Sailors o the Sky

Hi Again

I just won't to specify this for you here as well :-)

At 22:48 13 August 2004, Alistair Wright wrote:

'Paul' wrote in message
...

About half the clouds which abound on some tasks do
not
have any lift under them but do have heavy sink.
This is NONSENSE as
sink
must have lift nearby. A bug I fear.


There is lift somewhere. But do you normally stay in
sink for to long and look for the lift? No you head
for the next cloud. In let me say, 80 % of the clouds
there is lift somewhere. Some just 0.01 meters and
some 4 meters (or sometimes -2 meters - i'm sure we
have all tried this :-) )- just like the real world!


Your kidding!!!!!
The cheek of those bugs!!
You have never struck clouds with sink under them?
Lucky you.

I taught meteorology to glider pilots when I was an
instructor. I agree
that there are clouds with only sink under them, but
they are NOT BIG FLUFFY
ones!

In the upcoming patch this will not be the case i quess.
But by the way - i've tried to fly under clouds (big
fluffy clouds as you mentioned) and have not been able
to find anything.
Then i look in the bible (not the real one, but the
Reichmann bible) and this really explains it. In SotS
- just as in the real world some of the thermals don't
have ground contact and prehabs it's only the last
400 meters from cloudbase that gives lift.


SotS has a poor rendition of 'sinky' clouds, therefore
this is a bug.
Also just to be pedantic, a cloud which is dying does
not have the same strength of downdraft as one which
is still active. Just as well, or we'd all be pressed
on to the ground!

I don't know anything about the excact state of the
air. But hank you for the input - just remember that
this is a simulator. I think the mathematics is pretty
advanced.
The computerpower to calculate all this would be out
of target on a normal PC.
Saiz is doing his best to keep up with all of the good
ideas. I will pass your input over to him!

If you want to find a really good bug try this: Load
the Wales-2 scenery.
Take off on a task and climb to say 6000 ft (slightly
unlikely in Wales, but
let that pass) and set off towards a mountain. You
will find that you have
not enough height to clear this mountain. Now I live
in Scotland and I know
that we have Britain's highest mountain -- Ben Nevis
4406 ft. I know I've
been on top of it often and there is no Welsh hill
bigger than
Snowdon --4085
ft and I've been there too. Lovely view if it isn't
raining, which is
usually is.
Again this is not Saiz fault. This is a FREE landscape.
Take it for what it is. Chris Vincent did a nice job
on it and i'm sure he wants your inputs. Just mail
him. Send me an email to get his.

Best Regards
Kristoffer Raun
Gold C -DK214
Altitude Diamond
Goal Dimond - and now up for the Distance (will have
it next year! :-)


Why not spend your time and effort explaining 'padlock'
to me, rather than
making the kind of unhelpful comments above.


Good flying (especially in Wales)

Alistair Wright
Silver C 4759