VARO Reborn
New Logo, New Features, More Racing





I would like to announce that VARO is back into the online air racing scene. Over the past few months we have been working on lots of
improvements that will making racing in FS2002 and FS2004 a lot easier and a whole lot more fun. For starters some of you may remember the VARO Racer project, a collection of racing aircraft currently seen at Reno every year. Well the first volume of the VARO Racer is complete and in flight testing now, it will be ready for racing in April. The other major advancement is the VARO Race Tracking System(VRTS) which
is a stand alone program designed to track lap times and eventualy pylon cuts as they happen during live racing. The VRTS is made up of essentially two parts the first is a very easy to use program called the Transponder which actaully does all the tracking. The second is the Receiver which is a server that recieves data from the transponder and then relays all race information back to the transponders. We are currently testing this software to work out any bugs and it will also be ready to go in april. Another project that we have been working on
is a better way or pilots and fans to watch races, after some experimentation we have created a set of flight files for each course that will give specators the best view to watch races from observer mode.

Do all these new features bring out the air racer in you? Interested in helping develop and test our aircraft and software? Just want to get out there and turn some fast laps around the plyons? Then sign up today we are looking for about twenty dedicated pilots to help bring VARO into the future of online air racing. We are accepting pilots that are primarly using FS2002, however upon request we can check you out in fs2004 our servers can support both in the same session and we are interested in testing out the effects on racing. To join VARO simply head to the join page and follow the instructions there.

For more information on VRTS and the VARO Racer Vol 1 head to the beta testing page for release dates as well as development information.