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Another Practice Day in Paradise (aka Seminole GP)

After a very weak day yesterday (top of thermals at 3000′ msl), we had a better day today, although mostly blue.  The soaring weather forecast from both BMapper and XCSkies were adamant that there was absolutely no chance of clouds, so of course there were clouds over at least part of the soaring area (way…

Day 17 – Regula Rides to the Rescue!

At the end of Day 16 I was bummed out because, although I though I had done everything exactly right and had even managed (with Dave Regula’s help) to get past a major roadblock, the forest areas in my Caesar Creek scenery still didn’t line up with my Terragen-generated forest background surface colors, as shown in the…

Day 16 – Two trees forward, one forest backward :-(

Near the end of Day 15 – Finishing up the Forest, I ran into yet another roadblock when trying to implement the following steps from the Condor Scenery Toolkit (CST) manual: Step 2: Open Terragen and open TerragenCondor.tgw world file. Terragen should now ask you to open a bitmap, choose Total overlay, and leave the…

Day 15 – Finishing up the Forest

At the end of “Day 14 – Getting trees in the right places” I saved the (hopefully) finished ‘DeciduousMap’ image to my Caesar Creek ‘Working’ folder.  Today’s task is to go through the last two parts of the CST guide to actually get the forest areas into the scenery.  This is a pretty interesting step…

Day 14 – Getting trees in the right places

Today’s adventure will be continuing the process of establishing forest areas for my Caesar Creek scenery.  In previous posts I created the ‘DeciduousMap.bmp’ file and saved it into my ‘C:\Program Files\Condor\Landscapes\CaesarCreek\Working\ForestMaps’ folder (Since the Ohio scenery doesn’t really contain much in the way of coniferous trees, I skipped the ‘ConiferousMap.bmp’ generation, but I may come…

Day 13 – Eureka! A SeeYou map for Caesar Creek

For the last couple of days I have been making some real progress on my Caesar Creek Scenery.  In ‘Day 12’, I got through one more piece of the Condor Scenery Toolkit (CST) , and while looking through the steps for Task 6 Part B “Getting trees into the right place”, I was momentarily stumped…

Day 11 – Green everywhere!

After Day 10, I had figured out a little bit more about Terragen’s place in the grand scheme of scenery design, and had actually been able to apply Dave Regula’s Moriarty01.tgw schema to my Caesar Creek scenery.  Today’s task is to build a ‘World’ (TGW) schema more appropriate to flat Ohio farmland.  After messing around…

Day 10

Its been a while since I have added a post to the Condor Scenery Adventure, and I have been getting complaints that I was slacking off in my endeavors.  Seems like there are other Condorites who would like to stick their toes into the scenery waters, and are having the same problems I am ;-).…

Vertica 2, LK8000 and Condor

My backup nav system (primary is the wonderful ClearNav system) is an IPAQ 3955 running WinPilot PRO V9.  IMHO, WinPilot PRO has the best ‘breadcrumb’ feature of all the nav systems I have tried (ClearNav, GNII, XCSoar, LK8000, SoarPilot), as each breadcrumb ‘dot’ is sized proportionally to the instantaneous vario value at that point.  Most…