Just Sailing Along

I'm so tired I can barely see straight.

I've spent a good portion of the weekend building a sailplane mission and I've probably flown our new sailplane for a total of several hours today. I should check the logbook and see exactly how many hours I've flown. :) I've been flying all of the other aircraft more up until now, and this is kind of refreshing.

Not only that, but I beat the course record! But that's not saying much considering I designed and built the course and set the time threshold for the record.

Flying a sailplane is so different than other aircraft as it's generally a very peaceful and gentle (at least between thermals that is and then gut wrenching G's inside the thermals with that infernal variometer beeping at you, neither of which isn't very peaceful). Anyway, it takes a while to get anywhere in a sailplane, thus the long hours flying it today.

I'm not complaining though as our sailplane is very cool. Considering we've already released some info and some screenshots, I think I can mention a little more about the aircraft. If you aren't familiar with the DG series of aircraft you should check them out at their website. The DG-808S is an amazing aircraft and in the top echelon of high performance competition sailplanes. I think you will like it!

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 20, 2006
  I'm really looking forward to flying the sailplane in FSX, my first journey will be from Vancouver to Calgary across the Rockies. (Saved and flown in intervals I imagine)
• Anonymous
  March 20, 2006
  Hey proper thermals, a course? THis sounds promising.
• Anonymous
  March 21, 2006
  I think most sailplane missions will involve multiple save points across multiple sessions just because they tend to be the longest missions. But I don't think they will be so long that spreading it out over multiple sessions would be necessary for all people.
• Anonymous
  March 21, 2006
  Can't wait to have my hands on FSX.
  The screens of the sailplane realy does it form me.
  I flyed a couple of times in one (a DG-1000)
• Anonymous
  March 21, 2006
  Dear Paul,
  
  you just make me very, very happy... Thermals, an audio vario... Wonderful... Just one little question though: it there sink ? <g>
  
  Cheers,
  
  Max Roodveldt
• Anonymous
  March 24, 2006
  Hey Paul-
  Come join us at SOAR...It's a lot of fun! www.virtualsoaring.org.  The forum is very active and lots of development work going on...including some killer panels and design work by Max Roodveldt.  Heh!
  Thanks for adding elements for our little corner of FSX.
  
  Harry Chittick
  Soaring Pilot
• Anonymous
  March 26, 2006
  Well hopefully you all will like what we are doing for the soaring experience. As with all FS releases, where the community takes what we build will undoubtedly be really spectacular!