RAFv - Excellent New Video

http://www.rafvirtual.com/

Hello there Im here on a recruiting drive for new members of RAFv, we are trying to mimic the real world operations of the oldest air force in the world... The Royal Air Force of Great Britain.

We currently have over 10 squadrons aswell as specialised units such as the Aircraft Test & Evaluation Sector at Virtual RAF Boscombe down and our own Central Flying school.

No matter what your current experienceis we can teach you! Our friendly QFI's will help you with everything you need to know before being passed onto your squadron.

Interested? Have A Look At Our New Video:

New Video's are Coming Soon!

Current Aircraft Include:

(CFS) - Slingsby Firefly
(CFS) - Grob Tutor
(CFS) - Shorts Tucano
(CFS) - BAE Hawk T1
(CFS) - Beech King Air
(CFS) - Squirrel HT1
(CFS) - Griffon HT1

(1SQN) - BAE Harrier Gr9 & T12
(3SQN) - Eurofighter Typhoon F2 & T1
(8SQN) - Boeing 707 Sentry AEW1
(9SQN) - Pavania Tornado Gr4
(24SQN) - Hercules C130 C4 & C5
(78SQN) - Boeing Chinook HC2 & Westland Sea King HAR3A
(99SQN) - Boeing C-17A Globemaster III (Currently merged with 24sqn)
(101SQN) - Vickers VC10 K2 & K4 (Currently merged with 216sqn)
(111SQN) - Pavania Tornado F3
(201SQN) - BAE Nimrod Mr2
(216SQN) - Lockheed Tristar (L1011)

Sound good? It really is! And whats best about it all? ITS FREE! All we ask is that you are respectful and friendly and own a copy of FS2004, an upgrade to FSX is not fully supported but will be soon. We have over 350 members already and our squadrons sure are filling up!


Cheers Rob K
http://www.rafvirtual.com/

Enjoy the video? Well thats just a teaser video the full version will be out soon from our whirly headed chaps! And did you notice somthing? Theres more than one pilot flying in formations, usually our rivals show one guy blasting around on his own in Wales. I can assure you this is not the case here at RAFv!!!

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I enjoyed the video, loved the sound track.

Glad you liked it the full version will be along soon, and we'll have videos of every aspect of RAFv in the future so look out for those.

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why do you spam?

Its not spam its a way of "BUMPING" my topic up the list so it attracts more members, and it appears to be working we have 400 members at RAFv now.

There are no ill intentions just trying to promote the VA I belong to.

ya but how many are active? just could u stop because it is getting annoying reading "BUMP" all the time. so could you please stop.

RAFv Pilot's method of promoting his VA I do not regard as spamming. It is unobtrusive and does not offend.

If "reading "BUMP" all the time" annoys you that much, just avoid this thread. Simple.

ya i don't mind eather i would do it but my va usually is on the top

Ok instead of posting bump would you like an image from our gallery each time I post? This way it gives you somthing to look at and hopefully admire.

Out of our 400 members I would say at least 250 are active, the 150 inactive members being either on a Leave Of Absense, waiting to start training or just plain AWOL lol. We are a very active VA though, I thought that was displayed well in the Video with all the formation flying.

Heres a good image of 1 Squadron on a training night, I was the 4th one along before I transferred to 24 Squadron. And yes they are Harrier Jump Jets, and yes we have a unique hover gauge with NO drawbacks at all!!! Want to fly from our carrier HMS Hermes? Also all our scenery is custom built by our own team, we also have members like Brian Franklin (SIMSHED).

An Image from 201 Squadrons recent training exercise off the coast of Gran Canaria involving live firing of torpedo's. That smouldering wreck was a landing vessel!

2 Flying Training School, RAF Shawbury. Here you can see two of our helicopter instructors teaching the basics of helicopter flight, our lead QHI's are Troy Potter & Paul Hurrell.

Heres me a couple of months back when I was a member of 1 Squadron, just about to hook up with one of our tanker pilots after a long flight!

Heres a couple of our guys from Malta in the RAF's new Eurofighter which has just entered service with 3 squadron. Please note that the aircraft shown is the Alphasim PAYWARE model, which we have licenses for! That means we pay you fly and enjoy, all we ask is that you have time to give towards the VA.

Two timeless classics the Vickers VC-10 for Air to Air Refuelling and Transport, and the Boeing 707-E3 For Airborne Early Warning Radar.

And now heres the well known Tornado "Tonka" Gr4! Operated by 9 Squadron out of RAF Marham.

Exciting news!

RAFv has just created the South Atlantic Islands Deployment, based upon the real RAF's strategy we have created scenery for all of the RAF's bases.

The idea of RAFv setting up this new detachment is so that Australian, American, Canadian and other pilots who struggle to meet our GMT timezone missions can have their own fun flying together. Interested?

http://www.rafvirtual.com

More exciting news!

RAFv is about to launch 2 FSHOST Servers for non members to fly on, we have done this at the request of the real world Royal Air Force as they have association in mind! It is also beneficial for us, it gives us a chance to fly with un registered members in a care free enviroment before they choose to join the RAFv.

I'll keep you all updated with any further developments!

A 1 Squadron Harrier being rearmed whilst on a training detatchment in Cumbria.

Heres a picture from last year when RAFv retired its Sepecat Jaguar squadron, Farewell Jaguar!

If your looking for realism I can ensure you that RAFv is the VA for you, current active pilots include current RAF pilots as well as former pilots. Not to mention the vast numbers of ex sevicemen who enjoy flying with us, we also have a couple of commercial pilots who enjoy a role change in the way of a Eurofighter Typhoon!

It is expected that in a number of weeks we will be endorsed by the real world RAF as they have expressed their interests in us we are obviously pushing for this as it will bring us many more members along with other benefits

Three 78 Squadron helicopters in formation, the designer of the Puma helicopter (Brian Franklin of SIMSHED) is currently an RAFv member. I've also learned that one of our members is a real world Hercules pilot!

Here you see a Lockheed Tristar L1011 (foreground) and a Vickers VC10 (background), from squadrons 216 and 101 respectivley.

Howdy RAFv Pilot,

I really enjoy checking out these screenies of yours

One question comes to mind: Does your VA cater for folks with old style, small monitors?