NZFF

Hi folks,

Today I controlled at McMurdo for a little while, as an event was coming in. It was the Pole to Pole Event, run by RallyeAir. Basically they take off from Iceland, fly over the North Pole (not over, but close ) to Japan, then Japan to Brisbane, Brisbane to McMurdo, McMurdo to Brazil flying close to the South Pole, then Brazil to Europe, and then back to Iceland.
Voice comms over TS are included, but unfortunately you couldn't hear me...

A video below of them landing; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi0lolbXNOw.

And you can download it from; http://filexoom.com/files/2826/mcmurdo.wmv. Just right click and click 'Save Target As...' .

Also I took a few pictures;


First a couple of pics from the scope




Looking out my virtual window


One last scope pic as they are lining up for the approach


PUG113 and PUG116 on ice

Enjoy,

Alex

Amaazing - it's like a completely different hobby, isn't it?

Great fun, unfortunately I didn't get a video of the bit where the Australian 767 (Tom) was spinning around on the spot.
Good practice for Deep Freeze maybe.

Alex

How did you guys cope with the moving runways bug on landing?

It didn't really seem to be too much of a problem.

Alex

I kept accidently trying to land on water, because of some bad scenery i had installed

Matthew