P51FAN
SOH-CM-2024
Excellent work everyone!
Anyone want to plan a race for 2020?
2019 TEAM SOH Around-the-World Race OFFICIAL THREAD
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Spookster67
Charter Member
epwatson
Charter Member
And well to Team AVSIM!
Martin, did you land on the taxiway??
That was SOOO CLOSE, we were watching you VERY Closely and i piledrived that plane into the ground..
Hoping for 2020
Needless to say, Team AVSIM had several discussions about continuation...let's get it figured out.
Needless to say, Team AVSIM had several discussions about continuation...let's get it figured out.
Spookster67
Charter Member
Martin, did you land on the taxiway??
That was SOOO CLOSE, we were watching you VERY Closely and i piledrived that plane into the ground..
Here's a clue as to how hard I threw my F-80 at the runway...
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MaddogK
Sim Junkie
We GOTTA do something about this weather situation.
ponchovilla
SOH-CM-2023
Wow... That was one H--L of a Race! After all the good and bad that happened to both teams over the weekend, I am STILL having trouble believing that it was ---THAT... CLOSE...! Kudos to all of you at Team Avsim! Hats off to everyone who flew this year, and a round on me!
And I reiterate my thanks to you here at SOH for giving this Race refugee a home. Thank you for accepting me and allowing me to contribute once again to something that I look forward to every year. I am truly grateful.
Now there's just this little matter of "completing the circle" if you will.
We started our Team SOH practice round at Oakland and ended up at Dubai, then the Race took us from Dubai to Phoenix. Getting back to Oakland would be a nice finishing touch on a great month of flying.
So, when I'm ready, I'll continue from KIWA to KOAK over on the Practice thread.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=KOAK-K...ZF-CYNE-KUNU-KMDW-KMPR-KIWA-KOAK&MS=wls&DU=mi
P.S. Fun like this can only be had very rarely. I don't know just yet how we could do it, but the object should be a 2020 FSRTWR that yields the same fun- and wow-quotient that I experienced during this year's Race. Maybe we should stay tuned...
And I reiterate my thanks to you here at SOH for giving this Race refugee a home. Thank you for accepting me and allowing me to contribute once again to something that I look forward to every year. I am truly grateful.
Now there's just this little matter of "completing the circle" if you will.
We started our Team SOH practice round at Oakland and ended up at Dubai, then the Race took us from Dubai to Phoenix. Getting back to Oakland would be a nice finishing touch on a great month of flying.
So, when I'm ready, I'll continue from KIWA to KOAK over on the Practice thread.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=KOAK-K...ZF-CYNE-KUNU-KMDW-KMPR-KIWA-KOAK&MS=wls&DU=mi
P.S. Fun like this can only be had very rarely. I don't know just yet how we could do it, but the object should be a 2020 FSRTWR that yields the same fun- and wow-quotient that I experienced during this year's Race. Maybe we should stay tuned...
Close race for sure! Well done AVSIM.
Case in point, on our UHHH to UHMM wildcard leg, both MaddogK and I were flying the A2A P-51D (M had the earlier version) and both using FSrealWxPro. As wingman, I was making a steady GS of 420 while MaddogK seemed to average at about 373. Now I was at a lower alt at 24100' for cruise while he was a little higher at 27,300'. The AVG H/T wind component was wildly different as reported by the duenna yet while flying we seemed to have roughly the same winds live in the sim.
As far as FSrealWxPro goes, MaddogK noted that you could toggle the weather from either a German (DE) or USA (US) server in the settings. I had left it default on the DE server. Not sure if this made a difference but it is worth noting as we move forward.
Again, nice job everyone who participated this year. And a special sendoff to Mike and Rob for all of their thankless work over the years behind the scenes.
Kevin
Case in point, on our UHHH to UHMM wildcard leg, both MaddogK and I were flying the A2A P-51D (M had the earlier version) and both using FSrealWxPro. As wingman, I was making a steady GS of 420 while MaddogK seemed to average at about 373. Now I was at a lower alt at 24100' for cruise while he was a little higher at 27,300'. The AVG H/T wind component was wildly different as reported by the duenna yet while flying we seemed to have roughly the same winds live in the sim.
As far as FSrealWxPro goes, MaddogK noted that you could toggle the weather from either a German (DE) or USA (US) server in the settings. I had left it default on the DE server. Not sure if this made a difference but it is worth noting as we move forward.
Again, nice job everyone who participated this year. And a special sendoff to Mike and Rob for all of their thankless work over the years behind the scenes.
Kevin
MaddogK
Sim Junkie
Close race for sure! Well done AVSIM.
I had done extensive experimentation in the previous FSrealWX build and found the weather updated more consistently than the current build. I was doing a clean windows reinstall to a loaner HDD AS the race was starting, so I didn't get any time to play with the weather setting, and it was doing some very weird things. I wont go into detail as duenna was happy with the defaults FS was using but I won't be using it when I debug my original HDD.
Weather aside, I can account for those 25 seconds- I hadn't logged into the alternate SOH site before taking off on that wildcard run. I never expected THIS site to go down just as I was rolling out from landing. The panic from trying to open a new browser window, type the site name in, wait for it to load, login, then find the unstickied thread to post in for the baton transfer is NOT to be underestimated.