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AI MONTHLY
September 2013
KEEPING YOU UP TO DATE WITH EVERYTHING AI Edition 9
September 2013
AIG adds new Faces
Fresh look for AIG
Alpha India Group has conducted a recruitment drive in the last month. This saw them recruit 8 respected forum members onto the AIG Dispatch team.
Anybody with an account on Alpha India Group’s forum will have noticed that the forum software has been updated complimented by a fresher, modern look.
Meet the Fokker
Rumour has it that the site may be updated too
Juan Sebastian Gonzalez has been busy again after his recent Boeing 707-320C model release.
World of AI
The model is fresh to beta along with a HD paintkit from Juergen Baumbusch. Here’s a preview of what will soon be replacing the ageing PAI F50.
World of AI have released several packages this month. These are the first packages to include the FAIB models and therefore both an FSX and FS9 package have been released. The lucky airlines are (all Summer 2013 plans);
Aeromar Aeromexico Connect Air Iceland Air India Express Aloha Air Cargo Corsair International Southwest Airlines Sun Express Germany
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REPAINTERS’ SECTION
Reports by Robert Williams
Jürgen Baumbusch
Endeavour AI
Mainly FAIB A320 paints coming from the German duo this month.
Etihad Cargo 772 & 748 and Iraqi Airways fleet from Zafer. Meanwhile Doug released West Atlantic 733.
These include; Air Asia Group (standard colours only), Air Busan, Air Moldova, Austrian, Eva Air, Indian Airlines, Jetstar Australia. Other releases include; Aviogenex 732, Asia Atlantic 763W, Eva Air fleet, Eurolot Dash8D & Go2Sky 734
Individual Painters Felix Chapman – Corendon 738
flyingcarpet75 Two rounds of releases for September. Towards the back end of the month; Fastjet, Jetairfly 737s, Swiss A32X, TAM A32X, Vueling A32X & Yanair fleet were all released. Plus updates to both AtlasJet A321 and Onur Air A320.
Dukgeun Lee – Asiana Airlines A32X fleet Symon Long – Liat ATR42 & Pascan J32 Eduardo Mello – MAP Linhas Aereas ATR72, Piquiatuba EMB-120 Doug Roth – Oil Spill Response C-130A Mike Stewart – Cargoair 733 & Pegasus 738w fleet
Earlier in the month; East Air A320, Encore Air Cargo C402, Fedex 763, Nile Air A320, Qantas Freight 733, T2 Aviation 722 & Thomson Airways fleet
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FLIGHTPLANNING SECTION
Reports by Joshua Dean
Alpha India Group A strong September from Alpha India resulted in the release of 3 rounds. Round 7 consisted of Air Astana, Air North, Arkia Israeli Airlines, Condor, Daily Air, Edelweiss Air, El Al Israel Airlines, Gambia Bird, Germania, Helvetic Airways, Irsair, KLM, Kona Shuttle, Primera Air, Sky Express, Swiss* and Transavia. (*Swiss has been taken offline due to time-zone issues). Round 8 airlines were Air Busan, Air Do, Air Greenland, All Nippon Airways, Aloha Air Cargo, NANA Cargo, ANA Wings, Brindabellia Airlines, Fiji Airways, Finnair, Ibex Airlines, Jeju Air, Jin Air, Norwegian Long Haul, Solaseed Air, Solinair, Wizzair and XL Airways France. Round 9 was released shortly after Round 8, and added the following airlines: Aerogaviota, Arkefly, Corsair International, Eva Air, Eva Air Cargo, Jetairfly, Thomson Airways, TUIFly, TUIFly Nordic, Virgin Australia, Virgin Australia Regional and Viva Colombia.
Iran Airtour, Middle East Airlines, Jazeera Airways, Kenya Airways, Kyrgyzstan Air Company, Mandarin Airlines, Mihin Lanka, Neos, Rwandair, Sky Bishkek, Spirit, Sri Lankan Airlines, Tajik Air, Tatarstan Airlines, TransAsia Airways, Turkmenistan Airlines, Uni Air, VietJet Air and Yemenia.
Individual Planners Jeroen Eekhof – AV Cargo (Avient Aviation), Eritrean Airlines, Felix Airways, Iraqi Airways and Yemenia. Tamas Mezei – BH Air Ghiom – Laser, Rutaca Airlines, Fly Jamaica, Estelar, Conviasa, Avior Airlines, Aserca/SBA and Aeropostal. Klemen Kaltnekar – Skybridge AirOps, Mistral Air, Maldivian, Flyme Maldives (all on Avsim).
United Traffic Team United Traffic Team released another bumper round of flightplans. Aigle Azur, Air France, Air Uganda, airBaltic, Avia Traffic Company, Avianca Cargo, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Blue Panorama, BMI Regional, China Airlines, China Airlines Cargo, Conviasa, East Air, EgyptAir, EgyptAir Express, Estonian Air, Eva Air, Eva Air Cargo, Germanwings, Golden Myanmar Airlines, Gulf Air, Intersky, Olympic Air, Iran Air,
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Military Section MAIW Just a single release this month after last month’s over excitement. Hatzor Air Base Our next package is the third part in our Israeli Defense Force series. This time it brings you the F16 Figthing Falcons from Hatzor AB, produced by Giorgio Perotti.
Hatzor is an Israeli Air Force military airbase, located in central Israel, near kibbutz Hatzor after which it is named. Hatzor Airbase began its life as a British base known as Qastina. With the British withdrawal from Israel, soldiers from the Givati brigade took control of the base. A few months later the "First Fighter" Squadron was relocated from Herzliya Airfield. Included in this complete AI package are the HTAI F-16 model complete with textures, flightplans, AFD files, callsigns and scenery for Hatzor AB made from custom and scenery library objects. Please enjoy our newest release!
Modelling Section
Reports by Robert Williams
CRJ-900 HAS BEEN RELEASED The CRJ-900 model by United Traffic Team has now been released.
Airlines included in the release are: Adria, Estonian, Eurowings, Libyan, Lufthansa Cityline, Rwandair, Suncor Energy, Tunisair Express & US Airways Express.
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Screenshot Section
Unfortunately, there was little interest in the “European Charter Airlines at Mediterranean Airports� competition. The above shot (taken by one of the authors) is at Gibraltar Airport, showing one of Monarchs new A320 Sharklet aircraft! Real-world weather provided by Active Sky helped create the dynamic clouds in the background. For the October 2013 competition, we would like to see shots showing Russian Metal. We would appreciate it if all entries be made by 27th October 2013 in order to give us time to judge the winning shot. Please send entries to aimonthly@hotmail.co.uk
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From the authors… THANKYOU FOR READING AI MONTHLY The authors of this newsletter are;
Robert Williams - AI Painter, formerly a member of realbigtree.com, who moved on to releasing his work independently on Avsim. He is an active member of AIG Dispatch (as a beta tester) and has worked with FAIB on pre-release painting for the FAIB 737 Next Generation model. His work is now hosted at flyingcarpet75.com Joshua Dean – AI Flightplanner, currently an active member of AIG Dispatch, previously he released his work independently on Avsim and AIG forums. He was also a brief member of realbigtree.com beta testing team and is still an active member of UK2000 Scenery beta testing team. Rob Corp – Rob is a very active flightplanner for AIG Dispatch. He is a journalist the rest of the time, so we use him to try and catch typos in the newsletter you have been reading.
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