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Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:33 am**

This is the 37^th monthly screenshot competition, which is free to enter for all the members of NZFF. This month's competition has been kindly sponsored by Captain Sim; the winner will receive any one CaptainSim product they choose. Visit www.captainsim.com for a full listing of Captain Sim products.

This month's rules are as follows:

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

2) The image size must be as close as possible to 984 pixels wide- read the uploading screenshot guide to find out how to re-size your shot. 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!

3) Also remember, try and make your shot suitable for a thin rectangular banner. Think about that when positioning your aircraft and choosing camera angles etc. (and please don't include any text on the image either)

4) Images can be submitted from July 2^nd to July 31^st 2009, with only one entry per member. You can change your submission before the closing date if you want, just delete the old one and replace it with a new one (by using the edit button at the bottom of your post. Please don't post saying you have edited your original entry, as this creates unnecessary clutter).

5) On July 31^st, a poll will open and run for a few days to decide who has the best image, then the winner will have a cropped version of their image appear in the NZFF banner as well as receiving the prize!

6) Editing is allowed, if you know how to do it. The more stunning your shots look the better!

7) This month's theme is 'Mayday, mayday, mayday', how you interpret that is up to you....

All the best to everyone, lets see lots of entries guys! May the best screenshot win!

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:15 pm**

oo, good theme, might have to enter this one!

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:40 pm**

Yep - good theme OK! Should've been in May though

Should be plenty of photo ops for me - pretty well every flight I make in FSX is a Mayday situation

Posted: **Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:02 am**

:S I was gonna use an Air New Zealand texture, but seeing as Avsims down I'm gonna have to find an alternative.

Posted: **Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:13 pm**

What do you need a texture for? Perhaps someone in the forum has a repaint on file somewhere

Posted: **Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:07 pm**

I was gonna use the FSX Default Boeing 747-400 - Air New Zealand 'Faded Wave' - By Timothy Clark on flightsim.co.nz

Posted: **Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:23 pm**

Mayday Mayday Mayday! Fishing trawler sinking near the Brothers, one crewmember overboard

Posted: **Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:45 pm**

CoochB wrote:
QUOTE (CoochB @ Jul 4 2009, 05:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Mayday Mayday Mayday! Fishing trawler sinking near the Brothers, one crewmember overboard

Jeepers .. so you were the director to that fishing program , Saturday .. on TV .. what bout an hour away

your no.1 .. lets see the results after this one !

Posted: **Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:56 pm**

Blabzillaweasel wrote:
QUOTE (Blabzillaweasel @ Jul 4 2009, 04:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I was gonna use the FSX Default Boeing 747-400 - Air New Zealand 'Faded Wave' - By Timothy Clark on flightsim.co.nz

I have them. Will send them to you soon. Just PM me or something.

Posted: **Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:46 pm**

Not the place and time to blow your engine..mayday!

Posted: **Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:46 pm**

Ohhppps me to

Posted: **Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:51 pm**

engine failure over Tauranga, managed to get it back in one piece

Posted: **Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:10 pm**

Heck - they're hot off the blocks this month! The comp is only a few hours old and we already have a clutch of real stunners! I can see voting on this one being *hard*!

Posted: **Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:13 pm**

Jezzz Aero engineers are going to get a hard time this month with engine failures - three in as many hours

, i might have to change my theme for the first time

Lucky landing Goose ... least you found a runway

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:09 am**

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 5 2009, 11:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Jezzz Aero engineers are going to get a hard time this month with engine failures - three in as many hours , i might have to change my theme for the first time Lucky landing Goose ... least you found a runway

Reminds me of a story about a test flight for a [then] new auto-landing system - mounted on a Cessna - along the following lines:

Tower: "Looking good ... on glideslope ... on path"
Pilot: "Copy ... except we have a slight problem ..."
Tower: "Explain problem please"
Pilot: "We're inverted"

The pilot then aborted the auto land, flipped her the right way up and landed manually. Apparently they found a bug in the software that basically put in a negative where it should've been a positive. Arrrrgh!

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:33 am**

IAN!

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:05 pm**

Not a serious attempt, not engine failure, but cat failure (RNZN Waikato, RNZAF Skyhawk in the Hauraki Gulf)

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:39 pm**

I Knew we should of bought a new one!

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:06 pm**

larral1123 wrote:
QUOTE (larral1123 @ Jul 6 2009, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I Knew we should of bought a new one!

You're going to need a few more than one...

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:49 am**

what does that mean?

NZFF

July Screenshot Competition