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Welcome to the NZFF January 2016 Flightsim Screenshot Competition.

This month's rules are as follows (Please read them).
If you have any queries about the rules please PM me for clarification before posting your entry.

Can I ask participants to please take note of rule 3: The images must be jpg so please don’t post png.

1) The screenshot image must consist of a screen captured from a Flight Simulator program (FS2004, FSX, X-Plane or P3D)The position of the shot can be at any airport or airfield in the world.

2) Some editing is allowed (if you know how to do it.) Additional images - either screenshots or a very small amount of "real" images can be added - but the biggest majority of the image should always be of a Flightsim screen capture.

3) The images must be jpg and size must be at least 1024 pixels wide and no wider than 1280 pixels
3a) No frames or txt to be left on the image. 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 January 1st until midnight 31st January 2016, with only one entry of a single image per member.
You can change your image anytime up until 1 hour before the closing time.
To change use the edit button at the top right of your post, just delete the old image and replace it with your new one If you post comments using the quote or reply button please edit out all images from your reply or quote.

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.

6) This month's theme: "Trainers - military & civil - jet, turboprop & piston" (Please state Aircraft details and the airport or airfield)

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


The voting will take place after the competition closes at the end of the month and the winner with the highest votes and the second highest will get a prize each with the winner having their image placed in the NZFF Banner for the month.

For this months competition the prizes first place one download Virtualcol product of their choice second place 50% of a download Virtualcol product of their choice.


Thank you this month’s prize sponsor virtualcol .

Lotus sims Albatros

Great start Bob ......

Faithful Annie, mainstay of the EATS and much other training. This one is on a NavEx, somewhere off Cape Campbell ???
FSAddon Anson, VLC with Doug's Marlborough upgrade.

Yep, you'd be amazed how many NavEx's go like that...

RNZAF (IRIS) Texan Driver - practicing touch and goes at Ohakea in a thunderstorm!

In the days of old when pilots were bold low level aerobatics training.
Ants Tiger Moth over Robs Omaka.

4 new pilots and 1 squadron leader, (No 1 NZ General Reconnaissance Squadron) flying NZ151 (RAF S1426) and 4 other Blackburn Baffins off the coast of Timaru. The lesson is 'low level coastal formation flight training'.
The Blackburn B-5 Baffin biplane torpedo bomber was a with a 545 hp Bristol Pegasus I.MS radial. - Top speed 218 km/h

I may replace this with a better pic - but the aircraft will still be the Chipmunk, I think - because it has a very special place in my heart:



The story:
When I was a teenager (and thankfully not spotty) - my first camp with the school cadets was at RAF Coningsby (then an active nuclear V-bomber base). Not only did I get to sit in a Spitfire, but I also got my first ever flight in any aircraft (holidays in those days went by bus or rail).

The pilots at RAF Coningsby during the Cold War were under a fair bit of strain (24-hr standby and 4-minute scrambles/take-offs), so their favourite leisure pastime was a competition to make their "air experience" cadet puke in the shortest possible time. Bonus points were awarded for spectacular face colours or technicolour decorations on our (up until then) clean navy blue uniforms. Various methods were used - including flying inverted 6ft above fishermen in the canals/rivers, mock attacks on other unsuspecting Chipmunks, accompanied by the inevitable "takakakakakaka" over the r/t, and cutting the engine (also when inverted). In short - these pilots were *crazy*.

Having buzzed the local fishermen inverted, my pilot asked me if I wanted "to have a go on a ferris wheel". I hadn't a clue what he was talking about (and didn't even say "yes") before finding myself in a knife-edge turn going round and round the local fairground ferris wheel (at Boston, on the Lincolnshire coast). I'm not sure who was more terrified - me or the occupants of the ride. Lots more epic stories from that particular camp - most of which involved Avro Vulcans in some way.

So ... the only way I could mimic this in P3D was to take the JF Chipmunk around the London Eye. A bit difficult to frame as there appear to be a lot more tall buildings in 2016 London than there were around Boston in the 1960s!

Adam.

Adam, Always nice to have a story like that , Now, did you puke or was your uniform CLEAN?

Sonnyj wrote:Now, did you puke or was your uniform CLEAN?

I appear to have a good old-fashioned Polish stomach that not only has the digestive juices of a snake but also seems to be impossible to disturb. Polaks hate the idea of wasting good food LOL. I've never been seasick either.

So ... yes ... my uniform was as spotless as my face, hahahaha!

Adam.

Haha, nice Adam, you must have an iron gut, I feel sick just reading that

Training for a floatplane rating in a Piper Cub at Sitka, Alaska

Adamski wrote:

Sonnyj wrote:Now, did you puke or was your uniform CLEAN?

I appear to have a good old-fashioned Polish stomach that not only has the digestive juices of a snake but also seems to be impossible to disturb. Polaks hate the idea of wasting good food LOL. I've never been seasick either.

So ... yes ... my uniform was as spotless as my face, hahahaha!

Adam.

Great story and a great shot

Sea trials going through the Straits using Razbams 2 seater corsair II

Some great shots so far ... better get my a into g and so should the rest of you ...

IRIS PC-21 Trainer over the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland

One last loop before heading back .... Harvard over the Ashburton area.

Come on team! last count we had 817 members .... and this months comp has 10 entries
Short of "do what you want" i think this months theme was wide open ... whats going on with this place ?