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Looked like a practice cable release to me. His hand pulled the release and he didn’t check that the cable had released until well into his cross wind leg. Nice circuit and good landing…but not a shock in my view.

Not bad, agree with the pull the release, could have landed with a bit less speed if it was fully held off, note stick position in the centre not at the back

my teacher told me at winch launch never hands on the yellow release.

In Texas we just catch a thermal it 400' and go back up lots of lift here

I am genuinely shocked humanity didn’t figure out this form of flight sooner. It seems almost intuitive.

Altimeter set to QFE? In the US, there are (high altitude) fields where that is impossible. We are required to set QNH.

Why is he holding on to the release cable all the time ? I only ever got hold of that at the point of releasing the cable,seems a nervous P2 😊

By the sound of it this was just a training exercise.

Excellent!

As you don’t know if or how long a trailing broken cable might be you must get into the habit of pulling the cable release twice every time you go through this exercise or for real. EVERY TIME.

I used to love flying ASK-21s from West Malling airfield as a cadet in the ATC in the early 1980s. The ex WWII Hurriance airfield was bulldozed and turned into a housing estate many years ago, but I still have many a very fond memory of gliding from there and onto Maidstone and then up Blue Bell Hill to catch thermals off from GEC Avionics' huge car park, where I would later work for 20 years writing the software for HUDs.

Something fishy here. You're meant to pull the release twice in a genuine cable break to ensure no part of the snapped cable is flapping about outside. I think it was a training exercise

Remember to pull the releaser.

If it's got wings, a cockpit, and goes up in the air even an inch, it needs a motor with propellers at the very least, even if it's nothing more than a 5hp Briggs and Stratton with a trolling motor prop tied on with hay baling string.

This happened to me on my first solo flight on the winch. I was at about 300ft AGL and was able to put stick forward pull out brakes/spoilers and land in front (without having to do the circuit). I thought they had done it on purpose, and I was so miffed thinking I had to the back of the student queue and pay again. Then they told me, "nope that was a real rope break." And that's when I said, "Oh". Good training is important.... well done... you handled it well.

Well done. Maybe don't focus on the altimeter so much but look out the window and see if the picture looks right or not 👍

try to fly directly to Ukraine for the war next time. They are waiting for you there to be enslaved by Ukrainians

FIND THOSE THERMALS KING

This happened to me on my very first winch launched experience flight. That was a K21 as well. The instructor? was under the apprehension that I'd had some experience. Not knowing what to do, I pulled the stick back enough to cause the problem. Thank goodness the instructor wasn't totally off it because we had a successful straight out landing. Obviously we didn't get too high. The negative G experience was 'orrible, but I didn't lose my lunch. Despite this, and probably because of the intense adrenaline hit, after returning to base I immediately joined the club! I had two more flights booked that day. Unfortunately, as I now realise, it was with the same "expert". Up we went with him at the helm. Before I had much of a chance to get used to being a thousand feet or so above my preferred height. zero, he asked me if I'd experienced any G forces. Answering "no" he then said that I should because I couldn't be a pilot if I couldn't take it. Then followed a series of ups and downs +& minus G. I hated it. In hindsight I still think he was under the misapprehension that I had a degree of experience. Come the landing almost proved it. I was flying the thing, but I'd read Piggot's book and had practiced so many times in bed, so my basics weren't altogether unbelievable. I hadn't done any landing under the duvet, so clever dick had to swiftly take over before we ran out of height! Third flight was as it should have been. He did the launch and landing. I did the stuff in the air including a bit of thermal height gain! I seriously wished to continue despite all that. However life intervenes, and finance fizzled. It's 2022 now. I'm 30+ years older. (73) Old Arthur Itis has become a serious companion as well as others. I still crave for the gliding experience. I could afford a flight or two a month if I could get in and out of an aircraft. I live in south east Wales, and have a choice of two clubs Better late than never eh?

As the description is lacking can someone please explain what we are looking at here?

Good job. Nice landing

That landing was smooth

That kicked in like warp drive...

Could explain to me What happened? )

450ft more like 1,000ft Those Ripped Jeans did the trick!!

Man that looks like fun, how do you even get into this kind of thing? I want to try it

The interesting thing about a glider is that you have a 24/7 engine failure, but you don't call ATC and say mayday, coming in deadstick.

I would pay just to do this! how much does it cost to get to this point? i have zero experience, beyond general interest and flight sims.

A few comments saying the landing speed was too high. As a pupil in a simulated cable break his adrenaline would have been pumping. Far better to be slightly too fast than too slow - overall a great job and a safe landing.

Nicely handled

The student shouldn't have known it was going to happen or there's no training value

You are taught to pull the release 3 times even on a normal launch

They seek him here, they seek him there...

This is game ???

That's a how a launch failures done, nice quick and smooth rotation over the top. Nice one!

Would have been more interesting if you had landed on that little island.

i see no Launch failure but a failure training

Nice job, but make sure to pull the rope release after you stabilized. When it is an actual rope break you want the end of that rope gone.

Well executed .... the look out ....outside the circuit was a bit lacking.... but other than that a great recovery 👍👍👍

Well done nicely done

normal, medium length fun flight with a glider... not a "failure"

over 500 feet.

No cable release even if it was a practice you should still do the action of two or more pulls of the cable release handle just to get into the habit.

Love the almost instant push-over on the release! Takes good training/practice to fight that urge to keep pulling the nose up.

Need those thermals to climb or it's what goes up must come down :|

Nice save!! Good job!

I’m new to Gliders can you guys do a video showing the apparatus launching it ? I’m curious all I see is a rope and then your in the air I want to see the machine pulling you in action.

Well done Maks

Nicely executed. Could have (or rather should have) pulled the release handle 3 times and could have landed shorter. But that's not the goal during a launch failure, but to get down safely. Greetings from Germany :)

Good pilot he had the altitude and the speed. Good decision great landing