2019 RTW Race Official Annoucement

[Eamonn Watson 32]

To all pilots, we are pleased to announce the final running of the Round The World Race.  The race will start Feb 15 at approximately 22:00 UTC (subject to change).  The route for this race will complete the route started in 2017 from Dubai to Phoenix.

[Eamonn Watson 32]

Hey all, if you are going to be doing testing, please be sure the new Duenna works for you.  This will be the 1st race using the all new Duenna as the old one will not output a map output any longer due to changes within Google.

Please please test it using your racing setup as fixing bugs during race will be incredibly difficult.

Thank you

[spokes2112 179]

"Final". Knew it was coming, all great things come to an end..
Posted a possible bug over at the RTWR forum..  

[cbtaylor 15]

I was afraid we weren't running it this year, even.  Glad to hear that we'll be able to have one last hurrah, at least. 

[Eamonn Watson 32]

Yes, the executive committee even aren't super thrilled about this race but we are pulling it together for this one.  

In future who knows but the race may need to change, Sim-Outhouse I assume will barely be able to field a team, Flightsim only have 1 - 2 pilots who are on SOH and even us we are starting to struggle, we should have enough but i think it will be barely enough.  Just the way it is going I'm afraid.

[l_schuiling 6]

i hope we will find some sort of equal thrilling event, that makes flight simming a team effort. realizing it was always a niche doing war birds.

i would not mind racing either

1) GA aircraft

2) warbirds in super realism

3) warbirds all the same like all  flying a2a mustang

4) airliners early generation.

 

we will work something out eventually, eamon pleas keep the website alive.

best regards

leon

[Eamonn Watson 32]

I will continue to have the website, I will post proper race history on it and it will stay going.  Maybe in future someone will have an idea to bring the race back in some capacity that will draw pilots.  Or maybe revamp the race entirely, we shall see.

 

[somiller 694]

Eamonn,

Updated airfile link broken for the Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 - Flying Stations.

Kind Regards,

[Spookster67 1]

Good luck team AVSIM! Enjoy the race....