Description:
This is a detailed, photorealistic landscape of the Raleigh / Durham area of North Carolina (also known as the Research Triangle in the business world). North Carolina is the home of the historic Wright Brothers flight.
The landscape is relatively small, but highly detailed (6x6 tiles @ 8k). Landscape features include:
- Color corrected aerial imagery for spring/summer months.
- 15 modeled airports (some grass and some asphalt) - most airports include custom modeled buildings.
- Two of the airports have weekend glider operations in real life (Crooked Creek & Ball Field)
- Crooked Creek has a sloped runway (just like in real life) - it is as smooth as I could get it with the current Condor Landscape tool.
- The downtown area of Raleigh has many of its tallest buildings modeled. Hopefully in a future Condor update they can be seen from a further distance - as of now, you have to be within about 3 miles (5km) before they become visible.
- Trees have been added to the scenery.
- Watch out for the Cape Fear River tower and the WRAL TV tower - they are both about 2,000 ft tall.
- There are 3 PDA / planning maps to choose from (simply rename the one you want to use to RDU-USA.bmp).
- The default is the aerial landscape projected onto a hypsometric 3d heightmap (pretty neat)
- RDU-USA-plain is just the aerial landscape not projected onto the heightmap
- RDU-USA-sectional is a sectional map of the area, with slight compositing on top of the 3D heightmap.
8,086.42 m. by LSanyika on December 16th, 2022. 7,970.27 m. by HarryHN1 on October 10th, 2021. 7,915.12 m. by Jean Tauziede on August 24th, 2021.
Longest fly (duration):
2h 04m 00s by StefanW on May 12th, 2024.
Longest fly (distance):
169 km by StefanW on May 15th, 2024.
Please note that landscapes only work for their respective version of Condor. Condor 2 landscapes can be used on Condor 3 if and only if installed and converted with Condor Updater.
In order to offer a comfortable download, simultaneous downloads are limited. Please turn off download managers, they are not supported and will be blocked.
Condor Updater is a tool dedicated to the installation of Condor 2 & 3 landscapes and goodies. It’s the preferred (and the easiest!) way to download and install landscapes. You can download it from here.
Should you need help for manual download and install, consult this page.
Title
Filename
Total downloads
File size
RDU-USA (Raleigh / Durham)
RDU-USA_main.7z
5,759
139.89 MiB
Patch 1.0.4 Crooked Creek airport (local glider port) runway flattened and smoothed. Trees placed to accurately simulate real-life landing pattern for runway 22.
on December 16th, 2022.
HarryHN1 
