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Pilots of Mediterranea
Virtual Airline have to complete the assigned flights in order to move
forward in his/her virtual career. To each pilot is assigned a rank
based on flown hours, and a score based on flown hours, virtual capital held and
of the badges.
It
is also planned to assign a flight-conduct based score through the new MEDacars
software. This will eventually complement the existing one.
Assigned flights, grade, score, badge
and capital are visible by accessing the various links within the MEDGEST
menu: Roster, Assignments, Rankings etc. By clicking on the pilot's ID number on
the beforementioned pages, it is also possible to access the personal
profile (also accessible from the flight log) where there are also
other data such as hiring date, achieved badges and the latest 10 completed
flights.
The pilots will also have the opportunity to invest their capital in a
virtual
stock exchange platform.
Plaese, always communicate to your hub
manager the intention not to fly with Mediterranea anymore. This will allow us
to delete your data from the databases! |
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Assigned flights |
On a monthly basis, the pilots will find on the Hub's
"Assignments" page two flights to be flown during the month.
The pilots check verify the logbook flights registration directly on the
a"Assignments" page. In such page can also check the number of free flights
registered. By clicking on the flight code a pop-up with the flight data will
open.
On the
MedGestIII "Logbook" page pilots can also check their
flight situation and the flights pending validation, while in
the "Profile" page will also be possible to insert a personal
picture and a presentation. There
are also many other pages that are not listed here that can ber found by
browsing the reserved and public areas of the website.
On the "Radar" page
pilots will be able to see the ongoing flights.
If during a month one or no assigned
flights are flown, the same one(s) will be assigned again the following month. |
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Free Flights and Non-
assigned flights |
Within a single month the pilots can
fly six non-assigned
flights. If the two assigned flights
have already been flown, there will be
available 20 additional
non-assigned flights, making thus
available a total of
twenty-six
non-assigned flights in a month.
The pilot can so reach a total of
twenty-eight monthly flights (two
assigned plus twenty-six non-assigned
flights).
NOTE: If flights are
carried out during the Mediterranea
fly-inns, it is possible register them
over quota, whenever the 26 monthly
flights limit has been reached.
As
free flight is
intended (please pay attention to the
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A NON-ASSIGNED
flight
chosen from those available in the
Timetable and compatible
with the pilots' rank. For these
flights, departure and arrival
times, and scheduled aircraft must
be respected. Such flights allow
to earn Virtual currency an
assigned flight.
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A
NON ASSIGNED AND NON SCHEDULED
flight, with departure, arrival
and aircraft freely chosen by the
pilot (but within pilot's rank A/C
limits). Such flights are considere
as "free and non assigned"
and are unpaid. Such
flights are also subject to a
specific tax and points deduction
within the "Gestione Economica".
ATTENTION: due to technical
limitations, is NOT possible to send
more than one time the same flight
within the same day.
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Multi-leg flights |
Within
the timetable Mediterranea there als
are several multi-leg flights
E.g: the MAVT0001 has two
legs.
MAVT0001A |
CN1 |
LIBP |
LIPV |
11:00 |
12:50 |
MAVT0001B |
CN1 |
LIPV |
LIME |
13:30 |
14:35 |
The
flight code, in such cases, always
ends with a letter (A, B, C...) and
within the flight registration
process, it is accounted as a
single flight.
However, the flights must be
flown adn submitted separately.
Please, take into accoun that:
1) The legs must bel flows as per
given order (A -B -C ...). So, fro
example, it is not possible to
flight the leg C before the leg A.
2) All the legs should possibly be
submitted within the same day.
However it is mandatory to send all
the legs within the same month,
otherwise the flight will not be
accounted, and if it is an assigned
flight will be necessary to fly it
again the following month. |
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Sequence
of flights
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Starting from September 2007, pilots
are allowed to fly their flights in
sequence, by departing from the
airport reached with the latest
flight.
Check the webpage.
Every flight
in sequence provides a bonus of:
v£ 1.500 |
for flights shorter than 3 hours |
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v£ 3.000 |
for flights longer than 3 hours |
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In
addition,
when reaching 100 and 1000 flights
in sequence, pilots are entitled to
a special award. This can be
requested by writing to the
respective Hub Captain.
NOTE: the sequence counting will be
resetted to zero if pilots send a
flight not deprting from the latest
reached airport.
In order
to keep on the sequence counting,
will be taken into account the
flights registered throught the Hubs
only - any flight sent to the IVAO
VAS or to the TOURs only will not be
considered.
NOTE #2: All the flights
scheduled as TOURXXXX will not be
accounted for sequence by default,
unless the pilot asks - while
submitting the flight - to include
it. This can be done through the
specific option in the MEDGEST III
flight submission form.
NOTE #3:
If several flights in sequence are
flown within a single days, it is
highly suggested to write "flight in
sequence n. xx" in the "note"
section of the MEDGEST III flight
submission form. |
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Long Range
flights |
Starting from August 2008 all the
Long-renge flights have to follow a
special procedure.
Are considered as Long Range
flights:
- scheduled flights from the MED
Timetable longer than 5 hours.
- all the remaining categories of
flights longer than 5 hours.
Such
flights either on-line,
off-line, day and night ones must
regualry report within the
Global CTA Mediterranea,
as per instruction provided in that
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Change of an assigned flight |
Within the page linked to the
sequence-flying registration (here)
it is also possible to request for an
assigned flight change:
The change price for each
request is V£ 20.000.
The pilots can change the assigned
flights with anyone scheduled in the
Timetable, including ong-range and awards/tours,
but cannot select any multi-leg
flight.
The new flight must comply with the
ranking restriction for the pilot. If
the new flight requires a plane that
cannot be lowin by the pilot, a new
change (at own expenses) must be
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Ranking System |
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< 15 hrs |
Pilot |
• Aircraft cat. A
• Cessna - Beech baron
• Piper
- Siai Marchetti
• Beech 1900D
• and similar |
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< 35 hrs |
Second Officer |
• Aircraft cat. B
• Emb 120 - Learjet 45/60
• Saab 2000 - Saab 340b
• Dc3 - Dornier 328 prop
• ATR72 - Dornier 328 jet
• and similari |
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< 70 hrs |
First Officer |
• Aircraft cat. C
• B737
• MD80/81/82/83 - DC9
• Airbus
320/321
• Jetstar 2 - Fokker 100
• and
similar |
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< 100 hrs |
Senior
Officer |
• Aircraft cat. D
• B767 - MD11
• and similar
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< 150 hrs |
Captain
Officer |
• Aircraft cat. E
• B747 - B777 - Airbus 340
• Concorde
• and similar
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< 250 hrs |
First
Captain |
• All
the aircrafts
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< 500 hrs |
Chief Captain |
• All
the aircrafts
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> 500 hrs |
Master |
• All
the aircrafts
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> 1300 hrs |
Master
Instructor |
• All
the aircrafts • Flight school instructor
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> 2500 hrs |
Flight Legend |
• All
the aircrafts • Flight school instructor • The
VA legend |
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Since September 2007, each rank up
adds a 5.000 V£ one-shot indemnity. |
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Payments |
Payments will be done in
Virtual Liras (V£), based on the flight time and the airplane
used for the flight. Within the dynamic timetable the estimated
amount for each flight is displayed.
Free flights non scheduled within
the timetable (freely created by the pilots) are not
paid. Flight hours and additional flight-related bonuses only are
registered. NOTE:
after the entre in force of the NOTAM n. 081201 dated 1st December 2008, every
submitted flight has to be accompanied by a complete MEDGEST radar track. If the
tradar track is partial or unavailable, any V£ will be paid. Only ranking up
bonuses can be paid anyways |
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Flights validation and timetable |
As soon as the Hub
Captain approves or rejects the flights withn MEDGEST III, the system
updates in real time all the related data withn the webpages "Pilots", "Assigned
flights" and all the remaining related pages
The dynamic timetable allows to read the scheduled flight times and the
aiplanes to be used. Pilots have to read it when
choosing a flight. The web timetable provides additional
information linked to: different planes to be used (if the scheduled one is not
available within the Hangar), general rules for specific flight codes, and the
flight plans. Please note that such flight planes are not mandatory; each pilot
can plan the route autonomously - provided that it complies with airspaces rules
and regulations.
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Airplanes and timetable
(different codes) |
When choosing a plane, is
als possoble to have a look to the comparison table available within the
MEDacars Help page.
Please note that when
using a different but equivalent plane (e.g. A320 inststead of a scheduled
A319), the code to be put in the MEDACARS flight plan
page has to be the actual plane used in the simulator, not the scheduled one.
Morover, is forbidden to use the generic plane codes marked as "all pax
model". For example, if a pilot is flying with a Boeing 737-700 should not put
737 as a code, but 73W.
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Report |
After each flight, thee pilot has to
submit the flying report filled by
MEDAcars as per instructions detailled in the Help page. Is also
possible to write on the Mediterranea Forum if there are any issues using
MEDAcars.
Before writing on the forum, is highly recommended to read all the information
available Also for on-line flights
MEDAcars must be used, and the flight submission follows the
same rules for off-line flights, but on the flight plan page must be declared
the fying network (IVAO or VATSIM).
All the reports (online and offline) must be
submitted within 24 hours after land. If that does not happen, the flight will
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Flying rules |
In order tor egister the flying
hours pilots must comply with the general rules and regulations and with
HUBs' NOTAMS.
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Weather and Simulation Rate
All the flights must be
performed in real-time weather and without
sim-rate acceleration. The latter are forbidded either for
online and offline flights.
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Flight scheduled time
Some flights have a
schedule take off and landing time. All the scheduled times are in
UTC format (GMT in FS). When setting up a flight be sure to adequatly set
the day time, remembering that a flight can be take off 10
minutes earlier or 30 minutes later than the scheduled time. By
exceding such limits, the flight will not be accepted. If the flight is
outside such limits, MEDACARS will prompt a warning on the screen.
For example: If the
flight is scheduled to take off at 9.30 UTC, pilots can take off between
9.20 and 10.00 UTC. Landing times are indicative.
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Airplanes
Excepting changes authorized by the Hub Captains, every pilot
must use an airplane category that falls into the pilot's current rank.
Within the MedAcars help page a comparison table is available in order
to autonomously change planes without authorizations. For example, a
738 can be changed without authorizations with a 735 or a CR7 can be
changed without authorization with a CR9.
In all the cases non
falling under the above-mentioned table, the pilot must use the exact
plane scheduled for the flight. Flight codes with "LIB" as scheduled
aircraft can be flown with any aircraft that falls within the pilot's
rank.
NOTE:
The aircraft in the MEDACARS flight plan must be the one chosen in the
simulator. Otherwise, the flight will not be accepted and a warning will
be issued on the pilot's logbook. If the pilot keeps in pursuing that,
can be suspended by the Hub Captain.
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Slew mode and in-flight pauses
All the flights, both
online and offline, must be flown at once. It is not
possible to save a flight and end it later.
It is also forbidden
to pause while flying, as requested bu online networks such as
IVAO or VATSIM.
When flying offline, it is possible to
pause the flight, but not more that 20 minutes.
Finally slew mode is ALWAYS forbidden.
It is also forbidden to rapidly move the plane from a location to
another using the FS "go to" function or similar ones through external
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FlightSim crash
Both during online and
offline flights, FS crashes can be recovered through a correct use of
the MEDACARS Autosave program. In any case, the flight must be
resumed within 20 minutes from the occurred FS crash. |
PC or MEDAcars crashes
Also if a PC or a MEDACARS crash occurs, the flight can be
recovered through a correct use of the MEDACARS Autosave program. Also
in such cases the flight must be resumed within 20 minutes from
the occurred FS crash.
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Alternate airport
It is mandatory to declare the alternate airport. Through the MEDAlt
program (integrated as MedACARS function) it is possible to select the
most suitable alternate airport for the flight. |
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Company rules |
E-mail addresses
In order to be updated,
all pilots must check the validity of their personal e-mail addresses.
That is possible through the "personal data" page in MEDGEST III.
Pilots with an invalid or not working e-mail
address will be suspended from flying until a new e-mail address is
provided.
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Pilot inactivity
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Pilots not flying
over a period of 6 months are automatically
considered on leave, and the accounts suspended.
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Pilots not flying
over a period of 2 years are automatically and
permanently deleted from our achives.
A list of inactive pilots is published at the bottom of the Pilots'
roster page.
Pilots on leave can request to the respective
Hub Captain to get back flying through an e-mail send by the
"Segreteria" webpage. To be active, the recently reactuvated pilots
have to log at least one flight within the month. If failing in
doing so, will be put again on leave.
Pilots not flying for more that 2 years will be permanetly deleted,
and if willing to fly again, shougld start over the carreer.
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Bring a new pilot to Mediterranea
If a Mediterranea
Virtual Pilot brings anothe pilot, he is entitled to a special award
woth 100 points and 25.000 V£.
To get the award, the pilot has to write in order to provide the details
of the new pilot.
The award will be
assigned when the new pilot officially becomes part of the V.A. only. It
is suggested to write to the Hub Captain after that only.
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Flight time transfer from other Virtual Airline
Flight time transfer
from another VA can be performed when applying to Mediterranea (without
any V£ calculation),
only under two conditions:
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HUB transfer
Given the huge amount
of data registered within the Medgest archives, a full hub transfer is
not possible. The only way to do so is to reisgn from the registration
hub and apply fro the new one, by asking to keep flight time and V£. All
the other data (e.g. badges, award, etc) will be permanently deleted.
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Flights with other VAs
It is forbidden to fly
with other VAs and contextually register/log the same flight
(online/offline) with Mediterranea. In such cases the pilot will incur
in an immediate suspension from Mediterranea.
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