Practice Session Featured GREAT Action!
Thanks to Erik Thompson, CEO of West Coast ATC for supplying the servers and his excellent diagnostic service.

Tonights gathering was focused on solving the lag and connection issues. Flatline, Roscoe, WTR*755, GriffonJET & GOferBROKE were present and determined to find our gremlin. Along the way, some GREAT practice races were flown! Hope WTR*373 and Comair 27 enjoyed what they saw, as they joined for the show.

West Coast ATC has been kind enough to offer the use of their RW base station and let us hook our session to the dedicated server. There was an ATC session still winding down and FSHost2.3 was being utilized. The pilots flying their routes in the ATC session, along with our little group, provided enough traffic to bring our little demon back. The darn lag! We switched to Flatlines' seperate IP and flew another race. Some excellent action in the F1 racer followed with GriffonJET demonstrating some fine piloting skill. Other fliers were close behind and relieved when no lag gremlin returned. It seemed probable that FSHost was hindering our connection.

More help came from Erik at this point as we went back to one of his computers for more practice. We flew without FSHost and Erik was examining all flow of bandwidth and latency info. Having several PCs at his disposal, and no more ATC traffic to get home safe(!), he pitched in and monitored all our movements. The info gathered by the races after this was what all present considered to be the final word..........Goodbye Gremlins!

Pace duties were shared as we went to the P51s'. Three more fantastic practice heats were flown and as Erik gathered information, some of the best action a pilot could ever ask for ensued! This was some of the finest piloting I've had a chance to witness! All racers were close with GriffonJET showing he was determined to be a contender. Flatline demonstrated he was definitely back, too. The final heat was won by Tony and it was good to see him in front. Roscoe & 755 were in the hunt all the way, too!

Afterwards was very informative as Erik gave his appraisal of the data gathered. We all left better educated and very excited to see definite progress. Varo has some great action to offer and with the prospect of smoother events, your reporter is urging all pilots to come out next Saturday night for the Unlimited Race! Some un-official practices might be held leading up to the event and email notices will be sent out.

I'm truly excited to see an answer to our glitches!

Thanks again to Erik for his assistance!

#19GOferBROKE, Over and out!