AVSIM's Round the World Race Forum

The 2009 Flight Simulator Around the World Race has come and gone, and this year proved to be the closest finish in the history of the race. The race also acknowledged the 75th Anniversary of the MacRobertson London to Melbourne Air Race, and featured aircraft from that race on many legs. This video serves as a visual testimony of some of the sights that were captured by myself, my teammates at Team Flightsim, and participants in other teams as well. Enjoy!

I just wanted to say thank you all to team Avsim. I know it's a bit premature but I think that we've won. Regardless of the outcome it has been a blast and I had a great time. I am not sure if I can make it to the celebratory flight as I have ignored my famy quite a bit these few days.Anyway congrats to all for a wonderful race and welcome again to fs-mp. You guys did an incredible job and it was a pleasure to race against u guys.Cheers,

We have announced the final results for what was possibly the most exciting Around-the-World race ever.Standings are at www.fsrtwrace.com .Teams did an excellent job of flying and navigating and the margin of victory this time around was slimmer than ever before. The committee congratulates Team Avsim for a hard-fought and well-won victory, and all of the other teams for an especially well-run race. See you next year!Avsim,Well, you guys did it. Fantastic job in winning an extraordinarily hard-fought race. We had no idea it would be this close, or so well-done. You flew largely error-free and you flew extremely efficiently. We're all extraordinarily impressed, and can…

Terrific job, everyone! I was sorry I could't participate this year, but it was my father-in-law's birthday last Saturday, and the wife needed the PC on Sunday. I followed the progress from work this week and was with you in spirit. I'll be back next year, I hope.Cheers,Craig

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Here are some screen shots of my adventure. It has been a pleasure flying with you all.

Baton holders, reply to this post!/Sven

Here AVSIM will keep track of the Bonus Hours.

I would not mind a little shoutcast so I can listen from work.(I am really suffering withdrawal already)

All Baton Holders, please reply to this post/Sven

The posting of official race legs continues here.

A bit overdue, but better late than never.... Listen in on our Teamspeak communication via our Shoutcast stream:http://team-avsim.weirdnet.org:8058/listen.plsThe broadcast will be silenced during times of private planning or discussions of said planning in order to keep our plans secret as long as we can, but we will try to keep it operational as much as we can.

The posting of official race legs continues here.

Hello everyone,Is it too late to join up in the race? I have been following along so far and would like to maybe try to fly a leg or two later on. I have the next couple of days off so maybe I can help out in times of lower demand. Or maye something else I can help out with...Running FS2004 on a relatively fresh reinstall so right now only default aircraft, but I do have a number of payware that I can install and use too (Flight1 PC12, FeelThere Caravan, MAAM-SIM DC3, PMDG B1900D are probably the most appropriate).I downloaded and set up the FSDuenna on my system... flew a really quick test leg here's the results just to make sure everything validated.I was thinking th…

This post ends the Kickoff Event and begins the circumnavigatory portion of the 2009 Around-the-World Race.Best of luck to all the teams!Go.Matt

Greetings to the Race Community:This post officially begins the 2009 Flight Simulator Around-the-World Race Kickoff Event.You have two hours and thirty minutes to complete the challenge outlined in the Special Rules for the 2009 Race.Following the Kickoff Event, a second post will be made beginning the Around-The-World portion of the Race.Best of luck to you all!The RTWR Executive Committee | www.fsrtwrace.comMatthew SmithIan DaleReggie FieldsMike MacKuen

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Gentlemen,Just a few hours before the greatest MP event of the year starts again.Team Flightsim wishes all the pilots of Team Avsim a great race and we hope that you will enjoy the race as much as we do.Team Flightsim is gearing up to full speed in preparation of the race.Best of luck and happy landings !Kind regards,Tom vd HorstWorld-of-AIwww.world-of-ai.comRTW2009 Team Flightsim MPA

Here is a route of 10 legs to get us going on the 14th. Lets shoot for 1500 UTC That is 10 AM Eastern Time here in the States.UHSS - RJCW 97nmRJCW - RJEC 108nmRJEC - RJCH 135nmRJCH - RJSR 97nmRJSR - RJTT 174nmRJTT - RJOO 218nm RJOO - RJDC 212nmRJDC - RJFG 204nmRJFG - RJKN 195nmRJKN - RORS 270nmRORS - RCMQ 249nmRCMQ - RPLI 366nmStarts off with some short legs to test forums and demonstrate baton hand offs to any newer team mates. Then some longer legs.

Kickoff1. Race Executive Committee will post an Official Thread for this event. Do not start your own thread or make posts on another thread for the Kickoff.2. No Baton or Wingman

We have opened up significantly the various GA aircraft which pilots can fly for the Kickoff Event and the GA Team Flight. This is in answer to many requests to find a place for pilot's personal favorite GA aircraft.We listed all the available models we could think of in the rules, and know it will be incomplete.So far two additional aircraft have been brought to our attention and are added to the list.Twin Bonanza - Eric Dantes model - twin_bon.zip at FlightSim.comLake Turbo Renegade 270 - Renegade/Seawolf Design Group model - rsdgrenegade270.zip at Avsim.com - note this is a FS2002 modelEdit - FS2004 update for the Renegade - trene2k4.zip on FlightSim.comPilots who have…

The Routing and Special Rules requirements for the 2009 race have been posted on the Race Home Sitehttp://www.fsrtwrace.com/rules.htmOfficial Starting Time: 2:30 PM US Eastern Time (1930Z) Saturday, February 21, 2009 for the Optional Start Event.The Race portion will begin at 5:00 PM US Eastern Time (2200Z) Saturday, Feb 21, 2009.Special Rules and Routing Release Time: NOW OFFICIALLY RELEASED.

Gents, I am assuming that the "Race/Tracker Id" setting in Duenna/settings will change for the '09 race. When/where will this be posted? And one more question, when shall we activate this account? ( probably self explanitory ) It's just that I noticed other teams had dedicated practice tracking ID's prior to the start of '09 race. Our 2008 tracking page looks like spaghetti :( TIARegardsRoman

Fellow AVSIM team members. I am sorry to say that I will have to withdraw from this years race. The problem? A new member of the family who has never touched FS on a computer is really "pooching" up all my flights. I mean, My GOSH, if I had to deal with a co-pilot like this............ She's complaing about my EGT if it's off more than 5 degrees. On approach, she's right in my face! I tell her to go back into the cabin as we're doing a go-around, " Get out of my way Sam! get some left-overs or something!"! Because of this problem, and the fact as the company's "Employee Manual" say's that inter-cockpit misrelations result in re-assignment means that I will have to withd…

Is anyone around tonight for some flying?