[OFFICIAL] [Charity] Microsoft Flight Simulator Cannonball Run Race Day and Results Thread

First of all… thank you SeedyL and FactualGull once again for a superb Event and the good cause though you’ve been forced to tell the longest joke during VFR in the night and while being totally tired and exhausted :wink:

Second: I’ve found a reproducable bug in the SR22 and maybe in another aircraft. When you click on the aircraft-pic in your navigational planning enviroment (the globe) to set your weight and balance, go back to the map and come back again in order to check your inputs you reset everything. The fuel quantity suddenly jumps from full to half. This happend to me in the midwest, where I double-checked my fuel but in fact reduced it resulted in an unneeded fuel stop + 10 minutes. Maybe somebody report this to the Devs.

For the first time I got CTD, not once but 2x times resulted in 1h loss for the first one and 40 Min for the 2nd one. Did not seen this neither in the VL3 (Paris-Dakar) or in the Pipistel Virus (Canada). Though I restarted everything accordingly (simair + msfs) and the recording of the 2nd flght was fine, the simairclient stopped recording midair. But everything in chronical order:

Leg 1: KJFK-KFFO



From NY crossing the Appalachian Mountains. This leg was quite uneventful and I enjoyed the Big Apple and the Vista.

Leg 2: KFFO-KHUF


Through the Mid West. Well again uneventful except the wind, becoming more and more a factor and forced me to stay low just above the mist and fog. With the SR22 I stayed close to the leading group of 6-7 planes.

Leg 3: KHUF-KADM


My first CTD after an hour of flight. So I started in KHUF twice and lost my position in the top leading group of 6 falling back to position 14 or 15. The more interesting part was the routing. I’ve taken a more southbound one through the First Nations Reservates with huge forests quite similiar to Canada where you can see forests and small lakes for hours except the many hills.

Leg 4: KADM-KLVS



Again due to the strong winds I stayed low, sometimes just 500 feet AGL. The wide flat Sierras allowed this if you’re not encounting a windpark or other man-made obstacles. But I had to stay cautious. The terrain was climbing. And while SeedyL and FG struggled with the upcoming night the sun still was alive for me and I decided to divert to Las Vegas/ New Mexico to refuel by daylight.

Leg 5: KLVS-KPHX

My second CTD after 40 Min flight… argh… this gave me the rest. From now on I was flying for fun still hoping for a place within the Top 10. After landing in Phoenix I recognised, that simair stopped logging my flight midair. It seems, I am not the only one struggeling with fatigue.


Leg 6: KPHX-KLAX

The last leg is without simair either. The ***** cllient stopped working completly. And still now I cannot open the flight. It shows just an endless spinnging wheel. So I have to show my MSFS Logbook and Screenshots to document my arrival.

Touch-Down at 21:53 Local Time, I can’t tell you which one? Eastern, Western… was too tired and went to bed cause here in Europe it was already 7:00 am in the morning.





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DrOcculari, race ended at 18:45z 12/27/21

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Hi Everyone, I want to thanks the whole community of MSFS for this amazing event, specially to @SeedyL3205 and @FactualGull1036 for the dedication and the professionalism during the event and the stream, thanks to all the people who donated and many thanks for the longest Joke in the world :rofl: as well I want to thanks all the participants and people who joined just for fun to escort some of us

I love this community so much, every day MSFS brings me joy and tons of fun!

What an experience, many many thanks. I’m looking forward for the next Community event

Here is my results for the race

Take off at 5:00:21 am 26/12/2021 from KJFK
Landed at 12:01:24 am 27/12/2021 in KLAX

Logbook Simair

KJFK-KSWO SimAir.io
KSWO-KLAX SimAir.io

Logbook 1



PArked

:v:

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Logbook: SimAir.io

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That was quite the adventure. I’ve finally fulfilled my self inflicted promise!

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Log for SnowierJoker

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https://simair.io/logbook/SnowierJoker/flight/53819

SeedyL and FactualGull - Thank you again for another great Cannonball Run.

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EmonOkari
Logbook: SimAir.io
Landed: 02:16:38.877 Zulu (12-27-2021)
cbr2021time-emonokari1

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You, sir, are an Icon!

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Congratulations to everyone who completed the race! Massive achievement!

Thank you @SeedyL3205 and @FactualGull1036 for organizing this event! So much fun!

Here is my logbook: SimAir.io

eventTime: 2021-12-27T10:27:57.595Z
type: PARKED

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I just woke up and started reading this thread. It’s so great to see how much money was raised, and how much fun everyone had! It was a total blast, having this series of races. I wish I had something prolific to say, but this race was mostly brute force and no tactics. I’m going to be doing a debrief stream, and making a Youtube video about tactics and whatnot. Live stream on the 31st, and the youtube video shortly thereafter. This is where I’m going to spill the beans about how I was able to do so well without breaking any rules (from my reading, it looks like I won the grand champion). Theres a lot to unpack, so I’ll see you all there.

And because I can’t get times to work, Dec 31, 2021 6:00 PM MST.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrjya2B7Cd1yZWV1liFtnOA
Twitch: Twitch

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Van Hamsteren

Landed at 27dec2021 22:07:14Z

Schermafbeelding 2021-12-27 233623

SimAir links:
Part 1: SimAir.io
Part 2: SimAir.io
Part 3: SimAir.io
Part 4: SimAir.io

Volanta links:
Part 1: Volanta (JFK start and CTD)
Part 2: Volanta (resume from CTD)
Part 3: Volanta (normal flight)
Part 4: Volanta (ran out of fuel here, twice)
Part 5: Volanta (most stressful flight for me, iced wings, turbulence at close prox to mountains etc)
Part 6: Volanta (landing in poor weather)

I had the most fun in this sim ever. Thank you @SeedyL3205, @FactualGull1036, everyone orchestrating and participating this run. In real time seeing the sun set while flying through 2 layers of clouds in a golden red sky. To see it rise again behind the Rocky mountains. I learned how to manage mountains, turbulence (dropped 3000 ft out of the sky) and iced up airframe/wings. Seeing the endless farmlands between Illinois and Kansas, the Rocky Mountains and reservations in Arizona. And in the end approaching Los Angeles in the middle of heavy rain showers, hoping to land safely (almost came close to a KLM Boeing on final). This was one commendable run, thank you everyone for flying with me and joining my stream.

I really hope the fundraiser reached the goal!

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https://simair.io/logbook/RavingHelmet/

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TL;DR -
Finish at KLAX
eventTime: 2021-12-27T04:34:00.432Z
type: PARKED

Elapsed: 15:34:00
Cirrus SR22
https://simair.io/logbook/volleynerd30

First time flying the SR22, obviously fast, and pretty easy to fly. AP through most of the route.
CTD on leg 2, set me back almost 2 hours, so my time, “what could have been”. Not a single CTD when practicing in the days ahead of time, but in the actual race, ugh. Always the case. So much fun and learning, as usual… Now EXHAUSTED.

Gave streaming a try with a few short segments on each full stop landing.

THANK YOU to @SeedyL3205, @FactualGull1036 as always for organizing and the great 22 hour stream to cover it. THANK YOU to Null and @BlueYonder9259 for their work and support giving us SimAir and GoRace. They were solid this time around - I’m assuming you put time and $$ into buffing these out, THANK YOU!

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https://simair.io/logbook/CooperAJ/flight/53985

eventTime: 2021-12-28T03:55:26.237Z
type: PARKED

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eventTime: 2021-12-28T03:54:03.176Z
type: PARKED

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https://simair.io/logbook/bktaco

eventTime: 2021-12-28T04:32:07.355Z
type: PARKED

LAXFinish

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https://simair.io/logbook/RecordedTrack82/flight/54043
eventTime: 2021-12-28T09:12:52.430Z
type: PARKED

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First, thanks to @SeedyL3205 and @FactualGull1036 along with guests for hosting this event.

I appreciate your passion for this global community of people who love aviation and MSFS 2020. It is not lost on me that a lot of planning goes into this and then having to be essentially on camera for 24 hrs start to finish. Furthermore, a substantial amount of money was raised for a very worthwhile charity on a day off (volunteering). Thanks for being great humans.

This was my first endurance sim race and I know I will be back (if able) for future races. Thanks for the memories!

Arrived LAX at 01:18:01 EST on 12/27/21

Summary

eventTime: 2021-12-27T18:18:01.478Z
type: PARKED

https://simair.io/logbook/Honen3419/flight/53859

additionally: Thanks to the creator of SimAir. I’ve become a Patreon. Consider supporting these developers that build things you use!

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Once again, I fail to finish the Canonball beause of pilot planning error … Failing is learning I guess, but I begin to think I’m a bit slow at this learning thing. :sob:

Anyway, thank you SeedyL & FactualGull for another exciting race … Can’t wait for the next one !

As far as I know, that’s true for every plane and MSFS has done that since day #1. In my pre-race check-list, I wrote to set-up the plane first, then enter the flight plan, then the weather, and I’ve written in bold “DO NOT GO BACK TO THE PLANE SETUP” at this point because yes, it will reset your fuel/pilots/CG settings. One of these many (maybe minor but) annoying bugs that still plague MSFS 18 months after release …

Finally done. First landing in KLAX was registered as landing in KONT (?).
To be sure I did repeat this part…

https://simair.io/logbook/Harrum65

simair HR

Regards

EDIT: If there is any issue with the last flight from KDAG-KLAX (as KONT is shown 'in
flight), please use the one resp. the arrival time as below. To be sure that nothing is wrong or missing, I did repeat the last leg. Thanks!

simair HR2

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TomosWorld
https://simair.io/logbook/TomosWorld/flight/53845

Parked in LAX at 21:08 Zulu

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