The 38th meeting of the European Simmod User Group will be sponsored by Berlin Airports and held at their visitor center “airportworld BBI” Berlin-Schönefeld / Germany on October 27th and 28th, 2011.

A list of conveniently located hotels and directions to“airportworld BBI” can be found the document attached:

• The meeting will beginat 13:30 hrs on Thursday and close on Friday at about 13:00 hrs.
• Avisit of the construction side of the new airport Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) is foreseen, but the details have not been defined yet, so we recommend to build some flexibility into your travel arrangements. We will advise asap once we know the schedule of it.

As usual, thefirst dayof the meetingwill deal mainly with topics more related to Simmod (e.g. expert workshops, tips and tricks, Simmod projects). Please feel free to propose items of interest connected with Simmod simulations or take the chance to present recent studies to your colleagues. If presentations contain any confidential or sensitive issues, they will not be mentioned in the minutes or published on the ESUG website.

On the second daya broader scope of presentations ispossible. Presentations could deal with Simmod related subjects (e.g. tools for pre- or post-processing), airside studies, trends in airside simulation, airside simulation related issues, reports of conferencesof interest, SESAR updates, upcoming eventsetc.Presentations without any direct relevance to Simmodshould be kept on a technical or functional level (instead of a sales-level).

 ESUG is a heterogeneous group of professionalsrangingfromstudentsto long-term simulation experts with a wide spectrum of experience inSimmod andairside simulation matters.As such, agenda itemsand presentationscovera variety of Simmod- or airside simulation topics which isa very valuable asset of this special group.

 If you have any Simmod- or airside simulation relatedtopics that you wantto bediscussed, pleasedo not hesitate to propose them to any of us – we will try to organize a session accordingly and find someone who is knowledgeable about that subject.Also, please let us knowin timeif you want to give a presentation on eitherdayso we can set up a preliminary agenda.

ESUG meetings depend on your contribution. Be part of the exchange of knowledge within this community.

 We wille-mailfurther details and a preliminary agenda about 4 weeks before the meeting. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact either of us.

 In order to facilitate the organization of the meeting please confirm your participation with any of us at the earliest possible date.

 As mentioned during our last ESUG meetings, the somehow old fashioned ESUG-website needed a refurbishment. DLR is the organisation hosting our website and offered to do the redesign.

Thanks to the DLR and in particular Mr. Günther Linde, we are happy to announce that the new ESUG website is online!

You will find it here: www.dlr.de/esug.

For comments and suggestions please contact the Secretary.

We look forward to meeting you inBerlin. Thanksa lotin advance to Berlin Airportsfor hosting the meeting.

Best regards

Chris Schneider            Steffen Wendeberg               Karl-Heinz Keller              

ESUG Chairman           ESUG Co-Chairman             ESUG Secretary

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