10th Anniversary Planning

We're just putting the finishing touches on our 10th anniversary plans. Included will be 10 codeshares with other airlines, a world tour, and an online event. Stay tuned.

Around the World

Several ideas are in the works to celebrate the 10th anniversary of AeroTexas, including codeshares with real-world Flight 10s by selected airlines, one or more online events (VATSIM), and our first world tour! If you have any suggestions for destinations on the world tour please post them in the forum with their ICAO airport code. Ideally these would be very interesting and/or challenging places to fly. Also opening up the discussion here for online events - including proposed dates/times and can include potential partnerships with VAs/ARTCCs. Deadline for ideas : October 28th.

Hurricane Irene

A special hurricane charter series has been posted for flights along the East Coast. Click here for details

North Atlantic Tracks

AeroTexas now has a rudimentary, though very useful North Atlantic Flight Planning page. The updated page now links to outside pages for North Atlantic weather and North Atlantic Tracks. Look for this information to be more commonly used by AeroTexas pilots beginning later this Summer with flights to Europe! ...stay tuned

North Atlantic Flight Planning

Let's Go Fishing!

Are you ready for some flying and fishing adventures? AeroTexas has developed three charter routes to prime fishing spots along the coast in Texas and Louisiana, including: Port Aransas, Galveston, and Harlingen with side trips to Port Mansfield and lake trips to Lake Green and Lake Palourde. And along the way here's your chance to do some bush flying along the way - South Texas style!

These routes were developed by members J.C. Martin and Francisco Melero, working in conjunction with Tommie Wood, who developed special liveries for this Summer and Fall charter series. So let's take a look at what they've found:

Galveston Island - For the excitement and thrill of catching bull reds the surf waters off of Galveston offer some of the best bull red fishing on the entire Gulf Coast. Includes a float trip to Lake Palourde in Louisiana.

Mustang Beach Airport - Known by many as the "Fishing capital of Texas" Port Aransas has fishing for everyone. Go offshore for kingfish, marlin, tuna, tarpon, black-tip sharks, and more; pier fishing for flounder, black drum, and trout. Side trip on floats to Lake Green.

South Padre Island - Pompano, whiting, redfish, flounder and jack crevalle thrive in this fishing area. Jetty fishing, surf fishing, spear fishing, or deep sea fishing offer endless varieties for everyone. Includes a side trip to Port Mansfield for access to the Laguna Madre.

Click here for the Fishing Charters Manual (PDF)

Operation Tomodachi

Tommie posted a new event on the web page and flights for this event are good until further notice:

Daily AeroTexas Aviation International Relief Aid flights to provide assistance to the Japanese community and support survivors of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. Flights will be staged out of Yokota AB and flown to the Sendai airport, which is back in operation. For online flying, VATSIM Japan is an option, http://www.vatjpn.org/en/

Coast to Coast

I discovered this routing today while searching for flights with the new flight check page. This routing is currently available to all members, just be sure to verify through the flight check page to see if there have been any changes.

ATAVS 7.6R30

An update to ATAVS is now available. This is ATAVS 7.6 Release 30, and includes some minor bug fixes related to the FS clock autosync feature, and an updated airports file. Available through the Members Only page.

Happy New Year

On behalf of the Partners and Staff I am happy to wish you a very healthy and prosperous new year in 2011. Salutations!