I’d like to sail some nice cross-country trip with a glider, hopping from thermal to thermal. I did some already but it felt too easy as there were updraft almost everywhere. I did not really had to circle and spiral up. I could just glide straight, zigaging from one to the next. I set the date to …

If you haven’t already, you could give these weather presets a shot. There are 2 specifically for gliders in here (Soaring Ridge and Soaring Thermals) but the others may be interesting too. https://flightsim.to/file/6079/dnbof-weather-presets-pack Not sure if since Asobo added gliders these work i…

Windy.com has a Thermals layer in beta right now (will be premium subscription when released), but that can help finding nice gliding spots for now in live time/weather; Windy: Wind map & weather forecast

I saw that there were very good thermals in Namibia, on windy.com . And it was confirmed in MSFS. I soared for 45 minute from cloud to cloud. I could have continued longer if I had more time. I just landed on a packed-earth airfield in the middle of nowhere (FYWC). Thanks for the tip.

No problem at all. I enjoy using it myself too, gets me gliding in areas I normally might not visit

Here are some pictures of that Namibia soaring trip, to illustrate my words: [20221116153843_1] [image]

We have quite a few gliding clubs here in New Zealand. Might be worth picking a country or state you like and googling to see if they have gliding clubs and where they are.

If you’d like to try ridge soaring, there’s a 500 km long stretch of steep sea cliffs on the coast of Chile between SCAE and SCFA that make for a pretty awesome glide. I got lucky and did the whole stretch using Live Weather the other day thanks to what was probably a morning sea breeze. But if you …

[image] CptNautilus1970: What settings would be better? What location would be optimal? In real life, the best cross-country soaring conditions are when the sky is full of puffy little cumulous clouds at 4-5K’ more or less evenly spaced across vast distances, and they’re not moving much if at…

Namibia is one of the gliding hotspots this time of year. Bitterwasser (FYBJ). It is a circular pan (dry lake) of about 3km in all directions. It has strong thermals and the cloud bases are sometimes very high (FL150) Sadly the scenery is not well modeled. In reality, the pan is flat but in MSFS i…

I fly in glider only in real live weather, it’s 10 x better. If the weather is not favorable, I change places. My favorite corner is St Crépin-Mont Dauphin in the southern Alps [LFNC] (by wind from South-Ouest or South it is excellent). On this runway you can be towed by the Cessna, it has enough d…

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