Slant Alpha Adventures
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"Slant Alpha" ("/A") is the FAA code for nav capabilities of VOR/DME and ILS only, no GPS/IRS. Old-school radio-nav is great fun but can also be an /Adventure!
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Joined June 2018
If you've never been to the Sunset Beach Club on St. Maarten, it's quite the party. This isn't an actual photo of me drinking, dancing, and watching a DC-6 land there -- but, hey, it could happen!
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A red & green BAe-146 with a red nose & antlers wearing Mardi Gras beads, climbs past the Superdome where Freckles puts a star atop the Christmas tree. Glitchy bridges span the river where alligators wearing sombreros swim as I dangle from the plane in a bullfighter's cape.
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This was our final Slant Artwork Adventure image from tonight's stream. Since we didn't actually fly near the White House, I won't use it for the YouTube thumbnail -- but it still turned out awesome, so, enjoy! Merry Christmas!
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This was the first idea I came up with for tonight's Slant Artwork Adventure, that I switched off of before the stream went live -- the one I came up with second had more opportunity to build on, I thought. But this one turned out nice, so, I'm sharing it too!
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If you missed our latest edition of "Slant Artwork Adventures" -- feast your eyes on "Canadian Chaos"!
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For our Slant Artwork Adventure tonight, the theme was "Home for the Holidays" -- so everything in this image reminds me of home. Errrrrrrr, sort of.
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"Vintage Cross the Inside Passage" is coming Sat Jan 31st! VATSIM ATC provided. Start ~1330z and trip length = ~1300nm. Prop or turboprop aircraft, 15k+ MSL & 180-320 KTAS. NO JETS. Space limited. Info and RSVPs on our Discord ( https://t.co/iSwMbXx1rZ / 23rqrPG, no spaces).
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This is our Slant Artwork Adventure from tonight's stream -- and it in no way represents my opinion of the fine Air Traffic Control profrssionals worldwide. On VATSIM we get to enjoy a few extra privileges while we control...
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FSEXPO UPDATE: registration is NOW OPEN for FlightSimExpo 2026, to be held June 12th thru 14th in St. Paul, MN! Tickets and hotels are even more affordable than last year, & for the first time ever, the exhibit hall will be open on Fri evening! Details:
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Check out our timelapse of Potomac Approach / Chesapeake Sector (BWI_S_APP / 119.7) for tonight's "A Wednesday Night at Washington National" event!:
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**BREAKING NEWS:** VATSIM has announced that the minimum age to sign up is rising to 16 effective January 1st. Existing users age 13-15 will be allowed to stay.
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**FSEXPO UPDATE:** tickets for the 2026 edition of FlightSimExpo ( @flightsimexpo ), to be held June 12th-14th in St. Paul, Minnesota, go on sale on December 14th at 1800z (1pm EST)! For pricing and other details, visit
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{cont'd} ... So we'll be working BWI arrivals and departures, but, expect a higher volume of those SKILS, CLIPR, and DEALE arrivals flying over and into our neighboring airfield. See you Wednesday starting at 7pm EST (Thu 0000z)!
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**PROGRAM NOTE:** reminder that there's no stream tonight due to a late work obligation. However, position assignments for Wednesday's event featuring KDCA are posted, and I will indeed be at the familiar post of Potomac / Chesapeake (tentatively, that is). ... {cont'd}
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**PROGRAM NOTE:** my tentative assisnment for Friday's FNO is Potomac Approach, Cheapeake Sector (BWI_S_APP) -- see you then!
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