soaring sim with bald eagle ridge terrain?

I'd also have a look at the Silent Wings simulator. It's got all the
features you mention (TrackIR, nmea output for PDAs, etc etc), and there's
a 2 week demo you can try out. Really brilliant, I bought it a couple of
months back.

There is already a huge Minden-based scenery included (also in the demo
version), and I've heard there is a Appalachian ridge scenery in the
works.. Maybe you can ask on the forum on the website! (www.silentwings.no)

Cheers,
pg


Doug Hoffman wrote:


TTaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:
I wish one of the computer experts on the list would come up with a way
to replay IGC files in 3D on Google Earth similar to the 3d replay in
SeeYou or allow my to sit in a virtual cockpit and look around while
following the trace, and also build a flight simulation interface so I
can fly a plane or glider through it with three axis control. So far
for flight planning Google Earth is the best I have found for really
looking at terrain and evaluating the potential of ridge flights.

It looks like the pieces of what you want are falling into place.

Condor, the competition soaring simulator, already has your virtual
cockpit, 3-axis control, and is programmed to work very nicely with a
small head tracking device (TrackIR) that enables a surprisingly
natural-feeling way to "look around", side-to-side and up/down. The
Condor developers are working now on a scenery toolkit that should
allow you to re-create the virtual 3-D soaring location of anywhere you
wish. Release date of the latter TBD. The former is available now and
is a real kick.

Regards,

-Doug

wrote:
I'd also have a look at the Silent Wings simulator. It's got all the
features you mention (TrackIR, nmea output for PDAs, etc etc), and there's
a 2 week demo you can try out. Really brilliant, I bought it a couple of
months back.

There is already a huge Minden-based scenery included (also in the demo
version), and I've heard there is a Appalachian ridge scenery in the
works.. Maybe you can ask on the forum on the website! (www.silentwings.no)

I've heard good things about Silent Wings, but have never tried it. If
it accurately replicates the desired terrain then it could be that all
of the pieces are in place now.

The really nice thing about the accurate NMEA output is you can load
your own PDA with the turnpoints and actually fly some "tasks" to get
used to the area and what it looks like. It's also good practice for
interacting with your PDA and its software while under the duress of
flying your virtual glider.

Thanks.

-Doug

Doug Hoffman wrote:
....

The really nice thing about the accurate NMEA output is you can load
your own PDA with the turnpoints and actually fly some "tasks" to get
used to the area and what it looks like. It's also good practice for
interacting with your PDA and its software while under the duress of
flying your virtual glider.

Thanks.

-Doug


Well, that's exactly what I've done with SilentWings. Unfortunately I
don't have my "own area", but it's also nice to see how it looks like in
Sisteron or Minden. I strongly suggest you give the demo a try...

With the newest version you can also fly with others: there are several
common tasks for Mnden and Alps on servers and people are also having
competitions there.

BR Veli-Matti