Jess-b 420 Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Hi guys, Awhile back, I asked your help on behalf of my PC pilot collegue and friend, Tony. Well as part of a fundraiser two of my other collegues have put together a mass fly-in this coming weekend. With that in mind, I'll turn you over to my Deputy editor to explain what's happening. Posted 13 January 2013 - 04:52 PM Gang, As many of you will remember the team at PC Pilot have been working towards creating a sponsored event in aid of Tony Radmilovich, to help repair his spine so he can walk again. The link to the intial thread at AVSIM is here. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/387354-tony-radmilovich-an-appeal-for-help/ I am delighted to say that in association with PC Pilot Magazine and our official sponsors PMDG, ORBX, Addictive Simulations, Buffalo Virtual Airways and United Virtual, the very kind (and appreciated!) support of the AVSIM team and many others we can now announce that a special series of flights will now be flown on VATSIM, starting 23.59GMT 18.59EST on the 18th Jan (next Friday). Pilots are invited to fly a tour of Canada and the USA on VATSIM, joining with PC Pilot writers and others from within the flight simulation hobby. The full itinerary will follow shortly over the next day or so. Not only that, the entire event will be broadcast using live streaming to Youtube and other broadcast sites who are helping us provide live cockpit video. In addition to cockpit video Peter Wright will be providing a realtime commentary and also interviewing many flight sim developers and simmers, in what we hope will prove to be an entertaining weekend. There will also be a series of competitions and prizes as part of the broadcasted events. This is destined to be one of the most exciting FS events in some time! How can you get involved? 1) Donations to Tony's appeal are more than welcome. Please see the links above and links we will be posted during the event and advertising during the live video feed commentaries. 2) Feel free to fly with us as a group flight on any of the post legs of the journey. The more people we have fly with us the better. Everyone of you is welcome to join us and have some fun for a really good cause. Competitions We will be running competitions during the live videocast, offering prizes from our sponsors, so come along and have some fun and win everything from the AVSIM Bravo Zulu 2012 awarded Addictive Pitts Special to the latest ORBX sceneries and much more! I run a VA can I get involved? Yes, VA's are invited to contribute by taking "ownership" of various legs for group flights with their pilots. For instance, Buffalo Virtual are kindly sponsoring the flights across Canada and will be flying these legs online in realtime with their pilots and aircraft. United Virtual are sponsoring some of the US city routes and will be flying those legs with their pilots too. If you are a VA and want to be involved with your members, contact us here. I am a developer / publisher can I get involved? You certainly can. You are more than welcome to get involved any way you see fit, from flying with us to competition prizes to being interviewed live during the videocast to discuss your latest products. Contact me here in the forum or via PM, or my PC Pilot email. However you can help will be incredibly appreciated. Thank you already to PMDG for their offer of being an official supporter and sponsor of this event. More sponsors and supporters are more than welcome! Can I publicise this for you? Yes please do! Wherever and however you can. A huge thanks goes out to AVSIM for their incredible support for this good cause. Thank you Tom, Robert and team! If you can publicise this anywhere, please help us out! Will you be flying Jane? Yes myself and an entire squad of PC Pilot writers will be taking to the air and we will be happy to meet you in the chatroom we are creating for the event to shoot the breeze! Of course, I got to pick the short straw with the graveyard shift over Alaska, but I will be back flying during daylight hours too (sleep who needs it!) The event will continue across the entire weekend, with each pilot handing the baton over to the next pilot at each destination in the USA and Canada. Those of you joining us freel free to fly an aircraft of your choice. The PC Pilot team will be flying the PMDG 737 NGX. Thanks again to Robert Randazzo and PMDG for their official support! Let's get together and have an awful lot of fun. More importantly, let us help Tony overcome his severe health issues by providing him with the care that he needs! Any questions, please feel free to ask! Everyone is welcome to fly and get involved. Let's make this a special weekend! The flight plan and timings will be posted here shortly, see you in the skies Jane whittaker. So that's it. I and many others will be there all weekend, so come and join us. Best wishes, Jess B Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 your link to the thread doesnt appear to work Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Thanks Nigel, I have amended the forum link in Jess' post. The link to the actual fly in event is http://forum.avsim.n..._ppeal-for-help (A different link to what is in jess' post) Link to post Share on other sites
Jess-b 420 Posted January 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Thanks joe, Sorry I missed the link issue, but avsim had a royal moment after an upgrade, so the link ended up out of date. Anyway a quick update on the weekends activities. Things are looking up with pmdg offering as a prize, a copy of the upcoming 777 to one lucky donator, possibly before the rest of us smucks get it. In total, we've got around 56 prizes to give away over the weekend. Once again I turn you over to my collegue, Jane to explain. Guys, I just wanted to point out the prizes on offer for the Tony Radmilovich special flight on AVSIM. For those of you interested in the Boeing 777 from PMDG (and who isn't interested!), Robert Randazzo has announced that one will be given away during the course of this weekends Tony Radmilovich Special Flight on VATSIM and even hinting that the lucky winner (who donates to the cause) may also get an early copy before everyone else. For added good measure, Robert is also offering prizes of the full PMDG 737NGX package to four lucky winners. (yes this includes the 600/700 expansion pack). You can also hear Robert online discussing the 777 and new releases during the event. Here is a link to the announcement from Robert at PMDG http://forum.avsim.n...-use-your-help/ If that is not enough, Flight 1 are also offering the fantastic prize to 10 lucky winners of anything from their store. These prizes will be picked from the hat randomly from the list of donators over the weekend. Thank you Flight 1, it is really appreciated. Yet, this is far from the end of things. The amazing people at Just Flight are also offering donators the chance to win anything from their store too! Thank you Scott, Dermot and the Just Flight team. They have also posted a lovely intro piece on their homepage. The list goes on, ORBX are also offering the pick of any of their products to donators picked out of the hat! Thank you very much to John Venema for this! The amazing Fernando at Carenado is also offering Carenado and Alabeo products! Thank you to everyone at Carenado! David Chester over at Addictive Simulations is offering copies of his AVSIM Bravo Zulu award winning Pitts Special along with copies of his VC10 and Trident! Thanks David! This is far from the end of the list! Thanks also to AVSIM for the huge amount of help they are giving us too ! How do you win these prizes:- Donators to the Tony Radmilovich appeal will automatically have their details entered in to the hat (please leave your contact email with donations! as you donate). Anyone flying with us over the weekend on the VATSIM legs of the tour event will also be eligible for entry into a prize draw! How do you get involved: The legs and further details are here. http://forum.avsim.n...vent-18-20-jan/ If you want to know more about Tony and his situation read here:- http://forum.avsim.n...ppeal-for-help/ I hope to see many of you both donating and flying with us over the weekend. The event starts this Friday at 12midnight GMT (7 PM Fri eastern) So come along If you can as the whole weekend promises to be a laugh, if tiring for us. Best wishes, Jess B Link to post Share on other sites
Kasper 14 Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Contributed on the original appeal, so won't win any prizes but I will try to fly the midnight shift in Alaska. Link to post Share on other sites
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