Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

Reading through all the comments on vimeo, the author mentions that he's flying a G103, and you can hear conversation under the music in a couple of places so I think the video is being recorded by a front-seat passenger. On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, wrote: >

Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

On 13/07/2016 1:17 PM, steph...@internode.on.net wrote: Which does beg the question, why would a person fly a ridge while hand holding a camera It feels more like it is attached to a shoulder or parachute harness. Definitely not on a hat or similar as you don't see any sideways

Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

Depends, the first Twin Astir was 108 and the Twin II was 92 (I seem to recall). However the Single Astir was 135 and I think that the aircraft in the film is, in fact, a single.   Which does beg the question, why would a person fly a ridge while hand holding a

[Aus-soaring] SkySight and Wave

Take a look at the wave display for today on Matthew Scutter's new forecasting package, SkySight. It shows the possibility of a flight in wave from Bunyan to Bairnsdale to Kempsey; 1020 km, if one could address the airspace issues. That possibility is exciting, but it also demonstrates the

Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

I don’t remember the max rough air speed on a G103. Somewhere in the 90’s ? > On 13 Jul 2016, at 9:07 AM, Nelson Handcock wrote: > > Pretty exhilarating! An old video from 2008, so some may have seen this > before. > > > https://vimeo.com/1349369

[Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

Pretty exhilarating! An old video from 2008, so some may have seen this before. https://vimeo.com/1349369 ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding in Virtual Reality

You can fly gliders for real. Why do it in VR when VR lets you hunt MiG 15s over the Yalu in an F86 or fly with von Richthofen in a Fokker DR1 or Bubi Hartmann in a Bf109? Mike At 03:23 PM 7/12/2016, you wrote: I've tried getting Condor running on my Vive without much success. Seems

Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding in Virtual Reality

 I've had no luck with VorpX but haven't tried very hard having also read it wont work as it's too old on the Direct X side So Richard. are you saying you just stick the TrackIR reflectors onto the headset? Tom - Original Message - From: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in