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Post by jimmy on May 31, 2013 10:33:49 GMT -5
The June race course is now live. This course is a pretty straight forward race - simply get from airport to airport while staying below maximum altitude restrictions.
There are no specified routing instructions - find your own way. However, the "straight line" between any two airports has terrain that is higher than the maximum allowed altitude, so a straight line is never an option.
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Post by kronzky on May 31, 2013 12:33:39 GMT -5
So... no plans of implementing some changes to level the playing field a bit?
e.g. rethinking the aircraft handicapping system (considering it's always the same planes that win), or equalizing the weather somehow (if you get fogged in on any of these runs, you're pretty much screwed — and considering the unpredictability of FSX's weather, it'll come down to luck who wins).
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Post by jimmy on May 31, 2013 17:24:06 GMT -5
Sure, change is always possible. No time to sit down and contemplate the ideas presented on those topics, mostly.
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teson1
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Post by teson1 on Jun 4, 2013 17:17:50 GMT -5
Hello Jimmy,
nice track across Kodiak.
I've measured the minimal flight distance for the legs.
Could you update the leg distances?
If there's any track, then this is the one where the handycap system can equalise the chances of all aircraft.
But it needs the real distances the planes have to fly to be entered, otherwise the slow planes will be disadvantaged again (every nm beyont MFD takes longer for a slow than a fast plane).
Distances:
3.1 40.2 nm
3.2 15.5 nm
3.3 38.9 nm
3.4 42.9 nm
3.5 14.2 nm
Thanks.
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Post by jimmy on Jun 4, 2013 22:14:24 GMT -5
Thanks, Teson! Yes, definitely better with the "best route" distances. Was this with the GE "flood" tool?
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Post by teson1 on Jun 5, 2013 15:04:01 GMT -5
Thanks, Teson! Yes, definitely better with the "best route" distances. Was this with the GE "flood" tool? Yes, it can be done with the GE Flood tool. An even simpler method is by hand drawing a polygon in GE and attributing it a certain "absolute" altitude. See picture. Just take care not to draw the polygon wider than about 20 nm, otherwise the contour in the middle of the polygon will not be at the correct altitude as GE's polygons clip the earth's curvature. Almost too easy. Takes all the fun out of carefully studying the sectionals to find the best passage.  Attachments:
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