Condor 3 Versions
Condor is available in two versions.
Condor 3 (basic) has all the features you need for training and regular soaring flight.
Condor 3 XC has additional features aimed at the keen cross-country and competition pilot.
Weather model:
- Up to eight weather zones on top of the base weather to give changing conditions through the day.
- Zones each have their own weather settings, wind speed and direction.
- Movement of each zone speed and direction is adjustable.
- Convergences can be created using weather zones.
- Thermals affect airflow around them.
- Mountain thermals rewritten for more realism.
- Thermal and inter-thermal turbulence rewritten.
- Inter-thermal sink added.
- Cloud streeting improved.
- New setting for thermal overdevelopment added. At higher values this generates cumulonimbus clouds with rain and thunder.
- Cloud models are completely new.
- Ridge lift remodeled for more realism.
- Mountains produce a wind shadow behind them.
Multiplayer/multicrew:
- Can now have 2 pilots in the 2-seaters connected over LAN or Internet.
- Each pilot can have control of the glider. Handover is controlled by one pilot.
- There is cockpit audio so the two pilots can talk to each other.
In flight:
- In single player, you can now fly from the rear seat of 2-seaters.
- There is radio with 20 channels to communicate with other pilots.
- Planes accumulate bugs on the wings.
- Raindrops and tracks on canopy when flying in rain.
Instruments:
- Authentic FLARM collision detection and display developed in cooperation with Flarm Technology AG.
- 100% functional LX9070 flight computer developed in cooperation with LXNav d.o.o., allows usage of LX pilot profiles.
- Air Avionics Air Control Display ACD57 on some planes.
- New high resolution Condor 3 flight computer with AAT and airspace support.
- LXNav V8 / S10 style vario.
- FES instrument for control of speed and battery state.
Scenery:
- Completely new Slovenia 3 landscape covering all of Slovenia, and some of Italy, Croatia, Hungary, and a large part of Austria.
- 40 accurately modelled airports.
- Airports can have sloping runways.
- Grass runways have realistic 3d Grass.
- Rewritten ground physics.
- Thousands of 3d buildings from Open Streetmap data.
- Electrical pylons and wires.
- Cablecars.
- Real airspace is supported by use of open source .air files.
Planes:
- Ambient occlusion added for more realistic cockpits.
- Planes remodeled where needed.
- Rear cockpits and instruments added to 2-seaters for dual flying.
- FES planes now supported for sustainers and self-launchers.
- Planes previously bought for Condor 2 can also be activated in Condor 3 with the same license key.
Everything from the standard version, plus:
Bugwipers:
Competition planes have bugwipers to clear accumulated bugs from the wings and increase performance.
Hawk inertial vario:
The Total Energy vario in Condor measures static and dynamic pressure to compute the total energy. When the glider flies through a turbulent airmass, wind gusts are interpreted as energy gains and the TEC vario becomes more nervous and often shows lift where there is none.
The HAWK vario algorithm in Condor XC combines inputs from the weather and physics engine to eliminate the unwanted effects of horizontal wind gusts and gives a fast and accurate measure of climb rate. This gives more precise information on when to stop for circling and helps to center thermals more efficiently.
HAWK vario is also used for netto calculation which is the basis for speed to fly calculation. As HAWK is faster, smoother and doesn’t show wind gusts, the speed to fly indication is also much more accurate.
Live Wind:
This shows the actual wind direction the glider is flying through. When close to a thermal this helps with indicating when to turn, and in which direction for faster centering.
Flarm targets:
These are displayed on the Condor flight computer or the LX9070 so you can see where other pilots are circling and their climb rate.