Holy Cripes people. Thunderstorms do crop up suddenly, and can catch private pilots off guard. Landing, whether it be a glider or powered a/c, under a thunderstorm is difficult. The wind can shift suddenly and even create downdrafts which the pilot needs to compensate for. The landing was what the pilot had. And he did well. Lets all give him praise and wish his career and sport a safe one.
I am sure he thought it was satisfying…. Until he saw any damage to his plane…… just part of the normal roller coaster of emotions when flying, especially gliders.
This landing was made at the 2007 U.S. Sports Class Nationals. I witnessed the landing from the left of the camera. A sudden overdeveloped squall line came through. All the armchair quarterbacks second guessing the situation here have no knowledge of the conditions and extreme skill shown by many pilots that day in getting safely on the ground during this race. Don is an excellent pilot and his plane had only a green grass stain on the starboard wing. Gary Adams GA2
I was looking at what the tail did during the spin - it just managed to stay up so didn't receive any stress hence the no damage. Bet the pilot had a stiff neck
@Reson11 Rain gets onto the windshield, there are no wipers on a glider, or autopilot or advanced navigation / altitude / speed indicators... All this combined with strong crosswinds and turbulence, I'd say he did pretty well!
The final factor about wing aerodynamics and the rain, is that the wings are heavier, increasing wing load and speed. Also, droplets form into corridors supporting the lokal wake on wing surface, thus making any vortex responsible for stall to be more durable.
If you have a tailwind. My point was that the pilot should have stayed calm, overflown the field, turned around, then landed into the wind, right? I don't understand why rain is a factor. No matter what direction the pilot landed, there is gonna be rain...
no its when you have flurries. If you land at normal speed (110Km/h) and a flurry occurs with 40 Km/h in your back you get a stall if the plane can fly only at 80 km/h properly. In a thunderstorm you don't know where the flurries are coming from so you have to fly a bit faster than usual. Rain is an also important factor for glider planes. If the raindrops lie on the wings the resistance rises because the air can't flow properly. Yes I know I'm a wiseass xD
I think the pilot was forced to take those speeds due to the huge down wind. The pilot was lucky for not stalling at 200 feet. That would have been horrible!
There is no a big problem with visibility out of the canopy during this landing, it is similar to what You see on the video. The drops will me moved by the speed and that keeps the canopy cleaner as in a car with wipers. For me that was a horrible and stupid landing with way to high speed. The hanging right wing could have killed him, but like we say in germany: "as more stupid the farmer, as bigger the potatoes".
If you were a glider pilot you would know that landing in any size of thunderstorm can be a very challenging task, maybe he had a 40 kt crosswind, his approach speed seemed fairly close for the type of glider.
well, it was not pattern ground speed, but we have no idea of his airspeed, it looked pretty windy and it looked like he had a quartering tail wind. Intentional ground loop I think too. Lucky landing.
The wing is hanging all the time during the whole landing. I do not see any strong turbulences. Those You could see on plane reaction, independend in what direction the turbulences would be. Sometimes the turbulences are so strong, You can not override it with steering, but that is definetly not the case here. The wing hanging looks to me like somebody who is used to fly Cessna (with high and short wing) but no sailplane.
That person should have taken his/her time. Looks like the pilot was in such a rush to get to the ground that they didn't mind going fast and wing first eh?
I'm glad they walked away from this arrival. However I wonder if there were other options available rather than trying to land at this airfield during a storm? With a thunderstorm working, clearly there was convection going on so possibly route to another airstrip or plan for a field landing and recovery via trailer/ground crew. I'd wager that glider had quite a repair bill! Oh well they're safe at least.
and thers also the weight of the water on the wings aswell so you could end up with a less efficiant wing with a larger wing loading leading to easier spin situations
yes lets all praise the pilot for crashing...I've landed in similar conditions no problem....just approach at 100kts and keep the wings level like you would as normal...on the plus side at least he walked away from it
Two thumbs up for the landing in extremely dangerous conditions. Composite construction and the good possibility of a lightning strike demanded an immediate landing. Without a mesh in the layup to allow the current to flow a direct strike would have caused a catastrophic structural failure. Is that a Genesis sailplane?
The point is, everybody made it through safely. It's fun to point out every mistake that was made, but in difficult situations, the important thing is safe return. This isn't a walk in the park, that much is obvious. Performance in that kind of rain is rock bottom. Cut some slack, appreciate the positive side.
He was correcting for the crosswind with a slip and I guess he misinterpretted the length of his wings, thus hitting the ground, and he did what he could to stop it.
Lucky that the body didn´t caused any damage such as if it divided into two pieces, though it did do a small groundloop. But best of all - The pilot(s) could walk away from the accident.
"No ILS, no instrument system." What in the hell is that suppose to mean? A thunderstorm comes up....get it on the ground! Why do we have to endure these inane comments? These videos and comments never cease to amuse....and aggravate me. Why does anything concerning aviation draw the comments from every twelve year old on the internet? Please, if you don't know what you are talking about.....keep your comments to yourself. You will appear a hell of a lot smarter!
Yep... if anyone here knew anything about gliding they would know that how he landed is a procedure to stop in time in case you're not gonna be able to stop before the end of the field, nose slightly down, one wing down and full rudder to the opposite side as soon as you hit ground. You will make a 180 and stop within a few meters
Yes i mean gust ^^ If the raindrops lie on the wings of the plane the wind resistance rises because the air can't flow properly over the wings because there are raindrops on it that disturb the flow. I don't know how to describe it better sorry
I think this was idiotic on behalf of the pilot especially if he was just flying locally.. cross country maybe.. but even then I would not risk flying in a thunderstorm. Even if it was a competition.. I would've either waited it out or landed at a nearby airport or field, outside of the storm.
Some days, there is great lift... then a monster cloud comes along and sucks up all the tiddlers. If you are cleared to fly cross country, you can go and watch from ten miles away, and come back when things get better!! I had a first flight on type in similar weather... three hours in the log book for what should have been about 20 or 30 minutes.... and a great view of the lightning! Ah, nature....
Man, that guy was realy realy lucky to get away with that landing. That could have ended much worse! Good video for training though. Shows you, how you should not do it.
Dang, never hope to such a landing! Speed was very high, good reaction of the pilot though he would've fallen out of the sky just by the wheight of the rain :s
One of the reasons for the fast final was probably because stall speed is much higher with wet wings. Perhaps that was the only good decision he/she made that day. All's well that ends well. Sincerely, Peanut
Rain is also increasing stall speed Rain is disturbing the airflow over the wing and decreasing your lift so you need more speed to produce the same lift as wet wing For Example Jantar 2b normal glide ratio 50:1 in rain about 20:1
As already said on replies on this thread, rain makes you go down quicker. Also, although I haven't flown a glider on years, I did once own a Pik-20d. The wing design was very critical, and rain on the wings had a very adverse effect on the glide ratio.
Glide ratio wouldnt be a real factor since he made the field. I think stall speed only goes up ~ 6KTS on this type in rain ? He made the field and did well until he dropped a wing. ... ah, any landing you can walk away from was a good landing.
I own a glider and a motorized plane. No one glider pilot would let a wing hang down during landing. He was really lucky: the airfield was so slippery. If that would be dry concrete, I wonder if he would survived after a hanging wing touch the ground. I have seen a similar situation when the ground stopped the hanging wing immediately, and turned the plane upside down. High landing speed may make sense in some ocasions, but definetly not here. Strong crosswind You could see on video.
just goes to show ya storms can move in without notice on a really nice day. i know last night there was a storm but it said nothing about storms in the weather forecast
I never asked him. From my vantage point standing on the ground it appears that two things happened. 1. He was in a region of very high sink and 2. I really don't know how he could even see out of the canopy as it was a heavy thunderstorm. I never asked him about his landing as I never met the man.
That pilot was extremely LUCKY and his "Guardian Angel" took a beating that day! ...Excuse me God,....I'd like to trade in my current person/assignment for a different & very mellow Human Being to watch over! This one is trying to Kill me!..... Sorry, what did you say? "When Hell Freezes Over" You'll give me a different assignment to Protect! Gee whiz, thanks a lot :-(
that was some brave landing... i wonder y the weather forecast was not confirmed? do anybody have experience of flying wwith eagles??? or just chasing the eagle.. or took same thermal?? i had that beautiful experience.. twice
i dont know what i shall say to taht, but i am stunned. the people on ground, the pilot .. all make SO MANY mistakes at once. when i was 16 years old and started, i used my brain, flying is not driving a rollercoaster careless. must be that this country is not the motherland of soaring, but very amateurlike. yet you should get far farther with just using your brain. mistakes started 20 minutes earlier. our flight instructor would bash us to hell when we were 16 yr old. these are adults ...
I took a few glider lessons they said landing approach is different they go in steeper using speed brakes keep speed under control. Looked normal to me until the end there I think he hit a downdraft I don't think it was damaged.
@@Mike-01234 He would be flying a faster approach than normal, because of wind gradients. You add extra speed to your approach depending on the wind strength, wind strength up higher could be completely different to whats on the ground. One minute you're at 50kts, you pass through a wind gradient and boom you're suddenly at 40kts low and slow over the airfield. Thats when it can all go pear shaped...
I'm not a pilot. But I know enough to think this looks like he hit a high sink area. Very possible since weather cooled the area rapidly. Although the approach seems steep it can still be caused by high sink.
you know now that i watched the video again it probably wasnt the best idea to jsut run out in the open somebody coulda got hit by lightning a truck woulda been a better option cause then the pilot coulda stayed inside where it was safe.
i saw something kinda like that happen to a powerd parachute pilot once i was out at a lake and theres a small ultralight strip nearby and i sawa guy out in the thing with a thunderstorm headed our way he was flying into the wind and not going forwards very fast . then he turned around and the wind pushed him and i think he might have had to make an emergency landing in a field or something cause all i saw was the chute starting to collapes becuase it wasnt getting lift.
Joshua Crowell Could have been wind shear , but more likely the age-old ‘downwind turn’ fallacy. Trying to make a coordinated turn with reference to the ground, instead of with reference to the air-mass he was flying in.
Okay, I see. Thanks for explaining that. The wind gust(that's what you mean by flurries right?) factor would make a difference. It is hard to tell in the video which direction the wind is coming from. How much of an effect does water have on a wing's lift? I never though it would have made much of a difference.
you cant say this WX caught you by surprise? surely this weather didnt just appear, and unless it did that was very poor judgement by the club/pilots.... count yourselves lucky...
Was he coming in so fast and with wings on level on purpose, or couldn't see, or something else? As a fellow glider pilot, I want to learn from this (before it's me).
In that weather the pilot knew that there would be extreme wind gusts and possible wind reversals. The pilot came in with a great deal of speed to prevent any stalls due to the wind gusts/reversals. Considering that the pilot was probably near blind in that pouring rain, he did a great job.
Holy Cripes people. Thunderstorms do crop up suddenly, and can catch private pilots off guard. Landing, whether it be a glider or powered a/c, under a thunderstorm is difficult. The wind can shift suddenly and even create downdrafts which the pilot needs to compensate for. The landing was what the pilot had. And he did well. Lets all give him praise and wish his career and sport a safe one.
Considering the situation the pilot was in, he probably thought it was the most satisfying landing he had ever made.
I am sure he thought it was satisfying…. Until he saw any damage to his plane…… just part of the normal roller coaster of emotions when flying, especially gliders.
This landing was made at the 2007 U.S. Sports Class Nationals. I witnessed the landing from the left of the camera. A sudden overdeveloped squall line came through. All the armchair quarterbacks second guessing the situation here have no knowledge of the conditions and extreme skill shown by many pilots that day in getting safely on the ground during this race. Don is an excellent pilot and his plane had only a green grass stain on the starboard wing. Gary Adams GA2
If it were any other sailplane, it would be missing the tail after that landing.
Good job, as a glider pilot I can tell you that he/she would of been able to see F all with the canopy being hit by that amount of rain.
No wipers on the canopy
It flew again the next day - no damage.
I was looking at what the tail did during the spin - it just managed to stay up so didn't receive any stress hence the no damage. Bet the pilot had a stiff neck
Looking at the conditions he was under, That is a very good landing. I take my hat off to the pilot.
@Reson11 Rain gets onto the windshield, there are no wipers on a glider, or autopilot or advanced navigation / altitude / speed indicators...
All this combined with strong crosswinds and turbulence, I'd say he did pretty well!
The final factor about wing aerodynamics and the rain, is that the wings are heavier, increasing wing load and speed. Also, droplets form into corridors supporting the lokal wake on wing surface, thus making any vortex responsible for stall to be more durable.
If you have a tailwind. My point was that the pilot should have stayed calm, overflown the field, turned around, then landed into the wind, right? I don't understand why rain is a factor. No matter what direction the pilot landed, there is gonna be rain...
no its when you have flurries.
If you land at normal speed (110Km/h) and a flurry occurs with 40 Km/h in your back you get a stall if the plane can fly only at 80 km/h properly. In a thunderstorm you don't know where the flurries are coming from so you have to fly a bit faster than usual.
Rain is an also important factor for glider planes. If the raindrops lie on the wings the resistance rises because the air can't flow properly.
Yes I know I'm a wiseass xD
I think the pilot was forced to take those speeds due to the huge down wind. The pilot was lucky for not stalling at 200 feet. That would have been horrible!
After seeing this, I will be applying RainX to everything I ever fly! It works great on my car.
Be careful not to apply RainX to certain plastics!
Nice landing. Excellent pilot skills. Rather daring, really.
There is no a big problem with visibility out of the canopy during this landing, it is similar to what You see on the video. The drops will me moved by the speed and that keeps the canopy cleaner as in a car with wipers.
For me that was a horrible and stupid landing with way to high speed. The hanging right wing could have killed him, but like we say in germany: "as more stupid the farmer, as bigger the potatoes".
looks like he had a tailwind, then wind shear or something near the ground, cuz that was NOT pattern airspeed XD
If you were a glider pilot you would know that landing in any size of thunderstorm can be a very challenging task, maybe he had a 40 kt crosswind, his approach speed seemed fairly close for the type of glider.
well, it was not pattern ground speed, but we have no idea of his airspeed, it looked pretty windy and it looked like he had a quartering tail wind. Intentional ground loop I think too. Lucky landing.
The wing is hanging all the time during the whole landing. I do not see any strong turbulences. Those You could see on plane reaction, independend in what direction the turbulences would be.
Sometimes the turbulences are so strong, You can not override it with steering, but that is definetly not the case here.
The wing hanging looks to me like somebody who is used to fly Cessna (with high and short wing) but no sailplane.
That person should have taken his/her time. Looks like the pilot was in such a rush to get to the ground that they didn't mind going fast and wing first eh?
Call to glider: "Honey, I'm fertile tonight. Time to make a baby."
Pilot: "Yeah, be right there!"
I'm glad they walked away from this arrival. However I wonder if there were other options available rather than trying to land at this airfield during a storm? With a thunderstorm working, clearly there was convection going on so possibly route to another airstrip or plan for a field landing and recovery via trailer/ground crew. I'd wager that glider had quite a repair bill! Oh well they're safe at least.
Moments later, all of them died from a lightning strike in the middle of that open field.
and thers also the weight of the water on the wings aswell
so you could end up with a less efficiant wing with a larger wing loading leading to easier spin situations
yes lets all praise the pilot for crashing...I've landed in similar conditions no problem....just approach at 100kts and keep the wings level like you would as normal...on the plus side at least he walked away from it
real name for this video is "glider crashing in thunderstorm"...
in that rain You dont really see very well.. I think this could be a part of the problem.
tactical landing. no need to turn the aircraft to push it towards the hangar. :P
Two thumbs up for the landing in extremely dangerous conditions. Composite construction and the good possibility of a lightning strike demanded an immediate landing. Without a mesh in the layup to allow the current to flow a direct strike would have caused a catastrophic structural failure. Is that a Genesis sailplane?
The point is, everybody made it through safely. It's fun to point out every mistake that was made, but in difficult situations, the important thing is safe return. This isn't a walk in the park, that much is obvious. Performance in that kind of rain is rock bottom.
Cut some slack, appreciate the positive side.
Excellent all-round then. Thanks for letting me know! Graeme.
He was correcting for the crosswind with a slip and I guess he misinterpretted the length of his wings, thus hitting the ground, and he did what he could to stop it.
it is Genesis
Lucky that the body didn´t caused any damage such as if it divided into two pieces, though it did do a small groundloop.
But best of all - The pilot(s) could walk away from the accident.
ugh, yeah gliders and rain dont mix well, you cant see anything in front of you, only on the sides, and from the tiny window.
"No ILS, no instrument system." What in the hell is that suppose to mean? A thunderstorm comes up....get it on the ground!
Why do we have to endure these inane comments?
These videos and comments never cease to amuse....and aggravate me.
Why does anything concerning aviation draw the comments from every twelve year old on the internet? Please, if you don't know what you are talking about.....keep your comments to yourself. You will appear a hell of a lot smarter!
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Yep... if anyone here knew anything about gliding they would know that how he landed is a procedure to stop in time in case you're not gonna be able to stop before the end of the field, nose slightly down, one wing down and full rudder to the opposite side as soon as you hit ground. You will make a 180 and stop within a few meters
...kudos man...No winshield wiper, I assume so you just put it down...Any landing you walk away from is a good landing...
the damage sustained could have been avoided had he landed out, which would have been the smartest thing to do before the storm really starts going
Yes i mean gust ^^
If the raindrops lie on the wings of the plane the wind resistance rises because the air can't flow properly over the wings because there are raindrops on it that disturb the flow.
I don't know how to describe it better sorry
I think this was idiotic on behalf of the pilot especially if he was just flying locally.. cross country maybe.. but even then I would not risk flying in a thunderstorm. Even if it was a competition.. I would've either waited it out or landed at a nearby airport or field, outside of the storm.
Some days, there is great lift... then a monster cloud comes along and sucks up all the tiddlers. If you are cleared to fly cross country, you can go and watch from ten miles away, and come back when things get better!! I had a first flight on type in similar weather... three hours in the log book for what should have been about 20 or 30 minutes.... and a great view of the lightning! Ah, nature....
Man, that guy was realy realy lucky to get away with that landing. That could have ended much worse!
Good video for training though. Shows you, how you should not do it.
Ouch! Glad he was ok.
Dang, never hope to such a landing!
Speed was very high, good reaction of the pilot though he would've fallen out of the sky just by the wheight of the rain :s
This is why my club only has brs parachutes on my field.
One of the reasons for the fast final was probably because stall speed is much higher with wet wings. Perhaps that was the only good decision he/she made that day. All's well that ends well.
Sincerely,
Peanut
Rain is also increasing stall speed
Rain is disturbing the airflow over the wing and decreasing your lift so you need more speed to produce the same lift as wet wing
For Example Jantar 2b normal glide ratio 50:1 in rain about 20:1
Thats amazing since rain has little effect on powered aircraft, from Cessna's to 747s.
I guess a large laminar wing is different.
As already said on replies on this thread, rain makes you go down quicker. Also, although I haven't flown a glider on years, I did once own a Pik-20d. The wing design was very critical, and rain on the wings had a very adverse effect on the glide ratio.
Glide ratio wouldnt be a real factor since he made the field.
I think stall speed only goes up ~ 6KTS on this type in rain ?
He made the field and did well until he dropped a wing.
... ah, any landing you can walk away from was a good landing.
13 years later... thanks TH-cam 🙄
I own a glider and a motorized plane. No one glider pilot would let a wing hang down during landing. He was really lucky: the airfield was so slippery. If that would be dry concrete, I wonder if he would survived after a hanging wing touch the ground. I have seen a similar situation when the ground stopped the hanging wing immediately, and turned the plane upside down. High landing speed may make sense in some ocasions, but definetly not here. Strong crosswind You could see on video.
just goes to show ya storms can move in without notice on a really nice day. i know last night there was a storm but it said nothing about storms in the weather forecast
Looks like all that bank was for cross wind correction. Hey, looks like he survived, thats a good landing to me.
Looks like the Grim Reaper was looking the other way that day...
I never asked him. From my vantage point standing on the ground it appears that two things happened. 1. He was in a region of very high sink and 2. I really don't know how he could even see out of the canopy as it was a heavy thunderstorm. I never asked him about his landing as I never met the man.
Have you not ever experienced extreme lift or sink in a thunderstorm? Sometimes it can push one wing up or down which is probably what happened
Try landing with half your performance in
I would have just been happy to get on the ground. I would also rather ground loop it than run straight into trees off the other end.
Good job.
Panica, no go chichen ?
if the wind blows hard you have to land at a faster speed.
Ha ha a squeeze to balls.. (in clouds with "human instr. flyn") 😄
WTF, three of four guys run out and not one of them brings out an umbrella??? ;-)
Glad everyone was ok.
9cee2w4wf8a , good remarks. At least we can learn something instead of stupid saying 'they made it' as if the situation would be under their control.
@StadtkewitzTV Except, that's not what it sounded like he implied...
Lucky the grass was wet, do that in the dry and it would have got very expensive
That pilot was extremely LUCKY and his "Guardian Angel" took a beating that day! ...Excuse me God,....I'd like to trade in my current person/assignment for a different & very mellow Human Being to watch over! This one is trying to Kill me!..... Sorry, what did you say? "When Hell Freezes Over" You'll give me a different assignment to Protect! Gee whiz, thanks a lot :-(
Not luck just flying skills..
I wouldn't call this a LANDING...I'd rather call it a GROUNDING...
well, it is not a great landing, but true, at least he is alive
Shit your pants? So did I !!!
that was some brave landing... i wonder y the weather forecast was not confirmed?
do anybody have experience of flying wwith eagles??? or just chasing the eagle.. or took same thermal?? i had that beautiful experience.. twice
LAK Genesis 2
10 years ago...
SOB, I can understand his speed to get the hell down, lucky. So who cleaned the seat? LOL
Should read TAFs SHORT-TAFs SIGMETs and so on...
wow
very impressive
it's lucky landing.....but check meteo before the take off ???
@vtk137 : the airplane is a genesis.
i dont know what i shall say to taht, but i am stunned. the people on ground, the pilot .. all make SO MANY mistakes at once. when i was 16 years old and started, i used my brain, flying is not driving a rollercoaster careless. must be that this country is not the motherland of soaring, but very amateurlike. yet you should get far farther with just using your brain. mistakes started 20 minutes earlier. our flight instructor would bash us to hell when we were 16 yr old. these are adults ...
@rugbynimbus A shocking epitaph to a thunderous landing! LOL
looked like it was flying to fast did he land downwind?
I took a few glider lessons they said landing approach is different they go in steeper using speed brakes keep speed under control. Looked normal to me until the end there I think he hit a downdraft I don't think it was damaged.
@@Mike-01234 He would be flying a faster approach than normal, because of wind gradients. You add extra speed to your approach depending on the wind strength, wind strength up higher could be completely different to whats on the ground.
One minute you're at 50kts, you pass through a wind gradient and boom you're suddenly at 40kts low and slow over the airfield. Thats when it can all go pear shaped...
I'm not a pilot. But I know enough to think this looks like he hit a high sink area. Very possible since weather cooled the area rapidly. Although the approach seems steep it can still be caused by high sink.
That was a close call!
He was alive, all that coutns
awesome.... excellent job
you know now that i watched the video again it probably wasnt the best idea to jsut run out in the open somebody coulda got hit by lightning a truck woulda been a better option cause then the pilot coulda stayed inside where it was safe.
No flaps?
What is Pink guy doing there?
i saw something kinda like that happen to a powerd parachute pilot once i was out at a lake and theres a small ultralight strip nearby and i sawa guy out in the thing with a thunderstorm headed our way he was flying into the wind and not going forwards very fast . then he turned around and the wind pushed him and i think he might have had to make an emergency landing in a field or something cause all i saw was the chute starting to collapes becuase it wasnt getting lift.
Joshua Crowell Could have been wind shear , but more likely the age-old ‘downwind turn’ fallacy. Trying to make a coordinated turn with reference to the ground, instead of with reference to the air-mass he was flying in.
Okay, I see. Thanks for explaining that. The wind gust(that's what you mean by flurries right?) factor would make a difference. It is hard to tell in the video which direction the wind is coming from. How much of an effect does water have on a wing's lift? I never though it would have made much of a difference.
you cant say this WX caught you by surprise? surely this weather didnt just appear, and unless it did that was very poor judgement by the club/pilots.... count yourselves lucky...
Was he coming in so fast and with wings on level on purpose, or couldn't see, or something else? As a fellow glider pilot, I want to learn from this (before it's me).
In that weather the pilot knew that there would be extreme wind gusts and possible wind reversals. The pilot came in with a great deal of speed to prevent any stalls due to the wind gusts/reversals. Considering that the pilot was probably near blind in that pouring rain, he did a great job.
That looked like it hurt.
Tail wind?
keen to get out of the air )
That looked like a rather short fuselage for a glider. Haven't seen one that short before. Anyone know what make?
Genesis 2
Respect and check weather. Being totally VFR dependent even avoid when temperature spread is narrow.
Was it downwind ?
GOD DAMMIT! reminds me of Five Miles Out from Mike Oldfield xDD RESPECT
also shows when not to fly
WOW! Landing at Vne! Not good...
Looks like he just wanted to get it down at any cost... and I dont blame him, I would have done the same.
well, its not like he could go-around
How did the pilot justify that landing? Was he just too blinded by the rain to keep the wings level or is there some other explanation?
was he blind? what are a glider doing in some thunderstorm? you shoud go down when some rain nearly can be fall, not when it do!