[RELEASED] AS 33 Me Glider | Got Friends

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AS 33 Me | Official Trailer | MSFS
Releasing July 2025!

We’re thrilled to announce that the AS 33 Me is soaring your way this July!
Catch the official trailer by AviationLads and get ready for release on MSFS 2020 in early July—with a free MSFS 2024 upgrade following just a couple of weeks later.

:money_with_wings: Price: $19.99 (USD)
:shopping_cart: Storefronts: Got Friends Website, Contrail, and the Official Marketplace (PC & Xbox Series)

We can’t wait for you to experience our most advanced glider yet. Stay tuned, and happy soaring!

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Celebration Series!
A Livery to Support your Community!

We’ve collaborated with Sim Soaring Club and Soaring Diamonds Club for the AS 33 Me, giving all simmers a special way to fly in appreciation to their communities… Xbox Included! :slight_smile:

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I cannot wait for this :heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

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Can you drive the winch yourselve?

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You can still do it, with the right ground features and wind/weather
direction.
Found a nice one here testing out the new release of the Discus-2c.

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AS 33 Me is Released!
We’re proud to announce the release of our most advanced glider to date, the AS 33 Me!

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This project has been months in the making, built with deep collaboration from the soaring community, including real-world insight from Stefan Langer and technical expertise from Ian Lewis (B21 Soaring). It represents everything we love about gliding—freedom, precision, and the constant pursuit of realism.

The AS 33 Me features a fully functional electric self-launch system, expert-level cockpit simulation, customizable LX Avionics, and a wide range of aircraft personalization options including dashboard layouts, FLARM, canopy tint, contamination drag, and more.

Also included in the package:

  • Wilga 35A Towplane
  • CyberWinch
  • Ford F-150 Winch Truck
  • Celebration Liveries Honoring our Partners and Communities like SteFly, Sim Soaring Club and WeSimGlide

Thank you for continuing to support us and the soaring community as a whole. This one means a lot to us—and we hope it means something to you too.

We hope it brings you the same joy and sense of freedom that inspired us to build it.

Purchase Today!

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I can’t find it in Contrail shop

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Ok, I’ll be that guy … My tow plane won’t take off. It moves, it just won’t accelerate and take off.

The checklist says I should “Launch” once we’re moving, how do i do that ? The eye on the checklist just looks at the towplane, the only setting I can find called “launch” is to do with the launch bar which doesn’t sound right, ATC enforce flight plan is enabled, I’m using flaps 5, and I can’t see anything in the keybinds section about launch. I think that’s everything the manual suggests.

What am I doing wrong ?

edit : I tried it with the free Discus and that did it too, so I tried it with the cessna 172 instead of the Wilga and I got off the ground. I’m still not convinced it’s not something I’m doing wrong, maybe something the Wilga doesn’t like ?

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I like very much this glider. But I can’t believe that I could not find good thermals TODAY with the heat burning Europe…

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It’s because the air is already hot when the volume of air arives here.
It’ not heated because the sun heats up the ground and the ground heats up the volume of air above it.
Simple thermodynamics.

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I’d highly recommend using these Soaring Weather presets, instead of trying to find thermals in live weather.

They have been tweaked to produce thermals under clouds and more realistic ridge lift, working around some known issues of the msfs weather.

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This is a common issue with Towing and Winching in both MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024. As per the AS 33 Me Flight Manual, go to your Assistance Settings and Enable the option labeled, “ATC Enforce Flight Plan”.

This ensures your Glider and Towing Vehicle have the same flight plan filed. This will fix issues where the towplane doesn’t take off, the winch spawns behind the glider, or your glider spawns on a different runway heading.

More Questions have been defined in the Manual:

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Yup, as I said above I did that, and I was on flaps 5. Had the same problem with the free Discus, at every strip I tried to get away from, but only when I towed with the Wilga. Towing with the Cessna worked fine.

So did the soaring weather presets, thanks for that @SimSoaringClub !

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And you’re wiggling your rudder full left and right to initiate tow/winch?

Sorry if this sounds like stupid questions, but right now you’re the 1%, so I’m just trying to diagnose the issue, which is more than likely something on your end.

Cheers

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Yes, very much, I’ll fire the sim up now and see if I can record it.

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Yes, that would be fantastic for diagnostics. If you don’t mind, record it from the World Map all the way to failure to launch.

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And sort of done. Youtube hasn’t got to the thumbnail part yet but the videos are playing ok. The wilga crashed, I haven’t managed that before, I was impressed :smile:

There’s a fail with the wilga, then I change to the cessna and away we go. Spoilers were still up when it spawned in because I didn’t put them away after the last flight, gave me quite a start when the lever moved.

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The Wilga was dragging you at 30 Kts… That was never going to work :sweat_smile:

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Towing works best when launching directly into wind. Cross- or tailwind can cause you problems.
Always make sure you pick the right runway for the weather (or vice versa).