[Gllug] Silent Wings - Thermal emulation

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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, jim at madeira.physiol.ucl.ac.uk stipulated:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, t.clarke wrote:
>> Be interesting to see if they could emulate a 'stubble fire' (although sadly
>> such things are now long gone in the UK !)
> 
> A modern glider simulator set in the UK could get the same effect by
> including fields of burning cows. 

ROFL!

On the North York moors (and probably other moors too) they sometimes
burn back the bracken: that might serve.

> I suspect that correct simulation of air currents, thermals and
> whathaveyou might even be _distinctly_ nontrivial.

You understate the case by many orders of magnitude :)

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