Every control our gliders use, and what it does in each phase of a flight: on the ground, launching, on tow and in the air. The left stick is your body on the control bar; everything else sets your pose, your view and your launch.
Set it up: install THGF Helpers – Controls next to the glider in your Community folder, start the sim, then open Settings › Controls, pick your device and choose the THGF Hang Glider preset in the Glider box.
Gamepad
Presets THGF Hang Glider (Gamepad) (Glider) and THGF Hang Glider (Gamepad) Transversal · Xbox-layout controllers
Flying
Left stick
Weight shift. Left / right rolls the wing, forward / back pulls the bar in or pushes it out. Your view swings with your body.
LTRT
Yaw. Left and right yaw.
D-pad ↑
Upright. Swing upright and unzip, any time in flight. It happens on its own on approach.
D-pad ↓
Prone. Zip up and go back to flying prone.
On approachit means "I am not landing": the approach is abandoned.
D-pad →D-pad ←
VG on / VG off. Tightens or loosens the sail.
LBRB
Gear down / gear up. In the air these only move the gear.
Click LS
Re-centre the view. Clears your free look and puts the camera back on the pose's own view.
On the ground and launching
RB
Setdown. Glider resting on the control bar. LT / RT turn you in place.
LB
Pickup. Glider on your shoulders. The left stick walks you forward and back (a full push runs), LT / RT turn you.
Click LS
Launch ready on / off. Takes you to the launch-ready stance if the glider is stable; if not, the HUD shows why.
After a landing or crashthe same press resets the flight first, ready for the next one.
Left stickforward
Run. From launch ready, push past halfway to start the take-off run and keep pushing while you hold it. LT / RT steer the run. In strong wind it is a punch straight into flight.
Tow
Click LS+Click RS
Call for tow. Puts the glider on the tow cart with the gear down and calls the tug.
LTthenRT
Start signal. Waggle left and right on the cart and the tug starts the tow.
Click LS
Release. While towing, drops the tow line and puts you in the prone pilot view.
Views
Right stick
Free look. Look around from the pilot's seat. The view stays where you leave it; click the left stick to re-centre.
Click RS
Instrument mode / next camera.
Cockpittoggles instrument mode, the view that lets you click the vario, HUD and VG. Entering it on the ground sets the glider down first.
Externalsteps through the external views: Default, then Quickview 1 to 8.
Other viewsdoes nothing.
X
Pilot view ↔ external view. Leaves the pilot camera for the outside view and brings it back, without switching the pilot camera off.
Y
Slew on / off. From the Transversal preset.
Also bound, as sim defaults with no hang glider function: trim (RB + right stick up / down), throttle (A, B, RB + A, RB + B), brakes (LB + RT), parking brake and wing fold (LT + RT together). Walking as your pilot uses the sim's own gamepad controls from the Transversal preset: left stick moves, right stick turns and looks.
Keyboard
Preset THGF Hang Glider (Keyboard) · built on the sim's own keyboard keysFirst defaults
Flying
AD
Weight shift left / right. The sim's own keys.
WS
Bar in / bar out. W pulls the bar in (nose down), S pushes it out (nose up).
QE
Yaw left / right.
U
Upright. Swing upright and unzip.
Ctrl+U
Prone. On approach it abandons the approach.
BV
VG on / VG off. The sim's own flap keys.
Space
Re-centre the view.
On the ground and launching
Ctrl+G
Setdown. Q / E turn you in place.
G
Pickup. W / S walk you forward and back, Q / E turn you.
Space
Launch ready on / off. After a landing or crash it resets the flight first.
Whold
Run. From launch ready, hold W to start the take-off run.
Tow
T
Call for tow.
QthenE
Start signal. Waggle left and right on the cart.
Space
Release while towing. X, the sim's own key, releases too.
Views
I
Instrument mode / next camera. Cockpit: instrument mode. External: Default, then Quickview 1 to 8.
C
Pilot view ↔ external view.
Shift+Z
Slew on / off. The sim's own key.
←↑→↓
Look around. The sim's own cockpit look keys.
Free look needs a centred analogue axis, which a keyboard does not have, so it is not bound here. A gamepad or joystick can be used alongside the keyboard for it.
Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS
Presets for the T.Flight HOTAS X, HOTAS 4 and HOTAS One: pick the THGF Glider preset and the THGF Transversal presetFirst defaults
Button numbers are the ones the sim shows in Controls (Button 1 is the stick trigger). The three models share one layout, so each preset binds the same buttons.
Flying
Stick
Weight shift. Left / right rolls, forward / back pulls the bar in or pushes it out.
Twist / rocker
Yaw. The rudder axis.
3
Upright.
4
Prone. On approach it abandons the approach.
109
VG on / VG off.
1trigger
Re-centre the view.
On the ground and launching
8
Setdown. Twist to turn in place.
7
Pickup. Stick forward / back walks, twist turns.
1trigger
Launch ready on / off. After a landing or crash it resets the flight first.
Stickforward
Run. From launch ready, push past halfway to start the take-off run.
Tow
5
Call for tow.
Twistleft, right
Start signal. Waggle on the cart.
1trigger
Release while towing.
Views
2
Instrument mode / next camera. Cockpit: instrument mode. External: Default, then Quickview 1 to 8.
11
Pilot view ↔ external view.
6
Slew on / off. From the Transversal preset.
Hat
Sim views. Left as the sim's own view controls.
Free look needs two centred analogue axes; the T.Flight has one spare, so free look is not bound in these first defaults. The throttle is free too: a hang glider has no engine.
On the control bar · any device
Eight buttons on the glider's control bar, clicked in instrument mode or in VR.