AVSIM's Round the World Race Forum

Saturday, March 24, 1900 UTC. Starting in Barbados, we'll go exploring the Grenadines Suggested flightplan: TBPB - TLPL - TVSB -TVSM -TVSC - TVSU - TGPZ - TGPY This touches all the FlyTampa Grenadines airports. I just tried linking to my existing FSX Grenadines scenery and adding the AFX_Txxx_flytampa_dummy.bgl files to my P3D Scenery \ World folder. Looks fine Just like last time, scenery suggestions are welcome!

Preview of future Saturday Flight to be conducted in two or more parts on different Saturdays. Currently planning this event to commence in mid April (14th, 21st) Starting from Seattle (SEATAC) airport we will fly a series of legs to smaller cities in the Northwest in regional airliner type aircraft. Think of it as an Alaska/Horizon Airlines Line Check for prospective Q400 pilots. Recommended Scenery: Orbx PNW & Orbx CRM The route is as follows (with links to payware scenery addons): KSEA - Seattle-Tacoma Intl - *** KEAT - Wenachee - Pangborn Meml - *** KSFF - Spokane – Felts (Orbx KSFF) KMSO - Missoula Intl *** KBZN – Bozeman- Gal…

Propliners over the Andes Departing to the south from Mendoza Argentina, the route follows the Mendoza river valley west, northwest, then southwest into the heart of the Andes. Climb to 20000 feet by waypoint UMKAL with views of Aconcagua towering above the other peaks of Andes to the north. Once across past UMKAL begin descending till reaching the Pacific coast at Valparaiso before landing at Vina del Mar (SCVM). The route proceeds to the capital city of Santiago with a landing at El Bosque airport (SCBQ) and then continues to the south to Rancagua (SCRG). The next stop is at Talca (SCTL) followed by Chillan (SCCH). The final leg heads back to the Pacific coast …

Congratulations are due to Team Sim Outhouse for winning this years race. Two pictures from the final leg into Dubai Avsim baton carrier down safely at Dubai Ron Attwood on approach to Dubai in his favorite plane for night flying

Effective Sunday, Feb. 18th at 2018 UTC the 2018 running of the FS RTW Race was officially completed with the arrival of Team Avsim at Dubai International Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (OMDB) Therefore the Team times for this year are: SOH: 45:56 AVSIM: 46:18 The Executive Committee is pleased to announce that Team Sim-Outhouse is the winner of The Wilhelm (Wilhe) Bendit Trophy for 2018.

The Most Dangerous Airport in the World? For Lukla, we shall use a freeware addon with a sloped runway. But this is not the only interesting airport in Nepal. The standard working aircraft in the region are the de Havilland Twin Otter, Dornier Do228, Cessna C208 Caravan and Pilatus PC-6. More details to follow. Bring your oxygen and nerves ... Oops. Make that Saturday, March 31st. (A week later.)

I was going to post a video of Sylvia singing Viva España but I didn't think your stomachs could take it! Saturday 3rd March. 1900UDT Flight plan: HERE Scenery you may want to download (All Freeware, untried by me) Gibraltar Almaria Malaga Armilla(Granada) Aeroplanes: Jeff wants to fly the T28 Trojan from Ant's Airplanes. I suspect it's because it's a tricycle undercarriage... So be it. Unless you fancy something else in the 180kts range then be my guest. Copy 'n' Paste.. Where: AVSIM RTWR Teamspeak - Casual Flights Channel Teamspeak Server Address: ts.teamavsim.com Cross-Platform Multiplayer: JoinFS. (FSX, FSX-SE, and…

After the exciting race, it's time for a nice and relaxing flight. We depart from Saanen (LSGK, ORBX airport) in Switzerland and fly around the Alps a bit and visit Ambri (LSPM), Samedan (LSZS, also from ORBX) and Bolzano (LIPB). From here we make a little detour to visit (re-visit for some of us) Locher. The freeware scenery can be downloaded here. I recommend to install it because it is really nice and enhances this approach and landing! I'm not quite sure that the airfield is visible as such without this scenery To get an idea what kind of approach (with mandatory radio calls!) and airfield is waiting for us, have a look here! After that intere…

If you got em, post em here. Got sidetracked while doing video editing for an upcoming pirep. Not necessarily a pirep but a Google Earth .kmz file that is an overview of every official flight made by Team AVSIM. Uses alternate colors each leg for easy differentiating - Green (baton) / Yellow (wing) to Red (baton) / Blue (wing) & finally Pink for a flight that was aborted for any reason where a new flight took over. This is completely different than any of the other provided Google Earth "type" Duenna reports where the data points ( around 100,000 of them! ) are taken from the Duenna site created .kml files. Each point is just a few seconds apart, so even if yo…

Go to Milviz MD530 support forum for download. Or wait for an email. Whatever next? Spitfire? King Air? I'm dizzy.

section 11 of the rules states that "Pilots may not use artificial (not true to their aircraft) gauges or tricks to enhance their vision or their ability to approach an airport." the night vision part of it is fine, but the second part is a bit more troublesome. if i have a HUD it increases the ability to approach an airfield, the tiger cat has one. even though it is not originally part of the realworld aircraft. so if for example i add a HUD to a mustang, is that considered to be a aid for landing in the sense of article 11? or is it intended to rule out auto landing and nightvision only. best regards Leon

Good Afternoon Everyone. The special rules for the 2018 running of the Round the World Race have been posted. Routing details for the most part are redacted until closer to the event. You can find the rules here : https://www.fsrtwrace.com/pdf/2018 RTWR Special Rules v0.95.pdf Thank you Executive Committee

Due to attachment and posting restrictions here at AVSIM, we intend to fly the race using the official race forum at http://www.fsrtwrace.com/forum under the backup posting section. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. The team will still check this forum for posts.

Good Day all, For the race and the newest version of the Duenna, please be sure you are running it as administrator. Several have noticed an error where it cannot read the airports.bin file which is where the directory of airports is stored. If this error does come up, the duenna still works and still tracks but it will output no airport information on where you started or ended. Should be a simple fix to just run it as administrator and it should output properly. Thank you, Eamonn Watson

Good Morning, The Race Administration for 2018 has been posted. You may find it here: https://www.fsrtwrace.com/pdf/2018 RTWR Race Administration v1.00 Release.pdf Please note we need 3 volunteers for each team to be on the Racing Committee this year. Please let us know who those will be. Thank you Executive Committee

Just a proposal - How about short legs criss-crossing Norway? Shorter legs so one can get in time w/o spending ~2+ hours. (After work etc.) Maybe helos too. It's a mess, take a look at SkyVector. Charts for your flight may be found here.

Nick and Craig, I have put up a proposed Duty Officer schedule post on the RTWR site. https://www.fsrtwrace.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=217 I have volunteered for the first 8hr duty officer shift and to be Race Master on Day 1

AVSIM 2018 RTWR Team Pilot Roster Pilot: Mike MacKuen (MM) Simulator(s): FSX, P3Dv3, P3Dv4 Weather engine(s) for each sim: Active Sky 2016, AS 2016, AS P3Dv4 Rookie/veteran: Veteran Pilot: Craig Taylor (cb) Simulator(s): FSX Weather engine(s) for each sim: Active Sky 2016 Rookie/veteran: Veteran Pilot: Gunter Schneider (Viking01) Simulator(s): FSX, P3Dv3, P3Dv4 Weather engine(s) for each sim: Active Sky 2016, AS 2016, AS P3Dv4 Rookie/veteran: Rookie Pilot: Nick Wood (CavalierDuck) Simulator(s): FSX, P3Dv4 Weather engine(s) for each sim: Active Sky Next, ASP4 Rookie/veteran: Veteran Pilot: Travis (aka Rndgu…

AVSIM RTWR Team Pilot Roster Sign Up Thread Just copying Martin's initiative over at SOH. The Special Rules state: "each team should post a public list of eligible pilots, including their simulators and chosen weather engines, and their rookie/veteran status. Any pilot may fly more than one simulator with a single weather engine designated per simulator. Teams may update their pilot rosters as the event moves along. Only pilots on the official team roster may fly a leg for the team." We want to organize our roster. If you are a veteran AVSIM pilot, or a rookie who has practiced with the team, please provide your particulars. (If you are a rookie who has not yet pra…

RTWR Team Practice – Saturday 10 Feb, 1900 UTC This online practice session is scheduled for Saturday Feb 10 @ 1900 UTC. We will resume the practice session, starting at Bolzano (LIPB) proceeding southeast down the Adriatic with multiple stops in Greece. Most of legs are short (most are 50 to 80 nm), but the last few legs from Crete to North Africa are a bit longer. Once again practice with a focus baton passes and forum posting. From-To Distance LIPB-LIPZ 72nm LIPZ-LDPL 76nm LDPL-LDZD 77nm LDZD-LDSP 54nm LDSP-LQMO 69nm LQMO-LDDU 47nm LDDU-LAGJ 71nm LAGJ-LAKV 69nm LAKV-LGKR 70nm LGKR-LGPZ …

RTWR Team Practice – Saturday 3 Feb, 1900 UTC This online practice session is scheduled for Saturday Feb 3 @ 1900 UTC. Starting at Kjevik in Norway the route proceeds south through Denmark and Germany before crossing the Alps and finishes at Dubrovnik. The legs are short (most are 70 to 80 nm) with a focus baton passes and forum posting. Ident Name Distance nm ENCN Kjevik 0 EKTS Thisted 71 EKKA Karup AB 48 EKSB Sonderborg 83 EDHL Lubeck Blankensee 77 EDOP Schwerin Parchim 44 EDDI Berlin Tempelhof 82 EDDC Dresden 82 EDOA Auerbach …

Hi, i finally made the jump to p3d v4, so a new sim and it is worth the hassle to reinstall a bounch however looking over the white list, i think there might be a clean up as well i would like to add the AH Typhoon sold by Justflight. how to get it there? same for the P51K from warbirdsim best regards Leon

The Executive Committee of the RTWR wishes to confirm that the annual race will take place, beginning Friday, February 16th 2018. As like last year, it will focus on one large geographic segment of the globe, will rely on the well-known aircraft of past years and essentially follow the format of the existing General Rules. As is the case every year, a set of Special rules will define the route, specific aircraft limitations and other special circumstances which define the year's challenges. More details to follow.. The Executive Committee

Pensacola. The Cradle of Naval Aviation. Today's flight will depart from Naval Air Station Pensacola, proceed along the beaches of the Florida Panhandle to Tyndall Air Force Base, and then return to NAS Pensacola. This training exercise is designed for some practice formation flying in the North American T‑6 Texan. Some of us may practice ground loops as well. We commence and end this flight at the Blue Angels Pensacola flight operations center – on the tarmac just west of the T-39 Sabreliners of VT-86. We depart from Pensacola's Sherman Field (KNPA) and execute a touch-and-go at (or optional low pass over) historic Chevalier Field (KNCP) on the naval air station about…