The Transcontinental

The Fall Event Team is happy to announce The Transcontinental.

In a sense, this is a six hour event similar to the much longer Round the World Race.

This is a live real time race running coast-to-coast from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Set in the late 1940s, the main aircraft are World War II surplus fighters (specified in a White List). The structure of the event will require several refueling stops.

Solo entries are fine, multimember team entries may be even better.

The start time is at 0800 PDT (1500 UTC) on Saturday October 26, 2013. The event will take about six hours from start to finish.

European and North American pilots should be able to make the event's timing. Pilots with limited free time may participate on a team while making a commitment of only a couple of hours. Entries are due on Wednesday, October 23 – although late entries and changes will be almost surely be approved by the Committee.

Please see the draft of the Official Rules available from a Dropbox account here. This document is "near-final" but may be modified before the start as we receive feedback from the participants. So if you have an idea about how to make the event work better for everyone, please post your suggestions in the announcement thread at the SOH Multiplayer Forum.

For help from fellow AVSIM pilots, and general conversations about this sort of online event, you might go to AVSIM's Round the World Race Forum here. Lots of friendly and helpful simmers there.