Destinations
Find out where NorthernStar flies
Downloads
Download our custom airplanes
Operations
Rules and regulations for NorthernStar Airways pilots, downloadable mission
plans, and much more
Flight logs
Consolidated Logs.
Membership
Want to join our airline? Find out how.
Photo Album
Our pilots show off pictures of their flights
Airline history.
Why is our callsign "Hunter?"
Aircraft Sets
Check out this new feature:
Guidelines for building your own fleet of add-on planes.
email: admin
NorthernStar is a club of aviation enthusiasts devoted to flying in the bush country of Canada and Alaska using Microsoft Flight Simulator. This sort of club is called a Virtual Airline. Virtual airlines are distinguished by many features, including their airplanes and destinations, but most particularly by their mission; we are a charter airline, mainly, with only a few regularly scheduled routes. Our pilots bear the main burden of deciding when and where to fly.
Most recent files added:
Activities: Training flights, Honolulu
GPS Runway 8R
Activities
This area is constantly updated with
new missions, challenges, and training scenarios, all downloadable with set-ups,
flight plans, and instant weather, ready to run. For a complete list of
facilities available in this section, go to Activities.
Latest additions:
BS2, practice your traffic pattern landing skills at Chilliwack, BC in a twin-engine Beech Baron..
Destinations
Interested in learning more about airports and
destinations?
Recent features here cover the Alaskan islands and airports in the so-called
Panhandle.
Take a look at Sitka. Newest addition:
CEB5, Fairview, in northern Alberta.
Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, there are even destinations in the continental United States. We have special feature articles on over thirty of our airports, with full pictures and flight information, and adding more all the time. For ease of navigation, we provide maps of all covered regions that you can click on to see the airport you want.
Aviation Articles
Flying, even in a flight simulator, needs more from the pilot than just turning knobs and reading gauges. There is a wealth of information needed to use ground and navigation facilities to their best advantage. To help the pilot grow in skill and proficiency, we continually expand a library of articles and tutorials on basic and advanced concepts in aviation. It's your ground school for Flight Simulator. For an overview of articles, go to the Operations page.
Latest addition: Visual Flight Rules. In the planning stages, Building a flight plan, and ATC for the advanced simmer.
Building Flight Hours
Building
flight hours is easy with NorthernStar Airways. When you register, you get
access to a record-keeping system for logging your flights. Every time you
report a flight, it adds to your flight hours. You can get a report of your
hours and ratings any time after you log in.
Some airlines use a system of ranks and grades, based on accumulated flight hours. According to rank, pilots qualify for flying larger airplanes and longer missions. But, since we only have light aircraft and do bush-type or charter flying, none of these contrivances makes much sense for us, so we don't bother with it.
We do, however, support a rating system. Pilots begin with a basic license. After demonstrating skill with instrument flight, they can acquire an insrument rating entitling them to make IFR flights. There are also ratings for turboprop and jet aircraft.
Flight Simulator Add-ons
Getting Flight Simulator add-ons is easy. Avsim, Flightsim.com, and other well-known sites offer endless series of jets, turboprops, and bush planes for downloading and adding to your aicraft hangar. There are also panels, sound files, utilities.. an endless bounty of stuff. But this can get out of hand unless you know how to manage it.
Tips and tricks, a new set of feature articles in the Fleet section, are intended to help use your add-ons more effectively. This week: Sharing Panels and Sound files focuses on easily and efficiently sharing panels and sound files between multiple aircraft.
Internet Chat
If you have an internet relay chat (IRC) client program, you can talk to us on the Undernet. We run the #Flightsim channel every day around 1400Z (9:00 EST). THere are also web chat relays. Try Google for more information about IRC and the UnderNet.