Livin' da Vida Loca

This has been a busy few weeks for the staff of Orbit Airlines, and it looks like the next few weeks (hopefully only two) will be busy as well. We have some new planes lined up for release soon (rumours are rife about a Saab340B) and well as some other updates. Unfortunately these take time, which is something that is not abundant at the moment.

In the mean time, we encourage you to keep up the suggestions for the site (thanks to those who have already contributed) and more updates will be made as time permits.

To wet your appetite, here are a couple planes that we have received suggestions for and are in the works:

1. Boeing 757
2. Medium range Airbus

Regards,
The Orbit Airlines Team

Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia

The latest edition to the Orbit Airlines fleet is the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia. We have recently acquired several aircraft of this type and will be using them for our short-haul routes in the Caribbean and around the world.

When it was first produced, the Brasilia attracted immediate interest from many regional airlines, particularly in the USA. The size, speed and ceiling allowed faster and more direct services around the US and Europe, comparared to similar aircraft. The first aircraft entered service with Atlantic Southeast Airlines in October 1985, after which the basic EMB-120RT was upgraded to the extended range (1,575 km or 850 NM) EMB-120 ER, with older aircraft retrofitted via a Service Bulletin.*


Our EMB 120s are repainted in Orbit Airlines colours by Stephen Hulme for Erick Cantu's excellent model. This can be downloaded from the Eagle Rotorcraft Simulations website.  We hope you enjoy flying in our new plane.


Regards,
The Orbit Airlines Team

*Information copied from Wikipedia.

The New Orbit Airlines Website

Orbit Airlines has finished creating a new website for our loyal fans.  We will now have much more control over what interesting content we can provide and how it is displayed.  Some of the new features include route-maps, boarding passes and a paint-kit.  New content will be added regularly, so please check back often.

 If you have any good ideas as to how to improve the website, would like to see a particular aircraft in Ovir Airlines colours, or you have created any Orbit Airlines themed content that could be added to the website, then please email us and let us know.

Thank you to everyone who has sent in their questions and suggestions and we hope that this new website will satisfy most of them.

Regards,
The Orbit Airlines Team

Beech King Air 350

You asked for it and it has finally arrived: the Beech King Air 350, in beautiful Orbit Airlines colours.  Used for private charter, navi-aid calibration and air-ambulance flights, you will soon see our new King Airs being  flown around the world.

In our last fleet poll, the King Air 350 received 66% of the votes! Here are the results:

We will not be running a poll for the next little while, but if there is a particular (freeware) aircraft you would like to see in our fleet, just drop us a line from the contact page, and we will see what we can do.

The Orbit Airlines Team

Boeing 777-300 ER

Orbit Airlines is pleased to announce that we have recently acquired several Boeing 777-300 ERs from Project Opensky. The complete model, equipped with a virtual cockpit, can be downloaded from here. These will be based at our Heathrow and Los Angeles Hubs and will be used on inter-continental routes to Europe, America, the Caribbean and Africa.  Seating 365 passengers in 3 different classes, and with a maximum range of just under 8000 nautical miles, our Boeing 777-300 ERs are capable of flying to anywhere in the world*! The first aircraft to be delivered was PJ-ORB, who is pictured here soon after landing at our Saint Martin hub.

Integrating a new aircraft type into our already diverse fleet is not always easy and there has been a minor hiccup: those FSX users who do not already have an aircraft designed for FS9 might be missing a crucial file that prevents most of the cockpit gauges from displaying.  The problem is solved here by downloading 'msvcr70.dll' into the main FSX folder.

We hope you enjoy spending many hours flying the Boeing 777-300 ER.

The Orbit Airlines Team

*Dependent on take-off weight, runway length and airport facilities.