Friday Evenings in the USA sees the regular event "Friday Night Ops" On April the 3rd, 2345z, The Fort Worth ARTCC ran a SODROPS (Simulatneous Opposite Direction Runway ops) runway configuration at KDFW Dallas Fort Worth. Additionally, some prizes were offered on a "random number" basis for aircraft arriving at Oklahoma City KOKC, and Shreveport Regional KSHV On this flight, I flew the Leonardo "Fly the Maddog" addon which can be purchased at http://www.flythemaddog.com/ This is the same aircraft which has native over-network multiple crew simulation (So 2 pilots can fly the same aircraft at the same time.) Although in this case I operated as single pilot. In this case I used the American Airlines livery from library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=maddog2008_americanairlines_fs9-fsx.zip&CatID;=root&Go;=Search Every air traffic controller and aircraft you hear is a real person using VATSIM. For more information about vatsim, visit http://www.vatsim.net/ and http://www.vatsim.net/pilots/quickstart/ I use FSinn to connect to vatsim. (links below) Matt Davies has a good tutorial on how to set up FSinn with model matching at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7ZC8QufMI The last time I had to install FSinn, I simply used his video as a step-by-step checklist. Speaking of Checklists, all insets, including charts, checklists and facecam have been edited into the video using Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 11.0 During the flight, weight loadings, weather briefings and airway SID STAR approach and ground charts were read off a second computer/monitor. The Checklists are the same ones included in the Majestic Software Q400 documentation that comes with the aircraft when you purchase it as a series of .pdf files. Charts are available for free at the airservices australia website, www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/current/dap/AeroProcChartsTOC.htm Weight loadings and fuel planning was done using PFPX. My computer: Processor: i5 3750 3.5GHZ Graphics: GTX670 1GB Ram: 8GB 1600 DDR HDDs: ST1000DM003 & ST500DM002 Flight Simulator X addons include: FTX Global https://www.fullterrain.com/product/ftxglobal FS DreamTeam KDFW Dallas Fort Worth www.fsdreamteam.com/products_kdfw.html Oaklahoma City KOKAC Freeware http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/10228/will-rogers-world-airport/ ActiveSky Next was used for all weather, this program injects Real time real weather including clouds, precipitation, temperatures, winds, turbulence etc into the simulator. http://www.hifitechinc.com/products/activeskynext FSDT's GSX Ground Services for baggage handling, marshalling and pushback http://www.fsdreamteam.com/products_gsx.html Flight, Cruise and Fuel planning by PFPX. http://www.flightsimsoft.com/pfpx/ Vatstats.net captured this flight at https://vatstats.net/flights/1850651 You can see the real life counterpart's flight track at http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL382/history/20150411/1715Z/KDFW/KOKC

• published: 13 Apr 2015
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