glider simulators

Does anyone know of a good flight simulator program for a laptop? I
have several pre-solo students who are big in flight simulator
programs for powered airplanes and there seem to be a few programs on
the net for gliders. Any opinions on which one is the best would be
appreciated.
Phillip LaBerge

I would highly recommend Condor The Competition Soaring Simulator.
http://condorsoaring.com/

Randy

Hi Phillip,

I highly recommend Condor. I am just now setting up my web page for Condor.
It will be available on my web site in a day or 2.

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

"Phillip LaBerge" wrote in message
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Does anyone know of a good flight simulator program for a laptop? I
have several pre-solo students who are big in flight simulator
programs for powered airplanes and there seem to be a few programs on
the net for gliders. Any opinions on which one is the best would be
appreciated.
Phillip LaBerge

Phillip LaBerge wrote:
Does anyone know of a good flight simulator program for a laptop? I
have several pre-solo students who are big in flight simulator
programs for powered airplanes and there seem to be a few programs on
the net for gliders. Any opinions on which one is the best would be
appreciated.
Phillip LaBerge

+1 Condor. There are a few other good soaring sims out there, but
Condor has the largest support community, and seems to have the best
online racing as well. As I understand it, Condor runs well on
computers with integrated graphics and doesn't require a dedicated
graphics card for acceptable performance. FIY, I run it on an Intel
iMac running XP, with great results.

Shawn

I'm an IT professional by day, so I'm _almost_ as obsessed about
technological things as I am about flying. :-)

I've also been playing with various consumer-level flight simulators
since I was 8 years old (22 years of experience).

I tried just about every soaring simulator out there over the last 2 -
3 years, and Condor is far and away the best!

Take care,

--Noel
P.S. I have found that the few people that don't like Condor never
took the time to properly configure their joystick or the graphics -
so the program never ran well, or the planes were too hard to control.

Phillip LaBerge wrote:
Does anyone know of a good flight simulator program for a laptop?
Phillip LaBerge

Condor.

And it was made by just a couple of cats in Slovenia.
Go figger.

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Hi,

I have finally added the Condor Competition Soaring Simulator for PC to my
web site. You can see details he
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/condor.htm

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

"Phillip LaBerge" wrote in message
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Does anyone know of a good flight simulator program for a laptop? I
have several pre-solo students who are big in flight simulator
programs for powered airplanes and there seem to be a few programs on
the net for gliders. Any opinions on which one is the best would be
appreciated.
Phillip LaBerge

"Paul Remde" wrote in message
news:OebTj.94761$TT4.38992@attbi_s22...
Hi,

I have finally added the Condor Competition Soaring Simulator for PC to my
web site. You can see details he
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/condor.htm

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

"Phillip LaBerge" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know of a good flight simulator program for a laptop? I
have several pre-solo students who are big in flight simulator
programs for powered airplanes and there seem to be a few programs on
the net for gliders. Any opinions on which one is the best would be
appreciated.
Phillip LaBerge



Cool, Paul

Now, please add your usual expertise to computer preipherals used with
Condor like force feedback control sticks and rudder pedals. There's a
whole hobby of building realistic cockpits to go with this simulator. A
simple, inexpensive chair/cockpit system would be very welcome.

Bill Daniels

Bill Daniels wrote:
... There's a
whole hobby of building realistic cockpits to go with this simulator.


Would those hobbyists have web sites?

Tony V

On May 4, 6:57 am, Tony Verhulst wrote:
Bill Daniels wrote:
... There's a
whole hobby of building realistic cockpits to go with this simulator.

Would those hobbyists have web sites?

Tony V

Here's one for starters: (major link reconstruction needed; not a
glider cockpit, but...)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...icial%26sa%3DG

I have been working on a related project, to use one's own sailplane
as a cockpit for a simulator, with one's own instruments/controls.
What I am designing is a piece of hardware that will generate the
associated dynamic/static/TE/and capacity pressure values that would
exist during "in flight" conditions (Condor outputs standard sim
signals which could easily be translated into their associated
pressure values). These pressures can be fed to an actual instrument
panel, making the instruments read correct for their given simulated
condition quite effectively. Since Condor also outputs NEMA data,
flight computers/nav hardware can also be active. This will be used in
conjunction with little (sugar cube sized) independent self powered
pizeo gyros with bluetooth (or some other sort of RF) transmitting
capabilities that would each be placed on the extremities of all the
cockpit controls. The transmitted signals would all be received by a
device that would be converting the gyro's movements into standard
simulator control inputs that would be fed back into Condor for your
flight inputs.

To make clear my project goals in case it's still vague: I want to be
able to use my own glider with it's controls and instruments to fly on
the simulator. This wold be achieved by pulling the plane into the
"drive in theater" (a screen on a large wall with a projector set up)
and connect the pneumatic interface to my plane's pneumatic system and
put the pizeo gyros described above on their respective controls. Go
through a calibration sequence to define the full movements of the
controls, buckle in and begin checklist...Once this is closer to being
finished I will also work on the feedback issue, which I already have
several ideas. This glider in this setup could easily be changed to
another ship so long as flight data for it exists on Condor (very easy
if it already has a Winter quick pneumatic disconnect plug...) If
anyone that reads this finds it intriguing and would like to help, pm
me.

Paul