Bleriot Centenery Event is on Sunday 19th July

[mickj300]

On 25th July 1909 Louis Bleriot successfully completed the first flight across the English Channel. Taking off from Sangatte nr Calais, France he landed in a field behind Dover Castle some 37 minutes later.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/es...eriot/DI11.htm

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/bleriot.html

http://www.bleriot.org/docs/ChannelCrossing.htm


On the weekend of 25-26th July the town of Dover will be hosting a number of events including replica flight, races, pageant & flypast

http://www.dover2009.com/events.html

Flightsim.com Multiplayer Adventures Forum will be holding their own celebration a week earlier on Sunday 19th July. We will meet at LFAT (Le Touquet) a little earlier than usual at 1900Z (3pm EDT, 8pm BST) and race a series of short legs as follows;

LFAT-LFAC Calais Dunkerque
LFAC-EGMH Manston
EGMH-EGHI Southampton
EGHI-LFAT Le Touquet

These legs will be flown in accordance with Flight Simulator Round the World Race rules http://www.fsrtwrace.com/rules.htm and aircraft classes are as follows;

The leg from Calais to Manston must be flown in either of the following Bleriot XI types obtainable from the flightsim.com file library

bler_r06.zip
bleriot5.zip

For the remaining three legs, aircraft must be selected from the following classes in any order;

One leg to be flown in a Piper Cub or any helicopter
One leg to be flown in a piston or turboprop powered aircraft with up to two engines
One leg to be flown in a four engined piston powered airliner or transport


In the event of a crash the leg must be restarted and the abortive time added to the total. Legs will be monitored by ATC and verified using the Duenna utility http://johannesmueller.com/fs/web/duenna/ and all Duenna graphic and text files must be uploaded to the MP forum in one post within 15 minutes of arrival back at LFAT Le Touquet.


PREPARING FOR THE EVENT

Hamachi

Hamachi is a small utility for your computer that will greatly alleviate the port issues that plague the FSHost server. What it essentially does is fool your internet connection into thinking it's connected to a LAN. The result is the elimination of people getting blocked out of a server due to port issues, as well as smoother animations within FS. No configuration is required. The program is very small and requires only a few steps to get things set up. Hamachi is avaliable at this link: https://secure.logmein.com Then click on the LogMeIn Hamachi link at the bottom of the page.

Before the start of the event, someone will set up a Hamachi session, and the necessary information will be given over Teamspeak (IP 76.125.31.126:8768) to get connected. Once connections to Hamachi have been made, simply start up a multiplayer session as normal, leave the IP field blank, and hit "Search." FS should automatically locate the connection, at which point you can join the FS Session. FSX users will need to download and install FSHost Client available from http://www.chocolatesoftware.com/fsh...ostclient.html

The Hamachi flight server and the Teamspeak server will be in operation all day on the day of the event.



We look forward to seeing you all in Le Touquet, France on Sunday July 19th.

[salt_air]

Good One here Mick!,

Alright folks some competition in planes again dust of the duenna.

Should be a lot of fun,,,,,let's get there early to make sure we've got everything working ok,,,okay?

Appreciate all the work you've put into this one Mick.

Cheers,

[EdGeneer]

The real trick is getting a helo or better yet the cub down with realism settings and probable channel wind active Im so bad at flying that cub, i cant get it powered up and rolling in a good wind stable enough to take it off without rolling it

we should get some good video of 'that' attempt

[350BC_Doug]

Well done Mick! This will be fun. Thanks for the excellent effort, and history.

N350BC

[jimmyp42002]

this sounds like it will be fun. however. I'll be in ohio, I'll have internet and a joystick with me though so. I'll try to pop in. Not shure if my laptop will handle FS9 though.

[salt_air]

this sounds like it will be fun. however. I'll be in ohio, I'll have internet and a joystick with me though so. I'll try to pop in. Not shure if my laptop will handle FS9 though.

Hey jimmy,

How's it goin'? Headed out to the "Buckeye" state for a while, eh?

The Laptop should work ok, but if the computer is struggling then move the sliders (in the settings for display) back to the left. (all of them)

Just have to do without all the scenery details.

Keep the FPS counter on the screen (shift+Z) while you tune the simulator to match the computer,,,,you'll want frame rates at least in the mid to high teens because they will drop in multiplayer.

Much below ten FPS (frames per second) with sparse scenery settings will be no fun,,,not really worth it.

Big frame killers are autogen scenery and scenery complexity. Watch your Global Max texture size on the hardware page.

Another real big "banger" on frames is how the sim draws clouds. Keep 'um simple and and shorten the draw distances. Easiest way is to run clear weather, but there's no choice on that because will be running the duenna and you will need to have the real weather turned on.

While I'm at it some addons, sceneries and aircraft, will tax even a fast machine to where there is a sharp drop in frames as you get close to it's location. None required for this event so all's well on that note.

I ran FS9 on an old laptop while on vacation a few years ago and had no trouble. I also had no graphic quality at all,,,,looks kinda generic, but I was able to join an event even with a weak Wi-Fi connection.

This only takes a few minutes to set up. Start by reseting all of the defaults and cut back a little at a time to get the FPS at target. Then make sure to get on the FSHost server (new address) to check connections a see how it all works BEFORE the event.

Anytime I change settings on either of my simulators, I will check out the performance on-line first.

You may have seen me out there before ...."yeah, how ya doin', I'm just checking settings...".

If it works there, then it will be fine for anything else.

This will be on a Hamachi (don't forget to load that up) connection so that will help things out a little bit.

It will be worth it just to see Ed (N180GS) putting on his "Cub" show......LOL.

Good Luck,

[salt_air]

Hey Mick,

Noticing a couple of other models of this aircraft in the library.

blerio12.zip
blerio11.zip
09blerxi.zip

They're all about the same speed 50-55 kts flat out with just aesthetics and slight handling differences.

Would these be eligible aircraft as well?

Cheers,

[mickj300]

blerio11&12 are by the same author and probably use the same model. 09blerxi is written by someone else but if Salt-Air says it flies the same then that's good enough for me.

[mickj300]

It has been suggested that the Pitcairn and Kellet autogyros be permitted as both are allowed in the helicopter class under RTW rules. When this event was planned I had intended it to be a challenge of airmanship and encourage people to hone their skills on either helos or the Cub as both are notoriously difficult to fly.

So in order to allow these on the LeTouquet - Calais leg and to compensate for the relative ease of flying them;

1. A successful flight in a helo or Cub will have the leg time halved in calculation of the overall result.
2. An otherwise successful flight in helo or Cub which ends in a crash landing within the boundary of the destination airfield will count for normal time.
3. A flight in helo or Cub which ends in an en-route crash will have to be re-flown and the times added (although if the second attempt is successful then time for that part will be halved).
4. A successful flight in either of those autogyros will count for normal time.

Please post both Duenna image and text files for each leg to a special thread in the forum which I'll start at the beginning of the event - if running version 120 then upload to the server with the event name 'Bleriot'

The Kellet is part of the Golden Hawaii package (sweet!)...(cc8ghf.zip) here:

http://www.flightsim.com/file.php

The Pitcairn has two zips...pca2.zip and pca2fix.zip here:

http://www.flightsim.com/file.php - link for pca2fix.zip is imbedded in the description.



See you all Le Touquet tomorrow (Sunday) at 1900Z, 3pm EDT.

[salt_air]

It has been suggested that the Pitcairn and Kellet autogyros be permitted as both are allowed in the helicopter class under RTW rules. When this event was planned I had intended it to be a challenge of airmanship and encourage people to hone their skills on either helos or the Cub as both are notoriously difficult to fly.

So in order to allow these on the LeTouquet - Calais leg and to compensate for the relative ease of flying them;

1. A successful flight in a helo or Cub will have the leg time halved in calculation of the overall result.
2. An otherwise successful flight in helo or Cub which ends in a crash landing within the boundary of the destination airfield will count for normal time.
3. A flight in helo or Cub which ends in an en-route crash will have to be re-flown and the times added (although if the second attempt is successful then time for that part will be halved).
4. A successful flight in either of those autogyros will count for normal time.

Please post both Duenna image and text files for each leg to a special thread in the forum which I'll start at the beginning of the event - if running version 120 then upload to the server with the event name 'Bleriot'

The Kellet is part of the Golden Hawaii package (sweet!)...(cc8ghf.zip) here:

http://www.flightsim.com/file.php

The Pitcairn has two zips...pca2.zip and pca2fix.zip here:

http://www.flightsim.com/file.php - link for pca2fix.zip is imbedded in the description.



See you all Le Touquet tomorrow (Sunday) at 1900Z, 3pm EDT.

I'll try to be on a little early if anyone wants to get in some practice with the bear,,,,,,I mean cub..;o)