Welcoming members to a floatplane daytrip online

[kiwibarguy]

My good friend Daniel (Gojozoom) e-mailed me to see if i would like to join him for another flight together. So i thought it would be great again to open up this online opportunity to come fly with us as we head up the South Island in float planes. If you would like to join us please let us know here on this blog. I am planning this for next Tuesday or Wednesday around 7:30-8pm on the 14th or 15th of July. So dig out any ol' plane with floats, whether it be an Sc.30 Empire, Super Otter or even a slow riding Beaver. Come along and join in for some team time! It's all casual, so it's great for new comers and the nzff old skoolers!

Let's see how many we can get up in the air! Let me know what date suits you all! Friday and Sundays are usually put aside for other online aviation activities!

2009 Mid Winter Floatplane Excursion

Te Anau-Lake Manapouri

Our starting point for the journey, a great place for floatplane donuts and engine reving!

Queenstown- Lake Wakatipu

We will drop into Queenstown so the tourists can take all their photos and we can complain at the price of the cafes.

Wanaka-Lake Wanaka

Just a short flight to beautiful Lake Wanaka.

Lake Tekapo-Lake Tekapo

Finally finishing off at Lake Tekapo for dinner.

I will be setting my season as Winter and my time as 12pm Lunchtime. I will also have my real weather setting on just to give it a touch of who knows what may happen.

Thanks guys, feel free to contact me! Both FS9 and FSX'ers will be present.

[Ian Warren]

Would have been a great ride Paul , with the release of the updated Goose for FSX , some of us with the Catalina .. unfortunately im wired to work .. BUGGER!

[kiwibarguy]

I have not set a date as yet for this so i am open to suggestions for a night that suits us all! Would love to see you there Ian! Do you work every weeknight?

[gojozoom]

Wow Paul,

Thanks for publishing the idea in your usual high quality standard with photographs and detailed trip description.
Any date is fine for me, so I make it up to you guys.

A suggestion for all before this flight : Make yourselves comfortable with using the SLEW mode, as those lakes don't have water bases in default, so we have to place the aircrafts there manually.


I'll fly the Lake Renegade T270.

See you in the water,
gojozoom

PS.: It we'll be funny to see those floating Cessna 172's everywhere

[CFoxe]

FS9 users might get lucky then ..... at least with Lake Te Anau. Have been working (on and off) modelling the Wings & Water FBO. It's more than half finished, then I will just need to place it, create an AFCAD and ........ voila!

Christopher

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (kiwibarguy @ Jul 9 2009, 09:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do you work every weeknight?

but Fridays .

[gojozoom]

Friday sounds good to me... Who else we've got?

[kiwibarguy]

oooooh friday night, TFK or FSX, now that is a tough one! OK if you are both fine with that then we will make it 8pm, i will go on around 7:45pm just to make sure all my bits and pieces are working (eew eer sounds a bit rude).

Just a reminder that this is online flying at its noobiest, no tower or flight plans as such, just a get together, flying togther,using teamspeak if you wish.If not then that is fine too. Your presence will be more than enough.

Friday 10th July 09 8pm on our server and TeamSpeak if so desired

[Ian Warren]

Be more off a test flight for me , my TS is down , my new graphics card still has'nt arrived .. was promised today ! .. ....time to push the limits tomorrow get things up and running !

[kiwibarguy]

! hope you have your craft ready and your wine glass full Dan!

[Ian Warren]

Paul .. whoopin great graphic card going in now as i type .. oh boy ..am i going to have fun tonight , sarvo be trying to get comms up running , what address do we use for the Team Speak .. i might also be able to communicate through the FS channel , havnt used that for so long either .. going to be interesting

[kiwibarguy]

Hey great news Ian! What did you get yourself? I am at work at the moment so im not sure what the ip address we are using till i get home. Dan do you know?

yeah, i got a GT9800 recently and i love it, especially on farcry2 which is in my opinion an awesome example of a well made game engine that delivers awesome graphics without the strain. A great game once you get to the second map.

I am looking forward to having a fun night!

[Ian Warren]

The G/card is a GTX295 1.8 gig DDR3 bla bla bla , weigh s in at .3 of a kg !

[kiwibarguy]

GTX with double data rate 3!!! now you've made me jealous!

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (kiwibarguy @ Jul 10 2009, 01:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

GTX with double data rate 3!!! now you've made me jealous!

I'll let you no , Be interesting to check out the ORBX scenery with , I'm simply looking for something for when you MAX the sliders it cuts the mustard!

[kiwibarguy]

Weather Forecast

We are looking at 1 degree celcius, partly cloudy, 10% chance of pricipitation, 89% humidity, N to NNW from 5km/h

I don't think we could have chosen a better time to fly!

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/busi...&cm_ite=map

[gojozoom]

QUOTE (kiwibarguy @ Jul 10 2009, 11:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

! hope you have your craft ready and your wine glass full Dan!

I do. I have my two favourites : Japanese plum wine (Choya) with ice and soda, and the nice Australian Fruitwood. I had Riverstone Kiwi Fruit wine yesterday, and that was fantastic, too.

It'll be a yummy evening

[cooldad]

Hey guys,

How do I connect to the server using FSX. Do we use Gamespy??? What is the server IP?

Paul

[kiwibarguy]

Lake Manapouri

Coming into Queenstown

Coming into Timaru

Heading to Lake Wanaka

Lake Tekapo

We had 5 online which was great to see. Great to see you there Timmo, Cooldad, Ashton and Gojozoom!

[Ian Warren]

Floatplanes and flying boats across the nation ! ... missed ya this weekend , the PC is no were near up to scratch least for the hardware it has in it now ... like ive stepped back in time just like that goose so back to the shop this morning .