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the home of CVW-2 Software Environment This list is a work in progress and other software packages may be added. or removed, as events require. So long as your environment can support and operate the following, you will not have any trouble with our operations. 1. Lockheed Martin Prepar3d V5, maintenance at current levels of support, Any other Flight Simulator configuration will be considered as “NON-STANDARD”. While reasonable effort will be made to accommodate operations on other platforms, they will NOT be done at the expense of functionality of the Standard Flight Simulator Platform. Personal Requirements 1.Be at least 18 years of age at the time your application is submitted 2.Possess a functioning Joystick, capable of throttle-control. 3.Possess a functioning headset, controlled by a push-to-talk. 4.Possess a computer hardware setup capable of supporting the aircraft and scenery we fly. 5.Maintain an active presence in CVW-2. If you wish to fly in other VA's, that is fine with us. By Active Presence, it is intended that you participate in most of the group's scheduled operations. These will be posted on the Forums in a separate section for "Non-Optional Flight Activity", and you should check that area on a regular basis. Regarding currency requirements, if your “life” schedule precludes you flying online with the group, submit TacView files and/or vLSO logs documenting you have met the requirements. Flights are also logged automatically via the CVW-2 Flight Operations software using kACARS, which provides a chronological record of flight operations. I know many of these requirements seem severe, but that is the way it is. If you do not like it, then go start your own group, and then you can listen to all the whining and complaining yourself, because absolutely everybody else can run the place better than you. Trust me, I have been told this information many times before. Regarding the minimal age requirement, this is not the place for the 12-year-old "ace of the base". This is a group of adults who enjoy getting together after the children are doing their homework or have gone to bed. The hardware and system requirements are born of frustration with folks who are trying to run the superbug on a 6-year-old laptop running Windows XP, with a desk mike hooked up voice-activated and a radio blasting some absurd noise in the background, while trying to fly the superbug with a mouse and their keyboard. There are many places where you can go to learn to fly on FSX/P3D. This is not one of them. It is extremely frustrating to spend considerable time, building scenery and planning a sortie, only to have somebody pipe up in the briefing with a question like "what's a VOR?", or a TACAN, or a waypoint. This is not Bill and Ted's excellent basic flight school. We are a group of experienced pilots who seek to develop our skills and abilities in a challenging environment. It is not a place to "learn how to fly". There are more than enough folks who purport themselves to be "flight instructors" out there. By the way, anyone found to have been fraudulent in any of their statements on the application, or to be guilty of conduct which reflects negatively on CVW-2 will be summarily dismissed. No questions. No appeals, ZILCH, ZERO, NADA.
If you think this is someplace, you would like to “hang your hat”, then fill out an application. If not, so be it, and enjoy your life. |
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