Fly Like a Bird with Condor Plane Pack 2: The Ultimate Soaring Simulation Experience

January 2nd, 2019: Happy new year! Condor team gave us a present for this new year: native support for Virtual Reality with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive! A new plane has been released too, the first glider with sustainer motor : the ASG 29 Es 18m. Direct download links to Condor 2 patch 2.0.5 here and Hangar Update 4

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Condor: Soaring Simulator was released in 2005 and I (and pilots i knew) flew it for years for training and entertainment purposes. They released plane pack DLCs and there was a strong community making third-party scenery for free or commercially (some of it pretty good); and there is a strong multiplayer racing community too.

Do you want to buy a Condor Soaring Simulator, additional gliders or very realistic sceneries for Condor? We are recommending our friendly e-shop www.condorworld.eu. They offer to their customers also all patches and installation instructions for download. They also provide support on installing the simulator.

This study examines the harvesting of potential-energy in the world's heaviest soaring bird, the Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) [8], using animal-attached technology to define their three-dimensional flight paths at a fine-scale. The logistical difficulties associated with the collection of such data [3] have, to date, precluded quantitative examination of fine-scale movement paths in free-living birds. Andean condors are predicted to experience among the highest costs of flapping flight [9], making them dependent upon environmentally-generated lift to cover the distances necessary to search for food [10]. In fact, Andean condors may not even be capable of maintaining altitude through flapping flight alone [10] and therefore must have exceptional soaring capabilities, making them ideal model organisms for the study of soaring strategies. We hypothesised that time spent in thermal updraughts would not be random, but rather conform to a strategy that increases the efficiency with which they harvest this energy form, such as minimising the overall energy expended or maximising the rate of horizontal travel [4], [11]. In the latter scenario, birds would be expected to leave a thermal when their vertical velocity (equivalent to the rate of energy gain) declined to the overall average (i.e. the marginal value) for that habitat [1]. In an energy-minimising scenario, birds would be predicted to remain in thermals while they experienced a positive net vertical velocity.

Accelerometry has been used to identify behaviours through the quantification of body posture and motion for a range of species moving in different media. This technique has not been applied to flight behaviours to the same degree, having only been used to distinguish flapping from soaring flight, even though identifying the type of soaring flight could provide important insights into the factors underlying movement paths in soaring birds. This may be due to the complexities of interpreting acceleration data, as movement in the aerial environment may be influenced by phenomena such as centripetal acceleration (pulling-g). This study used high-resolution movement data on the flight of free-living Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) and a captive Eurasian griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) to examine the influence of gravitational, dynamic and centripetal acceleration in different flight types. Flight behaviour was categorised as thermal soaring, slope soaring, gliding and flapping, using changes in altitude and heading from magnetometry data. We examined the ability of the k-nearest neighbour (KNN) algorithm to distinguish between these behaviours using acceleration data alone.

Patterns in dynamic and smoothed acceleration by flight type were examined using the data of the free-ranging Andean condors, as well as the use of the k-nearest neighbour classification method. The flight of the griffon vulture was short in duration, and although its airspace was not restricted, its flight was localised around the raptor centre. We therefore did not consider the data of the griffon vulture alongside that of the Andean condors, but instead used the griffon vulture data to quantify the relationship between body pitch and airspeed.

Flight types were clearly identifiable when acceleration, magnetometry and barometric pressure signals were considered together. This combination of sensors allowed for the accurate classification of passive flight types, providing insight into the type of updraught used by the birds (cf. [17]) and the movement strategies that they adopt. Previously, soaring flight type had only been alluded to with the use of GPS-derived speed (e.g. [22]) and high-precision GPS locations recording at high frequency (e.g. [14]), or by assessing meteorological data associated with GPS locations (e.g. [18, 21]). Though use of GPS allows for some behaviours to be identified, coupling the use of accelerometers and magnetometers provides fine-resolution movement data and for an extended recording duration. As apparent in previous studies on free-living raptors, flapping flight contributes to only a small fraction of the flight time budget [14, 16]. Here, we have shown that the majority of flight is passive, and that this is more-or-less equally split between soaring and gliding behaviour. The relative use of thermal and orographic updraughts varied between individual condors, although as only five birds were tagged and at different periods over the summer months, further analysis is required to disentangle the relative influences of route selection and meteorological conditions. This type of approach is likely to provide insight into the role of thermal and orographic updraughts in the movement ecology of soaring species [22], particularly when information on flight type is combined with positional information at fine scales.

California condors have the largest wingspan of any North American bird. They are surpassed in both body length and weight only by the trumpeter swan and the introduced mute swan. The American white pelican and whooping crane also have longer bodies than the condor. Condors are so large that they can be mistaken for a small, distant airplane, which possibly occurs more often than that they are mistaken for other bird species.[32]

As the condor's population continued to decline, discussion began about starting a captive breeding program for the birds. Opponents to this plan argued that the condors had the right to freedom, that capturing all of the condors would change the species' habits forever, and that the cost was too great.[61] The project received the approval of the United States government, and the capture of the remaining wild condors was completed on Easter Sunday 1987, when AC-9, the last wild condor, was captured.[62] At that point, there were only 22 condors in captivity.[63] The goal of the California Condor Recovery Plan was to establish two geographically separate populations, one in California and the other in Arizona, each with 150 birds and at least 15 breeding pairs.

According to epidemiologist Terra Kelly: "Until all natural food sources are free from lead-based ammunition, lead poisoning will threaten recovery of naturally sustaining populations of condors in the wild."[81] The article also states: "The military doesn't use lead, and if that isn't a huge message I don't know what is."[81][82]

In 2014, Condor #597, also known as "Lupine", was spotted near Pescadero, a coastal community south of San Francisco.[94] Lupine had been routinely seen at Pinnacles National Park after having been released into the wild at Big Sur the previous year. Younger birds of the central California population are seeking to expand their territory, which could mean that a new range expansion is possible for the more than 60 condors flying free in central California.[95] Also in 2014 the first successful breeding in Utah was reported. A pair of condors that had been released in Arizona, nested in Zion National Park and the hatching of one chick was confirmed.[96] The 1,000th chick, since recovery efforts began, hatched in Zion in May 2019. The California condor was seen for the first time in nearly 50 years in Sequoia National Park in late May 2020.[97][98]

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