointrin)

  26. Turkey - LTBA (Istanbul Ataturk), LTAC (Ankara Esenboga)

  27. Yugoslavia - LYBE (Belgrade Surcin)

VATRUS Division :

  1. Belarus - UMMS (Minsk)

  2. Russia - UUEE (Moscow Sheremetvo) , ULLI (St. Petersburg)

  3. Ukraine - UKBB (Boryspil)

VATUK Division :

  1. London ACC - EGLL (London Heathrow), EGCC (Manchester)

  2. Scottish ACC - EGPF (Glasgow)

 
More to come ... 

 

If you have participated in this event and think it was a blast...you have seen nothing yet! Check this out: VATSIM EUD Training Department > European Grand Fly Tour, which is a whole series of flight events. The time and date for the EGFT tour legs are not fixed yet and will be announced on the simflight vatsim-eur fora and by Region NOTAM. The EGFT is not related to "OneSky" event held on October 5th.

Thank you,

The VATSIM Europe Region Controllers and Virtual Airline Community