Gliders as AI

[Wing_Z]

I had some previous tries at getting some gliders to fly around my favourite GA airport, but never found it too convincing.

Now comes Recorder Module 2, so I thought I'd share this.

1. Save a startup flight, and fly the tow-plane halfway round the circuit, recording Track1.
2. Save the flight
3. Carry on and land, recording Track 2
4. Load the saved flight, change to the glider, fly around a bit and land, recording Track 3

Now assemble the final RM tracks:
5. In Advanced Play, insert Track 1
6. Copy the plane and insert as glider, 10m astern and delayed 2s
7. Insert Track 2, delayed by as long as it took to finish Flight 1 (mine was 147s)
8. Insert Track 3, delayed by (in my case) 147+2 s
9. Save the file
10. In "Settings" tell RM to start this file whenever you load the startup flight.

Here's a clip of the result:

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You can insert several of these files, perhaps changing aircraft and creating several unique glider AI circuits.
And, you can select a user plane and experience the flight

 

[Flyboy208]

This is very creative Charl, making duse of the newest recorder module I see ... Mike

 

[Wing_Z]

Thanks Mike... Matthias is one of those folk who just adds, and adds, to our hobby.
The latest RM beta makes things so much easier.
I may do an airshow routine with its multiple file capability - you can make formations apparently change on the fly, which is quite cool.
For local airport traffic this beats the sim's AI by a wide margin.

And it's great that you can just plug any aircraft into the flight track, with an option to set the user aircraft!

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