Downloads – Soaring Tools

Here you’ll find downloads to all the tools/tutorials we are distributing from this site and some landscapes created with the same tools. You’ll find an explanation of these items and any documentation/tutorial info by visiting either the Tools or Tutorials pages.

Tools & Tutorials

Scenery/Landscapes

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Condor Scenery Tutorial, R 14
(John Murtari)

The follow high resolution photo-realistic landscapes were developed using the

tutorials & tools from our site. They are compatible with Condor2, just unpack in your C:\Condor2\Landscapes folder. (Listed in reverse alphabetical order by State/Country)

We’re happy to create a free landscape of your Club’s local flying area, just complete this form.

You can also find a large collection of sceneries at the Condor Club website. Click on the stamp image to see the tile coverage. If you’d like us to post one of yours, just let us know!

Fly the United States Air Force Academy – 24 tiles. Covers Colorado Springs, the Academy, and west into the mountains. This is the landscape used in their Mach 0.1 simulator training (they usually solo in 12 rides). USAFA Airmanship Program
Notes: Your takeoff point is a paved runway, starting in the middle. The landing area is the green AstroTurf just to the west. It is called the SPLA (Sail Plane Landing Area). It is divided into numbered lanes, and gliders are cleared by the tower for a specified lane.Interested in how they train? A copy of a past Syllabus and Basic Soaring Manual. Here is the old usafa3 landscape.

Fly Texas (Central Area/Littlefield) – 30 tiles. Covers some pretty flat territory. From Clovis in the northwest down to Levelland in the southeast. This area of the country is used by the USAF Academy for cross country training.

Fly Texas (San Antonio) – 49 tiles. Home of the San Antonio Soaring Society, 20 miles northwest of downtown San Antonio, using the Boerne Stage Airfield.

Fly Texas (Southwest of DFW) – 24 tiles. Covers area primarily south and west of Dallas. This if the flying area of the Texas Soaring Association!

Fly Tennessee (Tullahoma) – 30 tiles. Home of the Tennessee Wing Civil Air Patrol (kids in High School can learn to fly gliders!).

Fly Sweden – 24 tiles. A nice landscape for Southern Sweden centered around the former military Ljungbyhed airport. Used by the Ljungbyheds Flygklubb.

Fly South Carolina (Region 5) – 49 tiles. This landscape is used for SSA Region 5 Glider Competition.

Fly Pennsylvania (South East of Erie) – 15 tiles. Used by the Brokenstraw Soaring Club. Very wooded landscape, significant hill right next to the runway.

Fly North Carolina (West of Winston-Salem) – 30 tiles. Used by the Piedmont Soaring Society located in Farmington. Nice ‘dog leg’ runway!

Fly New York (Western/Elmira) – 16 tiles. The home of Soaring in the United States. Harris Hill Soaring Corporation
Notes: Takeoff is normally to the north. The paved runway is shorter than actual. At Harris Hill it has quite a slope and Condor requires runways be at one elevation (so it was cutoff to blend with the terrain). Also, Harris Hill is located within Class D airspace for the Elmira Commercial airport (which has passenger jet traffic). The ‘red’ lines you see delimit the area where gliders may operate without contacting the tower (they help as a visual reference).

Harris Hill XC-1 – 49 tiles. A special scenery used for XCountry training, minimal airport details.

Fly Harris Hill <-> Dansville – 30 tiles. A combined scenery allows you to practice a X-country between both airports.

Fly New York (Western/Dansville) – 9 tiles. Terrain in the Finger Lakes around the Dansville Airport. Finger Lakes Soaring Club.
Notes: Your takeoff is in the grass, next to the 32/14 paved runway. All operations are normally from the grass.

Fly New Mexico (Alamogordo-White Sands) – 15 tiles. A compact scenery with desert and mountain ranges. Used by the White Sands Soaring Association.

Fly New Mexico (East of Albuquerque/Moriarty) – 20 tiles. Covers an area east of the city and reaches to Moriarty. This area of the country is used by the USAF Academy for cross country training.

Fly New Hampshire (Mt. Washington) – 30 tiles. Catch the ‘wave’ at the Mt. Washington Observatory. Used by the Franconia Soaring Association.

Fly Montana (Mission Mountains) – 42 tiles. A beautiful mountain scenery. Condor airports at Ronan, St. Ignatious, Seeley Lake, and Condon. They are trying to start a Glider Club, click for info.

Fly Minnesota (South of Minneapolis, Stanton/Rochester) – 35 tiles. Land-O-Lakes. Home of the Minnesota Soaring Club. Crossing grass runways.

Fly Massachusetts (Western edge) – 30 tiles. Area around North Adams. Home of the Mohawk Soaring Club.

Fly Illinois (East of St. Louis) – 42 tiles. Used by the St. Louis Soaring Association.

Fly Germany (Near Oppenheim) – 30 tiles. Very scenic region. Home of the Oppenheim Aero Club, nice runway right next to a river.

Fly Florida (South of Jacksonville) – 49 tiles. Year round soaring, Fri-Sun, at the local club, the North Florida Soaring Society.

Fly Florida (Tampa to Orlando) – 56 tiles. Your choice of fields. The Seminole Glider Port for instruction or the Tampa Bay Soaring Club. Try NOT to landout in the swamp — alligators and snakes!

Fly England – 16 tiles. A scenery for the Essex Gliding Club, northeast of London. They have an impressive club built simulator using projectors and a realistic cockpit environment.

Fly Croatia (Zagreb) – 42 tiles. Beautiful mountain scenery around Zagreb. Home of the Zagreb Aero Club.

Fly Canada (Alberta) – 42 tiles. The most northern landscape in North America! Used by the Edmonton Soaring Club located about 45 minutes east of Edmonton. Beautiful area!

Fly California (near Victorville) – 35 tiles. A scenery for the Antelope Valley Soaring Club. Definitely desert!

Fly Australia (Central Coast/North) – 56 tiles. This scenery has some very different terrain. It’s used by two soaring clubs: The Central Coast Soaring Club at Mangrove Mountain on the NSW Central Coast 30 minutes drive from Gosford. Hunter Valley Gliding Club (beware of blasting operations near the airport!) at Warkworth, NSW (northwest of Newcastle).