Thursday, November 03, 2005

FSBoeing777-200LRChallenge

First the good news - Microsoft have announced the Flight Simulator 2004 Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner Endurance Challenge. Here's what MS Say

To participate, you must:

  • Plan and execute a long distance/endurance flight to London/Heathrow airport.
  • Start anywhere based upon your global flight planning skills and knowledge of the 777-200LR Worldliner performance.
  • Fly your flight plan in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight.
  • Capture your experience in an essay and submit your story to us.
  • Complete your flight and submit your story by 2300 UTC, November 7th, 2005.
MS further say -

We will provide the following tools to help you through the event.
  • A modified Boeing 777 for FS2004 with official Boeing Flight Test livery and a -200LR Worldliner flight model.
  • Some helpful links about flight planning and weather to jump start your planning.
  • A template to help organize your story.
  • Other links to learn more about the Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner.
The bad news? Well hopefully not really bad, but as at the time of writing at approx 6:27Pm AEST on Nov 3 the above resources have yet to appear on the FS Insider Site.

UPDATE 10:25AM Fri Nov 4 AEST - The FS Insider Site now tells us the Challenge has been postponed. Mike Gilbert further clarifies this in his blog.

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