This video clearly demonstrates the one nice thing about flying in rain: the wet yaw string stays glued to the center of the canopy instead of randomly flipping from side to side the way it usually does when I fly. So whenever I feel my inadequate stick-and-rudder skills, I just go looking for rain.
Just watched your video for the first time on a 4k screen. The rain on the canopy looked amazing. Glad your video was the first one I got to watch on my new computer screen!
Excellent demonstration on how to correctly handle landing with others!! Don't do anything weird or unexpected and don't hit anything, land as long as possible and or have energy to taxi off out of the way
WOW!!! what a super glider (and great pilot). With all that rain, a strong headwind and 10m/s of sink, I thought to myself, "okay let's see his outlanding". Man was I wrong
Is the cockpit glass treated with water repellent? The droplets on the glass looks very similar to when I treated my car window with water repellent, very effective as you normally would not need to use the windscreen wiper if you had a little speed :) The water droplets would just be few and very small and the rest would just blow away with the wind.
Hey Stefan, if you were a few kilometers further away from the finish line (runway - haha), would you have flown slower or faster in the rain? Parasite drag is very high in rain and even higher at speed...
The world competition in Australia showed that the LS3 can win over the ASW20 . That's the end of the myth of ASW20 superiority . That's means a lot for the LS3 pilots .
I have flown many brazilian championships in the past and have experienced the chalenge of evaluating final glides in rain. But it was a long time ago. I wonder if modern final glide computers can support different polars for light and heavy rains... Can they ?
I was twice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where I also flew above the Croatian border. Perhaps next year I have the possibility to come by glider to Croatia :)
Overan the active area of the runway (past the piano keys and in the rough -the other glider turned off so as not to block the strip - "nailing it"? Straight in finishes seem to have been banished for state competition and earlier world's here (Benalla 2017) which made it much less spectacular than in the 'old days' but safer --the finish line is higher and quite far from the airfield . "Heavy rain" --in pretty clear air, smooth but high sink not sure how much due to air vs speed , having encountered sleet in a glider (M200 ) many years ago with huge noise as well this is not really 'unusual' -having a final glide margin to fly through rain is wise but standard practice.
My instructor's voice comes automatically behind my mind "centerline!"😅 do they have a local rule of landing to one side? (Edit: with larger display I saw the other landing gliders, then landing to one side makes perfect sense. )
This video clearly demonstrates the one nice thing about flying in rain: the wet yaw string stays glued to the center of the canopy instead of randomly flipping from side to side the way it usually does when I fly. So whenever I feel my inadequate stick-and-rudder skills, I just go looking for rain.
Stefan simply nailed this landing! One of the best pilots out there! 👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you!
@@SteFly, my pleasure. Thank you for all the wonderful videos with which you keep us highly entertained.
Just watched your video for the first time on a 4k screen. The rain on the canopy looked amazing. Glad your video was the first one I got to watch on my new computer screen!
Nicely done. Good example for lower-time pilots showing how, provided you keep your calm everyone can get in safely.
Excellent demonstration on how to correctly handle landing with others!!
Don't do anything weird or unexpected and don't hit anything, land as long as possible and or have energy to taxi off out of the way
Super accurate landing, Stefan! 👍
Segelfligen macht echt Spaß und ich freu mich wenn ich dir zuschaue echt nächstes Jahr wieder fliegen zu können.
WOW!!! what a super glider (and great pilot). With all that rain, a strong headwind and 10m/s of sink, I thought to myself, "okay let's see his outlanding". Man was I wrong
Is the cockpit glass treated with water repellent? The droplets on the glass looks very similar to when I treated my car window with water repellent, very effective as you normally would not need to use the windscreen wiper if you had a little speed :) The water droplets would just be few and very small and the rest would just blow away with the wind.
Nice round out into ground effect before touchdown.
Good old Wortmann profile doing it's magic in rain
Hey Stefan, if you were a few kilometers further away from the finish line (runway - haha), would you have flown slower or faster in the rain? Parasite drag is very high in rain and even higher at speed...
Well done Stefan ! 👏👏
The world competition in Australia showed that the LS3 can win over the ASW20 . That's the end of the myth of ASW20 superiority . That's means a lot for the LS3 pilots .
Nice experience, tried last June under a cumulonimbus, with also, however, landing under deluge and hail!
It was cool watching that sailplane off to the right dumping ballast, I really miss flying the Grob and ASW in the California Desert, I was lucky
so majestic
Nice! Bravo Stefan!
Thanks ✌
Is this yesterday, the Thurs 7th Dec? Nice stuff!
Yesterday we had a rest day. So it was the day before 6th Dec. ;)
I have flown many brazilian championships in the past and have experienced the chalenge of evaluating final glides in rain. But it was a long time ago. I wonder if modern final glide computers can support different polars for light and heavy rains... Can they ?
Never heard of that. Then we would need to have polars for different rain scenarios first...
What happened to your ATD showing the LARUS indication? You only use the Xcsoar internal needle?
Finely judged landing there Stefan :D
It was a crazy day, I waited over an hour for my team to land. They were circling just beyond the storm.
P.S. Glad you liked the photos
🇵🇱 Es gibt nur ein Weltmeister - SEBASTIAN KAWA - Polen 🇵🇱
Herzliche Glückwunsch❤
Sierra FOX, Stefan?
Why Fox and not Lima?
Because I also have the ASG29 which is already Sierra Lima
Have u thinikig about to come to croatia one day?
Organise world Championship in the Clubclass and I am sure he will be 😂
I was twice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where I also flew above the Croatian border. Perhaps next year I have the possibility to come by glider to Croatia :)
@@SteFlyCome to Slavonski Brod ther is Aero club "Brod" 🤠
Overan the active area of the runway (past the piano keys and in the rough -the other glider turned off so as not to block the strip - "nailing it"? Straight in finishes seem to have been banished for state competition and earlier world's here (Benalla 2017) which made it much less spectacular than in the 'old days' but safer --the finish line is higher and quite far from the airfield . "Heavy rain" --in pretty clear air, smooth but high sink not sure how much due to air vs speed , having encountered sleet in a glider (M200 ) many years ago with huge noise as well this is not really 'unusual' -having a final glide margin to fly through rain is wise but standard practice.
Escape from the storm?
Die LS3 hört einfach auf zu fliegen im regen
Contrarly to the Twin Astir 😂
Leider!
Cool watching te other Gliders dropping water bellast
That's just a light partly cloudy fair day shower. It's not Heavy.
Thanks for the comment 😂
Wie viel Gegenwind war das? 170 km/h IAS und gefühlt 50 km/h über Grund haha
Das sieht nur so aus...
In the heavy rain 170 km/h and -4.5 m/s that's a glide slope of 10:1 Without rain it's about 23:1 . What a difference .
Yes, the LS3 doesn't like rain
@@SteFly I know I have one .
what is the black lever on the left side for?
Flaps
Trotz der 170kmh sieht's so aus, wie wenn Sie auf der Stelle stehen würden. Ziemlicher Gegenwind, oder ?!
Gar nicht so viel. Ist nur eine optische Täuschung mit den Regentropfen auf der Haube.
Wow - 5 Segler gleichzeitig im Anflug. Das muss aber gut abgesprochen sein, wer wie landet.
Joa, viel Absprache gibt's da auch nicht. Man muss zumindest viel Vertrauen haben, dass die anderen auch rausschauen.
Oui.
My instructor's voice comes automatically behind my mind "centerline!"😅 do they have a local rule of landing to one side? (Edit: with larger display I saw the other landing gliders, then landing to one side makes perfect sense. )
Belter of a landing!
traumhaft
Smooth landing like oil on glass.
FX67-K170 / 150 und Regen, nenn eine bessere Kombi 😂
keine 🤣
Are gliders used for long distance transportation if its work related?
No, that's not practical. The best thing you can do is to make a travel by glider trip for your own joy.
@@SteFly If compared to driving 10-15 hours on the highway to get home in a car vs a glider, maybe twice every month, would that be a good solution?
Only WWII!
👏👏👏👏
Sorry for the bad Australian weather! Gutes fliegen aber.
It's interesting
Good thing you have a ls3 and not a pik 20😂
LS3 is shit in rain aswell 😅
Наверное самая красивая смерть.....
Heavy Rain 🤣