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Due to never quite loving every detail of the original version of this video, I always wanted to do a "directors Cut" as such. Unfortunatley every such attempt that I did always ended up at around 11 minutes 45 seconds long. Finally on this day, 16th of August 2009, I was inspired by a thread on Vatsim to go ahead and do my remake. This is that thread... http://forums.vatsim.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42533 This remake is using only the footage taken in March 2009, however there is some footage that was unseen in the previous reincarnations of this video, particularly on the New World side of the pond. I finally feel that this version is what I actually wanted in the first place, If Youtube would allow me an extra 40 seconds I would even have a proper musical ending and cockpit rollout and runway vacation. However we have to cut short at 10 minutes and 59.9 seconds. The intent of this video was to make a more polished production of the previous video, a video which holds more detail and logical progression in the flow of things, and is more visually consistent. (with less wandering off the sides of the screen while trying to deal with ATC, fly the plane and film at 3am local time in my morning lol) The result is that I have split the audio of ATC from the visuals and have thus been able to have the audio of my Oceanic Clearance, and a position report without having to deal with the dodgy footage and bad camera work. This has opened better opportunities for editing freedom, allowing me to create something that is pleasing to myself even moreso than the original from March 2009. Anyway, I invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy this, the Directors Cut of the trip of KLM657 during Vatsim's Cross the Pond Westbound 2009 flyin. --------------------------------- Vatsim's Cross the Pond occured on Saturday the 14th of March, 2009. Despite an ongoing DDOS attack on a few of our servers, up to 1000 virtual pilots and virtual controllers logged on to Vatsim for the flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Departing Amsterdam, Munich or Zurich, pilots flew via pre-planned NAT tracks in booked slots, much like the real world, to fly to Toronto or Newark, spread over all 4 NAT tracks. My flight was KLM657, an MD-11 (PMDG MD-11) flying from Amsterdam to Newark, an 8 hour flight. we got off to a bad start when we missed our takeoff slot and had to be assigned a new NAT slot, which put us back about 15 minutes and with a change of track. Instead of tracking via NAT A, we were now on NAT C. FMS Route had to be changed airborne and as such it was a very busy departure. In the Oceanic airspace, we were outside Radar Coverage, so gave position reports like the real aircraft do. SELCAL's were used and so on. My (final after changes) flightplan was as follows: N478F340 BERGI UL602 GOW UN580 TIR UN572 GOMUP/M080F360 59N20W 60N30W 60N40W 59N50W PRAWN COVAN/M083F380 HANAA ALB SHAFF6 EET/EGTT0021 EGPX0104 EGGX0245 CZQX0420 CZUL0545 KZBW0703 KZNY0734 REG/PHKCE SEL/AFLS OPR/KLM PER/D NAV/RNP10 GPSRNAV RMK/TCAS EQUIPPED An Offset for SLOPS procedures was a 1 Nautical Mile to the Right offset between GOMUP and PRAWN For an extra bit of Cool, take a listen to this recording of Newark Airfield's real life ATIS. http://www.mediafire.com/file/toz2mzmmmzm/KEWR.wma