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Gliders I've Flown
Gliders I've Flown
I have flown in many different gliders, both dual and single seaters.
Twin Seaters
Blanik (2 seater)
Puchatek (2 seater)
KA7 (2 seater)
Grob 103 (2 seater)
Twin Astir (2 seater)
ASK21 (2 seater)
Single Seaters
Pilatus (single)
Astir CS (single)
Jantar Junior (single)
LS7 (single)
Discus 2 (B & C) (single)
PW5 (single)
Gliding - The Real Thing
Gliding - The Real Thing
Finding Wave!
October 2017 - Found myself in "wave" at the north end of Lake Keepit. This is the first time I have been in wave and it took a little while to figure out what was going on. I had just left a thermal at 8,000ft on a very bumpy day, and suddenly everything went absolutely smooth. A most beautiful experience.
A video of my trace showing the wave flying is on youtube here!
Video of Flight
January 2016 - Got AFR and really nice flight in PW5. Made a short video at https://youtu.be/DpJiVmmJRCc
Interestingly, on approach after a great flight to 9,400ft, I got hit with a cross wind gust at about 10'agl. Always interesting.
Temora Club Camp
The photo is the Blanik (IZC) thermalling its way through 6,500ft to 10,000ft. (Note: the Blaniks are now grounded.)
Thermalling the Puchatek over the airfield!
NSW State Championships
2007 - I'm at Lake Keepit (http://www.keepitsoaring.com) on the 10 November to help with the NSW State Championships. I'm sure I will learn a lot and it's a nice spot to camp.
Gliding Simulator Sceneries
Gliding Simulator Sceneries
October 2022 - the Narromine2021 scenery was released for Condor 2. This covers a large part of the NSW glider / soaring region west of the Dividing Range. Again using Sentinel Imagery which was enhanced close to the airfields. About 1,900 hours of work has gone into it. Screen shots here.
June 2018 - Redeveloped the Lake Keepit scenery for Condor 2. Using new Sentinel 2 imagery. Released on condor-club.eu in August. Screen shots here.
February 2014 - Developing a new version of Lake Keepit for the Simulator being built at the club. Higher resolution.
October 2012 - Version 2 of LakeKeepit is now available from www.condor-club.eu. I have redone the imagery and completed all the building etc.
Version 1.1 of the Lake Keepit scenery - for use with Condor Gliding Simulator(www.condorsoaring.com) is available. This is "photoreal" using purchased Terrametrics (www.terrametrics.com) imagery.
Click here to see some screen shots. The scenery can be downloaded from the Condor Club - see the link below.
Version 1.1 includes the completion of the vegetation , colour correction of the imagery and additional work on the thermal mapping.
I have commenced on LakeKeepit version 1.2, which has improved calibration (images within 50 metres of correct location, subject to imagery accuracy). Given that the pixel resolution of the images is 15metres, I'm happy with that. I will also be doing a lot of work on the objects, towns etc..
SE Queensland scenery is now completed.
NE Victoria scenery is now also available
The first pass of Narromine (which includes Gulgong) and Ulster sceneries has been released and Temora is under development.
Omarama scenery (New Zealand) has been put on hold at this time as the same area is available through the Condor Club site.
My version is high resolution Terragen textures -see picture at left, with photo-realism in the valley areas. Fantastic area. Look at www.glideomarama.com for details.
More screenshots - Click Here
All the released sceneries for Condor are now available on the Condor Tasks Data Base
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