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It is my pleasure to officially announce our participation in Worldflight for 2014.
The official name for the team is "Cockpitbuilders Worldflight Team USA". CALLSIGN: DELTA209 Departing on November 1st 2014 at 2300hrs (UTC) The Full Motion 737 Simulator of Sam Llorca will host 15 Crew for 7 Days making flights 24 hours a day. The purpose of this event is to raise money by flying around the world (virtually) for our local charity. Just as we did Last year we have again selected the "All Children's Hospital" in St. Petersburg, Florida.
To find out more, Please visit http://www.worldflightusa.com (http://www.worldflightusa.com) for more details.
NOTE: This year we will do things a little Different. If you would like to be a part of the flight CREW, you will be required to prove you have made a donation "BEFORE" your name will be added to the SCHED. This will eliminate the issues we had last year with people cancelling after signing up.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. More information to follow over the next week.
Best regards,
WORLD FLIGHT TEAM USA
www.cockpitbuilders.com (http://www.cockpitbuilders.com)
Hi Trev -
I just made my donation to kick things off here. How do we provide "proof" to you? My transaction ID is 36715.
Regarding the website.....The "Countdown Clock" still shows WorldFlight 2013 with "0" hours to go on most tabs. The only tab where it shows updated to 2014 is the "Media" tab.....however the countdown readout there is garbled. Perhaps all that is still a work in progress on your part.
Fred K
If i book my flight for wednesday, then leaving that sunday (East coast local time) I should be ok?
Flight ops (read:"Wife") has cleared me for takeoff, so to speak, so i will again be in Sarasota FLA for the event.
REALLY looking forward to this!
And... How do we make donations?
Fred and Ray. Congrats on joining us. I am still waiting to hear for the new link for donations this year. The one on the site doesn't let anyone in the world send donations. Only those in the USA.
Fred, you could email me your receipt if you would like. (PLEASE BLACK OUT ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IF YOU WOULD LIKE)
The New link should be available soon, that's why I didn't post it, as Bob is the Contact that deals with ACH.
LOL As for the countdown clock.. I know it is a problem for me, I am fighting with it and it is winning :)
ALL:
The Countdown Clock issue has been corrected, YIPPEE. I am going to create a NEW WF2014 Forum, and we can start the chatting. I have already began to fill in the schedule. Just need the updated Links for donations.
Best regards,
Trev
Hi Trevor,
Since the international donations aren't up yet, do you want a flight booking confirmation that I'm going?
Quote from: KyleH on September 09, 2014, 05:36:45 AM
Hi Trevor,
Since the international donations aren't up yet, do you want a flight booking confirmation that I'm going?
Sure that will work, but I will also require a copy of your receipt as soon as you make your donation. Just email it :)
Thanks Bud.
International Donations are up now.
http://worldflight.cockpitbuilders.com/donate.html (http://worldflight.cockpitbuilders.com/donate.html)
Trev
Hi Trevor, noticed on your WF page you're listing other teams but have the Perth Flightcity 777 listed. The Perth team is now flying the B738 and the website is www.worldflightperth.com.au (http://worldflightperth.com.au/)
Cheers and good luck for your team,
Ken.
Thanks Ken. I didn't realize that had changed. But now you mentioned it. Gwynn said something about that already.
I will make the change tomorrow. And good luck to you as well.
Team USA wishes all the other teams the best of luck, we give thanks for the opportunity to participate and extend our hands to help the ones in need, See you guys in the air!
Hey Trev, did you see Captain Dean Ashworth picture on Worldflight Pert website? Man he looks familiar, lol. :huh:
Quote from: Sam Llorca on September 09, 2014, 03:37:31 PM
Hey Trev, did you see Captain Dean Ashworth picture on Worldflight Pert website? Man he looks familiar, lol. :huh:
LOL, Yes, I may have seen that guy before. Whoever he is.... He looks like he takes flying very seriously. I hear he likes the Boeing 707 though :)
Trev
Thanks for fixing the link Trev, much appreciated. As for Dean he comes to training each week wearing that damn outfit, it's annoying but we humor him anyway. Not a bad pilot though.
Ken.
VERY IMPORTANT!!!!! If you plan on getting a ride to the event from the airport and back, you will need to fly into SRQ, Sarasota Bradenton Airport. This will be the only airport we will be able to provide rides for this year...
Is all good Ken, a bit of humor here! We'll done guys, cheers
Hey guys.
Just noticed that our website and the Perth countdown clocks are not in sync. :huh:
LOL I think that is because we are 12 hours behind Perth Time "they are in esscense 12 hours ahead of us" Least that's what I figured out when I saw that issue. Either way, the difference is 12 hours LOL. And our server time may be off by 12 hours LOL... Pm/Am
Hey it should be close LOL
Quote from: Trevor Hale on September 11, 2014, 09:10:58 AM
LOL I think that is because we are 12 hours behind Perth Time "they are in esscense 12 hours ahead of us" Least that's what I figured out when I saw that issue. Either way, the difference is 12 hours LOL. And our server time may be off by 12 hours LOL... Pm/Am
Hey it should be close LOL
That is correcrt Trevor. Weave on Saturday afternoon and at the same time they will be leaving on Sunday morning.
But if everyone is departing at the same Zulu time, the clocks should match. Unless they are just counting down to the day and not the actually start time.
Quote from: KyleH on September 11, 2014, 11:38:44 AM
But if everyone is departing at the same Zulu time, the clocks should match. Unless they are just counting down to the day and not the actually start time.
You are correct, but if you look at their site again, you will see it is set to Ausi time...lol
Ours is set to countdown to 2300z time. I can't speak to theirs lol
We're counting down to when the beers cold! :cheers:
Actually you could be right, I didn't really think about it when I set it up, just told it our local departure time which for us is 0700 Nov 2 but that probably won't work on an international level. I'll set it to Zulu to bring it into alignment with all.
Ken.
Hmm ok, what am I missing. Compared clocks and they are in sync, in fact when I set it to Nov 1 @2300 it was 16 hours out! Setting to Nov 2 @ 0700 (local time) brings it into sync with yours. Must be something to do with how the app references your local PC clock?
Ken.
To be honest all the timezone stuff really gives me a big headache lol. You should have seen me change the local times on the route excel sheet.
UTC time - (5/24) = Est. Lol
But kens 100% right. Counting down to the beers cold lol. Cheers.
Let me throw this at ya.... The time change...... :idiot:
LOL Bob, I already counted that in my equation. Gmt-5 winter, GMT-4 Summer LOL
Wish I could be there guys. Count me in for Worldflight 2016.
Donation made.
Thanks Bud.
Means a lot to all of us. Trying to get enough donations to beat last years totals. You rock. I can't thank you enough and gonna count you in for next year also.
Trev
Thank you Warren!
Sam, Trevor,
Hi Guys,
We are traveling to Europe and will return late October. I can make it down to Sam's place to participate in World Flight on 11-6-14 to 11-8-14. I will have to leave on Sunday the 9th.
Trevor - I went to the Donation site, and entered in the information as stated in the example you provided. But it rejected the donation because not all the fields were filled. It wants my address, but you require that FL be input, and I live in New Mexico. Does this matter, or is there another way to donate? Once I hear back from you I will make my donation.
We leave for Europe this Thursday the 18th so I only have a few days to get this completed. Please let me know asap. Thanks.
Also, please send me the schedule and flight information. I will not be able to fly late at night (local time). Please consider that for flight assignments. If that is a problem, then I will have to cancel.
I'm looking forward to another year of WF.
Regards,
Mike
Quote from: sagrada737 on September 15, 2014, 05:48:08 AM
Trevor - I went to the Donation site, and entered in the information as stated in the example you provided. But it rejected the donation because not all the fields were filled. It wants my address, but you require that FL be input, and I live in New Mexico. Does this matter, or is there another way to donate? Once I hear back from you I will make my donation.
Hi Mike,
I didn't have any issues.
If you are having trouble with the "in Honor of" Portion just add the "Worldflight Team USA" in the additional comments section at the bottom of the billing. I believe the address part you are referring to was in the top section, which only has required fields for the name.
Maybe try again and provide me with a screenshot of the issue your having.
I will take your issues into consideration as soon as your donation is made.
Best regards
Trev
Hi Trevor,
Thanks for the prompt reply. I went back into the All Children's Hospital's donation site, and re-completed the form. This time it was processed and went through. There is no transaction number, but I do have a "tracking code" if you need verification of the donation.
I will plan on traveling on Nov 5th to Tampa, with daytime availability to fly WF on the 6th, 7th, and the 8th. I will leave for home on the 9th.
Also, I have a good friend that I want to sponsor for the WF event. His name is George and he has been flying Sims for many years and is quite familiar with the 737 aircraft. He recently took delivery of a JetMax 737. It it works out that George join me, we will be at WF during the same time frame. I will let George know about the donation policy. Please let me know the flight schedule. Thanks.
Mike
Quote from: sagrada737 on September 15, 2014, 06:49:51 AM
Hi Trevor,
Thanks for the prompt reply. I went back into the All Children's Hospital's donation site, and re-completed the form. This time it was processed and went through. There is no transaction number, but I do have a "tracking code" if you need verification of the donation.
I will plan on traveling on Nov 5th to Tampa, with daytime availability to fly WF on the 6th, 7th, and the 8th. I will leave for home on the 9th.
Also, I have a good friend that I want to sponsor for the WF event. His name is George and he has been flying Sims for many years and is quite familiar with the 737 aircraft. He recently took delivery of a JetMax 737. It it works out that George join me, we will be at WF during the same time frame. I will let George know about the donation policy. Please let me know the flight schedule. Thanks.
Mike
No Problem Mike,
When you get your receipt you can just email that to me.. That's what everyone else has done. It doesn't have any confidential information on it anyway. As for George, if he would like to fly, have him follow suit with you and I will fit him in in the time slots that you will be around as they are available on a first come first serve basis. Unless he would like to just do the "Special Guest" Donation in which case he can sit in the jump seat.
Let me know. Otherwise I will do your flight schedule now. (KEEP IN MIND.. There is only 1 flight Saturday and it is in the very wee hours of the morning. so you will only qualify for a flight Thursday and Friday. Unless you can see an FO slot that you would like to fill that is available. Other flights seem to be getting into dark time LOL.
Trev
Hi Trevor,
I'm planning on speaking with George sometime later today. It may be that we can plan to arrive a day earlier on the 5th. In any case, we will need to fly daytime (local), or early evening is OK as well. Please place George and I together as CA and FO, and the other way around. I don't mind flying FO at all, and I think George is fine with a FO roll as well.
I will send you an email confirming donations. Thanks.
Mike
Need Georges Last name :) I will add him to the list.
I have a 2:25pm the 5th available for you both if you can arrive the day earlier.
Hi Trevor,
George's last name is Bowman - that is George Bowman. We will take care of his donation no later than tomorrow. Thanks.
Mike
I'm in. As luck would have it I will be there for business again :)
Will be nice to fly now that my sim is gone :(
Then again, I'm hearing I'm going to be posted in Shanghai for a couple years so glad I don't have to worry about storing or shipping it!
Awesome News Skibo, looking forward to making an ass of myself with you on live web broadcast again. :) ha ha
Quote from: Trevor Hale on September 15, 2014, 09:31:40 AM
Awesome News Skibo, looking forward to making an ass of myself with you on live web broadcast again. :) ha ha
Oh that is the best part! And it always seems it is with Skibo! lol Just kidding... I am starting to get excited about this!
Looking forward to meeting and flying with you guys at Worldflight 2014.
George
Hi George,
Looking forward to you experiencing the World Flight event. I know you are going to have a great time, and that you will be an asset to the WF TEAM.
Also, thanks for noting that one of my my post on this thread was changed in an offensive manner. I don't know who did this, but I appreciate your letting me know and vouching for my character. I have since deleted the personally offensive reference made within that post. Enough said.
Mike
Hi Mike,
I believe that was the spam filter at work that automatically changes trigger words. For some reason hea.lth is one of them.
Quote from: sagrada737 on September 15, 2014, 07:56:16 PM
Also, thanks for noting that one of my my post on this thread was changed in an offensive manner. I don't know who did this, but I appreciate your letting me know and vouching for my character. I have since deleted the personally offensive reference made within that post. Enough said.
Hi Mike,
The Board did it automatically. We had a series of spam that would post "M E D I C A L" Terms trying to sell m e d i c a t i o n etc, so what happens is when there are certain words used it replaces them. No harm done either way.
Trev
Hi Trevor,
Thanks for clarifying the spam issue. Just to clarify our arrival (George Bowman and I), we will fly into Tampa on Tuesday the 4th and be ready for WF on the 5th through the 7th. We plan on returning to our respective homes (George lives in Lubbock) on Saturday the 8th. Please plug us into the flight schedule accordingly. Morning and evening flights are OK - just can't handle the late night stuff.
Thanks for your understanding, and thanks again for all the leg work you are doing on WF.
Mike
Hi Trev -
My nominal plan is to arrive by early afternoon on Sunday and to leave early afternoon on Friday. I plan to spend some time visiting friends in the general area in between but my schedule is otherwise flexible. I can also arrive earlier or leave later if that would be more helpful..... just let me know as soon as possible as to what is preferable so I can book my flights accordingly.
And again...let me know if I can help with anything.
Fred K
Hi Guys,
In case you didn't already know. Check the Pilot Center on the Worldflight page.
http://worldflight.cockpitbuilders.com/pilots.html (http://worldflight.cockpitbuilders.com/pilots.html)
I already have the flight schedule underway.
Fred, Please check to see if your flights are inline with your plans. I had you in for 8:00am Sunday and a last flight at 2:15pm Friday.
Trev -
I can be there for Sunday morning as scheduled but.....
I have two requests (the first is the important one):
(1) For Friday I need to catch a 4:46 pm flight out of SRQ....Can you schedule me for any one of the earlier slots that day?
(2) Would love to do one of the KEWR flights if at all possible....Newark was my home airport when I was working....Did a lot of flying out of there back then.
I like that I am mostly scheduled for daytime slots. Would also be willing to add 1 or 2 more flights if space permits....preferably adjacent to one's already scheduled.
Thanks much,
Fred
Quote from: FredK on September 17, 2014, 04:44:18 PM
(1) For Friday I need to catch a 4:46 pm flight out of SRQ....Can you schedule me for any one of the earlier slots that day?
I have moved you up one time slot (Does this work?)
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(2) Would love to do one of the KEWR flights if at all possible....Newark was my home airport when I was working....Did a lot of flying out of there back then.
I have added you to the KEWR Flight, Hope you don;t mind having a couple flights closer together.
If there are empty slots available when we get closer, for sure you can have them. Just want everyone to have a fair shot at the daytime flights. We still need some more pilots, and I for one will give up flying some flights if we can get more guys to sign up.
I would rather have too many pilots than not enough, as that makes all the other fill in flights better.
Honestly, I will likely have trouble filling the early morning and Late nights, so lets see how it goes bud.
I hope what I have done works for everyone. As the schedule fills up, I won;t be able to make many more changes, as when I take away form someone I have to give them something in return.
Please Let me know if there are any other requests.
Hey Trev, you can use my slots if necessary, we want to accommodate pilots coming from other countries first and then pilots coming from different states second, local pilots can be accommodated as needed.
Happy flying!
Trev -
Thanks for making those adjustments in my case....all looks OK! I will book my flight travel this evening.
I think the way you are doing the schedule by filling the daytime/early eve slots first is a very logical approach. However if we do get an avalanche of new recruits it would be only fair to spread some of those redeye slots around fairly.....if in fact we get that many pilots (would be great if that happens).
And to be sure....my intent is not to hog flight time by any means. I'm just expressing a willingness to step into one or two additional slots if needed.
Thanks for handling all this.
Fred K
Fred you Rock.
Thanks a bunch. And if you don't mind filing in the Redeye slots we for sure can discuss. I wasn't sure if you would be up for those. I am sure I will need to fill some of those myself also.
I found last years double flights were hard to do for some so by doing single flights hopefully more people won't mind the red eyes. I will be in touch and thanks again.
For everything.
Trev
If you don't find any red eyes pilots you can count on me!
Hi Trev,
As I'm sure your aware, I'll fill in whenever needed. I don't mind some of the early morning ones too.
You guys are all awesome. Ok let's see how many more pilots we get and see if we can't fill some more slots.
Also everyone try to push the special guest donations. Let's get some more donations for the kids.