tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50201341900892240062011-11-27T23:59:16.817ZA Virtual Company by Joao & Luisa Paz. Since 2000. Bush Flying taken Seriously.Joao Pazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276240863719146217noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020134190089224006.post-32382331978866455212009-06-01T01:14:00.003+01:002009-06-01T01:30:37.509+01:00

Aerosoft PBY Catalina XA Review by AW640 Markus LandwehrUS Coast Guard repaint by Henry William, availabe at flightsim.com (uscg_pby.zip).The PBY Catalina from Aerosoft Online is now available for download at various shops like simMarket or the Aerosoft Website. The prize is 28 EUR, not that cheap, but I simply could not resist buying this classic airplane. Was it worth the money? Read on, and

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Dear Eagles,today I published a review of Aerosoft's new Catalina X in the Hangar Section. Be sure to check it out here: Click meBest regards,Markus

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Tom Allensworth, CEO and Publisher of AVSIM, today issued the following announcement; "We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally

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Hi Eagles!Alaskan Winds' Hawk (AW642) just sent me this piece on the new Quest Kodiak (Build 2.00) by Lionheart Creations Ltd. This looks like an awsome aircraft and it's becoming a regular presence on our Logbooks, too... I'd say she "smells" like an FS Classic to me - but time will tell, of course!So here you go - Richard's detailed work on this new Bush Plane release. Thanks, Richard, great

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Hello Eagles!Please check out our newest fleet member:2009-03-18 - Antonov AN-12BK Cargo for FS2004, N712AWNow with the actual Alaskan Winds Paint Scheme and "Kalinka" logo in cyrillic letters!Repaint byAlaskan Winds Hangar - Four EngineMore Information at the FS2004 - Antonov An-12BK thread

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AW640 Markus Landwehr is no stranger to this prize as he already won it 3 times already.Congratulations, Markus, that was another great job - and it is a great thing to win a flying prize!Read the full flight (and see all Markus' screenshots, too!) -be sure to scroll down to « Reply #47 on Apr 13, 2009, 9:54pm ».

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(click image for a bigger version)And another Old Alaska Screenshot Competition went on, and this time the winner was the Boss! :-) The Boss gave it the best he could find as he wanted badly to win the prize - a great piece of woodwork by another Eagle, AW's COO David Rasmussen.I invite you also to check David's website where you'll find other great works he did!http://www.minnesotafishdecoy.com/

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And here it is, another Alaskan Winds Bush Flying Challenge! Number 6 already, and AW586 David (Ras) Rasmussen - having won Challenge #5 - is now the Race Coordinator! The AWBFC is a friendly competition among our Eagles - an annual championship - where the winner is not the fastest pilot - nor the slowest! - but the one who manages to log the closest time to the average of all logged times. The

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http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/A new Logbooks' section has been created at the Forum: The Novelist Corner.This is the place for our Eagles who enjoy a good story - to write it or to read it! If you are on a series of flights, with some sort of plot, story, historic background - and would like to keep all of your flight logs together, than this is for you.And here's some of the

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Editor's note: Deadline is next Saturday, 4th April, so you still have some time left!Below follows the text posted by Ras at the forum. JP.*It is my pleasure to announce the beginning of the first ever "Old Alaska" screenshot competition. There are very few rules involved so I hope to have lots of entries. Here are the few rules with the prizes that I will award the winners.1. You must fly an

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CYKA, Kamloops, BC Canada - Photo copyright by Martin HunterWelcome Eagles to the Wednesday night flight. This flight was suggested by non other then the famous & good lookin' old pilot himself, AW586 Ras. We will be flying the valleys of British Columbia, Canada tonight so get ready for some awesome scenery gents!The flight from point to point measures 170 miles but will be longer because of the

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Antonov AN-12BK by Vladimir Zhyhulskiy, Dmitriy SmirnovHello Eagles, I am proud to tell you that KOSMOS Airlines, Russia has agreed to sell us their Antonov AN-12BK Cargo aircraft. The plane is currently undergoing a heavy maintenance routine and will thereafter be flown to a paint shop to receive the actual AW paint scheme. All this should be finished by the end of the first week of April.The

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The next Challenge flight offers to be an exciting one in an aircraft that many have flown since the last challenge. We have not done a Challenge flight in a twin engine plane so if there are no objections, I think we will enjoy the flight in the wonderful Beechcraft D-18.Here is one link where this aircraft can be downloaded:http://www.flightsimonline.com/d18s/The Alaskan Winds Bush Flying

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Let me tell you... Alaskan Winds is very lucky to have someone with the knowledge of AW612 Jesse 'Silverfox' Norris - the Alaskan Winds Chief Pilot. And when I say "lucky" is because Jesse has been sharing with us his knowledge and long aviation experience. Each of his Logbook entries are a delight to read and you can't fail to notice the care he puts into each flight report.That is why I want to

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AW655 Mike Elliot has been designing some very cool Missions for Flight Simulator and the 3rd one has just been released! This latest one is based on a flight featured at "The Old Alaska" - one of the most distinct Alaskan Winds Departments and the brainchild of AW586 David "RAS" Rasmussen (Ras is Alaskan Winds COO).This mail run would normally take a team of sled dogs some 20 days to cover the

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Hey Hey Hey!With nine behind our back, welcome to the 10th year at Alaskan Winds!True. On this date but on March 25, 2000 there was another bush flying virtual airline on the block - in those FS98 days almost every group of virtual pilots was called a VA, a Virtual Airline. Those were the days when to have a Multiplayer session with voice comms at the same time would require some serious wizardry

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