Some screenshots of my annual Round The World Race
Posted: Thu February 26th, 2015 3:24 pm
So some of you know I participate in an annual Flight Simulator race around the world.
http://www.fsrtwrace.com
The idea is teams made up from popular flight sim forums race around the world given a set of rules and regulations set out by a committee. While the general rules are fixed year to year there is special rules each year which govern the route restrictions and it is up to the teams to figure out the most efficient route and use of the allowed aircraft for the allowed legs.
The routes used by the three teams are in this map. avsim.com was blue, flightsim.com is red and sim-outhouse.com is green.
Here are some screenshots of our adventures around the world starting in Bali Indonesia.
At Bali, waiting for the start of the race, everyone is pumped.
Enroute to Australia, was a bit turbulent due to a passing Cyclone.
Landed at the 1st airport, my wingman (Jeff) made it there first because I had an FSX crash so I was a couple minutes behind but Jeff's airplane left a crater at the beginning of the runway, but I managed to pull off the landing on that small dirt strip.
Longest Wildcard flight to California, sun finally rising.
Descending into Oxnard.
Because I landed before Dave(StoneCold), I captured his landing over a bunch of extra 300's
Some Extra shots from our teamflight.
Landing at Van Nuys
Getting setup for what could possibly be the hardest flight of the race. We had to get a 737 into Hotan at night. Hotan had no lights, barely any scenery and the airport has very few good navaids and pmdg's database had the airport in the wrong spot (by 1/4 mile) and the approach in its database would land you into a tree, so it was a challenge to say the least.
Roman was my wingman, there he is off my left side.
There is the runway finally, I needed to have some team members sit on the runway just to see the runway. This was my decision height, if I wasn't positive I'd make it, this was the point of abort.
Dave heading out on a CJ leg, flew beside him for a short while.
Waiting in China for Dave to arrive on his CJ leg (I jumped ahead), I sat at the end of the runway for some screenshots, it looked however that the wake turbulence from my non-moving airplane flipped him onto the runway and he crashed.
Some shots of my formation flight with Craig into the penultimate Airport Sibu. It was 1:30am for me for this flight and I was falling asleep at the controls on the way across the ocean on this one.
Final flight into Bali, I flew the 777 in my own livery with the team while we flew into some really heavy thunderstorms, my weather radar lit up like a christmas tree at the baton's altitude.
http://www.fsrtwrace.com
The idea is teams made up from popular flight sim forums race around the world given a set of rules and regulations set out by a committee. While the general rules are fixed year to year there is special rules each year which govern the route restrictions and it is up to the teams to figure out the most efficient route and use of the allowed aircraft for the allowed legs.
The routes used by the three teams are in this map. avsim.com was blue, flightsim.com is red and sim-outhouse.com is green.
Here are some screenshots of our adventures around the world starting in Bali Indonesia.
At Bali, waiting for the start of the race, everyone is pumped.
Enroute to Australia, was a bit turbulent due to a passing Cyclone.
Landed at the 1st airport, my wingman (Jeff) made it there first because I had an FSX crash so I was a couple minutes behind but Jeff's airplane left a crater at the beginning of the runway, but I managed to pull off the landing on that small dirt strip.
Longest Wildcard flight to California, sun finally rising.
Descending into Oxnard.
Because I landed before Dave(StoneCold), I captured his landing over a bunch of extra 300's
Some Extra shots from our teamflight.
Landing at Van Nuys
Getting setup for what could possibly be the hardest flight of the race. We had to get a 737 into Hotan at night. Hotan had no lights, barely any scenery and the airport has very few good navaids and pmdg's database had the airport in the wrong spot (by 1/4 mile) and the approach in its database would land you into a tree, so it was a challenge to say the least.
Roman was my wingman, there he is off my left side.
There is the runway finally, I needed to have some team members sit on the runway just to see the runway. This was my decision height, if I wasn't positive I'd make it, this was the point of abort.
Dave heading out on a CJ leg, flew beside him for a short while.
Waiting in China for Dave to arrive on his CJ leg (I jumped ahead), I sat at the end of the runway for some screenshots, it looked however that the wake turbulence from my non-moving airplane flipped him onto the runway and he crashed.
Some shots of my formation flight with Craig into the penultimate Airport Sibu. It was 1:30am for me for this flight and I was falling asleep at the controls on the way across the ocean on this one.
Final flight into Bali, I flew the 777 in my own livery with the team while we flew into some really heavy thunderstorms, my weather radar lit up like a christmas tree at the baton's altitude.
