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Its been some time but that sounds like you maybe connecting to a nearby player aircraft. That can happen if you're in multiplayer.

I need a little more information than "goes backwards" before I can answer that Marcos. But here's a few possible reasons... launch runway is uphill high windspeed tow plane is behind glider

@@chrisevans-nodd thank you I ‘ m new with the gliders! I will try to be more accurate with the questions! but today I have completed a flight with the ask 21 !thank you

You are welcome Marcos.

I'm actually doing my soaring over on MS Flight Simulator, have posted a few videos about that, although nothing all that recent. Yeah I noticed X-Plane 12 came out but I've not had a proper go with that yet.

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This video was made using X-Plane 11. I also used Little Navmap on a second monitor to show the glider's location while I fly. Some other mods I often use but didn't in this video would be X-Winch, Towplane-X & Therm-X.

Hello Been. To turn on thermal visualization hit Ctrl M a few times until you see "Thermals & Microbursts". I explain how to do this in the video here... th-cam.com/video/B8p9N6L6Zno/w-d-xo.html

:DDD nazdar

She's an oldie but goodie? Yeah I figured I'd test all the gliders I had installed just to see if any of them behaved differently. Might be time to retire the 2b :-)

Thank you. I knew about aileron differential (up 20, down 15) but you are correct. There is also coordinated turns which is something a bit different.

You are correct, I meant to reference Condor. I often get that mixed up with Cumulus, an addon for FSX.

Indeed

Do you mean approach 2 in the video or from the approach challenge in MSFS?

@@pure4wood501 not sure exactly what you mean; the comment was just on the approach which looked quite flat. 02 is used infrequently because the prevailing conditions favour 20 and 24, so when it is used it’s because a headwind and thus there’d be significant “waterfall” down the escapement (lots of sink).

He is talking about my rather flat & dangerous approach to runway 02 at Sutton Bank.

That's good advise Ian, thank you. I'm usually pretty good with my checks but recording a video & beginning the flight already in the air not knowing where I was threw me for a loop. But those are excuses, lame ones at that. <grin>

Gliding in MS Flight Simulator will be officially supported later this year (2022) so at the time I made this video, we're using third party gliders which are fully functional & really nicely modeled. You mentioned varios... most of the newer gliders available have proper compensated variometers that work as they should. The also feature a glide computer for task flying. What we're waiting on is proper gliding weather in the sim which we're hoping will be added soon. Ridge-lift is already fairly well modeled but thermals are "tuned down" for now & there's no wave simulation either. However there is an addon called Thermal Assistant that injects thermals into the sim among other things like adding winch & aerotow capabilities. Considering gliding is not officially supported yet, gliding in MSFS is actually really quite good already. And... bush plane flying is second to none, I enjoy doing that also.

@@chrisevans-nodd well atleast its coming, with thermals that actually align with the clouds or something this sim woulld be incredible for soaring

@@lucywucyyy It has a lot of potential that's for sure.

Congrats on the new home. Yes come join us when you get setup.

This is the Transmitter app that shows others your location in Little Navmap... virtualflight.online/transmitter/

@@chrisevans-nodd Thanks.

What's up David?

Thank you Peter. Yes hoping this will make things a little easier on the glider devs.

but how to make it airtight in the corners? in my opinion, no airlocks as "vanilla part" is a weakness in the game...

I believe I was running a few forest mods when I recorded this. I don't recall which exactly but V-Trees was not one of them.

Thanks Kevin. Agreed, not sure I'd change all that much if I made an updated version.

I agree what's going on it the major rain forests & other areas of the World is "appalling" but that's not what's going on here in British Colombia. Forestry there is properly managed & is considered a sustainable resource. There are strict quotas & areas that are harvested are allowed to regrow so they can be harvested again in the future. Basically they're in the business of growing forests which is what the planet needs right now.

@@chrisevans-nodd Nice

Yeah no doubt but misjudged how far I was from the airfield so not many options other than to go climb one of the nearby ridges. But I was making a video & it was already getting way too long.

This was an early attempt at gliding in MSFS. The glider model I used in this video was pretty basic & also missing its canopy. We have much better gliders now with complete instrumentation, including a yaw-string..

Yes I heard something about that. Some kind of grass-strip certification or test or something? I can totally see why they would have chosen this airfield as its not only fairly long it's really wide too. But I suspect once they got their data, there was no need to continue operating from there. Besides I understand the landing fees were fairly substantial as it cost a small fortune to get the ruts out of the grass when they were done. :-)

I posted those two videos several years ago, yes the sink issue was resolved some time ago. While there have been some improvements to thermalling in X-Plane thermals are still somewhat of an afterthought. We've spoken to Laminar many times about improving X-Plane's thermals & they did make some great changes, like having the thermals roll & pitch the glider but fundamentally X-Plane's thermals are just random entities. The main issue is thermals are not integrated into X-Plane's weather system. Instead they're just three sliders you can adjust when using custom weather which then randomly positions thermals across the local map. Our Therm-X addon (Google "X-Plane Therm-X") helps with this by reading the current weather conditions & adjusts the thermals accordingly. That's a step in the right direction but the holy grail would be to position thermals underneath cumulus clouds. This would allow pilots to predict where thermals are instead of flying blind & hoping you randomly stumble upon a thermal like it is now. While ridge-soaring is really quite good in X-Plane, thermaling still has a ways to come. Austin has hinted that he'd like to make further improvements to thermals in X-Plane but suggested that would be a project for the future, possibly X-Plane 12? Google is probably your best bet for finding information on gliding in X-Plane. But here's a couple of good options... forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/forum/482-gliding-in-x-plane/ facebook.com/groups/416567982493369

That is a bit weird, you could disable crash detection & aircraft damage but there's a much better option now Vs using the slew mode... Go get yourself a copy of Kinetic Assistant... msfs.touching.cloud/mods/kinetic-assistant/

@@chrisevans-nodd yes I have that and its a great addition to msfs for soaring. Not tried the aerotows yet :)

While agree thermals are something we do need & should be coming to MSFS soon, there's more to gliding than just thermals. Ridge-soaring is modeled quite nicely for example. Depending on the terrain & wind, its possible to glide cross-country for hundreds of miles in MSFS. We also have an addon called Kinetic Assistant that adds winch launches & aerotowing plus... it allows us to place thermals in the sim. Granted they're somewhat simplistic at the time I'm writing this but the dev is working on that. So we do actually have thermals now & I fully expect MS/Asobo will be adding native thermals to the sim later this year (2021-2022).

We're working on a brand new Discus 2b but for now you should try the DG808S... msfs.touching.cloud/mods/ms-dg-808s You should also get the Kinetic Assistant addon... msfs.touching.cloud/mods/kinetic-assistant

There are no official thermals in MSFS at the time I'm writing this but Asobo is working on adding "gliding" to the sim. Right now we do have the following addon which will allow you to inject basic thermals into the sim... secure.simmarket.com/touching-cloud-msfs-cloud-assistant.phtml

Glad this helped.

At my age I find my tongue tends to get quite slippery.