Getting high

[Daube]

Small flight with the default glider, just to enjoy the weather








And this is why an artificial horizon is one of the most important instruments in the cockpit

[Dave T]

Nice to see a glider in the screenshot section. Did a bit of real world gliding at Pocklington near York good fun always a hedge and a high sided vehicle in your line of sight when landing. I like the fancy Discus X from Aerosoft and its fancy motor gliders. You always need the simplest of devices the yaw string taped to the canopy.

[Daube]

Yes, the string on the canopy is very important, and unfortunately it's missing from the default glider :/
I haven't bought any payware gliders yet. I suppose the default one fits my needs. I just wish the pilot body (legs etc...) would be visible in the VC.
I did only one real-world glider flight. Something like 30-40 minutes, with an instructor. There were no thermals, but there was some wind, so we could use the ridge lift to gain altitude. I was really a nice experience.
In the sim, I was using freeware CumuluX! to get some thermals and ridge lift. Then I uninstalled it when I started using the pawyare ASN, which does it as well.
It's not Condor sim for sure, but it's already enjoyable enough for me.

[Dave T]

I really want a high quality Stemme S10 glider for fsx had one in fs9 and flight unlimited3 and it doesn't matter how expensive the glider it always has a bit of string taped to the canopy.

[Flying Trucker]

Good morning Stephan...

Hope you don't mind me posting a little information for everyone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw_string

When I flew the Lockheed T33 there was a Yaw String on the nose, many jet fighters have this, helps to keep the eyes looking outside the aircraft...

Yaw String not to be confused with the Lubber Line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubber_line

Wonderful shots...