On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 10:48:32 AM UTC-8, wrote:
I am wondering what people think about using the Condor simulator to improve gliding and soaring decision making -- things like when to turn back given lift, weather, continuing to exploit lift along a ridge, and so on.

Does the simulator present enough varied challenges to help with this sort of thing which will transfer to real soaring.

I will need to purchase and set up a Windoz box to run this and isolate it on a subnet, so want to decide if it is likely worth the effort.

thanks.

By decision making, I assume you are talking about reading the weather and selecting suitable landing fields. No simulator to date does an adequate job of either. There is no substitute for actually over-flying prospective fields and, then, inspecting the same fields from the ground. And cloud simulation is crude, at best.

Tom