06:10: cell phone starts madly virbrating, I get out of bed and turn on my pc..At ...0610AM! (its amazing what a little bit of motivation can do!)
at 0645 I conect to IVAO (my given depature slot) and get ready to recive clearance..
1) heres the posky C17 at NZCH before conecting.
2)Heres after conection! The fps droped to less than 1.
3) after waiting 10mins for sim to reaload (I turned display setting way down, even clouds off to 2d) heres my new view, still getting only 3fps. Anyway back to the event, It was neat hearing the coms so busy, although I had to wait anothor 10mins for my clearance!
4)Hey you little plane, dont get to close.
5) good god!
6)Finaly airborne over christchurch
7)cleared for my fianl flightlevel and atc remeberd my excitance and cleared me for filed route to.
8)wouldn't want a engine failure out here, good thing I have four. By this time I was in the auckland ocenaic airspace and had been handed of from nzzc_ctr. Its great haveing all this atc. Note my fps in this pic. htey usualy are about 5during cruise
9)Heres something that happend alot during the flight, my frames droped rite down to 1. Heres the panel, very simple indeed.
10)Heres a nice view of the whole event in ivAe. Looks prety neat a whole string of pilots! over 40 ppl participated.
11)I see land! We have made it to antarctice.
12)YEHA!
13)After about 20mins of being forotton by atc (aparently there IVAC wasnt working) eventuly someone said its just vfr and the channel is an advisory, so I just went into land.
14)I decided to land long as the rwy has a tendency to disapear! btw when I turned the fs sound off ("q") I got good steady 20+ fps, turning sound of never seems to have any differance, with it on flying around mcmurdo only gave me 7fps, big drop. What could this be?????
15)LANDED!!!
Heres the sinking effect,prety strange ae. its solid ground that im on thow.
16)I think I found the parking spot...
17) last pic showing many pilots on the blks.
So thats all, I really enjoyed this flight, well sorta, my frame rates ruined the departure alot
It was fun flying a whole 6hours, I was able to do other stuff on my pc aswell thow:P
So all in all it was a good event! I even meet a spanish guy, he was excacly 12 hours behind us here in NZ! I thort that was quite neat.
I hope to see more nzff members at the next event (nudge nudge)
James
