Welcome to SOAR!! Where, used to be, and may still be a place of interest in virtual soaring in Microsoft Flight Simulator's, real life soaring, and maybe even, RC soaring! Updated October 27th, 2024 Hey, it's me again! Looks like MSFS 2024 is just around the corner, with less than a month away. I am somewhat excited for it. In fact, I almost signed up for the beta of it, but lo and behold the memories of the 2020 beta started haunting me. So I am awaiting the release of MSFS 2024, or should I be, I keep asking myself. November 19th doesn't seem too far away I suppose, possibly, maybe. I'm wondering if I make and add scenery to the 2024 beta, will it be able to install in MSFS 2024 without too much of a headache. And what about the terrain, will it be accurate from the start on release day so we do not have to correct it on our own. Well that and other questions still await, and only time will tell I guess. So, Thanks for stopping by and, until next time ... Hopefully Happy SOARing to you!! December 4th, 2023 Can I say yet again ... WOW! I've somewhat realized that so far, MSFS has not been my sim of choice. I just don't want to be dissatisefied with the workings of MSFS. Now I know, I know, it's suppossedly considered something like a sim of the year, but still, I have my doubts. So, until next time ... Hopefully Happy SOARing to you!! December 3rd, 2022 WOW! Time sure has flown by, I ended up able to download the new edition within hours of release, but I have little to show for it. I haven't even made time to actually fly a glider in the sim. Been spending little time in the sim trying to update the classic FS2004 SOAR Ranch for it's MSFS debut. I may have placed the original FSX SOAR Ranch not quite in the exact location as FS2004. Anyway, I never really liked the MSFS SOAR Ranch for the alpha version I made at the time, and I thought it would be nice to get the almost exact location and runway configuration as the original finished version from FS2004 with a somewhat modified layout with same general structures of the SOAR Ranch. I've created and saved so many MSFS versions that I have forotten which direction is up. There is just something about the coordinates verses the location that just doesn't seem or feel right. So, once I get the Ranch into MSFS and I know it is as best located as possible, I should be able to enjoy my first real glider flight in MSFS and out of the SOAR Ranch as well. Hopefully the sim has come to a point that one can do that, but only time will tell I guess. So, until next time ... Hopefully Happy SOARing to you!! November 5th, 2022 This just in ... October 28th entry still looming?! Need I say more ... Hahaha Well ... Hopefully Happy SOARing to you!! October 28th, 2022 Just read the brief MSFS Team blog found on Steam, and ... Still cannot get my hopes up, but I have to say ... They surely made it sound so gooood ... Hehehe. Not sure what they are trying to pull though, but I'm just going to assume there is a lot more to the blog entry they left on Steam, even though they signed off with their "signature" at It's end. So ... what was actually in that video they talked about in the blog entry? I know, I know, I'm "supposed" to go to their website possibly to gain access to their "infinite wisdom". Well? I don't think sooo ... Hehehehe. Anyway, two weeks is what they claim, and yep, that does fall on about the 11th of November. Will it be welcomed by everyone just days after release?! Now that is going to be answered with it's OWN surety, I'm sure ... Hahaha. But, what I'm really wondering is ... Is a lot of it already being swept under the rug? Silence is golden, or so I've been told ... especially since the beta team "could" be on strict orders with this one to be quiet, very quiet I might add ... Hehehe! Well, until next time ... Happy SOARing to you!! October 23rd, 2022 So ... Is the 40th Aniversary Edition of the simulator going to make an impact on you? My hope, well, my hope is that it will impact me for the better, but I won't hold my breath. The reasons? Well, for one, there is a better chance of me NOT getting the "free" update right away because I don't get to the update until the next day anyway, than to see this "edition" come out on the date it is supposed to be released. Another reason? Quality... If, and that's a BIG if, if it does come out on that date, it will have bugs big-time because of what seems like pressure on Asobo to release it no matter what, and then the beta team can get "the blame" yet again for not catching the bugs in time, or whatever excuse they want to give. Microsoft's track record isn't very good, at least with me anyway, and hasn't been for quite some time. I'm not sure who's fault it is really, for is it Asobo's or is it Microsoft's (or is it Mine ... Hehehe). Who really knows the whole truth behind it all, because it is beyond me. Well, don't want to get too worked up about it. So ... Until next time ... Happy SOARing to you!! October 17th, 2022 So ... the state of SOAR ... still undecided. But, it could change for the better ... then again, it could get a whole lot worse ... only time will tell. So ... stay tuned and ready for anything, because that's where it is right now. Just a side note, I may start working on another FunFly/Competition for FS2004/FSX, but it will somewhat depend on a number of things ... let me see, hmmmm, what were they again ... Ohhh, I think I remember now ... infinite wisdom, well, maybe just the funniest humor I've gotten to experience lately so until next time, happy soaring to you!! September 18th, 2022 Thought about giving a brief statement about the current state of SOAR as it stands at the moment. So in the coming weeks possibly, I will try to explain the situation as best I can. The files that used to exist on the server are all but gone basically, but "good writens" I say with confidence and no regrets. Anyway, I will try to get into this a little more in depth in the coming weeks, so until that time comes, hope you have been getting some kind of soaring in to your enjoyment. September 16th, 2022 Heard any good jokes lately ... Hehehe Hilariously funny, isn't it!! I guess the joke is on the beta team, yet again. September 2nd, 2022 So, <grin> <grin> chuckle, chuckle ... Oh ... did I do that out loud ... Hehehe August 14th, 2022 but with edit below on August 19th, 2022 So, here I am again, and still not an end in site. I get most, if not all my info from the STEAM account as far as knowing what's going on with MSFS officially. The reasoning for this is simple basically, Microsoft may have inadvertently, or so I think (Hehehe), put an end to my going to their site/forum for a long while now, so I am unable to get any info from their site until they release it to STEAM. You may wonder if it hurt, well, it did a lot at the beginning, just couldn't understand their dealings with loyal customers, but that feeling went away a while after. I still somewhat support them a little by giving them some money for any of their products that I do use. See, I'm an UbuntuStudio PC user for most of my doings, and use Windows PC's when I would like to run or play the simulators or games that I have for them, and I also run the Windows system for other interests that cannot run on the UbunutuStudio operating system. Anyway, this is fine and I have come to expect it, and in so doing I have accepted this reality to which I live. So again, reopening is still uncertain and just may not happen for a while, if at all. EDIT: August 19th, 2022 From the looks of the brief MSFS Dev Blog I read on STEAM this morning, I had quite a chuckle/laugh. Do I dare to say that I do not feel for the true beta testers out there, as limited as such testers must be. If it is anything like the beginning stages of testing, not many higher up in the chain were willing to accept truth. Now I know I could go on and on about this, but it is beneath me now and I am sure some of you less fortunate have definitely heard enough. SO, not going to get my hopes up, but then again a lot can happen in a span of 2 weeks if I read it write. Somewhat hope to be back sooner than later.
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