Hi there.
I am currently learning the ropes of how to fly a glider with the new tutorials. Great fun! At the moment i try to fulfill the Slip Tutorial.
I always get with slow speed and a relativ good slip to the runway. But i cant get it done to the end. The problem is the braking or rolling on the runway at the end. I try to counter the left and right swing of the plane on the ground with my pedals, but at the end the glider alyways steers to the left or right exiting the runway and failing the tutorial.
How do you roll the Glider on the runway at the end?
How do you keep it in the middle of the runway?
Are there brakes for the Glider to stop it from rolling?
Unfortunately the tutorial does not describe how to bring it to a regular stop.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Manuel
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Hi RL glider pilot here - yes on asphalt use brakes to greatly reduce length of roll, on grass often it is not that necessary. RL gliders have wheel brakes controlled either by a lever in front of stick or are coupled with airbrakes - in msfs brakes are as normal wheel brakes, can be assigned to axis.
In normal landing you release water ballast and do a correct pattern maintaining stable pattern speed (around 90km/h - vary with glider and weight), on final you may use airbrakes and try to maintain wings level (even when doing slips you do them early enough to have wings level at lower alt), you aim well before the runway so to account for quite long flare - still maintain pattern speed! with half airbrakes open you should descend to fly level at very low alt, slowly dissipating speed - try to hold in the air as long as possible - up to stall speed or until tail would have to be too low to maintain alt - you should land on both main and tail wheel simultaneously (low speed is crucial). When touch down you look straight aheat to the distance, paying attention mostly to keeping wings level and help gently with rudder to point nose to a chosen point on a horizon, activate gently wheel brakes to reduce roll length. Normally you would roll out to the side of asphalt to grass at the end so the wing won’t bounce at hard surface.
Btw in RL it is way easier due to significant distance between main wheel and tail wheel, but on other hand in RL if you loose direction you won’t be able to maintain balance as easy (ailerons don’t work that good at low speed and outward turn force is big enough to put wing down) as in the sim with possible disastrous effect - long wing touching grass creates great torgue and fore glider to do a circle - may even break its tail (can happen when outlanding in crops).
Btw if you want glider content to be found more easy on forum please comment in support for creating glider subforum here: Glider forum
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Thanks so much for your detailed advice.
This helped me a lot and for the first time after 10 flights it worked. Landing centered remains very hard, but at least it worked in a wobbly and not so beautiful way. From here on i can improve by training.
Interestingly, this experience made me motivated to buy an RC Glider plane 
Many greetings,
Manuel
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