It’s been a while since I have added to this series. A number of things have intruded on my life, including some elective foot surgery (Morton’s Neuroma for the medically inclined). However, most of the delay has been self-induced, as I was completely stymied when I stopped before, and haven’t had the courage to tackle…
Condor
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Thoughts on team-flying training and Condor
by Bill Elliott •
After this year’s WGC at Uvalde, there was a lot of talk about whether our U.S. teams lived up to our expectations (especially since it was held at one of our better known U.S. competition venues), and how much or how little of that was due to lack of expertise in team flying. I have…
Chilhowee Cross Country and Team Flying Training Camp
by Bill Elliott •
99 Soaring Fans, This is Bravo Zulu I am reporting from Chilhowee Glider Port, home of Chilhowee Soaring Association, http://chilhowee.com/ Like others, I too doubted that the weather would hold good enough for a contest this past weekend, but I arrived Friday afternoon to prepare for the Region V contest and planned to stay over for…
Day 8
by Bill Elliott •
At the conclusion of Day 7 I had gotten through the Terragen Topo Map video (http://www.vimeo.com/8584046) that showed how to render a particular Terragen terrain (.TER) file into a bitmap (.BMP) file. This was pretty cool and I felt real proud of myself until I realized that this procedure would have to be repeated for…
Day 7
by Bill Elliott •
For the last couple of days, I’ve been busy keeping myself glued to the Hawk Tracking SPOT map, watching the Uvalde WGC unfold. Man is that addictive – just can’t stop watching the races, pulling for my teams (U.S. plus Canada plus Baud Litt plus Wiktor Kozlik). Also, I have been avoiding the Scenery Adventure…
Day 6
by Bill Elliott •
I have been stymied for a day or so now at Geoff’s ‘Terragen Topo Map’ video tutorial (video #9), and have been waiting anxiously for some help from the Condor Scenery forum folks. Last night I got a post from ‘Cadfael’, one of the original scenery designers, with a pointer to an earlier tutorial he…
Day 5
by Bill Elliott •
I’m actually starting this post on the same day as day 4, but who’s going to know? ;-). At the end of Day 4, I was able to fly around in my new (but very bland) scenery. Now, as the video instructor says, comes the hard part. The first step apparently is to export the…
Day 4
by Bill Elliott •
Well it has been a few days since I last played with the CCSC scenery project. I have been involved in supporting the SPOT tracking map for the Uvalde WGC, did some real-life soaring at CCSC, and even did some real honest-to-gosh paying work! Now, however, it’s back to Condor-land for more scenery design adventures.…
Day 3
by Bill Elliott •
After Day 2 I had gone through file conversion to .TRN files (whatever the heck that is -I think maybe Terragon?). So now I’m off to see the wizard again for the next step (video tutorial #5), which appears to be opening the .TRN files in the Landscape editor. Following the video tutorial, I launched…
Day 2
by Bill Elliott •
Yesterday I was able to get the basic SRTM data displayed and converted to UTM data format. This morning I have been viewing more of the ‘3dem setup’ (second of a series) video tutorial, and reading the Scenery Toolkit ‘HowTo’ document. After the UTM coordinate transformation, the two start to diverge. The video tutorial continues…
