MV Challenges for Flight Simulator
NEWS

• New MV Challenges -- latest first
  
  For FS2004: ATC deviations, Windward STOL, Alaska fjords 2 (now also in Italian).
  
  For FS2002: DC-3 ferry 2, Great Plains blizzard 2, Tropical Solomon Islands 2, Concorde BA001, Thai monsoon.
  
  For FS2000: Bumpy Chile, New polar route 2, Antarctic mission, Trans Siberia, Sydney-London by 707, Caribbean evacuation, DC-3 over the Hump, ....
  
  
• November 2001 -- MV Challenges become founding member of the AVSIM Educational Resource (AER)
  
  AVSIM has started a comprehensive new resource that focuses on providing a diverse set of educational tools for flight simmers around the globe.
  
  
• April 2001 -- New web site for the MV Challenges
  
  Avsim generously accepts to host the web site of the MV Challenges, as a new Partner.
  
  At the same time, the web site has been redesigned to allow easier overview, navigation and downloads: the Challenges have been grouped in categories, and direct links for downloading from Avsim.com or other sites have been added.
  
  
• April 2001 -- MV Challenges become an Avsim Partner
  
  Avsim awards the MV Challenges the status of Partner: "Partners represent the best in their categories of contributions to the community."
  
  
• March 2001 -- 50th MV Challenge uploaded
  
  The "New Polar Route" MV Challenge is the 50th in the series.
  
  
• March 2001 -- MV Challenges pass the 100,000 download mark
  
  The downloads at FlightSim.com and Avsim.com, taken together, have exceeded 100,000, since the first upload in late January, 2000 (MV Challenge "Alaska fjords"). This does not count downloads from other web sites.
  
  
• November 2000 -- Review of the MV Challenges by FlightSim.com
  
  FlightSim.com publishes a review of the MV Challenges. It focuses on a New York-London flight in the "Concorde flights" Challenge, and on the "Nepal Highlands" Challenge. One quibble: do cruise the Concorde at 50000+ ft and Mach 2.00-2.02!
  
  
• March 2000 -- Second patch of FS2000.
  
  The second patch of FS2000 removes the inconsistency between HSI and RMI displays of NDB directions on some aircraft: the difference was particularly noticeable in the polar regions, where the difference between magnetic and geographic North is large.