AVSIM's Round the World Race Forum

I am online if anyone is around and would like to participate in a live practice session with Baton handoffs.aBOUT 1 MONTH TO GO!

Is anyone still out there practicing? The forum has been pretty quiet and there is just over a month to go. I am trying to generate a new set of legs to fly offline, and I would like to put together an online session where we can fly abbreviated legs and make baton transfers in real time under race conditions.Sven - How is the server coming are you around?Cheers - Hope you all had a great Christmas.

Looks like FSRTW race site is down.http://www.fsrtwrace.com/Does anyone else see this? Am I going to the right place or am I missing something.

Are there any other Speedbird Pilots here? Here is a thread for Supersonic PracticeThe route is to re-fly the South Pacific Corridor from Practice #4 SPIM - SCIPSCIP - NTTONTTO - NCRG

I need to make a list of active or inactive Team AVSIM pilots who should be given the required backstage passes.So far, I have (based on going through about 2 pages of posts):StoneC0ld (myself, of course) buzzbee Highmike jt_williams Bryan Rosier arvvoo Veloskey cbtaylor JockHA VinceN DarkCharizma svenks jwenting Windryder epwatson MM sfoofficer spokes2112Great OzzieWithout going through 6 or more pages of posts, which I don't have time for.... Am I missing anybody else that needs a backstage pass? Should any of these listed above be removed from the list? I'm also not totally sure at this point about the few new guys..Sorry for any rush, but I need this info ASAP, pre…

This is the leg that Sim - Outhouse had such bad luck with in 2006 that allowed FLgihtsim.com to win and AVSIM to come in a close second. All three teams were heading across the same corridor at about the same time. I recall Sim-Outhouse being in the lead when both the Baton Carrier and the Wingman failed to land on the short strip. Due to their misfortune, Sim-Outhouse had to refly that 1674nm leg again. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to fly the middle leg of this Atlantic Ocean corridor from Bermuda International to Flores and successfully land your jet on a very small patch of asphalt. Do you have the decision making ability to go around if you…

Up and over including a wildcardELLX - EGQKEGQK - BIKFBIKF - BIPA (short hop to get the Wild card in limits)BIPA - CYRT - 1700nm Wild Card - No Time Limit Any Aircraft powered by propsCYRT -CYVTCYVT - CYLWCYLW - KBFIThese are longer legs. Feel free to shorten them as needed.

Hey everyone,Just wanted to wish everyone a merry christmas. I haven't put in a lot of practice legs yet soo far. I hope to do more after the holiday season. I am used to flying heavy metal so I have to practice the smaller planes again.I have the following aircraft:Level D 767 (FS9 and FSX)PMDG 747-400 (FS9)PMDG 737-600/700/800/900 (FS9)PSS Concorde (FS9)PSS Airbus A319/A320/A321 (FS9)PSS Boeing 777 (FS9)PSS Boeing 757 (FS9)P51D/H (FS9)Piaggo Avanti P180 (FS9)Cessna Citation X (FS9)P-38 (FS9)And I forget what other airplanes I have... :( I need to get some practice in the avanti, citation, concorde (in case we need it) and the p51 and p38.. Anyway, merry christmas eve…

Hey guysWho uses which Flightsim? I find the Avanti and the P51 only work in FS9. I dunno what other aircraft work well in FSX.. Thoughts?

Private forum has been created here on Avsim, everyone as mentioned in the check-in thread should have access to see and access it, everyone else will not see it.Please check in there and reply to the new check-in thread in there to ensure everybody has the required access to use that forum, thanks.Edit: Or let me know here if you're having any problems accessing it (if you were on the list), or if you can see and access the forum when you're not supposed to be.Thanks a lot! :)

Practice #8Through Africa and up to LuxembourgAfrica was a Subsonic Jet Continent last year with 700NM limits. We must land in Burundi.FMCH - HTDABegin JetsHTDA - HBBA HBBA - FZJH Jet LegFZJH - HSFS Jet LegHSFS - HLKF Jet LegHLKF - HLGD Jet LegSomewhat Shorter Legs for practiceHLGD - LICP LICP - LIRPLIRP - ELLX

Please post your recommendations for competitive aircraft. If you have the filename and location post that as well. As always, I recommend David Copley's P-38 especially for beginners new to flying high powered, hard to handle warbirds.

I just down loaded a XF-11 looks like a p-38 but not quite the body of one it fly's pretty good.This aircraft was designed by Howard Huges. It never made it into production due to a crash that nearly killed the test pilot.

Practice continues. Propose that we take the baton up to Hong Kong's Kai Tak (VHHX) and then turn back for the Indian Ocean 2 Corridor. Suggested Route:WABP WASRRPMQRPUBVHHX (Bonus Airport in 2008)VVDNWMKP (Start of IO-2 Corridor)IO-2 (Corridor Flights)WMKP-VCCC-VRMM-FSIA-FMCH I have the baton WABP-WASR.In the EH101.

Hey, is anyone else having issues accessing the site http:\\www.fsd-international.comI can't seem to access it.Thanks all,

If you, like me, can't stand 4+ hour jet flights, I devised a flight plan to take us from the end of the corridor in practice #4 (NCRG) to Sydney!So let's go island hopping:NCRGNIUENFNA (this leg is pretty long, 657 nm, can be split up with a stop at NFTV or NTFL)NVVWNWWEYSNFYLHIYSSYI know (well, think) we already have to airports below S30 in this practice run, but it doesn't hurt to land at some more. I didn't check all of the airports, but some of them are unlit, for added fun

If you need to test your Duenna and how to post, reply to this thread and we will check your results for any leg.

Practice #6Shorter legs across Australia.Good for practicing getting up and getting down. YSSY - YCBAYCBA - YOOM - Required "Land in South AustraliaYOOM - YTMOYTMO - YDMGYDMG - YGNUYGNU - YBTILast years routing required us to make a stop in South Australia. Other than that, feel free to modify as needed.From Australia, we need to make our way up to VHHX in Hong Kong.

Hello Team Avsim,Finally got something put together commemorating the 2008 RTW Race and is available at http://home.comcast.net/~tmaddox3/RTW2008-Final.zip. The 16:21 minute video is 117 mB in size, but is sized to run good resolution at full screen. Good competiting with Team Avsim again during the race and look forward to the race next year. Hope you folks enjoy the video.N3306TXMike

Until the 2009 Flight Sim Round-the-world race. Over at Sim-Outhouse they are already starting their preparations. I am starting to get in RTW mode myself. How is everyone else doing? Is anyone ready to do some flying? It would be nice to bring some new participants into the fold early this year. Last year it seemed like we had some late joiners.

I propose that we use Hamachi VPN for the multi-player server for the 2009 edition of the race. Running the host on a VPN eliminates the port forwarding issues that we always fight every year.Last year we were lucky enough to have someone set up a full blown VPN for us, but that was a little tricky and required some effort on his part because of his routing set up behind his firewalls.For the last year I have been using the Log Me In Hamachi product to connect to my home servers from my office and have also been using it off and on to run my FS Host. It will give us a zero config VPN setup so that we are all flying on a Virtual Local Area Network. It does require the i…

Hi all,I'm happy to announce the start date for the 2009 RTW Race - 21 February. We've yet to zero in on a starting time, but will be working on that as we develop the rules specific to this year's race.I know there's been some confusion about this, and I apologize. This will be the final date, and we'll work to be more definite, earlier, next year.Cheers,Matt SmithRTWR Executive Committee

The PAC-S-1 Corridor legs below.SPIMSCIPNTTONCRG Then on to Australia for some FTX flying.I have the baton. SPIM-SCIP in the PMDG MD11Trying out a new jet for corridor flying.

I am still trying to make head or tails of this. I have flown some of the legs that have been put here with no problems but I still do not know how do you know who flies which leg? I thought this was some kind of team effort? I do not even know who is on the team? I still do not know if this race is a online race or what ?I hope some one can shed a little light here :(

I'm wanting to get the private forums setup somewhere, but right now, the location is being dependent on being able to find a location to host a shoutcast server for broadcasting the teamspeak channel. (From a feasibility standpoint, it'd be easier to host both on the same server.)I know this has raised some "issues" and debate since we started shoutcasting it, so let's try to get it sorted out early... For the new team members who may not know what I'm talking about: Past couple of years, we have been connecting a designated client to our TeamSpeak channel to broadcast it to a ShoutCast streaming audio server. This allows team members stuck at work to listen in to ou…