It is six years since we formed the CIX VFR Club in February 2004. It started as one of Peter Dodds' many ideas. He had taken note of some comments made by Ruth McTighe in the Flight Simulation area of the CIX Conferencing system. These comments mentioned the availability of on line Air Traffic Control on VATSIM, which led to him joining VATSIM in February 2003. There he observed that there were very few General Aviation light aircraft being flown. His idea was to form a group of those interested in this activity, and so, a year later, the CIX VFR Club was born.

In 2005, one VATSIM member, Bill Casey, dreamed up the idea of a "virtual" Air Show and invited us to take part. We were so enthusiastic that we were given the opening slot. This event led to the formation of the 2-4-CIX Display Team, which opened the show in each of the following three years. Members of the Display Team helped us celebrate our sixth birthday by putting on displays at Biggin Hill, Shoreham, and Gloucestershire airfields. The picture below shows two Chipmunks during their display at Shoreham on Monday 8th February. On the ground is a Hurricane, one of the Wardirds team, waiting for the call to scramble.19/02/10