Simviation Forum - Soaring some more

Jan 16^th, 2012 at 1:58am

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I'm starting to get used to CumulusX! I just need to find the right weather for soaring, I don't get many thermals. I did some ridge flying in Hawaii this evening (morning? Tongue

), managed to get a flight of about an hour and a half from a 2000 ft tow, and I could have kept going had I just turned back to the ridge again.

Started out with scary weather for a plane with no artificial horizon

Then I changed to better weather, and went ridge flying

That's all I got, I forgot to take pics. I will take more next time Wink

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Reply #1 - Jan 16^th, 2012 at 2:49am

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Nice shots. Wink

If your into gliding in FSX I would recommend WinchX!.

btw what glider is that?

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Reply #2 - Jan 16^th, 2012 at 4:44am

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Glad to hear it's working out!

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Reply #3 - Jan 16^th, 2012 at 5:50am

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Excellent shots, Jake... Smiley

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Don't forget, FS 2004 Chums, that lots of excellent versions of "Soaring Scenery" can be obtained in the Sim V library.
I have the scenery installed for California, but if you fancy trying it out for Hawaii have a peek here...

Hawaii Soaring Scenery: NAMW

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=Soaring+Scenery.+Hawaii&categor...

Just add it (NAMW) in the usual way, to your Add-on Scenery Library...

....it works fine!

It provides visible, special thermal clouds to the scenery which give you thermal lift when you approach them.
(They appear everywhere you fly, but if you want to ignore them, just "un-tick" them in your Scenery Library...

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Paul....Soaring Somewhere... Grin

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...and for an excellent FS 2004/FSX Glider with a Variometer ...Brightstar Swift..>>> http://simviation.com/1/browse-Gliders+and+Ultralites-130-2

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Reply #4 - Jan 16^th, 2012 at 7:50am

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Very nice Jake...well done...

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Reply #5 - Jan 16^th, 2012 at 8:53am

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Great shots, love the first one! Shocked

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Reply #6 - Jan 16^th, 2012 at 9:54am

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andy190 wrote on Jan 16^th, 2012 at 2:49am:

Nice shots. Wink

If your into gliding in FSX I would recommend WinchX!.

btw what glider is that?

I have WinchX!, it's excellent! I actually winch launched on the second flight.

Paul, I'll look into it, but CumulusX! automatically generates thermals with it's own clouds. Next time I fly I'll do a little thing pointing out features of CumulusX! and WinchX! for those interested.

We should try some multiplayer sometime. CumulusX! works in such a way that if we all have the same weather, time, and settings for CumulusX!, we get the same thermals.

The glider is the L.A.K. Genesis 2. Just search 'genesis 2 fsx' on google and it should bring up the link to SimV for the download. It's my new favorite, great model, and it flies nicely.

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