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Intercity Discussion Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris Liu on Mar 20, 2013 02:22

Title: Help promote us!
Post by: Chris Liu on Mar 20, 2013 02:22
You know Intercity is a great airline to fly for, but why let your fellow pilots miss out!? You can do a few quick and simple things to help us recruit new members and grow our thriving community:

• When you fly online, put our website address (www.ViaIntercity.com (http://www.viaintercity.com)) in the flight plan comments.

• Also remember our ICAO identifier is ICX and callsign "Intercity". You add these remarks to your flightplan:
CS/INTERCITY WEB/WWW.VIAINTERCITY.COM

• If you post screenshots or video to the web which feature Intercity aircraft, pop our website address somewhere in your post

• Like us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/viaintercity) and Follow us on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/viaintercity)

• If you regularly post on any flight sim related forums, why not place this small banner in your signature (don't forget to link it back to our website)?

(http://www.viaintercity.com/images/layout/support1.jpg)
Proud supporter of Intercity Airways, visit www.ViaIntercity.com (http://www.viaintercity.com)

Here's the BB code:

[url=http://www.viaintercity.com][img]http://www.viaintercity.com/images/layout/support1.jpg[/img][/url]
[color=#686868][b][size=90]Proud supporter of Intercity Airways, visit [url=http://www.viaintercity.com]www.ViaIntercity.com[/url][/size][/b][/color]
Title: Re: Help promote us!
Post by: Keith Giannoni on Jan 27, 2014 12:21
Hi Chris,

When flying on IVAO recently, the EDDL and Bremen radar  ATCOs advised that my call sign was showing as 'Intex' on the  system. I am not an ATCO so don't know what they was looking at. I take it our on line call sign is still .intercity'?

Keith
Title: Re: Help promote us!
Post by: Chris Liu on Jan 27, 2014 13:23
Yes, Intercity is still the correct callsign.

The ATCOs said Intex because ICX was used in reality by International Cargo Xpress (callsign Intex) between 1989 and 1994 (when they ceased operations). I don't think IVAO will update the information on IVAC until we officially register with them, but that requires 50 of our pilots regularly flying on their network, which is still some time away.

In the meantime, I recommend you add the OPR\INTERCITY remark to your flightplan, which is official ICAO practice. Fortunately, Intex and Intercity sound somewhat similar over the radio anyway, although I accept it's not an ideal compromise.
Title: Re: Help promote us!
Post by: Keith Giannoni on Jan 27, 2014 21:05
Thanks for the reply. It now makes sense. I have noted my FPs with out call sign. In truth it isn't a hardship to use Intex when ATC use it. 

Keith
Title: Re: Help promote us!
Post by: Petr Witt on Mar 17, 2014 14:05

Hey, captains!

My fifty cents, as a member of Bohemia Airlines (BHA), I am constantly recognized as a Budha Air flight (BHA), eventhough I have my flightplan updated with OPR/ or CALLSIGN/... Sometimes it helps to advise the ATC, however sometimes they are like deaf (depending where you're flying) :o .

Remarks - any chance for Intercity to get officially involved into the IVAO? That would be of great help!
Best regards,
Petr
Title: Re: Help promote us!
Post by: Chris Liu on Mar 17, 2014 14:32
Hello Petr, welcome aboard  :)

I want register Intercity with IVAO but cannot do so until their very strict entry requirements are met. Some of these are:
It will take considerable time for Intercity to meet the above requirements as most of our pilots fly offline or on VATSIM. Additionally, many of our members have only limited time available for flying, so it's very difficult for us to average 2 hours per week per pilot (I can't actually think of any sizeable virtual airline that actually meets that requirement but apparently all these airlines do :-\ http://www.ivao.aero/vasystem/list.asp (http://www.ivao.aero/vasystem/list.asp)).
Title: Re: Help promote us!
Post by: Ryan Moore on Mar 29, 2015 18:20
Regarding the calsign, when flying on IVAO placing CS/INTERCITY in the remarks will override any callsign and on the ATC software they will see INTERCITY.
Title: Re: Help promote us!
Post by: Chris Liu on Mar 29, 2015 19:43
Thanks for that information Ryan, I've added it to the top of page