Group Flights

How do group flights work?

MyAir Virtual group flights are generally scheduled a couple of times a week - with information posted in both the Newsletter, and the Events Forum in the Discord server.

A typical group flight will see everybody start from a given departure airport, fly together along a route via own navigation, and arrive at a given destination airport. There may be mandated SIDs and STARs involved - notes for a flight will cover this, and a briefing given by the event organiser will also cover anything pilots need to know (such as late runway changes, departure changes, and so on).

To take part in MyAir Virtual group flights, you need to:

Make sure your simulator is configured correctly for multiplayer (see below for further information)
Spawn in the simulator at a gate of the correct airport, on the correct day and time (half an hour ahead is always a good idea)
Run Transmitter so that air traffic services can see you on radar (see below for further information)
Join the Discord server, and wait in the Departure Lounge voice channel

Newcomers are always welcome to sit-in on group flights and observe

Voice communication and "Push to Talk"

Voice communication during group flights is achieved through our Discord Server - where members may switch between different voice channels to simulate talking to different controllers.

One controller / Multiple controllers

If one controller is managing a flight, all pilots will stay in the same voice channel throughout
If multiple controllers are managing a flight, pilots will be requested to switch channels to communicate

Push to Talk

Most importantly, voice channels will enforce "push to talk" in Discord - where pilots must press a key or button while talking in order to transmit. This avoids the group hearing things they should not, and avoids pilots "stepping on each other" while communicating.

Avoiding radio chatter during departure and arrival

During the departure and arrival phases of a group flight, members will refrain from chatting to avoid disrupting each other's communication with air traffic services
During the cruise phase of a group flight, air traffic services will announce "Channel is open" for members to chat

Configuring your simulator for multi-player

In order to see each other in Flight Simulator, there are three basic areas to address (regardless of which version of Flight Simulator you are using):

Make sure that multi-player data is enabled
Make sure you are using the same multi-player server as the rest of the group (MyAir typically uses SOUTH EAST ASIA)
Make sure your Flight Conditions stipulate ALL PLAYERS - not "LIVE".

If you ensure the above points are covered, you should be able to see each other within the simulator. We do not require that pilots run with live weather or time unless it is specified as a feature of the event.

Running Transmitter

Transmitter is a small Windows-only application (sorry XBox users!) that reports the live position of your aircraft to an online service, which can then be used by air traffic services to simulate radar - monitoring the position of all aircraft in a group flight. To use Transmitter you'll need to:

Install the Transmitter client software
Find out the current "pin" number, and configure it
Optionally configure LittleNavMap so you can see other aircraft positions too

You can find out how to do all of the above in the Transmitter page.

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