On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:30:46PM -0500, Cal Posthuma wrote: | When I use a glider like the BOT I can not get bungie style launch. All it | does is glide out of your hand. | | I looked in instructions and saw nothing referring to launch of a sailplane. | | The on screen instruction is point with mouse and hit any key.
If there is a winch/hi-start launch option, I've no clue where it is. As I see it, you've got two options -- 1) pick one of the slope sites and fly there with a little wind. While RFG3's thermal soaring leaves a lot to be desired, it's slope soaring is very good. 2) edit your plane to add a weightless and invisible motor on it ... I also don't think RFG3's thermal modelling is very good -- for example, I don't think a thermal will cause your wings to bank if one wing is more in it than the other. I've no idea if RFG4 is better. It would be nice if they'd make a simulator that actually gives you a winch or hi-start line to fly up and tries harder to simulate thermal soaring. Bonus points for a controllable winch, wings that flex/break, line breaks, a parachute falling down, hitting thermals on launch, wind that shifts around you and indicates thermals properly, optional poles with streamers, soaring birds to indicate lift, seeing bugs and trash flying around, lift being generated at certain areas, thermals that blow down wind properly ... `Condor: The Competition Soaring Simulator' does let you fly up a (full scale) winch line, and that's pretty nice -- but even it's thermal modelling seems weak, and the only way you find a thermal in it is that your vario starts beeping. Anybody tried thermal flying with Reflex XTR? Aerofly Pro Deluxe? FS One? RFG4? Phoenix Sim? CRRCsim (free!)? Any of them better? I don't know if any actually let you fly up the line, but I do know that several will at least let you gain some altitude at launch. (FMS's flight model really is too simplistic. Slope Soaring Simulator (also free) is decent and does do thermals and slope lift too, but I don't remember how accurately it models the plane's behavior in them or how they move.) -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
