And the landscape of the task has to match including patches

A bit late with reply ( 7 months ) . I've just installed a gunfighter MK II which has the separate base , and installed the accessory 200 mm extension stick. Of the three sticks i've used so far , MS Force Feedback , CH Products combatstick and Saitek X52 , the VKB is by far the best stick . It come...

Cristiano, thank you for live streaming the competition. Its very informative to watch in real time how the best pilots approach the same task. As a relative novice there is much in these videos to absorb and learn . 2) I assume you mean the visible blue cylinders / barber shop poles that go from gr...

Cotasa makes it so much easier to fly Condor . It and the other Till designed utilities are essential addons . Accompanied by long lasting reliable support . What's not to like ? Donation is on its way

Its probably been said before : Thank you Bre901 . Cotasa is essential . And the support is exemplary.

K6chris,

A big vote of thanks for taking the time to describe your experiences with the Q2 . The thread is very useful .I'm impatiently waiting to see if VR technology is worth the financial investment and troubleshooting hassles.

Flew the 1st task last night ,connected via IP rather than serverlists . A handful of pilots beyond Australia and NZ were online . All went very well if you ignore the fact I came last of the finishers. There are some truly fast & capable pilots in that group.

Hi John , I usually don't have trouble connecting to a server . You probably already know this , but pressing the TAB key once in flight , will list your personal ping rate. The greatest difficulty is staying connected to the physically most distant European servers when the ping rate > 500 . But th...

Ditto the Late Night Soaring Comp . I've sent an email to the organisers in case there is a day mismatch instead of UTC time . In The Contest description the task days is Tuesday , Thursday , Saturday and I wonder if UTC 0300 is correct but the advertised day , today Sunday, is really meant to be Sa...

John, I'm on the east coast of Australia . I don't have problems connecting to US Nightly Soaring . But I do have problems with the newly introduced US Late Night Soaring . The server doesn't appear at condor-club advertised times . In Sydney the regular Nightly Soaring starts at 11am EST , i.e loca...

Not sure what DS helper is . If its a software add on , then no, I do not have it installed as far as I know . I'll research what DS helper is and see if its a problem at my end . Thanks for your quick replies and for looking into this. PS I don't know if this is relevant : April 2 , I was able to j...

"The Condor Club Serverlist however works fine" Unfortunately , it doesn't . Or at least it doesn't for me . I can see many servers and join them but the West Germany Cup is not displayed at all .Really just a minor thing in the scheme of things . Just reporting things as they are at this end after ...

Unable to see server on condorsoaring or hitziger server list at 17-00 or 1800 UTC on April 3 .

Everyone has a preference . I find the Condor 2 PDA excellent because it provides the essential information and no more. However XCSoar is superb for displaying maps and providing tracking function . Otherwise, at least for me as a beginner , XCSoar is a source of information overload and a distract...

Two suggestions : watching Youtube videos is useful . I 've found Martin Baran's Safari Cup videos instructive . In them he is flying a Blanik in the Safari 2019 competition. You see which clouds he selects to thermal in . How he approaches the cloud , how and when he turns , the angle of bank used ...