Keyboard:

'space bar' reset everything

'p' toggle pause

'w' change wind mode (calm, vert. sinusoidal, horiz. sinusoidal, trubulence)

'a' engage the autopilot (will try to maintain pitch quickly and air speed slowly)

'+' and '-' inc/decrease wind speed

'[' and ']' inc/decrease the period of wind changes

'j' and 'n' inc/decrease the glider skin drag

'h' and 'b' inc/decrease the pilot mass

'g' and 'v' inc/decrease the glider mass

'f' and 'c' inc/decrease the glider line length

't' give the glider a push to start it tumbling

'r' give the glider a push to start it reverse tumbling

'm' mark a reference point and print glide info from the last reference point

'd' spew flight data



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The grid is 10m x 10m. The glider is roughly to scale. The physics of this glider is reasonably accurate. With the default settings, best glide is 9.3 at 43km/h. Min sink is 1.0m/s at 29km/h. Stall is 24.5km/h. Full bar is 63km/h

Have fun. Work on your active flying, infinite tumbles and loop de loops.