Spookster67

You should have seen how badly I had to treat the F-80 to also post at 20:37!!!!!! Amazing, well done.

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

Congrats guys, great race well flown! Martin, SOH

Hey guys. To be honest, I'll just be glad if I've even got a wingman! If I've got a wingman than can take off behind me, overtake me, and land more than 5 minutes ahead of me, that would be amazing!! It just won't happen. As suggested, let's give it a try, and see how it goes. Getting excited now... :smile: Regards, Martin.

Well done Team AVSIM - great strategy, great flying!

Looks great, even in the dark! Good luck with the flight

Bad luck. Friendly reminder from the Duty Officer - please update your bonus/penalty bank. Thanks.

You're flying a pair of Cat 3 jets, in formation, at over 700 knots ground speed. That's just ridiculous!! Well done guys, but take care on re-entry into the atmosphere off the coast of Ireland. :wink:

Great! And good to hear those guys are all still flying too.

Hi Sergio, good to see you're still flying, and that you might join in the race! As Mike has kindly said, I joined Sim-Outhouse for RTW racing after the iFly team folded. You also may remember Steve (Venture06) from iFly, who has raced for FlightSim.com the last few of years. I'm sure any of the three teams would love to have you on their rosta! :smile: Regards, Martin.

Hi Joseph, I replied to you in the thread you started in the Sim-Outhouse forum. Regards, Martin.

Great flying guys, well done! Especially after the bad luck you had early in the race.

Congratulations guys!! First back to FACT, faultless flying with no penalties, full bonus scored, and a great route selected too. Well done. p.s. nice to see the use of the rookie mulligan wingman transfer rule for Michael63. After successfully flying such a long wildcard leg, and then getting 95.9 seconds of overspeed when the limit is 90, it would have been tough for that to have cost you some time.

Great flight Eamonn! When it comes to flying the big tubes fast, you've got it covered. Well done Michael as well!

:( :( :im Not Worthy:Well done guys, can't get better than that!Sorry other things haven't gone so well for you today - keep smiling! :smile:All the best, Martin.

Have a great race, good luck, and see you on the start line! Not long now...Regards,Martin.

Hi there Eamonn and Avsim team,Yes, we at iFlyOnline have decided we won't be able to gather enough pilots to have an effective team this year. Rather than try to compete with only a handful of pilots (and perhaps fail to finish) we thought it better to declare now that we wouldn't run a team this year (and I've written to the Executive Committee to let them know).This means our race pilots that still want to participate in the race will need to sign up for one of the other teams. I'd be happy to put a post on the iFlyOnline forum inviting them to join your team (but perhaps noting that "other RTW race teams are available" :( ).Regards and good luck,Martin.iFlyOnline.com

I can view and post at Sim-Outhouse, once I've logged in (registered). If I log out, I can still see that attachments and images exist, but I cannot access them.Regards,MartiniFlyOnline.com

The bonus bank looks good Eamonn. I see you have a count-down timer running, which is suggesting a start time of 1700 zulu. Is that a confirmed start time, or are you just guessing?Regards, Martin.

Wow, it looks great. Nice work!Martin.

Eamonn,Your bonus bank worked really well last year, so it's great that you're able to provide the same thing again. It would be good if you could give it some security, so that only team members could put their data in, and not just anyone. Last year we had a bit of a problem with others (no idea who) amending our team's data, and we kept having to re-enter it.Thanks and regards,MartiniFlyOnline.com

Congratulations on a good race guys! We realised we were following a similar route to you, and we were just about keeping up, so it was fun watching you. In fact when you were flying helis and we were in jets on the west coast of Africa, we almost caught up! Unfortunately we faded a bit at the end, and we had a lot more penalties.Bad luck Aarrvoo on that trans-Atlantic crossing - an FSX error after over 3.5 hours must have been really annoying. But well done on not picking up any other penalties the whole way round - great piloting skills.All the best,Martinwww.iFlyOnline.com team.

Pausing does not invalidate the Duenna. Just unpause, and continue.

An invitationFS-MP.com is holding one of its monthly "String of Pearls" events on Sunday April 5th, 1900z to 2200z, and we've decided to make it open to anyone to join in via Gamespy. We hope to have at least 100 pilots over the 3-hour period of the event, and we'll have 5 airports open with Tower and Approach ATC manned at each, plus a New York Center controller. It should be a great event, and we'd love to see any of you at AVSIM join in.How to join inYou'll need to use FSX SP2, and log onto Gamespy. (Sorry, there is no way of using other versions of Flight Simulator). Look for the FS-MP session in the Free Flight lobby (it may be called >FS-MP Community< or something like that). Join at one of the event airports (see the list of 5 airports below) but make sure you spawn at a gate or parking. The server rejects any attempt to spawn on a runway.Once in game, contact the tower on the radio frequency shown below, and they'll help you to get airbourne from there. Or just join the session and look at the player names to see which towers are signed in - the radio frequency is included in their game name.Important note - this is not an attempt to recruit people away from AVSIM to FS-MP.com. Rather, it is just an open invitation to come and join us for what should be a fun event, and we want to have as many pilots enjoy it as possible. Hope to see some of you on Sunday... Event detailsNew York Center - Sec 50 BGM Low 5th April 2009 From 1900z to 2200z (or the last controller drops!) With the success of the current String of Pearls we take things a little farther and expand to New York Center Sector 50 BGM Low. Added to the complexity we open ELM Approach, BGM Approach, AVP Approach, and 2 sectors in the Tracon- JFK and SWF. This should give the Pilots and Controllers a totally life-like aviation experience. It requires a commitment of 5 Approach controllers, 5 Tower controllers and 1 NY Center controller. Join in and help to make this an event of a life time. Our String of Pearls events are particularly well received by controllers and pilots of all abilities, and utilize unique, custom software to enable perfect, timeless communication between our Real-World ATC trained Virtual Air Traffic Controllers and our Sim Pilots. The Airports & Airspace This event is an introduction to center control. It is centered around KJFK, KSWF, KAVP, KBGM and KELM airports/approaches and NY Center Sector 50 . As you can tell, these airports are also relatively close so you won't have time to eat, drink, or nap while flying or controlling. These airports are served by numerous air carriers and by many corporate and general aviation aircraft. Fly what you'd like, a C172 or a Southwest B737 or maybe that B747 you just never get to fly. Just remember keep it under 250kts below 10,000ft but let it rip from 10000 to 14000. And , if you decide on a heavy aircraft make sure the runways are compatible. (Hint- SWF and JFK are) Link to Area Map for printing. These routings and sectors are somewhat real world, but altitudes and boundries have been modified to fit in with our event. (For example Sec 50 actually owns up to FL230) This event is one more step to increasing our FS-MP capacity toward actual Approach/Center interaction. Flight plans and the Sector 50 Radar Map can be downloaded from the link below. Now included is a Word Document file with the routings laid out for you to cut and paste into your flight plan file. There is also a Flight Plan.ZIP file that has all the flight plans in it. Download them individually or the zip file with them all.Flight Plans (.pln), Doc file and Map Controller Sign Up NY Center Sector 50 (133.35) = John Goodwin & ATCS-radar ************************************************** ****************** JFK SWF Sector Approach (132.75) = Bond007 Tower (121.00) = Cheeseman123 - (instructor?) ************************************************** ****************** KJFK Airport and JFK Sector Approach (123.70) = KenATC Tower (119.10) = Flyer522 ************************************************** ****************** KAVP Approach (124.50) = ArizonaPilot Tower (120.10) = Simon_131 ************************************************** ****************** KBGM Approach (118.6) = Tim500739 Tower (119.30) = degers ************************************************** ****************** KELM Approach (119.45) = Chris0228 Tower (121.10) = Blue-18 Most of all, have fun and with a good turnout this should be another great event !!!

Well done team AVSIM, you guys flew a great race!We really enjoyed our first experience of this great event, and were pleased to be right up there with you, with the final result not known until the very end. Looking forward to next year already,Regards, Martin (Spookster67, FS-MP)