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Loved it! Makes me feel like I was there & want to be there at the same time! Cheers

The zero G maneuver is what we call " The Canadian Space Program " up here in the Great White North.

Nice to use the SGS 2-32. It will spin opposite on a secondary stall if the rudder is not centered during recovery. Again nice vid

Great video and editing! You're awesome at being informative and making the whole experience interesting to watch!

Well done, and what fun!

You're thermalling at the slowest possible speed , we can see your LS3 is buffeting at intervals .

Always love your videos, but this one is my new favorite. Thanks!!!

Catching up on older video's, thank you for this Bill. I found myself too caught up in the action & wish you had fast forwarded so much of the flights ha ha. Cheers.

Bill, It looked like your wingman was in a DG 800 or 808 S? I'm planning to go look at the one up in Minden, so maybe there be another one flying in SoCal Next year. Nice video.

Love the narrative and jumps to the map overview. Fun video as always. Thanks for sharing!

Can you make another quick video going more into water ballast? I get the principal ideas but don't really understand the specific ways in which it allows your plane to get better xc speeds.

Nice flight! Thanks for sharing.

That was awesome man, thank you!

Great late season flying! Love the videos!

great seeing you on Sunday Bill, keep the videos coming.

nice video..thanks for sharing..

And who doesnt love a square root. All the girls at my high school thats just for a start😢

Great explanation! Thank you so much!

Beautiful Fall scenery!

Beautiful video Bill!! Man..I’d love to do more ridge soaring!

Interesting landscape. So many huge boulders .

What a fantastic experience for such a young man!

Thanks for the advice!

Very interesting discourse. Fundamentally when you Bank a turn in an airplane you are pushing into your safety parameters. If you have an overloaded plane and you managed to take off, it will fly straight, but when you start to turn you start giving up things in a geometric progression in a trigonometric relationship that gobles up control authority. I can't get enough data to calculate what Bank angle would lead you with the most altitude at the end of a 360 turn. I wish I could get somebody that had a good glider to go up and get a lot of altitude and make three loops at a 45° angle and three loops in a 30 ° angle and see which one loses the most altitude for 360 degrees.

Have you thought about flying airplanes?

ur amazing, this was so helpful

Excellent and informative video Bill! Calling LA Center during our cross-country wave flight caused me much more anxiety than actually flying, oddly. This gives great pointers for next time.

This seems way above a new privat pilot level of understanding. At least it is for me.

My first reaction (prior to a month ago) was "Why use flight following? If ATC can see me, they will route others around me anyway, and if ATC can't see me, they can't provide flight following". But about a month ago, I had an NMAC (Near Mid-Air Collision) while thermalling at 16,500' near Twenty-Nine Palms. Another glider was climbing in the same thermal, about 1000' above me. A Cessna Citation passed by at my exact altitude, about 800' away horizontally. I contacted ATC, and they told me that both of us were VFR, with neither using flight following. I got the N number of the Citation, and used ADSB Exchange to see their entire flight. They took off from Arizona, climbed, engaged auto-pilot, and kept it on until descending at Long Beach. It was clearly on auto-pilot for the entire cruise phase, and you could easily tell, as their course was ruler straight, far straighter than any pilot could manually fly. Because we were VFR, separation is See and Avoid, but those in the Citation obviously weren't even looking. I was looking, had ADSB In/Out, and a Mode C transponder, which was working, as ADSB Exchange had my entire flight as well. I also had a FLARM, and an LX flight computer, that for whatever reason never gave me even an audible traffic advisory, even though I confirmed with the manufacturer that per my settings, it should have. I saw the jet at about 10 seconds prior to our closest point. If I was directly on the other side of the thermal, I never would have seen them at all, and our separation would have been in the 100-200' range. So technically, I did nothing wrong, but still ended up in a very high risk situation. Had I been on flight following at that point in time, I would have been advised of that traffic. So there is my use case. I have noted in the last few years an increase of people relying on ADSB and Auto-pilot, and flying VFR without flight following. I think with the ADSB 2020 mandate, many pilots assume that they can now see all traffic, and all traffic can see them. Obviously this is not true. Until the FAA bans using auto-pilot during See & Avoid VFR flight without flight following (which they likely will never do), that risk remains. This is your way to safeguard against that risk. The more we glider pilots use flight following, the more the ATC controllers will get used to dealing with us, and understand what gliders can and can't do.

Bill this is very interesting. . . Staying well within class G airspace, I'd like to some day legally experiment with cloud soaring. I'm considering discussing my options with Transport Canada (I'm in Canada) to perhaps get temporary permission to do cloud soaring in a given area. . . One of the biggest dangers with cloud soaring is knowing if there are any power planes in the vicinity. Flight following could be a great tool. . Comments?

Great video, I'm impressed with your situational awareness of the surrounding airspace. I'm an air traffic controller at March Air Force Base and it seems half my job is keeping pilots away from the Perris and Lake Elsinore skydiving sites, two of the most active skydiving sites in the world. But pilots are often unaware of them and almost seem to be magnetically attracted to them. I have a fun story for you; In ATC when you call for flight following we must input a flight plan to a destination airport. If the flight is something like aerial photography or a glider on a round robin flight, we'll put in some random airport nearby, even though we know you won't be landing there. Last month I got a flight plan for a glider near Mt San Jacinto at 10,000 landing at HMT which is in my airspace. I assumed it wasn't actually landing at HMT and SoCal just used that airport to get a flight plan in the system. I was curious because I want to get my glider rating so I googled the tail number, N29XD, and it came up with the name Bill Palmer! I was like "Oh shit! I watch that guy on TH-cam!" I'm also an PPL and IR pilot and I've always wanted to get into flying gliders, I plan on starting training at Warner Springs in a couple months. Your videos inspired me to finally get it done, and I finally live in an area where gliders are common. I moved here from Maine... Not much glider flying in the north woods....

Hola Bill, saludos desde Argentina!!

Always great to see a new BP soaring video

This was a great watch with my morning coffee Bill . I love your channel as it is geared more towards soaring addicts , than a casual viewers . Thank you for sharing .

Great flight I saw the WeGlide upload yesterday and was waiting for the video!

What Wave forecast models do you use Bill?

Great day to fly wave!

Hi Bill, many thanks for sharing and taking the time to edit and everything. I saw in WeGlide flight statistics that average speed in thermals is 133-143kph with 31-35 angles. The speed surprises me a little bit. I fly Ls1 which is obviously much slower but still looks very fast. I just ask to learn, as I have much less experience than you or than most people, not to make any critic. Many thanks again!

Amazing flight and video Bill! Thanks for sharing these with us. They're so fun to watch.

Congrats Bill

Congratulations on your amazing flight. I noticed you didn't take any of your climbs up to cloud base. I was thinking the convergence lift would be stronger closer to the clouds. Is there a reason why?

Nice flight Bill, talk about a long flight, congratulations!!

From the first upload (that uploaded in the wrong format). @RussOwens writes: Awesome video Bill. Amazing that you can fly such a nice flight, coordinate with ATC on one frequency, coordinate with Zach on another frequency, and put together the makings of such a nice video all at the same time. I've tried to video and fly at the same time and find it extremely demanding. You do us all a favor by posting these videos. You and Zach had awesome flights on October 5. I look forward to flying more with both of you on fun days like this. . Analytics Comments

Stunning video Bill. Thank you.

Congratulations on a great flight and an awesome video..loved tagging along!

@18:12 That's Nuts! I wish I could expirence that! Frick! Cheers from Down Under!