VARO Grand Re-Opening
We are back with a new site and a new attitude toward racing
Starting in June the season is back on!
I would like to thank the VARO staff for making this possible and keeping me motivated through all the problems and set backs if it were not for them VARO could have died a rather sorry death. I would also like to thank Mark Kallio at Pylon1 for providing a great presence on the web for not only VARO but for Air Racing in general. Visit www.pylon1.com for all your air racing news and info.
VARO Staff
Flatline
GOferBROKE
Baron
Roscoe
Thursday, April 24, 2003
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
VARO Website Update
Website construction coming along nicely should be done very soon
Stay posted!
Other News
Unlimited Class Filling Up Fast!
Only 7 spots remain, if you want to be an active Unlimited Pilot sign up today!
visit our new Join page for instructions
Website construction coming along nicely should be done very soon
Stay posted!
Other News
Unlimited Class Filling Up Fast!
Only 7 spots remain, if you want to be an active Unlimited Pilot sign up today!
visit our new Join page for instructions
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Calling All Pilots!
VARO Rebuild Well Underway!
All racers can understand the strong desire of holding events in a fair, competitive atmosphere. We came to the realization a major change was needed. VARO CEO, Sryth, put the season on hold and Erik Thompson, CEO of West Coast ATC, volunteered for the task of Support Professional. Much deliberation and long hours of effort by many created a process of certifying pilots, to get all on a level playing field.
Some racers that attended were kind enough to send me their comments on the certification process. Roscoe was the first to get scrutinized and was very impressed with Eriks' expertise. Also, WarX says, "Erik did a very good job helping me out. Found out a couple new items about my computer as well. When connected, I can now run about 75% resources free on the dial up and get a decent enough connection to hopefully not be bouncing around anymore. I'm running a PII 450 mhz machine, with a 56k dial up modem (only thing available in my area…bummer), so I'm a bit behind on the power/processing speed, but seem to have enough to run."
One of VAROs newest pilots, Wombat, offered this. "I thought my session went very smoothly. Erik walked me through shutting down all non-essential start-up programs to free up as much systems resources as possible. After that he had me get in the cockpit and check my in game frame rate. He was impressed my slower 600Mhz P3 had a sustained 25 FPS rate, and suggested I may do better with 22FPS. I did change to that afterwards. After that he had me take off and he hit me with a barrage of packets with zero loss. All in all a very pleasant and educational experience........." Wombat was noted not to have updated to DX9 and although Varo would like to see all pilots updated to DX9, it might not be mandatory.
Many seem to have neglected the chance to get the new process going. It's real disappointing to think Varo will loose racers that aren't scheduling certification sessions. The determination to see Varo get through these growing pains has taken a toll on many concerned. Readers will notice, the two comments quoted were from racers on dial-up connections and fairly dated systems. They have been certified, proving that most that desire to race, indeed can!
More changes are in the works to keep VARO a top-notch organization and the premier site for online air racing!
Stay tuned for more developments!
#19GOferBROKE
VARO Rebuild Well Underway!
All racers can understand the strong desire of holding events in a fair, competitive atmosphere. We came to the realization a major change was needed. VARO CEO, Sryth, put the season on hold and Erik Thompson, CEO of West Coast ATC, volunteered for the task of Support Professional. Much deliberation and long hours of effort by many created a process of certifying pilots, to get all on a level playing field.
Some racers that attended were kind enough to send me their comments on the certification process. Roscoe was the first to get scrutinized and was very impressed with Eriks' expertise. Also, WarX says, "Erik did a very good job helping me out. Found out a couple new items about my computer as well. When connected, I can now run about 75% resources free on the dial up and get a decent enough connection to hopefully not be bouncing around anymore. I'm running a PII 450 mhz machine, with a 56k dial up modem (only thing available in my area…bummer), so I'm a bit behind on the power/processing speed, but seem to have enough to run."
One of VAROs newest pilots, Wombat, offered this. "I thought my session went very smoothly. Erik walked me through shutting down all non-essential start-up programs to free up as much systems resources as possible. After that he had me get in the cockpit and check my in game frame rate. He was impressed my slower 600Mhz P3 had a sustained 25 FPS rate, and suggested I may do better with 22FPS. I did change to that afterwards. After that he had me take off and he hit me with a barrage of packets with zero loss. All in all a very pleasant and educational experience........." Wombat was noted not to have updated to DX9 and although Varo would like to see all pilots updated to DX9, it might not be mandatory.
Many seem to have neglected the chance to get the new process going. It's real disappointing to think Varo will loose racers that aren't scheduling certification sessions. The determination to see Varo get through these growing pains has taken a toll on many concerned. Readers will notice, the two comments quoted were from racers on dial-up connections and fairly dated systems. They have been certified, proving that most that desire to race, indeed can!
More changes are in the works to keep VARO a top-notch organization and the premier site for online air racing!
Stay tuned for more developments!
#19GOferBROKE
Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Certification Process Changes -- Please Read !
VARO wishes to apologize for any confusion these changes may cause but to make the PC Certification
process go smoothly and to keep the certifications running in an organized manner, these changes in
the certification process are necessary.
Things you will need to know !
1. You will need to have Roger Wilco installed on you system.
2. Erik might want you to take screen captures of certain info and send it to him, so you must know how
to screen capture and be able to copy and paste said images to a program capable of saving that screen
capture as a jpeg. Photoshop and PaintShop are two types of these programs. There are more.
After consulting with VARO's Support Professional, Erik Thompson, this is the way he would like to handle
the pc certification process.
1. Certifications will continue as planned this Saturday and Sunday also. ( 4-12-03 and 4-13-03 )
2. PC Certification sessions on Saturday will be held hourly starting at 5pm PST, and running till
10pm PST. The scheduled sessions for Saturday will be 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, and 10pm PST.
3. PC Certification sessions on Sunday will be held hourly starting at 4pm PST, and running till
7pm PST. The scheduled sessions for Sunday will be 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, and 7pm PST.
VARO pilots scheduled to have their PC Certification session "will show up in the VARO Lounge 5
minutes before their scheduled appointment". Please verify your time zone and please be on time
as our Support Professional will be already in the lounge and be waiting for you. To get to the VARO
lounge link, please go to ,,,,
http://www.westcoastatc.com/
Once there, go to the VARO Lounge by first clicking on the small blue box in the upper left hand corner.
On the next page, click on the VARO Lounge link. This will automatically start Roger Wilco and log you
into the session.
Erik will already be in the session and will walk you thru most of the process so there is not much more
that you need to know.
Each pilot is required to contact VARO with their time slot of choice. Please send an email to Roscoe, Gary,
or Joel. Please do this as quickly as possible, as we would like to fill this weekends time slots as soon as possible.
Check to see the time for your scheduled session as names will be added as they are received.
Saturday:
5pm - Flatline
6pm - MachToo
7pm - Oblivio / Obneto
8pm - GriffonJET
9pm - GOferBROKE
10pm
Sunday:
4pm
5pm
6pm
7pm
Another certification session will be held next weekend also.
Pilots with Certified Machines
Race # 2 --- Roscoe --------- Cable
Race # 5 --- Baron ----------- Dial Up
Race # ? --- Raven11 -------- Cable
Race # 8 --- WarX ------------ Dial up
As you know, this is a necessary process to get all VARO pilots computers certified per the
new VARO standards. The Virtual Air Racing Organization wishes to thank all pilots for their
cooperation during these certifications.
Roscoe
"Fly Fast With Props"
VARO wishes to apologize for any confusion these changes may cause but to make the PC Certification
process go smoothly and to keep the certifications running in an organized manner, these changes in
the certification process are necessary.
Things you will need to know !
1. You will need to have Roger Wilco installed on you system.
2. Erik might want you to take screen captures of certain info and send it to him, so you must know how
to screen capture and be able to copy and paste said images to a program capable of saving that screen
capture as a jpeg. Photoshop and PaintShop are two types of these programs. There are more.
After consulting with VARO's Support Professional, Erik Thompson, this is the way he would like to handle
the pc certification process.
1. Certifications will continue as planned this Saturday and Sunday also. ( 4-12-03 and 4-13-03 )
2. PC Certification sessions on Saturday will be held hourly starting at 5pm PST, and running till
10pm PST. The scheduled sessions for Saturday will be 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, and 10pm PST.
3. PC Certification sessions on Sunday will be held hourly starting at 4pm PST, and running till
7pm PST. The scheduled sessions for Sunday will be 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, and 7pm PST.
VARO pilots scheduled to have their PC Certification session "will show up in the VARO Lounge 5
minutes before their scheduled appointment". Please verify your time zone and please be on time
as our Support Professional will be already in the lounge and be waiting for you. To get to the VARO
lounge link, please go to ,,,,
http://www.westcoastatc.com/
Once there, go to the VARO Lounge by first clicking on the small blue box in the upper left hand corner.
On the next page, click on the VARO Lounge link. This will automatically start Roger Wilco and log you
into the session.
Erik will already be in the session and will walk you thru most of the process so there is not much more
that you need to know.
Each pilot is required to contact VARO with their time slot of choice. Please send an email to Roscoe, Gary,
or Joel. Please do this as quickly as possible, as we would like to fill this weekends time slots as soon as possible.
Check to see the time for your scheduled session as names will be added as they are received.
Saturday:
5pm - Flatline
6pm - MachToo
7pm - Oblivio / Obneto
8pm - GriffonJET
9pm - GOferBROKE
10pm
Sunday:
4pm
5pm
6pm
7pm
Another certification session will be held next weekend also.
Pilots with Certified Machines
Race # 2 --- Roscoe --------- Cable
Race # 5 --- Baron ----------- Dial Up
Race # ? --- Raven11 -------- Cable
Race # 8 --- WarX ------------ Dial up
As you know, this is a necessary process to get all VARO pilots computers certified per the
new VARO standards. The Virtual Air Racing Organization wishes to thank all pilots for their
cooperation during these certifications.
Roscoe
"Fly Fast With Props"
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