Schempp-Hirth Ventus-3 as rendered by the Condor soaring flight simulator. (credit: Condor)

Soaring the Sky Podcast

E047: Condor Soaring Flight Simulator with Chris Wedgwood

Chuck Fulton
2 min readSep 26, 2022

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Our fifth instalment of this ongoing series where we select and present episodes from Chuck Fulton’s highly-regarded soaring podcast. See Resources, below, for links where you can find Soaring the Sky, or simply click the green play button below to start listening. — Ed.

On this episode we join Chris Wedgwood of Condor, the complete soaring simulator. Chris joins us from France to tell us how Condor got its wings. He shares his journey with us and the journey of Condor and how it’s helping to teach people to fly all over the globe and keeping pilots flying in the virtual cockpit when they can’t be in the air. Join us now for this interesting and exciting interview now on Soaring The Sky.

©2020 Chuck Fulton

Resources

  • Condor — From the website: “Condor…simulates the complete gliding experience on your computer. With it you can learn to fly gliders and progress up to a high level of competition skill. The core of the simulator is the state of the art physics model and advanced weather model aimed at soaring flight.”
  • Soaring the Sky — From the website: “an aviation podcast all about the adventures of flying sailplanes. Join host Chuck Fulton as he talks with other aviators around the globe”. You can also find Chuck’s podcast on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter

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