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Round-The-World Race Round-Table

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Those of you who have been here a while know about the annual Round-The-World Race that is held this time of year between the Sim-Outhouse, FlightSim, and AVSIM. It started in 2004, and until around 2009 or so, interest and participation has been good. Since that time, however, it seems interest and participation have been on a steady decline. At this point it is not certain the event will be held this year. It might be, if there is interest...

To summarize, for those who don't know what I'm talking about, the Round The World Race:

1. Is held each year in February.
2. Consists of three teams: SOH, FlightSim, and AVSIM.
3. Is a real-time race around the world.
4. Is flown in a series of 700 NM (more or less) legs.
5. Is restricted to piston or twin-turbo-prop aircraft (with some exceptions).
6. Takes about four days of non-stop 24/7 flying (this is why we need many pilots).
7. Does not have to be flown exclusively on-line.
8. Does have to be flown with crash-detection on and using real weather and real time.
9. Is costly when legs have to be re-flown due to crashes (this is why we conduct practice races).
10. Is challenging, especially when flying to an airport at midnight in a snow blizzard.
11. Is meant, primarily, as a fun event, and is not to be taken too seriously...

I'd like to generate a discussion here. The questions are: If you are not interested in participating in this event, why? What would change your mind?

Resources:
Official Site
Last Year's SOH Official Race Thread
 
Frankly I haven't seriously considered taking part yet.
I am a somewhat casual flightsimmer and I mostly fly short flight in different aircraft.
I visit the avsim, flightsim and simouthouse forums but can't say that I belong mostly to one particular forum so I haven't picked a side to fly for sofar.

One obstacle for participating would be the expectation of having to fly a long flight at times that conflict with real life activities.
But I guess that this can be coordinated with the team.

Another thing would be some insecurity about my piloting skills. I would hate to let the team down by screwing up my leg of the race.
Perhaps I just should signup this year.
 
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!
 
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