Exciting Gliding Starting Races Today! SGP and Virtual SGP Live! 
Dear Forum Members,
Get ready for a thrilling week of gliding excitement as we kick off the Sailplane Grand Prix and Virtual SGP races today! The skies are set to come alive with the grace and precision of gliders as they compete for victory. Whether you’re a seasoned enthusiast or new to the world of gliding, these races promise an unforgettable experience.
SGP Race Schedule (UTC TIME):
- 10:00: Grid Interviews
- **11:00 **: Take-off
- 11:30-12:00: Line Opening
- 12:00 – 14:30: Race
- 14:30 – 15:30: Arrivals and Interviews
- 16:00: Daily Podium Celebration
Virtual SGP Race Schedule:
- 18:00: Pilots Join the Servers - Livestreaming starts
- 18:00 - 18:30: Presentation of the race, interview from winner previous day… and more!
- 18:35: Race Starts
- 18:35 – 21:00: Race
- 21:00: Arrivals
Don’t miss out on the exhilarating moments as pilots showcase their skills and strategies in the race to victory. You can catch all the action live by tuning in to our streaming platform at Virtual Gliding SGP Live.
Share the excitement with fellow gliding enthusiasts and join us in cheering for your favorite pilots as they soar through the skies! Let’s make this a memorable week of intense competition and camaraderie.
See you at the races!
Best regards,
Antoine Havet for FAI Virtual Gliding & SGP Team
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The SGP race is cancelled today for weather issues.
A lot of wind, too turbulent… and the rain is coming.
See you tonight for the launch of the Virtual SGP at 18h00 UTC!!
We will have a great race!!!
https://www.virtualgliding.fai.org/live
Isn’t this a Condor online event?
If so, slightly bizarre for an MSFS forum. Drives home the reality that MSFS is missing some fundamentals for a viable online competitive event but odd to post here nevertheless. Apologies if I’ve missed some truly spectacular new development in the world of MSFS soaring.
Reporting of those events had been asked by some people of the community on previous posts.
There is a thread dedicated to SGP within MSFS and generally having competitions on MSFS: but as long as there is no work on this yet…!
I would say that it is a Community event for all of us, and nothing else 
Hope you will like the races! They are here to attract new people in the gliding world, on all possible platforms.
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For context - It is a result of posts starting with this: Gliding improvements in MSFS 2024 - #8 by VirtualGliding
which in turn is @VirtualGliding answer to my two ideas in main post about what kind of activities would be welcome in MSFS2024 for gliders:
“1. Multiplayer Gliding competitions”
“2. Partnership with FAI virtual gliding for e-sport gliding competitions”
I also was one of the people asking for posting such announcement here near competition date,
as I see many benefits:
- Jörg Neumann famously said that they aim to have better soaring in MSFS than in Condor - and we, sim-gliding people all know that MSFS currently is lacking in multiplayer area - for example no coordinated synchronization of start of weather simulation between players, task are split between fpl and wpr, bad thermals implementation, almost impossible to set proper weather due to “ground, blue thermals” and we must manually set time and agree “not to cheat” - showing what Condor already has in those areas may help get through the message that improvements in those are needed.
- @VirtualGliding , as a Director of FAI Virtual Gliding, was so kind and offered his expertise and help if only Ms/Asobo would like to implement gliding competitions in MSFS - Sailplane Grand Prix in MSFS - I think so wide MSFS player base and beautiful world rendering would be very beneficial if FAI Virtual gliding competitions were implemented as an e-sport module in MSFS.
- Gliding competitions may be a thing that would attract to gliding people, that wouldn’t otherwise try gliding, nor would see purpose in understand it as it gives this “gamification” of flying that is mostly missing in MSFS now - the good news to those people is we currently have quite stable MSFS gliding competition community at Sim Soaring Club discord . Watching those Condor competitions may give some new ideas.
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