Sounds like fun but I concur on not pushing yourself at this point. Hurts at least as much and takes much longer to heal!
The only ridge soaring I did was with RC sailplane (and in simulators).
I liked the Clark Y flat bottomed airfoil in my Tri-Pacer. Very docile stall characteristics. Thinking back, I have to modify what I said about not slope soaring in a full-size plane. Did it for maybe a minute alongside Rattlesnake Mountain in the Tri-Pacer! Aircraft has not much of a glide ratio but the slope lift was plenty strong to maintain altitude. I don’t remember if I shut off the Lycoming or not.
The Tripacer is one of my favorite airplanes. I love our 1969 Cherokee 140, but a Tripacer with a 150HP engine easily outperforms it when it comes to taking off and climbing out. We were very close to purchasing one, but when we took it in for its pre-purchase inspection the mechanic found a bunch of cracked wing ribs and other problems.
The nice thing about a Cherokee is that you can leave it outside for a long time without damaging it. We have always kept ours in in a hangar anyway.
I probably shouldn’t admit to it, but I have taken advantage of ridge lift in the mountains on quite a few occasions. But this does involve more risk in an airplane than in a hang glider because you are flying so much faster.
I remember when I first met my wife... I told her that hang gliding was not actually very risky. Then I made the mistake of taking her to a hang glider club meeting and at least a quarter of the people who showed up had casts on some extremity or another. It had been a rougher than normal Spring which contributed to more than the usual amount of injuries. She was not very convinced when I gave her that explanation. She actually encouraged me to purchase the ultralight because she thought that wheels were safer than legs for landing.
The integrated GPU runs at 100% the entire time that MSFS 2020 is running. The Ryzen 5 APU begins to throttle at 90 C to protect itself. Hopefully the new fan will keep things running better.
This laptop is definitely performing better than should be expected. I have seen a bunch of reviews saying that my setup is not capable of running MSFS 2020 at all. I do worry a little about its longevity with the APU running as hot as it does when running the flight simulator. Every laptop motherboard that I have replaced over the years has been a heat related failure... the surface mount chips come loose. Sometimes you can get them reattached using a heat gun type soldering station, but this is pretty iffy.
One thing that I have learned however is that when you do your research it is sometimes to find a replacement laptop motherboard that will fit in your case that has a discrete GPU. This is similar to HP claiming that the motherboard currently in my laptop was capable of handling only 16 GBs of RAM when it is currently handling 32 GBs with no problems.
The replacement motherboard that I found for my wife's laptop wasn't in the same series of computer, but when looking at pictures on eBay I noticed a motherboard that was identical to hers except that their was a separate GPU installed where there was a spot had no chip on hers. And because this was from a more expensive computer that was much less popular... I actually paid about half the price for it, which more than paid for a difficult to find fan assembly. It was a gamble but it worked out.
My original point in this post was that running a challenging application or game on a weak computer can often lead to the computer's early demise. So, I am already researching my motherboard options for this laptop. I will be taking pictures when I replace the fan this evening.