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Condor
Condor: The Competition Soaring Simulator is designed to recreate the ultimate experience
of competition soaring on your PC.
It is aimed at real life pilots who want to train their competition skills. This is possible due to an advanced physics engine which accurately simulates all regimes of soaring flight, for example stalled flight, spins, high-G pull-ups, thermal enterances, dolphin flying etc.
A lot of attention was put in to create an environment which would create an immersion of real competition flying. This means that the aerodynamics and weather physics were in focus of the development. The result is amazingly real feel of flight in all flight regimes and weather conditions which challenges a real soaring pilot on a competition day.
| Software Information |
System Requirements |
| Version: | 1.1.3 |
- Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows 2000
- Processor: +1 GHz (non-Celeron)
- DirectX and all drivers up to date.
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| File Size: | Full version: 169.6 MB |
| License: | Free to try, $56.66 to buy |
| Screenshot: | View Screenshot |
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Condor Key Features:
Amazing feel of flight due to the advanced flight dynamics model
- Advanced 6DOF flight model for complete freedom of flying.
- Accurate sailplane performance and handling – also at and beyond critical angles of attack.
- Sailplane damage simulation – flutter, high G stress, collisions.
- High time fidelity physics engine (up to 500 cycles per second).
- Accurate ground forces for realistic takeoffs, landings and crashes.
- Detailed, sub-object collision detection for mid air and ground object collisions.
- Accurate conditions for a realistic towing and winch start.
Realistic weather model for all aspects of competition soaring:
- Realistic thermals life cycle: starting from the ground they reach cloud base, the cloud becomes bigger and more dense and later dissipates which causes the air below it to sink.
- The location and strength of thermals is based on terrain sun exposure and ground features like forests, fields and villages.
- Realistic daily sun travel which affects the frequency and strength of thermals.
- Up slope wind on sunny ridges (anabatic winds).
- Ridge lift with leeward downwind and turbulence, venturi effects.
- Waves behind ridges, wavelength depends on wind speed and stability of the atmosphere.
- Correct atmosphere pressure, density and temperature height distribution.
- 3D isotropic turbulence model for thermal and mechanical turbulence.
- preset and custom weather conditions.
Detailed planes with fully animated cockpits :
- Realistic speed polars and handling.
- Configurable water ballast and C/G position.
- Detailed plane models.
- Moving parts, flexing wings, environment mapping.
- Custom registration and competition numbers.
- Custom skin support.
- Fully animated pilot.
- Modern cockpit instrumentation with averager, speed command, custom vario time constants, ...
- Support for metric, imperial and australian units.
- Handheld computer with its own software.
Multiplayer:
- Support for up to 32 pilots.
- Simultaneous Internet and LAN support.
- Dedicated server option.
- Central web based servers list for easy connecting.
- Host configures flightplan which is automatically propagated to clients (task, weather, plane class, realism options).
- Real time scoring and support for regatta starts for maximum excitement.
- Radio frequencies support when chatting.
- Sub-object collision detection for realistic mid-air collisions
Detailed terrain:
- Support for high resolution terrain mesh (SRTM, DEM etc.).
- Forests with high density trees.
- Ground 3D objects (villages, castles, farms, communication towers, etc.).
- Unique synthetic textures (satellite and ortophoto images can also be used).
- Airports with grass/tarmac surfaces and 3D objects (hangars, wind sacks, hauses, restaurants).
- With the Scenery Toolkit which will be released soon, new sceneries will easily be added.
Ability to record and analyze flights:
- Every flight can be saved as a replay file and viewed later.
- Custom cameras during replay playback.
- Every flight can be saved to proprietary "flight track" file format which is used for flight analysis and record claims.
- Flight tracks can be exported to IGC file format and viewed with external IGC viewers.
- Replays and flight tracks can be exchanged with other players and used to either compare the flying or to race against the "ghosts" of other pilots tracks.
Real-time NMEA output:
- Real-time NMEA output trough serial port.
- GPGGA, GPRMC and LXWP0 sentences are supported (the set can be expanded if needed).
Real-time flight parameters output :
- SimKits output
- Condor UDP protocol based output
Various competition disciplines:
- From FAI rules to innovative Condor specific additions.
- Classic and window type sectors.
- User configurable penalty zones.
- Classic and regatta starts.
- Configurable penalty points for various infringements.
- Tail hunting - "eating" other players tail knuckles
3D sound support:
- 3D sound support with doppler effects
- Digitally recorded sounds from a real cockpit
Native TrackIR support:
- TrackIR enhanced mode support.
- Mouselook emulation with classic Webcameras and appropriate software.
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