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Thank you Denver Pilots - from Mike Bell CYB617
I am excited by my role as Hub Captain which includes the reponsibilities of motivating and encouraging you, acknowledging your achievements and assisting in your troubles, listening to you and implementing your wishes.
If you are anything like me, you will find that it can be a 'jungle out there' with FS, let alone all the addon features.
I'm only an email away for anything you might want to bring up about how things are doing in your particular game.
Like I always say; my family never restricts my FS activity and I don't have to share a computer with a little brother or anyone.
So, after many years in the 747-400, I have just switched to the A380 which has been beautifully textured by Cyber Air. My uncle has had a life-long career with Boeing so i must say "sorry uncle and hurry up with the Boeing Dreamliner."
High-Altitude Mountain Flying
High-altitude mountain flying has always been one of the more dangerous activities GA aircraft undertake each year. On average, 17 people die annually in GA accidents in the mountains of Colorado alone. Where eastern Appalachian flyers are used to climbing over mountains in the 2,000 to 3,000 foot range, pilots in the west regularly have to navigate in areas where the base ground is over twice that height, and the mountains themselves protrude skyward to well over 10,000 feet. Not many GA aircraft have the ability to climb over such high terrain, so the only option for most GA pilots in this area is to fly through the mountain passes. This brings numerous risks with it, as the statistics show. Some of these accidents occurred because pilots would check the weather from areas outside of the pass, when the weather inside of the pass was quite different. To solve this problem, Colorado aviation authorities recently installed Automated Weather Observing Systems (AWOS) in five mountain areas and two at critical areas of the plains. There are plans for more as they can get funding. These AWOS systems are exactly like those you may find at your local airport.
While these systems help with the weather, turbulence is still difficult to detect. Winds are usually fairly high at higher altitudes, particularly following a large weather system, The wind then funnels through mountain valleys, spills through the passes' cracks and crevices, and mixes with winds from other valleys and winds coming over the mountains. This can lead to a lot of disturbed air, and some serious turbulence. Always report pireps if any encounters with mountain turbulence occur - for the safety of pilots that may be following you, and those still on the ground.
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