On Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 1:48:32 PM UTC-5, 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.

Yes, except for certain aspects of landout. Here, I'm assuming you are talking about Condor2.

The negative is that the sceneries aren't fine-grained enough to show potholes, fences, telephone and powerline wires and such when doing landouts.

The positive is that, especially with Oculus Rift, it's amazingly realistic.

Ben