To the Limit - 323 km Triangle on an Island by Glider
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2024
- Flying a big triangle on the Nothern Island of New Zealand is a huge challenge!
If I would fly this task at the same weather conditions again, I would definately NOT push as hard to the limits as I did here.
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Fun video! It was a surprise to see my footage, I'm happy you used it. I hope we can meet someday to make a great video. Fly safe.
Thank you so much for these great animations! Someday I need to learn doing them on my own. Would be awesome to make a video together in the future. :)
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Wow, really impressive flying. As a pilot I have the highest respect for glider pilots. You guys really fly the aircraft perfectly coordinated and reading nature to give you the best performance. I will be trying gliders this year for the first time in my flying career here in the pyrenees. Can't wait.
It's been 2 years. I was wondering if you liked it?
I've spend the last 12 years flying around this area, always wondered if something like this could be done in a glider. Very cool.
Hey, I enjoyed the new video format a lot. I lilked the fact that you explained a lot and showed us the task you were flying.
And it s quite nice to see how your english improved so much during you time in NZ. It makes your videos much more enjoyable.
Happy Landings
Hannes
felt like i was right there sweating flying over blue water. better you than me. good saves
Hallo Stefan. Das neue Format gefällt mir richtig gut! Viel erklärt und natürlich wieder sehr schöne Aufnahmen. Ab und zu den Task einzublenden und die Taktik zu erklären hat dem ganzen Video einen roten Faden verliehen 👍
Dankeschön! Ich wollte in dem Video etwas neues ausprobiere, mal schauen wie die allgemeine Resonanz dazu ist.
Ich sehe das genauso. Gerne mehr solcher Videos, Stefan!
Thank you a lot. You allowed me to escape this confinement mood, and brought so many happy memories to me. It's been nearly two years I didn't fly, and I do really miss that wonderful feeling when you get into a good ascendent thermal, or when you just glid at the seeling of the clouds. Thanks again for this very great footage
Thank you! 😀
Stefan, Once again what a joy it is to fly a cross country with you . Our club ground school is currently in secession and this video will be most helpful and for the very many of us who haven't and probably never will do it we learn so much from you! / Thank you.
Thank you for the nice comment!
I'm watching this during the quarantine w/ my glider sleeping in its trailer. I am physically suffering.
I like the competition explanations.👍🏽
It's nice for me as an glider student trying to begin cross country flying to see how competition is going.
And New Zealand is awesome!
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It seems you and Bruno have become gliding stars! You both have really wonderful videos. The comments during flight are very much appreciated.
Great and strange when you were flying over the blue ! Thank you again, nice pictures.
A shout out to Bruno! nice. Always enjoy his videos.
Wow, two incredibly lucky 'saves' over the beach!
Thanks for this Stefan, I live near the Matamata airfield and see these hills everyday. Amazing to see them from above finally, it only took a German glider pilot to show me lol. Good luck with your future travels!
Haha, nice 😂 Thank you!
its crazy how this plan stays in the air so long
Great trail of clouds into the sea! What an incredible experience! Despite being a task, there is always time to explore new paths and sensations. The free flight above all.
This is real master-class with charts and explanations. I can imagine how you were exhausted to fly this triangle but I was even exhausted to watch this video with a lot of real adrenalin. Congratulation with this flight and with new format of video. Fly safe.
"Clicking on a Stefen Langer video", after a few seconds in: "He! It's Bruno! I must have clicked on a Bruno video.". After another few seconds: "He! That's not Bruno's voice! It is Stefen!". Great to see multiple yt pilots in one video :)
amazing video Stefan! because of your videos i fell in love with flying and i signed up to get my glider pilot license! i start the theoretical course next saturday!
Haha, I also start my theoretical next Saturday!
Wow, great! All the best for your training :)
had my first flight yesterday and it was awesome!
@@JuliKanos man, gliders aren't dangerous to fly?
Like, if you can't find any thermals or wind you basically is forced to do a emergency landing?
@@Gilermortis Earth is one big ball of thermals and wind. If the conditions aren't right, you don't go out. Of course, anything is dangerous if you do it in the wrong conditions. I love wakeboarding, but I would never wakeboard behind a car.
Very good video. I like it when you explain what you are thinking and planning and what the challenges are. Quite informative.
4 - Congratulations Stefan!!!
You are the big one!!!
I can relate to the "Yeehaa!" at 17:10 :D
Come again soon Stefan!
Lol I saw this comment at exactly the same time he said it😅
Nice low save over the black sand beach. Beach thermals 👍
Great work Stefan, I've posted the link on our club FB page (Richmond Gliding Club) as a training reference for our young Xcountry pilots as there are so many positive lessons in the video and your narrative throughout adds great value to what is visually a stunning flight. Well done and thanks for sharing your flying videos.
That area is home for me. I grew up in a place north of Thames called Coromandel. My Dad would take us flying around there.
Thank you for sharing
Great place to live!
Thank you Stefan ,I am enjoying your New Zealand series ! Look forward to the next.
Vielen Dank, Stefan, für dieses sehr interessante Video, wo du sehr interessant deine Flugtaktik erklärt hast. Dieses neue Format hat mir auch sehr gefallen. Fliege hoch und save!:-)
Awesome - finding thermals at the coast and some of those difficult ridges with poor, broken lift - great flight !
Solid effort there stefan in tricky conditions. Great video!
Wow! Full process, wings - main points ! Thanks.
Great video and beautiful scenery. I found this terrifying to watch at times.... a braver man than I am..
Excellent video to explain how gliding works.
Its only taken me 18 months to get to this video! I am not sure how it slipped under my guard. Great flight, and terrific to see "professional standard" thermalling in action. Really well done. Thanks for putting such an unusual flight up. I am about to watch it for a second time, as a few reviews allow me to understand what is going on.
Just rewatched the video now and I can only tell you it´s still my most extreme flight so far. And I don´t like to go as far in the future, hahaaa :D
Hey Stefan! Huge fan here, watching your vids has helped me with my own flying, cant wait to see more from you ❤
Great exciting video. Had me holding my breath that you gonna make it back.
Very nice, very beautyful, very instructive. Congrats man!
Amazing. Well done Stefan.
I’ve done that flight many times over the years and astefan did amazingly well, especially considering his unfamiliarity with the area.
I’ve been flying in and out of Auckland-Vanuatu the last 2 weeks (my day job), the weather has been great and hoping to see gliders down below having fun!
Late in the task, solid high cirrus overcast, no significant cu and over the water still getting lift. Amazing.
Another wonderful video! Thanks for posting, fly safe and keep them coming!
Das war echt spannend anzuschauen. Ich habe da viel mitgelitten. Daumen hoch!
Wow! Ganz Toll und sehr, sehr schon. Seriously, I just love the shots of the other glider soaring above and below. It's a beautiful thing to watch. Nice music too. I am making it a goal to go for a glider ride after Covid ist Kaput - Ich denke, nächsten Sommer. Ich hoffe. Love the channel. Keep flying
Great video!!! Cheers from Brasil!
wtf!! You flew almost directly over my house, twice! I didn't even know you were still here :)
I'm already back in Germany ;)
10:33 It's a kinda bumpy road, fasten your seatbelts KEKW
Nice video, Stefan. Having flown that task on the same day I recognised some of your challenges, though I wasn't brave enough to go to the coast first.
what a nice surprise to see a slovak made Eurofox in New Zealand
Sehr cooles Video! Man kann sich richtig in den Flug mit hinein fühlen! Das macht mir richtig Laune auf die Saison 2020 bei uns in den Alpen!
well done!! thanks for sharing.
Really cool video. I miss gliding for sure...
Nice video ! A bit intense to watch also. You do have a stamina!
Watching this in 2024, very cool video showing all aspects of cross country flying and competition flying.. New Zealand seems awesome to me, I also watch the video's of Tim of Pureglide.
The glider you were flying was a Ventus 2, right? I have a Mini Nimbus and the instrument panel is just the same, The glider looks better on the outside than on the inside, the cockpit could use an upgrade and paint job 🙂
Gliders are so cool
Wow, takes A lot experience to fly cross country that low ,over the water and in those condition
its very hard not to move your head all over the place watching this... ITS BLOODY AWESOME... : )
Awesome video! Congratulations!
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Good video bro. Excellent work. I am from India (Bharat).
Thank you ✌🏼
Some really nice footage in this video, amazing shots :D
Bitte mach mehr von solchen Videos echt gutes Format weiter so!
Nice job, great vid as always.
Deine Videos machen Süchtig! Weiter so!
Danke!!
In Paraparaumu the guys would fairly frequently fly south under the Wellington Class C zone on the coast around 500-700'. The other party trick was to fly out to an island off the coast which had a beautiful shear rock face on the ocean side, soar up in it and join the wave which common set up just behind it near the coast. 5 or 6 miles over water feels very wierd when you are down low on the island!
Sounds even more crazy than my flight. Where do I need to start and who is a good coach? :D
Gotta go down to the Kapiti coast, it's a bit of a jump near Masterton when the ridge gets low, but you can fly out on an Island ridge out 3m in the Ocean, and its just you, ocean, and the ridge. From Paraparaumu you can also hop down below the wellington airspace and fly along the ridge beside the cars over the ocean all the way down to wellington
Very interessting video and realy a great flight.
Have you a link for your OLC track.
Thank you! Here is the OLC link: www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=7675278
Not that hard to find... 'Stefan Langer OLC 2020' ->
www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=7675278
One word: AWESOME!!!!
damn what a beautiful sky... lucky bastard:)
i love your videos man
I would to learn this glider very soon... i like it actually..
It would be a lot of fun low gliding on the beaches of St. Ann’s bay, Jamaica. Pls make a video of you doing that!
Ich würde mich bei dem ganzen gedrehte schon übergeben müssen :D
Ok you did fly over a god damn sea with a aircraft which is said to glide without an engine well technically I’ll call it improvised falling!XD (kidding though awesome job) you do have balls of steel
Great video where you showed the essence of many soaring days where it can get difficult sometimes, resulting in great excitement at the end however.
How many others did complete that task?
Most of the other pilots managed to fly the task. But it is a different competition format than we are used to in Germany. It´s called enterprise. So we had some waypoints which we should fly to and for each turnpoint we got 50 or 100 points. Additionally we got 1 point for every kilometer of an FAI triangle. I tried to fly as big as possible, but that was a little bit too much.
Hello, thanks to share your experience. I'm just new to the gliders world, but I would like to now what's the programe you use, that shows the glider and the route i've done.
Thanks from Portugal.
I can suggest WeGlide. (www.weglide.org) It´s free and has some great statistics.
Hi Stefan, kannst du mal ein Video machen, wie du deine Flüge planst? Das fänd ich super! 👍🏻
So planlos wie hier 🤣
I think you need to move house!
This was great!
Richtig gutes Video, was hast du da wieder gezaubert...
Heres me tilting my head to the side when hes catching thermals
das war ja mal spannend ! Werd jetzt langsam neidisch. Aber wie ist das mit den Bonuspunkten ? Du bist da ja ewig an der Küste geparkt nur um da noch einen Punkt zu bekommen, kommts da auf Speed auch an oder nur daß man die Punkte einfliegt ?
An der Westküste war kein Bonuspunkt. Dort wollte ich nur ein möglichst großes Dreieck aufspannen. An dem Tag gab es keine Speedwertung, die Punktzahl hat sich aus den erreichten Bonuspunkten und den FAI Dreieckskilometern errechnet. Ich fand die Enterprise Wettbewerbsform interessant, jedoch sollte es auch dafür Regeln und Richtlinien geben. Manchmal war die Aufgabenstellung und -auswertung etwas planlos.
@@SteFly Merci für die Antwort. Naja, an solche Flüge erinnert man sich nach 5 Jahren mehr als an den X. Tausender. Tolle Erlebnisse sammeln, darum gehts.
@@LSVFlachkurbler Genau so sehe ich das auch ;)
I need to ask about the beeping sound what is mean is mean you getting low or is me and you get close around something and you need to get up ?
it's the vertical speed and he's getting up when the beeps are close
I like the part where the glider was like: Booop boop BOOP boop boop boop boo BOOP BoOp
loved every minute wow!
Is that beeping sound the heart monitor?
no its made by an instrument called a vario. slow low beeps = weak lift. Faster higher pitch beeps mean stronger lift etc. Basically tells you how fast you are losing height or gaining height.
Glider is early futuristic
Beautiful :-)
Buenas tardes Estefan Langer, soy seguidor tuyo y te quiero preguntar por tu experiencia si es posible viajar en planeador de dos puestos desde los Estados Unidos hasta Italia? Y de ser posible que planeador me recomiendas?, gracias y te felicito por tus espectaculares videos.
Nice!
Is that airspeed indicator in knots? Are you really going 180 km/h on the regular while searching for thermals?
Airspeed indicator is in knots!
As some one who doesn't know a single thing about gliding, this was very interesting to watch.
What is the maximum climb rate of a plane like this? How do you measure it? m/sec lift?
Do you need forward speed in order to climb? Or can you basically get lift, even while flying almost still
Really good thermals can get you lift on the order of 5-6 m/s vertically, but a more common but "good" thermal is around 3 m/s. And to the earlier reply, yes, you also need horizontal speed so you do not stall, but you can stay in the narrow thermal by going around in circles.
Maybe I missed it- but how many hours was the entire flight from start to finish?
schönes video :D
kommt noch mehr aus neuseeland? waren echt schöne aufnahmen bis jetzt
what was that bumping during the flight?
Очень красиво, спасибо!
Hi, I tried looking for that music that starts at 8:57. What’s the name of it? I would like to use it for one of my videos.
was there a speed bump at 10:35?
Its terbulence
An invisible speed bump :D
small float on the sea and line up to non powered glider sail plane that moves up like a kite and backwards cos float moves but has some adjustable resistance too from the water...could work
nice