American Flight Airways Virtual Airlines

Atlanta HUB report for Febuary 2010.
Posted by Richard Bertschinger on March 6, 2010 at 12:37 PM MST

Gentlemen,

I\'d like to take a minute to say thank you for the warm welcome and introduce myself to the pilots I haven\'t had the pleasure of communicating with through the forums or e-mail yet. My name is Matt Radek and I\'ve been with AFA for just over 6 years. Almost half of that time was spent as Hub Director of AFA Washington. Jim has moved on to direct his full efforts to strengthening APG\'s training program, something which has been prioritized by APG management. So Atlanta\'s loss is APG\'s gain! I see that Richard has been doing a great job as Chief Pilot and has also done a great job of getting me ramped up on everything going on here in Atlanta. I\'m here to help him, and to help all of you make our hub the best it can be. I\'m always open to suggestions, especially ones that you feel will help get more pilots involved. Anything that interests you, please speak up! I look forward to getting to know all of you better and working together to make Atlanta the best it can be!

Here are the statistics for February:

Total Flights: 190

Flight Hours: 569.79

Flown by 33 active pilots

Excellent work, considering we were dealing with a shorter month! Maybe some of you were snowed in like myself and needed a good flight simming break between shoveling? Or maybe you were taking advantage of Richard\'s VATSIM bonus program? More news on that to follow.

--Time to welcome our new pilots:

Jerry Hayward AFA2993

Gregory Richardson AFA2998

William Lee AFA2994

Scott Glover 2990

All of whom have jumped right in and logged their first flight, and in some cases many, many more. Welcome aboard gentlemen!

--Promotions for February:

Giorgio Nicola, AFA2997, ATP commander

Nigel Donovan, AFA2989, ATP commander

--Our PILOT OF THE MONTH award goes to one of our recent promotees. This pilot has come back from a vengeance after being inactive, logging 9 long hauls with heavy metal for a whopping total of 114+ hours! Please join me in welcoming back to the fold and congratulating Nigel Donovan, AFA2989 as our Pilot of the Month for February 2010!

--We have NEW CHARTERS available at the charter center: http://apg.flyafa.com/charter/charter.php?air=AFA&hub=KATL and look for more soon. Current charters feature some European long hauls and a trip to Chile to help CNN report on the earthquake. With Spring just around the corner, look for some charters focusing on the Braves return to action, the Masters in Augusta, and other news related charters as real world events unfold. Remember, you can also request your own charter in the charter center!

--We have had some good activity in the forums, thank you again to everyone who has passed along their welcomes to me. The forums are a great resource for communicating with your fellow hub, airline and APG pilots, as well as a great resource of knowledge on all things FS/APG related. You can find out where our VATSIM fly-in locales will be for the upcoming month and see what\'s going on with AFA/APG. Please take the time to check in when you can: http://forums.flyafa.com/

--And speaking of VATSIM, let me take a moment to promote online flying. First, I\'d like to reiterate, AFA appreciates ALL their pilots, and values ALL hours whether flown on or off-line. We understand online flying isn\'t always a viable option. But if you have the resources, please give flying online a shot. It adds a great bit of fun, realism and in some cases challenge, interacting with other humans, and it is a great learning experience planning an online flight by studying departures, arrivals, etc. And VATSIM are always a fun time, I hope to see lots of AFA2xxx\'s this month, starting with a short hop tomorrow, 7 March in Birmingham, AL! And one last reason to fly online, due to popular demand we are extending Richard\'s online bonus program for one more month! Here is a recap for those who missed it last month:

--For the month of March a bonus will be added of 1/2 hours for every hour of flights that are conducted on VATSIM. (I.E. you fly 5 hours I will give a bonus of 2 and 1/2 hours.). As well to this bonus if you do any special vatsim flight such as a Hub to hub or flyin you with gain a additional bonus of 2 hours.
Example: You decide to hit a friday night flyin...it takes you 3 hours to get there....and 3 hours to get home.A total of 6 hours flight time. You will be awarded a bonus of 3 hours + 2hours for the special event. Thats a total of 6 hours of normal flight time and a bonus of 5 hours. Boom..11 hours to you logbook.
NOTES:
The only thing I request is that when you fly you inform me of it. I request a email at oldgb69@gmail.com with the following info--- The Flight number(or charter), departure ap and arrival ap, and number of hours flown on vatsim. I will be verifying all flights with the vatsim webpage.

--Well, that wraps up my first hub report. Please feel free to contact me at afa2991@gmail.com for anything you need, or drop me a line in the message forums, I try to check them every day. So let\'s get out there, have fun, and remember to keep the blue side up!

Matt Radek AFA2991

ATL Hub Director

Atlanta January HUB report-2010
Posted by Richard Bertschinger on February 3, 2010 at 2:10 AM MST

Gentleman,

I would like to thank the pilots for all the flights flown for the Haiti Relief. This is what its all about. To be able to give help in our own way to the people in need. My thanks to everyone who took charters.
The hub had a good month of January and again well done to all the pilots. Keep the pace gentleman. Lets set the standards for all the other HUBS to follow.
Now on with the stats for this month!

STATS:
Total flights flown: 193 Flights
Total hours: 519.65 hours.

News:
Charters and Silverjet operations:
There are new charters available in the charter section. At this time there is 1 Haiti flight available and a few others. Please go and check them out. If anyone has a flight they wish to conduct that is not available normal please send me a posting. I will look it over and get in arranged ASAP.
There is also a few VATSIM and newbie orientated charters available.
NOTAM: KATL pilots. If you have a reserved charter please get your flights wrapped up ASAP. This is so we can get new charters made available to you. So please wrap up the charters you have reserved gentleman.
Forums:
The APG forums have been a bit active as of late. This is a good place to get news and info about almost every aspect of the HUB and airline. Of course its free. So if your not reading this in the forums please feel free to sign up at http://forums.flyafa.com
VATSIM:
There are special events happening this week and for the month. If you are interested go and check out the VATSIM events on the main AFA page. They are also listed here in the forums.
As well for the month of Feb. I have initiated a bonus program for any flights flown on VATSIM. So if you wish to take a leap and try vastsim then please read the thread for specific info in regards to it. Give it a try gentleman. And if anyone needs any help with getting started feel free to contact me at oldgb69@gmail.com
Final thoughts:
And finally I would like to thank the following pilot for his overall contributions to the HUB. He has flown almost every flight online, flew a Haiti multileg flight, and contributes to both the forums and input of the hub.
And with that being said I would like to say CONGRATS to... Jim Bellinger(AFA2540) for being Pilot of the Month here in KATL.

And again thanks for all your hard work and input. Keep flying and remember to do one thing---Have fun----!!!!!!!!!!
KATL Chief Pilot:
Richard Bertschinger

Bonus Hours!
Posted by Richard Bertschinger on February 1, 2010 at 8:31 AM MST

Gentleman,
There are bonus hours available to all Atlanta pilots if you want them. Go check the post in the Atlanta section of the APG forum!
KATL Chief Pilot
Richard Bertschinger
NOTAM:
This is extended for the month of March as well!