SOAR News

Following is a listing of the current Administation at SOAR and their positions: :star: Don Hamilton - SOAR Director :star: Karen Hamilton - Don's right hand Mainly does all the site additions, maintenance, etc. Helps Don where needed.

For the time being, SOAR will no longer be able to offer the CCS files for download. We are sorry for the inconvenience! The files have been uploaded to Avsim. Please check there!

Aerosoft has given us more space on their servers so we can upload/download files that will only be available to members. This is a wonderful feature as the file size is up to 50 mgs per file!!! Please take advantage of this great way to make files available to other SOAR/Aerosoft members!! Aerosoft also has a similar section that is available to SOAR members for non-sailplane related!! This is wonderful feature for members - hope some of you will post a thanks to Mathijs, Shaun, and crew for this perk! here is the download link - be sure you are logged in before going to it or you will get an error! Uploads/Downloads There are 6 catagories so please take c…

To those of you that are not familiar with SOAR, we are made up of 2 components: 1. SOAR site 2. SOAR Message board They are located in different places. Due to problems with our message board, Aerosoft offered to help us by hosting our board, but the main SOAR site still remains where it was! A big thank you to Aerosoft!!! We are very happy with the move and wish to extend our thanks for including us on the Aerosoft Forums!! The main SOAR site is still active and located at http://www.virtualsoaring.org As always it contains downloads, activities, etc. We are a repository for soaring related downloads that cannot usually be found elsewhere. Please visit us!!

Here is a post from the SOAR Main Page... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Updated 9th August 2019 - by Scott (sf4JC) Hey all you FSX pilot's, Microsoft has some good news coming if I read it right. Sounds like Microsoft has regained control of FSX, and it may continue for a while into the future. More info on that shall be coming soon from Microsoft. Hey, again, I just want to reiterate to everyone, I believe good things are coming ahead of us no matter if you are flying FSX OR wanting to be a part of the new Flight Simulator title. Please GOTO https://www.flightsimulator.com to keep up to date on all the inter…

Hello everyone, I am currently updating Wolfgang's aircraft section over at the SOAR main site. Just want to let you know, if you want to download any of his aircraft, please go to his site at http://www.fsglider.de/ to do so. He is constantly in an update mode, so as to keep his aircraft up to date, and to keep us hungry for more glider action. I used to confine myself to just one aircraft, but over the years I've ventured out and tried new ones, and was very glad I did. Being in a Virtual Cockpit of another glider is very rewarding. Anyway, for the next month possibly I will be updating that section at the SOAR site. And, if you haven't had a chance to pick u…

Hi Where is program Winch please

Now Available. Hello folks, the discount version is now available from the following links, English Shop, American Shop. As promised we are doing a discounted version for active members of SOAR. If you can show us a post in these SOAR forums dated before Sept 4th, we will give you 25% discount on your order. Ordering is not too complex. First find a post you done before Sept 4 on these forums.Now when you see that post on your screen you will also see small #1 (the number itself can differ) in the top right hand (see the image). Click that.You will no see what is called a permalink, copy this for your order.Now you can just go here and start the order. DO NOT …

The new Aerosoft Glider will be released soon!! Mathijs is offering all SOAR Members a special discount when it is released. Please wait to purchase until we receive the info on how Aerosoft will do this! Thanks Mathijs for thinking of SOAR. There will also be a special competition using the glider and Aerosoft will help with the publicity/advertising the event and will furnish prizes!! This is one competition that you will definitely want to participate it! Keep watching the SOAR board for more details!!

Gents, ladies, I like to wish you an official welcome to the new location of the SOAR forums. We will try to boost the forums a lot in the weeks to come. I also like to make 100% clear that we expect nothing in return from SOAR in any form. Just the fact that people see other forums from us is enough PR for us. We're glad to help out. As you know our Discus glider is close to delivery and we'll make a special deal for all registered (and active) users of the forum. This should be available in the next few weeks. If there is anything else we can do for you people, let me know at support@aerosoft.com.

As you know, the SOAR board was down for a few days! Fortunately it is back again, but who knows for how long???? We have been having problems for awhile now with hackers, and having had to do all registrations manually. We no longer have an account with Invision which means we are not able to update the board anymore. For some reason they quit taking our $$ automatically and the account lapsed without our knowledge. We just cannot see paying another $150 for another license +$25 every 6 months, since this site is not commercial and we have to fund it ourselves. This leaves us a couple of options: 1. Aerosoft has graciously offered to host our board and it would…

As you have noticed by now, the message board has really changed! We will be moving to the Aerosoft forums in the next few days thanks to the gracious offer of Mathijs Kok to host our board at no charge! We have pruned the board quite a bit to eliminate old items that no longer receive any posts! This move, we feel, is in the best interest of SOAR and will definitely give us more exposure and hopefully boost soaring to the general public. Don & I will still have control of the SOAR portion and will be able to add catagories as needed and will also do the moderation of the posting. Scott brought up about losing the history and wealth of information contained …

Yesterday we suspended the "no new registrations" at SOAR, but within 24 hours we have been hit by multiple bogus registrations. We have again had to suspend new registrations!! We need the help of IAN or any SOAR member that has knowleged about the board and hackers. I think I have figured out what is going on, but do not know how to fix it! I filled out a test registration, filled out the form and input the alpha-numeric code from the security image. All went well and I received a message that I would receive a verification email which I needed to click on to verify my email. I NEVER received the email, so I decided to try to log in anyway and was SUCCESSFUL!! I…

We have temporarily suspended all new registrations due to a flood of probably bogus registrations!! We have also deleted all registrations that occurred after 1 Oct, 2008. If you registered legitimately and your membership has been deleted, please drop us an emal and we will restore your membership. Unfortunately there has been a bunch of registrations each day with weird names and all originating from either a Russian domain or g-mail. Our normal traffic for new registrations is one or two every few days/week. We are trying to determine if this is an attack on our board or something completely innocent and just a coincidence. Ian, could you offer your opinion and …

You will notice a change in the forum. We have added 2 new catagories - one for FSX and one for real life soaring. Because the posting and visits to SOAR have dropped off dramatically we have decided to try something new. SOAR will no longer just be about virtual soaring, but about any type of soaring. We hope to generate new interest and new members with this change. Please help us expand our community to all aspects of soaring, not just virtual! We gladly welcome all new members! If you are a real world pilot and/or your interest is in remote control - please join us at SOAR! In the past we, had hoped to have a virtual soaring community including the various …

Its been a hard decision but as of today i have resigned as Technical Director of SOAR, I simply dont have the time anymore to devote to the position that it deserves, i will be around here from time to time, I wish everyone involved in SOAR all the best and hope to catch a few of you online in the Condor Sky's Best wishes tom

Hello Pilots, SOAR seems to be entering a period of severe slumber. I have decided to make some changes. Sense Karen and I are paying for this site we are going to have some fun with it. We have shut down the X-Plane and SotS forum due to the complete lack of activity on these forums. We will keep the Microsoft FS2004, FSX, and the Condor forums. I was hoping that the pilots involved with Condor would take hold of the reins of that facet of virtual soaring and plan some online races and activities. I can't really handle this project as I don't have the internet connection necessary to persue online soaring in Condor. This has not happened for some reason, and sense it i…

SOAR will once again be accepting new members beginning 1 Jan 2007 if all goes as planned. Chris had frozen the memberships before he resigned due to working on automating the membership process. The new admins have chosen to continue this until we could redo the forum and update the site with some pages related to Condor, X-Plane, etc. Although we now have a great looking expanded forum, we still have work to do on the web pages and due to the holidays and having to be out of town a lot, it is necessary to extend the freeze until the beginning of the new year. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause! NOTE: The freeze only applies to actual SOAR member…

We would like to open some staff positions and if any of you are interested please contact either myself or Karen. Please consider volunteering to help - let's make SOAR the best virtual soaring site on the web. :star: :star: :star: These are the positions we have in mind: :star: Technical Director Deals with all the technical/programming issues. Moderates several forums and also steps in wherever he/she sees a need. This person needs to be a team player that enjoys sharing ideas with other team members and has a good positive outlook. He/She should be a user of Microsoft Flight Sim (preferably FSX) but is without prejudice against other flight sim platforms.…

Dear Friends, It is with both great sadness and a smattering of pride that I must formally announce my resignation as the Director of SOAR. It's been about 5 years or so since I accepted the directorship from SOAR's founder, Len Wagner and his partner, Colin Grahm. We've seen truly remarkable changes- not just evolutions, but veritable revolutions in virtual soaring, and we've gained about 1200 new members during that time, many of whom have contributed directly to this amazing growth in the technology and the sport of virtual soaring. I am indeed proud of the growth and accomplishments that we've achieved together, and it has been a pleasure to get to know so many o…

Hello Pilots, A new virtual soaring season is upon us. This season we will finish that wonderful Southern Alps Race created by Andrew Torrance, Fly the Max Roodveldt Cup Race, Schedule some informal online races in Condor, explore soaring in X-Plane and once again attempt to get soaring to work in the upcoming new release of FSX (we go through this trauma every two or three years). SOAR needs some new soaring experiences and some new blood to stimulate activity so we are going after it. The Southern Alps Race is offocially reopened and the closing date is Sun. Oct. 8, 2400 hr. GMT The Max Roodveldt Cup is scheduled to run from Nov. 2006 thru Feb 2007. There will be …

As per a request The forum' have been slightly (ok major) restructured. Several new forums have been added and some have been moved. each sim now has its own sub forums. Hopefully this will make things a bit easier in future. Anyone have and suggestions about it drop a line here.. Tom

Certain groups now have permissions to use the PM system again

Harry, I need to talk to you. Please send me an e-mail. I sent you a message but I don't know if I have a current addy for you. Thanks, Don

max i just saw you hadnt re registerd you will need to re register as yours was one of the accounts deleted by the hacker. please do it when u have the time and i can add you back to the staff group tom