American Airlines Virtual

Congratulations Steve on your appointment and thanks for stepping up. Glad to have you as part of the team. Welcome to the management team Steve. Beware of the goat in the back corner of the management room. I keep sending memos to DFW about it... ...and Bert, why do you have the goat! I hope you ar...

Congratulations to Wayne Szot you has now been promoted to First Officer. Now he gets to experience longer flights and a variety in a/c.

DFW has another new pilot. Welcome Matt Page who joins AAV at the rank of Trainee. Look forward to seeing you in the virtual skies.

Sorry Wayne, I haven't had the opportunity to be on the forum in a while so I missed your big day. Happy belated B'day and thanks to your help I may be able to access the forums more offen.

Hope you had a good day.

Happy birthday you guy. It's probably time for you to slow down and stop flying with one hand, controlling traffic at DFW with the other all while training new ATC students.

All I can tell you is that checkrides and rank progression requirements are the exact things that brought me to this VA. When I started looking at VA's I specifically looked for those that taught you how to fly and forced you to accomplish something. I did not want a VA where I progressed simply by ...

Rey, ....If you just reset your altitude but you dont arm it, it will go past it, so you have to be careful. Also, the plane likes to descend at about 1700 fpm... quite steep, so you may have to use speed brakes sometimes. You call that steep. The FMC in my LevelD 763 normally descends at 3,000 - 4...

Not sure what NATPLOT.ZIP does but I imagine you are looking for NAT tracks across the Atlantic. If you go to this web site:

http://www.vatsim-uk.org/oceanic/index.php?page=nat

you will find a daily updated NAT chart.

GREAT Greg, I always wanted to know how this was done! Thanks for taking the time.

GREAT find Buddy. I've been wondering what the VF & AB buttons were for. I figured out the PB (pushback) button.

Thanks for the post.