On modern plastic gliders we usually pull on the stick, in order not to gain speed during the descent, something that took me some time to understand (mechanically/mathematically) as not entitling me to get into a spin.....

 

Doubt I could get used to that! I'm glad to hear the flight model is doing what it should for you. I've yet to purchase XP10, as I just can't spare the cash or time at this juncture.

Ok, Zach, thanks. I was curious if it was a real life physics thing that there was something I wasn't seeing that a sideslip and forward slip were in fact different or if it's just how simulators behave. Control surface-wise they are the same but their end-effects are quite different so I could see either case being true.

 

The Scout loses ASI during a forward slip, too, but I couldn't tell if this was just due to attitude change or modeling the change of pressure.

 

@Jcomm That doesn't surprise me with the DiscusX. I haven't been impressed with the Aerosoft plane I've tried.

 

BTW, thanks for a fun discussion both of you. Great for learning and getting me more excited about starting my training!

Doubt I could get used to that! I'm glad to hear the flight model is doing what it should for you. I've yet to purchase XP10, as I just can't spare the cash or time at this juncture.

 

I can perfectly understand...

 

It took me months to finally decide to buy x-plane10, with the great MS FLIGHT experience in between (the one that ended up bringing me back to the simulators hobby, and even get a joystick back, and planing to get back something in the line of my CH RCS I gave away in 2007...). I tested the demo to make sure it would run in my i5-2500, and it does, a lot smoother than FSX Gold (where I ended up spending an additional €29 :-( trying to get back to the MSFS World and re-use my previous investment in the ReaIair sf-260, leveld767, flight1 pc-12 and atr-72, and aerosoft discusX + CumulusX!)

 

Unfortunately I couldn't make it run properly on my system, and, I missed the weather effects in FLIGHT, the fluidity, etc... X-plane10 is providing me all of it, and when I think I was about to buy a lot of enhancements for FSX that would have cost a little fortune, and I have most of it by default in Xplane10, and with little work and using OSM2XP can get it even better, then the €69 were not a bad investment :-)

 

It's a small and dedicated team behind x-plane, and I also decided to support them (well, in my way, not really a great support...) - after all during all this years I have exchanged many email messages with Austin, asking for this or that for version9 and before that version8, and I always get an answer directly from him ASAP, sometimes explaining the how's and why's of this and that.

Thanks for your reply JComm. Interested in your views on all things gliding and how x-plane stacks up, aircraft and enviroment.

 

TIM