01APR24 | Spilled Milk Run Monday - Easter Egg Hunt

You know it’s the end of the month when Spilled Milk Run Monday is back on the calendar. This Easter, we are bringing back the popular Easter Egg Hunt! On the 1st of April, depart Sydney in search of 3 easter eggs at three differrent airports inside the great state of New South Wales.

The first pilot to identify, fly to and land at each airport wins!

Hints for where these airports will be released on the VATPAC Discord.

Edition Details:
The Idea of this Edition of Spilled Milk Run Monday is similar to the Easter Egg Hunt we did last year. From 0800z, one hint will be released every 30 minutes on the VATPAC Discord providing 3 different hints, one for each of the three different airport locations. Pilots then depart Sydney in search for the airports. Once a pilot lands at the airport they believe the Easter egg is at, they take a screenshot and post it in the VATPAC Discord's Event Channel. The first pilot to correctly land and take a screenshot at each airport wins!

Pilots and controllers must follow the relevant criteria below in order to be eligible to win a prize!

Edition Details:
thanks to the generous donations of some of the VATPAC staff, there will be four prizes up for grabs during the Easter egg hunt. The prizes are as follows:

• Pilots: 3 x  €10 ($15AUD) simMarket Gift Vouchers - 1 per airport
• Controllers: 1 x €10 ($15AUD) simMarket Gift Voucher - all eligible controllers will be added to a draw and randomly selected to win the prize.

In order to be eligible to win one of the prizes pilots and controllers must follow the following procedures:

Pilots:

• All pilots must depart Sydney (YSSY) and remain online and connected for the duration of the flight
• Pilots must not use any sim rate enhancement at any time. Doing so will automatically result in disqualification.
• Pilots must follow all controller instructions and not take purposeful shortcuts or refuse sequencing to try and shorten the duration of their flight.
• VATPAC events staff, senior staff and directors are not eligible to win pilot prizes.
• Pilots must not use high performance aircraft to reduce their flights duration. This includes fighter jets, high altitude / speed airliners such as the Concorde, or any other aircraft purposely chosen for an unrealistic speed advantage.
• Upon arrival at the chosen airfield, pilots must post a screenshot on the VATPAC discord #events channel showing their simulator, and a tracking software (Volanta, Simaware) with the flight plan showing the whole flight and tag an event coordinator.
• Pilots are only eligible to receive one (1) prize.
• Pilot can only depart Sydney once the first hint is released.

All flights to correct airports will be closely tracked by Event Coordinators. If a member of the events team believes your flight was not in observance of the above criteria, or that you had any form of unfair advantage, they may deem you ineligible to receive a prize.

Controllers:

• All rostered and unrostered controllers who contributed for at least one hour will be considered for the prize
• Controllers not active for the duration of their rostered period (without a valid excuse) will be ineligible for the draw
• Controllers who already received a pilot prize will not be eligible for the draw

At the close of the event the winners of each category will be announced. 

Controllers:
Controllers who wish to control a position during this event are encouraged to apply here. Positions that do not have a controller online (i.e. no controller controlling the position) will remain free for all controllers available on the day to control.

• BN-ARL_CTR
• ML-YWE_CTR
• ML-BIK_CTR
   
• SY_APP
• SY_TWR
• SY_GND
• SY_DEL

*Non-Standard positions* will be available for opening depending on traffic levels. They may only be opened once all of the Standard positions are filled. Please see a member of Staff, or a C3 rated controller to be granted permission to open a non-standard position. Please review the controller NOTAM for detailed information about which Non-Standard Positions are automatically authorized.
 

Scenery:
YSSY - Sydney:
Payware - FlyTampa v2 (FSX/P3D)
Payware – FlyTampa (MSFS)
Payware - TaiModels (X-Plane 11)
Freeware - AVSIM (FSX/P3D)