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Round-The-World Race Round-Table

Anatomy of a leg 1

I'm posting this here and in the practice thread, to show what a "real" race leg looks like. When the pilot flying the current leg has landed, but not before that pilot has posted the baton is free, you make your post. By this time you're sitting on the runway, real weather loaded, local time of day set, duenna launched, and destination airport punched into the GPS. Of course you've been in this state for the five minutes waiting for the baton holder to land, hoping the weather gets better (it won't) and wondering why it's taking so long for the sun to come up. The post is simply this:

I have the baton, KVAY - KDPL, WBS P-51D (restored).

Now just hope I don't crash while demonstrating a "real" race leg...
 
If you are flying as "wingman" (wing person!) to this flight, you would do the same as above, and post "I am flying wing to PRB, A2A P-47D" Flying as wing, BTW, is a great way to do a first leg. You get to do all the things you do as a baton holder, but the pressure is less.
 
You should make frequent posts letting the team know of your status. This way the next pilot, waiting for you to land, has some idea of how much time there is to grab a hotdog and coffee from the diner next to the control tower. Even if you're online and telling lies on TeamSpeak, this is still important. The next pilot may not be online, but just checking this the race thread.

30 minutes out...
 
At some point you would make a post something like "15 minutes out. Last post before landing." Usually because you've kicked off the auto pilot and will be too busy to post until on the ground.
 
Style points if you take some screen shots along the way, to add credibility to your tall tales and sea stories (lies) about your flight. See? easy as that. Just don't crash, like I almost did on take off. It had been a while since I've flown this bird, and Her-Torkyness tried to kill me, swerving to and fro down the narrow runway... And it's short, so I tried to yank the beaste into the air at the last minute, then heard that Accu-Feel rumble that told me I was in grave danger (is there any other kind?). Made it though!

 
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Practice 2 has started and the details are here:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...R-2014-Practice-2-quot-Long-Year-Express-quot

All you folks who said you were interested NOW is the time to jump in and get your feet wet.

If you have any questions about how to get started then shout up as there are many on the team more than willing to hold your hand to get you flying.

The bottom line is that if we don't get enough pilots we will not be able to participate!
 
Last Call for new members

Practice 3 has started and the details are here:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...8-RTWR-2014-Practice-3-quot-Headin-South-quot

All you folks who said you were interested NOW is the time to jump in and get your feet wet as this is likely to be the last practice before the race starts.

If you have any questions about how to get started then shout up as there are many on the team more than willing to hold your hand to get you flying.

The bottom line is that if we don't get enough pilots we will not be able to participate!
 
Newish Member Here ...

Hello,

I have flown in RTW before; P38, F7F I think which I 'graduated' to and I find is an awesome plane (if it is the blue one as I recall); I just need to find the whitelist; download locations etc.

I am in if you will have me but I have a few questions; I think there is another thread for those and I will post them there; I know how to connect an all but my biggest concern is the server and ow to connect to it; there have always seem to be problems in this area (not here with you guys cause I never flown here as I recall !); it is with those darndable port numbers 12345 or whatever HAHA (!) and the limit to the nimber of players that can connect and people getting bumped or not being able to connect cause some people are already logged in etc...!

I am wondering if you guys can set up a Teamspeak class on server connecting !

I will tell you that other groups have tried VPN with some success; there is also Hamachi which I will be testing on my own in my own flight simming ventures and have used before; also with good success and ease of use (AND the ability to see each others' models not that that is needed here !); this stuff probly doesnt apply here but I think player inter-connectivity has always been an issue with MS Flight sim.

So I will hop on over to the discussions pages; the practice leg #3 I see you all went thru 2 practice already !

I have also made some Livestream videos of my flightsimming ventures; my upstream is slow and I wont be streaming if I fly in the race due to lagg concerns; I will be getting a faster IP service for streaming in March so I will be streaming flightsim alot I hope !

I have 2 streaming sites that are listed on my website if anyone is interested; I am updating that and restarting my Special Ops Org for Vatsim as well; might as well give that another try too !

Hope to chat with you all soon...

Viper007
 
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