Just to clarify the time for those of us on the dark side of the world. I think 10.00am CST equates to 1600 GMT/UTC i.e. 6 hours difference.
It sounds like fun and I'll endeavour to be there, although it will be 3am here on the 2nd here (YSSY)! Drew On Tuesday 01 January 2008 11:24:59 Curtis Olson wrote: > On Dec 31, 2007 4:26 PM, Hal V. Engel <t> wrote: > > I have trouble reading this on my system. Is there a way to increase the > > font > > size? > > That sounds like a good question for Melchior ... our gui guru. > > It would be even better to have voice communications either through FGCOM > (I > > > don't think this is ready for real use yet but I have not tried it) or > > perhaps a TeamSpeak setup. My experience using TeamSpeak for formation > > work > > has been good. But this would require more lead time for most folks than > > just one day. But maybe this could be setup and announced in advance the > > next time there is an event like this so that people can get their voice > > communications setup and tested in advance. > > > > I assume this means the taxiway to the left (north west) of rwy12? > > Perhaps > > non-participants (spectators) can position themselves on the other side > > of > > the runway so that they are out of the way. > > > > Probably the weather will be more or less like it is right now at that > > location. I just checked it out and right now the weather there is very > > good > > for flying (clear with light winds). Perhaps participants should spend > > some > > time familiarizing themselves with the airport layout today. > > > > Good choice, good model, fairly easy to fly but does require some > > taildragger > > skills. But is not very good for aerobatics work. Perhaps it would be > > possible to schedule another event like this (perhaps the first Saturday > > in > > Feb or something similar) were the tasks will be aerobatic in nature (IE. > > fly > > a knife edge pass just off the runway for the full length of the runway) > > and > > we can then use an easy to fly fully aerobatic aircraft like the PC-7. > > > > It might also be better to use an airport with more than one runway. > > This would allow participants to land on the alternative runway after > > completing a > > task to get back in line without causing delays. > > > > Please show up on time since users entering the MP server causes > > significant > > pauses in other users simulations. Getting there on time will minimize > > these > > disruptions. > > All excellent points to consider. I'm hoping that folks have so much fun > with this that we end up needing to schedule regular contests and group > sessions. And I'm hoping that we'll get a few volunteer organizers down > the road ... I'm probably only good for running a couple a year. For > tomorrow we are hopefully just going to have fun flying around a bit and > not get into heavy aerobatics, but maybe we'll try to push the limits of > the airplane and people's nerve/good sense just a bit. I'm really hoping I > can induce at least a few spectacular crashes. We'll also be testing > logistics and see if the MP chat system is even feasible for this sort of > thing ... I think it will be if folks pay attention and don't miss when > their name is called. > > A real aerobatic competition would also be awsome ... we could lay out some > precise manuevers that are required and then just everyone's performance > ... we could get really rigorous with something like this and mimic the > rules of full scale (or R/C) aerobatic competitions. > > We could also meet at some airport and have a group fly to somewhere else > that involved an interesting route or interesting weather conditions. > > It would even be a ton of fun to just get a dozen people out flying the > pattern in light singles and have everyone announcing their positions and > intensions each time around like it was a real airport ... I could probably > do that for hours and not get bored. > > We also have a carrier which might be turned into a fun group activity. > > There are many types of races we could consider ... > > There really is no limit to what we could do if people apply a small amount > of creativity with this. My goal here is to get the ball rolling so we can > have more and more of these events in the future. > > Regards, > > Curt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
