HAO L-23 Super Blaník - Spins and stalls
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Basic training aerobatics with L-23. Spins and stalls are beeing trained to teach pilots how to recover from those situations. It´s also last step before solo flights. Enjoy the video!
Take-off 0:00
Aerotow 3:22
Spins and Stalls 9:38
Gliding 15:42
Landing 20:30 - เกม
I had a share in a Blanik at Sutton Bank in the UK. Some of my happiest memories. Soaring😊, instructing, and flying the Super Cub and the Pawner. We had it all: ridge soaring, wave and thermals. That was more than forty years ago. Good to see that the Blanik is still flying. Thank you for sharing.
It has been 35 years since I stopped gliding and I still miss it. I just made your video full-screen and relaxed. That is beautiful countryside where you fly.
@dereksollows9783 Wow same here, got around 300 hours pic time a guy sold our deal on his Cirrus out from under me
and I haven't flown since.
Same here in the 70s and mid 80s!! Now I'm too old.
Hi, this is in Czech Republic in the middle of Europe, bigger city bellow is Olomouc and airport is LKOL if you want to find it on map.
Same here! I miss it. I trained in Blaniks, and it's great to see them again! Almost as much fun as flying.
@@erics8302 Same here, now I am too fat and too old now I fly RC gliders.
I'm not sure how you came up in my feed, but thank you. This brought back childhood memories of flying in a Blanic back in the mid '70s as a young boy on holiday with my family down in Queenstown, New Zealand! I can still remember some things about it. As I got older I spent many Sunday afternoons at our local airforce base in Wigram helping hook up gliders and running the wing while launching gliders at the Canterbury Gliding Club. As an adult I went on to fly many Piper and Cessna fixed wing planes and finally, a multi engine instrument rating with a NZL CPL. I love doing spins and doing many stalls, but never without an engine! The glider club moved many years ago out to the countryside near Springfield, so we never see the gliders soaring high over 15000ft above my home suburbs over the Christchurch Port Hills. I've vivid memories of the big Piper Pawnee with its noisy 2 blade propellor tips, always pulling 2 gliders, hauling them skyward over the volcanic peninsula. Great memories of grass, tow ropes, testing the rope release and hooking up the tow ropes and enduring the prop blast from the Pipers in the prevailing easterly wind. Cheers, David.
so I guess that's the story why he came up in your feed
Instructor Y. is very consistent. God pay for it. That's why we can take off, but we must land. In health. Keep it up...
I have many hours in a Blanik. Both front seat and doing instruction from the rear seat. A remarkable glider, indeed!
Wonderful - brought back memories of learning to fly gliders in the UK almost 60 years ago. Thanks for the video. We had a Blanik at our club in Hope BC, Canada, back in the early 1970's.
I flew in that Hope blanik. Nice glider but I got sick as a dog in it.
When I was 15 I got my fist flight training in the Blanik, finest glider.
After 10 hours I continued on motor planes, on the Z226T and then on the Z526.
I had a fantastic youth.
Everybody should join the Czech for flying !
I did my first training flight in a Blanik at Baragwanath Airfield in Johannesburg in the 1970's. I had an ancient pilot instructor, a German guy who it turned out was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot in WW11. He handed over control to me, first time ever and I became fixated on the instruments. I looked up and we were almost vertical and I was pulling back hard on the stick. I never forget he said as he rapidly grabbed the stick and took over "und now you pull ze vings off und zen ve die ...Ja?".
Haha! Wow that must have been great to have such an instructor! Really made my day thanks! 🤣👌
My late Uncle (Wessel Marais) was a glider pilot and took me for a flight. It was at Magaliesburg. He told me of a WWII German Ace who flew at the club and appropriately went by the name of Heinz. I forgot the surname. This was circa 1976. Same guy?
Sorry for those not from here - Johannesburg South Africa. I think the airfield was Orion. I was 10 years old.
Going through the online sources I recognise the glider - it was a Grunau Baby II B-2
My instructor in the L13 was always telling my to keep my head on a swivel, across the flying panel then outside and across the canopy and back to the flying panel over and over. He was right of course, awareness inside AND outside at all times.
I was able to rent a Blanik L-13 decades ago and sure did enjoy it while I was able to fly sailplanes....I surely miss it, especially after watching this video....Thanks for posting this....
I brought back a LOT of memories for me....
Blanik finest glider !
The Z526, tow plane, even more.
I had a fantastic youth !
Thanks Martin. I loved flying both the L13 and L23 at Arlington and Ephrata Washington USA from 1981 to 1999. If I was blind I would know I was in a Blanik from all the little sounds - creaking, cables slapping, etc.
I´m glad to hear that! Exactly as you say this plane really has a personality. Sometimes I´m still little bit nervous about all the sounds this old metal lady is making during the flight. It really makes me proud that those machines made in our small country were used even in the US.
@@J18Flyer Brazil here.
I got to fly in a Blanik once at a flying club, loved it but was too far away from home to be practical to pursuit gliding, so I went on to "the other side of the force" and learned to fly airplanes. But gliders still have a special place in my heart, I do fly them regularly in the form of radio controlled models.
yes !! and the clunk..clunk as the aircraft went over the top of a loop when the weight came off the wings and then back on again, those pins were so hard to get in and out of the main spar when taking the wings off but there was still the double clunk in a loop.
40 years ago I flew the Super Blanik on my very first solo areotow and loved it, it's a lovely glider. This brought back soooooo many memories, all delightful :)
Watching this brings back many good memories of gliding at the Port Alberni Airport 22 years ago !!
blaniks are nice to fly,had share in one,looked nicer to visitors,rather than k13,thanks for video
Thanks for sharing! I used to fly one of these many years ago, so it was fun to see it again!
Great! I´m glad you like it!
That was a great flight on a beautiful day! What a perfect setting you have. My old gliding club, Mid-Georgia Soaring Association, in Monroe, Georgia, USA, had two L-13s. I really liked flying them. Even after a friend and I bought a Libelle 201-B, I'd still fly the L-13s. Wishing you many years of beautiful soaring. 👍 😃 👏
The indicator of a relaxed and confident pilot is when he / she barely grips the stick, you don't really realize it until you do and its really neat to reach that pinnacle.
Just training. My instructors drilled fingertip flying into me. I wasn't great but I didn't fly with a deathgrip. A light touch is a good habit.
@@GreenCurryiykyk Oh but I remember my first week out of ground school, I bet you could still to this day extrapolate my hand prints from both sides of the yoke in a couple of 152's and a tomahawk. My hands hurt at night and my ears rung. I wouldn't sell one minute of the agony for all the Bitcoin. I miss those days more than anything.
Thank you, beautiful video. Brings back memories of my youth. I learned to fly in Slovakia (Czechoslovakia) in 1962,63,64 on Pionyr L-109. Mainly with a winch take off about 160 flights to 350 -450 m and some 20 air tows with Zlin 205 or Brygadir L 60. Our Deep Banking turns, stalls and spins were done from 1500 m.
Thank you for reminding me my 16 years, in Évora, Portugal, in a Rhönlerche II. We also had a Blanik. Beautiful spins and stalls. The altimeter was calibrated to sea level, I guess...
Beautiful! I'm an airplane private pilot and have done my share of stall and spin training but watching this video still makes my gut turn!
me too even with cpl and i mis the damn engine
I am currently a pilot in Valjevo, Serbia. There we have a Blanik L-13. It is basically the L-23, except for the tail design. I have over 25 hours of flying, but consider that I started the training in the summer of 2023. It is so nice to hear the command: YU-DCK (Piper PA18 Super Cub that's towing us), takeoff
Great !!! I once flew in a glider from Boulder Colorado local airport. Since the plane pilot who was towing us was paid for every glider he took up, the pilot was in a hurry to be back down. My glider pilot told me to watch the towing plane once we released the cable: The towing pilot provoked an air stall on purpose & his plane dropped like a stone... impressive. Of course, the towing plane must have been built to resist the violence of the procedure 😄😄😄
I haven't flown gliders since the 90s. I have a commercial rating and used to give rides in the L-23. I have a few hundred hrs in the L-13 and 23. It's a solid no-nonsense glider I loved flying it. Some of my 1st commercial rides were in the flying tank, the Schweizer SGS 2-32.
Wow, enjoyed that. First time I've been in a glider!
That was a very interesting Video. Thank`s for sharing. 👍👍👍
We had a Blanik in Cyprus at The Crusaders gliding club while I was serving in the UK HM Forces. I started learning in a Slingsby T21, then went onto a K13 and the Blanik. The Blanik was my favourite to fly, although I loved the open cockpit of the T21 Sedburgh with the wind in your hair. I really miss those days. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Dave W 🍻
I was also a member of RAF gliding clubs in the mid-late 70s (two Rivers at Laarbruch and Wrekin at Cosford). What I really hated about the Blanik was practice cable breaks from a winch launch. The Cosford field is fairly short and it was almost impssible from the back seat to tell how down the field we were!
Further to my comment about the Cosford field being fairly short, some brave crew did get a Vulcan in. Perhaps I'm just naturally nervous!
I learned on the same types in the same sequence - at Humber G.C. at Lindholme (1978). Our T21 (314) had a 2-piece canopy which attached from either side. Good times, great friends. I believe our K13 was passed on to Crusaders when H.G.C was closed down in 1995.😊
@@rallfulWe had an expedition to the Long Mynd from my club at Scampton and borrowed Cosford's K21, it was a hell of a job to tow that up to the top of the Mynd, it almost had me sliding backwards down the hill!😀
We never had Blaník in Kingsfield,it was Brasov (Romanian,half alu,half wood),this glider is still in possession of one former club member,not in service now thought.Pav
Really enjoyed the Video. Reminded me of the time 25 years ago when I learned to fly gliders back in1998, using the Super Blanik L-23 at College Station, TX. The head mounted Video camera is just great, it brings back a lot of the pilot feeling when watching, eg. when you were peaking to the runway while at downwind and crosswind. Thank you!
Wow... It always strikes me when I hear that those machines are used so far away from my country. Like on the airfields of Texas USA ... thank you for the kind words my friend. Yeah I wanted to film it on head mounted camera exactly because of this reason. I think it is the best way to let the viewer feel the experience of flying one of these. I´m peaking quite often on a baseleg because as you certainly know you have to eyeball the point where to turn on a final especially when you have strong crosswind which is unfortunatelly pretty common in Olomouc.
S blanikom som lietal v1960 roku…. . Vynikajúca klzavost, luxus, na tie roky skvelý vetroň!!!👍👍👍
@@vlcik Je to dobrý stroj. Ono i dneska se s tím dá solidně polítat. V době kdy jej zavedli byl prý výkonnostně lepší než tehdejší jednosedadlovky!
@@J18Flyer “”J18 F, do aeroklubu trencin sme ho s obdivom prijali v 1960 roku , myslím v máji. Vtedy som bol začiatočník- žiak. Súhlasím, skvelý stroj. Vtedajší náčelník aeroklubu p Smolka Jožko mal prelet TN- Rumunsko cca 950 km, na Blaniku!!!! Dobré zdravie človek!👆🏿🍀🍀👍
Olomouc, Czech Republic. Olomouc has a beautiful "old town".
Yes it is ... quite a history as well. Thanks a lot! 👋
Was really great! Thanks for sharing!
Spin training was always an energizing time. Learned them flying in a Schweizer 2-33, so the only difference between those in this video (and the stalls) and when I was training, was the wing skin rattling like hell as you approached the stall. This brought back memories of the first spin and how, all of a sudden, you were looking STRAIGHT DOWN at the ground. In a way, spin training taught me more how to keep the ship in proper form, especially in those tight banks in a small thermal.
Yes tight banks in small thermals are sometimes like walking on a rope ... I really like when you don´t have to put it on the edge but spin training is great for getting confident in those situations.
Nice flight. I, with a friend, taught ourselves to do spins in a Cessna 150. After some practice, we could do many revolutions (>10) and control the rate of the spin with the ailerons. When I took my checkride, the examiner said he would demonstrate a spin, but could not get even 1/2 a revolution even after trying several times 🙂
White knuckles - relax your grip on the stick, lol. Nice video, well done! 🤣
Yep yep I will work on it thanks! 🤣
Thank you so much for this video. I have flown fixed wing and helicopters but never a glider. I can't tell you how awesome this was for me. It felt as though I was there right behind you. Just loved it. Thank you and thank your Instructor. WOW
I´m really glad you like it. Hopefully I can add some more interesting videos from my gliding in the future. Take care!
This video brought back memories of this airport, where years ago we made the final decision to buy the ROKO NG6 airplane.
We did some test flights with him here and also visited the factory where they were made :)
Thank you for sharing this veeery nice video! For me it was, as if I was sitting on your seat. My heart rate went up, i was fully concentrated over the whole flight.
That brings back memories.
That was awesome! Thank you for posting. I've never seen what it was like to fly a glider.
Thank YOU for flying&video
Great video! I had some lessons in 1973 and have been up in a glider only a few times since. This was at Rufforth near York (UK) and they had a Blanik then. I think I'll get myself a flight for my 70th birthday this year!
Hello ! Thanks a lot for showing this very nice flight in a really nice vid. I was a glider-pilot for many years and this vid brings back sooo many unpayable memories !
😊😊😊
Thank you I´m glad that the video served its purpose well!
Beautiful
Looks like that glider was the only thing keeping that tow plane aloft. As soon as he dropped the cord, the tow plane fell out of the sky.
All joking aside, it was fun to watch, and the tow pilot did a fine job.
Prostě nádhera, od malička jsem chtěl lítat....moc děkuji.
Já děkuji jsem rád, že se líbilo. Snad toho v budoucnu přibyde. Plánuju každopádně dát nějaké video, až se budu pokoušet o pětihodinovku a časem třeba i nějaký ten přelet. Ať se daří!
Great soaring video!
I learned to fly in an L13 Blanik way back in the early 1080's and thoroughly enjoyed flying this aircraft. I still have a soft spot for it despite the wing spar problems that appeared later. All of my flights were winch launched and I took my solo after 10.25 hours and had a cable break at the decision height of 300 feet on that trip....exciting !.
Oh 300 ft is really a bad height to have cable break indeed ... not high enough and also not low enough .... it depends on a rwy lenght of course but for example at our airfield this would be probably the worst altitude to experience it ... that must have been intense .... My instructor simulated the cable break at about 400 ft at my solo and he didn´t told me about his intention ... just wanted to see my reaction to that. It was already enough to safely perform go-around the winch but still it wasn´t pleasant.
@@J18Flyer Thankfully our strip was about 5000 feet so it was no issue to land straight ahead but it was still intense. My instructor must've been having kittens watching me.
Former US Navy jet pilot and flight instructor here. We did stalls and spins in every type of single engine prop and jet I flew 1967-1971, including "under the bag" instrument flying only. It seems odd to do spin recovery before stall recovery, since the A/C must stall before it can spin. The object is to prevent the spin by recovering from the stall first. Only if the stall is prolonged and asymmetric would it spin, then need the spin recovery. As I said, we recovered from spins even in instrument flying, even in jets. Navy pilots have always been the best! Landing on carriers required more skill and confidence than any other type of maneuvers. I also flew soaring A/C-gliders, the purist form of flying!
Hey! Thanks for your comment it´s an honor to get info from such an experienced pilot. The sequence of the aerobatics elements here isn´t really done by the "logic" of the stuff but more by the alt limitation as the spin is more alt dependent than stall. Also this wasn´t the first training flight I had for those scenarios so we were doing only some part of the training plan here. Basically extreme flight mode training (I don´t know if I translate it correctly into english) is beginning with the stall prevention than we go for the stall training and than to spins and spins from incorrectly performed turns. And how to prevent that of course.
I can imagine that carrier landing must be extremely precise maneuver. Our instructors are pretty demanding in the matter of defined space landings and it´s already quite difficult with a sail plane. I can´t even imagine that I have moving RWY in front of me and I have to land precisely with almost few meters tolerance.
12:27 "Don't pull too hard in the dive" man do I remember that, the first spin recovery I pulled about a G and my instructor calmly said "Not so hard on the stick next time", this brings back wonderful memories for me. Stalls were fun, the AC I flew gave a reassuring shudder just before the stall and if my memory serves me correctly the port wing would drop first every time, I seem to remember any aileron use at this time made it worse. Stalls on the L13 were 48 knots I think.
Yeah exactly. Well we know how that felt right? When you see the ground and you are heading face down towards it it´s pretty hard to keep your hands calm 😅 L-23 stalls at about 60kph which is approx. 32 kts if I´m counting correctly. Realistically it´s little bit less but flight envelope says 60 Kph. It gives you the reassuring shudder as you say and plane is relatively stable at the stall ... it´s even hard to keep it in the spin for more than one turn.
@@J18Flyer If I remember it was 1.5 turns before initiating spin recovery, I actually really enjoyed spins.
Thank you great flight
My stall and spin training was a little more intense in a k 13 but as long as you have good intro flight it brings you back for more!
Yep exactly. I mean we have one basic aerobatics display flight with instructor when we are just passangers and that was actually pretty intense as I experienced it for the first time. This was already almost at the end of the spin&stalls course. Anyways I was hooked in seconds!
Very Nice!
Amazing fly
lovely
Superb !😊
I taught glider flight instruction when I was 20 (1975), flying out of Crystalaire Airport in the high desert north of Los Angeles. There was a Blanik L-13 at the gliderport and somehow I was allowed to use it for recreational flights. I thought it was pretty cool, with a retractable landing gear, fowler flaps, a very low thermalling speed (28kts?) and that beautiful aluminum skin. The L-13 was always said to have poor penetration if you needed to get home in a hurry, but it was a lot of fun when the lift was strong. One nice feature was that the main gear didn't completely retract, so if you landed gear-up, it didn't damage the aircraft. Don't ask me how I know that...
Yeah half retracted gear is a great feature especially for a training glider. I saw already few landings which were saved by this.
Learnt to fly in a Blanik, not the most graceful of gliders but a real workhorse of the club I flew with. Sadly it was wrecked when a novice pilot launched too steeply off the winched cable and the cable sagged before slipping off the hook causing him to stall and nose dive 30ft into the ground. He is now a quadriplegic, It was the first of a series of mishaps at the club which eventually lead me to accept that gliding can be a very dangerous sport and as a new father, I owed it to my family to find a safer hobby.
I can see why this sport has so many obsessed players!
After the clunky tow, pure exhilaration.
Looks so fun! I’m going to go for a sailplane flight with a friend soon, super excited. I’ve been paragliding for 3 years now, and have done stalls and spins in my paraglider, imagine that they will feel much more benign in a sailplane.
I wish you best of luck man! It´s wonderfull way to fly .. I flew in duo with paragliding pilot once and I must say that the contact with the enviromnent is something I really miss in a glider. Everything has something to admire. See you in the sky!
@@J18Flyer yes that contact with the environment is something special. When you enter a thermal you can hear the wind speed picking up, sounds like you’re in a vacuum, and you can feel the temperature change, it’s very visceral.
nice flight and butter landing ->👍
I miss the Czech Republic! The people are awesome and the food was awesome as well
Wow I could hear them really good above the engine noise.
I took a few glider training flight and was surprised how noisy it was. Also too expensive for lesson and tow, w/ 2-3 a day.
Maravilhoso 👏👏👏
Tohle video je pro mě dobré na zopakování před sezónou 🙂
Ono u těch vývrtek a pádů je těch úkonů dost. Dělal jsem to teď po cca půl roce a dalo mi práci si vzpomenout na všechno. Jsem rád, že to tomu účelu poslouží. 😀
Thank you for the video 😅
Well done 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great flight, I used to fly a lot, including hang glider. Keep your observation levels up though. Look around more before you turn.
Enjoyed the vid.
Front seater: keep the tow plane on the mean hotrizon, on a turn head the nose on the outer wing tip.
Tow pilot head under the cummuli, there is obviously a clowd street , make use of it, reduces tow time.
Nice landing!
I have flown a Blanik both as a student as an instructor. There were some accidents in Switzerland after doing spins with this plane.
Nice spin practice, exit on course! Flew basic aerobatics in a similar Blanik L13 at Boeing glider club way back in the mid 1970:s ... Sadly most of these are now grounded due to wing spar fatigue as I understand it.
Yep sadly they are. Our aeroclub have 2 L 13 grounded because rebuild to meet the safety requirements is too expensive. There was an accident in Austria I believe and there they found out that L 13 has a design flaw ... as I understood it it´s not dangerous for the normal flying regime but in aerobatics there´s a risk of structural failure of the wing spar and loosing the wing.
@@J18Flyer I learnt to fly gliders in an L13 also, great memories. I think the L13 you refer to, was very heavily aerobatted, and ultimately lost its wings in flight prior to just 900hrs tt. We used to pay particular attention to those large ‘ carry through ‘ rivets and what we could see of the main spar pre flight, but I suspect that was more for our peace of mind before flight, rather than picking up on a fault. I do remember the rivets would get a greyish ‘ paste ‘ ( which i used to think was aluminium fragments and dirt and moisture mixed ) between the rivet head and what it was fastening together. Still, it was a good basic aeronautical grounding. Cheers
I hate doing stalls, but just do'em to see my friends eyes popping out of their sockets.
I keep the plane level as long as possible, and just let it drop like a rock straight down.
But I fly a 152, but I go up to around 10.000, and put it on idle and just glide, I mean, you can glide for about half hour,by myself
Wish it would have retractable landing gear, and those fixable props
That looks really fun. I have the "Condor" sail plane simulator for my gaming PC but it's not very realistic, they say. But it's as close as I'm going to get because I just turned 66 years old. I was a airplane pilot for a short time in the very early 2000s. Flew Pipers and Cessnas but gave it up due to cost. But I did get my license and flew for three years.
I took a few glider lessons was I was actively flying powered planes. It was a lot noisier that I expected, and the lessons are short and expensive, especially with two or three flights each lesson. #1 rule I remember after getting released "find the airport and turn toward it". Good advice since a lot of tows took us over the ocean. Maybe if I got to do long cross countries it would be cool.
Yeah well soaring is something really hard to get into sim engine as thermals and wind conditions are very hard to simulate. This year we have a student who just turned 70 and is starting with the training. He has green light on medical checkup so I mean why not 🙂
Great spin recoveries Martin, I think every J18 needs to do this! 😂
Yee
Thank you Ivo! Yeah well that is one of my requirements when I do instructor for somebody in our squad. 😁 Salute my friend!
Красивое видео (beautiful video)
Cпасибо! 👋
Help me understand what happens to the tow rope when released. I would have thought it releases from the sailplane, and the tow plane winches it back in. But I see it drop away from the tow plane instead. Is there some sort of spring-loaded winch inside the sailplane that automatically retracts it? It doesn't release from both aircraft and just drop to the ground, does it?
Well tow rope is just a "regular" rope with eyes on each side ... simply said. They are little bit elastic to absorb some of the sudden pulls. It wasn´t actually detached from both planes as it looks like on a video. It´s optical illusion made by contraction of a rope after releasing from the glider. Tow rope is staying attached to the tow plane which descends and before landing it drops the rope on a ground so it won´t interfere with something during landing. On some airfields they even land with rope attached to the tow plane if there are no obsticles ... but here in Olomouc we have a highway on one side and forest with the metal fence on the other side.
I’m sorry, but you were nowhere near either 60 or 70 degrees nose up. Maximum of 45.
The tow rope has a similar release system to the glider and can drop the rope when required. If the airstrip is suitably safe to land with rope attached ,i.e. no people or objects below the approach and a suitable runway surface that does not harm the rope by chafing such as grass.
The tow plane can, in an emergency, release the rope while towing a glider. This could be due to engine failure or, the glider not becoming airborne during take off and placing the tow plane in danger . It can also in rare instances, drop the rope when towing a glider and having the glider appear to lose control and drift out of station putting both aircraft in danger of collision.
It has been many years since I flew gliders and I have no knowledge of tug planes with winches to wind in the rope after release, but I doubt that they would be acceptable because there would be no practical way to dump the rope from the tug.
Cheers from Downunder👍🇦🇺
Nice
real men dont need motors🎉🎉🎉
Blanik! 😊
Good that you guys still perform real stalls and spins in the training program ! In France this is no longer performed and I think that's not good for security !! Have fun flying in your nice environnement !
Yeah I´m thankfull for that as well. It really gives you some kind of confidence and what I found usefull as well is that it tells you where are the limits of your aircraft. You know where you can go and where you´re beyond the limit. We have also lot of training on a winch launch emergency situations. When you learn how much can go wrong during those launches you´re almost scared to take one but it´s good to learn that as well.
Klasse
front seater: you keep on skidding to the left, correct with left rudder to center the yaw string.
And instructor : make a full turn spin, to gauge your recovery heading lead, very important in acrobatics, where precision counts.
Leading for a recovery heading is at least to my experience really a matter of training. It´s never exactly the same moment and also your reaction is never the same ... you just have to eyeball it just right to recover in a same heading.
The camera on his head is a nice perspective as it shows where he is looking.
nice!
That brought back memories of learning to fly in a Blanik at Nympsfield in the Cotswolds
in the glorious summer of 1976. Most of my aeros have been in the Chipmunk and the Yak52, though.
Have you tried less of a death-grip on the stick? Finger and thumb is just fine!
Who was the CFI when you were there? When I was there in the mid 60s there was a lovely bloke called Peter Ethridge who had a Dalmatian called Rufus and he used to do the last flight of the day with Rufus in the right-hand seat and land the Capstan in the hangar door to save retrieving. Posh bloke called Bentley (first name obvs) on the winch. Happy days.
@@rogerturner5504 Can't remember. We were only there for a 1 week gliding course.
I noticed that too. Only finger and thumb needed in a Tiger Moth and not that much more in a Spitfire. I had experience flights in both at Duxford.... quite an experience!!
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Well thankfully not my problem.
Nice job, You might release the "Death Grip" on the stick as it would be hard to go 6 or 8 Hours with that Strangle hold
on the stick. Again nice job.
Yes you´re right. I mean I´m a skinny guy so it looks much worse than it was in reality. But still I was working on it later in the training. It´s not something that goes away just like that you have to focus on beeing calm get used to it. Good point though thanks!
I would instruct the student to let go of the stick and watch nothing bad happen.
It's good to trim for hands off flying, Try using your thumb and two fingers with a light touch.@@J18Flyer
@@J18Flyer, I get it, man. You should have seen me in my first helicopter flight. 😮😅
Super!Ahoj z Francuszka!
Děkuju taky zdravím!
@@J18Flyer We were three half Slovak airline pilots!In 1963,my late brother was #3 of the European Gliding Cup.He loved aerobatics in gliders.
@@eriklapparent4662 Wow! That´s impressive! I love to hear that the video actually reached airline pilots. Let it fly!
@@J18Flyer For sure,keep him flying,CSK has always been very active in aviation since the begining.
So I'm proud of my SK links!Ahoj z
Franzsuska!
I went up a few times at South Cerny nr Cirencester with 1244 Air cadets, in the late 70s, little then did in know I would pas by in my car on my commute daily, now.
Banned in oz because the wings fall of…happy to be corrected ,I learn in a blanik before they were banned loved it
L13 were banned because of the wing-spar construction fault. They can fly but they have to be rebuilt first which cost lot of money and isn´t viable in most of the cases. Those are L23 which have little bit different wing spar structure and are not banned.
Am I losing my sight or do sailplanes mount altimeters differently? In other words, why does the altimeter scale have zero at the bottom instead of the top? I started flying in 1968, commercial till 2004.
To be honest I don´t know the reason. Metric scale insctiption is in the right position though so It wasn´t put upside down into the aircraft.
I liked the L13 a lot more than L23
I love gliding, but CHECK OUT THAT TOW PLANE !! Talk about get there fast !
Many hundreds of hours in a L-13, N779. Most as an instructor. The L-23 must have slightly larger control surfaces, as I could never hold a spin more than 1/2 turn. This student pilot did pretty good.
Thanks Mr. Instructor. Yeah I tried also multiple turn spin with L23 with different instructor and it tends to recover by itself pretty soon. We held 2 turns and than we recovered.
Where was this filmed?
LKOL Airfield Olomouc Czech Rep.
A spin with a metallic Vlaic was also a funny thing.
Oh good old times... get why plane released tow rope though ?
It didn´t it just looks like that but rope was still attached to the tow plane.
I want to see a camel next 😄
Well me doing spins with Camel would be most probably my last video 😂
Tak jako příznivce létání mne tohle video potěšilo, akorát se musím přiznat, že až na konci z komunikace plota s věží, kde mne udivilo ohlášení "Olomouc rádio", jsem pochopil, že se létá nad Olomoucí. Njedřív jsem chvíli přemýšlel, co to je za nesmysl, vždyť přeci hláskovací abeceda má pro O a R jiná slova (nyť s námořními papíry znám spíš abecedu anglickou) a kromě toho letadlo bude mít patrně značku OK a nikoli OR. Totálně mne předtím zmátla zmínka pilota o směru na Poděbrady. Měl jsem zato, že let probíhá někde v Čechách a Poděbrady jsou tamní město ... Až na konci mi podle komunikace došlo, že se jedná o Olomouc a jako rodilý Olomoučák, který ale už 35 let žije u Jihlavy, jsem Olomouc ze vzduchu zprvu nepoznal. Ona se taky Olomouc za ty desítky let hodně změnila. Za mne Olomouc směrem na Brno končila kousek za Hotelovým domem, na místě dnešní nesmyslně řešené křižovatky u příjezdu od Brna stála ještě lidová hvězdárna (také jsem tam chodil) a kousek od ní před Hněvotínem bylo travnaté letiště, kam jsme coby letečtí modeláři chodili létat s R/C modely. Takže video si pouštím znovu a jdu se znovu podívat na místa, která jsem jako kluk kdysi znal a teď nepoznal, byť jsem nad Olomoucí párkrát byl, když mne Vraťa (také bývalý modelář) vzal do luftu při mé návštěvě Olomouce.
Would it not be normal to do a test of the Ottfur release each launch?
I mean it´s basically done by attaching the rope. If it would be faulty you woudn´t be able to pull that in a first place. So pulling the rope after attachement is sufficient just to know that it won´t detach during tow.
You have to test back-release of the Ottfur release in case of overflying the tow. Don't forget winch launching.
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@J18Flyer I just want to know why the towplane released the rope too?🤔 And the rope fall from sky to whos head? 🤔
It indeed looks strange. Had to look with the highest resolution and and slow speed - to me it seems that the rope actually remains attached to the tow plane after all. The way the rope behaves after the release looks quite unfamiliar to me - almost like a rubber band released from one end -- perhaps they use more elastic rope than what we use at our club?
It didn´t ... it´s the optical illusion. I watched the sequence multiple times as lot of similar comments started to come up on this video. What I can recommend is to watch the attachment point on a tow plane when I decoupled ... you can see that the rope is staying attached at that point for a brief moment.