Learning from mistakes from other pilots (and yourself obviously) is the best way to reduce accidents and dangerous situations in aviation! I made my glider license two weeks ago and I love your advice and hope to implement it in my flights next spring after the winter break!
I think the quote from Viper in the movie Top Gun is very apt “A pilot is compelled to evaluate what’s happened and apply what he’s learned”. I’m a former PPL pilot from North West England and quite a lot of your video resonated with me, I’ve flown when I wasn’t “emotionally ready” for flying and my flying suffered (RT and nav mistakes mostly). Your attitude and takeaway lessons aren’t just good aviation lessons but good life lessons that can be applied to your everyday work life. Keep up the great content 🙂
Great video, Tim. It's the same in the world of literary translation. Some you win. Some you lose. Main thing is not to pile up error upon error and end up outlanding. Still saving money for my first glider flight as living ballast. I mean, passenger. Cheers.
So refreshingly honest of you to show your gliding mistakes, Tim. 👍 All you usually see on TH-cam is when everything is perfect, which just make you think: “What planet are you living on, I’d like to move there!” Meanwhile (on planet earth) Sh*t happens and it can happen at any moment, so you absolutely have to be ready for it… PS. In RC-airplane world, when the pilot is inexperienced or it is a first flight with a new model, they always say you have to fly 3 mistakes high (so you have room to recover). It is their way to handle the same “Sh*t happens”- scenario. 😋
Tim, my most recent flight went exactly like this, except it was the middle of summer, clouds everywhere, beautiful dry ground below me, no storms, a bit of overdevelopment... No engine. I hit two downdrafts that sent me really low, 1200' AGL and I was going from seeking lift at 2000' to switching to landing mode in an instant (nearly hit my head on the downdraft by misdiagnosing a whispy cloud, turns out it was a downdraft) at -10kts~~. This happened twice in a row and I thought "alright.... I'm going home... This isn't fun anymore" it's actually quite helpful when you share these experiences because everyone likes to share their perfect flights and cut out all the parts where they made mistakes. This can make the rest of us watching feel discouraged when we have a series of two flights that don't go so well. Or one flight that goes poorly.. Seeing this is encouraging, actually, and your point that others probably are having bad flights too is enlightening to be honest. But - it also probably is why they don't leave glide of the airfield - ever. I can't fly a glider this way. I have to go somewhere. Otherwise I'm not having the kind of fun I've sought. Thank you for sharing Tim.
Are the clouds there because of the “cloud-suck” or is there “cloud-suck” there because of the clouds ? ☁️ (I know you that “cloud-suck” is a crappy expression owing to there being no such thing as “suction” in physics but it’s what glider pilots where I come from use and it may or may not be internationally ubiquitous. 🤷🏼♂️ I suspect the lift is generated in the column of cool air shadowed by the cloud but I’m not 100%sure. Great video btw, posting videos of mistakes is so important for other people to learn. 😊👍
I had a very similar flight some 25 years ago where I made a bad decision over Tokoroa. Took off from Centenial Park intending on Matamata return. Made the same decision to push through the street to the west instead of just going along to where there was brighter sky ahead, and ended up landing back at Tokoroa. The Jantar didn't have a motor for me to raise. ;)
I've had years of life experience dealing with and performing under frustration and annoyance. It's called GOLF! and I chill, it's just a game .... it's just a game. Whereas piloting can be dangerous.
Sir! How much horse power engine needed in self launch glider? And which type of electric motor is best for self launch glider and hoe much kilowatt motor is required ? Please 🙏 tell me sir. LOVE FROM INDIA🇮🇳🇮🇳
I did 85 launches ( winch tow ) in New Delhi india on a T21B. It’s a very quiet flight , as close to nature you can get , extremely manoeuvrable and light. Thank you. I relived my experience
@@PureGlide the fart thing might be sore point moment, I not keen on bumps while flying, will try avoid all bovine gangs, enjoy ur channel, you doing great things for sport
theres a problem with some newer LX Upgrades which will cause GPS from stop working on some devices. Downgrading to 8.01 helped in my case and GPS was back.
@@PureGlide in my case the GPS did sometimes work and sometimes not. Restarting multiple times with complete power off helped. So if you continue to get this errror, you will have to downgrade. Since my downgrade all is OK here but of course HAWK will not work. This was not my idea (I initially thought it was a defect GPS mouse) but came from LX Germany. There must be some problem.
I have to ask: why do you make your final so low? I fly myself and we are trained to fly much higher but in exchange that we almoast dive from abauve with full spoilers becase then we have the highest possibal energy up to the last point and dont need to worry that one small downwind will force us on the ground. For example at 12:31 we would be at least 50 meters high. Its pretty interresting that pretty much every reagion has an diffrent way of landing. I always wonder for example when an american puts there brakes back in when floating out
I thought Tim looked a bit low on final too, I wonder if it's the 49:1 glide ratio of the Ventus CT. I'm used to flying the Puchacz at this airfield which only manages 32:1 and has very effective air brakes. That could be a contributing factor. In New Zealand we're trained to try fly final with air brakes at half effectiveness. The reasoning is that it gives us the most options if we have to land long or short of our initial aiming point.
Hi I agree, it's something I've actually been trying to improve, although I didn't focus on it in these particular flights. For some reason the Ventus naturally flies a shallow approach quite happily. Our twin gliders we train with have massive dual airbrakes, so we do train steep approaches. Generally they are better to loose more energy when you flair, so you end up with a shorter landing. Critical when we land in so many short fields in NZ. Cheers!
Not likely! I don't know anything about vintage gliders, and I don't fit in most of them :) funnily enough, my 1987 Ventus can't be too far away from 'vintage' status...
@@PureGlide SZD still make gliders (-; Think he means a k-8 - a k-9 was a 10m wingspan k-8 that wasn't put into production. Your Ventus will never be 'vintage'.........just old
@@malcolmtaylor1224 I did it once after the best wave flight I've ever had. I got distracted by strong rotor near the airfield and a lot of other traffic around. Fortunately it was winter and the grass was soft so no damage
As I've learned, it can stop the fuel from going into parts of the engine it shouldn't when it is down. Mine is gravity fed and siphoned essentially. As for the yaw strings: th-cam.com/video/OR9zJwcGxoQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for your share! two questions 1. why do you fly with buds in your ears? 2. so you have suggestions for devices for GPS? SeeYou mobile/XCSoar. My device's screen is not very visible under direct sun. Cheers!
Hi the buds are only when I'm running the engine, to do noise cancelling. Yeah as for devices there are some newer android ones people are putting out, as well as in-panel ones. I'll see if I can find the link.
@@PureGlide thanks for your answer. I'd really appreciate if you refer to a discussion about better phone models. Would you invest money in Oudi navigator instead? (I don't own a glider yet, just use our club's gliders)
Yeah the new Oudie N is good, bright screen and doesn’t overheat like phones. But expensive. You can try SeeYou navigator on your phone, it’s exactly the same software.
“Emotionally ready to do aviation” I like that. 👍🏼
I'll let you know if that ever happens to me lol
"Attitude"
1:40
Lmao
I don't know why, but soaring attracts so many Dave's. At the club, I go to there are 5 Daves who regularly fly there.
😂 so true, I often fly around with 3 Dave’s, luckily they have aircraft regos all I can say
Learning from mistakes from other pilots (and yourself obviously) is the best way to reduce accidents and dangerous situations in aviation! I made my glider license two weeks ago and I love your advice and hope to implement it in my flights next spring after the winter break!
Hey congratulations! Enjoy your flying
I think the quote from Viper in the movie Top Gun is very apt “A pilot is compelled to evaluate what’s happened and apply what he’s learned”.
I’m a former PPL pilot from North West England and quite a lot of your video resonated with me, I’ve flown when I wasn’t “emotionally ready” for flying and my flying suffered (RT and nav mistakes mostly). Your attitude and takeaway lessons aren’t just good aviation lessons but good life lessons that can be applied to your everyday work life.
Keep up the great content 🙂
Thank you! Glad you thought it was useful
Great video, Tim.
It's the same in the world of literary translation. Some you win. Some you lose. Main thing is not to pile up error upon error and end up outlanding.
Still saving money for my first glider flight as living ballast. I mean, passenger.
Cheers.
So refreshingly honest of you to show your gliding mistakes, Tim. 👍
All you usually see on TH-cam is when everything is perfect, which just make you think: “What planet are you living on, I’d like to move there!”
Meanwhile (on planet earth) Sh*t happens and it can happen at any moment, so you absolutely have to be ready for it…
PS. In RC-airplane world, when the pilot is inexperienced or it is a first flight with a new model, they always say you have to fly 3 mistakes high (so you have room to recover). It is their way to handle the same “Sh*t happens”- scenario. 😋
Good advice for the glider too, always be 3 mistakes high! That is actually good advice for cross country flying :)
No engine - no problem :). After my three engine failures on takeoff, I don't trust the engines. From the word - absolutely.
Very wise not to trust them! I’ve had mine fail to start a few times too, over the airfield luckily
Tim, my most recent flight went exactly like this, except it was the middle of summer, clouds everywhere, beautiful dry ground below me, no storms, a bit of overdevelopment... No engine.
I hit two downdrafts that sent me really low, 1200' AGL and I was going from seeking lift at 2000' to switching to landing mode in an instant (nearly hit my head on the downdraft by misdiagnosing a whispy cloud, turns out it was a downdraft) at -10kts~~. This happened twice in a row and I thought "alright.... I'm going home... This isn't fun anymore" it's actually quite helpful when you share these experiences because everyone likes to share their perfect flights and cut out all the parts where they made mistakes. This can make the rest of us watching feel discouraged when we have a series of two flights that don't go so well. Or one flight that goes poorly..
Seeing this is encouraging, actually, and your point that others probably are having bad flights too is enlightening to be honest. But - it also probably is why they don't leave glide of the airfield - ever. I can't fly a glider this way. I have to go somewhere. Otherwise I'm not having the kind of fun I've sought.
Thank you for sharing Tim.
Yeah I think it's really important to share the mistakes too, for a start people find them more interesting!
3:27 no near misses, direct hits only ;)
:O
Are the clouds there because of the “cloud-suck” or is there “cloud-suck” there because of the clouds ? ☁️ (I know you that “cloud-suck” is a crappy expression owing to there being no such thing as “suction” in physics but it’s what glider pilots where I come from use and it may or may not be internationally ubiquitous. 🤷🏼♂️ I suspect the lift is generated in the column of cool air shadowed by the cloud but I’m not 100%sure. Great video btw, posting videos of mistakes is so important for other people to learn. 😊👍
Dave is a sound name. 😀
I detect a strong whiff of bias haha
@@PureGlide Thanks for another great video by the way. A lot to think about from this one.
What does it mean that clouds overdeveloped ? They got too big and no longer provide a decent lift ?
Yeah exactly right, they can spread out and stop the sun getting through, which stops the thermals, which makes gliders land in paddocks :)
I had a very similar flight some 25 years ago where I made a bad decision over Tokoroa. Took off from Centenial Park intending on Matamata return. Made the same decision to push through the street to the west instead of just going along to where there was brighter sky ahead, and ended up landing back at Tokoroa. The Jantar didn't have a motor for me to raise. ;)
There you are - clear proof that being in a pure glider rather than having an engine to fall back on results in a better flying experience!
I've had years of life experience dealing with and performing under frustration and annoyance. It's called GOLF! and I chill, it's just a game .... it's just a game. Whereas piloting can be dangerous.
True, but all the training has to help surely!
@@PureGlide Don't get me wrong, it's very late at night either side of the Tasman and I'm just having a side shot at golf, lol.
P.S. Another great add for sustainers, so handy.
You can die of boredom playing golf though - one of the most ridiculously pointless activities in the world........
Why do you have two yaw strings?
More importantly, why do you NOT have two yaw strings?! th-cam.com/video/OR9zJwcGxoQ/w-d-xo.html
@@PureGlide Thx, I will try it out (next sunday)
Yeah can’t hurt to try :)
Your bad flight would have led to an outlanding by most, so your sustainer made the day a lot better than it could have been!
Yes, could have been a lot worse!
Never go anywhere your mind has already gone eh! great video.
Sir! How much horse power engine needed in self launch glider? And which type of electric motor is best for self launch glider and hoe much kilowatt motor is required ? Please 🙏 tell me sir.
LOVE FROM INDIA🇮🇳🇮🇳
Hi I'm not sure, but check out the specs for the JS3 RES electric glider md-flugzeugbau.de/en/products/js-md-3-15-18m-rapture/
I did 85 launches ( winch tow ) in New Delhi india on a T21B. It’s a very quiet flight , as close to nature you can get , extremely manoeuvrable and light. Thank you.
I relived my experience
Yeah the wind noise must be lovely... smh
What? Mistakes? Never. My landings are perfect. What’s a balloon a party trick?
haha exactly. I did a good bounce today lucky no one was watching...
Hey Tim, what did your glider cost you and how long have you had it?
Hi a few years, cost about $100,000 NZD after painting it and upgrading instruments. That'll be a good video topic at some stage!
@@PureGlide Yep' make a list of them, you can't have too many.
Mistake #4 - Josh no fly!!
👍🍺🍺🍺AWESOME !!! 🍺🍺😁😁😁
Thanks for watching
Refreshing honesty. Thanks man!
Cheers Philip!
Hey Dude, question from a strictly fuel burning pilot... was there rising air "from" herd of cows 🐄 or just a thermal kicking off "by" herd 🐄
That’s a great question- I’m pretty sure it’s just them disturbing the air as they walk down the race. Or they fart a lot. Maybe a combination of both
@@PureGlide the fart thing might be sore point moment, I not keen on bumps while flying, will try avoid all bovine gangs, enjoy ur channel, you doing great things for sport
It's very useful to hear you think and plan next steps, especially being explicit about paddock selection before engine starts. Great video!
Glad it was helpful!
Why do you have a TE switch? Is it to avoid damage due to the wind of the engine?
More because it jumps around a lot
theres a problem with some newer LX Upgrades which will cause GPS from stop working on some devices. Downgrading to 8.01 helped in my case and GPS was back.
Interesting, i did upgrade to the latest beta to try and fix it, but it didn’t help. For whatever reason a flarm Firmware update fixed it.
@@PureGlide in my case the GPS did sometimes work and sometimes not. Restarting multiple times with complete power off helped. So if you continue to get this errror, you will have to downgrade. Since my downgrade all is OK here but of course HAWK will not work. This was not my idea (I initially thought it was a defect GPS mouse) but came from LX Germany. There must be some problem.
A couple of us including me yesterday have now had trouble with flarm not working. I will email lx for more info
0:20 in & I can't swear enough to even encapsulate how much I love your video's. Ahh, G'Day Tim! I'll Shut me yap & enjoy now ha ha
Aww shucks, thanks!
@@PureGlide 🤣
I have to ask: why do you make your final so low? I fly myself and we are trained to fly much higher but in exchange that we almoast dive from abauve with full spoilers becase then we have the highest possibal energy up to the last point and dont need to worry that one small downwind will force us on the ground. For example at 12:31 we would be at least 50 meters high. Its pretty interresting that pretty much every reagion has an diffrent way of landing. I always wonder for example when an american puts there brakes back in when floating out
I thought Tim looked a bit low on final too, I wonder if it's the 49:1 glide ratio of the Ventus CT. I'm used to flying the Puchacz at this airfield which only manages 32:1 and has very effective air brakes. That could be a contributing factor.
In New Zealand we're trained to try fly final with air brakes at half effectiveness. The reasoning is that it gives us the most options if we have to land long or short of our initial aiming point.
Hi I agree, it's something I've actually been trying to improve, although I didn't focus on it in these particular flights. For some reason the Ventus naturally flies a shallow approach quite happily. Our twin gliders we train with have massive dual airbrakes, so we do train steep approaches. Generally they are better to loose more energy when you flair, so you end up with a shorter landing. Critical when we land in so many short fields in NZ. Cheers!
would you do a vid on buying a used old glider (for example a k-9 or some szd birds) ?
Not likely! I don't know anything about vintage gliders, and I don't fit in most of them :) funnily enough, my 1987 Ventus can't be too far away from 'vintage' status...
@@PureGlide SZD still make gliders (-; Think he means a k-8 - a k-9 was a 10m wingspan k-8 that wasn't put into production. Your Ventus will never be 'vintage'.........just old
Are you hearing music while flyving or why the earbuds?
Hi, no I'm just using them for the noise cancelling :)
@@PureGlide ahh makes sense, must be a pretty loud glider then;)
Not too terrible, at least you put the wheel down!
Yeah could have been a LOT worse!!
I know one pilot who did a 300k flight then retracted the wheel to land.
@@malcolmtaylor1224 I did it once after the best wave flight I've ever had. I got distracted by strong rotor near the airfield and a lot of other traffic around. Fortunately it was winter and the grass was soft so no damage
I'm asking you to speak a little slower. I really like your videos.
Noted thanks! You can slow the whole video down a bit if that helps. Cheers
@@PureGlide It's a good advice, thank you.
@@ИгорьКузнецов-ч3й Hi, Igor. 0.75 on the speed menu is perfect for some of the faster segments.
Cheers.
@@The_Modeling_Underdog I understood already. Thank you. )
It’s the Kiwi accent - gets Aussies as well. Good informative stuff Tim, I really enjoy this channel as there is always some food for thought.
Hi Tim, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Why do you ever switch off the fuel? Two yaw strings?
As I've learned, it can stop the fuel from going into parts of the engine it shouldn't when it is down. Mine is gravity fed and siphoned essentially. As for the yaw strings: th-cam.com/video/OR9zJwcGxoQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for your share! two questions
1. why do you fly with buds in your ears?
2. so you have suggestions for devices for GPS? SeeYou mobile/XCSoar. My device's screen is not very visible under direct sun.
Cheers!
Hi the buds are only when I'm running the engine, to do noise cancelling.
Yeah as for devices there are some newer android ones people are putting out, as well as in-panel ones. I'll see if I can find the link.
@@PureGlide thanks for your answer. I'd really appreciate if you refer to a discussion about better phone models. Would you invest money in Oudi navigator instead? (I don't own a glider yet, just use our club's gliders)
Yeah the new Oudie N is good, bright screen and doesn’t overheat like phones. But expensive. You can try SeeYou navigator on your phone, it’s exactly the same software.
@@PureGlide but my Xiaomi Redmi8 screen doesn't show well under direct light. Do you have recommendations for Android devices?