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News
July 19, 2008
Heads up
for all members who still submit manual PIREPs. Later this year around
September or October, all PIREPs will have to be submitted with FTG
ACARS. Also there is a new FTG ACARS Noobie Guide. Step by step
instructions that should help you get up to speed if you have no idea
what is going on with FTG ACARS. Like the books FTG ACARS for Dummies,
it`s not hard! Check it out
here.
January 10, 2008
FTG Lucy wishes all Flying Tigers a very happy 2008! Expect some
roaring flying tiger action in '08, including new briefing features,
more classics and website updates. Markus, Christian and Martinolino are
working very hard 40 hours every week to bring you all these new
exciting features. Check out lovely Lucy
here.
November 13, 2007
FTG Virus spotted getting drunk in Bucharest, Romania! Click
here Adrian, Uwe and Boris behind the
camera.
October 17, 2007
Singapore Airlines' first A380 touched down at Changi
International Wednesday evening at 18:42 local time, starting a new
era in commercial aviation. The giant jet, which had departed
Toulouse 13 hr. before, docked at the essentially complete and
spectacular S$1.75 billion ($1.19 billion) Terminal 3, which is due
to go into full-scale commercial operation on Jan. 9. Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong and more than 500 guests were in attendance. Check
out exclusive FTG photos of the arrival of 9V-SKA by Chi Siang Ang &
Kai Hong:
here,
here &
here
September 28, 2007
FTG BB Virus spotted on Eskew 777, check it out
here!
The Martinolino Classico Association added mega classics for Delta,
Cathay Pacific and JAL. All kinds of great aircraft and
interesting routes using these classic aircraft from the Golden Age of
airline travel. 737-200s, 727s, DC-10s, L-1011s, DC-8, 747SPs and many
more. Check them out and have fun classic style!
August 16, 2007
FTG ACARS V2.6 has been released. To celebrate we have
FTG Virus Gone Wild! FTG virus loves booty!
Click here.
FTG Virus loves FAs,
click here.
The horrible virus makes them
sleepy and
sucks
oxygen from the air. Apparently the virus can
climb walls
and likes to
ride the bus. Here you can see the
virus attacking the engine throttles,
power
hungry! And finally the obligatory Captain Crunch
photo.
June 14, 2007
The very first FTG Festival in Singapore with the grand
opening of FTG HQ! Here you can see the Singapore crew including
Captain Nadder Khamneh, Saravanan, Aaron and Joshua Chen:
here &
here.
FTG Singapore Fest sponsored by Yahoo,
here and
apparently FTG is on the bay?
here. This is the brand
new multi hundred dollar FTG HQ,
here.
May 8, 2007
FTG virus continues its unrelenting assault around the
world. Now officially declared a pandemic by the CDC! Is that a
CRJ FMC with FTG....? See
here. Markus has it?! See
here.
Oh lordy! Captured in action by our local nutter Mr. King on a Virgin
Atlantic A340-600 registered as G-VBLU aka "Soul
Sister". Oh the horror! A lovely brunette and her friend
infected as well, see
here. Of course the culprit of
this most recent outbreak is Captain Crunch; see him
here.
Oh and by the way... FTG ACARS v2.3 is out.
March 5, 2007
FTG Virus infects a Lufthansa 747 D-ABVT somewhere over
the Atlantic! Here you can see Chris laughing uncontrollably as
the FTG virus attaches its synapse to his appendage: see
here! Then the virus jumped over
and attacked Captain Crunch: see
here
February 15, 2007
FTG ACARS v2.0 is out! All new look and features
including Live
ACARS! Includes flight crew announcements and even shows your
flight path in Google Earth, see
here. Cheers to Markus and
Christian for developing this great feature.
February 3, 2007
Brand new 747SP was delivered to FTG HQ today. The 747SP
was hand painted by Super Martino in Marana-Pinal Airpark, Arizona over
the past 3 years. The FTGWWABCP (Flying Tigers Group World Wide Airborne
Command Post) has dual command centers, escape pods, some weird shield
and a swimming pool! Check it out
here.
January 29, 2007
Massively expanded capability for our classic and cargo
divisions aka CLARGO. We've integrated classic schedules with our
routes database and powerful search engine. This way our members
can look up classic & cargo flights just like normal airline flights
using real world databases from Amadeus & SkyGuide. Very cool!
With this tool we can expand our classic and cargo sections in a big
way. First off we have new classic material for Air France with more
coming soon. Credit for building this system goes to JFO Christian
Chaix, Captain Jost van Vossen and Senior Captain Martino Sulmoni.
Also in the news. South African Virtual launches the Mango division,
offering LCC flights within South Africa.
January 28, 2007
We moved to a brand new server and we have a couple new
domain names. All FTG virtual airlines now fall under
flyingtigersgroup.org &
fspilots.org.
cpavirtual.org
now only points to Cathay Pacific Virtual.
January 17, 2007
As meninas do VARIG! Phwooarr
New FTG gurls, check it out.
January 1, 2007
Happy New Year!!! 2006 was another banner year for
the Flying Tigers Group. Over a quarter million flight hours,
totaling 33 years and 62,000 flight reports. 2007 will bring more
updated websites, FTG ACARs expansion, more super Martino Classico
sections, updated route finder tool with cargo/classics and much more!
We look forward to another magnificent year with Flightsim and this
great community!
November 9, 2006
Posted some new FTG Gurls including our very first
official FTG FA! FTG virus attacks TF-FIO somewhere over the
Atlantic,
click here.
October 18, 2006
Several new managers appointed! Aaron Myers begins as
Continental VA Flight Ops Director, Andrew Angelopoulos begins as Delta
VA Vice President Flight Ops, and Brendan Lawrence begins at Qantas VA
as Chief Pilot. Welcome aboard!
October 10, 2006
Department of Transport and Regional Services dedicates a
road to the FTG!
Click here
September 10, 2006
FTG Virus continues its rampage across the globe! Seen here on Air
Canada's A320 C-FZUB:
click here.
Reports indicate this virus was also
spotted in Australia as seen here on Jabiru 1875:
Click here.
August 13, 2006
FTG Virus infects Per and Robert at Arlanda Tower in Stockholm:
click here.
It also appears to have attached itself to
a RAF Tornado!
Click here &
here.
August 7, 2006
FTG Virus appears once again! This time on an A319 somewhere
over Madrid. Photo:
click here
July 26, 2006
Brand new super cool FTG Poster created by Master Martino - LX007,
click here.
July 11, 2006
Major changes in Icelandair VA management! Jóhann Magnus Kjartansson
begins as CEO, Ingi Björn Jónsson keeps his position as Chief Pilot and
former Flight Operations Manager Davķš Brįr
Unnarsson switches over to Flight Training Manager.
June 1, 2006
A major FTG fundraiser is underway!
May 26, 2006
Scott Calder joins the management team as FTG Routes Database
Administrator!
May 17, 2006
Iikka is back! Mr.
Meriläinen
came out of retirement to lend a helping hand. Iikka is working on
building new features for all our members. Stay tuned for new & cool
stuff.
April 22, 2006
The FTG virus continues to spread jumping from India all
the way to Iceland. Spotted on TF-FIX 757-300, click
here.
April 7, 2006
Lots of new volunteer managers join the FTG management
team including Martino Sulmoni, Colin Mclean, Ricky Chan, Michel Cox,
Vivek Kaul,
Jari
Hennilä, Jonathan Barrett, Saravanan
Sambasivam, Alex Nadder, Ben Lee & Swadeep Chansrichavala.
March 30, 2006
FTG VA's now using Google Earth to showoff route
networks. See:
March 29, 2006
The first FTG meet for 2006 is in Bangalore, India!
Check out the photos with Viru and Vivek
here.
March 19, 2006
Lots of new volunteer managers join the FTG management
team aka "Black OPs". Robert Pomerleau and Sheldon Fernandes with
Lufthansa VA. Jason Gough and Michael Christou at Qantas VA. And finally
Jean-Philippe Muńoz at Continental VA.
February 16, 2006
Check out the new super video by Juancho Pancho
Productions featuring real sounds from Kai Tak! Click
here.
February 9, 2006
Watch the latest FTG super video commercial made by DL932
Brandon Cobos. Click
here. If you can't see it download the latest version
of Quicktime.
February 1, 2006
Congratulations to Javier Alfonso from Valencia, Spain
our latest screenshot hot shot! See it
here.
November 24, 2005
VARIG Virtual is the latest virtual airline to join the
FTG conglomerate. VARIG Virtual will be the FTG flag carrier in
South America and we hope to meet many new flightsim afficionados from
Brazil & Portugal. The website is in English and it will be in
Portuguese as well: VARIG.virtualairline.net
November 12, 2005
Say hi to the flying pussy: Pascualo!
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
Photo 4
November 1, 2005
We have a new screenshot Hot Shot for the month of
October. Congratulations to Chris Schafer! You can see his
screenshot
here. October was a new record breaking
month with nearly 400 new members. We received over 6000 flight reports
with a total just shy of 30,000 flight hours! Wow.
October 1, 2005
We have a new screenshot Hot Shot for the month of
September. Congratulations to Matthias Send! See the screenshot
here.
September 26, 2005
Our 20+ FTG websites crashed and burned our old server.
We've moved to a more powerful Windows 2003 server using IIS6. Hopefully
we'll be a little more secure and reliable from now on. It took
many days and countless hours to upload everything but overall it went
very well.
August 5, 2005
Cathay Pacific Virtual becomes a VATSIM partner VA.
Nate Johns is no longer the VATSIM VA Liason who refused to cooperate
with us, we say good riddance! We're glad Todd Cox is the new
VATSIM VA Liason and we hope the FTG can work with VATSIM in the future.
August 4, 2005
The FTG Virus continues to spread around the world.
Last spotted in a CRJ somewhere in the US. See picture
here. In other news PMDG finally
released the 747-400 and POSKY released a new 767-200 model, links to
the left.
August 2, 2005
LH025 - Chris Schafer our July screenshot competition hot
shot wins a copy of
FS Passengers 2004!
You can see all the screenshots in our forum
here. Many thanks to FS
Passengers for sponsoring this competition.
July 9, 2005
FTG Gang hops on B-HOP (that's a Cathay Pacific 747-400).
Including Anthony Wong, Virendra, Khalid, Martino, James, David, Ricky,
John, Chris, Dario, Christopher, Malone, Brian Downs, Adrian (naked),
Alex Siu, Danny, Alexander, William, Christoph & Angelopoulos. See
picture
here.
July 3, 2005
John Tavendale wrote up a nice article about the FTG in
the June issue of
Computer Pilot Magazine. See it on page
54.
May 13, 2005
Argh!! It's Friday the 13th and the FTG virus has spread
to New Zealand and struck Auckland with a vengeance. See photos
here.
May 7, 2005
Dragonair, Tiger Airways and Swissair Classic divisions
are now online!
May 3, 2005
LH313 Matthias Send from Lufthansa Virtual wins our April
screenshot competition. Check out the screenshot! See the
screenshot
here.
May 1, 2005
The FTG paper appears to be spreading like a virus!
Last seen in front of an ATC radar scope. See it
here.
April 22, 2005
TSA Alert! Penguins will be screened. See
here.
April 16, 2005
The FTG craze is spreading around the world. Here's
Adrian our Public Affairs dude showing off his FTG hair, see the photo
here.
March 31, 2005
One of our members who's a real airline pilot shows some
FTG spirit, it's a riot! See the photo
here.
March 14, 2005
FTG Melbourne crew planespotting action.
Check it out in the forums! Sorry no women in jeans today.
February 9, 2005
Happy Chinese New Year! See JPP's terrible landing
in Hong Kong to kick off the celebration. (3mb)
Click here
February 2, 2005
New JPP FS Video for Thai VA! You can download it
or stream it here.
January 12, 2005
Big weekend coming up!
Our first ever meeting at at the "Tower mound" in Sydney
International with the Qantas Virtual Crew.
January 1, 2005
2004 was another huge year for the Flying Tigers Group!
Stats for the Flying Tigers as a whole for
2004:
New Pilots registered: 1432
Flights: 45709
Flight Hours: 214279.8
For 2005 we plan on adding one more VA,
Varig Virtual. We will not be adding any more after that. We
plan on upgrading several of our websites including JAL VA, Emirates,
Lufthansa & Cathay Pacific. In 2005 we expect to encounter more
legal challenges which we will counter.
And finally, Iikka gets drafted into the
Finnish army as an artillery newbie. Aim high buddy!
December 30, 2004
QANTAS Virtual is the latest world class airline to join
the FTG family. Visit the website
here.
Tsunami Disaster
We urge everyone who can help to make a donation to
UNICEF,
American Red Cross,
Red Cross - Red Crescent,
ICRC &
MSF. Take your pick &
please help! Now is the time to show your stripes.
December 25, 2004
New Flying Tigers Girl posted. Many thanks to Colin
& Adrian. Merry Christmas!
November, 2004
Qantas Virtual ETA sometime...
October 20, 2004
The Flying Tigers Group completes it's expansion into the
North American market with the addition of 3 new virtual airlines
including: Northwest Virtual, Continental Virtual & jetBlue virtual.
Coming up next is Qantas VA and soon after our expansion
into South America with the addition of VARIG Virtual. The FTG
also plans on building a new website for JAL Virtual early 2005.
Stay tuned for some more FTG action!
October 17, 2004
Icelandair Virtual announces: The Biggest fly-out event in Icelandair
Virtual history. For more info visit
http://Icelandair.virtualairline.net
October 2004
Air Pacific Virtual is shut
down after almost 2 years in service. Instead of being a full
fledged VA it will be an affiliate of the FTG. That means that new
members can't sign up with Virtual Air Pacific but FTG members can still
fly their routes.
Icelandair Virtual becomes a
member of the Flying Tigers Group. Icelandair Virtual is the first
virtual airline in our group that is officially recognized by the real
world airline.
September 2004
For over a month we have been in a legal squabble against
the real world Cathay Pacific Airways. Once again they chose to
send us a cease and desist letter ordering us to shut down our website
and pay damages.
We had enough of this nonsense so we hired our own law
firm and responded in a forceful manner that they had no legal basis to
threaten us and order us to shut down. We actually understand the law,
we have the money to defend our rights and we consider the matter
closed.
Cathay Pacific Virtual will not be intimidated by hollow
threats, even by one of our favorite airlines. Some real world
airlines respect the flight simulation hobby while others choose to
bully flightsim groups. It is unfortunate that one of the very
best airlines in the world chose to threaten one of their biggest fans.
It's a disgrace to their marketing and public relations departments.
Shame on Cathay Pacific Airways!
Click to read the Cease and Desist letter
from Cathay Pacific
Our response:
CPAV001.pdf
CPAV002.pdf
July 20, 2004
Iikka
Meriläinen
steps down as President of the Flying Tigers Group. We will miss
him dearly and wish him all the best.
June 28, 2004
Singapore VA launches new non-stop service
between Singapore and New York with the brand new A340-500.
June 17, 2004
FTG surpasses 200,000 total flight hours.
That is 8333 days or 22.8 years worth of flight hours!
June 1, 2004
Emirates Virtual launches a new route from
Dubai to New York - JFK.
May 17, 2004
Brand new logbook for all of our virtual
airlines. Exciting new features including: pilot data, the ability
to edit/delete PIREPs, logbook statistics, aircraft experience and a
dynamic map showing all of the latest flights.
May 15, 2004
Tilo Stefanoff announced as new Chief
Pilot at Lufthansa VA
March 30, 2004
KLM division launched at Virtual Air
France!
March 15, 2004
Pacific Blue division launched at Virgin
VAs.
March 8, 2004
FTG database migrated to brand new server
which should provide improved performance and reliability.
March 1, 2004
Simon K. Thomsen promoted to Chief Pilot
at Thai VA!
February 25, 2004
Dave Cenker appointed CEO for VA Tahiti
Nui!
February 24, 2004
Klas Eriksson appointed CEO for Thai VA!
January 14, 2004
New Virtual Air France website launched!
January 14, 2004
Lufthansa VA Cargo Division online!
January 9, 2004
Big surprise coming for Virtual Air
France! Stay tuned.
January 6, 2004
Joseph Shin promoted to Chief Pilot at
Malaysia VA.
January 1, 2004
FTG management
reorganization. Eric Thornton becomes FTG Founder,
Iikka Meriläinen
becomes FTG President & Liam Dunch takes charge of Cathay Pacific VA as
CEO.
January 1, 2004 - BANNER YEAR FOR THE
FLYING TIGERS GROUP!
Stats for the Flying Tigers as a whole for
2003:
New Pilots registered: 1047
Flights filed: 24726
Flight Hours: 125575.7
December 14, 2003
New automated ranks system implemented at
every FTG VA. Rank system takes into consideration the number of
flight hours, number of flights & seniority.
December 7, 2003
Island Air Division launched at Aloha VA.
December 1, 2003
Condor/Thomas Cook division opens at
Lufthansa VA!
November 15, 2003
One more world class airline joins the
Flying Tigers Group:
Emirates VA!
November 7, 2003
Help our friends at BAV help the children!
November 1, 2003
Monthly stats added on our About us page.
New rank system under development which will automatically take into
account total flight hours, number of flights and seniority. New
rank insignias posted, based on real airline epaulettes! Brand new
exam center for our type rating program is under development.
October 10, 2003
New! Flightplans posted for every flight
at Singapore VA.
October 5, 2003
Air Tahiti Division opens at Virtual Air
Tahiti Nui. Fly the ATR-42 or ATR-72 to some of the most beautiful
islands in the Pacific. Fun flights, some as short as 10 minutes
and some challenging airfields.
September 25, 2003
Cathay Pacific Virtual Classic section
posted for 1980. Interesting routes to Darwin, Kota Kinabalu &
Brunei. Classic sections coming for Singapore VA (1978), Thai VA
(1981) & MAS VA (1979). In addition we'll be adding the latest
flight schedules for Air Tahiti at Virtual Air Tahiti Nui.
September 15, 2003
Cathay Pacific Virtual Classic section is
ready for takeoff. Classic schedules for 1990 posted.
September 13, 2003
German and French forums open on our
message board.
September 12, 2003
New Classic section for Cathay Pacific VA
is in the works. We plan on including schedules and routes from
1990 & 1980. As soon as we acquire schedules from previous decades
we will include those as well. Kai Tak here we come!
September 8, 2003
The Flying Tigers group surpassed 100,000
hours. That's 4166 days or 11.4 years worth of flight hours!
August 26, 2003
Singapore Virtual Airlines receives brand
new website.
August 24, 2003
Flying Tigers Group page is getting a face
lift. We hope you enjoy our new look!
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