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And it was accepted.

Thanks for the heads up! Originally this effect was requested by one of our Discord members. Then we get into discussion how firefighting add-on can be made but currently so much tasks on our (TouchingCloud) shoulders, so we decided to give away current progress. Maybe it will be helpful for aircraft developers or NeoFly with their coming firefighting feature. And yes, this is MSFS. And you can have such effect already if you have some model XML editing experience. But there is no fire extinguish calculations, just visuals.

I have no relation with PMDG or any other FSX/P3D team or company. But I'm former Enemy Engaged opensource heli sim project developer. Just learning stuff and slowly moving to helicopters.

I am not gonna to convince you or anything - not a fan of ultra-extreme sports myself, but thought it will be nice to bring something new into sim. In description I cleared out this is technical examination of MSFS possibilities - implemented features makes possible for: skydiving, wingsuits, ejection seats, vertical takeoff aircraft (space rockets), airborne carriers and so on. Paramotors not counted - this kind of flight model already supported natively, just no one did it so far. So it's just a punch for other devs to move on and not stick to the existing limitations.

DG Flugzeugbau DG-808S v0.8.0

We are ready for the new gliding competition - Race 250 LSZE! 250 kilometers long task in Swiss Alps a good challenge for the brave glider pilots. 20 knot S-E wind, 25 Celsius degrees ground level temperature and 9 000ft clouds will help you to stay airborne for a long time. Please update ALBATROSS to the latest version as we are applying changes continuously. In the new version “nav screen” was introduced in its early form, not very fancy but still useful for points rounding or thermals searching.

We have prepared the next gliding competition for you - Race 125 LFNJ. Location - South-East France, LFTM - LFNJ. Task length - 125km, duration - about a hour. Start gate open from today until 2021-02-22 12:00:00 UTC. Variable S-E wind will help you to stay in the air by following east and south side hills, but also strong thermals can be found near to each turn point to you out. Please notice that thermals leaning implemented in current ALBATROSS version (btw don't forget to get update or results will be not counted), so you will experience a small shift of the thermals to the west direction. Thermals drifting is disabled during competition to ensure that all players will have thermals at the same spots. Our last weekend task Race 350 EDKG available again, it is the hard one so be sure you have enough time and patient to finish it. We are still in testing stage of ALBATROSS development process so feel free to report about any issues you will find, or wishes you can have. No glider class limits at this time, use anything you like, just don't forget to kill the engine. Good luck! [youtube]https://youtu.be/3ALOMJ1-2x0[/youtube]

shortly - nice to fly, too simple to train.

No, just click the button after you have started flight in selected location. Map is important for the first lookup - just to understand where hotspots available.

Kinetic Assistant 0.8 is out! Main changes - UI improvements, some bugs fixed and missing features added, and most important - thermals import from thermal.kk7.ch/ available now. No need to mess with CSV files. Just check their map for coverage, find suitable location, start the flight in MSFS and press the KK7 button on Thermals tab. To see thermals in LNM - you can export them as CSV and load by Userpoints > import section. transparency option partially working Always on top feature fixed Winch Initial acceleration field added Custom AI tow plane name support (most aircraft will not take off without taxiing; names list can be found in Developer menu → Aircraft Selector) Automatic thermals data load from thermal.kk7.ch service (experimental! coverage is limited, check their website to choose supported location) Thermals height field, for thermal.kk7.ch data or CSV thermals with 0 elevation set; should match altitude of lower clouds layer in the game (in feet) Thermal Clear button added, as now several sources can be used same time – multiple CSVs made in LittleNavMap and thermal.kk7.ch server data Thermal debug data moved into bottom window Winch/Tow rope random failures option (chances still depend on tension, Training Mode is like use damaged rope that will fail during next launch) AI tow plane altitude limit depend on launching position altitude (fix for mounting area)

Thanks for the attention to our work! Registered here just to give some answers. how exactly it happen, vario tone stop working? or needle as well? or you just don't like it?.. That is huge problem and has no solution, we can't avoid Windows path length limit, even after file names was shortened to decrease amount of people that will see such error. I can only recommend to move Community folder outside of Users directory, then install this mod. You can find instructions about moving MSFS Community folder really quickly. Most of the involved people (that have made this conversion or just helped) working on native gliders/aircraft development now. I think it's good as we are moving forward even before ASOBO allow us to do that. Long path to the "acceptable" level of soaring in MSFS, but we are in the middle already. DG808 updates still will be released, we can't break existing legacy limitations but some room for improvements exists.