Air Race

[Nathan Rhodes 1089772]

I recently had an idea of putting on some type of air race! I was thingking of starting it on a saturday morning and having the distance take about the entire weekend. Would mostly like to be flown in some type of turbo prop aircraft, I will most likely fly the Pilatus PC-12. The cities I have considered so far are leaving from Miami and making a few stops on the way and ending in Anchorage; however if you have any other ideas i am up to any suggestions. No reward or anything for the winner, other than saying that you won. lol. The winner will be chosen by the first person to land at the destination airport, take off from the original departure will try to be as close as possible to keep it fair, but shouldnt play too much of a role. Once agaion just let me know if you have any interest at all or if you have any other suggestions to make this better. This is literaly an idea I had on the way to cl[Mod - Happy Thoughts] today so it is not the most thought out! lol

Thanks and I look forward to see ing you in the skies!... in my rearview mirror of course!

Nate Rhodes

N8452-FDC386

1089772

[Tony Vienonen 1136602]

I've thought of something like this before. My line of thinking was more like the IROC (International Race of Champions - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Race_of_Champions) where everyone flies the same plane. And to make it fair, everyone has to have an identical aircraft.cfg file. Because, some people, like me, know how to tweak the aircraft.cfg just enough to get the upper hand.

 

Another thing would be to have the race sanctioned by VATSIM or vatsim controllers. That way, if you are having a race to a specific Intersection, the controller would, in a sense, be the referee or judge as to who arrived there first.

[Brendan Lynch 1167842]

This could be an inter VA or inter VSOA race, where you could have an F-16 from as many VSOA's as we want complete the route above, but with AAR refueling coming into play as well as maybe some arial combat.

[Ernesto Alvarez 818262]

they usually do them over at fseconomy in the Caribbean

 

cheap plug, but so be it

[Anthony Pavlak 1058071]

I'm curious how well this sort of thing would work. I've tried flying as a flight with a buddy of mine, and we both had different representations of "who's in front." He said he was ahead of me by .5 miles, and I showed him 1.5 miles behind.

 

Maybe that's abnormal, but if not it seems like a race might be difficult.

[Ernesto Alvarez 818262]

unless im mistaken, thats not the type of race that was mentioned. the type Nathan mentioned is the type where the course is a series of airports, whoever lands at all of them first would be the winner. kinda like a cross country race

 

red bull type racing is a different story. it can be done tho

[Anthony Pavlak 1058071]

My brain immediately stuck on "red bull" type racing. I think I just want it to be true, so badly.

[Tony Vienonen 1136602]

The Red Bull type is what I was imagining too. But racing from airport to airport would be doable as well. The only drawback, I think, would be who lands first, unless you have parallel runways. That is why I suggested p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]ing a Waypoint or Intersection and having a third party judge.

 

Unless the type of race is a race against time. If pilot A took 2:43 to go from KLAX to KPHX, pilot B took 2:41, and pilot C took 2:36 but all the pilots would be flying at staggered times. Pilot A would take off at 12:30z, B 12:40z, and C 12:50z. And you could use VATSIM (vataware maybe) as the authority, so no third-party would have to be involved.

 

Also like I said above, either everyone has the same aircraft (and/or aircraft.cfg) or there should be a cl[Mod - Happy Thoughts]ification of planes.

 

Single Prop

Single Turbo Prop

Multi engine

Multi engine turbo

 

you get the picture.

 

but also of weight (empty) cl[Mod - Happy Thoughts]es too, if they apply.