MXB News

FS Conference is just around the corner!

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our stand in two weeks and have a few key details for you: The trade fair will take place on November 23rd, 2024 directly in the terminal of Paderborn Airport and is open from 09:00z to 17:00z. We will update you on our booth number soon.

The address is Flughafenstrasse 33, 33142 Büren.

As a little surprise, Evan from the FSA and co-founder of the FSExpo will also be at our stand from time to time and spend time with us there.

Admission is free, by the way, so we look forward to seeing lots of you!

PS: Remember our FSA giveaway, where you can win one of ten 1-year Captain Memberships at FSA!

The new Code of Conduct is officially in use as of today. All MockingBird Air members should familiarize themselves with it.

You can view the Code of Conduct here.

Always Happy Landings!

On Thursday evening we finally received FlyByWire Simulations Airbus A380! We are super excited and already performed the first flights going from Munich to Doha and then to Berlin!

Flight MC112 departed in Munich at 0700z through the thick clouds and arrived in Doha at 1245z, where it then had a 2 hour and 15 minute layover.

At 1500z D-AMXB took off to Berlin, where we brought 484 passengers to their destination safely.

We are very happy about this aircraft and are looking forward to many beautiful flights and stunning approaches.

If you tuned into today's stream by FlyByWire Simulations, you already know the big news. The A380 is going to be released on October 31st, 2024. As exciting as these news may be, we'd like to refer to our most recent post that the A380 is a highly complex airplane, and we ask you to really familiarize yourself with the aircraft prior to taking this giant to the skies.

Nevertheless, we are very excited about this development, and cannot wait to operate the first MockingBird Air flight in the A380!

Please keep in mind that the A380 is a community project, which means that the inital days could be a bit bumpy.

We are extremely grateful for FlyByWire putting so much effort and passion into this project, and for giving us an experience as we've never had before.

A MockingBird Air livery for the A380 will be available a couple of days after the release.

We're looking forward to seeing you fly this giant in the virtual skies. Until then,

Always Happy Landings!

Okay folks, now it's getting exciting. FlyByWire Simulations has just announced the out of the hangar for the A380 for this Saturday, October 26, 2024 for 1800z on their YouTube channel. Even though this is not a release announcement, we can assume that this giant will be available to us afterwards and yes, it's all super exciting and super cool, but we would like to ask you one thing and draw your attention to one thing before you carry out the first MockingBird Air flights with this giant: The Airbus A380-800 is a super complex aircraft with an incredible number of functions and things that need to be taken into account. Whether you're flying offline or online, do yourself a favor: familiarize yourself with the aircraft. Look at procedures, watch YouTube tutorials, ask our training captains. Make sure you feel confident enough to handle this plane before you take to the air. Yes, safety is a bit of learning by doing, but you should know how to handle the plane if something doesn't go as planned.

Enough words of warning. If the plane really is available on Saturday, we hope you have lots of fun flying it and exploring the almost limitless possibilities of this technical masterpiece.

As promised, there is now more information about our event group flight to Paderborn! You can book the flight in the Crew Center under the flight number MBC2024 and plan it as usual. Since this is a group flight that can also be carried out on online networks, you also need an individual call sign and a departure slot. You can get these in our Discord server where you can use our ticket system in the #event-flight channel. If you have any further questions, you can also address them to our scheduling team in the ticket.

Departure slots will be available on November 22nd, 2024 every 10 minutes from 1710z. to 1840z to ensure an orderly process - both at the airports and for air traffic controllers.

We look forward to your participation and wish you a good flight and always happy landings!

On the occasion of the upcoming FS Conference, we are offering a group event flight from Genoa to Paderborn/Lippstadt on November 22nd, 2024. This will take place between 1700z and 2000z and will be possible with the following aircraft: Airbus A320 family, Boeing 737 series (including MAX). We will operate the flight via IVAO and also broadcast it live on Twitch. You are welcome to join us, whether on the stream or in the cockpit yourself.

Further information on flight MC2024 and when and how it can be booked will follow shortly!

As FS Conference is now only about one and a half months away we want to announce a giveaway at our booth: Together with our friends from FSA we will give away 10 Captain Memberships for FSA which includes many offers, free stuff and free online access to FSExpo!

You can find all important information for FSA Captain Membership here: https://flightsimassociation.com/membership

Stay tuned for more!

Big news: MockingBird Air will be exhibiting at FS Conference at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport! We will show you our custom Crew Center, our custom ACARS System mxbCARS and will be there for any questions you may have.

Visit us at EDLP on 23.11.2024!