Beautiful flight and well informative! Love your knowledge and insight during your quick flight! Thank you for sharing the Discus-2c and for your support to our small team. It means a lot to every one of us! :)

If you enjoy flying around the Alps (and mountainous areas in general), make sure to grab the freeware 'Project Lifts'. It adds ski lifts globally in the correct locations. Makes it a lot nicer to fly in the mountains. Pick up 'Powerlines and Solar panels' as well. Additionally; there are already thermals in the base sim with live weather. It's not perfect yet (they're generally pretty small in size), but I've done some 2 to 2.5 hour flights in the Discus on live weather recently.

Managed to glide from that glider club in the mountains, down to Salzburg, and then over to Munich was a good fun trip just ambling along. I could have kept going, but had to go eat.

Beautiful video, and MSFS does indeed capture the Alps quite nicely! I often re-trace my hikes and bike tours in the area in MSFS, using a small taildragger or a helicopter, and I can find most of the tracks visually. I have not spent much gliding in the sim yet, but I always find it a pretty amazing experience.

I absolutely love the Got Friends glider. This Discus 2 is actually also a great "touring" glider with a fairly decent glide rate. I'd been using it in the Himalayas, and the combination of extreme altitude and wild updrafts mean you can get a LONG way with this. Although the MSFS weather convection system is currently a work in progress, you really can find life if you know where to look. Thermals do exist in the sim currently, they are just not realistically behaved in that they are smaller, less powerful, and less stable than they should be, and you can't spot them with clouds so they are hard to find. On the other hand, ridge lift and mountain wave effects, and convection over wooded areas are all pretty well simulated, and you can really feel the terrain under you in this glider. I had been using the freeware version, and was looking forward to buying the payware, but I'm headed out for a major fieldwork expedition, so I will not be flying in the sim for quite some time. Still glad to see it develop through your videos and reviews!

Looks amazing !!! Love the video, I'm going to do gliding lessons in September, so excited.

As a pilot, I absolutely agree. This and the 310 by Milviz are my favorite things to fly, both are fun and super realistic. I used to fly gliders and this is one of the best and most realistic experiences that you can have in MSFS.

Fantastic video and a magnificent flight, thanks for sharing this! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Love the touches with music as well.

Great stuff. When I saw the thumbnail, I thought I'd just watch and like, but may well pick it up as looks like a lovely way to enjoy what is still the best part of this SIM - the visuals.

What an awesome review! You’ve made me want this now looks like a great change to regular GA and airliner sims

This is a fabulous aircraft and I love the premium version. A great feeling of achievement finding thermals and keeping the beast in the air. I often fly from Yorkshire gliding club. The motorised assist version is awesome. Great video thank you.

I always wait for your review before considering a msfs purchase. Keep them coming!

So glad that you aren't confining yourself to windmills and fans but are prepared to showcase some of the wonderful products out there on the periphery so to speak - yet another excellent video!

The Discus is a cracker. Thanks for sharing your flight. I’m not biased towards soaring at all 😉😁 but if anyone is on the fence, do give it a go. The freeware gliders are fantastic.

Yes as usual great video, fun, informative, seams as you've flown this glider 1k times! Thanks Mr Ted

I love the Alps, thanks for this! It was so relaxing 🏞

Thanks for yet another great video! If you click the upper of the two left buttons on LX-NAV screen you can see your variometer trace, it makes it much easier to gain lift.

Great to see such high quality gliders coming into the sim. Certainly a great way to enjoy the scenery in MSFS.

Its the only glider that works properly for me and its so much fun

Excellent video, gliders really do show off the sim very well, and given you just saw default scenery here, no photogrammetry but just default scenery it looked spectacular. Very nice landing too!

Great flight, great video, great change of pace. Thanks enormously for highlighting the sail plane, going to pick the payware version asap. Soaring is _real_ flying, my favorite way to spend time in the air. Really miss it, but this is definitely the next best thing!

So peaceful up there....best game after a heavy shift on work, thx for the flight😊

Great review as always. Got the payware version to support that fantastic development team👍👍👍 Take care and thank you.

Great video, really enjoyable and relaxing :))

I've got the premium version as I couldn't resist it: a bargain if you ask me. A glider that works in MSFS at last. I've just completed a cross Scotland run down the Caledonian Canal route from Inverness to North Connel using thermals and ridge lift and it actually works! The weather presets seem to work well and can only get better as Asobo integrate gliding into the sim. Highly recommended by me if gliding appeals to anyone. I'm looking forward to seeing your review of the premium version.

Tried this last night, really good stuff

Can confirm, it's an awesome aircraft and it just floats forever!

I got to say this was probably the most scenic type of review you made thus far, Both the music and the scenery was enough to get me a little teary. And speaking of Got Friends I'm hoping to see you review their Stemme S12-G as well as the recently teased PZL 104 Wilga 35A.

Excellent video 👍🏻

Nothing beats gliding. Beautiful Discus.

This is great. Only thing is my first flight the tow plane flew right into the side of mountain and took me with him.

Smooth landing......nice!

Man what a lovely thing! I think I need to pick this one up in the premium version. Looking forward to see what they can achieve when the gliders are officialy supported. As always thank you for the review!

Love the discus, definitely worth the 14,99

What a great job these guys did at Just Flight. Beautifully done! I am definitely going to pick this up and skip the freeware version since you covered this amazingly well. Since I live in the Swiss alps, this will be a breeze. I additionally learned to fly in the Rocky Mountains so this a good fitting glove so to speak. Thanks again for the amazing presentation. Tschüss and a big thumbs up 👍

If powered flight is like this amazing human experience then gliding like this is probably the most serene way to experience flight possible. No engine noise, no thrust, just you and the air. Closest to being a bird probably! Short of flapping the wings.

Awesome flight and video! The Discus is pretty awesome, those Got Friends chaps are putting out some quite good stuff for decent prices. Really looking forward to their Wilga they have in the works. I wasn't really into gliding in the older sims, mostly because outside of dedicated gliding sims its always been a bit meh, but when some decent looking freeware gliders (including the earlier versions of this) started coming out and armed with Kinetic Assistant I decided to give it another go. Had a few problems at first as I don't really know much about gliding but I kept at it and have been having a blast. As others have probably mentioned there are thermals in the base sim and with ridge lift I've managed some pretty decent and long flights in the Premium Discus. Kinetic Assistant also helps a lot as well with its thermal hotspot injection and visualisation for that extra bit of lift. Looking forward to the updates later in the year with the promised improvements to soaring in the game as gliding really is quite nice as you've demonstrated quite admirably in this video. Also you really should look into the controller profile system. Set up a glider profile and assign the speed brake to your throttle. It's a bit annoying the game can't automatically switch profiles with specific planes like you can with X-Plane, I'm always forgetting to do so and have to switch around after I start the flight but that's only a minor nuisance. Cheers.

Did this in vr today, it was amazing.

I just bought this I’m looking forward to a lot of gliding.

Great video! I have never done gliding in the real world, apart from a short descent once when my Harrier’s engine had to be shut down and restarted 😧 I have been waiting for a glider in the sim and I will definitely check this out.

Nice video! I love the Discus! One recommendation is to assign the spoilers to the speed brake axis. On approach to landing I find it a good technique to put out half spoilers with the aim to land without having to touch them. You can then use the spoiler lever to fine tune your glide path…as needed.. Too high, add more spoiler, too low, reduce the amount of spoiler. You can fly a very precise descent to the runway this way.

I live in this area! :D Love it!

I bought this plane 5 days ago and I can’t Startup the plane but then I saw ur video and I know now how to start up the plane. Thanks

What a nice video. I have very limited experience with real-life gliders (powered airplane pilot here), flew gliders only a couple of times with fiends. The one thing that struck me as wildly unexpected as the massive control of glide path with airbrakes that one can have in these things. Airbrakes out, you have the glide angle not much better than a Piper Cherokee. If you get low on the approach, close the airbrakes and you feel the instant push forward and up (just as if adding power in an airplane), it feels like you'll land in another county. And the thermals. Fly for very long times, without the cost of burning fuel. Gliders are as fun as it gets.

Bought this (and the R3) off of the sale a few days ago and when I first tried it out, I was absolutley amazed. The last time I flew gliders in a flight sim were the Me-163 and Go-229 (Ho IX with engines) in Il-2 '46 and maybe you could count those in the Ultrawings games for VR as well, but their glide rate is atrocious (still better than the other planes', I mean it's just a game and it's actually fun). Before that there's basically just been the Schweizer 232 in the older MSFS versions and I remember having had some sort of mod for it (must be pre 2k2 and pre my IBM IC35 headcrash in 2001 since I don't have the files anymore) that ought to simulate the winch, but all it did was act like a silent rocket engine with unlimited fuel as long as you were staying below a certain altitude :D - but at least with that it was possible to fly that thing without having to use the AC translation thing to put you somewhere in the sky anymore. Waiting for the official gliders and aerodynamics + thermodynamics improvements as well as the helos, but I just had to snag this one for 8,99... what a steal! :) 15:16 I did that twice already :D

lovely!

Been watching you for years and for some reason forgot to sub, do I have brain damage? Perhaps. Subbed now anyhow. Appreciate all these videos, always fantastic!!

Wow!

Thanks for another excellent video. I think simulated gliding is fascinating. I have a request could you give me the locations. I know you usually do with the powered flights.

Do the gliders have a ground winch option. That was a fun experience irl, and something I used a lot in FSX

The gear should stay extended until you disconnect from the tow airplane. You want to have the extra drag which makes towing a lot more stable. Reference speeds and altitudes are in Meters ;) As ALWAYS another great content, thank you so much!

Excellent video and you flew at my Homebase :) my dad lives a few km from there in the summer and we just ate there last weekend. Many gliders around and also a nice destination for GAs. Afaik gliding should be natively supported with SU10 ? We are hoping to be able to use tow plane and glider in multiplayer. Same we do with our RC-models towing the glider up and then soaring in FPV. If you can’t fly real anymore this is as close as it gets. Thank for pointing me to the plane gonna look it up.

Great video. I'm not a pilot.....yet, but had an acrobatic flioght experience in a glider flight near Lake Taupo in NZ many years ago and this brought that experience back. We got towed up to 10000 ft on that flight, but i took over the controls to gain some Ridge lift at one point. Very special experience. I am now thinking about getting the PPL. Do you think being in your early 50's and still wanting to make that jump to becoming a light aircraft pilot is realistic?

So peaceful..... BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP.

looks like fun indeed. I can imagine an ITBS sailing contest. 🙂

I used to think that anything which moves which does not have an engine, was far too dangerous to contemplate. That’s the problem when you grow up with a sister who was mad on horses. Stupid things. No engines, and no brakes either so they have a mind of their own. Anyway, turns out I may have been wrong :)

Xtreme Soaring 3D - Free Sailplane Simulator, Racing in the afternoon!

I'm really glad you look into Got Friends product, they have one of the best dev teams in MSFS. I was not sure about their glider, as I have zero knowledge about gliders, except they climb in thermals, but I think I will pick premium version, just to support the devs. Just one question, did you try it with live weather? I read something that it's only useable with weather preset, as there are no thermals in live weather(?). Thank you and cheers

Bad habit putting the gear up so soon on tow for 2 reasons. 1. It distracts from what you should be doing, staying in position behind the tug (biggest cause of tug upset) and 2. If the rope broke low down you are likely to land in a field with the gear retracted! Additionally, no glider I know has cockpit lighting!

the motorized version will self launch, it just needs a pretty long runway :P

Is there any options to set the varios sound? For me it would be relevant when i hear the sound at a sink ratio of 1.5 m/s or maybe 2 m/s..

Now that there are those basegame gliders, would you still recommend picking this one up or has microsoft done a good job?

Any suggested MSFS sensitivity settings for the 4 major control surfaces?

Good thing and i have the payware version but your tow is too slow. You have to climb steeper .If you soar closer to the ridges you catch more lift (variometer). Anyway thanks for the review

Sounds like you have one of the clangers in the back seat.

Can't wait for the 40th anniversary update, will the Discus 2C be available in the in-game shop, before? The one thing turning me off a bit is the audio-variometer in sailplanes, couldn't they find a less annoying solution over the years? :D Zell am See - Innsbruck is my favourite flight in the game. If you enjoy it, there are very well done airports by Gaya Simulations (LOWZ Zell am See) and ORBX (LOWI Innsbruck), both adding a lot of atmosphere to the scenery (and additional buildings in the vicinity).

Was the towing plane flown by a multiplayer person? Thanks!

Just bought the Discus. How do I bind an axis to the speedbrakes? Didn't find "speedbrakes/airbrakes" even in the controller menue. (using a Warthog HOTAS)

Any reason why you didn’t insert thermals with Kinetic Assistant considering you were using that?

premium version is on spring sale just picked it up for $10

hmm think my prev comment got flagged for a link so I'll try again without. This is an excellent addon, the included weather presets are handy and I'll almost certainly be getting the payware version once it's on the marketplace. BUT don't sleep on the AS 33 Me also on flightsimdotto. Since I got interested in the gliders the AS 33 Me is my go to, it's every bit as feature rich as the Discus, having most of the payware features of the Discus but it's free and the D/L is tiny in comparison. Both are excellent freeware so what's not to love?. GJ ITB

Looks beautifull . But the instruments are not working properly. The plane is ascending, but the indicator tells you your going down

Great video, I still can’t get anything from flight sim.to to work. I’m putting the files in the right place, they are appearing on the content manager listing. I just can’t select them for flight….

Yes well a real Britton making a mess on the metric units, sorry dear man (at 10.02) you're flying at 1650 meters and at a speed of 108 km/h . A 108 knots is 200 km/h which is a bit fast for a glider.

Hello, tell me how to install a plane that pulls to a height? Or what is this mod called?

You forgot to say “Prop clear!”

MSFS is crying out for gliders as the scenery is made for them. I use Condor 2 where Wave, Thermal and Ridge lift are all modelled. It lacks the beauty of the MSFS Scenery. Hopefully it will come in the future. The Discus, like all glass ships, is very slippery. Approach speed is critical or you just keep going if too fast. A brilliant way to enjoy a relaxed hour or two of flying.

Is that towing plane AI or multiplayer? How to connect it in freeware version? There are no guides even in official manual.

I play on Xbox and I'm ready to give up on the game as I just can't find the right console settings to play

How you get the towing Airplane?

i try downloading the glider for days but msfs loses connection every 5 mins. i don't get the problem...

03:21 How are people getting shots like this?

How have you got a tow plane ? I can't seem to find it

Ah, so serene.. Well, except for the incessant beeping and moaning of the variometer 🤣

Wo kann Thermik sein? Frage: Ist hier im MS-Simulator überhaupt schon eine Möglichkeit gegeben Aufwind zu finden?? Doch offensichtlich schon. Zufall? oder gibt es Hinweise

Keine deutsche Übersetzung? Ein großer Mangel!!

Why does my comment keep getting deleted? I have said nothing offensive.

Never, really NEVER pull up the gear while in tow

I wish you people would actually learn something first before trying to tell others. 1) Your airspeed is in KPH 2) The flight model is total junk (not the aircraft, but FS) 3) That vario is completely wrong!! It's showing sink when it should be showing climb while on tow (compensated or not!) 4) Ground handling is totally wrong 5) Handling on tow is wrong 6) They are AIRBRAKES, not "spoilers". The binary on/off operation is also completely wrong. Are you using an XBox controller? 7) Thermals are totally unrealistic in FS2020 (and FS2024) 8) You make a big deal about the ground textures, but absolutely nothing about the sky/clouds/reading the sky to find lift. Comes across as marketing propaganda. FS is total garbage in the area that it should be very good at: THE SKY!!! Screw a few satellite ground textures. Irrelevant for flying gliders! For anyone seriously considering a simulator for gliding, there is only one option: Condor 2. Thank me later.

The problem with Brandon Yaeger who developed SOME of what you see here is that he uses unauthorized content which he hasn't gotten permission to use from the content creator. He then claims not to have done so and accuses those he took from of lying. If you really look closely at the instruments, systems and textures they are mostly taken from the DG-808S by Touching Cloud and those that poured their heart sweat and tears into it and then claims credit for himself.

Is anything actually modeled in the, msfs is so unfinished.

Very nice sim tutorial. Generally good narration but your accent is a bit annoying. Words that end with the letter "A" get butchered when replaced with "Er". Americker, Indier, Africker, jeeze man, your mispronouncing some proper nouns, like Austri-er". Ok, just a personal complaint but proper nouns should afford a but more respect. Good program overall I agree. At least you dont say "drawerings" rather than "drawings". Overall, you've sold me on the glider and thats why we're here.

Hate it when obviously not R/L gliderpilots review and comment on sim gliders - 99% talk bullshite - your glide performance won't increase when you release ballast it will decrease........ plus you have failed to notice the overreading vario,

Was going to wait for gliders to be fully supported for msfs 2020. But you did such a good job with this video I am downloading now, never flown a glider before, what could possibly go wrong! 🫡