New Zealand

There is only one place to go in New Zealand and that is Omarama, although I’m sure there will be those who disagree however we have chosen just this one place for now. Omarama is the home of the Omarama Gliding Club, however if you Google Omarama Gliding you will bring up a host of information. A diagram of the airfield can be found here.

Simon Dobby has written an excellent article on his soaring experiences in FSX at Omarama which is well worth reading. View Simon's article here. Ivan Rogers has created slope data files for New Zealand that you can download from his forum post.

A GPS-Nav file containing the Omarama turnpoints for the CAISET instruments is available and highly recommended for finding your way back to the airfield! Download (5.15 Kb)

Also remember to sqauwk mode C with code 1200 whilst VFR on VATSIM in New Zealand.

FS9

FS9 users will require the following:

FSX

FSX users will require the following:

Suggested Tasks

All of these tasks are from Real World FAI World championships held at Omarama in 2007.
Thermal cloud base in your thermal generating program can be set to 6000ft and upwards.

FSX users make sure your CumulusX! ridge lift is ticked in your CumulusX! contol panel.
FS9 users using CCS2004 ensure that the slope files are installed in your CCS2004/Slope data folder.
Note: The Max. start height for all tasks is 5000ft. The start line is just 0.3km North of the airfield.

General Task 1 220.9km

Starting from Omarama NZOA, proceed to the Start Gate 0.3km to the North then fly Northeast to Makarora and then south-south-east to Morven, you will nead to thermal up to about 8000ft plus to get past the mountain ranges on the last two TP legs. Then fly North-east to Glen Lyon where there might be a mixture of ridge running and thermaling involved. Then take the Valley back to the west control point and a west finish at Omarama.

General Task 2 282km

This task is very similiar to Task 1 except the legs have been extended a bit for a longer course.

General Task 3 271.7km

Starting from Omarama NZOA, proceed to the Start Gate 0.3km to the North then fly southeast to Goodger then north-north-west to Siberia via Lake Hawea, get plenty of height to fly east-north-east to Glen Tanner near Mt Cook. Then if the wind is blowing favourably you will be able to ridge soar part of the way back to the West control and West Finish at Omarama.

General Task 4 236.1km

Starting from Omarama NZOA, proceed to the Start Gate 0.3km to the North then fly southeast to Goodger then south to Thompsons then there is a long leg north-eat to Grampians depending on your wind direction and strength you might pick up a few redge runs on the way, Once at Grampians turn back west-south-west to Clearburn then a short leg south to the east Control and East Finish.

League Task 5 152.3km (Approx task time 1.5hrs)

For a bit of a competitive element a shortish 80km course has been created. Try to get around in the quickiest possible time. You can do this course as many times as you like, this is a great way of trying to improve your gliding performance.
Practise using the McCreedy settings.
Think about spending most of your time in thermals (rising air) and less time between them (sinking air). Think about what else you can do to improve your performance.

This course is nearly a straight line course to Lake Tekapo and back in the valley. Starting from Omarama NZOA, proceed to the Start Gate 0.3km to the North then fly northeast to Mt Hayes near Lake Tekapo then return back south-east to Clearburn then a short leg south to the east Control and East Finish

You can take a winch or aerotow upto 2000ft AGL for this task.
The task starts at the Start Gate 0.3km north from the airfield. The Maximum Height across the Start is 5000ft, penalty points will be deducted from your score if this height is exceeded.
Points awarded will go into a league table which will be continually updated as pilots improve their scores. The score will be based on the BGA ladder.

FS9 League Task 5 Files

FS9 Task 5 Download (1.98 Mb)

FSX League Task 5 Files

FSX Task 5 Download (366.13 Kb)


Overall League results

CN  Pilot  Task Points 
ZS-ZGJ  C.Viviers  2604 
G-VGAL  J.Allen  1316.45 
G-VGAN  I.Rogers  1280.10 

Individual Results for James Allen

CN  Glider  Start  Finish  Time  Speed (kph)  Dist (km)  Points  Comments 
G-VGAL  ASW28  23:54:22  02:13:56  02:19:34  64.65kph  152.2km  872   
G-VGAL  ASW28  00:04:49  01:17:48  01:12:59  122.9kph  152.2km  1316.45   
G-VGAL  DISCUS  23:59:48  01:25:53  01:26:05  103.4kph  152.2km  1208  H'capped speed 105.6kph 

Individual Results for Ivan Rogers

CN  Glider  Start  Finish  Time  Speed (kph)  Dist (km)  Points  Comments 
G-VGAN  ASW28  01:52:40  03:08:30  01:15:30  118kph  152.2  1280.105   
                 

Individual Results for Charl Viviers

CN  Glider  Start  Finish  Time  Speed (kph)  Dist (km)  Points  Comments 
ZS-ZGJ  ASW15  01:37:31  03:08:54  01:31:23  131.28  152.2  2604.33   
ZS-ZGJ  Duo Discus  01:40:42  02:53:11  01:12:29  165.33  152.2  2464.30   

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following who have kindly given the UK VGA permission to host their work:
Lou Frost for his scenery objects.
Jimmy Martin for his scenery objects.
Glenn “woody” Fout for his scenery objects.
Len Hickman for his “Lenshanger” scenery objects.
Colin Green for his UK Buildings scenery objects.
Arno Gerretson for his Tree objects.

Whilst the following have already given permission in the accompanying documentation to use their work, I did try to contact them out of courtesy but was unable to do so, however we thank them nonetheless.
Please read the documentation enclosed with each download to familiarise yourself with any conditions.
Sidney Schwartz
Dennis Waggoner
Ron Jeffers
Steve Ziegler
Matthias Weidemann