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April 28, 20215 yr 3 hours ago, regis9 said: Interesting, for the price might be worth a shot. It does concern me that if real life me got Into the plane it’s gross weight would nearly double lol I concerns me that I probably can no longer bench press that airplane. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
April 28, 20215 yr For those that bought it, a few videos please? And if it will float like a sail plane, after turning engine off, I might pick it up. In other words is it so lite that the mountain ridges will cause lift and other thermals? I really want a glider in MSFS. Can it be use like a glider at times? "Coffee, if your not shaking, you need another cup" Flight Sim Break Discord Channel: https://discord.com/invite/fCV62Ka2QZ
April 29, 20215 yr 53 minutes ago, in2tech said: For those that bought it, a few videos please? And if it will float like a sail plane, after turning engine off, I might pick it up. In other words is it so lite that the mountain ridges will cause lift and other thermals? I really want a glider in MSFS. Can it be use like a glider at times? I don't have a video, but I can tell you that you are at the mercy of the wind. My test flight was in Vieques, Puerto Rico (as usual) where there was a 15 knot wind. That resulted in LITERALLY vertical takeoff and landing. As in... ZERO distance travelled on the x-axis. 😉 A bit like Bleriot but light.
April 29, 20215 yr Very basic (no fuel gauge even) but what a lot of fun! Just spent a very happy hour over the ridges and stunning water masks of the North side of Oahu. Recommended for when you can’t be arsed to plan! i910900k, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AW3423DW, Ruddy girt big mug of Yorkshire Tea
April 29, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, in2tech said: For those that bought it, a few videos please? And if it will float like a sail plane, after turning engine off, I might pick it up. In other words is it so lite that the mountain ridges will cause lift and other thermals? I really want a glider in MSFS. Can it be use like a glider at times? No, it won’t really glide. Turning the engine off makes it very nose-heavy, and it will quickly dive for the ground. A shame as I had the same thought of ridge soaring it. 5950X, RTX3090, 32GB@3600, Samsung Evo NVME 1TB, Warthog HOTAS, MFG Crosswinds, Reverb G2.
April 29, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, Stoopy said: Thanks for this. Think I might grab it and head on over to Torrey Pines! 🤙 Just make sure the wind is kicking up a bit, and you’ll be in for a wild ride 😀 5950X, RTX3090, 32GB@3600, Samsung Evo NVME 1TB, Warthog HOTAS, MFG Crosswinds, Reverb G2.
April 29, 20215 yr The Top Rudder is so much fun to fly, spent about 30 minutes flying around the Gold Coast from YBCG to YSPT in it. MacBook Neo: A18 Pro with 6-core processor and 5-core graphics 8GB Unified Memory, macOS Tahoe, X-Plane 12 (12.40). Mac mini: M4 chip with 10 core processor, 10 core graphics, 16 GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD, macOS Tahoe, X-Plane 12 (12.40), X-Plane 11 (11.55). Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9: Intel Core i9-14900HX, 32GB DDR5-4800 RAM, 1TB Micron NVMe SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB GPU and Intel UHD Graphics 16EU iGPU, Windows 11 Home, MSFS 2024 and 2020, X-Plane 12 (12.40), X-Plane 11 (11.55) and Lenovo LOQ 15 15IAX9: Intel Core i5-12450HX, 24GB DDR5-4800 RAM, 1TB Solidigm NVMe SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 4GB GPU and Intel UHD Graphics 16EU iGPU, Windows 11 Home, MSFS 2024 and 2020, XX-Plane 12 (12.40), X-Plane 11 (11.55). Alienware m15 R7: Intel Core i7-12700H, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB, Windows 11 Home, MSFS 2024 and 2020, X-Plane 12 (12.40), X-Plane 11 (11.55).
April 29, 20215 yr 2 hours ago, Bilbosmeggins said: No, it won’t really glide. Turning the engine off makes it very nose-heavy, and it will quickly dive for the ground. A shame as I had the same thought of ridge soaring it. Look at it. It's not a sailplane! It might be light but it has the shape of a shopping cart.
April 29, 20215 yr 2 hours ago, crimplene said: Look at it. It's not a sailplane! It might be light but it has the shape of a shopping cart. yeah ... I think people are confusing this with a trike which is basically a hang glider with a tiny engine. A trike uses hang glider "reverse" controls (push bar forward to climb - pull bar back to dive) and like the hang glider they are based on does glide reasonably well. This and the other two 103 based ultralights currently for sale (Powersolo and the Aerolite 103) are all 3 axis ultralights with conventional wing and tail and ailerons and an elevator and conventional controls, although very light they are not hang gliders with an engine they are conventional aircraft. The key differences seem to be the aerolite is a pusher prop, the Powersolo has fairly basic textures/graphics and comes with floats as an option and the new Asobo one is sort of like the Powersolo but better graphics, with no floats, and with a weird engine. Edited April 29, 20215 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick
April 29, 20215 yr 5 hours ago, crimplene said: Look at it. It's not a sailplane! It might be light but it has the shape of a shopping cart. I never suggested it was. I was answering a question from another, and I used to fly hang gliders back in the 80’s, so am acutely aware of the differences. The only thing that made me vaguely hopeful was that the developers had stated that if you throttle down, then a centrifugal clutch disconnects the engine from the prop. And the only real thing that could be considered useful by doing that was if the plane had some thermalling, or ridge soaring abilities. It doesn’t. Edited April 29, 20215 yr by Bilbosmeggins Typo 5950X, RTX3090, 32GB@3600, Samsung Evo NVME 1TB, Warthog HOTAS, MFG Crosswinds, Reverb G2.
April 29, 20215 yr Just stumbled across this video on YouTube. The MSFS rendition mirrors this experience perfectly. If you fly in a conventional fashion you may just lose the will to live as the scenery inches it’s way along. However, fly it like you stole it, in a hooligan fashion and it’s amazing. I just found it very interesting to find some real footage exhibiting this very behaviour. 5950X, RTX3090, 32GB@3600, Samsung Evo NVME 1TB, Warthog HOTAS, MFG Crosswinds, Reverb G2.
April 29, 20215 yr I like it, it's fun to fly. Here are two videos, one from St.Baarts, one from Innsbruck, where I live. I still have to practice landings. Too slow is ... hmmm... too slow. https://vimeo.com/543313592 https://vimeo.com/543319467 Karl i9-9900K@5,0 | 32GB 3200 | 2080TI | 4K 55" | MSFS | P3D V5
April 29, 20215 yr On 4/28/2021 at 1:28 PM, in2tech said: So this is their first payware offering from MS/Asobo? Smart for them to make it a smaller aircraft at a very nice price of $9.99 to start their own payware offerings, I think. Kind of that price point people don't have to think about a lot, IF they like that type of aircraft, or want to see if they enjoy that type of aircraft. I'll have to keep an eye on this one. Hope the people that get it, enjoy it 🙂 They can't hardly muck up a tiny little VFR plane hopefully. So it was a very wise choice considering the state of IFR flying. Edited April 29, 20215 yr by tpete61
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