On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 22:22 +0100, Maik Justus wrote: > Hi Curt, > Curtis Olson schrieb am 01.01.2008 21:54: > > A sailplane/soaring competition would be another fun one. Maybe we > > sign up a couple tow operators who stay busy towing people up, and > > then see who can stay aloft the longest. > > > Sounds great. > E. g. build teams with one tow aircraft and one glider each. All teams > start at the same time. All tow aircrafts need to land within 200s at a > small runway and then see, which glider lands last (on the small runway). > Maik >
Hard to score perhaps, but: - Teams launch at intervals from KSFO. - Gliders recover at KHAF, Tow Aircraft land back at KSFO. - Time is calculated as total flight time of both aircraft from takeoff to touchdown. Fastest time wins. > > How about a sky diving competition? If we can do aero towing, can we > > attach MP skydivers to a jump plane. Then individuals can choose when > > to jump out and the person that gets closest to the target wins? We'd > > probably need an improved parachuter model ... might be a fun project > > for someone ... I was playing with the paraglider fdm and model awhile ago... http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/paraglider.tgz Regards, Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
