Thermaling Video

This video is from the soaring simulator "Condor". The video relates what it is like to fly in a "gaggle" of sailplanes using a single thermal to gain altitude.

BEEPING

The beeping in the audio track of this video is the "Audio Variometer". A Variometer is an instrument that gives indications to the pilot how quickly the sailplane is ascending or descending. The "audio" portion of the variometer relates the quantitative information into different forms of beeping.  The higher the pitch and the higher the rate of beeping, the faster the climb rate.