Hello to you all,
British Airways Virtual is looking for ATC services on VATSIM Japan for the morning of Sunday 4th October from 09:00 local Tokyo time for about three hours for the following event...
British Airways Virtual presents....
OVERNIGHTERS #3 - HEATHROW TO TOKYO
The Ultra-Long Haul Real Time
Overnight Event for BAV Pilots
(... can you stay up long enough ? ...)
THE FLIGHT?
BA 005
London Heathrow Airport (EGLL)
Tokyo Narita (RJAA)
WHEN IS IT?
Saturday afternoon/Sunday morning
3rd and 4th October 2009
Departures from: 12:30GMT (13:30BST, 14:30 CET);
Arrivals from: 23:50GMT (00:50BST, 08:50 local time in Tokyo)
Enroute Time: 11 hours 40 minutes
Tokyo local time: GMT + 9 hours (DST not in effect, so Tokyo is in fact +8 hours ahead of the UK at the moment)
Routing: To be advised
British Airways Virtual, in association with VATSIM Japan and IVAO, is proud to announce the third of our long haul OVERNIGHTER online flights! This time, we head off to the Land of the Rising Sun and the spectacular all night city of Tokyo for the last BAV long haul of 2009. British Airways has a daily scheduled flight from Heathrow to Tokyo Narita airport each day. This flight BA005 normally leaves the UK at 1:45pm in the afternoon and arrives around 9:05am the next morning. For our event, departures will begin at 12:30GMT (13:30 local) and will be staggered with pilots utilising 36 slot times of 5 minutes separation, over 3 hours (12:30Z 15:30Z). These slots will be available for both VATSIM and IVAO, allowing for some 72 departure slots. Pilots may choose which network suits them for the event.
London to Tokyo takes around 11 hours and 40 minutes to 12 hours, depending on winds and speed in the 747-400 (slightly longer in an Airbus A340), so this will be a long one. What is better for this event is that you will depart in the early afternoon in the UK and arrive in the very early morning of Sunday, UK time (about 1:00am UK time which is 9:00am local time in Tokyo). Will you be able to keep awake through the night and fly safely all the way across Northern Russia? Can you stay awake long enough to complete the flight?
Those of us who do shift work for a living may well be used to this and can cope better - but for those of you who have never done this kind of "shift" we will be posting a few tips for you in the BAV forum!
UK Charts and Procedures (for EGLL) can be found here:-
http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/in ... mid=2.html
Subscribers to Navigraph may be able to get up-to-date charts for Narita (RJAA). The real world flight plan for the day will be available and some weight and fuel options for you will also be made available to help your planning.
Feel free to post any questions you might have and we'll try to answer them. The new Fly-in Booking System will be operational before the event and a Fly-In Numer will be allocated in due course, to allow our pilots to obtain BAV hours for their logbooks if successful in completing the flight!
So keep it here!
Regards,
Lee James - 747 Training Captain
Florian Harms - Events Organiser
P.S. - (... we need ATC at over Tokyo and northern Japan if possible from 00:00 UTC (09:00 local time). So far, we have 42 pilots signed up of which 31 are on VATSIM. Any help would be appreciated.
Domo Arigato Gozaimasu - Thank you all.
別途、BOG(VP Marketing and Strategic Development)からも開局要請の連絡を頂いています。
当日は少なくとも39機以上のトラフィックになるそうです。
この皆さんを出来ることなら是非とも「VATJPN管制官で」お出迎えし、日本訛りのATCで旅情も提供したいと思います。
本日より国内先行募集を行います。
※9月13日までにVATJPNとして充足出来なかった場合は、VP Marketing and Strategic Development手配による海外の管制官の方々で配置充足します。
【日時】
10月4日
日本時間の8時頃(朝)〜3時間程度
【募集管制官】
RJCG_CTR C1以上 (CG・TG兼任可)
RJTG_CTR C1以上 yamacchi
RJAA_APP S3以上 ryoさん
RJAA_TWR S3以上 XZLさん
RJAA_GND S3以上 (配置出来れば尚良)
※参加出来そうな方は9月12日までにレスを頂ければ、そして充足できれば幸いです。
よろしくお願いします！
VATSIM-JAPAN
DIRECTOR Yamacchi
