Maybe it’s the one Glider I’ve tried to fly so far; there just seems to be two major issues. The aerotow thinks it’s Top Gun Maverick and bobs and weaves through invisible gates and pylons thinking it’s a fighter jet. This isn’t a relative problem - I’ve mapped out the Aerotow’s course and it’s t…

[image] RoterBaron63: Which is fundamentally wrong, there are no thermals without wind. I’m not going to explain anything here, but in my experience so far, if you set the wind to zero, nothing happens. So you choose a wind direction and set it to 1-2m/s on the ground and make sure that the Laye…

Also I took to adding Kinetic Assist. Very helpful. It actually imports real thermals into the game so that there are SOME realistic thermal locations if the game isn’t providing some.

Try Sim Soaring Club on discord , you will find out what really wrong with the MSFS gliding experience

Wow, I really can see guys not familiar with soaring in MSFS struggling here, it’s no surprise really as there’s a mix of major issues with the MSFS stock gliders and the MSFS weather which make it more complicated than you’d expect to finesse a good soaring experience. Here’s the rookie tips to get…

Awesome response B21 , The LS 4 is super cool for learning . Hoping in the near future MS/Asobo will take gliding seriously, although not main stream . The weather we use is very important to all simmers what ever they fly . Really hope they listen and not discourage more potential new glider pil…

I have downloaded a couple of gliders from there and put the extracted folders in my packages/community but nothing ever shows up in my hanger. I find this very furstrating. So far, the Neo flies just fine, but i keep hearing that the Discus is better. I would love to try it. As for me I find that…

Thermals and default gliders work but using live weather does not always produce the required conditions for gliding everywhere you want. It´s better to use a weather preset that contains cumulonimbus (the cotton alike clouds). Just fly below them and you will catch their thermals very easily. You c…

[image] geloxo: Thermals and default gliders work but using live weather does not always produce the required conditions for gliding everywhere you want Absolute right. But most time there is gliding weather everywhere in the world. You can easily find websites like windfinder or which shows …

https://flightsim.to/file/56827/soaring-weather [image]

Admittedly, gliding has one disadvantage: You just have to see what the weather conditions are like there and whether it’s worth setting up your glider or taking it out of the hangar. In contrast to the RL, in 2020 we have the advantage of being able to change the weather or, which is only possible…

Are Gliders even flyable? And Thermals are broken in more ways than previously mentioned

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