I cant seem to climb in the wind area,when I try I did go up but I lost speed and fell back down.

I managed to get to 7200ft.

Which tutorial is this exactly? Is it the glider soaring tutorial included with FSX?

Which tutorial is this exactly? Is it the glider soaring tutorial included with FSX?

Yes it the soaring tutorial.

When I go up I do go a bit up until I ran out of spped and fall back down.

You probably have the nose too high and are stalling. A glider gains height by flying level and letting the rising air mass take it up. So even though your glider is descending slightly all the time, the trick is to keep it in patches of air which are going up faster than your glider is descending, and in this way you will gain height. To do that properly, you should fly fast in sinking air (in order to get out of it) and either fly slowly facing into the wind when in rising air, or circle around in rising air (in order to stay in it). The audio variometer will play high pitched beeps when you are in rising air, and low pitched beeps when you are in sinking air, but it lags a bit, because it works of an average, so the object is to keep those beeps high pitched. There is a variometer gauge in the cockpit too, keep the needle pointing up if you can.

 

Assuming it is thermals you are chasing, it is probably best to emulate what one does in real life when soaring and looking for lift. Fly along and listen for the high pitched beeps on the variometer, when you hear them, note your heading, then turn right quickly to change your heading 45 degrees as they cease, fly for about ten seconds, then come back around in a left gentle turn through 215 degrees onto the reverse heading and when those beeps come again, bank hard left and circle around in the thermal. Keep a fair bit of speed on when banked over hard, as your stall speed will increase dramatically in a tightly-banked turn.

 

Open up or tighten up your circle as needed, using the variometer and VSI as a guide. It is actually a lot easier to do all that in real life than it is in FSX, since a lot of the time in a real glider, you can actually find the edges of a thermal by feeling for one wing rising a little bit, but with a bit of practice, you'll get it in FSX. Note that FSX can visually display thermals, there is an option in the settings, the 'natural' setting will give you birds circling in the updrafts, the other setting gives you green spirals.

 

You can also find ridge lift in FSX, where the air goes up as it blows up the sides of hills. Go back and forth along a ridge and you can climb in that. Ridge lift gets further out from the ridge the higher you go. Always turn away from the ridge when coming back for another run along the ridge, that way you will stay in the lift. Riding along the ridge at an angle into the wind will also keep you in the lift longer on each ridge run.

 

Al

You probably have the nose too high and are stalling. A glider gains height by flying level and letting the rising air mass take it up. So even though your glider is descending slightly all the time, the trick is to keep it in patches of air which are going up faster than your glider is descending, and in this way you will gain height. To do that properly, you should fly fast in sinking air (in order to get out of it) and either fly slowly facing into the wind when in rising air, or circle around in rising air (in order to stay in it). The audio variometer will play high pitched beeps when you are in rising air, and low pitched beeps when you are in sinking air, but it lags a bit, because it works of an average, so the object is to keep those beeps high pitched. There is a variometer gauge in the cockpit too, keep the needle pointing up if you can.

 

Assuming it is thermals you are chasing, it is probably best to emulate what one does in real life when soaring and looking for lift. Fly along and listen for the high pitched beeps on the variometer, when you hear them, note your heading, then turn right quickly to change your heading 45 degrees as they cease, fly for about ten seconds, then come back around in a left gentle turn through 215 degrees onto the reverse heading and when those beeps come again, bank hard left and circle around in the thermal. Keep a fair bit of speed on when banked over hard, as your stall speed will increase dramatically in a tightly-banked turn.

 

Open up or tighten up your circle as needed, using the variometer and VSI as a guide. It is actually a lot easier to do all that in real life than it is in FSX, since a lot of the time in a real glider, you can actually find the edges of a thermal by feeling for one wing rising a little bit, but with a bit of practice, you'll get it in FSX. Note that FSX can visually display thermals, there is an option in the settings, the 'natural' setting will give you birds circling in the updrafts, the other setting gives you green spirals.

 

You can also find ridge lift in FSX, where the air goes up as it blows up the sides of hills. Go back and forth along a ridge and you can climb in that. Ridge lift gets further out from the ridge the higher you go. Always turn away from the ridge when coming back for another run along the ridge, that way you will stay in the lift. Riding along the ridge at an angle into the wind will also keep you in the lift longer on each ridge run.

 

Al

Thanks,I managed to finish the mission.

Congrats on managing it. Well done. Now do it inverted :LMAO:

 

Al