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[fly77]

winter is back in northern italy, but ultimately spring will win and snow will melt !

[aWac9]

great shots .. a beautiful image,
I love the 2nd catch

[fly77]

thanks. yes.. sun reflecting in the river and foggy clouds in the distance slowly dissolving, anticipating hope for better times & weather plus the chain of mountains fading in the distance.

Global soundscape with italy airports and wordlwide cities sounds and directions/distances/infos plus much more soon to be released 

[fly77]

A nice small airport in italy

[aWac9]

Tortoli ,, nice airport .. I thought I saw a cat or something strange among the corn ??

[fly77]

Well ..not a cat...its a wolf ..courtesy of SwiftHyena2593  who provided me also the airport buildings

[fly77]

learning to soar on thermals ! 

[bomber]

I love the wing flex animation that Levi did on this plane, it makes it look so much better than the FG version.

[aWac9]

The whole family and passionate about outerra follow with interest in Discord the progress of the ASK-13 that Fly77 and bomber are making.
Levi had already collaborated with a bomber on this bird, it was a great contribution in his day, now they are taking it up again and we hope it will come to fruition and we can enjoy this glider with realistic physics. It would be a great achievement for outerra to have a bird that can take advantage of all the physics of this outerra landscape, thermal currents, along with ravines and mountains.
I was fixing the La Gomera airport and I thought that a flight without a motor would be the best to visualize the progress of the airport. Although to tell the truth I have no idea how it flies ,, I hope they pass us a manual.

[fly77]

yes, will pass a "manual" once ready  
After finishing of thermals will address ridge-lift soaring.
No thermals in your la gomera island  but great thermals in tenerife and other nearby islands !

https://thermal.kk7.ch/

[allymotors]

DUNDREARY ADMIRAL

[allymotors]

[fly77]

preliminary test of 3D visualization of nearby thermals   

[aWac9]

how nice..
a question, will those thermals always be there or will they change depending on a variable climate?

[fly77]

Climate ? probably you mean weather. It  can be programmed as we wish, if we know how and when thermals form. On the website that lists the worldwide thermals https://thermal.kk7.ch/
they give different maps for season and daytime, so this can be implemented by just copying the data from the site. Also they give "probability" of each thermal hotspot to occur for the given season and daytime. This is also easy to program..just switch it on and off (gradually) with that probability and for a time proportional to the probability. So if you're lucky you will find the thermal to be active with the probability given by the real world thermal database. Weather dependence ? It seems that gliders fly only with "nice" weather so if outerra weather gets rainy or too windy I will probably switch off all thermals, as you're not supposed to do glider flights under such weather conditions. ...unless you want to fly in a Hurricane !! which is also some kind of thermal    So I can implement a range of windspeeds, turbulence, etc...for which thermals will be active. Any other knowledge input or suggestions are welcome , as I am practically ignorant in this matter ,and just report what I have understood so far.