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LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline Challenge
What / Why / How / Where / When LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline is a challenge "parcour style" one can fly to train and improve skills to control better their favourite aircraft. “Learn and Training”.
What / Why / How / Where / When The idea being: One learn always more about their aircraft near the edge of possibility, outside the "comfort-zone". <<LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline parcour brings pilots to practice in difficult and some extreme situations this resulting in improved confidence in "normal" situations.
What / Why / How / Where / When
<<It is an 11 stages parcour flown at very very low height along a path tagged by inflatable cones "Red Bull Race" style. The 1st stage is very easy, difficulty increase at each stage. Pilots re-use trained skills in next Stage. Pilots will train to : 1 - Look out around / "spot" the Cones Markers 2 - Control climb and descend while banking 3 - Manage speed for temperamental viragos 4 - Climb spiralling while keeping an eye on speed to overcome big cliffs / mountain sides 5 - Gain lateral awareness, stay clear from hill sides, learn to keep clearance for urgent U-turns ... 6 - Bush land on Altidrome and Altiport ... and then take off after a relax and refuel ! 7 - Manage plane payload keeping as low as possible for current stage 8 - Fly Crabbing or Slide to start and maintain difficult viragos 9 - Anticipate the flight trajectory 10 - Slalom around Cones with 3 increasing levels of difficulty (1 giant Slalom with 160° doors) 11 - Land gloriously at Insbrueck Kranebite 00 - Of course, one always may simply fly the parcour in a simple manner just for the sake of the fun. In all cases, Adrenaline Rush guaranteed !
Stage 1:
Flying Beaver, ready to dive behind the DR40
... Nice day to go fishing on Adda River
DR40-Boosted - 125 feet from wetting fuselage
DR40-Boosted - time to let Roar the horses
Damn Beaver ... already at my 6s' ... !
DR40-Boosted - 165 kts - ready to climb
DR40-Boosted - Pull Up, ... NOW !!!
DR40-Boosted - Spotted lasted doors
DR40-Boosted - Got it, 3700 feet higher !!!
just time to bushland and refuel
... and looking up for a smooth surface
What / Why / How / Where / When <<Tyrolean Alps - North Italy - Austria Start @ [ LILO ] - Sondrio Caiolo Ends @ [ LOWI ] - Insbrueck Kranebite Duration ~ 2 and 1/2 hours (340 min) total En-route time. (ref for a plane able to fly at 140 kts) The challenge may be interrupted and resumed at some aerodrome / altiport. You need to special Flightgear Scenario.
What / Why / How / Where / When
Flying alone ? Fly when you want. Download install the scenery. Have a go ! Fun in Group ? Book you favourite moment Voice chat available on mumble : address: radio-mumble.flightgear.fr channel: Special Events / LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline
NOTES * LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline is not a race against “other pilots” nor an around the clock race. It is a race against yourself! * LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline took seven months to design, test, and made be available to all
HOW TO get started ?
I. - Some important Technical Considerations, please, keep reading:
Flying low, close to the ground, impact heavily on "graphical computation", more graphical performance" than usual is required!
Why?
Short answer: The faster parallaxes trigger higher computation speeds.
Parallax ???
Example to simply understand it:
- Sitting in a moving train, looking outside at trees, some are close some are far.
While they all "move at the same speed",
the trees closer seems to "move" very faster then the one further.
In order to spot details of the trees,
you can see easily clearly when the trees are far,
you have to look fast and intensively at a tree that is closer.
In a computer/Flightgear, the same thing does happen,
flying close to the ground cause objects to be recomputed more intensively.
Flying low, close to the ground, pilot's reactions have to be very fast.
A stuttering/delayed image will just preclude the flight possibility.
Requisite 1. : a graphically good performance computer
Requisite 2. : graphical settings set to avoid "extra computational weight"
Tests have been run by beta testers using medium and low performance computers.
- The LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline scenario have been prepared accordingly.
- and Flightgear ideal settings have been tested too and are also made available.
(Note the optimum settings also contemplate questions like colour contrast for rapid and easy awareness)
II. - Which Aircraft is ideal ?
There is not a !. only choice.
Choose or modify your aircraft considering this:
Stiff climbs ...
Some climb are about 3700 feet in a very short distance.
A simple Cessna 172 may prove not very handy for.
Altiports, Altidromes requiring Bush landing ...
Landing in grass or gravel strips or plateaux may prove difficult for planes with small tires or weak engines.
Aircraft suggestion:
The "Beaver" ...
Among FG available defaults, my most satisfying/fun choice have been the "Beaver", the DHC2.
! Beware !
The Beaver steer using differential braking (left/right braking)
Braking too long/strong on both brakes will bring an "unexpected fun..."
III. - Explanation of the Stages and the Expected Flying Manoeuvres ...
Each Stage is explained with great deal of detail through videos, pictures and pdf.
Documentation in preparation (2024 July...)
That documentation do not fit here.
IT is hosted/provided on my personal website https://www.moohw.com
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