Cool Video...

laister49 wrote:
Nik,

Congrats on your excellent video. We as a sport need much more of this
sort of thing. This video relates the sport to the younger generations
in a way that we can really identify with. I'm just a little older
than you guys, but I'm used to being the youngest guy around the
airport. The video allows a glimpse into how much fun the sport is,
and may inspire more of our contemporaries to put down thier video game
controllers at least long enough to put forth the effort to learn
enough about soaring to really see how much fun it is.This video should
be distributed to every High School and College that has any connection
with, or is anywhere near a gliderport.

Excellent idea. Another way to attract young people, IMHO, is to buy
them Condor, the soaring flight simulator. Only $50 US. It is a very
realistic soaring simulator, the best I've seen. The younger set seems
to like video games, which this is although it is so much more. Once
they're hooked they may well want to try the real thing. Heck, buy it
for yourself. Warning: It is addictive, especially the online
real-time competitions, and one can easily lose hours of spare time.
Guess how I know? ;-)

http://www.condorsoaring.com/media.htm

p.s., Don't be put off by the lack of a demo program, as I was.

Regards,

-Doug

Doug Hoffman wrote:
laister49 wrote:

Nik,

Congrats on your excellent video. We as a sport need much more of this
sort of thing. This video relates the sport to the younger generations
in a way that we can really identify with. I'm just a little older
than you guys, but I'm used to being the youngest guy around the
airport. The video allows a glimpse into how much fun the sport is,
and may inspire more of our contemporaries to put down thier video game
controllers at least long enough to put forth the effort to learn
enough about soaring to really see how much fun it is.This video should
be distributed to every High School and College that has any connection
with, or is anywhere near a gliderport.


Excellent idea. Another way to attract young people, IMHO, is to buy
them Condor, the soaring flight simulator. Only $50 US. It is a very
realistic soaring simulator, the best I've seen. The younger set seems
to like video games, which this is although it is so much more. Once
they're hooked they may well want to try the real thing. Heck, buy it
for yourself. Warning: It is addictive, especially the online
real-time competitions, and one can easily lose hours of spare time.
Guess how I know? ;-)

http://www.condorsoaring.com/media.htm

p.s., Don't be put off by the lack of a demo program, as I was.

No Mac/Linux support is off-putting enough.

Shawn