DG LS8-18 Glider Totally Uncontrollable at Start

Brief description of the issue:
When in World Map, departing above a mountain area or even doing a tow start, the glider will leap and flip, spin uncontrollably and crash. The tutorials, flight training etc. work beautifully with my Logi Extreme 3D Pro Joystick. But, I cannot fly anywhere else in the world. I haven’t made any changes in Development mode etc.

Screenshot: (Note the wings twisting. Airspeed will erratically jump from 120 to zero and back again, perhaps due to pitot input while flipping tail over nose and doing cartwheels midair!)

Hello @FangedTrain7154 ,

welcome back to the forum.
Your bug report was moved into the #self-service category for now, to get some more community feedback.

Thank you for your understanding.

Check if you have flight model set to modern (and not legacy) and if you have trim set to neutral.

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Thanks for the reply. Everything if fine with the DG-1001E, It’s only the LS8-18 that is unflyable. Settings look normal. I’ll glide with the DG-1001E for now. LS8 is a fail!

I’m an experienced rotary wing pilot and the Bell 407 model is also a mess. No rudder effect with speed! Bucking bronco! The Little G2 is great. Wish they had an R44.

I was thinking about General Options → Flight model → make sure it is MODERN in the flight you have problems, like on screenshot:

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Thank you EPPRglider81 !
Geez! I’ve been flying with the wrong flight model ALL THIS TIME! I loaded the LS8-18 and it flies beautifully now.

Thanks again!

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