Condor 3 feature requests

[Kekelekou]

My experience is that shifting the start-time doesn't change the weather, it only shifts the ghost position slightly so that it is a little (10 to 100m?) out of sync in position. I find it still works to race ghosts with an edited start time, but I can't rely on them to help immediately center thermals. It might be more of a bug-fix or accuracy improvement than anything.

I should have been more specific : altering the start time of the task will not change the weather settings (strength of thermals, wind speed and variation, etc) but the location of each thermal will not be the same. Wiek confirmed it :

I will try to explain:

If you change something in the fpl the weather seed will be different. If it wasn't you'd always get the thermals in the same place with the same weather settings. That is undesirable as the weather would become predictable. Only if you use the exact flightplan of the ghost with the weather seed saved with it the weather will match. As soon as you alter anything (like the time) a new seed is generated and the thermals will be in different places.

This is also the purpose of the randomise weather each fight option. It will regenerate the seed every time the fpl is loaded so the weather will be slightly different (same strenght thermals but in different spots)

Flying with ghosts only makes sense (in my opinion anyway ) if the task conditions (ie weather and thermals) I am flying in are a 100% match with the ghosts' one.

[simsoarer]

Not sure if this has already been asked for, if so my apologies. On the PDA map screen, due to the shape of the PDA it would be nice to be able to switch the display between no map, north up and track up. It would help when zooming out to check the terrain ahead when flying East or Westerly orientated tracks.

[CristianoConrado]

Hello everybody,

Sorry if anyone has already suggested this feature, I checked and couldn't find it.

One of the most important implementations I can think of is reconnection after disconnection during races.

As our position data continues to be updated after disconnection, while flying offline, it would be possible to reconnect and return to the race normally.

A simulator that had this script well implemented was the old Falcon 4.

Some details to note:

1) Pause must be disabled and autopilot enabled even for offline flights after multiplayer disconection.

2) There may be a few seconds where the reconnected glider does not cause collisions with others within the server (like a ghost dor some seconds).

3) Reconnection can be attempted at a stipulated interval, like every 30 seconds, for example.

4) Even if the server itself has a problem (restart / lack of electricity, etc), as soon as the simulator is restarted, the session can be restarted and it can accept the reconnection of the pilots who were in the race, and who would be at that moment , requesting reconnection.

Disregard any phrasing errors - as I use Google translate, it sometimes changes the meaning of sentences.

[CON]

[6266]

1) Pause must be disabled and autopilot enabled even for offline flights.

We fly the Vintage Series usually offline. We need the pause because we want to include all interested people. Some are not able to fly 2 hours in one piece. They should be able to fly f.x. 30 minutes, pause a longer time, maybe over night, and continue the flight until the next pause.


In my opinion it's a cheating feature. Flying together with others, all can see you, but you know the landscape perfect. For not the others to follow you, you go offline, fly the magic route and come back.

I understand the wish especially in regions with bad infrastructure, but it can easy be used for cheating.

[CristianoConrado]

Make it a server option, but i think it will be not possible when reconection option is enabled for multiplayer sessions.

[DanD]

Task window - the ability to have variable sizing of the window, rather than discrete steps. Also, a much larger window, for task screen shots for competitions.

More towplanes than 16; we have 25 people and want to keep join times down.

Having the turnpoint altitudes on the task window, for screen shots, would be handy for task planning. And, both metric and imperial measurements in turnpoint properties windows.

Looking forward to Condor 3, though 2 is still very good.

Dan

[Bre901]

Task window - the ability to have variable sizing of the window, rather than discrete steps

Window type TPs are arcade stuff. I wouldn't cry if they were dropped in V3

Having said that, you can fine tune window size (or regular TP altitudes) if you type in the values in the properties box instead of using the arrows.
The display is rounded to the nearest 100m, but the value in the properties box are not.

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[DanD]

Thank you, I was not referring to the size or shape of the turnpoint, but the window that displays the task - the Flight Planner task tab.

[Bre901]

Thank you, I was not referring to the size or shape of the turnpoint, but the window that displays the task - the Flight Planner task tab.

Sorry I misunderstood your post, mostly because if was mislead by:

rather than discrete steps.

which I'm afraid I don't see what it refers to as the flight planner window has a fixed size in V2

[rollllgggg]

It would be nice to be able see a student sit in the cockpit of a ghost glider and observe the flight of an imported cross country igc track. Glider club students rarely get a chance to venture away from the field and have a very limited idea of what lies beyond.
It would give them the feel and visual experience of there surroundings. So when they do venture out there they at least would
have been there -sorta. Same thing in flying the circuit.

[kvzyl]

Linux use
Lutris is an application allowing Linux users to run windows applications. it would be great to see that. nobaraproject.org is a distro that would work well.

Kev

[OXO]

Linux use
Lutris is an application allowing Linux users to run windows applications. it would be great to see that. nobaraproject.org is a distro that would work well.

Kev

Forum search is your friend.

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[timt]

He are some things I would like to see regarding winch launching in condor:

1. To be able to simulate winch power failures as well as cable breaks.

2. Ability to disable the warning text and sound that the simulator makes when there is a cable break, to make it more realistic when training for launch failures.

3. Have the winch placement within the boundary of the airfield. For many shorter airfield the winch is currently beyond the boundary and this give the impression that you can launch much higher than is actually achievable in the real.

4. Have the physics take into account wind speed/direction and the amount of pilot layoff, all these should lead to differences in the maximum achievable height during launch.

5. Back release at the top of the winch launch.

[Kaibeth]

I would kind of like to see the wind compass on the PDA have an option for "track up," as I have visualization difficulties, and it's not easy for me to track where the wind is coming from.

I died today because of it.

Also, the bestest thing of all ever you could add to C3 would be the trim handle in the cockpit moving in accordance with the trim setting. Then I could turn off the HUD and know at a glance my basic trim setting.

Thanks!

[ryanto]

I would kind of like to see the wind compass on the PDA have an option for "track up," as I have visualization difficulties, and it's not easy for me to track where the wind is coming from.

I died today because of it.

Also, the bestest thing of all ever you could add to C3 would be the trim handle in the cockpit moving in accordance with the trim setting. Then I could turn off the HUD and know at a glance my basic trim setting.

Thanks!

I agree. I find it always annoying to have the north as a reference for the wind and not the plane itself.