NOTAM Introduction

[stu7708 244]

Welcome to the 6th edition of Mutley's Hangar Around The World Challenge, or ATWC SiX.

Do you love flying your Flight sim, but are stuck flying to the same destinations time and time again?

Want to join in a group activity for your favourite Flight Sim, but feel that other rallies are too strict and/or time consuming for your taste?

Do you enjoy telling a story of your flight, and publishing screenshots to enhance the story?

If the answer is yes to at least one of the above questions then the ATWC SiX is the challenge you've been waiting for!

Bid, Fly and Post, it's as simple as that.

The ATWC is a relay "race" where the participants take turn in bringing the ATWC-baton around the world along a predetermined route.

The route will be published as we progress through the challenge, at this point all we are giving away is that we will start and finish in Southampton, and that the route will favor locations that we haven’t visited in previous Around The World Challenges. This time around we can look forward to roughly the same number of flights as we had in ATWC SiX, but we will be heading to all new locations (Southampton being the obvious exception).

The challenge is split into a number of sections that in turn are split into a number of legs. Once a section is announced a bidding window will open during which all interested pilots can bid for the leg(s) they want to fly. A bid consists of an e-mail sent to a atwc@mutleyshangar.com containing a list of the legs in the current section you are interested in flying. The list should be ordered with the most desired leg at the top of the list. The only other thing needed in the bid is the type of aircraft you will be flying if you make a bid on a leg with restrictions (of course any bribes offered to the race organizers will benefit your chances of getting the leg you want   ).

Once you have been assigned to a flight it’s up to you to plan your flight and fly it. With a few exceptions (more on those later) it’s all a matter of the pilots preference how you get from point A to point B. Pick any plane you want, fly any route you want to. You can even divide the leg into shorter flights with different airplanes (the current record is 9 flights for a leg, with different airplanes for each flight!).

As long as you end up at the planned destination we won’t mind the manner in which you get there. (As long as you do it in a flight simulator of course      )

Once you’re done with your flight all that is left is to post your PIREP in the form of screenshots in the forum. The storytelling bit is purely optional, but some sort of commentary to go along with your screenshots is customary.

The only thing we ask is that you wait until the baton has been delivered to your departure airport by the previous pilot, and leave some time (about 36 hours) for others to view the previous PIREP before you post yours. There will also be a deadline, usually about 3-4 days after the previous PIREP was published, that we want you to keep in order to keep us moving along in good pace.

Legs with imposed restriction
 

On a few legs we will impose some sort of restrictions on your choice of aircraft to add to the challenge of those specific destinations. I.E. it can be in the form of a minimum MTOW for the aircraft you pick.

 

What’s next?

 

Do you feel like joining in?

In that case no real action is needed from your end until a new section is announced and the bidding window is open. The plan is to kick things off some time in early January.

 

However, if you want a personal banner for use in the forum signature, e-mail notification of new sections and bidding windows and your name on the Pilot Roster for ATWC SiX send us an email to atwc@mutleyshangar.com with your Screen name, real name and home country.

 

Hope to see you all take part in this great adventure

Micke,
On behalf of the challenge committee 

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

Yay! I am looking forward to jumping in on this one.

[hifly 925]

Yah! I want to join in this year if only I can figure out why I can't upload pics from Photobucket.

[needles 1,010]

Ok Geoff,
In Photobucket, once you have uploaded your picture(s), Click on the individual picture and you should see that picture come into a preview box on it's own. To the right side of the screen, you should see a group called 'SHARE LINKS'. Click in the box which says 'Slideshow', this will now highlight and say copied.
Go in to Mutley's Hangar and in the area that you are composing a post, make sure you click on the top left hand icon that looks like a switch, above the Bold icon.
This alters how you compose and allows you to paste things. You can not paste if you are using the full editor.
Once you have changed this and added your paste/picture, you can then click it again and continue using the full editor.
 
One more thing, Once you have pasted the link from Photobucket, you need to delete everything outside of the ------ markers.

 

Good luck.

Brian

[hifly 925]

Thanks Brian, I'll give it a try when I'm less knac tired.

[stu7708 244]

Matt and Geoff, welcome to the joys of the ATWC!

 

Now, get that e-mail sent out for a pilot registration so I can put Brian at work punching out those Pilot banners

 

Geoff, to add to Brian's suggestions, what I do is gather the links to all images to a large post in a temporary txt-file. Once you've pasted all the image links into the TXT-file as per Brians pointers just trim off everything outside the IMG-tags and you can paste that straight into the editor here on MH without having to "flip the switch" above the Bold icon.

 

I even tend to write the whole post in wordpad/notepad and then just do any needed editing in the shape of Bold, Italic and adding colors to the text in the forum editor.

[mutley 4,487]

@ Geoff, this may help? http://forum.mutleyshangar.com/index.php/topic/7419-post-images-in-the-forum/