VATEUR - Global OneSky4 ATC Event

OneSky4 - global scale atc event

Announcement

Once again, we are inviting you all to take part in:

OneSky4 - Global ATC Event

Experience all Centre positions within the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network

(from VATUSA - VATCAN - VATPAC - VATSAM - VATEUR - VATIL)

staffed on 7 May 2005

Participating VATEUR VACCs (FIRs and Airports) can be found here.

OneSky4 Debrief page now available here.

Each participating VACC will provide complete staffing on Air Traffic Control positions for en route and one or two international Airports per FIR.

For the first time, OneSky4 will be a Global Event, creating a situation never seen before to online ATC & flying networks.
You will be able to experience ATC and flights all around the world, as you do in real life, non stop all the way!

If OneSky3 was not a blast, wait until you participate in this one........

Arm your Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and be there this evening ;-)

regional activities

VATEUR:

Whole of Europe, including Shanwick Oceanic, from 7 May at 1400 UTC until 2300 UTC.

VATPAC:

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"Twenty nine hours of continuous ATC Australia-wide"!
From Friday 6 May 0900 UTC until Saturday 7 May 1400 UTC.

VATIL:

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From 6 May 1400 UTC until 7 May 2000 UTC.

VATUSA, VATCAN, VATBRZ:

From 7 May 1900 UTC, but with Gander and Moncton Oceanic operating from 1600 UTC.

VATRUS:

12 hours "Victory Day" Fly-in, staffing 11 FIRs with 20 simultaneous Controllers.

And that's not all! We expect Mexico and other south American VACCs to participate too. This is really what everyone could have only dreamed about - short haul, long haul, Oceanic crossings, and everything provided with ATC - forget the ugly "frequency change approved"!

As you can see, the individual regions will be available at different times (based on local hours), so make sure you plan your flights accordingly to get the most out of this event !

Recommendations

There are no special regulations for this event, except for some recommendations on
flight planning and a few hints on the use of additional applications:

1) Pilots are strongly recommended to check the VACC's web page of the country they are going to fly to for the latest Charts, NOTAMs and News !

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

3) Use ServInfo to check expected ATIS info, server performances, traffic spread per airport (controller), and much more. In the new version (v2.01), you can also display ATC Bookings (Eurobook), i.e. planned manning of FIRs and Airports. Of course the good old WhazzUp is obviously not to be neglected!

4) Controllers in this event (as everywhere) will expect pilots to be updated with the latest AIRAC Cycle. Make sure your Navigation data is up to date by visiting the NAVData web site.

5) During this event, ATC observers (OBS) may be requested to disconnect, as we will be using the network resources to its maximum. Please show understanding and avoid unnecessary consumption of network bandwidth.

Except from this... simply have (realistic) fun !

If you have any questions, please contact VATEUD6, or post them on the VATSIM forum.

Looking forward to having You with us!

Network & monitoring

We will have close cooperation with the VATSIM Network staff to ensure, especially during this evening, that the network run as smooth as it should regarding overall performance. People in charge will be monitoring the network during the entire event.

There will be Supervisors responsible for Event announcements, and monitoring of the servers. This to ensure that any Broadcast messages will come from one single source only, and to limit the danger of server overloads (spreading of traffic, if required).

OneSky4 Debrief

An OneSky4 Debrief page is available here.

On behalf of VATEUR,

The VATSIM Europe Region Controllers and Virtual Airline Community.