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Aircraft and configuration
The HpH 304S Shark configuration represented here is an unpowered 18-metre sailplane. It has a retractable main wheel, water ballast, spoilers and flaps with both negative and positive settings. STMA offers metric and imperial GPS and variometer displays.
HpH 304S Shark Unpowered
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The HpH 304S Shark configuration represented here is an unpowered 18-metre sailplane. It has a retractable main wheel, water ballast, spoilers and flaps with both negative and positive settings. STMA offers metric and imperial GPS and variometer displays.
History & design
From the Glasflugel 304 to the Shark
HpH acquired the production technology and documentation for the Glasflugel 304 in 1997. Its updated 304CZ was followed by the 304C Wasp, a Standard Class version. The company describes the later Shark family as a new design programme drawing on that accumulated manufacturing experience.
The 304 name therefore covers a lineage, not one interchangeable glider. The selected simulator aircraft is the unpowered 18-metre 304S Shark; engine-equipped members of the wider family should not supply its propulsion assumptions.
HpH · Company history ↗HpH company history; unpowered model identity from the linked simulator product.
Systems & details
Flaps, ballast and energy management
STMA describes an X-Plane 12 model developed from HpH polar data. Negative flap settings, cockpit ballast controls and separate variometer and speed-to-fly modes make configuration part of the soaring task. The MacCready setting changes the instrument's speed guidance; it does not add engine power to this unpowered version.
In your simulator
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Manuals & resources
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Simulator documentation
HpH 304S Shark Unpowered — simulator documentationSTMA · HpH 304S Shark Unpowered product descriptionAircraft documentation
Company historyHpH · Manufacturer account of its own acquisition, production and subsequent design programme.Built-in force-feedback profiles
Read the documentary basis, editable starting settings and remaining questions for the aircraft you fly. Each explanation refers to the exact profile revision shown.
Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 2 profile choices
STMA HpH 304S Shark
STMA · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
X-Plane 12
The unpowered 18-metre 304S Shark sailplane.
HpH 304S Shark Unpowered
Free and Pro · Revision 1 · Partial review
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024 · X-Plane 12
The unpowered 18-metre 304S Shark sailplane.
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