On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 05:20:40 -0500,
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If anyone cares, I am going to be out of town (and country) for the up
> coming week. I have no idea what kind of net/email access I'll have
> available... probably something, but I doubt I'll be able to respond
> to much (if any) FlightGear related email until after I return. I'll
> be in Tromso, Norway on an island inside a fiord
..<pedantic note/>actually a sound; you have Kval�ya ("Whale Island")
in the west (SSW thru NNE).
> above the artic circle. Check it out in FlightGear (--airport=ENTC)
> after downloading:
>
> ftp://ftp.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Scenery/e010n60.tar.gz (30Mb)
>
> It looks like it will be a very beautiful spot and the sun won't set
> the entire time I'm there which will be a bit strange.
..heh, we think the southerners and tourists are quite fun, they go
"Oooooh" and "Aaaaah" for an average 30 hours 'till they drop. ;-)
..in the winter, some miss business opening hours by 12 hours. ;-)
..for the RL midnight sun experience, these next couple of weeks
are the best time of the year, with essentially full daylight from
June 6'th thru July 13'th around Troms�.
> (You can fast forward time and watch the sun also not set in
> FlightGear which is kind of fun.) It get's pretty close to the
> horizon on the north side of the sky, but never drops below the
> horizon.
>
> As much as I wish this would be a family vacation, it is actually a
> business trip relating to the driving sim stuff I do for my day job:
>
> http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/Facilities/index.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Curt.
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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