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Aircraft and configuration
The L-13 Blaník is an unpowered glider with a main wheel and wing flaps. TouchingCloud's implementation includes the front cockpit and type-specific geometry and aerodynamics. The author identifies further aerodynamic and aerobatic refinement as ongoing work.
Let L-13 Blanik
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The L-13 Blaník is an unpowered glider with a main wheel and wing flaps. TouchingCloud's implementation includes the front cockpit and type-specific geometry and aerodynamics. The author identifies further aerodynamic and aerobatic refinement as ongoing work.
History & design
Part of Kunovice’s glider tradition
The L-13 Blaník grew from a manufacturing programme that also produced the Galánka, Pionýr and Šohaj gliders. Aircraft Industries describes it as its most successful sailplane, exported to forty-three countries.
Aircraft Industries · LET Aircraft Industries company history ↗Aircraft Industries company history, printed page 4
Later all-metal gliders
The company subsequently produced the two-seat L-23 from 1988 and the single-seat L-33 from 1991. These are later branches of the glider programme; their dates and configurations should not be applied to the original L-13.
Aircraft Industries · LET Aircraft Industries company history ↗Aircraft Industries company history, printed page 4
Systems & details
Cockpit and soaring resources
The front seat is simulated, with the rear cockpit still planned in the archived description. A navigation tablet displays maps, a glider trail, lift indications and task information. Twenty historical liveries are included.
Edition differences
The developer describes MSFS 2020 compatibility in MSFS 2024 with known issues, including changes to ballast, map display and sounds. Native conversion was still planned. Soaring tasks and preflight bracing removal are described as MSFS 2020 features.
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Simulator documentation
Cockpit and soaring resourcesLet L-13 Blanik
The front seat is simulated, with the rear cockpit still planned in the archived description. A navigation tablet displays maps, a glider trail, lift indications and task information. Twenty historical liveries are included.
Developer description · visuals, instruments and liveries
TouchingCloud · Read the source ↗Edition differencesLet L-13 Blanik
The developer describes MSFS 2020 compatibility in MSFS 2024 with known issues, including changes to ballast, map display and sounds. Native conversion was still planned. Soaring tasks and preflight bracing removal are described as MSFS 2020 features.
Developer description · MSFS 2024 compatibility and MSFS 2020 features
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Simulator documentation
Let L-13 Blanik — simulator documentationTouchingCloud · Let L-13 Blanik product descriptionAircraft reference
LET Aircraft Industries company historyAircraft Industries · Aircraft Industries company history, printed page 4Built-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
TouchingCloud L-13 Blanik
TouchingCloud · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
An unpowered glider with a main wheel, wing flaps and separate airbrakes.
Let L-13 Blanik
Free and Pro · Revision 1 · Partial review
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024 · X-Plane 12
An unpowered glider with a main wheel, wing flaps and separate airbrakes.
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