I'm in!

I can sense a lot of people using time shift.....

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I had thought about the time shift thing and slew also. But I have done this route in just about every fast plane out there, So I am fairly certain I know what the minimum time to complete is. Also I could have my laptop running with the server's GPS map up to make sure.
It would be obvious if someone was just cruising along the map while the rest of us were still a couple of states behind.

  The whole point of this is just to have some fun. I think a prop based race would be kinda neat too. Each weekend start a new state, award points formula 1 style. Just looking for ways to utilize this awsome server we have here.   It is so nice to be able to fly online without the fear of being booted off suddenly.

Last night I did find an aircraft that completed this trip in 15minutes! No joke! So the whole fictional aircraft thing might have to be rethought.

So with at least 1 vote of enthusiasm, I can have hope that we can pull this off. It would be great to have a bunch of us from the forums flying together having some fun with something we all share in common and enjoy so much.

Fozzer wrote on Nov 16^th, 2008 at 10:33am:

Paul, you could always pimp out your beech baron with an extra 400,000 lb's of thrust.

ShaneG wrote on Nov 16^th, 2008 at 11:47am:


Nah...

..it was -5 Minutes (minus five minutes) in the Millenium Falcon... ...!

Han Duet.... ...!

BFMF wrote on Nov 16^th, 2008 at 8:01pm:


They wouldn't rip off if Paul braught Chuck Norris on board, Chuck would break the extra thrust off the baron's wings 

I'm interested, if the time difference doesn't kill it for me.

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!

Speed Classes


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

GT2: Mach 1-2
1.Su-27
2.F-14
3.F-15
4.F-16
5.F-18
6.Mig-29
7.All mirages

GT3- Fozzer's Baron 58

this sounds like fun. im in 

but im not sure if the simviation server shows up on the list for acceleration users?

Sounds like a blast, but there are some handicaps as mentioned before...everyone would just figure out what plane is fastest and fuel efficient and fly it open throttle...maybe if you designate a bird it would level off the competition a bit, such as a high speed prop (example, Hughes 500, who has the perfect prop pitch/mixture to run the bird at max efficiency?)


Just my two cents, I'll check back and if it looks like a fair fight I'm in!!

That can be done in MSFS?! I was not aware of that! Sure, if you tell me how to do it!

As an update: it will probably be best to post what aircraft you're gonna use, and use something freeware, that way there are none of the conflicts while in multi. I would hate to watch a mach3 Cessna kicking my butt all the way across the country.
                          OR.....
A suggestion has been made to limit to some specific types since those will probably be the ones showing up anyway.

These planes here achieve the max speed but differ on fuel consumption. I have tested each on a couple of different routes and they all are within a few minutes of each other in travel time.
Altitude seems to play a big factor in speed,fuel useage, and travel time. So this should work nicely if everyone is up to using just these.

All are available here.
1.SR-71(alpha freeware with Chicilo update)
2.XB-70(with the update)
3.X-15
4.Mig-31 Firefox(with the latest update)

There may be others so don't hold this as a 'this or nothing' type of list.
Just remember that everyone has to be able to get it for free to make it fair and fun for all.

Quote:


The one I listed is the Clint Eastwood movie one, for some reason it's listed as the Mig-31 so I included that part of the title just in case. I would be disappointed if that didn't show up!

It's looking like this Saturday around 18:00-19:00 GMT+0 for a start time, that should be early enough for the UK folks and prime time for the US folks and shouldn't conflict with anyone planning to participate in a1's Swiss tour. I'll give this post a couple of days to gather opinions on the start time and then post an official thread for it on Wed. this week.

The real Mig-31 is called the foxhound and is a close twin to the Mig-25 Foxbat for those that wondered.