Cross Africa

[colin hill]

Hi all,

I have recently completed an audio visual for an international organization called VATSIM, which is virtual air traffic simulation.

We connect on our flight simulators and with plugins, am able to see each other in our planes online and speak to air traffic control on air.

This year is their 10th birthday celebration and to celebrate this, they organized a round the world trip. This started on the 24th September

and I was asked to do an audio visual of the flights from 4 airports in Europe,down Africa to South Africa.

This was my first attempt at using version 7 and inserting videos. There are 4 videos in total. The pictures were taken flying in my small

cessna and the scenery is from my flight simulator. I have provided the link to You Tube and you can view it in HD. The reason for this is that

the file is 178mb in size and too big for most forum members to download.

I have posted this purely for anybody who may be interested in viewing it.

Colin

[Lin Evans]

Hi Colin,

Wonderful job!! Nice landing in Johannesburg, by the way! Flight Simulator has come a long way since I last used it back in the 80's! Excellent mix of video with stills. You aerial photos reminded me of flying my little Aeronca Chief back in the early 60's - fun times. That was quite a production!

Best regards,

Lin

[colin hill]

Lin and Tom,

Thank you for your comments. This took me 3 weeks to complete, a lot being a learning curve for me as I had never worked with video before.

Lin, flight simulator has come a long way from when I started in the early 90's. Today it is so realistic and real world pilots use it for

training in their home environments. I have learnt a lot from flight simulator and 2 years ago, myself and 3 mates flew around the world in 80 days,

flying to a strict plan every night, sometimes till 2am or 3am in the morning. We used VATSIM and were in contact with ATC from all parts of the world

flying in our Boeing 747's. This, we think was a world 1st as others have flown around the world, but have taken some months to do it.

Tom, I have used X-Plane, but still prefer the good old Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Regards,

Colin