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Ian Molesworth
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2008
วีดีโอ
denbighcircuit
มุมมอง 1414 หลายเดือนก่อน
Circuit and landing at Denbigh. Wind 45 degrees from the left down the runway at about 15 knots only moderare turbulence.
Convergence or a little bit of wave?
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Overhead the field 27/05/2024. Chris and Willow took a launch and contacted it. Later the day delivered convergence, ridge, thermal and little bits of wave.
IM Soaring - Lowpass
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'Competition finish' or just a plain old 'Beat-up' or runway inspection. Doing about 230 kph. Aircraft needs attention, there are too many whistles and lots of wind noise.
IM Soaring. March thermic over Snowdon
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First decent thermic day over North Wales so we headed out to Snowdon for some people watching.
An unpromissing day delivers a 16500 wave climb in great spring sunshine.
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Looked decidedly iffy at briefing. Took a lob onto the ridge with a lot of South in the breeze. working but not too exciting. Managed to contact wave at about 1700 agl over the club. Pushing out to Conway valley produced a good climb in bright sunshine!
IM Soars - Summer wave
มุมมอง 38ปีที่แล้ว
Playing along a gentle wave front above Denbigh club. The beeping is the audio variometer telling me if I'm in rising air, higher pitch, faster cycle. or sinking air, solid tone deeper the worse it gets. It can be turned off but it's a good way of not having to concentrate on an instrument panel and leaves your eyes free to lookout for other aircraft, and developing weather, mountains; everythi...
Denbigh Easterly wave and lennie chasing
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Denbigh Easterly wave and lennie chasing
Landing 27, rollout and valet parking :)
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Landing 27, rollout and valet parking :)
Ian - Marco here. Going back to wave at the kid should be a mandatory requirement. Also I noticed a fire in the distance..... I remember MGC pilots being drawn to fires like flies to poop. I'm envious of your winter flying - it's minus 25 celcius on our side...
We are fortunate to have thermic and convergence in summer, ridge and wave in the winter and occasionally summer time too and almost unrestricted airspace. A hard runway and a good supply of tug pilots. 364 day a year operation, Have not tried to get a tow on Christmas day but I suspect some poor soul would do the honours if a couple of us wanted one! Fires are few and far between in the UK these days.
I had a lovely visit to the airfield in the clwyds a couple of years ago to get over a bit of fear of flying I'd developed after some really nasty Atlantic turbulence... a few take offs and short flights sorted me right out, thanks fellas! 😊
Oof! That looks like so much fun, that one!
4:50 Foxtrot Zulu. That'll be me then👍👍
You've got ads on this one Ian. Hope you get some 💷💷!
External Catheter is the solution for long flights.
Adverts on this vid now Ian. Hope you are getting paid ⚠️
Ian, how about plastic and lightening?
Say Ian, what''s the small grey handle in your left hand?
flaps
@@philippelambert329 tyvm
I'm sorry, were you really flying a glider in IFR conditions? Or did I not see it right?
No, they really weren't?
Allowed in the UK.
Nice! Always more fun going fast close to terrain!
Wave :)
big bird at 3:41 :)
Lekker Ian - thanks for posting
Thank you for a super video!
Did you find your toilet on this one?
Ian are you getting into cloud flying now? It is legal in your part of the world right?
damn, that is low :o
Ugh, pretty rough tow. Was it rotor conditions from the ground up? … and IMC for good measure😅
Ian. S.A units of speed and weight are meaningless to us Brits of a certain age. Imperial/Civilised World aviation standard, Feet, Knots, pounds please. Snoopy👍
Typical glider pilot... Watching a WW2 bomber and still thinking of soaring 🤪 what a beautiful display!!
What? You sure it isn't convergence lift? Wave requires a very stable airflow to compress properly, and the zone of lift is absolutely smooth..
I have been flying for 45 years, and i've never been in a glider before. That looks pretty cool
Thanks Ian
What a ripper! What are your cloud flying rules there?
My favourite place for a downwind!
Promo'SM
Just before I left SA, I approached Karl Heinz and asked if we could do some aerobatics together. I still don't know if it was the scariest or the most exciting time of my life. It honestly felt like we were rounding out just above the roof tops of the old age homes alongside the club. I could literally see the kreepy-krawly in their pool, we would round out and go for another flip and I would see the kreepy-krawly again. I thought to myself "Jesus %$#&& we are going to dive nose first into their pool!!! What was I thinking asking Karl of all people for some aerobatics." . Your evening aerobatics session is a whole lot more pleasant.
With Karl-Heinz ........ you probably were! :)
❤❤❤❤❤ love it!
Cool Video
niiiice
#bringbackthesmoker
That's shunting.
Actually only doung about 250. Another 25 in the tank!
Iv'e done this from '09' In my Discus 2ct. Seems your 'yaw' string needs to be re-callibrated. 😆👍
09 is usually a considerable headwind as it's usually a ridge or wave day. I can usually get the wing up as roll starts if it's not already breezy enough to balance standing still. The degree of roll authority with full negative flap vs positive is quite astonishing too. I'll replace the batteries for he string.
Nicely done Ian! That was a nice roll and lift off distance. The pavement much really help get those critical first 20kts quickly. I've never aerotowed off of pavement, only self launched off pavement. I hope one day that our club will consider a paved strip for the initial takeoff roll.
Cool - 2 questions: . 1. Did you tilt the glider to left a little at the start? . 2. Any tips when doing this on a grass runway. Apparently I will have to do this for an outlanding retrieve on a cross country course. (I guess hand on release is very important) . Bonus question: when did you guys start your 2023 gliding season? (we are due to start flying in Toronto next weekend - April 22)
1 - Left wing down and nose pointing straight at at a point midway between centre line and right side of the runway. With the left wing down she pulls left before the wing comes up. Right stick and rudder to get the wing up then its a normal start. 2 - Short grass and no tufts. Point away from the down wing more, but not so much that a swing becomes aggressive. Hand on the yellow and rather pull it too early than too late. 3 - 01/01/23! That tarmac strip lets us fly year round! In winter, it's ridge and epic wave to 24000'. Summer we get ridge, thermal, convergence and occasional wave. It's a great place to fly!
So Ian. I have a distinct memory of you instructing me: I took off at at about 200ft above ground, I reached over and closed the side window. You crapped on me for doing that at a particular sensitive moment.....just saying....🙂 . . . Seriously I was a student and needed to be crapped on. I'm sure a more 'experienced pilot' can close the window and still manage a tow at 200ft. . Congrats on your success, I'm now going to double check if my flap movement impacts my ailerons. Thanks.
Hope the lesson stuck! :)
Nice to see one of my "old" pupils" enjoying the land of my fathers!!
I've flown in a lot of places as you know Steve. Few are as picturesque as Wales!
Very interesting!
Holy crap that rotor cloud at 3:43 hit hard in the yellow arc! That was crazy! This scene is like something from a dream.
Good observation. Actually the air was quite smooth during that clip. At high speed the vent flap in the canopy hatch sucks open and I have to keep closing it. A small bit of turbulence will whip it open. It needs the pinch screw tightening up. When it opens there's a good amount of vibration on the canopy that gets transmitted to the fairly flimsy camera mount. I want to improve the mount but there's not a lot of room to explore. Making it a solid mount risks it becoming dangerous in an emergency. Just a note too, I have my LX polar Vne set at 250 kph, well below the rated 275 kph so the LX screams overspeed a good margin below the real limit. There's not a lot of designed in margin above Vne and the Lak gets up there very, very easily.
I had some phenomenal moments this year too... it's funny when looking back at the vids I took, my inability to find superlatives to describe what I was seeing and experiencing in those moments. "Incredibly... incredible..." was the best I could do for my first between layers in convergence moment. I desperately wish there was a way to better capture these incredibly incredible moments on video too. Perhaps a GoPro 360 on top of the vert stab? Awesome flight Ian. Thanks for sharing this amazingly amazing experience.
Hey Ian, Marco here. After 20 years, today I went solo..... I'm getting back on the high horse. Tom (from MGC) saw me off today. Check out our gliding club here on TH-cam: Great Lakes Gliding. . . . Now onto something a little more serious. This wave flying you are doing is over the top amazing. Is there anyone at your club with a twin that would allow me to sit in as a passenger? I'd fly over to Wales for this experience.
We have two twins. A Grob Twin Astir rated for aerobatics and an Arcus M self launcher. Both are used continually for instruction and intro rides and the Grob is available to suitably qualified pilots for hire. Winter is around the corner and the best time for wave is over the next 4 or 5 months! We have accomodation available o tge field and lots of local hostelry. Visitors always welcome! denbighgliding.co.uk/ speak to Julie in the office. You could fly into Liverpool, hire a car, just over an hours drive into North Wales. :)
Say hi to Tom!
I really should do more test flights to resolve the noise, but it's just so BLOODY hot and humid in the summertime. Maybe I should take advantage of it and do these quickie test flights.... Oh well! Time to put the Solo back in 😂 I wish I didn't have to. I wouldn't put it in at all at this point. I prefer to fly pure or electric.
Great Ian, thanks, may be I can start flying my lady LAK w/o ear plugs now :)
if you have any video/audio taken in flight with noise background I would appreciate a link so I can analyse it too. Every LAK that I have been able to get sound tracks of has had this same noise!
@@imsoaring Hi Ian, good to know. I will take an audio recording next flight. May be next year as season is over here in Germany regards Michael
Nice! I was wondering about how to get rid of the low frequency 'boom' in my miniLak. Now I know where to start...
Let us know on the LAK 17 forum on Facebook how it goes Tim. I'll update on progress too.
The same techniques should help get you to your problem! What aircraft is it?
Ypu do not want to crash here. Amazing flying.
Best to avoid crashing anywhere! :) But you are right, it is 'moon country' up in the 'berg.
@@imsoaring As a school pupil I did a 14 day gliding course in the Free State near Odendaalsrus. We used thermals from the mine dumps to gain height. It was great fun. Not the same dramatic scenery as the Berg.
Looking relaxed and in control. Did you launch with a winch or tow up.
Aerotow
Great instruction Ian 😎 and even better execution of the loops, transition to low pass, transition to dive brakes right into a silk landing. Champion Status Achieved 🏆 I'm curious - is that a Grob, K21 or 500? It's hard to tell from that angle.
Grob. But not me in the back. We got Jennifer and 2 of my daughters friends up, one had never been in any type of aircraft so a good days flying, they all got some aeros in. Great to be a part in people getting their first exposure to our sport.
@@imsoaring Gilly wishes he had your skill Ian
This looks fabulous!!! You lucky lady Jen!! 🙌🏻
I thought folks landed up on that ridge at Denbigh?
Nope, only visiting instructors do that! :)