Gusts are a real pain when gliding in MSFS  - to get good ridge lift you need a good wind and MSFS insists on a minimum of 50% gust speed, so a 20Kt wind gusts to 30 which isn't too relaxing..

The UI for winds insists on a minimum of 50% but you can just DELETE the gust speed, don't put in 0 as this will get changed back to 50%. The rightmost variometer shows the impact of wind gusts, with constant flickering, until the gusts are turned off.

Quick video on youtube showing process and results - 

Watch the rest of my gliding channel whilst you are there, especially Snowdonia summit 🙂

Cheers
Keith

Hey ! Where can I get this glider from ?

Just 2 questions:

1- I like gusts. Gusts are part of life, no gusts no life.

2- Where did you get that glider? I'm eager to get one and I can't. It seems a port from P3d of one made by Wolgang P., judging on the not working GPS.

Edited October 5, 20205 yr by Claudius_

https://www.aerosoft.com/en/flight-simulation/flight-simulator-x/aircraft/145/discus-glider-x

You have to import it into MSFS yourself.

Agreed gusting is 'normal', but Asobo mandate an unreasonably high level of gusts...and some say their implementation is broken...

Cheers
Keith

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Edited October 5, 20205 yr by keithb77

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1- I like gusts. Gusts are part of life, no gusts no life.

To get gusts of less than 50% but more than 0% could be done with a custom weather preset file, but all the ones I create are ignored, even though almost identical to the ones in the More_Interesting_Weather_Presets freeware...has anyone any thoughts on why that may be?

Thanks
Keith