Dg808

[Adabella Frierdich]

TheDG Flugzeugbau DG-800 series is a family of 15 metre and 18 metre single-seat gliders and motor gliders produced by Glaser-Dirks since 1993 and by DG Flugzeugbau GmbH after 1997. It is the successor to the DG-400 and the DG-600 models. DG808S is 18m wing span competition glider. This modification has 150 pounds thrust retractable jet engine installed, which can be used for taking off or flight sustain.

In AUTO MODE the gauge will switch sensibly between the AUTO-CRUISE and AUTO-CLIMB modes, e.g. a variety of different situations will

cause the gauge to operate in AUTO-CLIMB mode (needle showing TE climb rate, AUDIO on TE, averager giving you the TRUE climb rate

since you entered this mode). For example, selecting flaps T1 or T2, flying below 70 knots in rising air will cause the

Cambridge vario to assume you are trying to thermal. Flying fast, or simply flying in a straight line without climbing, will cause

the vario to exit climb mode.

in fact, exterior pilot should always be visible. you may try toggle cockpit pilot by clicking right side of the seat, and look what will happen. not a solution but at least we will know is this feature cause this problem or not.

NETTO is a vario mode which respect current performance at current airspeed. so while flying straight at airspeed 100 knots you will have sing rate about -1.5 m/s. But vario in NETTO mode will indicate 0 as it is perfect sink rate for this airspeed. We need to check compensation table as it may be not accurate after latest updates though.

Hi, yes I just downloaded and it great! Two questions.. 1. I want to disable the vertical fictional wind sting. I did not see that value in the Runway.FLT file? How can this be done (want it to look more like real life).

Hi,

It happened to me as well. I removed my addons one by one and found that the GTN750 addon (no recent update) at pms50.com caused the broken PFD issue here.

The error is triggered evaluating this.airspeed_indicator.children (Undefined is not an object)

I have just installed MSFS Kinetic Assistant version 0.10.2.0 and Touching Cloud DG-808S version 0.9.3. Everything seemed fine for my first flight and I could see the flight control surfaces moving as they should from outside the aircraft. I took off using the winch and had total control of attitude and direction. When I released the tow rope, the speed dropped off rapidly the nose went down and I crashed straight into the ground. Nothing I did with the controls could pull me out of the dive. I have tried this with both a Thrustmaster Hotas X Joystick and also a Saitek yoke. Both work with other MSFS 2020 aircraft, but both did the same thing with the DG-808S. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? I have several years flightSIM experience and have had no problems with my control devices up to now.

Mi piacerebbe provare questo stupendo aliante, ma non sono ancora riuscito a decollare, causa una eccessiva sensibilit ai comandi.

Con altri alianti e motoalianti non ho alcun problema, quindi penso che sia un problema legato a questo modello; possibile agire su qualche .cfg per diminuire la sensibilit ai comandi ?

Grazie anticipatamente per ogni riscontro.

The DG808s is fun to fly, and it behaves more or less the same as it did in FSX, except that it seems more unstable, even when wind is turned completely off. The aircraft has a tendency to roll left or right after a minute or two even when trimmed to fly straight and level. This is using the default ballasting. Removing the ballast completely makes the instability even worse.

The more serious issue is with resource load. Something in the modelling is causing the DG808s to consume far more GPU resource than it should: I am getting only 5 to 7 FPS even at 10,000 feet, where the scenery is far enough below the aircraft that it has little effect on the frame rate. Flying above the same terrain, at the same altitude, in the C-172 or the Beechcraft G36, at nearly double the airspeed of the DG-808s, I get a frame rate of 35 fps. The DG808 in FSX has no such problem. Landing the glider softly enough to avoid a crash, with the frame rate at 5 fps, is very difficult, and not much fun.

After the Simupdate 5 the elevator trim is inverted. If it is true for the other aircraft (c 172, A 320) on the Sim, for the DG-808 it is so that nose down moves the lever towards nose up and vice versa. If I invert the axis of the trim wheel it is correct again, but then it is upside down on the other flyers on the Sim. Can I change that with a change in a .cfg- or .flt-file?

The new 808 is magnificent! I just have too much cockpit reflection for canopy. in the center of the view it is really so brown that you can hardly see ahead. can i eliminate the reflection or adjust it? i tried from game settings but nothing changes.

Thank you so much for your work.

Vr crashing

Hi have tried going into the livery before flight. But still it crashes. Is there any videos on this? Brilliant work so far . P.s. When in the livery tab do I need to select a particular livery ?

Cheers rogetty

Hi,

first of all thank you for the beautiful glider you shared with the community.

I wanted to ask you if you can implement and assign a joystick button for the release of the tow, the opening of the levers of the ballast tanks and finally the opening of the dome. because when I do it with the maus nothing happens but the elements seem active.

Thanks again

Great Airplane, but i have the problem, when starting from the parking spot the plane will get launched in the air. i cant try Aerotow from your kinetic assistant because of that. also i have a problem with the kinetic assistant app, where the ai planes wont take off when starting from the runway. they start flying about 1m over the ground turn left and then they stop.

Excellent conversion!

However, I have a strange problem with version 0.6

Everything works fine except I do not get main gear animation in external view (interior handle moves correctly). Also I do not see pilot avatar or tinted canopy in external view.

It is known issue of VR livery, as same model used both for interior and exterior views, it does not have pilot inside and landing gear animation does not work.

Are you using VR? If not, just change livery to normal (without VR in the name), and issues will be fixed for you. But not other people in multiplayer, which using this VR livery as crash workaround.

Yes I only fly in VR.

I was worried there might be a problem with my hybrid installation. I had to install the DG808s folder in the official Community folder to get the DG808s sounds (ground roll, wind , control clunks) to work properly, but I had to install the legacy controls folder in a linked Community folder to avoid the path name too long problem.

Something else if I may. It is a bit silly but Is it possible to have the pilot legs and arm appear in cockpit view ? I love the slightly backward view which provide a full cockpit view with the outside scenery. It is the best way to experience the flight sensation. However there is no pilot present. You can see from the exterior view that he has his legs and hands inside the cockpit. Just saying if you can do it.

Than you so much! The most fun I have had in msfs2020 so far for sure also the most time spent in a single session soaring near Logan in Utah! Ridge soared and climbed thermals and flew all the way to Jackson Hole and back. What a blast! P{lease do the AS29!

Just a question: could you please also release it via flightsim.to? That website helps a lot to keep informed, if addons are having a new update, so we only have to keep an eye on a single website to keep the full overview over all our used addons.

Just one tiny thing to ask for: can you please also upload the glider plane addon at flightsim.to? This site helps a lot to keep an overview, which addons got recent updates and we just have to check a single site. Please help us and also publish all your files there, too!

hi it did not appear in the main menu, i did notice that when i looked in the dg808s folder before starting msfs there were 2 json files, after launching msfs these files disappeared. so i have reinstalled v4. the other thing was that when i looked at the website this morning it said the v5 update was loaded today ? not 2 days ago

cheers rogetty

Hi Alex I redownloaded and installed , all good many thanks, one question I have is, you say it is set with engine running to simulate the tow, how do I get this to work. It just sits on the runway ? I have been using slew mode

Cheers

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