Gold Glider
The Gold Glider is the Ultra hang glider: how to get it, open it, launch from the ground with the gold updraft and steer it on every platform.
Updated 2026-11-05ultravehicleflyingglider
The Gold Glider is a gold hang glider for FusionFall Ultra members. Jump off something high, open the wing and glide: bank to turn, dive for speed, push the bar out to float. With the glider in your vehicle slot you can also launch straight from the ground on a gold updraft.
Added in B152 and B153 (November 5, 2026). It became a vehicle with the updraft in B155 the same day.
How to get it
- Every character on an Ultra account gets one Gold Glider at login, delivered with the other Ultra rewards.
- It cannot be traded or sold, and it never expires.
- The item stays in your inventory if your membership ends, but gliding needs an active membership.
- Gliding can be switched off: Settings > ULTRA > PERKS > GOLD GLIDER (on by default).
Two ways to open it
Jump again in mid-air
While you are falling with at least 2.5 m of air under your feet, press Jump again. The wing unfolds with a burst of sparkles. This works whether the glider is equipped, in your bag or not on this character at all: it only needs Ultra and the setting.
On mobile a gold GLIDE button appears above JUMP whenever you can open the glider. Tap it.
The vehicle key
Put the Gold Glider in your vehicle slot (double-click it or drag it there), then press V. On mobile, tap RIDE.
| Where you are | What V does |
|---|---|
| In the air, 2.5 m or more above the ground | Opens the glider |
| On the ground, or lower than 2.5 m | Gold updraft: the wing opens on the spot and lifts you about 10 m |
| Already gliding | Folds the glider |
The updraft works once per flight. You must land before you can use it again, and wait 1 second after the last glide ended. It needs about 12 m of open sky above your head: under a roof or a bridge the chat tells you there is not enough open sky.
Flying
| Input | Desktop and web | Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Dive (faster, steeper) | W or Up | Joystick up |
| Flare (slower, floats) | S or Down | Joystick down |
| Bank left / right | A / D or Left / Right | Joystick sideways |
| Fold and drop | Jump or V | DROP button or RIDE |
Inputs ease in and out, so tap lightly for small corrections.
| Flight state | Speed | Sink |
|---|---|---|
| Hands off | about 11 m/s | about 0.9 m per second (roughly 12 m forward for every 1 m lost) |
| Flare held | about 8 m/s | about 0.45 m per second: the longest air time |
| Full dive | up to 27 m/s | steep |
- Dive, then flare to trade speed for height: pulling up from a fast dive zooms you several metres back up before you settle into the float.
- Turns are tighter when you fly slowly and cost a little speed.
- Close to the ground the glider sinks more slowly, which makes long, low landings easy.
- After folding, you can reopen the glider 0.6 seconds later if you are still high enough.
Landing and walls
- Touch the ground below 15 m/s and you flare and run out a few steps. Faster than that is a hard landing with a puff of dust. Either way the glider folds away by itself.
- Landing on water puts you straight into swimming.
- Flying head-on into a wall at more than 9 m/s folds the glider and makes you stumble. Sliding along a wall only costs speed, but if it slows you below 3 m/s the glider folds.
- For the first 0.6 seconds of a glide, and while the updraft is still carrying you up, walls only stop you. That gives you time to steer away if you opened the glider facing one.
- Taking damage does not close the glider. Being knocked out, warping or changing zone does.
Where it does not work
The glider will not open in the tutorial, Club Fusion, space or The Commons, while you are on a vehicle, or while you are on a ride such as a zipline, cannon, slide, skyway or bus. It also needs you to be alive and out of the water. The chat says "The Gold Glider can't be used here." when the place is the problem.
What you see and hear
- The camera pulls back and widens a little with speed, and tilts slightly with your bank.
- Gold ribbons trail from the wingtips in fast flight and hard turns. They follow your Ultra SPARKLES setting.
- Wind noise rises with speed, and a short beep sounds each second while you climb.
- Other players see your glider, your banking and your ribbons on desktop, web and mobile.
- A small "GLIDE" hint appears during real falls until you have opened the glider three times. On mobile the GLIDE button glows instead.
Good to know
- A non-member who presses V with the glider equipped is told "The Gold Glider is an Ultra perk."
- The glider has no ride of its own and no ground speed: on the ground you walk as normal.
- Ultra first person switches to the normal camera while you glide.
- You can hold only one item in the vehicle slot. To ride a hoverboard or car, swap it in; the jump-again way of opening the glider still works.
