FSX MULTIPLAYER NOTAM: FRIDAY 16 MARCH

[ZK-Brock]

Good event guys, will post my screenies tomorrow

[scon]

Well Another Great night

But it is like there is something stoping me from finishing an event the frist 2 times I had to do soething alse so I could do on way and tonight my anti-virus kept minimizing FS

Oh well there is alyways next week

[Zöltuger]

great flight guys, thanks Jon for the server
I always try to disable as many programs as I can before I use FSX, it should help performance and annoying popups too.

and sorry again monkeybdg for my wayward vectoring (or lack thereof)

[ZK-TJL]

Thanks to everyone who showed up......good times......was maddness out of NZAA there for awhile. Thanks to Tim and Alex for ATC and thanks to Jon for running the server. See you all next time

[JonARNZ]

Twas a good evening, glad I wasn't controlling Auckland for the first 30 mins. Good Job Nik, Alex and Zoltuger on ATC. Some screenies from the evening..

I managed to escape early from NZAA



Weather throughout was low viz, who made it that way



I got in and out of Tauranga pretty quick knowing the traffic that was to come, still weather was so bad here that I missed my first approach and with 5 or so aircraft all close by, Zoltuger had his work cut out for him getting us in. In the end we had a number of aircraft having missed approaches in Tauranga due to poor visibility, naturally that just added to the fun Zoltuger had in the tower. That was laughter wasn't it Tim, not quiet sobbing?



Heading to Rotorua with the traffic mounting behind..



Alex vectored me through the visual approach, which funnily enough was the same approach we flew landing at Rotorua Monday evening in the Q300...



Turn around in Rotorua, topped up the tanks for the flight to NZAA as traffic arrived...



Climb out from Rotorua using the grass runway. Did the same in Tauranga freeing up the main runway for arrivals.



Heading back, at FL110 the visibility was still cr@p but we can just make out the Coromandel Peninsula below



Weather broke once we got closer to Auckland. The Baron locked onto and held the ILS nicely, straight line right down to the tarmac, with the help of nice initial vectoring by Nik...



And parked up at NZAA as people started arriving. Great flight.




The 'after match' in the Airworks hangar, sharing our stories and scheming for next week. Twas good to see jimmy on the server.



We hope everyone had a great time, thanks for coming. We are planning something a little different for next week based out of Nelson. Multiple aircraft this time, so it will mean a change from one aircraft type to another as we go, and hopefully be challenging and interesting enough to keep us coming back for more. Cheers.

[Jimmy]

nice Jon

yeah I managed to pop in for 30minutes, for a circut of nzaa in the 172 then just sitting in the hanger with the other gentlemen

Good atc Nik. I manged to get a good 16-18fps for msot of the flight so was qurte enjoyable, I try and make it next week too

[Zöltuger]

In the end we had a number of aircraft having missed approaches in Tauranga due to poor visibility, naturally that just added to the fun Zoltuger had in the tower. That was laughter wasn't it Tim, not quiet sobbing?

haha, definite sobbing
i have a newfound respect for ATC, and can see why you'd get stressed out if that was your day job

[h290master]

The weather was best around NZAA,best visibility, Great goob Being atc,Nik,Alex and guy who was atc at NZTG

[JonARNZ]

Yeah, go' The guy' !

[ZK-Brock]

Here are my shots of the evening


Departing 5R


Ian was cleared for takeoff in his Caravan a very short time after me - I hope he doesn't crash in to me!


Apparently that won't be a problem - looks like I'm climbing a lot faster than him.


Hey Ian!



Approaching Thames


Thames, which IMO is rendered very well in FSX. I remember ZK-DFC (a Goose) was doing circuits here.


Touchdown at NZTG


Eek! Not much wingtip clearance


Departing Tauranga, and I was handed off to Roturua very early.


I asked Alex (RO TWR) what the circuit altitude was for RO...2000ft came the reply. Why not get down there early? Gives me a good excuse for some low flying



Downwind at RO


Crossing the threshold

Unfortunately I didn't make the trip back to Auckland
But I had a great night anyway

[JonARNZ]

Great shots, thanks for posting them.

[ZK-TJL]

great pics monkey . anyone else got any pics from last night???

[Alex]

Nice shots guys, yea, was a good evening. Sorry if some of my messages didn't get through straight away, I'm used to pushing Scroll Lock to talk (I use it on IVAO), and with FSX its Caps Lock.

[Jimmy]

Sorry if some of my messages didn't get through straight away, I'm used to pushing Scroll Lock to talk (I use it on IVAO), and with FSX its Caps Lock.

haha I had the same problem, after a while ya begin to think, perhaps I held down the wrong button lol

. anyone else got any pics from last night???

well I got a few....


my lovely short finals in the defualt 172, the flight dynamics are really easy but do feal quite real (no 2000fp/m climbs anymore ).





In the airport hanger, rather handy haveing the "v" button to take screenshot, I woudl have never botherd opening up explorer to try and locate fsscreen otherwise..

James

[JonARNZ]

Good to see you got a few there jimmy. The V button is great, saves ram having a secondary program running to capture images

[Jimmy]

The V button is great, saves ram having a secondary program running to capture images

lol yeah but I think it gets made up for in fsx itself

[JonARNZ]

True dat