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Next weekend competition and ALBATROSS update

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 …

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ALBATROSS – “Race 220 LSTS” briefing (for novice pilots)

We are happy to invite you to a new gliding competition! Difficulty level above average, so we have prepared a simple briefing to make it easier. If you are an experienced glider pilot – you probably will be able to complete it by yourself. Open start – you can join anytime, start gate will be …

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Tracking – Gliding Competition Race 125 LFNJ

We wish to thank everyone who participated in our last event! Today we will announce new weekend competition, and new ALBATROSS version with many important changes. See you in the skies of Switzerland!

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Kinetic Assistant 0.8.4.1 hotfix

If you have problems with winch or tow on some gliders (like Discus v2.5), please update to the newer version.

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Kinetic Assistant 0.8.4 is available for testing

Next Kinetic update – a lot of changes were applied to artificial thermals, as an attempt to make them closer to real life. New modifiers – weather, time of the day, and most important – wind. Please read the description for more information about how it all works together. Minor catapult and arrestor improvements. Like …

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Next ALBATROSS competition ready for take off!

Happy weekends everyone! 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 …

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ALBATROSS MSFS competitions

​ALBATROSS is a Microsoft Flight Simulator competitions app, focused on gliders at the moment, but also air race support planned to be implemented in the near future. Application provides functionality: download, install and delete tasks display task information (currently link to ALBATROSS website) set current pilot name for leaderboard appearance (will be replaced with registration …

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New MSFS Competitions application – ALBATROSS!

Today we are ready to announce a new Competitions application for MSFS – ALBATROSS! It is fully integrated with Kinetic Assistant and provides all required functionality to create, participate and analyze different kinds of competitions. We are focused on Gliding contests so this will be our first event. We have prepared two gliding tasks for …

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Kinetic Assistant 0.8.2 – hotfixes for hotspots

Some important fixes were added into Kinetic Assistant. No need to press the KK7 import button after each launch now, its state will be saved. Major hotspots data reading issue fixed, as often points was clipped by coordinates grid, this should not happen now. To avoid overload by points, filtering was applied, so strong hotspots …

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Kinetic Assistant 0.8 – another thermals improvement

Kinetic Assistant 0.8 is out! Main changes – UI improvements, some bugs fixed and missing features added, and most important – thermals import from https://thermal.kk7.ch/ available now. No need to deal with CSV files. Just check their map for coverage, find suitable location, start the flight in MSFS and press the KK7 button on Thermals …