• Use summer time to enhance your gliding experiences

    Summer time is here again - a lot of Condor virtual pilots are enjoying real-life soaring, but maybe some rainy weekends will come in next three months - so we decided to run some Condor racing tasks during summer of 2015.

  • Practice makes perfect

    This contest is more "good practise" like "serious virtualsoaring.eu contest" - take it as a summer practise with scoring before autumn Condor season... Only one half of all tasks will be counted in overall score, so you can miss 6 flight and still get good points for total ranking.

  • Tasks, classes and date/time

    We will fly over several Condor sceneries with several glider classes. No registration for this summer contest is needed. We will race always with PDA allowed, servers starts at 19:00 CEST (A) or 21:00 CEST (B).

Why SummerSoaring?

SummerSoaring 2015 is a summer season soaring online competition, based on Condor: The Soaring Simulator.

Used Condor Sceneries

Austria 2.0, Czechoslovakia 3.0, Slovenia HD, Provence 2.0, New Zealand 0.8, HW_SWGermany 1.08, Mifflin 1.0.

Our Racing Days

Racing day is Saturday. servers starts at 19:00 CEST (A) or 21:00 CEST (B). The complete competition calendar here.

Condor: The Competition Soaring Simulator is designed to recreate the ultimate experience of competition soaring on your PC. A lot of attention was put in to create an environment which would create an immersion of real competition flying. This means that the aerodynamics and weather physics were in focus of the development. The result is amazingly real feel of flight in all flight regimes and weather conditions which challenges a real soaring pilot on a competition day.

Amazing feel of flight due to the advanced flight dynamics model: Advanced 6DOF flight model for complete freedom of flying / Accurate sailplane performance and handling – also at and beyond critical angles of attack / Sailplane damage simulation – flutter, high G stress, collisions / High time fidelity physics engine (up to 500 cycles per second) / Accurate ground forces for realistic takeoffs, landings and crashes / Detailed, sub-object collision detection for mid air and ground object collisions / Accurate conditions for a realistic towing and winch start.

Briefing Map

  • Race Number, Date & DayDay 12 / August 29, 2015 / Saturday
  • Server Start / Join Time / Max. Start Height19:00 CEST or 21:00 CEST / 30 minutes / 1600 m
  • Class / Scenery / DistanceStandard Class / Austria2 [2.0] / 242 km
  • Briefing Map Picture Click here for bigger map
Briefing Map

Results

Each race will be scored with ShowCondorIGC and calcutated to 1000 points. IGC/DAeC index will be used for scoring. Overall result is count of best 6 results from total 12 flights (best of 50% results). Results of racing days and also overall score will be posted on this website next day after actuall race is done. Cloud flying will be penalized with 60 penalty points per minute. Outland in task - points for distance, crash and status "Racing" will be scored with zero points.


Daily Results

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 DAY 6 DAY 7 DAY 8 DAY 9 DAY 10 DAY 11 DAY 12

Final Overall Ranking (after 12 racing days) | Ranking Day By Day

RankPilot NameCNRNScore
1ERIK PRAZNOVSKYEPOM-19745966
2JONAS ANGENENDTJOD-19855901
3HELMUT KUENNEF9D-23185884
4Jon Holland123G-RUSH5717
5Norbert KissCNHA-19745598
6Jiri AdamADXOK-00245293
7Jan SvetlikJS6ARADAC5065
8Martin BaranMOVOK-03715047
9Milos KochMKOK-18234951
10Rudolf KalousekR1KOK-77774813
11Wlodzimierz KowalskiDB9SP-29644135
12Bob FielderCKF31103660
13Petr PolachSOPOK-68063617
14Bela KocsisBJYHA-19833330
15Lubos FaitzLFMOK-48123163
16Michal BrabecMBCZ-GENE3157
17T BrotyTBOK-05163028
18Golden EagleGE7EAGLE2826
19Miodrag IvanovicIDMYU-10392706
20jiri holubJHOOK-44082418
21Piotr RaczynskiPITSP-29012363
22Adam GorskiPL3AG-PL2109
23Alex MartinALXZS-JJP1315
24Tamas PentzPT1HA-19611011
25Finn KristensenFKOY-XBG1000
26Sandor LaurinyeczLSHA-44831000
27Marek Marcuss030SP-0303946
28Jack HartJHN1944939
29Harcsa KrisztianV8HA-3791939
30Jiri NemecekD32OK-6432901
31Gj PhillipsGXN12XM900
32Egon JorgensenX5OY-XKP892
33Tim MadsenTKMOY-XLM878
34David CanalsKWID-8208858
35Hans NycJNOK-6200852
36Sticky DigitOLYSD836
37Carsten TietzSDID-KPEZ820
38Jan PodolanA22ANDEL814
39Miomir IvanovicMIO4O-001794
40Marcus NeumannMN1D-4689781
41Zad MalckZADZADMACK781
42- CsabaSP-DIRHA-1985761
43Josef SpirikS50SPIRA761
44Brian Camps68LV-BMC749
45A TarielTARTARIEL654
46lukasz packowskiUPEU-HIGH626
47Marcin MartynaMRMSP-2987601
48Marek BaranBMASP-3344575
49Andre FilipeF2AAFV-01391
50Markus Portmann1PHB-3239179
51Simon ANDRES86F-CGKM111
52Tomi SzalokyTSZHA-197471
53ng louisKIKI-KIWI0
54Ovidiu FederERAYR-9ERA0
55Daud hAweisSXPH-24070
56hans ironHI5H-EMAN0
57Robert CRCMENTOR0
58Carlos MikelsenCMEU-HIGH0
59Nico KopitzschNKD-23030
60Horst JahnkeDHJD-20560
61tars loiUPEU-HIGH0
62Sergio Solfa1LV-SDS0
63Jiri KozisekJKOK-71100
64Milos MilutinovicNADYU-44880
65Walterb BuscaronsWBLV-WNB0
66marc MARCO37MARCO0
67Ben HirashimaBH74BH0

Contest Rules

General & Prerequisites

Every pilot has to own legal copy of Condor (version 1.1.5). Any modification of the application or any of the aircraft is forbidden and will be penalized by disqualification from the competition. Participation in the contest is free of charge, no registration for this summer contest is needed.

Competition Calendar

The competition starts on June 13, 2015, last competition day is August 29, 2015. Racing day is Saturday. Server A starts at 19:00 CEST (17:00 UTC), server B starts at 21:00 CEST (19:00 UTC). The complete competition calendar is here.

Used Sceneries

We will used these Condor sceneries: Austria 2.0, Czechoslovakia 3.0, Slovenia HD, Provence 2.0, New Zealand 0.8, HW_SWGermany 1.08, Mifflin 1.0.

Tasks, Classes & Scoring System

The contest will be flown in the following classes: Club, 15-Meter, 18-Meter, Standard, Open. Racing tasks with allowed PDA only. IGC/DAeC index will be used for scoring. Each race will be scored with ShowCondorIGC and calcutated to 1000 points. Overall result is count of best 6 results from total 12 flights (best of 50% results). Results of racing days and also overall score will be posted on this website next day after actuall race is done. Cloud flying will be penalized with 60 penalty points per minute. Outland in task - points for distance, crash and status "Racing" will be scored with zero points. Pilot, who has valid start on server A, will get score from server A - even if he fly again on server B.

Communication & Disconnections

In case of your internet disconnect you have option to fly task offline. You can send your IGC after finishing task offline via e-mail. Communication between contest organizers and contestants will be an e-mail. For scoring questions and submitting IGC files after disconnection from online server, contact us at competition e-mail address: summer@virtualsoaring.eu.

Credits

Our big thanks goes to: Miloš "Cadfael" Koch and www.condorworld.eu for Condor dedicated servers hosting, Helmut "Fox9" Kuenne for scoring software ShowCondorIGC.

How To Contact Us?

Communication between contest organizers and contestants will be an e-mail. For your questions about contest and/or submitting IGC files after disconnection from online server, contact us at competition e-mail address: summer@virtualsoaring.eu. Thank you.