wave soaring

[kdhrocks]

In the soaring tutorials one of the items taught is wave soaring and the other is ridge lift. I have been playing around with every weather combination that I can think of and cannot duplicate either condition in free-flight. I can get plenty of thermals though. What am I missing?

[ScatterbrainKid]

I'm no expert, but the SOAR virtual soaring site could be the guys to ask-

http://www.virtualsoaring.org/

[JSkorna]

Hi,

Use a weather program such as Active Sky Evolution.

[scott967]

Default FSX has a type of "autogen" thermal, keyed to landclass. More advance lift/sink generally has to be injected via simconnect or missions. Take a look at CumulusX!

scott s.
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[lnuss]

CumulusX does, indeed, let you set up ridge lift, based on winds and terrain. I don't think it does mountain waves, though.

[kdhrocks]

Thank you

[kdhrocks]

Thank you for the info

[kdhrocks]

I'm no expert, but the SOAR virtual soaring site could be the guys to ask-

http://www.virtualsoaring.org/

I checked out the site last nite and it looks like it has been shut down. All of the entrys are dated in 2009 and the site would not let me join. Too bad, looked like a good site.

[lnuss]

I checked out the site last nite and it looks like it has been shut down. All of the entrys are dated in 2009 and the site would not let me join. Too bad, looked like a good site.

I just now tried it, and it has updates listed this month. Try again with this URL (http://virtualsoaring.org/).

[scott967]

Aerosoft is now hosting their forums.

scott s.
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[kdhrocks]

That one worked thanks
Dave

[ScatterbrainKid]

Yeah just to confirm, the SOAR site is up and running with brandnew posts etc, I just took this shot-

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/soar.gif