1 June 2003
To All Of Our Pilots,

May was another excellent month for SimAirline.net. We broke our records set last month for flight hours and PIREPs.

Concorde Virtual Delayed, Expected to Open This Month
Concorde Virtual was forced to delay its opening because schedules and a flight manual are still not ready. Because of the different flight characteristics of the aircraft and the desire to include all scheduled services, we felt it was necessary to delay opening the virtual airline in order to include this.

Fly-Ins Put on Hold, Online ATC Training in Planning
Because of increasingly worse turnout for our three fly-ins so far, Newark, Zurich, and Los Angeles, we are discontinuing fly-ins until we can ensure a good turnout for these events. To help this, our Events Coordinator, David Velez, is planning a training section of our website to introduce pilots about how to flying online using VATSIM and IVAO. An opening date for this has not been decided yet.

New Panels Manager Joins Staff, Aircraft Developer Needed
Corey Ford, our longtime Panels Manager and Aircraft Developer - U.S., has had to step down from his positions. All of the panels currently available at SimAirline.net and many of the aircraft are thanks to his work. Replacing him in the panels position is Craig Lowery, our former Delta Fleet Manager. However, we need someone to replace him as aircraft developer, which involves primarily repainting aircraft. If you are intersted, please go here.

Eleventh Virtual Airline? ANA Likely
After some deliberation and consideration of what airline would be the strongest candidate for a proposed but not decided upon eleventh virtual airline, All Nippon Airways (ANA) or Japan was selected. For information on why ANA was selected, and to offer your feedback, you may view the exact topic in our Message Boards.

Aaron Robinson
aaron.robinson@simairline.net
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