NZFF

NZFF July 2018 Screenshot Competition
The competition is now open!

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The theme for July is:
"Unsung Heroes"
... chosen by Splitpin, winner of the May (theme) competition. If you have any theme-related queries, send him a PM!
"Work-horse" type aircraft, fire-fighters, civilian or military aircraft that never got their due. Any location.


This month's competition is (once again) kindly sponsored by Flight1 and the winner will receive a download of their choice from the excellent range of Flight1 Products.
They're great developers and have been a great sponsor in the past, so let's honour them with a good turnout!

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SCHEDULE
Images can be submitted (or edited) up until midnight Tuesday 31st July (Pacific/Auckland: UTC+12).
Voting runs from Wednesday 1st August up until midnight Sunday 5th August (Pacific/Auckland: UTC+12).

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Please read the rules below: if you have any queries, please PM Comp Admin for clarification **before posting your entry**.

PRIZES

1. Visual Appeal: the winner gets their image displayed as a banner throughout August.
   Vote for the image you find the most appealing.
2. Relevance to the Theme: the winner gets the sponsored prize and sets the theme for the August screencomp.
   Vote for the image you think best fits the theme.
   
   ELIGIBILITY
3. Entry (and voting) for the competition is open to all registered NZFF members.
   
   THE SCREENSHOT
4. The screenshot image must consist of a screen captured from a flight simulator program (FS2004, FSX, P3D, X-plane, DCS/IL-2 or War Thunder).
5. Some editing is allowed: additional images can be added (either real or other screenshots), but the main component of the image should always be from a flight sim.
   
   IMAGE FORMAT
6. The images can be jpg or png and must be EXACTLY 1280px wide (any depth).
7. Though "visual appeal" is all about the complete screenshot image (regardless of shape) bear in mind that, if it wins the "Visuals" poll, the final banner crops to quite a narrow letter-box shape - so try to compose your shot so as not to lose areas of high interest.
8. No frames or text on the image.
9. Keep the original uncompressed/high resolution version (BMP or TIFF) saved on your PC - admin may request it from you at the end of the month to convert into a site banner!
10. DCS users may want to look at these DCS tips.
    
    SUBMITTING AN ENTRY
11. Please post all screenshot/entries here - in this topic (below).
12. Only ONE entry/single image per member is allowed.
13. Images can changed any time up until closing time (midnight, last day of the month): use the "edit" button at the top of the original post, delete the old image link and replace it with the new one.
14. If possible, please add details of the aircraft depicted and general scenery/location information.
    
    VOTING
15. After the competition entry deadline, all registered NZFF members may cast TWO votes: one for visual appeal and one for relevance to the theme.
    The two votes can both go to the same entry or to different ones - but please vote in BOTH categories.
16. Entrants may not vote on their own screenshots (!).
17. The winner in the "relevance" poll receives the prize from the designated sponsor and gets to suggest a theme for the next screencomp.
18. The winner in the "visual appeal" poll will have a cropped version of their image posted as the NZFF banner for the following month.
19. Voting is OPEN - and placed by posts in a new (voting) topic.
20. Votes are along the lines of Visuals vote to XXXX and Relevance vote to YYYY. Voters may add why they voted the way they did if they wish.
21. Voting runs for five days and then the voting topic is closed.
22. If you win the theme vote (and sponsored prize), don't forget to post a "thank you" topic with some screenshots!

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That's it, folks - get snapping!

Adam.

Cheers Adam .... hopefully, covers everybody.
I would like to have stuck with my first choice " Unusual nocturnal vibrations" ... but as you said, you wouldn't have time to sort all the entries
Ok let's go team ....

Due to my poor English, I'm not sure to well understand the theme for july

Bugdani wrote:Due to my poor English, I'm not sure to well understand the theme for july

Sorry, Bug ... let me explain!

It means people or aircraft that that do a very courageous job and usually don't get the credit they deserve - or that we just don't appreciate them enough. Rescue choppers, firefighting tankers etc.

Here's another example - it's not my actual entry - it's is just to illustrate the point.



The Hurricane probably did the bulk of the hard work in the Battle of Britain, but seems to get overshadowed by its more glamorous counterpart: the Spitfire.

I was trying to get a Boulton Paul Defiant or a Fairey Battle to work in P3Dv4, but no-go. Both aircraft suffered terrible losses in the early stages if the battle. Crews must have known what the odds were, yet continued to fly.

Other [British] WWII aircraft that I think also played important but not very well publicised roles were the Anson, Lysander and possibly the Stirling. I suppose for the US, the Catalina would fit that bill - and maybe for the USSR, the IL-2. For Germany, maybe the Ju-52 <??>.

Adam.

High skill heli-pilots to land on the windy heli-platforms of oilrigs in open see:

Do not want to offend you but has the monthly contest cancel prizes or have you accidentally forgot to mention prize, please?

Regards,

Aharon

Adamski wrote:

Bugdani wrote:Due to my poor English, I'm not sure to well understand the theme for july

Sorry, Bug ... let me explain!
It means people or aircraft that that do a very courageous job and usually don't get the credit they deserve - or that we just don't appreciate them enough. Rescue choppers, firefighting tankers etc.
Adam.

Thank you, Adam, it's clearer now

Dave Molyneaux's FS2004 Airspeed Oxford repainted for FSX by Peter Watkins. IWM Duxford scenery by John Young and Stephen Legg. The Oxford was an advanced multi-role trainer, used throughout the Empire Air Training Scheme, supplying crews for RAF Bomber Command.
This one was used for Beam Approach Training, and the yellow triangles warned other pilots to keep well clear.

Nice work Mike .... and the historical background is also appreciated.

We always want our overnight packages to hurry up and arrive, but we always forget the people that get them to us

Nice bit of lateral thinking! Lovely shot, too!

Adam.

Splitpin wrote:Nice work Mike .... and the historical background is also appreciated.

Ta mate... The novelist Nevil Shute, after being a senior design engineer on the R100 airship, was one of the founders of Airspeed. They built 8,500 Oxfords through WWII. The design incorporated a removable turret and a bomb-aimer position, so the core of a Lancaster crew could learn together. Navigators tended to be trained in Ansons, which had room for a class of about six at a time; but the Oxford could train a sort of 'mini-crew' together, and it did sterling service everywhere in the Commonwealth and Dominions, converting basic-trained pilots to multi-engine machines.
There's lots of glamorous Lancs out there, but I only know of two Oxfords - Keith Hackett's and this one. An unsung hero indeed. (Not that I am trying to influence the voting in any way, of course )

Mike

One of the great things about forums like this is you actually learn stuff! I knew all about Ansons, but I hadn't realised Oxfords played such a crucial part too.

Adam.

Adamski wrote:One of the great things about forums like this is you actually learn stuff! I knew all about Ansons, but I hadn't realised Oxfords played such a crucial part too.

Adam.

Me neither, but we're being very naughty having a discussion in the Screenshot Comp Forum. Doug would after our blood by now
Mike

emfrat wrote:Me neither, but we're being very naughty having a discussion in the Screenshot Comp Forum. Doug would after our blood by now

Doug passed over "the big stick" to me! Part of my reasoning behind the two-category (and open voting) ideas was to encourage a bit more discussion ... so it's OK by me!!!

Adam.

I know, I was sitting in Doug's lounge room when he did it
Screenies in the Comp Forum, compliments by way of votes, and discussion in the Comp Rules Forum, not clogging the the actual comp forum with comments.

Mike

The Tiger Moth was the training aircraft that most of the Commonwealth and Dominions WW11 pilots started their training on to get their wings and do basic training before moving up to bigger aircraft the likes of Mike's (emfrat) Airspeed Oxford

Great shot Big D ... but not good to look at with a slight hangover
Excellent angle

Wups! There goes my bacon sandwich!!!! Direct hit on the BP logo - that'll please the Greens!

Adam.

A bit off the wall ...but stay with me here kids ... there were New Zealanders involved with the kite balloons in WW-1.
One you may want to look up was Carrel Fidler killed in Belgium May 19th 1917.