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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!

The event will be for both FS2004 & FSX and held at Albert Lea, MN USA on May 31, 2008.
A person can come anytime during the day, with thermals between the hours of 10:30AM to 5:30PM
local time (GMT-6:00 Central Time). There will be recognition for the individual times for the
contest (50.2km course with times ranging from possibly 25-55minutes expected,
depending on the time of day. It will be also dependant upon aircraft type)
There will be an overall winner for the most time in the air, both consecutive and not.
If you can take any screenshots, feel free to post them on SOAR Message Board
as there may be a winner for that too.

For those wanting to just freefly, you can do this all day,
but please keep track of possible race contestants so as to not get in their way.

You will need to go to http://sf4jc.spaces.live.com/default.aspx in the FS2004 & FSX files section
at the bottom left side of the page, and DOWNLOAD 'AlbertLeaMN FunFly May-31-2008'.

Each contestant needs to save his/her flight as an .IGC file with the FSZwever Viewer program
for me to determine their race times and such.
ALSO, you need to be at or below 2000' AGL (about 3200') at the starting gate.

Recent Updates
*added new Stemme S10 Motorglider converted for FSX*
Get your download on our FSX download page

*added new Stemme S-10 Motorglider to FS9 downloads*

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

Peter "Funky" Lürkens has created a program called CumulusX! which allows
ridge lift in FSX by using the slope files created with Eric Cardin's CCS!!
(Note: The CCS program itself will not work in FSX, but the slope files
that it creates will work in FSX by using Cumulus X!)

This is a marvelous addition for soaring enthusiasts and will definitely
make soaring in FSX a very enjoyable experience!! Thank you Peter for
all your dedication and hard work!!

To download CCS slope files that others have created please visit
Avsim and search. Please type in the following phrase exactly:
CCS2004

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