This is a question for real-life glider pilots or fellow Condor pilots. I have spent many hours and kilometers in the gliding simulator Condor. I feel that in MSFS you really have to be far away from the ridge or slope to catch an updraft. In Condor we flew closer to the mountain/ridge. Unless it …

In the real world, at low altitudes you fly very close to the ridge to get the updrafts, but the higher you get, the further from the ridge you need to fly before it peters out. From my experience, msfs does not seem to model ridge lift very well and the lift you get along ridges is pretty random a…

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TheAviator3506 November 15, 2022, 2:05pm 8

Hi Bender,

Here is a video from the late Balleka, (Matt Wright).

Charles.

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