The first part looked stressful, always being kinda low. I was also saved by a good thermal near the hercules over kassel once :D Great flight and amazing video once again.
A simulator does not compare at all to sitting in a real glider! Even if the simulator has the best graphics and flight dynamics, being subjected to constant changes in acceleration makes a huge difference. You can actually get exhausted from all that turning and bumping and still you have to be able to navigate and stay focused. Not to mention that you have to be really careful as your life depends on the glider and your actions :-)
Another epic video Stefan. The landscape around Meschede is beautiful! Very awesome. I am amazed at someone flying cross country in a glider, this is an eye opener. Keep up the great work. Cool music
Your plane is really beautiful even if it's a glider! Thanks, I used to travel a lot with my motorbikes, without this wonderful feelings you had, but with good ones too.🤭🤗👍👍👍
Vielen Dank! Bei dem Flug waren es knapp 100 km/h im Durchschnitt, weil es doch einige schwierigere Stellen gab. Für einen schnellen Schnitt, darf man die Rennstrecken nicht verlassen. Aber das war hier nicht der Fokus ;)
Take me back, take me high, take me on a journey into the sky, for this is the place I want to fly, climbing here and turning there as one with the wind my mind does stare To the clouds and places all anew and the goal that flows from me to you, no ending in sight or a path born true, flight is amazing so enjoy it’s hew.
Ich wollte mich mal für Deine tollen Videos bedanken. Ich bin ein viel zu großer Schisser um selber in so nem Ding zu fliegen aber so kann ich die tolle Aussicht genießen die Du immer gut rüberbringst. Was für ein schönes Hobby/Sport. Danke fürs Teilhaben lassen.
Great video. I have been flirting with the idea of gliding for some years - your videos bring me closer and closer to an actual date. BTW, if I may recommend for future video productions, show shortly an overlay map is similar, so we know where you are. If you pass an interesting place, tell us about it, as us non-Germans may not always recognize them (for example mount Brocken or the Tropical Island). If you know some interesting story or facts, even better. A post production voice over will be cool. And for us that don't know the practical details, please include some of the preparation or practicalities related to flying this kinds of trips. As somebody asked, how do you find accommodation, what do the rooms look like, how do you arrange towing, do you have to prepay, where do you get 500 liters of water for the glider before each trip. We want to follow you on your adventure. And keep doing the great work!
Searching for thermals is the essential part for gliding. You can see the clouds, know the wind direction and with a lot of experience it works most of the time. If not you have to land somewhere 😂
Um raro prazer....!!! Parabéns amigo!!! Estou construindo um ultraleve e algum dia pretendo experimentar esta emoção também!!! Parabéns pelo teu vôo! Teu vídeo é encantador!!
So cool! Thank you for sharing. I would also apreciate if you could talk a little bit about your camera equipment in the plane? What camera are you using and where do you position your camera for the longer running footages? (Is it an action camera temporariliy attached to your body?)
I´m using a DJI Osmo Action (action cam) in combination with my own canopy camera mount: www.stefly.aero/product/kamerahalterung-fuer-segelflugzeughaube/ The camera works flawless without any overheating issue and the price is cheap. For the other sequences I use a Panasonic GH5 which has great in body stabilisation.
Schöner Flug. Bist ja genau über meinen Heimatplatz geflogen. ( Aue / Hattorf ) Der Flug über den Brocken war bei der Basishöhe schon recht sportlich. Hatte mich den Tag morgens auch an der Südharzkante lang gequält und nicht in den Harz weiter reingetraut.
Genau, das ist Wasser. Um eine höhere Reisegeschwindigkeit zu erzielen, kann man das Abfluggewicht von Segelflugzeugen mit Wasser erhöhen. Vor der Landung sollte es abgelassen werden, um die Struktur weniger zu belasten.
I downloaded the flight directly from the PowerFlarm Fusion. It's already possible to use a wifi dongle at the OpenVario, but not for downloading flights
Hi! First of all thank you for the amazing content, I'm a wanna be pilot and I assure you, I want to learn glider flying too! It must be such a wonderful feeling of freedom and peace! Secondly, I have a question: Once, you posted a video that you were up in the flight levels and even talking to the atc, however, in a usual glider flight that you can get good thermals and fly like you do, 700 km, how do you separate from powered airplanes on approaches or departures, is it only visually? Is it safe? Thank you for the answer! Safe winds and strong thermals sir
Thank you! Gliders always fly in VFR conditions, so from the legal perspective we have to look out for other aircrafts. There are some devices which can assist for collision avoidance and we glider pilots in Europe usualle use a Flarm device. Some of the can also display ADSB signals, so also powered planes.
Awesome Stefan, did you stay on the airfields overnight, as organising accommodation beforehand would be unlikely because you couldn’t be sure of your exact destination each day ? Well done, good flying
Du bist in EDOA gelandet… mein Heimatflugplatz. „Hätt ich Dich heut erwartet, hätt ich Kuchen gebacken…“ Ich hoffe die Vogtländer waren freundlich zu Dir? LG
You actually sprayed chemtrails - shame on you :-) Nonsense - nice video. Is a good idea. We had with the Akaflieg Aachen yearly the Euro-cup across Europe... one should think about it again. Three classes, possibly also Cats Cradle... The main thing is to reach the end point. Valuation then pragmatically about time, cut and handicap, greetings, Roger
Flying a competition where you land at different airfields must be a joy. Also the Euroglide is a huge competition. It would be great to establish something comparable, perhaps more for the club class gliders and younger generation ;)
What did you skip to the end and see that rural airfield?😆 The video clearly shows a map of this trek and anyone who halfway understands European geography can see he flys By Berlin. The Thumbnail is technically 2 parts. 1st. Travel by glider. 2nd. Berlin. Best regards my friend.
Question 1: What type of license do I need to fly a glider? Question 2: How much does one flight cost (Tow plane, water in the wings etc.) Question 3: How can I be a billionaire so I can afford an LS8neo?🤪 Question 4: Which glider is the best overall?
1. You need SPL (Worldwide) or LAPL(S) (Europe). Or you can be a gliding student and fly with an instructor while not having the license. 2. That depends. Cheapest option is to take off with a winch. That costs something like 5€ and you then maybe also pay for the plane. It is at leasy cheaper to fly with a flying club and not a flight school. 3. You can get a small loan of a billion dollars, or better : Join a club where everyone share the cost. 4. Depends on what you want. For training, something like a ASK 21 is great. There are two and one seters, some are good for aerobatics, some for gliding performance, some for both, some are cheap and some are expensive. DG 1000, Arcus, LS4, ASG 29, Quintus, Shark, Super Dimona, Mü 28, there are many great planes out there.
How did you fill her up with water before the start. Did someone borrowed you the necessary equipment or did you bring it along? Love to see a video with you preparations. BTW very brave to do this with a pure glider and no ground team.
The first part looked stressful, always being kinda low.
I was also saved by a good thermal near the hercules over kassel once :D
Great flight and amazing video once again.
Just an amazing fantasy of flight and you landed at some very picturesque airports along the way. Thanks for the video and keep up the great work!
Just fabulous. Glad i can expect somewhat similar playing Microsoft Flight Simulator, but of course reality beats it all.
Reality beats it all 🤙🏼
A simulator does not compare at all to sitting in a real glider! Even if the simulator has the best graphics and flight dynamics, being subjected to constant changes in acceleration makes a huge difference. You can actually get exhausted from all that turning and bumping and still you have to be able to navigate and stay focused. Not to mention that you have to be really careful as your life depends on the glider and your actions :-)
@@flying-seagull I fully agree! Flying in real life is so much better and especially the 3D acceleration is the fun part.
Great series, Stefan! And an amazing landscape. Thanks for sharing and very much looking forward to the "Alps" episode :)
Another epic video Stefan. The landscape around Meschede is beautiful! Very awesome. I am amazed at someone flying cross country in a glider, this is an eye opener. Keep up the great work. Cool music
I love your video's its almost like flying with you.
it calms me with the music and the views. Have a nice trip.
Your plane is really beautiful even if it's a glider! Thanks, I used to travel a lot with my motorbikes, without this wonderful feelings you had, but with good ones too.🤭🤗👍👍👍
Because it´s a glider 😂
Great flight! Cross country gliding has a special magic to it.
Wie schnell fliegst du so durchschnittlich?
Ah habs am Ende im Video gesehen: 99km/h stark!
Du bist wirklich eine Inspiration, mach weiter so!
Vielen Dank! Bei dem Flug waren es knapp 100 km/h im Durchschnitt, weil es doch einige schwierigere Stellen gab. Für einen schnellen Schnitt, darf man die Rennstrecken nicht verlassen. Aber das war hier nicht der Fokus ;)
Beautiful!
Much love❤️
Very nice!
YYYYEESSSSSSSSSS! Awesome!
Take me back, take me high, take me on a journey into the sky, for this is the place I want to fly, climbing here and turning there as one with the wind my mind does stare
To the clouds and places all anew and the goal that flows from me to you, no ending in sight or a path born true, flight is amazing so enjoy it’s hew.
Die Landschaft taugt mir total!! Super eingefangen
Danke für deine tollen Videos!
Ich wollte mich mal für Deine tollen Videos bedanken. Ich bin ein viel zu großer Schisser um selber in so nem Ding zu fliegen aber so kann ich die tolle Aussicht genießen die Du immer gut rüberbringst. Was für ein schönes Hobby/Sport. Danke fürs Teilhaben lassen.
Vielen Dank, das freut mich sehe!
The best!!!
Great video. I have been flirting with the idea of gliding for some years - your videos bring me closer and closer to an actual date.
BTW, if I may recommend for future video productions, show shortly an overlay map is similar, so we know where you are. If you pass an interesting place, tell us about it, as us non-Germans may not always recognize them (for example mount Brocken or the Tropical Island). If you know some interesting story or facts, even better. A post production voice over will be cool. And for us that don't know the practical details, please include some of the preparation or practicalities related to flying this kinds of trips. As somebody asked, how do you find accommodation, what do the rooms look like, how do you arrange towing, do you have to prepay, where do you get 500 liters of water for the glider before each trip. We want to follow you on your adventure. And keep doing the great work!
Thanks for the very good tips! I will try to include them in my next travel by glider videos this year :)
Is there a reason why you prefere bottles over a Camelback or similar?
I'm to lazy to clean the camelbak and somehow prefer bottles 😂
Thank you 🌿
What a beautiful flight!!! awesome!! :)
Toll erinnert mich an meine aktive Zeit als Flieger.
Cooles Video. Vielen Dank fürs Mitnehmen! Hat Freude gemacht dabei zu sein!
Freut mich!
Hi, super Video. Wie lange war die Flugzeit? Kleine Anmerkung ,dein Ziel Flugplatz Auerbach liegt im Vogtland und nicht im Erzgebirge.
Nice work! looked tricky at the start
Sportlich so tief am Brocken zu sein, gerade bei den rar gesäten Außenlandemöglichkeiten im Harz.
Ich wäre schon noch ins Flachland herausgeglitten, aber entspannt wars nicht!
Nice, can't wait to see the Alps
Thursday!
Very skillfully executed!
I love your videos. Grettings from argentina
Magnificent, sir!
Love your video's!! The 5 m average thermals are great. ;-) Why is the transponder off?
I wonder, how do you find this streams which let you climb, when you fly orbits. Es ist sehr wunderbar 😁
Searching for thermals is the essential part for gliding. You can see the clouds, know the wind direction and with a lot of experience it works most of the time. If not you have to land somewhere 😂
Good morning. This is really cool,😮😊
Um raro prazer....!!! Parabéns amigo!!! Estou construindo um ultraleve e algum dia pretendo experimentar esta emoção também!!!
Parabéns pelo teu vôo! Teu vídeo é encantador!!
So cool! Thank you for sharing. I would also apreciate if you could talk a little bit about your camera equipment in the plane? What camera are you using and where do you position your camera for the longer running footages? (Is it an action camera temporariliy attached to your body?)
I´m using a DJI Osmo Action (action cam) in combination with my own canopy camera mount: www.stefly.aero/product/kamerahalterung-fuer-segelflugzeughaube/
The camera works flawless without any overheating issue and the price is cheap. For the other sequences I use a Panasonic GH5 which has great in body stabilisation.
nice ride
Schöner Flug. Bist ja genau über meinen Heimatplatz geflogen. ( Aue / Hattorf ) Der Flug über den Brocken war bei der Basishöhe schon recht sportlich. Hatte mich den Tag morgens auch an der Südharzkante lang gequält und nicht in den Harz weiter reingetraut.
Tolles Video👍 mach weiter so!
Frage: Was ist der weiße Nebel bei 17:46? Wird da Wasser abgelassen? Wenn ja, warum?
Genau, das ist Wasser. Um eine höhere Reisegeschwindigkeit zu erzielen, kann man das Abfluggewicht von Segelflugzeugen mit Wasser erhöhen. Vor der Landung sollte es abgelassen werden, um die Struktur weniger zu belasten.
nice man!
Awesome video. Can I ask why you carry water just to dump it?
Wifi on the Openvario? Or did you download the flight from another device? Would be interested in making my OV wireless 😉
I downloaded the flight directly from the PowerFlarm Fusion. It's already possible to use a wifi dongle at the OpenVario, but not for downloading flights
Ah could have known that 😉 Would be awesome to see that feature for the OV in the future as well!
Hi , what do you change with your left hand? I dont fly , i am willing to know :) regards
17:55 klarer Fall von chemtrails 😜👍🏻
Wow its amaezing....!!! but can u tell me what time required for 700 km journey....???
Just got this recommend , I'm interested on gliders and I'm still learning about them . And anyways thats a nice profile picture!
Thank you!
Wow! What is the average speed of such a nice flying machine?
Bravo my dreams 👍👍👍
Hi! First of all thank you for the amazing content, I'm a wanna be pilot and I assure you, I want to learn glider flying too! It must be such a wonderful feeling of freedom and peace!
Secondly, I have a question:
Once, you posted a video that you were up in the flight levels and even talking to the atc, however, in a usual glider flight that you can get good thermals and fly like you do, 700 km, how do you separate from powered airplanes on approaches or departures, is it only visually? Is it safe?
Thank you for the answer!
Safe winds and strong thermals sir
Thank you!
Gliders always fly in VFR conditions, so from the legal perspective we have to look out for other aircrafts. There are some devices which can assist for collision avoidance and we glider pilots in Europe usualle use a Flarm device. Some of the can also display ADSB signals, so also powered planes.
@@SteFly thank you very much!
was hattest du alles so dabei an Ausrüstung ein Video darüber würde mich freuen
Am Ende vom nächsten Video kommt dazu noch etwas ;)
schönes Video
Awesome Stefan, did you stay on the airfields overnight, as organising accommodation beforehand would be unlikely because you couldn’t be sure of your exact destination each day ? Well done, good flying
Yes I did. I had a tent with me but both airfields had rooms where I could stay. The outside temperature at night was below 5 °C ;)
700 km in how many hours ? i couldn't see the time spent to cover that many kilometers
how can you flight such long distance without engine, or does your glider has a small propeller?
Hope you have a parachute!?
Jes
Wie hast du jede Nacht geschlafen und so? Kannst du da vielleicht noch ein Video drüber machen?
Are you living in Frankfurt
Schönes video👍🐵
penjjh bli
Du bist in EDOA gelandet… mein Heimatflugplatz. „Hätt ich Dich heut erwartet, hätt ich Kuchen gebacken…“ Ich hoffe die Vogtländer waren freundlich zu Dir? LG
War ein super Aufenthalt bei euch!
17:42 Chemtrails :)
Why does your variometer not have a maccready ring? Sorry im new to gliding:)
You can suggest your Speed of flying with the Openvario
I have never used a maccready ring and the glide computers know all of this
great experience ! will follow the story behind it to understand the journey
How do you make a toilet 🚽 inside plane ✈️ when traveling so long?
Simple answer: if you drink the water from the bottle, and the bottle is empty, you can refill it………..
@@Alex_Eicher 🤢🤮
❤️❤️❤️
What glider is this?
how many hours did it take?
Love from india ♥️..
Stefan wie lange kann ein Segelflugzug in der Luft bleiben bzw gibt es reichtweiten Einschränkungen ?
Ist immer abhängig vom Wetter und vom Piloten. 10h und/oder 1000km sind in Deutschland mittlerweile gut möglich ✈️
Vielleicht ist das nur ein joke aber das auf deinem Profilbild ist ein Chevrolet Camaro 😄
@@clipperssuck2450 ich weiß😉
@@Lh787dreamliner schnell geändert 🤣
@@Lh787dreamliner ich fand den camaro schöner
Musstest du mit Fluglotsen sprechen oder bist drum geflogen?
Hab mich außenrum gemogelt 😅
Was kostet denn so ein Start?
Does your 29 have a sustainer engine?
No, pure glider
Is this light plane not allowed to take off alone?
It has no motor 😅
@@SteFly 😭😭
How fast do you cruise your ASG29?
Depending on the conditions up to 200 kph
You actually sprayed chemtrails - shame on you :-)
Nonsense - nice video.
Is a good idea. We had with the Akaflieg Aachen yearly the Euro-cup across Europe... one should think about it again. Three classes, possibly also Cats Cradle... The main thing is to reach the end point. Valuation then pragmatically about time, cut and handicap, greetings, Roger
Flying a competition where you land at different airfields must be a joy. Also the Euroglide is a huge competition. It would be great to establish something comparable, perhaps more for the club class gliders and younger generation ;)
Lots of sink on this flight, you had to work hard to find the thermals. 😬
Was not my best day and the weather was tricky at some points
5:21 Kassler Berge ist gefühlt immer doof :/
Kannte mich dort nicht aus und habs einfach mal probiert :D
are you allowed to fly international in a glider?
Yes :)
@@EirikAnd99 that is so rad!
这飞机多少钱？
👍🏻
Dont want to break it to you but the destination in your video´s thumbnail is not berlin.
What did you skip to the end and see that rural airfield?😆 The video clearly shows a map of this trek and anyone who halfway understands European geography can see he flys By Berlin. The Thumbnail is technically 2 parts. 1st. Travel by glider. 2nd. Berlin.
Best regards my friend.
Question 1: What type of license do I need to fly a glider?
Question 2: How much does one flight cost (Tow plane, water in the wings etc.)
Question 3: How can I be a billionaire so I can afford an LS8neo?🤪
Question 4: Which glider is the best overall?
1. You need SPL (Worldwide) or LAPL(S) (Europe). Or you can be a gliding student and fly with an instructor while not having the license.
2. That depends. Cheapest option is to take off with a winch. That costs something like 5€ and you then maybe also pay for the plane. It is at leasy cheaper to fly with a flying club and not a flight school.
3. You can get a small loan of a billion dollars, or better : Join a club where everyone share the cost.
4. Depends on what you want. For training, something like a ASK 21 is great. There are two and one seters, some are good for aerobatics, some for gliding performance, some for both, some are cheap and some are expensive. DG 1000, Arcus, LS4, ASG 29, Quintus, Shark, Super Dimona, Mü 28, there are many great planes out there.
@@EirikAnd99 Thanks for detailed answer! Highly appreciated!
4: The best high performance production glider is the EB29R at the moment. There are some unique pieces which are even better, e.g. the Concordia
@@SteFly thanks for the answer Stefan!😊
Ich bin 14 geworden und will auch einen glider Schein machen weis aber nicht nicht weil der sehr teuer ist :(
What do you do when you have to take a shit???
How did you fill her up with water before the start. Did someone borrowed you the necessary equipment or did you bring it along? Love to see a video with you preparations. BTW very brave to do this with a pure glider and no ground team.