NZFF

Hi,

Well although there was only a small turnout, it still proved to be an enjoyable night for all involved I have to say.

Most of us turned up at NZAA about 8.30pm, then departed for Okiwa Sation around 9pm, realising we werent going to make Okiwa by 9.30pm, we decided to use some time acceleration

Here's a couple of pictures of the group parked outside the "Club Rooms" enjoying a nice cold one, with our deck chairs.

The mission also proved very fun and we headed to "Mercury Bay" to find the NZFFS Antenna on top of Mecury Island's summit..(my textures weren't showing correctly for the aerial).

I won the event and now own my own "Batch" down here in Dunedin, but it's at the shop getting built As a one off for the 5 participants, everyone get's their own Batch as a reward for putting in an appearance.

Great even Trolly, maybe the next event might be a good idea to depart from my new batch? And maybe I could think of a mission, and get natas to design the Antenna again







Trolly last screenshot has the Aerial & co-ordinates showing to prove I was there lol.

P.S some colour adjustments using photoshop.

awesome chris,you did win the batch fair and square ,and ive got a movie to prove it ,,also as chris said because others had other things to do,, you guys missed out on all the real fun ,, there where actully loads at one stage coming in and out gokando,charl,pedro,and more and special thanx to robin for your teamspeak server that just made it all the more better if ive missed anyone thanx you for turning up or just having a look ,next time the batch could be yours ,,but to the team that had fun and just reach the beacon you get a batch ...

those who didnt make it will be in the chance to win and get alittle freeware prize at the end of each monthly meeting (fly inn )still not decided what but that will get sorted soon ,
so the winners are ,chris ,crazy_craig, first and second there,,,,, to the rest good luck next time and thanx you for dropping in and see you at the next meet

Hi guys
I was really disappointed that I could not join in on Saturday despite trying 3 times.
I was able to find the server and session but could not configure my firewall to allow you others to connect with my machine (I think). Anyway each time I got some error message to that effect.
I turned off the XP internal firewall but use Zone Alarm Pro which I tried to get to allow Flight Simulator to bypass but without success.
I am not prepared to turn it off completely on this machine.
Anyone any ideas?
If not I may have to accelerate upgrading to a new machine which I would love to do for the arrival of FSX and use that as a dedicated sim machine - but I don't want to give up on all these FS2004 goodies, so hope there is some other solution.
Miffed
Mike

PS
The pictures look really smart with the "club look" of identical liveries and well done Chris on finding the mission marker.
I will now have a lonesome flyin to see it myself!
Cheers
Mike

I had the same problem. I connected ok earlier. But later in the evening I got the Connection Failed message. I have been on the this morning with no problems. I wonder...

Peter

Great screenies guys- and thanks for participating!

Even though only a few members turned out, we still had a good time B) Every club needs to start out small, and hopefully we will gain momentum and grow larger as the months continue.

I took billions of *great* screenies last night, only to shut down my sim and realise that I had forgot to run the tool I use for multiple captures (Screen Hunter 4.0) and as a result, I only has the last image I had printscreened, which turned out to be a crap one. Bummer!

Oh well, at least we have natas2003's formation videos to look forward to.

See you all at OX next month!

An additional response to the people who could not join the multiplayer session:

Perhaps it is because we are using an NZ based server that foreigners such as yourselves could not join? It might be something to do with the country's IP address system but can't be sure"¦

Nope. I had the same issue, very disappointing.
I am reminded why I abandoned the online thing way back, there are many things between you and connecting successfully, most of them out of your hands
I understand FSX is better geared for this sort of thing.

yeah i just turned my firewall of all together and didnt have any problems we will have to get that sorted somehow but i think its gotta be something in comon as i had to send files out to some and they also are some of the ones that had problems connecting to the server, strange ?as the 2 problems are totally different ,
awesome flight out anyway guys ive still got lots of movie footage so can make a couple and the other one i made this morning i should have uploaded tonight...
mike

IT was a great nite,even tho I was there but only as an observer.I followed you around but unfortunately it was not my nite for finding the beacon.I couldn't download the aircraft in time for the show due to other committments,but I had a ball just watching you all.Looking forward to Octobers session,hope to see you all there,this time as a pilot