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 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 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 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
Canadian Xpress December 2013 Challenge – Sunwing Direct
This month’s challenge was submitted by Phil Power (CXA872) who lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where in the winter months Sunwing tours shows up with a Boeing 737-800 and operates weekly direct flights to Veradero, Cuba. This is the longest direct flight that operates out of Fredericton where normally Toronto and Montreal are the only long haul direct flights out of Fredericton.
This month, your job is to pack up all the sun screen you can find and load up the Canadian Xpress® Boeing 737-900 (as we don’t have a 738) which is available to all pilots regardless of rank, but only for the challenge in Fredericton (CYFC) with a bunch of pasty white Continue reading
Canadian Xpress November 2013 Challenge – Paradise Kiwi Style
This month’s challenge and its name, was inspired by a YouTube Video posted by Paul (CXA002) of an A320 crew on approach to Queenstown New Zealand. It will quickly show you why Queenstown is listed on SimTours.net as an airport with a dangerous and difficult approach.
This month, your job is to load up either the Canadian Xpress® Airbus A320-200, Boeing 737-900NG, Boeing 737-300 or the Bombardier CRJ-700 which are available to all Canadian Xpress pilots regardless of rank, but only for the challenge for a domestic hop from Auckland (NZAA) to Queenstown (NZQN). This is a fairly common route so Continue reading
Canadian Xpress Summer 2013 Challenge – Aviation History
North America is very rich in aviation history. From the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk to the home of Boeing, along with most of the major GA manufactures. This summer Canadian Xpress® is taking its pilots on an aviation history lesson by visiting major points of aviation history.
The Canadian Xpress® Summer 2013 Challenge consists of 12 legs starting at Toronto’s Downsview airport, manufacturing home of the Bombardier Dash 8 and ends at Boeing field home of everything Boeing and not far from the offices where MS Flight Simulator was developed.
Join Canadian Xpress® today in order to participate as there are Continue reading
