Flying together – literally!
No – not sharing a glider, but each of us in our own glider!
Can you even imagine? Flying your glider (on your computer screen) along side of your buddy who is also on your screen and only a few wing spans next to you, or ahead of you – as seen here. He’s flying his glider from his house (be it 20 miles or 3,000 miles away) and he has the identical display on his computer screen – but he is in his glider watching you! Typically, we are talking to each other via phone on speaker, or using a headset via internet.
Before a flight, we talk on the phone and agree on the time and place that we’ll fly. To keep it simple at first, we simply use the default flight plans that are already in the program. That way we will each have the same terrain, the same weather (winds,clouds, lift, etc.). We will both have the same environment. This is the reality of Condor, and here is how it comes together.
On my computer I start the Condor program, select MULTIPLAYER, click the HOST tab, and my computer then becomes an online server. I call my server ‘AA-PK-AA’, and then I will place my IP address in the box labeled “Advertise manual IP” and click the “Host” box. Next, my screen flips back to the task in Condor and I “Start the Server”.
You will then use your browser and go to https://www.condorsoaring.com/ and at the very bottom of that home screen you will click on “Links”, and on the next page (on top right), you click on Multiplayer. You will see me listed in the CONDOR V2 SERVERS.
On your computer, you will start Condor, and select Multiplayer. On next screen – you then click the JOIN tab. Enter my eleven digit IP (which I will tell you over the phone), type in my server name (AAA-PK-AAA) if it is not already there and enter the password I give to you, and then click “JOIN” at the bottom right of your screen. We will see each other in the air! It is PFM! Totally!
It’s all very cool. We can fly from any airport, in any available landscape in world, but it is best (and easiest) to simply agree to fly at any one of the 11 default flight plans that are included in the program. We can always agree to change “landscapes” and load our computers accordingly, and fly anywhere we want to.
I’ve been flying in places all over California and Nevada, the Pacific Northwest, as well as in northern Italy/Austria/France. There are landscapes from all over the world, you can fly nearly anywhere in the world. All of the default flight plans are in Slovenia, 
but it’s easy to load the landscape that covers the Swiss/Austrian Alps and the Dolomites in Northern Italy. That particular landscape is called AA2 (Arc Alpin2), and during the month of December 2023 alone there were 3,297 glider flights using that popular landscape. 
This is a tabulation of flights, according to the Landscape used for each Race, that was flown on the servers, that were listed on condorsoaring.com. That table was copied from Condor Club… www.condor.club
Visit the club web site to get info on tasks, other pilots, landscapes, download tools, etc..
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