What we found is that if you fly at about 120 meters out, and make the bottoms of maneuvers such that you can see the buildings and signs along the fence, it works pretty well. The center is the clearing in the clouds at this distance, at the tops of maneuvers. The left landmark is the exhaust stacks, the near-center landmark on the left is the blue building, the near center landmark on the right is the gray building, and the red and white banners and edge of clouds are the guide marks on the right side of the box. The simulator forces you to look at these box segments, not unlike what is done when flying for real. If you fly out further the plane is hard to see and if you fly in much closer it gets really high on center and is hard to judge.

Our next competition is scheduled for 3 PM on Saturday, 27 August. We'll have an informal judging/practicing session/contest at 3 PM on 20 August as well, and if there is enough interest we can do a contest at that time as well- its just that several will be at WRAMs show. If interested in either of these send me a note at [email protected] (its easier to use a separate computer than the one I'm sim'ing on).

See you,

Don