Thats right. A couple days ago the Virtual Thunderbirds put on its first remote show over water. Alot of work went into making this happen. Not just the planning and mission building but the hours site survey, studying each marker placement to abort plan... No detail overlooked and this was no ordinary VTB airshow as was done in the past.

Six red, white, and blue jets took off at Sochi-Adler airport and then headed west to the resort town of Sochi (a real resort town) and performed a remote High Show. And here are the pics. I wish I could get all of them in here, but here is just a taste of what was demonstrated that day. Thanks to my fellow team members for making this a great first step into our remote shows... No challenge lies to big for us after flying this!

Coming in from behind the crowd for the Clover Loop Opener!


"Blue out ready NOW"


"Ready HIT IT"


"T-D BUP"


"Knife Edge"


"Echelon PIR" a.k.a the Trail Banana


"Vertical Rolls"


"Delta Pass in Review"


"Delta Pass in Review from No. 5's cockpit... LD, pass the mustard"


Delta Roll from the view of No. 5


"Delta Loop"


"Thank You Sochi"

Very cool and Congrats! Look forward to having 2 world class organizations with the VTB and VBA flying together here in the near future! Cant wait guys!

Great Screenshots STRIKER...and...I dont want to brag but...lol...I was there.

Really an honor to get to see the first Remote High Show live. You couldnt have picked a better setting than Sochi-Adler for it either.

Thumper

Awesome screenshots. Job well done.

Nice shots Striker! A little (!?) "triple-T times three" going on in the Delta Roll bud... Delta PIR looked good though and sorry for not passing the mustard. I dropped the bottle and was heads down trying to find it! Yaaawwwnnn... PIR... Bah!


P.S. Check your nomera.tga file (or re-install the mod again). The tail # have graphic issues!

Looks like it was a great show. I know that you guys a year ago were thinking of doing a water show here and I couldn't wait to see it. The screenshots look amazing!

Cheers!

OHHH! so thats how lockon is meant to look :O hehehehehe looks UNREALL (jawdropping) & what a great show, great spot to do a show thus far.....cant wait to see you guys live again WOOT!

Talk soon

Shifty

Very nice shots, looks like the show went real well. Looking forward to more of these!

Lovely shots and beatufil weather for the show.

Is there a video in the making of this one?

Stellar as always, beautiful shots

Just a few more shots from the other night.

Rollout from the Inverted Pass


Whispering: "Sneak Pass"


Knfie Edge Pass as seen from the crowd on the beach


I-to-I Roll from the folks by the hammocks between the palm trees


Calypso (after the aggressive setup required by terrain)


"Stand tall for America's Ambassadors in Blue"


"Low and Slow, demonstrating the remarkable slow speed handling of the F-16"


Hi-Lo Hit


D360


Delta Roll from inside No. 6. Striker pass the mustard back please!!!


Reflection Pass, possibly the toughest maneuver for this show site...


A beautiful view of the 6 Thunderbird jets!

Lovely guys, keep it up

Next stop = with different weather types (wind etc.)?

When you do shows like this, are they open to the public, like your VFAT show was? If so, how are they announced? I lurk around these forums quite a bit, but I didn't hear anything about it.

We're working on a new season and with a slighly new team and these shots are just practice sorties. Hence, why you don't hear about them before hand, although if you hang around our Ventrilo server, there's a good chance you can see us fly. You can always check our FAQs for required sim software and versions and then join our Ventrilo server and find us online. I'm sure you'll be able to spectate one of our sorties if you're interested.

Bump! This goes along with my post about President Bush & Putin dining in Sochi today...it's over a year old, but worth taking another look.