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While sitting in the cockpit on my way from Anchorage to Frankfurt, i checked my Electronic Flight Bag for news from home.
In Jordan they are building up a refugee camp at Mafraq near the boarder to Syria. Actual populated with about 5.000 syrian refugees, they expect up to 140.000 people within the next days or weeks. UNICEF is also engaged in this camp. No surprise to me, nobody really knows how this camp can work, if the inflow increases as predicted.
As always, with our hobby we can not do much in situations like these, beside our "Pings" on the UNICEF account we produce with every PIREP we send. But sometimes, at least for me, it is also a question of empathy, how and where to generate my next little Ping.
Seems to me, that real life found a new answer to this question, ok then:
90 tons of medicine, tents, water purification plants and other equipment are waiting for my MD-11 OY-MFO in Cologne. To be delivered to Amman Queen Alia Intl (OJAI) on Saturday, 4th of August, departure time 08:00 UTC, estimated time of arrival 11:55 UTC, taking place on VATSIM network (no ATC-services are organized, it is just a quick idea of mine).
Anybody interested to join (there are waiting lots more tons of relief supplies in our cargo areas
)? And currently all our Cargo-Jumbos and -737s are available. Flights from other airports/hubs are welcome as well, then we just meet in OJAI at about 12:00 UTC. For those who are interested:
FSX-Scenery:
FS9-Scenery:
Routing EDDK-OJAI:
KUMIK L603 TESGA UL603 DINKU UM867 NIPEL UM178 ILB UL607 ATV UL995 RDS UL609 SOLIN UH2 SIRON H2 BGN J17 SALAM
Charts:
Anyway, wherever you go, have nice flights and always happy landings.
Ciao, Tom
While sitting in the cockpit on my way from Anchorage to Frankfurt, i checked my Electronic Flight Bag for news from home.
In Jordan they are building up a refugee camp at Mafraq near the boarder to Syria. Actual populated with about 5.000 syrian refugees, they expect up to 140.000 people within the next days or weeks. UNICEF is also engaged in this camp. No surprise to me, nobody really knows how this camp can work, if the inflow increases as predicted.
As always, with our hobby we can not do much in situations like these, beside our "Pings" on the UNICEF account we produce with every PIREP we send. But sometimes, at least for me, it is also a question of empathy, how and where to generate my next little Ping.
Seems to me, that real life found a new answer to this question, ok then:
90 tons of medicine, tents, water purification plants and other equipment are waiting for my MD-11 OY-MFO in Cologne. To be delivered to Amman Queen Alia Intl (OJAI) on Saturday, 4th of August, departure time 08:00 UTC, estimated time of arrival 11:55 UTC, taking place on VATSIM network (no ATC-services are organized, it is just a quick idea of mine).
Anybody interested to join (there are waiting lots more tons of relief supplies in our cargo areas
)? And currently all our Cargo-Jumbos and -737s are available. Flights from other airports/hubs are welcome as well, then we just meet in OJAI at about 12:00 UTC. For those who are interested:FSX-Scenery:
FS9-Scenery:
Routing EDDK-OJAI:
KUMIK L603 TESGA UL603 DINKU UM867 NIPEL UM178 ILB UL607 ATV UL995 RDS UL609 SOLIN UH2 SIRON H2 BGN J17 SALAM
Charts:
Anyway, wherever you go, have nice flights and always happy landings.
Ciao, Tom