January 1st, 2010: Happy new year! I wish you a lot of fun and pleasure with Condor and Condor Club
Congratulations to KellerKeule (292 715 pts), H. Bentheim (232 388 pts) and Uwe Pietzner (189 304 pts) - all Germans! - winners of the Pilots Ranking with respectively 342 318 km, 268 671 km and 221 037 km.
According to this ranking, more than 13.5 millions of kilometers have be flown in 2009, including the longest fly ever made on Condor: 4 101 km flown by Andrzej Czop!

December 27th, 2009: Register now the main event of 2010, the Sky Battle Cup!

December 9th, 2009: Pilots ranking list has now be optimized to display instantaneously. On this ranking and on Pilots list, a fast search has been implemented.
Previous levels of XP Challenges you already passed can now be replayed
And to complete this bunch of new features, a statistical page has been added to monthly rank most used sceneries.

November 9th, 2009: On-the-fly scoring has been added for flight tracks submitted for ranking, when task is not on Condor Club! This new feature brings a scoring for all FTR corresponding to the same flight plan, a task description and a race replay. You will find a link on analysis page, at the bottom of Results frame if other FTR are available.
A weather section as also been added on this analysis page.

November 2nd, 2009: The number of flight tracks kept on server has been drastically increased! The 10 best performances are kept (instead of 5) and 6.000 FTR are saved in ranking (instead of 3.000).
More over, thanks to a home-made FTR format, old FTR are converted and saved instead of been deleted. Up to 50.000 flight tracks (more than one year of ranking) are now kept! Analysis and race replay will then be available for a long time...

October 28th, 2009: Race can be replayed with the pilots of your choice (and not only the first 5 pilots)

September 29th, 2009: The server is now connected at 100 Mbps on the backbone of internet. This increased speed should drastically benefit for sceneries downloads :-)

September 29th, 2009: Only few days left to register to the third edition of the ASK 13 cup! 1000km in 6 races, without PDA. The team building is important here: the score of the 4th pilot of the team is used for scoring!

September 18th, 2009: Add of private messaging! You can now easily contact flight’s fellows, task/goodies creator or any member if you know his/her CN or user name!

September 8th, 2009: Malaku Range scenery is released, you can now fly in China thanks to the prolific F. VonLeamy!

September 7th, 2009: Portuguese version of the site is released, thanks to Richard Pi, Roberto Zanini, Neumann and CyberD!

August 18th, 2009: Hawaii scenery is released, thanks to F. VonLeamy!

August 11th, 2009: XP Levels 26 and 27 are - at last - released!

August 3rd, 2009: A flight plan to XCSoar format is available. You can now convert any FPL (and not only those available on Condor Club).

July 31st, 2009: Latest tasks on home page are now displayed like a "cover flow" in full HTML 5 for compatible browsers (oldest browsers still display the previous presentation).

June 15th, 2009: Ranking for longest distance and duration has been added in Pilot Ranking List.

May 23rd, 2009: Slovakia 5 - made by the scenery master Cadfael - is now available for download!

April 27th, 2009: The long time without new scenery is over! Stirling Ranges 2.0 scenery is released (South-West part of Australia).

April 19th, 2009: Today, Condor celebrates its 4th birthday and, as a present, I added an extended servers list with detailled information (map, time left to join, ...) of each available server. Useful for your next online flights!

March 29th, 2009: Welcome on our new server!

March 26th, 2009: Condor Club moves to a new server on Sunday morning! Short outage expected...

February 20th, 2009: Thanks to Eirannejad, the persian/farsi translation of this site is available!

February 19th, 2009: Normandie 0.5 scenery is released (North-West part of France)

February 18th, 2009: The whole web site can now display speed, altitude, distance, etc. in metric, imperial or australian units, accordingly to your preference set in "Your account" page.

January 27th, 2009: A planning has been implemented where you can consult competition days.
You can also add a "task event" to inform others you will host a task (and so, invite them!).
Note: Competition days appear if the competition is managed by Condor Club or if the organizer had used the special external-competition interface.

January 25th, 2009: YAlps 0.2 scenery, created by Xavier Delaborde, is available for download. A small demonstration scenery - before a bigger one - 100 km around the Mont Blanc. From Leman Lake to Mont Blanc, and from La Clusaz to Martigny, 70 x 70 km over mountains.

January 15th, 2009: Pacific North-West version 2 is released! It’s the largest scenery available for Condor today, with an area of 440*790 km.

January 5th, 2009: High definition scenery of Lyon, Grenoble and Challes area (South-East of France) by Snilmerg (Régis Martinez) is available! I wish you also an happy new year and I congratulate Heinz Bentheim, 1st pilot at Pilot Ranking List for 2008 with 210,709 points!

December 30th, 2008: Polish translation of the site is available, thanks to bodhi1985!

December 22nd, 2008: From December 23rd to January 1st, the speed limitation applied to non-premium members is removed for scenery downloads.

December 5th, 2008: XP level 25 is out! You think level 24 was too easy? Just try this one :)

December 3rd, 2008: Glider Park scenery is available! Based on Tenerife island, the landscape has been specially modified for pylon race!

December 1st, 2008: New RSS feeds have been added. After latest tasks, feeds for latest goodies and latest news are available!

November 25th, 2008: Scotland 2.1 scenery is available!

November 22nd, 2008: Ulster 0.1 and Narromine 0.1 sceneries have just been released in Sceneries section!

November 12th, 2008: British Columbia 1.01 scenery is available for download! Very nice landscape with sharp mountains and high-res mix of photo-realistic/cartoon textures.

November 6th, 2008: The competition manager is now ready and available!
Anyone can create and organize a competition on Condor Club easily in minutes and then focus on creating interesting tasks. The administrative part is managed by Condor Club.and organizers just have to run servers to host tasks. After each flight, competitors send their flight track for analysis and are scored according to parameters defined by the organizer.
You know how to create tasks? You can host a race in good conditions? This tool is for you!

November 1st, 2008: Vysočina 2 scenery is available for download!

October 22nd, 2008: Located somewhere between Tajikistan and China, the new scenery Condor Club map offers a landscape with very high moutains (some over 7000m!) and has been created by Tony Dowd in honor of Condor Club site. You can download it from Sceneries page.

October 21st, 2008: Central Italy scenery by PostFrontal team and Pyrénées scenery are now supported on Condor-Club!

October 19th, 2008: Demo version of Kisogawa Japan 2.0 scenery made by Eugene Williams is available for download. Prepare yourself to fly over western Japan!

September 30h, 2008: Island Hop scenery is available for download and supported by Condor Club! A patch is also available for Sierra Nevada.

September 14th, 2008: Condor Club introduces Premium Membership to cover its costs.

September, 12th 2008: Palmeira das Missões scenery is available!

September, 10th 2008: In order to reflect the evolution of this site, Condor Tasks Database changes its name and becomes Condor Club! Don’t forget to update your bookmarks!
South East Queensland scenery is now supported and available for download, as well as new version of North East Victoria scenery.

September, 9th 2008: Sceneries are now downloadable from this site!

August, 29th 2008: Thanks to Eugene Williams, the japanese translation is now available!

July, 25th 2008: Scenery "Lake Keepit" has been added.

July, 23rd 2008: XP level 24 is out!

May, 19th 2008: Pacific North West scenery is now supported.

May, 6th 2008: Scenery Mount Olympus has been added to the list of supported sceneries.

May, 4th 2008: Yes, another news for today, I worked late. On Best performances page, you can now replay the race! (Click on a task then on "Best performances")

May, 4th 2008: Flight analysis page has been rewritten, enhanced and has now a Flight replay! You can also download a task in XCSoar format to load it directly in your PDA. Appalachia scenery is now supported!

April, 9th 2008: XP level 23 is out!

April, 1st 2008: What about trying XP level 22?

March, 25th 2008: Two months without a new XP challenge? I agree, it’s a scandal, the maker of this site is a big lazy man. But, ladies and gentlemen, I have a good news, thanks me, the waiting is over, level 21 is here!

March, 17th 2008: One more, one! New scenery "Scotland" has been added!

March, 13th 2008: Almost one new scenery per day! "Rocky Mountains", "Czech Republic" and "Glacier Park" have been added to the supported sceneries.

March, 2nd 2008: Scenery "Sierra Nevada" is now supported.

February, 18th 2008: Scenery "Alpi v3" has been added to supported sceneries list.

February, 17th 2008: In order to avoid cheat, please do NOT post SpeedBattle cup’s flight track before the end of the racing day, otherwise we’ll forced to disable your account.

February, 15th 2008: Pilots ranking list has been slightly updated. Some pilots perform back and forth tasks with 360° tp and 5km radius to get an official maximal distance although they flown notably less. From now, free flight distance (computed with real distance flown, fix every 30 seconds) is compared to the Condor’s official distance and only the lowest value will be used to get the score.

February, 7th 2008: Scenery "Rio Grande v2" has been added to supported sceneries list.

January, 29th 2008: Sceneries "Catalunya", "Vysocina" and "Flying M Ranch" have been added to supported sceneries list.

January, 17th 2008: Levels 19 and 20 are available in XP Challenge!
Note: level 18 has been updated a bit to make it easier, you have now 40 seconds to finish it.

January, 15th 2008: Level 18 has just been added to XP Challenge!

January, 4th 2008:
• Five new levels have been added to XP Challenge!
• A longitude/latitude to Condor coordinates converter has been added. Task-setters will find it very useful to set precisely turnpoints!

January, 1st 2008: Happy new year! Congratulations to GP9, the winner of the Pilots Ranking List!

December, 24th 2007: For christmas, here is our present: XP Challenge! Like multiplayer role playing game, you have to complete challenges in order to get eXperience Points and gain access to the next level. See in "Pilots ranking list" for more details!

December, 24th 2007: Rio Grande scenery has been added to supported sceneries list.

November, 29th 2007: Two new sceneries are now supported: Wales v1 and Massif-Central v1.

November, 10th 2007: Thanks to Hitzi and DSHelper, you can now display results from your hosted task without creating a website! Download a task from this site and host it with DSHelper; when server stops or restarts, DSHelper sends the results to this site and you can see overall/per session results! Moreover, during the flight, DSHelper can show the current best time.

November, 5th 2007: Slovak version is available too, thanks to Candunaj!

November, 4th 2007: Goodies section can now accept and deliver alternate scenery maps.

October, 30th 2007: Try to obtain the height record (or, at least, try to be in the top 5) for each scenery! See in Pilots Ranking List section.

August, 29th 2007: Are you ready to fly your real-life summer flights in Condor this winter? IGC file converter to Condor FTR format is now available!  See in Tasks section.

August, 20th 2007: Pilots Ranking List is now available per classes.

August, 3rd 2007: Italian version is available too, thanks to Robyfly!

July, 21st 2007: FTR from task’s results and from Pilots Ranking List can be analyzed. See the colored track of the flight, height graph, flight parameters, ...

July, 10th 2007: A RSS feed has been added, you can now see the latest tasks in your favorite reader!

July, 3rd 2007: Russian version is released, thanks to Tima (TSD)!

June, 20th 2007: German version is released, thanks to Drgonzo, Danijela, Meckerlax, Groman and CB-9940!

April, 7th 2007: Because some sceneries (provence, alpi2, west-swiss and easternalps 2) have identical parts and tasks could be theorically converted from a scenery to another - if sceneries are correctly calibrated - I’ve implemented a flight plan converter.

March, 4th 2007: Goodies section added.

January, 30th 2007: AAT (Assigned area Tasks) are now supported and correctly scored. Because Condor doesn’t score them as AAT, you have to send your flight track on this site to get your score!
New 1000 points scoring system for all racing tasks, all FTR are now accepted (crashed/outlanded/finished with or without penalty points, thank you Rainer Haener for your code!)
New scoring for Pilots ranking list which penalize outland and crash: you get 80% of your score for outlanded flight and 70% if you crash.

January, 12th 2007: Free flights are now accepted for the ranking list (the server will determine 2 or 3 TPs for the best distance) and a new scoring system has been implemented to penalize outland and crash.

December, 29th 2006: Tasks with new challenges! Try to get the highest altitude or the furthest distance in a fixed time, first task released: Winch challenge, you have to get the highest altitude thanks to winch, current record is 600m!

December, 18th 2006: A dutch version is released, thanks to CeeJay!

November, 28th 2006: Multilingual version of this website!

October, the 8th 2006: Condor Academy is launched! You can now pass exams to obtain badges and diplomas.

September, 27th 2006: Pilots ranking list added, you can now compete with other pilots! Fly, save Flight Track and post it, that’s it!

September, 26th 2006:Quick search feature added. Quickly find a task by its network ID (refer to "Task #ABCD from condor.ephemeride.com" visible when typing TASKINFO in a multiplayer race)

September, 25th 2006: New features:
* Tabbed task description

* A submitter could attach his flight track (FTR) to the task, now every pilots can publish their best FTR! The 50 first best performances are published, the 5 best performances are available in .FTR for download.
There are some conditions to add your performance:
1) Finish the task ...
2) The task *must* be identical to the one available on the site, no modification accepted
3) 0 penalty point
4) save your flight ("Save flight track") and upload the .FTR file ("Best performances" tab)

*You can now update your tasks. If Flight Plan is changed, best performances/FTRs are deleted.

Note: only FTRs made with Condor 1.0.9 are supported.

September, 21st 2006: The site is now official (thanks Uros).
New features: Flight Track can be added to a task, you can then compete with a ghost!
New option in search engine: show only available (and downloadable tasks)
New download page

September, 13th 2006: Show task picture if screenshot is unavailable, better search results layout, more details in task info, "Date of release" feature for competition.

September, 12th 2006: New features: add a variant, edit your task

September, 7th 2006: Web site launch (beta version).