Gliders: how HeavyPro flies a sailplane
Light, quick pitch, a slow big-wing roll and a rudder that leads: soaring the way it really feels.
A glider is nothing like a jet. HeavyPro knows sailplanes and gives them a REAL1 feel of their own, modelled on how they really fly.
- Pitch is light and quick, and firms up as you speed toward VNE, so it never twitches in a fast glide.
- Roll is the slow axis, as 15 to 20 metres of wing should be, and stays precise around the centre: hold off bank in a thermal with tiny inputs.
- The rudder answers quicker than the ailerons, so you can lead with it and fly the long wing's adverse yaw coordinated.
- Water ballast in the wings slows the roll further, by up to half again with full tanks.
Which gliders
The MSFS 2024 DG-1001e and LS8-18, the ASK 21, and sailplanes by Schleicher, Schempp-Hirth, DG, Rolladen-Schneider, Jonker and others, recognised by name. Any aircraft MSFS reports without an engine counts too. The app shows them as Glider.
Tip: practise coordinated turns: a touch of rudder before the ailerons, then keep the yaw string straight.