Summer Race Event 2016 - Registration Thread

FSDT FSXBA F/A-18C, v16.1

It's my pleasure, guys! It's really an awesome plane, and there are a number of "real-world" Hornet drivers, past and present, on the Team, and on the Beta Testing team. They can't say enough about how realistic the FCS and FDE are.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do :encouragement:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3So3WwTLPRZVU1jaVUtTXZIVVU/view?pref=2&pli=1 is the link. It comes with an Installer, and that can let you select which loadout you want. You will always have to have the Base plane, but after that, whatever you like. I personally like to fly the Training, A-A, and Blue Angel loadouts. The Blue Angel loadout also has a special cockpit, with a stopwatch and controls for the smoke and Inverted Flight tanks. They last longer than the default Hornet's inverted flight tanks, enabling longer inverted flight during shows, as I'm sure we've all seen and enjoyed.
They also have a forum, containing tons of information, answers to questions, how-to guides for the UFC (Up-Front Control panel). Oh, in case I forget to mention it, it includes the FSDT ground mapping radar for free. I simply can't say anough good things about the plane, and the people who made it. "Jimi" Hendricks (the FSX BA XO), Mr. Orion Lau, a man called Paddles, and all the others. The forum for the F-18 forum can be found at http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/board,4.0.html . Feel free to take a look around, or register and post. They really are wonderful, friendly people. Jimi is Active Duty Navy, and sometimes takes a few days to respond, but he always does :wavey:
Enjoy the plane! I sure as heck do. It's about all I fly any more, it's so good. I wish we could use it for this race, heh-heh-heh :adoration:
Pat☺
 
Thanks Pat. This sounds terrific. Will download, install, and enjoy the challenge.
--Mike
 
I use AICarriers.NET (not .exe!) to place a carrier to fly around, make it go forward, set the wind over the deck (WOD) at a MINIMUM of 15kts. That sets up the world for me to do carrier quals all day. I can load in a circling KC-135 to practice refueling too.
Obviously, for the next few weeks I will be working on this race (and loving it so far :encouragement: ) but I would be willing to bet after the race, I will be right back to doing things a Hornet does :engel016:
I hope you enjoy it too! For a change, I haven't touched the Panel.cfg, aircraft.cfg or .air file, unlike my usual habit. I love it just as it is.
See ya!
Pat☺
 
May I please sign up for the Viet Nam trip? I'd like to use Milviz's F100 which I understand was used during that time. For the rest: FSX, OpusFSI weather and er, I think that's it.:very_drunk:
 
Ron Attwood said:
May I please sign up for the Viet Nam trip? I'd like to use Milviz's F100 which I understand was used during that time. For the rest: FSX, OpusFSI weather and er, I think that's it.:very_drunk:
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Hi Ron. Welcome to the race. Another F-100 is surely welcome. :)
 
A quick rule question, if I may: Most of my flight time available is night over in Vietnam. Is it permissable to change the time of day during a leg? I just want to make it daytime, no other change. Still use The Duenna and FSRealWX Lite.
Thanks in advance.
I am also strongly considering a chopper registration. Either the UH-1, OH-6, AH-1, or CH-53. Do the model variations matter? For example, I can't find where the AH-1S was used during the war, but the AH-1J was. The S is one great chopper from HoverControl (one fantastic helicopter site, without question!). Could I fly it? I can only use freeware, so I kinda have to take what I can get...
Once I choose a chopper, if I can use it, I will probably register for the chopper legs.
Thanks again! Have a good time everyone :jump:
Pat☺
 
Phantom, yes we're allowing helicopters. Unless there is a major difference between the models of an aircraft (like in F-84s) we usually don't pay much attention to specific versions.


I'm planning a heli run at it for my second trip through after the T-33. I'm planning on using the now freeware AlphaSim S55 (H-19 Chickasaw) which served in Vietnam in the early part of the war. I just haven't decided on an appropriate paint scheme yet (looking for something Navy that isn't brightly colored). I'm thinking my entry will be more entertaining than competitive considering I rarely fly the things.

Helicopters are quite appropriate for this event.
 
PhantomTweak said:
A quick rule question, if I may: Most of my flight time available is night over in Vietnam. Is it permissable to change the time of day during a leg? ...
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You may set the time of day to daytime, but not during a leg. Set the time before launching the duenna. If you change it while duenna is running, it will register as an error.
 
Okay, here's my round 2 entry: Sikorsky HRS-3 (aka H-19 Chickasaw, aka S-55) in a still wet circa 1966 US Navy paint scheme. At least I should get a good view of the recommended Vietnam scenery as I crash.. At best I might actually finish the course before the end of the event.

(I can paint whatchachoppers, never said I could fly one)

AlphaSim Sikorsky S-55 FSX version (now freeware)
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Registration for the Summer Race

Greetings: This is my first race. I will be flying the FS9 Section8 F-86 in bare metal ported over to FSX. I can't find a Royal Australian Air Force Texture for the aircraft. The F-86 was flown in 1966 out of Thailand by the RAAF. Operating system is FSXA. Weather will be MS Real weather. Hope to see you in the skies. Good luck to all.
 
PRB said:
You may set the time of day to daytime, but not during a leg. Set the time before launching the duenna. If you change it while duenna is running, it will register as an error.
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Thank you very much! I guess I worded poorly. I meant I would enter the "world" at the starting airport for the leg, change the time of day to daytime, then start the weather, and once it's up and running, start the Duenna just before I give 'er the gun and take off. Gives me time to set radios, course, etc etc. before Duenna is running, just to be safe.
When I was practising for the RTWR race, I discovered the Duenna can be a little touchy about how long I sit on the runway fiddling with the instruments, so I always start it at the last minute.
Thank you again for the clarification! I appreciate it. I have a bad habit of asking questions all the time...:dizzy:
Pat☺
PS: I'm still testing choppers. I'll post before the deadline, though, as to which is which :) Pat☺
 
Willy said:
Okay, here's my round 2 entry: Sikorsky HRS-3 (aka H-19 Chickasaw, aka S-55) in a still wet circa 1966 US Navy paint scheme. At least I should get a good view of the recommended Vietnam scenery as I crash.. At best I might actually finish the course before the end of the event.

(I can paint whatchachoppers, never said I could fly one)

AlphaSim Sikorsky S-55 FSX version (now freeware)
FSX Steam Edition
Default Real Wx
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Got it Willy!
 
HarleyDude said:
Greetings: This is my first race. I will be flying the FS9 Section8 F-86 in bare metal ported over to FSX. I can't find a Royal Australian Air Force Texture for the aircraft. The F-86 was flown in 1966 out of Thailand by the RAAF. Operating system is FSXA. Weather will be MS Real weather. Hope to see you in the skies. Good luck to all.
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Got it HD. Welcome to the race!
 
PhantomTweak said:
Thank you very much! I guess I worded poorly. I meant I would enter the "world" at the starting airport for the leg, change the time of day to daytime, then start the weather, and once it's up and running, start the Duenna just before I give 'er the gun and take off. Gives me time to set radios, course, etc etc. before Duenna is running, just to be safe.
When I was practising for the RTWR race, I discovered the Duenna can be a little touchy about how long I sit on the runway fiddling with the instruments, so I always start it at the last minute.
Thank you again for the clarification! I appreciate it. I have a bad habit of asking questions all the time...:dizzy:
Pat☺
PS: I'm still testing choppers. I'll post before the deadline, though, as to which is which :) Pat☺
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No worries Pat. BTW, you can enter any time after the event starts. You just have to finish by the end date.
 
Oh thank goodness. I thought Jul 1 at 0000 CDT or EDT was the registration cut-off. It's just the start time. Thank goodness!
Back to testing and making test flights :triumphant:
Pat☺
 
My second round registration: I will be flying the Kim, "Zeki" BoHyun AH-1 Cobra, in FSX, with FSRealWX Lite for weather.
I will see how it goes :encouragement:
See y'all soonest!:very_drunk:
Pat☺
 
Think I'm still going to try a run in the Virtavia F4D (F-6) Skyray after the T-33.
 
I would like to participate flying the Milviz F-4E Phantom in FSX Acceleration using ASN weather.

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I was stationed in Beaufort SC for a while, with one of the last F-4 squadrons in the Corp, VMFA-333, before they went to F/A-18's. 232 was our "Sister Squadron". We called them "Two Thirty Stupid", they called us "Trip-Trash", in the usual Marine competitive attitude. No real harm meant by either one though. More like sibling rivalry. We had one of the last Phantom deployments to Iwakuni, Japan, with dets to Osan, Korea, and Clark AB in the PI, before Mt. Pinatubo buried it in volcanic ash.
The day after we left Iwakuni to go back to the States, a C-141 slid off the runway in the ice, and ended up within a few feet of our Barracks, the wing literally going over where our maintenance van complex had been until the day before. If it had still been there, I hate to think what that wing would have done to us...
Those are well done liveries. Thanks for the pictures :wavey:
Pat☺
 
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