It's 6 a.m. in the morning, coffee in hand you stroll across the runway from the small hut you slept in to the operations office at a small grass airfield, you are still wondering how you got a Fairchild C119 in here last night.

Already the morning mist is deep and the rain drizzling. Mild for this time of year, you muse, normally its heavier rain and force 10 gales.

Another pilot takes off into the fog as you reach the ops office, the duty Ops manager has left an assignment in your mail pigeon hole. Take a Baron 58 down to a tiny grass strip, it's urgent, a doctor needs to be on the Island in 3 hours.

People are ill, and the health service always pays well. It's up to you to get the job done, what ever the weather. No push button flying for you, no ILS, vis less then a mile, mountains and low cloud, no autoland... But you know how to really fly, you're a AHI virtual pilot.

Microsoft flight simulation aircraft With FSE loads, assignments in a virtual economic enviroment where we can buy fixed bases (FBO's), rent, lease or buy aircraft and pay pilots plus much more, coupled to VATSIM enviroment with FORCED weather, which we are all in, the same virtual world and we can literally fly into each other! We have combined three great systems to achieve a dynamic as real as it gets enviroment for our crew.

Push button pilots need not apply.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

AHI sells Scottish Airfields

Air Highlands and Islands yesterday announced it had sold both EGPW and ULL in the Scottish Islands in a surprise move.

Rob "Baltic" Woodbridge of the virtual airline said " Concern was growing that the area was to isolated in the FSE assignment world. With our recent purchase of a larger operation in Denmark we felt the concentration should be centered there."

AHI also stated that it has changed strategy in its fixed base operations to a linear end-to-end routing system utilizing larger airports with more gates, changing from the triangular set-up.

"We wish to offer more environments for operations, a linear operation that can develop over continents and not be restricted in a closed loop local routing system"
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Highlands and Islands new airport

AHI have bought Esbjerg EKEB on the West Denmark coast, gateway to the baltic with 2 gates and full services for its virtual airline operations.

The airport gives access to the Baltic area from its operations in Scotland and the Scottish Islands. To see a map of our airfield locations have a look here
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Morning Airmail run


Virtual Pilot and Managing Director of Air highlands and Islands, the Virtual Airline, Rob "Baltic" Woodbridge takes off from Glenforsa ULL to head north over the Orkney Islands and out into the perilous North Sea to deliver virtual airmail FS Economy assignments to the most northernly Island in the United Kingdom, Unst.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Getting started guide

Air Highlands and Islands, the virtual airline on Mircosoft Flight Simulation FS2004 and FSX, has published a quick guide for virtual pilots to getting started on our interpretation of the VATSIM and FS Economy system mix, in the most demanding virtual flying your ever simulate.

To read how you can get involved see the guide here
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Virtual Pilots

AHI are still looking for a few skilled virtual pilots for our virtual airline, the weather is fine and the gates are building up between EGPW, ULL and UK10.

Free-lancers welcome, 40% virtual pilot pay, plus fuel and rental charges on the company. Just keep them gates running!
Posted by unitedindustries at 2:37 PM
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