Canadian Xpress April 2014 Challenge – Easter Egg Hunt
This month is about FlightSim Easter Eggs. What is an FS Easter Egg you might ask? Easter Eggs in the computer software world are little hidden secrets developers write in to their software to give you a little shock and surprise should you find them. Easter Eggs have been in FlightSim since the early days back as far as FS4. Where the Prudential sign on One Prudential Plaza in downtown Chicago, would light up as the sun set. FS2000 added more Easter Eggs, like the tethered weather blimp 14,000 feet above the Florida Keys. Some of these Easter Eggs are very time specific, where others can be seen at any time.
For this month’s challenge we are going back in time, back to 1983 to see the Kilauea volcano eruption. The volcano is still erupting today, but the main eruption happened on Continue reading
Canadian Xpress March Fly-In – Spring Break Skiing
Spring Break for most, is a week away somewhere warm, sunny and south. Well not everyone goes south for spring break. Spring Break is also the second busiest time of the year for the major ski areas across Canada and the northern US states, after Christmas.
Canadian Xpress® would like to invite all pilots to join us on Saturday, March 22nd at 21h00edt (Sunday 01h00z) for our March 2014 fly-in where we fly Porter Airlines real world routes and one of their more popular flights from Toronto Billy Bishop Island Airport (CYTZ) to Mont Tremblant International Airport (CYFJ).
There is a real world no-jet restriction at Toronto Island airport which will be applicable for this Continue reading
Canadian Xpress March 2014 Challenge – Diamonds Are Forever
The Canadian North produces some of the finest diamonds in the world. Working underground and in the Canadian North can be very problematic for personal and equipment. The diamond mines of the North are only accessible by ice road during the winter months. During this short 10 week period, hundreds of trucks pull thousands of tons of equipment out to these remote locations. However it’s still a year round operation, so in the months when there is no ice road, the only way to get in to these mines is by air. The ice roads are gone but there is still a lot of small equipment that needs to be moved.
This month, your job is to load up the DeHavilland Dash 7-Q101F or the Hawker Siddeley HS.748 which are available to all pilots regardless of rank but only for the challenge in Yellowknife (CYZF) and fly a Continue reading
Canadian Xpress February Fly-In – Farewell Sochi
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia are into its final days and final preparations for the closing ceremonies are being completed, getting ready to close off another historical event in Olympic history. The flags and well wishes are ready to be passed on to the next host city Pyeongchang South Korea, host of the 2018 winter games.
Canadian Xpress® would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join on Saturday, February 22nd at 21h00est (Sunday 02h00z) for our February 2014 fly-in and the final day of the winter games, as we move our fleet from Istanbul (LTBA) to Sochi (URSS).
This is an open invitation to all pilots no matter what your flying experience to Continue reading
Canadian Xpress February 2014 Challenge – Olympic Spirit Part II
With the start of the New Year, it also brings the hype of the final countdown to the 22nd Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
To celebrate and support the athletes that will be heading to Sochi in the next few weeks, Canadian Xpress® will be visiting North American Winter Olympic sites. The event will be a 2 part Challenge.
In January, Part 1, started in Lake Placid NY home of the 3rd (1928) and 13th (1980) winter games. From there we visited Calgary and Banff host of the 15th (1988).
This month, Part 2 of the event will take us from Banff, to Salt Lake City host of the 19th (2002) winter games, before heading for Vancouver / Whistler home of the Continue reading
Canadian Xpress January Fly-In Ice Wine Country
After a festive Holiday season, we are kicking off the New Year in a fashionable way at the Niagara Ice Wine Festival. From January 10th to the 26th, an eventful list of activities are underway from the wineries to satisfy the most discriminating palate with great food and of course, the most unique wine the Niagara peninsula has to offer: Ice Wine!
Canadian Xpress® would like to invite all pilots & virtual airlines to join on Saturday, January 25th at 21h00est (Sunday 02h00z) for our January 2014 fly-in where we are chartering aircraft for these wine lovers as we will depart from St-Hubert (CYHU) and fly straight to St-Catharines/Niagara District airport (CYSN). Choose your aircraft carefully, as CYSN has a 5000 ft runway. We hope you join us in great numbers for this Continue reading
Canadian Xpress January 2014 Challenge: Olympic Spirit Part I
With the start of the New Year, it also brings the hype of the final countdown to the 22nd Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
The first winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating. The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted by World War II. The Olympics resumed in 1948 and were celebrated every four years. The Winter & Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years until 1992, after a 1986 decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to place the Summer & Winter Games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years. Because of the change, the next Winter Olympics after 1992 were in 1994.
So to celebrate and support the athletes that will be heading to Continue reading
