Post by Frank Seigler-KE5ETD on Jan 14, 2006 23:33:51 GMT
Alaskan Winds will once again be holding their virtual version of the Iditarod and we have been invited to participate.
For those that are not familiar with the Iditarod, it is the worlds biggest dog sled race. It starts in Anchorage and ends 1000 miles late in Nome. Mushers from all over the world paticipate in this and the race usually takes anywhere from one to two weeks to run.
Alaskan Winds simulates the operation of the Iditarod Air Force which is a group of volunteer bush pilots that fly everything from dog food to hale bails and even injured dogs along the race trail. The way the AW operation works is that you pick a real musher that you want to support and then you track that mushers progress via various websites and fly on a daily basis to the checkpoints that the real musher has made it to. AW even has custom scenery that recreates all of the checkpoints. Last year there was even an ABL script that you could run that would do things like provide directions to the next checkpoint, provide backgroud sound like people talking and dogs barking, and it would even allow you to play a small selection of music while your were flying.
I have participated the last two years and will participate again this year. I highly encourage everone to participate, it is a lot of fun.
For those that are not familiar with the Iditarod, it is the worlds biggest dog sled race. It starts in Anchorage and ends 1000 miles late in Nome. Mushers from all over the world paticipate in this and the race usually takes anywhere from one to two weeks to run.
Alaskan Winds simulates the operation of the Iditarod Air Force which is a group of volunteer bush pilots that fly everything from dog food to hale bails and even injured dogs along the race trail. The way the AW operation works is that you pick a real musher that you want to support and then you track that mushers progress via various websites and fly on a daily basis to the checkpoints that the real musher has made it to. AW even has custom scenery that recreates all of the checkpoints. Last year there was even an ABL script that you could run that would do things like provide directions to the next checkpoint, provide backgroud sound like people talking and dogs barking, and it would even allow you to play a small selection of music while your were flying.
I have participated the last two years and will participate again this year. I highly encourage everone to participate, it is a lot of fun.
