2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race Update
The race is starting to get interesting as the teams reached the Pacific Ocean last night. There were a number of different “corridors” that were available. Inside a corridor, subsonic jets are allowed, and the leg distance/time restrictions are waved, but you must hit all the airports listed in the corridor assignments.
Team AVSim and SimOuthouse both appear to be choosing the southern routes that will shoot them out near the Andes Mountains in South America probably to pick up 2 high-altitude airports and their South American requirements. FlightSim.com has chosen for the crossing route, taking them from Tasmania up to Johnson’s Atol up to Alaska. Presumably, FlightSim.com’s route will allows them to pick up their >65N requirements since they’ve already done their high altitude landings in the Himalayas.
All of the teams have completed their Team Flight bonus flights, capturing maximum bonus times there, as well as a single airport bonus so far. Likewise, all 3 teams spent time in Southern Australia last night, taking advantage of good weather and daylight to knock off most of the historical aircraft requirements.
The interesting thing will be to see how AVSim and SimOuthouse get their >65N requirements in and how FlightSim.com will get down to South America and then cross to get their European requirements in.
It is expected that all 3 teams will make landfall in North or South America this evening and will take the better part of the next day before moving on to the trans-Atlantic crossings.
Another highlight was listening to various Abba songs through AVsim’s SHOUTcast stream.
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