UNICEF gears up relief efforts for earthquake-stricken Haiti

Hi all,

as in real life, the MTPP has reached its limits and it has become tonight become the busiest airport in the world.

Unfortunately I could not finish my last flight tonight - the network got overloaded and SB stopped my FS. Never mind, I'll have another go tomorrow morning.

But it's worth flying there - it is good to see ACH callsigns on the scope.

:hi:
 
A quiet and cute airport in Dominicana - the same island as Port-au-Prince.

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Hello
I've yesterday successfully landed at MTPP in visual landing.
It was one of my best landing.
FSFK gives: 156.1 ft/min VS at T/D and 305m from the Rwy threshold. 8)

Pierre ;)
 
Pierre! :) :hi: ça alors ....
Shouldn't you be resting or something??
{EDIT] just read you other post...... so I'll move over there ;)
 
As some of you may know, I have been in Haiti for 1,5 month last year for the Interantional Red Cross after the horrible hurricanes hitting the country. The last few days many collegues of mine have been alerted to go there again for the recent earthquake.

If you are interested in how live is going there as a volunteer for the Red Cross you can have a look at http://blog.roteskreuz.at/einsatz which is the official blog of all the Austrian teams going to help after such terrible events. Unfortunaly this blog is in German, but maybe some of you are able to read.

Cheers,
Bernhard.
 
Bernhard Harb said:
As some of you may know, I have been in Haiti for 1,5 month last year for the Interantional Red Cross after the horrible hurricanes hitting the country. The last few days many collegues of mine have been alerted to go there again for the recent earthquake.
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I was pretty sure that you'd be there again. That's why I didn't send stupid questions about XAcars 2.5 ... Don't worry, they will come next week :p
Hope that all of your colleagues are alright, at least.
Unfortunaly this blog is in German, but maybe some of you are able to read.
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Gave my best to try to understand it ... ;)
Seriously, the article makes clear that, apart from a completely destroyed infrastructure, also the basic resources of many NGO's down there have disappeared in the ruins. That's why basically everything had to be flown in before even the smallest help could start. And that's why the airport is still such a mess. I've read in the papers that many german rescue teams were not allowed to depart because there was no chance for a landing :S
 
You guys are so great! I just counted 30 flights to/from Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the last four days. And 2 more flights are underway.

:thx: :goodjob:

We had a budget of 70 € (= 35 flights) for this campaign, and you almost filled that (and there's 1.5 hrs left ....)

Thanks to Jan, Michael, Mario, Torben, Jacklyn, Rafal, Joakim, Norbert, Pierre, Lee, Tomasz, Nils, Alexander, Joe, Genno, Daniel ...and me, lol.
There have also been personal donations by Air-Child pilots which we will publish tomorrow, together with the final sum made through your flights.
 
The last one turns off the lights - touched down 5 min after midnight.
I hope that through our flights the Haitians lights will remain on...

I see that most of us are still stationed in Haiti (+ Dom.Rep.)
What do you think about common return flight ? Tomorrow (19.01) at 19:40 UTC, destination Atlanta (KATL) ? It would be a great end.
 
Looks like the final flight last night has been made by Joe, probably in complete darkness, after Tomasz had already turned off the lights ;)

With that last flight we have reached a total of 33 flights, thus 66 Euro for UNICEF. Normally, we would have saved the remaining 4 € from our budget for one of the next events, but I just transferred the full 70 € to UNICEF via online donation. I think there's no better place to send the money to, right now.

We have been informed by Luis Alves and Rafal Bardel that they have donated 10 and 20 Euros on their own, so this sums up to a total of 100 Euros by Air-Child VA and Air-Child pilots (and I suppose even more of you have donated to one of the many NGO's who support the people in Haiti).

Thanks again for your contribution. It's not much, compared to the millions collected all over the world, but, as someone here said before: it's the little drops of water that form an ocean.

@Tomasz: a common return flight would be nice. However, 19:40 might be a bit early for me. But nevermind, I will join when/if I have time. May also depend on the virtual traffic there. Last days it was heavily overloaded, and waiting times of about 1 hour are really long ;)
 
Peter Schindler said:
Looks like the final flight last night has been made by Joe, probably in complete darkness, after Tomasz had already turned off the lights ;)
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Black hole approach - several are already collapsed on it ;)
Peter Schindler said:
19:40 might be a bit early for me.
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We can move to a later hour - before 1:00 (local Berlin time) I did not fall asleep.
If we can land in Atlanta around 1:00 it will be ok.
 
Sorry, Tomasz, I couldn't join after all. Was home before 19:30 but had to leave again 1 hour later. When I returned I just saw you arrive in Atlanta ;)
 
No problem Peter ;)
Together with Rafal admired empty airspace over Atlanta (very strange as at this time of day. Hawks played with someone yesterday or what ? :? )
Notwithstanding this, we found together, that we do not have enough 757's in hangars.
757 is an infectious disease - I'am already incurable and Rafal is on his best way to.
I had to borrow one from U.S. Airways :lol:

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Photo courtesy of Rafal :)
 
Peter Schindler said:
Call the fleet manager (name starts with Norbert ...) ;)
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One I know is Haug, but he is more responsible for the fleet on four, fast wheels :lol:
OK, I know "das wird nicht billig", but I will try ;)
 
Don't know who the hell is this Norbert... :?:
But I know that there are two more B752 ready for TakeOff in the Charter Fleet ;)

N70MB (Malene Birger)
OE-JUO (Jorma Uotinen)

...and if you will borrow one more from U.S. Airways, before asking me: "das wird nicht billig" :rofl:

Best Regard
Woeller :lol:
 
Hi to all Airchild Pilots,
has anyone the scenery for Haiti. FS or Xplane? does tis exist?

thnx and cheers tom
 
Tom, Fs9 and only in a package with other Central America and Caribbean scenerys.
Flightsim.com = latvirt3.zip
I have no idea whether there is any Xplane scenery :no:
 
Tomasz Wydrzynski said:
Tom, Fs9 and only in a package with other Central America and Caribbean scenerys.
Flightsim.com = latvirt3.zip
I have no idea whether there is any Xplane scenery :no:
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THNX will have a look and try to convert....

Tom
 
Made the TJSJ-MTPP flight today without problems on sending PIREP, but the outboundflight MTPP-KJFK would not be PIREPed. Perhaps because I flew as ACH7767 instead of ACH7769 (forgot to change callsign as MTPP.

PIREP:
[2010/01/14 13:00:00]
Flight IATA:CH7769
Pilot Number:0052
Company ICAO:ACH
Aircraft Type:B747
PAX:0
Aircraft Registration:B-PRMA
Departing Airport: MTPP
Destination Airport: KJFK
Alternate Airport:KEWR
Online: VATSIM
Route:SEDET UG444 SAAKO GTK A554 RODRK L453 AZEZU BERGH L454 JFK
Flight Level:380
No Slew and time accel
13:01 Zero fuel Weight: 175184 Kg, Fuel Weight: 59843 Kg
13:12 Parking Brakes off
13:12 Com1 Freq=122.80
13:22 VR= 157 Knots
13:22 V2= 173 Knots
13:22 Take-off
13:22 Take off Weight: 233924 Kg
13:22 Wind: 094º @ 002 Knots Heading: 266º
13:22 POS N18º 34´ 50´´ W072º 17´ 37´´
13:22 N11 98 N12 98
13:22 TOC
13:22 Fuel Weight: 58728 Kg
13:22 Flaps:3 at 175 Knots
13:22 Gear Up: 178 Knots
13:22 Flaps:2 at 179 Knots
13:22 Flaps:1 at 196 Knots
13:23 Flaps:0 at 225 Knots
13:37 Wind:278º@022 Knots Heading: 027º Ground Speed: 497 Knots Altitude 31059 ft
13:52 Wind:268º@050 Knots Heading: 034º Ground Speed: 517 Knots Altitude 38569 ft
14:07 Wind:268º@050 Knots Heading: 350º Ground Speed: 479 Knots Altitude 40003 ft
13:22 Wind:268º@050 Knots Heading: 342º Ground Speed: 472 Knots Altitude 40003 ft
13:37 Wind:265º@060 Knots Heading: 340º Ground Speed: 472 Knots Altitude 40003 ft
13:52 Wind:268º@093 Knots Heading: 336º Ground Speed: 452 Knots Altitude 40183 ft
14:07 Wind:270º@108 Knots Heading: 334º Ground Speed: 446 Knots Altitude 40137 ft
14:22 Wind:270º@107 Knots Heading: 334º Ground Speed: 447 Knots Altitude 40088 ft
14:37 Wind:270º@108 Knots Heading: 341º Ground Speed: 451 Knots Altitude 40193 ft
14:52 Wind:264º@111 Knots Heading: 347º Ground Speed: 473 Knots Altitude 40216 ft
15:05 Com1 Freq=126.80
15:05 Com1 Freq=125.80
15:05 Com1 Freq=125.55
15:05 Com1 Freq=125.30
15:05 Com1 Freq=125.32
15:07 Wind:275º@107 Knots Heading: 358º Ground Speed: 472 Knots Altitude 40262 ft
15:22 Wind:255º@016 Knots Heading: 296º Ground Speed: 347 Knots Altitude 11824 ft
15:30 Flaps:1 at 236 Knots
15:31 Flaps:2 at 251 Knots
15:31 Gear Down: 200 Knots
15:31 Flaps:3 at 195 Knots
15:32 Flaps:4 at 180 Knots
15:32 Flaps:5 at 180 Knots
15:34 TOD
15:34 Fuel Weight: 31063 Kg
15:34 TouchDown:Rate -383 ft/min Speed: 136 Knots
15:35 Land
15:35 Wind:072º@005 Knots
15:35 Heading: 030º
15:35 Flight Duration: 03:13
15:35 Landing Weight: 206178 Kg
15:35 POS N40º 38´ 04´´ W073º 45´ 47´´
15:45 Parking brakes on
15:45 Block to Block Duration: 03:33
15:45 Final Fuel: 30245 Kg
15:45 Spent Fuel: 29598 Kg
15:45 Flight Length: 1425 NM
15:45 TOD Land Length: 02 NM
FSAcars 4.0.10
31246
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