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Events

This is the Events page.  Here, you‘ll see a schedule of Company-sponsored Events taking place in the month indicated.

Scroll as necessary to see what’s available for the month you’ve selected – or – use the sort feature if you're looking for a flight specific to an ATC Network.

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The sorting options are:

  • All
  • PilotEdge
  • POSCON
  • VATSIM EU
  • VATSIM US

Color Legend:

PilotEdge Orange
POSCON Plum
VATSIM EU Green
VATSIM US Blue
image-1638880660824.png The month's current day will be underscored in bold red.

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Clicking the UTC button will display all times in UTC.

 

Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), a successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), is the time standard used in our System. A new day begins at 00:00:00 UTC and ends at 23:59:59 UTC.

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 Clicking the Local button will display all times in your local

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Clicking an Arrow button will enable you to move forward or backward in the Calendar.

Click on an entry to learn more about it.
 

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By clicking on an Event, its details will appear.
NOTE:  The current date is noted in BOLD RED – 12 March in the graphic above.
This is the upper section of what appeared after clicking on the VATSIM EU flight scheduled for Saturday, 12 March.

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This is the lower section of what appeared – and on your screen, you may need to scroll down to see all of it.

If you have questions about an Event, contact its Coordinator – in this instance, WAT339 Alex C. – in the Company Discord.
NOTE:  Contacting a Coordinator using email is not an available option.

How to sign-up for an event

To sign up for the Event, click the Sign Up button. After doing so, you'll be shown in the Attending Pilots section.

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How to bid an event flight

As defined here bullet #3, bidding is opened 3-hours prior to the Event,start youtime must complete a Bid withinof the event page.and Onceclosed 30 minutes before the eventend openstime up for biddingof the redevent. 'When that time has arrived, the Bid Unavailable'Unavailable button will turnbecome intogreen and you will be allowed to make your flight bid.

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If you bid a green 'Bid Flight' button. You do not bid for eventsflight using the Flight > Cargo, Flight > Charter, or FightFlight > ScheduledSchedule system.you will not receive the bonus points and hours; and we will not make exceptions.

Now that bidding is open, let's go through the process. The type of event (Fly-In, Fly-Out, Fly-In/Fly-Out or Specific) will determine what your bid screen looks like. It's pretty self-explanatory, however we will show an example of the Specific event type.

  1. Click on the Bid Flight button.

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This event has a specific airport selection to be KATL and KJAX. You will pick which airport you want to be your departure.

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Your next step is to pick your arrival, because this event is only (2) airports you get (1) choice. Note: if this was an event with 10 different airports you would see all the airports except the one you picked for departure (because you cannot fly to the same airport you left.)

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Now we decide the aircraft (by choosing which operation we want) and if it is Cargo, or Passengers, and then click on Bid Flight.

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You will be taken to your bids, and you see your newly created Event bid. At this point you can continue forward with smartCARS and you will receive credit as defined in our Events Procedures here.

You can fly as many flights as you wish during an event window given that you can stay within the hours defined in the Events Standard Operating Procedures. You may only bid 1-flight at a time, so if you return to your Event page and you are currently in-flight, or have a bid, you will see a 'Bid Exists' button. You must goeither backforfeit (remove) or complete that bid in order to the event and bid througha thenew button.
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Additional information about Events may be found here.
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