June Screenshot Competition

[NZ255]

"Auckland Tower, New Zealand 704 is going around"..........Positive rate of climb, gear up.

[NZ255]

Bump - Guys only 10 more days left and so far only 9 screenshots entered......

[Ian Warren]

Was one very cold June , a BAC 167 Strikemaster run into very serious problems ..... a storm front so quick and violent ! south of Wellington on a Armed training flight of the worst , a massive hit from a lightning strike seriously damaging the aircraft .. shutting a lot off systems down , activating some till they failed and arming weapons ! , ejection systems killed and wiring frayed .
The Wellington born pilot figured his best chances was NZWN rather than return to Ohakea , engine not running to perfect .. but not knowing the damage on the outside .. and with gear lights saying down .. attempted a landing in the wild weather , just shere luck Willie Apiata VC and his private NZArmy Unimog saved the day !

He saved the pilot , the plane .... one reporter ask , were did you get the idea .... Willie VC .. said INTERNATIONAL RESCUE , The THUNDERBIRDS

[creator2003]

Love it Ian ,awesome concept but ive always known you where full of them since the early days in this comp and many other topics ,,love the story line
PS :also love that airbus NZ255 great shot and weather theme hey to all i havent yet to coment on awesome work hope there are more entrys BUMP

[Ian Warren]

Cheers Mike , all good screens think the weather sod most off , yip .... comic book hero maybe ..

[Kahu]

Ride The Lightning (for all the old school bogans)

Not as exciting as Ian's. Love your shot Ian

[jastheace]

whew, got it on the deck, safe and sound, lightening everywhere, rain and hail, strong cross wind, eveything else was shut, diversion was not an option

[ranm]

my (first) contribution. Nothing too dramatic, just some snow on the way to Timaru at the beginning of the month.



Ran

[Mattnz]

Nice, Ran. The first entry that the 'wild weather' isn't rain

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (ranm @ Jun 22 2008, 06:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

my (first) contribution. Nothing too dramatic, just some snow on the way to Timaru at the beginning of the month.
Ran

Jeppers Creepers Ran ... looking at that screen cost another 100 bucks on me power bill ! ... Your first ... GOOD LUCK man

[toprob]

Since I haven't been able to find any bad weather in the South Island this month (much promised, but not much delivered) I went a bit further afield.
Wellington in the fog, and some scary looking clouds...

[Ian Warren]

Living dangerously ... Rob ... one of those clouds could rip that plane apart !

[Timmo]

Heres mine.....Heli logging in the Milford Sound, a cold southerly brings rain and makes flying even more difficult.

[Ian Warren]

Goregous screen Tim

[wilycoyote4]

IFR approach at dawn heading for Invercargill in a bit of snow with cumulus above and fog below. I do like the New Zealand paints featuring The Lord of The Ring theme. This Air New Zealand paint for the default A321 is at avsim, I think. Would love to know of other paints for any aircraft with the theme. I really enjoy the weather theme for the contest and the entrys certainly inspire my effort to make a screenshot from the New Zealand weather at the far south of the country. I take a stab at it. Not a hard screen to take but the flying to a landing from cruise above the clouds to landing lived up to the weather theme. I enjoyed the flight especially as I haven't been so far south in New Zealand nor pushed the theme of winter snow and am not cetain Invercargill gets such weather in reality. FSX SP2 DX9

[Anthony]

Some nice entries again this month, but I think I have a pretty good idea who I'm going to vote for.

[captainherc]

First try at screenshot comp. Very basic first attempt.
Approaching NZAA on ILS 23L June 27 1749.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (captainherc @ Jun 27 2008, 07:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

First try at screenshot comp. Very basic first attempt.

Looking good to me .... my only prob It should be a C130 ...... nah only jokin .. Great Screenie

[BK-117]

well heres my shot.

[TimG]

Here is my entry...