Setting up Weather for Gliding in X-Plane

[@adittttya]

Love it! Thanks for making this!

[@airplane-alex-list]

This video is AWESOME! Thank you!!

[@tufnel1970]

Thanks for the video. Really enjoyed it. Loved the FSX misson "introduction to soaring", and wanted to try out xplanes version. After watching this video was able to sore for a few hours. Even tried soaring in Minden - Tahoe and had a lot of fun.

[@chrisevans-nodd]

Soaring in X-Plane is really good. And now that an issue with thermals has been corrected, we're back in business there too. Glad the video was helpful, have fun soaring.

[@kevinlayden1551]

Great video and still relevant today! X-Plane 11.52. Cheers

[@chrisevans-nodd]

Thanks Kevin. Agreed, not sure I'd change all that much if I made an updated version.

[@What_If_We_Tried]

Great little tutorial. I really enjoy soaring, but haven't flown X-Plane for quite awhile, and had no idea I could improve the mediocre thermal capabilities inherit in the app. However, I always flew with real weather, and was using v.10. Look forward to buying v.11, and getting started again.

[@chrisevans-nodd]

There are still some issues with soaring in X-Plane but we're getting very close to having those sorted. As of a recent patch, thermals are greatly improved in X-Plane. And ridge-lift is still really well modeled. At the time I'm writing this (XP11.40) there is a small bug related to thermal strength & the amount of sink encountered outside of the thermals. That's been reported & hopefully will be addressed soon. Real weather soaring in X-Plane is still a bit of an issue. Currently thermals are not included in the real weather engine but you can load the real weather & then switch to manually configured to set up your thermals. That works fine. There's a small but growing community of sailplane sim pilots to be found over at the X-Plane forums & also on the X-Plane Gliding Facebook group. We do multiplayer gliding once in a while. Yes soaring in X-Plane is a lot of fun.

[@What_If_We_Tried]

@@chrisevans-nodd Great suggestion about loading real weather, and then configuring thermal activity. Will look for those soaring forums and FB group. Thanks.

[@larsdejonge2263]

Great vid Chris, thanks! I was looking for this!

[@Bastelhirni]

The video is older but can you tell me where I can get the glider from Videotime 0:44? Thank you very much

[@LWJCarroll]

Thanks I didnt know you could set up ridge lift like this (similar to what I used to do in FSX) just need some of the hang glider types I had in FSX here in XPlane.... Laurie

[@chrisevans-nodd]

Yes ridge-soaring is absolutely brilliant in X-Plane. If you're looking for a challenge, there's a collection of ridge-soaring tasks available at the link below. Each has specific instructions on how you should set the weather & also comes with a FMS flight plan to follow. Search for "ASK21 B21" or "ASG29 B21" for gliders that have a built in glide computer to help you navigate the task's course. Lots of fun. forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/forum/488-task%EF%BB%BFs/

[@chrisevans-nodd]

Here's where you can find those "B21" gliders with a glide computer for task flying... forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/category/180-gliders-and-motor-gliders/

[@lucascaviezel8899]

Hi, how can I get the glider for x plane 11?

[@Efraimbiplanepilot]

What is the x-system software you have? I have x-plane 11 and never seen it!

[@chrisevans-nodd]

This video was made using X-Plane 11. I also used Little Navmap on a second monitor to show the glider's location while I fly. Some other mods I often use but didn't in this video would be X-Winch, Towplane-X & Therm-X.

[@samueltomlin8418]

thanks!1!11!

[@b21-soaring]

Minor second comment - the two varios in that ASK-21 are clearly borked in some way, and the audio is wrong also. I'm sure we can do much better than that (as we did in FSX).

[@chrisevans-nodd]

I'm no expert in variometers but I know there's as bit of a history there regarding the X-Plane ASK21. Apparently they've been through several iterations, messing around with the two instruments & the tone trying to get things right. Apparently the current version is an "improvement" & I must admit it does help when soaring but again I've not much experience with how it should work. I will say the varios in the payware Antares 20E do work differently.

[@cutliss]

Have you tried active sky?

[@andrejsmith]

Have a look at forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/60441-therm-x-thermals-enhancement-for-x-plane/ .... it is thermal enhancement and management that works with Active Sky XP and Vulkan.