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IMPORTANT !!!! IAT IS RECRUITING

IAT team is looking for 1 new pilots (#6) in the European Time Zone. If you want to tryout a month with us, just contact Robbie from the contact page and he will tell you what you need to start with us.


The Team

The Illusion Aerobatic Team are a group of flight enthusiasts from all different parts of the globe.

Using modern flight simulators, they connect to a server from their desktop computers, flying in formation and creating spectacular aerobatic maneuvers.

IAT is not a virtual version of a real aviation team, it's an original virtual aerobatic team. Many of the maneuvers performed are employed by the best teams from all over the world such as the Red Arrows, Frecce Tricolori and Patrouille de France.

IAT is a creation by Roberto Mettifogo, callsign "zaGURUinzaSKY", a nickname given to him in 1994 by his friend when he started his aerobatic skydiving career with him.

Roberto has completed more than 4000 jumps, has lead 2 skydiving teams and invented choreographies and original new ways of human flight. After he left skydiving in 2004, he decided to dedicate his free time to virtual formation aerobatic flight. As a result he created the IAT TEAM, a new breed of flying within flight simulators.

 

Team setup:

 

Real name: Roberto Mettifogo
Status:
Active
From: Verona, Italy
Birth Date: March 20th, 1975.
Position: Formation Leader , Team Founder.
Occupation: Aerial and Commercial Photographer
Info: Flight simming since the first black and white sim (late '80s). +2000 logged hours of flight sims, 50 hours of VFR flight and a few hours of aerobatic flight with CAP10b. RC airplanes and helicopter pilot/builder since 1984. FPV videopilot since late 2006.
Links: My photography website [x] Click to visit RMP


 

Real name: Ricardo
Status:
Active
From:
Spain
In the team since:
2005
Birth Date:
September 21st, 1978
Position:
Left Wingman
BRAIN RAM:
1MB (Now upgraded to 2MB becouse of Vista)
Info:
I'm flying sims since many years and I've been flying just LOMAC since it appears. I once piloted a Cessna but nothing more, I hope I'll go skydiving one day, and who knows what the future will bring...

 

 

Real name: Jos Vennik
Status:
Active
From:
The Netherlands
In the team since: March 2008
Birth Date: July 11th, 1987
Position: Right Wingman
Occupation: Student
Info: Studying Communication & Multimedia Design.
Started simming at age 12. Flying in the 44th Virtual Fighter Wing next to IAT Flew in an actual F-16 simulator once, that's as far as I got.

 

Real name: Luca Ligabò
Status: Active
From: Verona, Italy
In the team since: Jan 2008
Birth Date: November 27th, 1979
Position: Slot - Solo
Info: I'm a student of biotechnologies at the University of Verona. I learnt to pilot with rc airplanes and now I started this new experience with flight simulators.

 

Real name: Michael Gomersall
Status: Active
From: North England
Birth Date: April 29th, 1989
Position: 2nd Left Wingman
Occupation: Degree Student
Info: I've been flight simming since 2000, but have taken a much keener interest recently. Tenrai inspired me to try-out for the IAT in mid-2008 and I was successful.

  Real name: Lapo Zanuso
Status: Active
From: Verona, Italy
Birth Date: May 11th, 1978.
Position: 2nd Right Wingman
Occupation: Graphic & multimedia design
Info: Glider pilot & sim enthusiast

 


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