NZFF

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:43 pm**

Posted: Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 17:36
Last night at the Annual Awards Banquet the winners of the prestigious "Bravo Zulu" awards and the Reader's Choice Awards were presented.

The BZ recipients, as chosen by the AVSIM Staff, were:

Commercial Aircraft - Level-D 767 by Level-D;
GA Aircraft - Taildragger Collection by RealAir Simulations;
Scenery - German Airports 2-Munster-Osnabruck by Aerosoft;
Utility - Active Sky X by HiFi Simulations;
Freeware - Simshed;
Hardware (Tie) - Track IR 4 Pro by Natural Point Technologies Inc and Digital TripleHead2Go by Matrox Graphics; and
Special Achievement - FSUIPC by Peter Dowson.

Your choices for recognition of excellence were:

Freeware Original Aircraft - 747-400 by IFly;
Freeware Scenery - Glacier Bay V2 by Holger Sandmann's team;
Freeware Utility - GDI & Radar Gauge by Eric Marciano;
Freeware "Other" - The History of Flight Simulator by Jos Grupping;
Commercial Aircraft - 747-400 by PMDG;
Commercial Utility - Radar Contact V4-3 by JDT LLC; and
Commercial Scenery - St Maarten by Fly Tampa.

The house was full, with most of the award recipients present to receive their hardware and the accolades of their fans and peers. AVSIM thanks the vendors for their continued support in providing new product for the AVSIM team to review, and you, our readers, for your continued support to the AVSIM Library.

From: http://www.avsim.com/

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:43 pm**

Well I wouldn't have complained if RealNZ Marlborough had won, but St Maarten does have a charm all of its own.
Biggest question is; Do you keep
this shot:

or that:

Just some fun with the freeware Overland MD-11.

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:55 pm**

Shot 2 I think - the guys with the cameras have got a lens full & that guy on the bike isn't going to stay up! Seen the topless girls over at St Barthelemy!? Yep St Maarten is amazing!

Posted: **Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:23 am**

Nice to see that the guys who made them got there awards for it all ,though i do think Robin should have been somewhere in the list aswell ...
Big UPs to all that won

Posted: **Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:52 pm**

Naki wrote:
QUOTE (Naki @ Nov 12 2007, 10:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Seen the topless girls over at St Barthelemy!? Yep St Maarten is amazing!

Only the one that looks like she died with her boots on...
turns out the strip is just enough for a Mooney at max weight.

Best paint yet by Sean Doran.

Posted: **Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:41 pm**

Gotta love the approach into St Barts:

Heaps more shots here: http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3883

Posted: **Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:23 am**

Trolly wrote:
QUOTE (Trolly @ Nov 13 2007, 10:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Gotta love the approach into St Barts:

It's hard to capture the sense of how steep the approach is - in your screenshot, if you didn't know the aircraft was nose-down, what, 30deg? you'd assume it was just flying on down the road.
I'll confess I hadn't explored the scenery beyond Juliana too much, so was the first time for me.
Thanks for the backlink, some good shots there.
See the airliners.net links have a BN Islander, wonder if it can get out up the hill fully laden?

Posted: **Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:02 pm**

Trolly wrote:
QUOTE (Trolly @ Nov 13 2007, 10:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Gotta love the approach into St Barts:

Heaps more shots here: http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3883

The only (slightly unfair) gripe I have is that when I downloaded a BMW and tried to drive around St Barthelemy Island, My can sunk below the road

This was especially bad on the road behind the 152. But hey, It's FLIGHT simulator..