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Welcome to SOAR!!
An online community interested in virtual soaring in Microsoft Flight
Sim, real life soaring,
and/or RC soaring!
For questions, suggestions,
etc. about SOAR please contact Don
(general issues) or Karen (website related)

Updated 14th August
2011 - by Scott (sf4JC)
I have updated
Wolfgang's aircraft, so they should be current as of today. It
must be the real life flying season, because the forums seem like
they are at a standstill. Hope everybody is having or has
had a wonderful summer.

Updated 15th July
2011 - by Scott (sf4JC)
I haven't
updated the site for a couple months, so I'll try to get back on
that. Meanwhile, if you haven't been to Wolfgang's
site for a while, you may want to head on over to see all his
updates. Seems as though he has been very busy the last 2
months. Also, Max Roodveldt has updated his CAISet gauges
for FSX. He reopened his site a while back at http://fszwever.nl/ , so
please check it out for more of what he has been up to lately.

Updated 23rd February
2011 - by Scott (sf4JC)

There will be a FunFly/Contest
themed around the "Qualifying GP 2010 - Switzerland" held
in August of last year. There will be two scheduled race events
for the weekend. The first will be on the 26th at 16:20
local (Switzerland) time, and the second will be on the 27th at
16:20 local time. For now, go to the Forum for more details
as they are made public. 
Recent/Past Updates
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01/07/11 - Happy New Year to everyone!
If you haven't been to the forum for a while, you might
want to keep track of a few possible new developments with soaring
in
FSX. Peter is hard at it with CumulusX!, in fact, wave lift
is almost within grasp it seems,
so keep an eye out for that before the year is over. And
the CAIset gauges
may just get an official
upgrade for FSX. WOW! Great things to look forward to
in 2011.
And
now to updates. First off, I want to let you know I haven't
been as diligent as
I had first hoped in keeping you up to date with Wolfgang's aircraft.
Since October Wolfgang
has updated his ASK 21 (CAIset version in FSX)
with
the opening/closing of the front/back canopies separately. The
SZD Bocian has been compiled for FSX and DirecX
10 Preview. And the LS8-18 had a fix in the LNAV_polar.dat
file.
And
last, and certainly not least, a Special
THANKS goes
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10/01/10 - For those of you that still
use FS98 or FS2000, the
construction of Wolfgang's FS98/FS2000 aircraft section is now
complete! You can find it in the Downloads - Aircraft section
of the main menu. THANKS
Again to Wolfgang for letting us host all of his aircraft!
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09/15/10 - BRING OUT THE CONFETTI!!! The
construction of Wolfgang's FS2002/FS2004/FSX aircraft section is
complete! We will keep the aircraft downloads updated so you
can have the latest improvements. We will also try and let you
know of any improvements either through the SOAR
Forum, or
this news area. If anyone notices any
mistakes, PLEASE feel free to let us know. And again, if you talk
to Wolfgang in the near future, be sure to THANK him for the
many
years he
has been putting into the Microsoft Flight Simulator series.
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08/15/10 -/---\-
Under Construction -/---\-
The
Aircraft Downloads section is getting an addition added onto it... Wolfgang
Piper's
aircraft !!! In
cooperation with him, we are helping make his aircraft more publicly accessible
and
available for download in the future.
So in the coming weeks,
we will see most, if not all of his
aircraft in the Downloads section. This
process has taken me
a while to get started,since I am still basically getting a
handle on web design,
but with lots of help from Karen, it is going to make a
great addition to the SOAR library. THANKS to Karen & Don for talking with
Wolfgang and making the preperations for it.
If anyone notices any
mistakes, PLEASE feel free to let us know. And if you talk
to Wolfgang in the near future, be sure to THANK him for the
many
years he
has been putting into the Microsoft Flight Simulator series.
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I am scheduling
a FunFly/Contest the last full weekend of April if anyone is interested.
If
you are using FSX, you will need to download and install FSHostClient.
Everyone will need to have their Flight Sim version of
the SOAR Ranch and high resolution terrain mesh to
really enjoy the event.
I will have a download
available for those that want to do some practicing before the
event, or just want to enjoy flying the area in which the contest
will be held.
As
a treat for those of you that have been a part of SOAR since FS2002/FS2004,
we are going to run the old Lake Circuit contest. I may have
updated weather conditions for it, but unsure at this time. More
details will come later this week or the beginning of next week.
If
anyone has upcoming glider events in Microsoft Flight Simulator
that they would like to possibly get posted in this news area,
PLEASE let us know at this
email.
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03/25/10 - If you haven't been to Wolfgang
Piper's
site for a while, he's got a few new
updates for February
and March. If you enjoy his SF 25C motor gliders, then you
will want to download the updates.
The Ka4 Rhönlerche had
the rear VC and yawstring
worked on.
And last but not least, the
"PolarCalc" program was corrected.
If you ever
need to now if the aircraft you have downloaded from him have been
updated, go about 3/4th of the way down his menu to the "New Files"
section, and you will see what he has been working on. THANKS
Again Wolfgang for all the aircraft you have created to really
make Microsoft Flight Simulator more enjoyable to SOAR
for so many years!
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03/20/10 - Check out what I was finally able to convert! Hey! Is that?

Well looky there, It's the SOAR Ranch for FSX!!!
I was able to convert most of the Ranch with some very OLD & some very NEW editing tools. I would like to
ask the SOAR community for any comments/suggestions on if there is anything
we want to update or add to the airport,
like maybe a fence surrounding the airport, or maybe even placing the Tower View in a
different area or height.
I am going to keep in contact with the creator of the SOAR
Ranch, and former Director of SOAR, Chris Gordan,
so we can try tokeep within a reasonable view of his dream of the Ranch so as not to
deface it in any way.
So if you have any suggestions, please go to the SOAR Forums to do that.
The SOAR Ranch-FSX can be downloaded here.
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11/17/09
- Check
out our new header submitted by Scott!! Thanks once again for another creative
header!! We really appreciate your hard work! Here
is info on the header:.
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*ScreenShot taken mid-summer at the somewhat modified FS2004 "SOAR Ranch" inside FSX *The background consists of a fleet of Schempp-Hirth designs, 9 in all.
**We may have an FSX "SOAR Ranch" by
February 2010 if everything goes well. In fact, I think I may smell a
Bar-B-Q and FunFly comin.
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09/22/09
- Have added the great Cross
Country Soaring 2004 by Eric Carden as a download in our Utilites section! Several
of us at SOAR have tried unsuccessfully to contact you Eric, so we decided
to go ahead and make the program available to the public. As you are a member
of SOAR and we had permission to host your CCS dat files, we hope you will
not mind us doing this! We have had many requests from FS9 pilots
for your wonderful program and it does not seem to be available anywhere
else on the web! If you want us to remove it, we will be very sad at
losing this creative, great addition to FS9, but will abide by your wishes!

 FSX
screenshot by Don Hamilton
Ridge Lift in FSX without
using CCS files
Sim Probe is the exciting new creation
of Ian Forster-Lewis which works in conjuction with CumulusX. It creates
ridge lift "on the fly" so users no longer need to create CCS files
or place thermals along ridges in order to simulate lift. We now have
the freedom to soar along ridges anywhere in the world!! Great
job Ian !!
You can download your beta version
on Ian's site, just click on the following link:
Sim
Probe Remember
you will need to have CumulusX installed first! See below for links to CumulusX
Screenshots taken in FSX using Sim
Probe ridge lift Soaring the Ramparts in the Stemme S10
 screenshot
by Don Hamilton
 screenshot
by Don Hamilton


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