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Layton Soaring
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 ก.พ. 2014
This channel is a means to share my videos of soaring with friends, family, and anyone else interested in the fine art of soaring.
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HSS Auto Tow Training
มุมมอง 697 หลายเดือนก่อน
Training for drivers and pilots on the HSS ground tow ops.
Manifold Pressure
มุมมอง 11Kปีที่แล้ว
Learn what the manifold pressure gauge does, where that pressure comes from, and how to understand what it means to you as a pilot. 
Daring Jet Team - Tryout / Intro Flight
มุมมอง 96ปีที่แล้ว
Introductory flight in the L-39 Albatross on 6-1-22. This is part of the tryout to become one of two pilots on the Daring Jet Team competing in the Jet 1 Cup dogfighting championship.
First (Working) Day as a Crop Duster
มุมมอง 2Kปีที่แล้ว
May 23, 2023 I flew my first load of something other than water.  I was spraying insecticide on alfalfa fields. 325 acres in total.  It was pretty nerve-racking, actually having chemical in the hopper. 
Daring Jet Team - Jet 1 Cup Promo - Stephen Layton
มุมมอง 1562 ปีที่แล้ว
My self-promo video to be selected as a Daring Jet Team pilot for the Jet 1 Cup. Please vote for me by liking the video on Facebook!
11.1 Sectional Charts
มุมมอง 2043 ปีที่แล้ว
Ground school training for basic understanding of sectional charts.
RV-3 Loops and Rolls (4-18-20)
มุมมอง 6124 ปีที่แล้ว
Sharing some just-learned aerobatic maneuvers in my RV-3. I traded the Xenos for this airplane last year.
Stephen & Tyler Xenos 6-16-18
มุมมอง 7156 ปีที่แล้ว
Too much wind for a normal training day, along with little to no ground crew for auto-tow. Stephen & Tyler did about 1.5 hours of flying in the Xenos instead. Both had a good time.
200 mile Flight After Work - In the Xenos Motorglider
มุมมอง 6K7 ปีที่แล้ว
Flew from Hobbs, NM to Shallowater, TX after work. Took a few pictures of my dad's orchard, fueled up in Levelland, TX and headed back home. Landed without a single minute to spare before sunset! That's important since gliders can't fly after sunset. Great fun!
Training Flight - July 1, 2017
มุมมอง 3227 ปีที่แล้ว
Training flight with Dale. Launching with the pickup (Auto Tow)
2016 Xenos Compilation
มุมมอง 3.5K8 ปีที่แล้ว
This video is a compilation of several flights made in 2016 in my Xenos. The purpose is to show off a fantastic motorglider.
Thermalling in the Xenos - Steep Turns
มุมมอง 9198 ปีที่แล้ว
Doing some local soaring on 6-26-2016 in Hobbs, NM in the Xenos motorglider. Thermals were at times very strong, but equally narrow. I was doing a lot of steep-banked thermalling in order to climb. As usual, the Xenos performed very well.
Soaring in the Xenos
มุมมอง 9K9 ปีที่แล้ว
Today was my first chance to do some soaring in the Xenos. It definitely exceeded my expectations! It was a weak day, but I was still able to gain 3,500', soar for over an hour, and glide 17 miles back to the airport. Very nice glider!
Caprock Soaring Club 02 17 2014 Flight #2
มุมมอง 18910 ปีที่แล้ว
Caprock Soaring Club 02 17 2014 Flight #2
Caprock Soaring Club 02 17 2014 Flight #1
มุมมอง 14810 ปีที่แล้ว
Caprock Soaring Club 02 17 2014 Flight #1
Amazing! Thank you so much!
Would’ve been nice if you would’ve equated 29.92” of mercury to a PSI reading Say 14.7 or thereabouts
Technically it is incorrect to say an engine "sucks" air in. The descending piston creates a low pressure and atmospheric pressure "pushes" the air into the engine. That is why at full throttle you will see the same, or very close to it, manifold pressure as atmospheric pressure. You have removed the obstruction of the throttle plate and allowed full atmospheric pressure to enter the intake system. This is one of the ways car racers test their engines intake systems for proper size...if you see more than a .5 inch of pressure loss at full throttle then the intake system is either too small or there is some restriction in the intake system. But a very nice and well done video in any case.
You are correct. I chose to explain it this way for clarity...so that more people could gain a better understanding. My goal was intelligibility without doing (significant) damage to the actual physics at play. I allude to this several times, especially at 15:19.
I tried to understand this when watching other TH-cam channels, but they did not make sense. Your video shows these concepts in total clarity. Manifold pressure is in absolute terms. (atmospheric bearing down on the pool of mercury with the mercury tube vacant of all air) Vacuum gage pressure is in relative terms. (Gage diaphragm exposed to atmosphere on both sides, with the top of the tube always open ) . What a wonderful instructor you are sir!
Please make more videos , thank you it’s great
Excellent!
“Sucking so hard” excellent explanation.
Great explanation!
I was so confused about MAP. Thanks to this video, this makes a ton more sense - thank you most kindly!
Excelent explanation. If I could make a suggestion, is adding the other half of the story. WOW the Prop lever (which controls the pitch) ends up affecting the engine RPM. For fixed-pitch propeller the throttle lever alone affects the manifold pressure and also affects the RPM of the engine (power and speed), and both are easier to understand/connect. What could be added to this video is how with variable-pitch propeller alters this relationaship between power and engine speed to understand when do we need more throttle or more pitch. Thanks a lot!!!
Excellent! Subscribed!
Muito bom! Obrigado pela aula!
This was just beautiful.
Thank you. That was very well explained. I have a theoretical question - how would the M.P gauge behave in a single cylinder engine?
Well explained! Good job
When does manifold pressure increase
Standard atmospheric pressure is 29.92 in of mercury, so is there a reason that you’re off by .01 in?
No reason. Just picked a number.
Great video and you just win a subscriber 👍
How can one increase pressure at altitude to produce more power? Turbo?
Outstanding!
waht about mixtur?
thanks
Great explanation..thank you.
Thank you, sir, for your explanation! I have the 10hrs required for commercial certificate; I did not really understand the idea behind manifold pressure until now. thanks for taking your time to explain it this well.
Thanks. Very Good explanation!!
Appreciate it good work !!!
Thank you for making this video, it was great!
Great stuff, subbed <3
Jet guy (Airline) and getting back into recips,... You helped make this a great refresher and cleared some things up for me. Mike Busch says "Manifold Sucks"! It can be hard to grasp the concept, but you made it easy!!!
Excellent explanation
Great video, thank you. Helped a lot
Thank you! Great explanaation!
Finally. Explained in a way that I could understand it. Thanks Man! PS And yes. You had to draw me a picture.😊
your use of a pilot pen did not go unnoticed :)
Excellent explanation! The diagram was great as well. I'm a low time pilot looking to earn my complex endorsement very soon and was having trouble understanding how this worked. For some reason, the way you described it, clicked in my head. Now make a video on how it correlates to the prop settings of a constant speed prop and how why it's not recommended to have higher manifold pressure than prop speed. Still need my brain to click on that.
Hi, this is because if you have a high manifold pressure but a very low prop speed, there is a lot of force being exerted on the spring which governs the pitch of the propeller, and it can break!
Happy for you Stephen, be safe out there. Looking forward to a visit from you after the season.
any idea how much a full feathering prop would make?
Not a clue, but it would certainly help!
stephen - i am seriously thinking about building a xenos. i would like to hear more about how well it performs with the engine off. dodn't know if this plane is an el camino, lousy car, lousy truck. doesn't appear to be, but someone like you would have a legit opinion.
Sonex publishes about a 24:1 glide ratio, and I think that is pretty accurate. I regularly flew a 1-26 and a 2-33 in our soaring club and would fly the Xenos as well. I think it preformed similarly, except at somewhat higher speeds. That means you can't thermal as tight as the 1-26 can, but it means that you have better glider performance. Soaring in southeastern NM, I found it an excellent glider (comparing to the aforementioned ones). I also found it to be a solid (though slow) airplane. When I sold (traded) it a few years ago, I flew it all the way to Baltimore, MD without issue. It is of course a compromise between airplane and glider, but that in itself is a pretty cool formula! Some days I would take it out, thinking I was going to fly somewhere, then I would hit a thermal and decide to just shut the engine down and soar instead. I was told it would cripple my cross-country soaring skills...but it had the opposite effect. I learned how far I could push rather than not chancing a landout (usually didn't have a crew to come get me), and the engine started every time I needed it...though you never count on it. I flew it for about 3 years, then traded for an RV-3. I now fly a Thorp T-18 regularly, and often wish that I could get my hands on another Xenos (in addition to my T-18). I absolutely loved that glider! I had a few people fly with me who didn't care much for it...but for the most part they weren't very good at flying it either...so it wasn't the fault of the aircraft. Like everyone else says, it depends on your mission. If you want to get in the sky for a while, so some soaring, go places slowly, save some money while doing it, then a Xenos is an excellent choice!
@@laytonsoaring3173 thank you. i'm believing this will be a good choice for me and what i plan to do, at least at this point. i was seriously looking at backcountry planes, they're the rage right now, but, i backpack and hike a lot, and the backcountry strips say in ID, rarely have anything to do once you get there, no water, power, hiking access. the ones that do, Smiley's, Johnson Creek, etc.... i can get to in my 6A, and it only takes 2 hrs of flying, vs double that in a backcountry plane, and they have showers, morning coffee, internet, free firewood, hot springs, white water kayaking, free bikes.... never flew a -3. word is they are the most fun [if you don't get stupid and put too much hp up front].
Very nice. Getting off into a thermal from auto tow is very cool and unique. Never saw or experienced it. Just winch tow! LOVE SGS 1-26 sailplanes. I fly one and a 1-34! @Antelope Valley Soaring.
No beeping variometer? Or is it just in your headset?
Great flight. Thank you for sharing
Nice flying 👍coolest looking plane !
I really like the xenos thinking about buying one . How does the xenos handle in a crosswind say 15 or 20 mph ? I can’t find that info anywhere. Thank you Great vid watched it a couple times think I’ll watch it again 👍
If I remember correctly, the most crosswind component I could reasonably handle was about 14mph.
@@laytonsoaring3173 thank you I just couldn’t find that info anywhere . Enjoyed your vids 👍
What equipment is needed to autotow for the tow vehicle? How did you setup the tow line? And what tow line did you use? a 2000' rope?? Or cable? How long of a runway is needed to do what you did to get to 1300'? Thanks a bunch.
We use 2000' of steel 0.092" well measuring wire (single strand). Our runway is almost 8,000' long.
14.4K MSL? I bet the VIEW was AWESOME!!
At 00:40 in this video: *"MORE COWBELL!"* 😊😊😊
how far can I fly with the engine off from a height of 1 mile? What is the average speed with engine off? How fast does it lose altitude?
that info is all on the website if you can read graphs
Wow it really handles nice looks easy to fly great vids
What would be a fast cruse speed in Xenos ? Thanks nice plane
I typically would cruise at 105 mph (indicated airspeed).
Nice plane I know there is faster motor gliders out there but for the price you get a lot of plane in comparison thanks for the reply
Thinking about one of these planes what’s the best cruse speed to make good time on a trip thanks