Virtual Aviation 4 Serious Funsters
Virtual Aviation 4 Serious Funsters is a portal for Flight Simmers; it enables them to fly into the fictional world of the MOMA hybrid game.
Here they can train at the University of Oceania School of Aviation (UOSA) and pursue a career in Air Fafifi (our virtual airline).
Conversely, the portal also enables participants in the wikimoma community arts project to explore the wonderful world of flight simulation:
where they may discover it's beauty, its openness and most of all - its potential for creativity.
Virtual Aviation 4 Serious Funsters is designed on the following over-arching principles:
- Flight simulation creates an open world with space for dreams, drama and cinematic potential
- Complex learning best occurs when it is fun
- Peer-learning means that everyone benefits when students are teachers and teachers are students
- A playful, accessible & inclusive learning environment, creates a community of learners that develops itself - benefiting individuals and the collective
- The collaborative learning community not only shares and improves the knowledge and skills of its active members, it simultaneously creates enduring learning resources for future learners
- The above principles are applied in-real-life face to face learning events and online via the creative and integrated use of the Wiki and Discord communication platforms, integrated into state of the art flight simulators and mods
Status
The Virtual Aviation 4 Serious Funsters portal
is currently being redesigned for X-Plane 12 from
earlier beginnings in MSFS 2020 material.
This page is an incomplete first draft. Help build it up?
Start editing and connect via Discord now :-)
Why X-Plane?
You are welcome to use other flight simulators within the MOMA Hybrid Game, however we favour X-Plane 12 for development and focus as it best suits the needs of the wikimoma project. Some of the reasons it seems better for us are:
- X-Plane is cross-platform (it will work on Linux, Mac & Windows OS)
- You can try it free of charge for a month (potential newbies don't have to fork out money at the start - try before you buy)
- It is made by a small-medium size business and has a strong community of freeware and payware developer
- The user interface is clean and intuitive, and all files are in one container
Lots of little things like:
- You can spawn in on an approach without needing a 3rd party mod
- The game remembers your pop out windows and puts them back in the right monitors when you spawn back in
Go to the University of Oceania School of Aviation
We're developing training modules for Virtual Pilots, check out our progress and get involved here.
Go to Air Fafifi our virtual airline
We're about to start work on our own virtual airline, if you are keen to see progress in this direction, please connect in our Discord server and let us know.
CURRENT DRAFT NOTES FOR PROGRAM
When you start a flight, X-Plane may warn you that your AIRAC (Navdata) cycle is out of date. If that is the case you probably need to update your Navdata. If you are doing Shared Flight, then all crew will need to have the latest Navdata installed.
Mac and Windows users - Watch this Video
Mac and Windows users - follow the instructions in the video. Linux users will need to download and manually install the latest AIRAC data, as Navigraph does not make a helper app for Linux.
- Visit https://navigraph.com/downloads and scroll to the Manual Downloads section at the bottom of the page
- Select the Linux button in the X-Plane 12 / Simulator row
- Save the .zip file to your downloads folder
- Extract the saved file to your .../X-Plane/Custom Data folder (this will over-write the appropriate older files)
Introduction to Autopilot in the Airbus
GA-VFR-001
YMPC Hand-flying C172
