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There are also terrain and weather conditions.

Typically it is very hard to glide at night since a large part of gliding is the air movement caused by local and regional thermal differences.

Ardupilot (or one of its offshoots, I can't recall exactly) does have a lift detecting autopilot in beta. I don't know how it works with a specific route, but it seems to lock in thermals pretty well.




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