How to turn on the waypoint in fsx missions

To FSX's credit I spent each attempt trying to improve my speed on genuine cross-country soaring issues (get high enough to reach the next thermal, but not too high if the current thermal isn't the best, use the best speed-to-fly).ДЄnd I think there will be an opportunity in to propagate custom missions so soaring pilots can compare achievement as we can with the Austrian mission. But other aspects of the sim are great - in the Austrian Soaring Mission there are areas of turbulence if you try and thermal on the wrong side of ridges and you enter a few glides trying to choose the optimal speed to cross the high ground. Thermals all seem to be unrealistically strong. The flaws include very dubious flaps performance (zero flap seems better than negative at 100 knots), and a non-total-energy vario which indicates strong lift every time you pull up. The stock DG808S has flaws but it's still fun. For CPU you'll need to disable AI aircraft/traffic/boats and probably set autogen to zero or very low.ДЄs FSX now has stock thermals and a stock high-performance glider, my bet is there will be many more players out there who soar with FSX. FSX is designed so you can turn down the features - you have both a low-end CPU and a low-end graphics card - the CPU is more important as the graphics can be reduced simply by reducing the screen & texture resolution. If FSX is playable in the demo, I think you can assume it will be playable with the prod code. In case you're wondering - I have a high-end CPU (E6700 with 4GB mem), and an ok but not fancy graphics card (6800GT), and am running triplehead2go at 3072x768 anisotropic filtering + 4xAA and get a steady 25fps (=limit) across the three screens on the alpine course. Some of the climbs in the mission can take you above them and you end up gliding back down through them - I was truly impressed. Oh, and with cloud density detail set to MAX, the clouds are spectacular. If you fly an approach for a straight-in landing (1) that approach is fairly tricky because of high ground and trees on the eastern boundary and (2) you won't cross the finish line for a completion time. The finish line is somewhere around the far (west) end of the runway so make sure you do a fast pass as you finish and turn around for a landing to the east. There seems to be a bug in the mission to confirm your successful landing after the flight but this doesn't affect the completion time. I've seen faster times mentioned on Avsim but I think *this* is the important forum for soaring sim comment, agree? Unless you've all become Condor groupies. More importantly if anyone beats my time let me know how the hell you did it.

The thermals are all very (unrealistically) strong but some go higher than others. If anyone is interested in a more detail walk-through of the mission let me know - the trick is to use the right mix of ridge running and high climbs. Thermals are clearly surrounded by pale green spirals, ridge lift is not indicated at all but it's there (& strong even though the wind is 6 knots from the South). I flew with aircraft realism set to max including stress damage, and with the graphic thermal indicators ON.

There are actually 11 waypoints, but some are very close together and they are more to do with guiding you along the appropriate route to find lift than anything else.

I'm assuming anyone reading this forum who owns FSX will have tried this mission - so POST YOUR TIME!ДЄt a guess the task is about 175km, an approximate quadrilateral, taking you West along one alpine valley, across some higher ground, East along a more northerly valley, then crossing back into the original valley and home. All in an hour-and-a-half and you can drink beer while you're flying. The Alpine Soaring mission illustrates many of the basic principles of cross-country racing - don't hang around in dying thermals, dolphin in straight flight if you don't think it's worth stopping and turning, carefully balance your deviation from route with expected climb strength. I'm not saying FSX is perfect but IMHO much better than FS9. For what it's worth I'm a real-world competition pilot with an ASW24.

It is popular to bash FSX on, but I've been flying the DG808S in FSX for about a week, clocked up 5 hours of flying, and in my view it's a blast.

How to turn on the waypoint in fsx missions