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Old March 28th 20, 05:00 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Daniel Sazhin[_2_]
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On Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 12:50:19 PM UTC-4, wrote:
When are you gonna have midairs? lol


Condor is cool in that it tries to assign fault to a midair. More than half of the time, the guilty party is the only one that breaks and falls out of the sky.

The other half of the time both gliders get destroyed.

In MNS, there is no penalty for pressing Q for a midair collision.
In USNS, you can press Q, but it will assign you a 400 point penalty for plane and height recovery.

There are merits to both approaches... in the first one you can't get knocked out of the sky by some dufus behind you. In the other, it motivates everyone to avoid hitting each other because the penalty is very steep.

Over the years, Condor pilots have gotten pretty good at avoiding hitting each other. It happens, but it's not rampant.

All the best,
Daniel