Operation Arctic Revitalization:

The event is held from November 22, 2023, at 08:30UTC to Decembre 24, 2023, at 08:30UTC.

The challenge takes place in the Nordics and Greenland scenery included in MSFS WU XV. The new hand-crafted airports have been marked with an “*” on the Christmas Challenge dashboard.

The Challenge

Santa Claus and his reindeer have been bedridden for a few weeks now. Christmas is rapidly approaching and they are unable to deliver Christmas presents!

Looking for solutions, the Elves headed into the Great Library, they found a scroll of tales which tell a story that near Hvítserkur Rock, there is a lake filled with magical water, only this will allow them to make sure Santa and the Reindeers are feeling better before Christmas.

The Elves, busy finishing the children's gifts, asked the Gnomes for help in extracting the magical water at the foot of Hvítserkur Rock.
Mission accomplished by the Gnomes! The vials containing the remedy are now stored in a special hangar at Ísafjörður Airport (BIIS) equipped with a stabilizer device, needed to keep the magical water fresh and vital.


To save Christmas they now need the help of experienced pilots like you (this excludes AI pilots 😊) to bring the vials to Ivalo Airport (EFIV) airport where Santa's Healing House is located, while making sure to not fly too rough as the vial is very fragile!

The Objectives and Rules

• The main mission is to transport vials from: Ísafjörður (BIIS) to Ivalo (EFIV) in 6 flights, landing on: BIHN, EGPB, ENAL, ENRA, ENSQ and finally at EFIV.
• The vial is transported in a special stabilizer device (SSD – not to be confused with any computer hardware piece) installed in your aircraft.
• The SSD needs to be fueled with a special material (Dilithium) to be stable enough to transport the vial.

To make sure the vial is transported safely the installed SSD will gyroscopically stabilize the vial, but it does have its limits:

• It need to stay near to the ground, below 500FT above ground level;
• The SSD is GPS-locked to make sure it stays stable, therefore it has to stay in a direct route corridor between the departure and arrival airport, about 5NM wide;

If these limits are passed the SSD will give off warnings, you should correct your course or the vial will start to become damaged! (20 seconds tolerance for altitude, 60 seconds for the corridor)

• The SSD can only correct so much, banking or pitching the plane more than 30° will cause instant damage to the vial!
• G-force in excess of 1.5 or less than -0.75 will also damage the vial!

Once the plane has landed at the next destination, the SSD will have to be refueled.
If there is any Dilithium stored in the Airports special public Cooling Hangar, you are in luck and can refuel and continue on your journey. Note that you can refuel if needed at any airport (like EKVG on the Faroe Island) without consuming the Dilithium. Some airports like the Setermoen Airstrip (ENSQ), the last stop before the Arrival, don’t have any IFR or Night capabilities and you need to fly in good weather.
Most of the secondary missions can be flown at any time, some of them having interesting and unusual approches. They don’t have any constraints (500ft AGL, direct route, max bank, max pitch, max gforce) like in the main mission.


You can wait as long as you want (within the time-limit) but a full SSD is required before you can take-off again!

What if there is no Dilithium available?
This is where the secondary missions come in.

The secondary missions are much shorter and can be flown independently of the main mission. Some of you don’t have time to undertake the main mission (about 10h of flight time in total) therefore you can fly shorter missions to help the pilots on the main mission. These flights have no altitude, gforce, bank or pitch limitation. They consist of delivering Dilithium Units to refuel the stabilizers. They are available from several airports along the route : BIAR, EGPA, ENBR, ESNZ and ENLK.

When you land with Dilithium at any airport on the main mission route (equipped with a special Cooling Hangar), you will be able to unload it in the public hangar where it will be available to any pilot, or you can reserve it to any company of your choice (yourself, a friend, a VA, etc..). The XP and money you get is the same in both cases.


Complementary rules:

• You have no need to load more than 1 Dilithium in your aircraft, all Dilithium will be depleted at the end of the flight;
• One company or VA can only take 5 Dilithium jobs at one time;
• You have to use aircraft with an empty weight less than 6000 lbs to take the challenge, as the SSD only has enough power to correct small aircraft;
• Modifying an aircraft config files is not allowed, if the fuel consumption is too low compared to the official addon consumption, it will be automatically adjusted by OnAir to the correct values.

Rewards

There is a live leaderboard for the main mission.

1st -> 2 years OnAir Subscription
2nd -> 1 year OnAir Subscription
3rd -> 6 months OnAir Subscription
4th -> 3 months OnAir Subscription
5th to 10th -> 1 month OnAir Subscription

In addition 1st to 7th winner will pick (in leaderboard order) a prize from this pool:

• 2 PMDG B737
• 1 Fenix A320
• 1 PMDG DC6
• SimMarket Voucher 50€
• SimMarket Voucher 30€
• SimMarket Voucher 20€

After receiving an email from OnAir, each winner will have a 3-day delay to choose from the pool. If not responding, they will go the end of the list.



All participants will have a 5% boost on their revenue for all flights made from Nov 22 to Dec 24. You will be flagged as having participated if you have made at least 5 flights for the event (main or secondary mission);

If a player makes several complete routes, the best attempt will be used to determine his score;

In the event of a tie, we will use fuel consumption to determine the winners. Consider setting tail wind to minimize the fuel consumption;

Leaderboard scoring : 100pt for each flight + the percentage left in the Healing Vial - (Total Fuel Used / 1000)