Mediterranean Odyssey (2011)

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In case of questions or suggestions, please contact the Events Department [2] or Operations Department [3]

INTRODUCTION

With this title and fly in we want to honor the fundational legend of the mediterranean culture.

Although it is relatively small, it is not possible to embrace our sea in a single fly-in and this is the reason why we start in the western part of it, in a legs based event which will take place from island to island. We will visit the following:

Menorca
Corsica
Sicilly
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Sardinia
Eivissa
Mallorca

LEGS

LEG 1:

Maó (LEMH) - Ajaccio "Campo dell'Oro" (LFKJ)
Date: February 19th, 2011, 17:00 h Central European time (1600z).
Sceneries: A good freeware scenery is available at http://www.virtualcorsair.fr/ [4] (look for NOS BASES. At the end of the page there is a link for FS9). It is customisable so it can be configured depending on the computer performance.

LEG 2:

Ajaccio "Campo dell'Oro" (LFKJ) - Palermo (LICJ)
Date: March 5th, 2011, 17:00 h Central European time (1600z).
Sceneries: Palermo: You will find a good scenery of Franco Baratti at AVSIM [5] and you can also install the patch for this aeroport of the same author.

LEG 3:

Palermo (LICJ) - Pantelleria (LICG)
Date: March 19th, 2011, 17:00 h Central European time (1600z).
Sceneries: For legs 3, 4 i 5, you wil find a good scenery at AVSIM [5]. Make a search by Italy Islands and you will find two packages from Fulvio Mazzokan.

LEG 4:

Pantelleria (LICG) - Lampedusa (LICD)
Date: April 2nd, 2011, 17:00 h Central European Summer time (1500z).
Sceneries: Look at Leg 3

LEG 5.

Lampedusa (LICD) - L'Alguer (LIEA)
Date: April 16th, 2011, 17:00 h Central European Summer time (1500z).
Sceneries: Look at Leg 3 for Lampedusa. For l'Alguer, there's a very good scenery called Alguero 2006 from the Italian Scenery Design Project, but their web site appears to be now under construction. As this scenery is freeware and freely distributable, under request to the Operations Department [3] we will try to find it for the pilot.

LEG 6.

L'Alguer (LIEA) - Eivissa (LEIB)
Date: April 30th, 2011, 17:00 h Central European Summer time (1500z).

LEG 7.

Eivissa (LEIB) - Ciutat de Palma (LEPA)
Date: May 14th, 2011, 17:00 h Central European Summer time (1500z).

ROUTES AND CHARTS

All legs are or will be availbale at VRoute [6].
Real charts are available in the net. We suggest to use the VATSIM Chart Central VATSIM Pilot Resource Center [7] or, preferably, EUROCONTROL [8].

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Different legs may be flown with different aircraft.
Preferably use a propeller aircraft (turbo or piston).
Departure will be at 17 h Central European time and we will log in 30 minutes before to prepare the flight.
We suggest you to file the flight plan using the VATSIM Flight Plan prefile system [9] up to two hours before log in. We also strongly suggest to include the following in the REMARKS of the flight plan: MEDITERRANEAN ODYSSEY and leg number. For example: MEDITERRANEAN ODYSSEY; Leg 1.

PILOTS ARE WARMLY WELCOME !!