NZFF Screenshot Competition for March 2011

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Postby dbcunnz » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:06 pm

Welcome to the NZFF Screenshot Competition for March 2011.


This month's rules are as follows:

1) The screenshot image must consist of a screen captured from a Flight Simulator program (FS2004, FSX, X-Plane, etc), and the position of the shot must be from somewhere within the New Zealand territory.

2) Some editing is allowed (if you know how to do it.) Additional images - either screenshots or "real" images can be added - but the main component of the image should always be of a Flight sim screen capture.

3) The images must be jpg (Please use http://s366.photobucket.com for your screenshot image) and size must be at least 1024 pixels wide and no wider than 1280 pixels -- A good free resizing program can be found Here. Please keep a high resolution version saved on your computer; the admin may request it from you at the end of the month to convert into a site banner!

4) Images can be submitted from 1st until 31st March 2011, with only one entry of a single image per member. You can change your submission before the closing date if you want.
To change use the edit button at the bottom of your post, just delete the old one and replace it with a new one If you post comments using the quote or reply button please edit out all images from your reply or quote.
If you have any queries about the rules please PM me for clarification before posting your entry.

5) Soon after the competition ends, a poll will open for members to decide who has the best image, and then the winner will have a cropped version of their image appear in the NZFF banner as well as receiving the prize for the month if we have one donated.

6) This month's theme: Any flightsim Aircraft (free or payware) flying between 100ft and 2000ft higher than your nearest ground anywhere in New Zealand (Please state what part of New Zealand you are flying over)

I ask all members to please patronize all our very generous prize sponsors.
We have another excellent prize for this month’s competition very generously donated by A2A Simulations

For the winner of the March 2011 NZFF Screenshot competition the prize is any product of their choice from the https://www.a2asimulations.com/store/

A big thank you to this month’s prize sponsor to check out their site click on their banner below

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Postby Adamski » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:43 pm

Wow! Who organised that prize??? clapping.gif notworthy.gif thumbup1.gif

P.S. I like the new rules wording winkyy.gif thumbup1.gif
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Postby connor » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:24 am

whathesaid.gif That prize is excellent!
This comp will be the perfect excuse for VLC tongue.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:01 am

I can vouch for all A2A products except the Cub , this month , i am anticipating some off the best screen shots yet , and if last month was anything to go by , OH BOY! cool.gif
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Postby connor » Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:14 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 1 2011,12:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I can vouch for all A2A products except the Cub

Why? unsure.gif
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Postby kcgb » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:01 pm

Because he has all of them except the cub.
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Postby Ian Warren » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:32 pm

Now you guys can ask what is the better, the recommends, the Cub had 'Heidi' wub.gif end off this month the choice is yours and Jeepers this i can see becoming a love affair ! smile.gif
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Postby Dontcopy » Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:39 pm

My (hopefully final) entry for this month!!



Aerosoft Catalina smile.gif flying down the coast near Dunedin
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Postby AlisterC » Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:51 pm

You're level with the peaks of the Southern Alps, I think it fair to say you're over 2000ft biggrin.gif biggrin.gif Remember 2000ft converts to only 600m, so it's not very high at all.
Well done NZFF for such an awesome prize this month, and thanks to A2A for supporting NZ simming.
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Postby Dontcopy » Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:55 pm

Ahhhh good point, it was a nice one lying around in my HD. Will change it ASAP. sorry.
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Postby AlisterC » Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:59 pm

No apology necessary biggrin.gif I got to see your nice screenie before it gets changed laugh.gif
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Postby Adamski » Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:06 pm

AlisterC wrote:
QUOTE (AlisterC @ Mar 1 2011,6:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You're level with the peaks of the Southern Alps, I think it fair to say you're over 2000ft biggrin.gif biggrin.gif Remember 2000ft converts to only 600m, so it's not very high at all.

Looking at the instructions above: "flying between 100ft and 2000ft above ground level". Wouldn't the altitude of those peaks be "above SEA level"? [confused]!!
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Postby AlisterC » Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:54 pm

So if I fly around over the Canterbury plains at 10000ft above sea level, simply due to the fact that my screenshot has the Southern Alps in the distance of the picture, and they are up to 13000ft or so, my picture qualifies? laugh.gif
Where do you draw the line between being above the ground, and above the ground in the background of the image?
Seems to me the purpose of the theme is to be visibly close to the ground. I'm not the admin of the screenshot comp, but that's the impression I get, and what I justified my earlier statement on smile.gif
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Postby Dion500 » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:08 pm

Why not make it simple then.

Say something like 2000 ft AGL within a 5 nm radius of your aircraft.
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Postby Adamski » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:16 pm

Dion500 wrote:
QUOTE (Dion500 @ Mar 1 2011,9:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Why not make it simple then.

Say something like 2000 ft AGL withing a 5 nm radius of your aircraft.

ie. What your *radar* altimeter would be displaying (if you had one laugh.gif).

I understand the rule to mean "low level" - so passing 150ft above the summit of Mt. Everest would still qualify. The difficulty is going to be that the scenery displayed in the pic isn't always going to show what's directly beneath the aircraft, so I suppose we have to have a fair bit of leeway.
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Postby Adrian Brausch » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:37 pm

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Mar 1 2011,9:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
ie. What your *radar* altimeter would be displaying (if you had one laugh.gif).

I understand the rule to mean "low level" - so passing 150ft above the summit of Mt. Everest would still qualify. The difficulty is going to be that the scenery displayed in the pic isn't always going to show what's directly beneath the aircraft, so I suppose we have to have a fair bit of leeway.


yep as Adam said, the subject is low flying ..come on fella's stop trying to interpret it so much harhar.gif . My boring (as usual ) entry will follow shortly biggrin.gif
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Postby dbcunnz » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:55 pm

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Mar 1 2011,8:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Looking at the instructions above: "flying between 100ft and 2000ft above ground level". Wouldn't the altitude of those peaks be "above SEA level"? [confused]!!

I have made a change to read flying between 100ft and 2000ft higher than your nearest ground hope that takes the confusion out of it.
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Postby dbcunnz » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:40 pm

Captain Sim C130 returning through the Kaituna Valley to Woodbourne after low level flying around Marlborough Sounds



This is how you interpret flying between 100ft and 2000ft above ground level
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Postby Adamski » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:16 pm

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Mar 1 2011,10:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
This is how you interpret flying between 100ft and 2000ft above ground level

Thanks for the clarification ... and for the great screenshot! thumbup1.gif
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Postby scaber » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:18 pm

Playing around while chatting on NZFF . . . maybe this can provide another example of what's meant by low!! Default DC3 over Robs RealNZ - Wellington airport in the background.
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