Condor: The Competition Soaring Simulator
A gliding simulator that focuses on realistic aerodynamics and weather physics.
OverviewCondor: The Competition Soaring Simulator, often just called "Condor", was built to provide a realistic gliding simulation and is aimed at competitive multiplayer, which supports up to 32 people.
It provides native TrackIR support, "Mouselook emulation with classic Webcameras and appropriate software" (likely referring to FaceTrackNoIR and FreeTrack) as well as realistic force feedback for FF-joysticks.Condor was brought to life by two people from Slovenia, known as "Team Condor": Uros Bergant and Gregor Rozman. They were not satisfied with consumer flight simulation at the time and decided to create their own simulator.Since the scene got too much concentrated only in graphics and started to forget what is the real soul of every flight simulation - physics model which should try to recreate as close as possible feel of real flying, the goal was set and Condor: The Competition Soaring Simulator was born.Condor TeamThey reached their goal in November 2007. Overall it received positive reviews and was even featured and recommended in the German aviation magazine "der adler" in 2009. ContentsBy default Condor contains 13 planes, divided in 6 classes.Standard classASW 28LS 8Discus 2FAI 15 classASW 27LS 6Ventus18m classASW 28-18LS 8-sDiscus 2cOpen classASW 22Nimbus 4Acro classFox MDM-1School classASK-13Additionally there are two "Plane Packs" available, each unlocks five more planes in the simulation. As of March 2014, a third pack was announced but not yet released.Plane Pack 1ASG 29Ventus 2cxLS 10Janatar 2bPW 5Plane Pack 2ASW 15ASW 19Janatar Standard 3LibelleLS4Condor comes with just the "Slovenia [1.03]" scenery by default, however, unlike the plane creation tools, the tools for scenery creation are publicly available and a lot of free- and payware scenery has been developed.Additionally it contains 15 "flight school" missions which are meant to introduce beginners or advanced pilots to soaring, however it contains an easy-to-use task creator to build flight plans for competitive races, too.BasicPreflight checkEffects of commandsTurnsWinch launchingAerotow launchingTraffic pattern and landingIntermediateThermal soaringRidge soaringWave soaringUpslope windsAdvancedStarting task and navigationMC theoryFinal glideAcroLoopStall Turn
