Interested, but it really depends on the date and time for me.

count me in I have an ace up my sleeve

Saturdays work best for me, with any time range being available unless it is very late in the evening.
I'm in the US Eastern Timezone.
Tuesday evenings may also work, but that depends on what is going on as far as homework goes for my college classes during that specific week.

Beyond that, I'm sure many of us will be free in the days around Thanksgiving and/or Christmas, so you may want to consider that as well.


Finally, I would really focus on specifying the aircraft requirements, since this could be really lopsided depending on what people find and use.
You may also want to establish weather standards as well.

I think the aircrafts should be limited to props manufactured before 1965...


Extra points for WW1 biplanes....

I think a prop and/or turboprop version would be great, but you would probably need to break the trip up into segments. (such as, fly from A to B on this weekend, then B to C on the next weekend, and so on. Maybe make each trip 200 or 300 miles.)

Fozzer wrote on Nov 18^th, 2008 at 6:03am:


I had thought about that, and that's where the fuel consumption was hopefully going to come into play. That, and for the cross country trip, I kinda figured that only around 5-7 types were gonna show up anyway, I've done this route in what I feel are the fastest available aircraft, and all are within a few knots of eachother in terms of speed, but some drink the petrol alot quicker than others. After all, there is only so fast that you can go in the sim. Once this terminal speed is reached, it's all down to route and fuel consumption. That I feel is where the real challenge will lie!
  For the shorter prop-based hops, I like esselbachs idea about limiting  aircraft to a certain time period. That would keep things close, as would navigation. Make them mountain valley runs keeping under certain altitudes with time penaltys! There are plenty of various racing props out there, most designed to originally compete with eachother.

  But now it's trying to evolve into something serious, I was just looking for something fast and fun with the cross country trip, and since it can be done in under an hour, I figured it would work.
It would really take an extreme amount of dedication and organization to do the slower prop runs, while I think it would be great fun, and something to fill the awful gap left by racing's off season, I agree with you that interest would probably wane rather quickly.
In the end, I guess I'll just keep flying online hoping to see others jump on and join in the fun.

You mean there are other servers that do this too?
This is the only one I've used (not counting the bad experience on gamespy with FSX)
I really like the simplicity of the way things work here for the online activities, just a couple of clicks away from happiness. No need to run a dozen other programs to get flying.(not that it may be that way at other sites) I guess I just like the familiarity of having the SimV enviroment online.
  As for organizing, lord knows I've got plenty of free time to get it right!

Sakura wrote on Nov 18^th, 2008 at 10:46am:


That's a great idea!
Even fozzer could get in on this!

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P1: Mach 3 or better

1.SR-71
2.XB-70
3.X-15
4.Mig-31 Firefox
5.Tu-360
6.Space Shuttle
7.Mig-25

GT1: Mach 2-3
1.Concorde
2.Tu-144
3.Tu-160
4.Tu-22
5.B-1
6.B-58
7.Su-47

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2.F-14
3.F-15
4.F-16
5.F-18
6.Mig-29
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