eventTime: 2021-04-04T17:30:21.266Z
https://simair.io/logbook/stw222/flight/21033
Done 
eventTime: 2021-04-04T17:23:04.111Z
type: PARKED
https://simair.io/logbook/oldfirehead/flight/21233
Landing time: eventTime: 2021-04-04T18:14:54.521Z
https://simair.io/logbook/NERIKENAUT/flight/20957
I did the entire run in one flight, risky but fun, haha! By one flight I mean I started the flight and didnāt go back to the menues, haha!
Story from the front packā¦ there were three of us that took the shortest possible route in the SR22, 1 stop at YCMM. @OzKamikaze2497 was pushing me hard for the first leg, I had to adjust my planned altitude to match some better speed that heād foundā¦ unfortunately he had a CTD shortly after refuelling. Then @Kiwi17108 kept me honest on the second leg, having some fun playing with altitude trying to find an advantage. Thanks all for an awesome race.
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Just my 2 cents, I think a better way to run this is to let anybody who wants stop and save the flight at any time they are in the air and as many times as they want and then continue on rather then having to make a touch and go to create save point where you can respawn if you crash (either virtually in the sim or your computer crashes). Yep my computer crashed too far into the race with no touch and go recorded so I just called it quits for the night rather then going back and starting over at YPPH.
eventTime: 2021-04-04T05:13:05.159Z
type: TAKEOFF
eventTime: 2021-04-04T20:57:43.872Z
type: PARKED
Great fun racing with you Adam. I kept trying to gain an edge by climbing and descending but you were always a step ahead. Looking forward to the next race. I hope SimAir is better behaved this timeāmy plane is still hovering at 9k feet 187 miles out of YSSY 
Last position before SimAir froze: 2021-04-04T09:40:55.9612
https://simair.io/logbook/irobertson1/flight/20999
VOLANTA tracking showed me landing at YSSY at 10:49
No worries if I am disqualified for not going back to YCMM and restarting SimAir/my flight. I had a great time and look forward to the next event. Cheers Seedyl and FactualGull
eventTime: 2021-04-04T18:06:28.675Z
type: PARKED
https://simair.io/logbook/Twenty5Clocks/flight/21114
I had such a great time. Thank you SeedyL and FactualGull for putting this together. I had a CTD less than 5 minutes before the race which prevented simair from tracking. The 2 videos linked above are from my stream. I streamed the whole thing and had a good time. My twitch name is Twenty5Clocks. If those links donāt work.
Thanks again!!
eventTime: 2021-04-04T18:36:45.917Z
type: PARKED
Will be interested to see my theoretical finish position if I hadnāt lost just over three hours to the CTD 
. Thanks again for a great race and Iām looking forward to the series!
If I hadnāt CTD I still would have finished 42 minutes after you did. That was a great strategy in the C172,
eventTime: 2021-04-05T00:03:25.533Z
https://simair.io/logbook/WinterBand
24 hours, 3 minutes, 25 seconds
eventTime: 2021-04-04T17:49:54.944Z SimAir.io crashed on runway at noresman had to go back to start at Perth lost 2 hrs then went and landed at Sydeny and i landed at 1.15 am witch is 17 hrs 15min made up time in the da40 ng by going to 12000ft gs140 at times great race really enjoyed myself. also when i landed and put the parking brake on in sydeny i took parking brake back off and went into airport and simair has my event time when i roamed around airport and finally turned off engine as my event time thanks
https://simair.io/logbook/Cyclone62/flight/21154
Parked @ 11:04 AM Total time of 15 hours 4 mins
Actual Flight Time of 14 hours 4 mins in the DA40
The thing about flying is that a lot can go wrong very quickly. If every flight always went according to plan, ie no technical issues, no weather cells blocking the route, no pilot errors on landing cough Seedys parking brake cough etc, etcā¦then you may as well just calculate how long the flight would take and not bother flying it.
The sim currently has a very unimaginative failures system which weāre not using. The sim also, currently anyway, has a tendency to CTDā¦which is being viewed as a technical issue with the aircraft that prevented you from taking off from your last airport (or T&G) and the mechanic at that airport has taken the length of time itās taken the sim to CTD to fix the problem. ie, no you didnāt just fly for 2 hours and then CTD, you spent the whole time at your last landing point waiting for the mechanics to get you back in the air. Requires some imagination and roleplaying ability. On the other handā¦a sim CTD canāt be predicted or prevented no matter how diligent a pilot is, so would it be more fair to look into the possibility of simair.io logging a CTD and giving pilots the information required to respawn in the air, with the exact position and fuel load they had on CTD? (well, of course, either that or we all picket Asobo until theyāve properly fixed the CTDs).
Howeverā¦Iām also of the opinion that other things that happen very quickly should not be ignored. Like, for exampleā¦if you T&G but crash into a tree after rotateā¦that is NOT a successful T&G. Fine, the accident happened after the touch down but you just crashed into a treeā¦youāre dead, deceased, gone to the great gaming convention in the skyā¦and yet you get to respawn immediately at the place you just crashed and carry on with no penalty. Hmmmm. Sending someone all the way back to their last (successful) save point can be a very harsh penalty though. Maybe a time penalty added to total flight time instead? I mention this, of course, only in the sense of fair play and competition. Skilled/lucky pilots who donāt crash should have an advantage over those that do, in the same way that pilots who spend hours planning flights, carefully studying wind charts, etc, have an advantage over pilots who just fly straight at the target.
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