Second Annual Flightsim vs Avsim Around the World Race!

[vcaptmattsmith]

Hi all-

It's that time of year again! I'm posting to announce the Second Annual Flightsim.com vs. Avsim.com Around the World Race. As many of you remember from last year, this is a race we conduct between the forums of Flightsim and Avsim. The objective of each forum is to fly all the way around the world (and authenticate your flights) before the other one does. In order to fly a leg, you simply need to load up Flight Simulator with an appropriate aircraft (details of what aircraft are appropriate or not will be in the rules posted at the start of the race) and fly from the airport your team left off at to another one, preferably in the general direction your team is heading around the world. After you have completed your flight, you must take a screen shot on the ground at your destination airport with the GPS window open, showing the route of flight. You then post this screenshot to the forum to authenticate your flight. At this point, another forum member takes up the “baton” and continues the flight. Again, there will be full instructions and specific rules which take into account (hopefully) all eventualities posted at the start of the race. The above is simply to give potential race participants an idea of how things work.

Last year we had a wonderful race with great participation on both sides. In the end, Avsim pulled ahead and beat Flightsim by a full 10 hours, giving them the win. The final leg was flown simultaneously by both forums over VATSIM and was a great moment of togetherness in the online flightsimming community.

The title of Fastest Forum Around the World is again up for grabs, however. Will Avsim be able to hold onto its title? Or can Flightsim pull off an upset victory? Only time will tell. One thing, however, is certain:

The race begins next Sunday, 15, at 12:00 Noon, EDT. Full rules will be posted at that time.

I look forward to another great race. If anyone has any questions on or suggestions for the race, I'd be happy to hear from them. You can reach me either through e-mail at mattsmith19@adelphia.net or over AOL Instant Messenger on the ScreenName RightFlankr.

Thanks for reading, and good luck to both sides!

Regards-
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...5634aabc9e.jpg

[positiveg]

I definately gotta join this. Flightsim is gonna win!!!!

[rayN5432H]

Revenge will be sweet :D

You know I'm in.

[nwabri]

Sounds like fun,

But please remember to be good sportsmen/sportswomen. This is supposed to be fun, and not nasty competition!

Have fun!

[msykes]

Minor detail, but in fact Avsim beat FlightSim by 31 hours. Team Avsim finished on Saturday, February 22, at 11:10 a.m. EST; Team FlightSim finished on Sunday, February 23, at 6:29 p.m. EST. I know this because I flew the final leg for FlightSim and also because I was lucky enough to receive a great PDF summary (with screenshots) of last year's race that Mike Mackuen (from Team Avsim) wrote.

Anyway, glad to see this is happening again -- I'm really looking forward to it.

Regards,

Marc Sykes

[keaja]

Hey Matt,
Glad we have this going again. Drop me a line at jasonwinn@mac.com if you need any help with setting up arrangements or taking care of anything, I would more than glad to help out.

Jason

[TornadoWilkes]

It's good to see that Matt's got it under control again, hopefully it should be the best race yet. ;-)

Here's a glimpse of the trophy, may the best forum win.
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[rayN5432H]

Who said anything about nasty? Just plain, old-fashioned, roll 'em around on the ground and beat the, err, "Good Game, 'mate" ;-)

[vcaptmattsmith]

Hi!

Looks like we're gonna have a good race on our hands! Thanks for the support that everyone's shown so far.

Excuse my error above. I said 10 hours from memory, I didn't actually look it up. It is in fact 31 hours. My bad.

Regards-
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[MacKuen]

Hi All,

This looks to be great fun.

A note of good cheer from those (of us) on the "other" site. This should be another great race in our series...

Here's raising a virtual glass to everyone's good spirits!

Best,
Mike MacKuen

PS. If anyone wants a copy of last year's journal (mostly but not entirely from the AVSIM perspective), please let me know.