TCC :: Taupo Condor Competition :: 18 metre Class

[Pit_R]

TCC :: Taupo Condor Competition :: 18 metre Class

Hello!
All are welcome! Something for fans of slow flying!

https://www.condor-club.eu/comp/show/0/?id=340

We start April 4th with two (this time) official practice days.

First racing day: April 18th (+ next four Thursdays till May 16th).

Time: Thursdays
Server A and B: 20.00 CEST [18.00 UTC]
Server C will start at 20.30 CEST [18.30 UTC]

+30 min join time, 1 min race in

Scoring: no handicap, best 4 of 5 racing days, 1000 pts for the daily winner

Tasks are inspired by the "NZ Club Class National Gliding Championships"
https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/nz-cl ... taupo-2019
Esp. MSC class: https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/nz-cl ... esults/msc
where was flying also outstanding 18 metre Class gliders.

Event took place between 27th Jan – 9th Feb 2019 in Taupo, NZ.
The region weather is not really bombastic. So you can expect cloud bases between 1200 and 1700 m, average climb rates between 1+ - 2+ m/s and an average speed about 90 to 125 km/h. Please adjust your tactic to these conditions.

There will be three AATS [1h 45 min] (during RL competition most days was AATs).
Few articles worth to read before flying this type of tasks:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=18310#p158770

Finish will be always TaupoGC, elev. 460, cylinder with 3 km radius
Min. finish alt: 600 m MSL


Thanks to Erik / http://virtualsoaring.eu / we can now use TS.
If someone wants to use voice chat during race - please visit: http://virtualsoaring.eu/teamspeak for details.

Scenery we will fly:
Matamata 1.0
Date of release: November 9th, 2018
(Uncompressed scenery size: 11.75 GiB)

Author(s): PH722 WW
Creators:
- 3D Trees by The Condor Team
- 3D Airports and 3D Objects by WW
- Initiative and Realization by WW
- Thermalmap by EDB

Scenery download: https://www.condor-club.eu/viewscenery/242/?id=299

To test your joinability / scenery installation, please connect to test server for free winch.
Server name: [C2] TCC (Scenery Test)

Live stream on YT
Martin's (MOV) channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCECMuK ... lp4YqMdHCg
Thank you!

More information soon. Stay tuned!
Have fun and good luck!

TaupoCC.jpg

[EDB]

https://www.condor-club.eu/srchgoodies/0/?id=2393

2393s.jpg

[Pit_R]

That's what I planned to ask for. Perfect add-on to this awesome scenery!
Almost signed myself to LINZ Data Service.
Thank you very much!

BTW: Taupo is located at the outlet of Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake, in the northeast part of the lake where it discharges to the Waikato River. Lake Taupo occupies the caldera of the Taupo Volcano in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. You can easy to spot the lake on small map above. (Never been there - info from Wikipedia, so may be not accurate).

The map above have coloured outlines:
Red : Invisible Scenery Border
Yellow : Line were the Scenery Edge gets visible. Avoid this area. Thermalmap is gradualy reduce to zero
Green : All is okay up to here.

[from Nephi manual - I gues here is the same]

[Jan Oorthuijsen]

For those who want to participate in this competition.
There are 2 dds textures with a small glitch, the improved ones are downloadable from my google drive.
They are not necessary to be able to fly online.
I assume that you know how to unzip and replace a dds file.

Here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IpgPTp ... sp=sharing

I'll wait a while to see if more will be reported, and then put them in CondorClub at once.

[janjansen]

double post

[janjansen]

I was working on a Matamata task for L&S. Something to keep in mind is there seem to be quite a few flying objects. Large ones like balloons, which are easy to spot and avoid, but for instance on the hill near Tarawera there are hang gliders and they can be really hard to see when you come at high speed. And its not like there are any other hills nearby.

Condor considers a collision with them as a ground object collision, so if you hit one, its game over. Im not sure what I think of that. Its at the same time cool and not unrealistic, but the fact they dont move makes it rather difficult and if a soaring competition where flown on Tarawera airport, I imagine they would ground the hang gliders? If you plan tasks in such area's do tell your pilots or maybe set penalty zones?

Hele mooie scenery trouwens Jan!

[UrosM]

https://www.condor-club.eu/srchgoodies/0/?id=2393


2393s.jpg

Can you make this map available by Google Drive or something similar. I can't d/l goodies from CC. Something with some protocol problem.

Thanks.

[EDB]

Matamata Maps on DropBox

2393s.jpg

I might update it or add an extra version with cities and roads.
IRWIR or never will be if I don't like it...

[Pit_R]

Hello!
To test your joinability / scenery installation, please connect to test server for free winch.

Server name: [C2] TCC (Scenery Test)

BTW: Next Tuesday (Mar 19th) at 20.00 - Unofficial training day. Briefing will be here monday morning.

(Thanks to virtualsoaring.eu for hosting!)

[Jan Oorthuijsen]

connection o.k.

[Pit_R]

Hello!
Today, Tuesday, Mar 19th we will fly unofficial training. Feel free to join!

Trip around Taupo Lake.

Server A: 20.00 CET [19.00 UTC]
Server B will start at 20.30 CET [19.30 UTC]
30 min jointime, 1 min race in

Briefing with meteo info:
click to enlarge

TCC_U1.jpg

[EDB]

Added some updates...
Matamata Maps on DropBox

[3P]

XCSoar XCM map: http://dl.virtualsoaring.eu/?dir=PDA-ma ... r/Matamata

[Jan Oorthuijsen]

There is a minor flattening error at the Taupo gliding club.
I have decided to update this after the TCC to prevent logging in with the wrong version.

[Pit_R]

Results of yesterdays practice day:

uTD1.jpg

CGR to the winners! Notice 1 sec. difference!
Agree - was too short and/or conditions too perfect. Also - as we see - unpopular Ventus have the power.
See you next Tuesday.