VPPics.net Magazine

Today, 9th January 2010 VPPics.net photographers passed the 5000 picture mark!

This is a remarkable result even though upload numbers decreased over the past weeks which is also due to a lack in staff activity. Notwithstanding plenty of different, enthusiastic flight sim photographers have uploaded and therewith shared their personal view of the virtual world - thank you very much!

Current statistics which result of current facts:

According to 463,704 unique picture views we have an average picture view rate of 92. In average each picture was visited 92 times by 92 unique visitors from all over the world!

Have a great start in 2010.

The continuous development of VPPics is currently paused due to real life issues. This may last for another month or two.

The consequence is no feature will be released within this period of time but we still validate pictures on time!

We thought it is just fair to speak honest words and share the information and ask for your understanding.

Happy uploading!

Finally we have stepped across another great record.

Our photographers have applied more than 10.000 unique star ratings. This is an average of 2,1 ratings per picture and they are all unique. Everyone can apply only one rating per picture - this is a great community!

Thanks to France VFR who supports VPPics.net with a brand new product of their french scenery collection.

This time we have released first pictures of Clermont-Ferrand (LFLC) airport located in the center of France, Auvergne.

Check out our latest string album called: ClermontFerrand and find out if you are interested in purchasing it. This regional airport was layed out on a satellite picture and hundreds of buildings were adapted for optimal fitting. A quite big area around the airport is furtherly created to represent most parts of the city Clermont-Ferrand. Airport facilities like the civilian terminal in the north, the general aviation gras aprons and stripes as well as the military part in the south are painted photo real and the overall appearance invites to a nice flight from eg. Paris, Stuttgart, Luxemburg, Brussels.

More pictures to come within the next period of time and if you already own Clermont-Ferrand feel free to upload pictures of your personal point of view and add: France VFR Clermont-Ferrand to the remarks field.

Yes, finally, we decided to also broadcast latest news regarding VPPics.net on Twitter.

Find our channel here: www.twitter.com/VPPics and follow our twittering!

Twitter is a nice addition to our news magazine and follows latest web trends. Short notes are released fast and easy of only 140 letters and therefore connect people instantly.

If you are twittering already we like to follow your twitter account. Just let us know about it: staff@vppics.net

The forum community msflusi4you.de became official VPPics.net partner. The community is German only but offers multiple sub boards regarding plenty of topics all around flight simulation as well as off-topic for pc games and spare time boards.
Also you should throw a glimpse into their screenshot forum with nice publications.

We are looking forward to pictures uploaded by msflusi4you members and welcome you on board!

Just in these very seconds we have crossed the mark of 333000 unique picture views!

Congratulation to all VPPics.net photographers who have contributed to this record with their screenshots.

This is an average of ~76 visits per picture and reveals a great number - thank you very much. The last calculation of the 29th of April returned an average number of 66 visits per picture. This is a clear and wonderful growth which we are proud of!

We are proud to announce another new addon picture review of the beautiful and detailed scenery German Airports - Bremen by Aerosoft.
A new string album was created which gathers all pictures which have “GAP-Bremen” inside their remarks field. So if you already own Bremen, please share some pictures and impressions, add “GAP-Bremen” into remarks field and broadcast your personal point of view of this new scenery.

Review comment:
I guess most of the people outside Germany have hardly heard of Bremen (EDDW / BRE) at all. Even though Ryanair has joined Bremen as a low-cost destination the rather “small city next to Hamburg” was not worth a virtual flight amongst flight simulation pilots. This is going to change within the next periods of time since Aerosoft has delivered a guarantee with Bremen. Once again they have proofed their next level quality design at a small airport which is home of the Lufthansa Flight School and AIRBUS production site along many other scenery details which wait for your visit. Next time you plan your flight plan it to Bremen with German Airports scenery and experience the well matching overall appearance. It is not just a Ryanair destination nor an alternate airport to Hamburg - it’s Bremen and worth a stop!

What makes us also proud is a new partnership with the well-known software creator Aerosoft. The specialist for flight simulation software agreed on supporting our addon picture review series - welcome on board Aerosoft!

A new feature line has been launched and first functions were uploaded in the last days already!

This new line is based on the motto: “We are VPPics.net”
It includes plenty of social features to connect our photographers and give chances and possibilities to interact with each other. Since the recently stopped forum was not a success we offer ways of communication from inside of the website which are more comfortable than any forum at all.

New features are following:

• Add and connect photographers as friends to reach them very fast
• Chat with friends privately or join a public VPPics.net chat

Tip: Do not forget to check the statistics page for the growing number of chat lines.

More news on the social line will follow in the next days and weeks - so stay tuned and have fun uploading and sharing!

Tag your albums! - a completely new feature or addon for the VPPics.net system.

Nowadays the term of web 2.0 was introduced into the world of internet. One important aspect of this new web philosophy based on as best as possible accessible content for website visitors. This included the idea to tag any content (texts, pictures…) which means to associate several terms or words with certain web content and therefore produce better search results.

For VPPics.net we have exclusively added the tagging possibility for all our picture albums!

Now visit the album management and find a new line for each album to save individual tags. Any result of the VPPics.net picture search engines now also contains best matching picture albums!
I.e. if you look for A340-600 you will find pictures AND albums that contain the tag A340-600…

Do not wait to tag any of your album!
Most appropriate tags return best search results for your personal albums and bring you more album visitors.

Have fun tagging!