Glider flight question

P.S. I also saw a few other simulators that do not seem quite so established located here:

http://www.condorsoaring.com/

and here:

http://www.sfspc.de/index_e.htm

Perhaps these could be an option also, although the software does not seem at first sight quite as good as FS 2004 or X-Plane.

If you have used any of these please let me know what you think.

Thank you,

Mark.

i enjoy gliders - motor gliders mainly as flight sim has no built in way of getting off the ground. there are a number of glider downloads - some are of excellent quality, and with better thermals (they can be downloaded very easily) i believe it to be a very true simulation - many glidesimmers use it. type in 'glider fs2004' on google and you'll get more specific infomation.

the condor sim i've only heard good things about.

It's getting worst!!! 😕

I'm really getting confused now...

Ok, I did a little searching around and have now found another one:

http://www.sailorsofthesky.com/description.htm

Which is linked from the http://www.virtualsoaring.org/ group, they seems quite cool.

Anyhow, still it's a program that doesn't seem very well established so I went back to looking at MS Flight Sim and came across this site:

http://www.fsglider.de/p_e.htm

Here is recommends using a thermal creating programs called "Thermiek" from here

so, I go here but the only version I can seems to find is for FS 2002, not the newer 2004 version.

Does anyone know how to get around this problem, is this a good combination?

Ok, so let me take a guess and you guys correct me if I am wrong...

I'm still trying to figure this out...

The new program that people use is called "Cross-Country Soaring" from here

and this creates all the environment needed to do gliding inside FS 2004. Then on too of this you can download gliders from all over the place and they will all work with this environment simulator.

Sorry to be a pest but I expect someone here knows what I am talking about and will be able to tell me if this will do the job.

Thanks again,

Mark.

I'm not into sims myself - I'm a glider pilot who found this query as an aside in a web search.

But I've only heard good things about condor as well. It is used by lots of ground bound (ie, winter!) pilots who want to play at competition. The eye-candy may not be as good as ms fs, but the model fidelity and environment I've heard is good.

I would suggest going to the home site of each of them and see what they flyers of the sims have to say on the web-boards (communities).

I've heard that Condor is one of the best also.