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If you wish to contact the developer, I can be reached by email at

lowestflyer@gmail.com

I will try to answer your questions

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A new release (Beta 1.35) of the Freeflight Experience is available. Please review the release notes for a summary of changes. If you are getting started with the program, be sure to check out the Quick Start Guide for step by step instructions and tips.

August 29, 2023 Release Beta 1.35

The Freeflight Experience continues to be advanced and refined, largely based on your excellent feedback. After releasing 1.34 with ten new flying sites, I went on to add dynamic dust devil models that can be enabled for sites where these are a common and noteworthy characteristic. Now thermals can be found as you go XC, releasing from terrain features as you might expect. Get near cloud base, and you will find areas of generalized “cloud suck” lift, so you can jump from cloud to cloud for long XC adventures.

In release 1.33, I enabled the import of competition race tasks, and display of cylinders, labels and turn points in the game, along with basic race timing functions to the base tube vario. This simply starts a clock when you exit the start cylinder, and stops the clock when you enter the goal cylinder.

The latest release (1.35) sets up a TCP server that streams your virtual flight data to your real wifi enabled flight instruments or smartphone app like XCTrack or XCSoar. You can use Freeflight Experience to learn and practice using your flight instruments. Now you can make the mistakes (we all have made while in flight) when learning to use our advanced varios in the comfort of your home! I hope to soon allow the display of your smartphone app to be represented on the face of your virtual vario, or as a 2D floating window in VR.

1.34 introduced a new weather file naming convention. This means that the default and custom weather presets you have made no longer work. The new version will use reasonable default weather for each of the sites. As a bonus, I’m including some XC Race tasks to get you started as well.

The race task files can be found in “C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Programs\The Freeflight Experience Open Beta\TFFE2\Tasks”, but tasks can be placed anywhere on your PC. If you wish to fly competition tasks, you can read these files into TFFE from the Environment menu, and the cylinders will appear when aids are turned on. A file chooser will appear on your desktop display (not in VR) to allow you to navigate to and pick the desired task file.

Installation of this new version files should correct the issue with the “Practice Control” level, where it was being initialized without the necessary 20+ knot wind needed to hover in place.

Once again, your support and feedback is really important to me.

I encourage you to try using your head position alone as the control input. It’s quite comfortable, but it’s tough to flare. When using this option, you should have the view track your HMD 1:1.

Thank you all for your patience while waiting for the Open Beta release of the "Freeflight Experience". If you would like to joint the Open Beta test team, you can buy a license and download the software today!

Just go to the the menu at the top left corner of the start page, and select "Shop".

The game is continuously being improved with more flying sites, hang glider models, and launch methods.