actually soaring planes are pretty much unlockable for fox 2 and perhaps because of thier slow speed even really tough targets for fox 3 or fox 1 type of missiles. (Latter because todays radars are optimized to lock onto fast moving metallic objects
Gliding is the best hobby there is in the world. If your wife isnt flying you have your weekend off from her. Take your tent or van with you, dissapear on friday night, meet all the other guys, enjoy some beer and sausage at a campfire, get up early the next morning, prepare your glider in the cold sunrise, enjoy the silence all around and once weather is good enough - you take off and come back with the sunset. Then, another beer and sausages, campfire, smalltalk, meeting up with the guys who arrived on saturday - And the same on sunday again. If its raining, you can enjoy it with a good book in your tent, or just do some club stuff. Its the best there is.
You don't need a glider to leave your wife and have a sausage party, it's 2021, gays are openly welcome. Just Google "Twinkies night-club" should be one in your area, Wednesdays are half off drinks.
Back in the 70's I took lessons and my instructor was an elderly lady with a great sense of fun.... we used to buss hikers and dump our water ballast on them...….. lots of laughs from us ! :)
For everyone being mad and saying it should be banned This is an aerobatic manouvre called a finish often performed at the end of gliding races/tasks or aerobatic routines and all the pilots attemting/doing this are more then qualified and most likely have more then several years of gliding experience and have licenses
Fuentemilanos is one of the best aeroclub airfield today for gliding. Apart from amusant, it offers a real wild chances to fly those not-so-far snow mountains during full burning Castilla summer.
The stuff that looks like smoke is water ballasts . Anything that flys is dangerous and gravity will teach you that , having said that these guys know what there doing and have a real feel for there gliders .
You can tell just how fast a glider is going by looking at the shape of the wings. All of them have a certain amount of dihedral, that is sloping upward from where attached to the fuselage and bow upward at the tips in normal soaring flight. At around 100 mph, the wings become perfectly flat, not bowed either way. Above that speed they take a noticeable bend downward at the tips.
All wings, fixed or rotating as in a helicopter or propeller, are made with a twist from the root to the tip, reducing the angle of attack toward the tip. It's called "wash out". Not only is this for better efficiency over a wide range of speeds but it causes separation of the airflow to begin at the fuselage and move toward the tip as the angle of attack increases or airspeed slows. As the nose is lowered to increase the speed, the angle of attack reduces to the point where there is a negative angle of attack at very high speeds creating negative lift at the tips, causing them to actually bend downward. It also involves Reynolds numbers and tip loss but it's the quick and dirty explanation above. Run the video again and you can see the downward flex in the wings toward the tips.
Naturally they will flex upward when one pulls up and applies more G force load on the wings. In flexing upward moves the center of lift toward the fuselage where the wings are stronger.
Yes, all about speed. And about the sailplane you're using. If you try to do that with an old one made of wood and "paper" (i don't know the exact worn in english), you won't regain much altitude than with a morden sailplane.
Saw someone killed doing this in an RV at Black Forest gliderport in the 90's. They did a high speed low pass and pulled up into a wing over and went in. Also a very young pilot at the old Black Forest gliderport also died doing this in a 1-26. The parents named a gliding scholarship after him. Some of you may remember the Kolstad scholarship. My point is that you really better know what you are doing.
Robert B id the adult and child has stopped to look left at incoming aircraftthey could easily have been hit -great footage but massively dangerous in that case . The pilot must’ve checked for cables and fencing etc before flying those loops ?
That pass that starts a 5:50 (several actually) are amazing. That thing must be close to 50:1. Makes me wonder how many HP it would take to maintain level 120 MPH flight, not much, I'll bet.
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If you pedal hard enough on the rudder that'll keep it up.
@ LOL, when I was a kid I had a pulse rudder RC I built. It basically did just that, just constantly "peddling" the rudder full stop side to side, at maybe 3 Hz or so. When you input a rudder control it would "peddle" a shorter stroke to the opposite side, turning the plane. I never calculated it, but I expect even THAT amount of peddling did pretty much nothing to keep it airborne, probably even caused a goodly amount of induced drag, if I had to guess, and actually hurt the glide ratio. If I'd been thinking at the time, I could have done some glide tests with the rudder pegged center, and with it operating to see. Didn't though. Maybe better that way. ;-)
This is the "EP", a Schempp Hirth Nimbus 4 and ratio is roughly 60:1, top speed 290km/h. The Nimbus 4DM has an engine with roundabout 50HP, to maintain level with about 130 km/h I think. Regards from Germany
I've seen gliders with "popup" rocket engines that can self-launch. No tow plane! But that added weight. They need to invent one that you can eject the rocket after use and have it parachute back to the ground for reuse later. Better yet, build one like the Space-X Heavy that can RTB and land themselves. Strap that to a glider! FUN! (and maybe death. But only maybe.... it might be worth it). ;-)
@@robertzeurunkl8401 you even see it in this video, in some of the videos they are draining water from the wings. They put the water in there to ballast up the plane, because the plane has a higher base speed when it gets heavier, but it also sinks faster. So when good thermal upwinds are expected they will ballast their planes so they can finish their tasks faster, because they can compensate for the higher sink ratio
@Eric Hamilton Suggest you look up the 500ft rule if you don't hold a gliding license... its there to protect members of the public like the 2 walking along the pavement....
@@paulroberts7482 I agree his approach was way too low but in this case he wasn't in violation of the 500ft rule because it doesn't apply if you're taking off or landing. (14CFR 91.119)
After executing one of those... usually a tongue lashing by the glider port operator follows. (Bad example for inexperienced students). Always remember... no tow up, no flying.
@@colt.45rc76 Had a H-301 Libelle. Serial #10. May be looking for another ship soon but not in a soaring envirioment right now. (Ca./ Oregon border). Flew Minden Nevada, Truckee, Calistoga.
The future is now, gliders with electric engines are now being produced. This is great for us because the current combustion ones are extremely unreliable, while the electric ones should be very reliable because of how simple they are. Only downside a the moment may be the range they have, but that will improve overtime. I’m gonna be shocked if by 2030 combustion engines on gliders will still be in production.
That's right. The variometer provides audio too. Therefore you can concentrate on the other vital instruments (mainly speed, altimeter and turn and slip indicator).
Now even gliders are laying down Chem trails! I guess with the price of fuel this is a greener alternative when dumping chemicals. And the earth is also flat haha
@@DB-thats-me That sound is the wind Jesus.. Where the f**k do you have your brains??? Jet powered gliders havve jet fuel inside the cockpit... In the wings you have ONLY watter balast... Sorry but you clearly do not know ANYTHING about gliders!!!
Fast, low passes over an unoccupied runway by a SOLO pilot are acceptable. Buzzing a populated area with people is not. Nor is buzzing a hanger, car park or anywhere else where there are people. Gliding is a dangerous sport. Gliding clubs have huge lists of safety protocols and documents. But people just have to show off. Save the ego for a computer game and fly safely. If you do not, you are just an arsehole.
I agree with the sentiment, though perhaps not the final description. While the big aviation world has been mandated into the world of safety management systems (SMS) - which includes gliding in the UK and Australia - the gliding world seems to regard itself as some sort of special outlier.
Very nice. The danger with low flying, is the temptation to go lower and lower till something happens - usually death. Must decide BEFORE to quit at a safe altitude. At very high speeds, glider wingtips bend down due to 'washout'. (Look it up.)
In a word, unlikely. Things like airspeed from diving, ground effert, thermals, wind over terrain, etc can help recover lost height, but it's hard to reach the altitude of your initial launch. Not an experienced glider pilot either though. It's also relatively easy to keep a glider in the air as long as the weather cooperates.
With a nice thermal it should be no problem. Regarding EMU EMPIRE, that's inaccurate. You can regain some altitude but altitude is always lost in a dive followed by a climb. You will need ridge lift, wave lift, or thermal lift to get you to the "same" altitude.
Hot air rises and provides plenty of lift for these suuuuuuper efficient aircraft. You can also use the air flowing off of sharp geographical features (look up lenticular clouds on ridges). They’re amazing. I can’t get a pilot’s license for a while due to medical reasons but I’ll gladly get a glider license in the meantime, I think I’d even find it more enjoyable than powered flight. It’s just not as practical obviously, it’s a hobby for the most part (and way cheaper than powered flight) and requires some strategic thinking throughout your flight
Похоже у него тяга есть не от термиков, а от реактивных движков. Шум в кабине не соответствует. Летал я на планере в 70-х. И снаружи звук маленьких реактивчиков. Что-то тут не чисто...
Dumping water ballast on an outlanding. Also not exactly sure what's up with reckless and dangerous part, if you that the road has no cars on it, of course you wanna land as low as possible to have the most field available, in case you for example have a bounce or something like that.
@@rederos8079 his winglet passed those pedestrians at a distance way too close for my comfort level. It doesn't take a lot of error on the pilots part or an unexpected move from the pedestrians for that low pass to turn deadly very quick. There is just no justification to recklessly endanger the lives of others, especially people not involved in flying. I get your point about trying to minimize landing distance, however, that should not be more important than the safety of others.
@@antonymous9196 Right, okay, now I see where you are coming from. To me it seems like the distance was larger than it might look like, I might be wrong though.
@@rederos8079 it's hard to tell how far they really are, but if you consider that this plane, a Discus 2a, has a wingspan of 15m, it looks close. Even though it's not easy to tell from this angle, it looks like you could barely fit another wing between the winglet and the pedestrians. This would put the distance at ~7-8m.
The truth is, that chemtrail pilots also have they starting point. As young they spread from gliders, then from small planes and finally from large poison-planes. Trust me, I'm talking from Internet, so it must be right.
some more expensive gliders have a small dual prop single cylinder engine and some even have a small jet engine, both come out of the top behind the cockpit
Thermals. Weather patterns are all currents of moving air. Most of the time, you can find a large body of air moving upwards, which you can use to increase your forward speed, or altitude, or both.
Being that low, you may not be able to thermal your way out. You can only hope to use your forward momentum (energy) to get you in a position to land, or possibly like you mentioned, by the grace of God, after gaining a small amount of altitude, get in a thermal, gain altitude, give thanks to the Man and set up your approach, land and promise you will never do that again. :)
Ничего не понял. Когда мне в 76-м довелось подлетнуть на Бланике, всё было не так. Взлёт, набор, отцеп, построение захода, посадка. А тут непонятные кренделя с очевидной тягой...
Glider pilots feeling like fighter pilots
In fact, on aerobatic gliders, similar G forces available and manoeuvres are much more rapid, just because of winglift
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actually soaring planes are pretty much unlockable for fox 2 and perhaps because of thier slow speed even really tough targets for fox 3 or fox 1 type of missiles. (Latter because todays radars are optimized to lock onto fast moving metallic objects
@@Messerjockel wow so if you fit a 30mm on a glider will it be able to fight a fighter jet
@@Yealo shooting it would put you in reverse xD
Gliders are the most beautiful machines to ever grace the sky.
It amazes me how fast these things fly with no engine propelling them!!!
Energy management. Trading altitude for speed.. :)
Gliding is the best hobby there is in the world. If your wife isnt flying you have your weekend off from her. Take your tent or van with you, dissapear on friday night, meet all the other guys, enjoy some beer and sausage at a campfire, get up early the next morning, prepare your glider in the cold sunrise, enjoy the silence all around and once weather is good enough - you take off and come back with the sunset. Then, another beer and sausages, campfire, smalltalk, meeting up with the guys who arrived on saturday - And the same on sunday again. If its raining, you can enjoy it with a good book in your tent, or just do some club stuff. Its the best there is.
Same goes for *[insert hobby here],* camp/beer/sausage/campfire/smalltalk/book/club stuff...
...But flying beats them all. :-)
You don't need a glider to leave your wife and have a sausage party, it's 2021, gays are openly welcome. Just Google "Twinkies night-club" should be one in your area, Wednesdays are half off drinks.
@@zadraking bro you got the whole squad laughin😐😐😐
Back in the 70's I took lessons and my instructor was an elderly lady with a great sense of fun.... we used to buss hikers and dump our water ballast on them...….. lots of laughs from us ! :)
5:47 the five flyby's, awesome.
To me, the glider is the pinnacle of aviation. There's just nothing cooler!
Fighter jets?
@@thatguykaini Not even fighter jets, for me personally anyway.
We call it the...
NIGHT FURY!!!, GET DOWN!!
3:07
Best compilation I've ever seen. With original sound!! 🤩🤩
The pig squealing in surprise at 0:49 was priceless:)
5:49 Look at the size of the wings on the plane.
O_O
THAT DRIVER HE IS 10 ON 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For everyone being mad and saying it should be banned
This is an aerobatic manouvre called a finish often performed at the end of gliding races/tasks or aerobatic routines and all the pilots attemting/doing this are more then qualified and most likely have more then several years of gliding experience and have licenses
3:08
NIGHT FURY!
GET DOWN!!
5:47 Pilot's determined to nail that wasp.
Nothing better than getting into the 'ground effect' and rocketing along.
*Landing gear... landing gear... landing gear... landing gear*
He’s not landing!
Fuentemilanos is one of the best aeroclub airfield today for gliding. Apart from amusant, it offers a real wild chances to fly those not-so-far snow mountains during full burning Castilla summer.
5:50 damn those wings are LONG
Nimbus4
5:22 Aeroclub Ostrów Wielkopolski-Michałków EPOM, my hometown...
Old pilots and Bold pilots!!!!
There are bold pilots and there are old pilots. There are however very, very few bold, old pilots.
They have a lot more faith in their spindly wings than I would!
Metal Machine Shop they are engineered better than any other airplane you will ever see!
Those sailplanes can take a higher G loading than a typical civilian airplane. Trust me.
3:08 The hun always comes out of the sun!
The stuff that looks like smoke is water ballasts . Anything that flys is dangerous and gravity will teach you that , having said that these guys know what there doing and have a real feel for there gliders .
"they're" doing, and "their" gliders.
You can tell just how fast a glider is going by looking at the shape of the wings. All of them have a certain amount of dihedral, that is sloping upward from where attached to the fuselage and bow upward at the tips in normal soaring flight. At around 100 mph, the wings become perfectly flat, not bowed either way. Above that speed they take a noticeable bend downward at the tips.
Jim Foreman what causes this, I would have thought it would have been the other way round?
All wings, fixed or rotating as in a helicopter or propeller, are made with a twist from the root to the tip, reducing the angle of attack toward the tip. It's called "wash out". Not only is this for better efficiency over a wide range of speeds but it causes separation of the airflow to begin at the fuselage and move toward the tip as the angle of attack increases or airspeed slows. As the nose is lowered to increase the speed, the angle of attack reduces to the point where there is a negative angle of attack at very high speeds creating negative lift at the tips, causing them to actually bend downward. It also involves Reynolds numbers and tip loss but it's the quick and dirty explanation above. Run the video again and you can see the downward flex in the wings toward the tips.
Naturally they will flex upward when one pulls up and applies more G force load on the wings. In flexing upward moves the center of lift toward the fuselage where the wings are stronger.
3:07 Night fury
GET DOWN!
Amazing how they can fly that low, and still then still manage to climb again that low without Thermals. All speed I suppose.
Yes, all about speed. And about the sailplane you're using. If you try to do that with an old one made of wood and "paper" (i don't know the exact worn in english), you won't regain much altitude than with a morden sailplane.
@@Defyuse666 the word is “fabric” :)
The unpowered version of a zoom climb, I suppose.
Watching with a stupid smile on my face :)
0:46 over G over G :D
some toy once said its not flying, its falling in style
Ну понял я , пассажир сходил на толчек и так несколько раз подряд.:)
5:52 - Man, LOOK at that wingspan! What glider model is that?
nimbus 4. It has a wingspan of 26.5m
@@leanderf.4335 Totally amazing! Would be a dream to fly in one of those.
@@robertzeurunkl8401 yeah, for me too
With those wings It could probably lift off by standing at a strong headwind 😂
Saw someone killed doing this in an RV at Black Forest gliderport in the 90's. They did a high speed low pass and pulled up into a wing over and went in. Also a very young pilot at the old Black Forest gliderport also died doing this in a 1-26. The parents named a gliding scholarship after him. Some of you may remember the Kolstad scholarship. My point is that you really better know what you are doing.
yeah, they're stressing the airframe too much with those high speeds.
Far more people die in car crashes every year, but it doesn't stop people from driving.
Its an common procedure thats how you cross the finish line during races and championships
3:00 was fucking dangerous wtf
Lack of energy management on that one - he was definitely not going very fast - he barely made it to the field.
Dan Yocum yes, plus the fact that he flew about 1.5 m height above a road that civilians literally just walked by
Robert B id the adult and child has stopped to look left at incoming aircraftthey could easily have been hit -great footage but massively dangerous in that case . The pilot must’ve checked for cables and fencing etc before flying those loops ?
8:30 how can the camera men track and center so well those videos?
thats the skill of editing
you can stabilize and track footage in a multitude of editing softwares
Depends on what kind of glider can handle rolls, and flips. Some aren't meant to do rolls at all!!
Do not ever include clips with music.
Dream Diction Why?
Maybe copyright?
Peter Brinck
Good question
Because it's annoying, it ruins the sound of the video
Yes I would rather hear the sound of the glider cutting through the wind that some cheesy song.
@3:03 I'm glad those people weren't walking a bit slower...
@5:00 I love the 3-fly-by landing!!
And then the 5-fly-by landing after that!
That pass that starts a 5:50 (several actually) are amazing. That thing must be close to 50:1. Makes me wonder how many HP it would take to maintain level 120 MPH flight, not much, I'll bet.
If you pedal hard enough on the rudder that'll keep it up.
@ LOL, when I was a kid I had a pulse rudder RC I built. It basically did just that, just constantly "peddling" the rudder full stop side to side, at maybe 3 Hz or so.
When you input a rudder control it would "peddle" a shorter stroke to the opposite side, turning the plane. I never calculated it, but I expect even THAT amount of peddling did pretty much nothing to keep it airborne, probably even caused a goodly amount of induced drag, if I had to guess, and actually hurt the glide ratio. If I'd been thinking at the time, I could have done some glide tests with the rudder pegged center, and with it operating to see. Didn't though. Maybe better that way. ;-)
This is the "EP", a Schempp Hirth Nimbus 4 and ratio is roughly 60:1, top speed 290km/h. The Nimbus 4DM has an engine with roundabout 50HP, to maintain level with about 130 km/h I think. Regards from Germany
Was there a bit of wind shear to enable the German glider to use dynamic soaring? It looked like an albatross doing just that.
I've seen gliders with "popup" rocket engines that can self-launch. No tow plane! But that added weight. They need to invent one that you can eject the rocket after use and have it parachute back to the ground for reuse later. Better yet, build one like the Space-X Heavy that can RTB and land themselves. Strap that to a glider! FUN! (and maybe death. But only maybe.... it might be worth it).
;-)
Give SpaceX a call
The extra weight is often wanted
@@theblobfish9614 Really? Why?
@@robertzeurunkl8401 you even see it in this video, in some of the videos they are draining water from the wings. They put the water in there to ballast up the plane, because the plane has a higher base speed when it gets heavier, but it also sinks faster. So when good thermal upwinds are expected they will ballast their planes so they can finish their tasks faster, because they can compensate for the higher sink ratio
@@robertzeurunkl8401 basically: heavier plane flies faster, which is wanted sometimes
That aerodrome at 8:40 seems like it is the one from the glider challenge in FSX.
Engines are overrated! 2:50 I believe is the everpresent Mark Holliday at Orient in South Africa in his ASW27?
Pilot at 3:00 should be grounded. That was just stupid.
@Eric Hamilton Suggest you look up the 500ft rule if you don't hold a gliding license... its there to protect members of the public like the 2 walking along the pavement....
@@paulroberts7482 I agree his approach was way too low but in this case he wasn't in violation of the 500ft rule because it doesn't apply if you're taking off or landing. (14CFR 91.119)
Полёт на планере просто не сравним ни с чем,можно только восхищаться.
Сравнение всегда сложно, дельтапланеризм был моим видом спорта, меньше техники и еще ближе к природе.
After executing one of those... usually a tongue lashing by the glider port operator follows. (Bad example for inexperienced students). Always remember... no tow up, no flying.
Whaaaaaa???.? Their mainly for competitions
@@colt.45rc76 Competion. Yes. But I don't think you were watching competion finishes.
@@pilot3016 yeah some of them were but a lot were not. What do you fly?
@@colt.45rc76 Had a H-301 Libelle. Serial #10. May be looking for another ship soon but not in a soaring envirioment right now. (Ca./ Oregon border). Flew Minden Nevada, Truckee, Calistoga.
(INSERT TAIL NUMBER HERE) on final for a windsock inspection
Ah memories of region 9 comps.. finishing runs dropping ballast ))
TERRAINE! TERRAINE!
PULL UP! PULL UP! 😅
R/Whoosh
Might try this, might be grounded
ja
Naw, nothing illegal about it!
This is the future of airplanes.
Glider with powerful electric engine.
YES! with solar panels!
The future is now, gliders with electric engines are now being produced. This is great for us because the current combustion ones are extremely unreliable, while the electric ones should be very reliable because of how simple they are. Only downside a the moment may be the range they have, but that will improve overtime. I’m gonna be shocked if by 2030 combustion engines on gliders will still be in production.
Flick roll with the winglets... mmh...
What's the airspeed on some of those low passes? 200MPH?
180 KMH is max there
@@wodarzflorian Ah, great- thanks.
@@kenwilliams3208 np
@@wodarzflorian Many gliders have Vne (never exceed) up to 280 or 300km/h, they could be going that fast.
@@otsokivivuori7726 oh sorry for the missinfo your right here.
couldnt figure out the whining noise in the last bit of video , then i realized that it was the variometer or something like that .
That's right. The variometer provides audio too. Therefore you can concentrate on the other vital instruments (mainly speed, altimeter and turn and slip indicator).
Mai visto un aliante così veloce e manovrabile! Ma non vedo il motore, se c'è!
Non c’è il motore
Was that George Jettson going past in his space car at 2:25?
Can you glide a glider as fast as a boeing 747?
3:14 hey that's amarican airlines
wow! People are having fun. I want a ride too guys, please.
Whats the little lever he keeps adjusting?
Air brakes
Flap setting most likely. Sailplane flaps can go negative for high speed flight.
Its probably the little lever 🤫
It looks like the flaps, he probably has them in the negative for the pass then switches them back. It could be airbrakes though.
Its the throttle
Now even gliders are laying down Chem trails! I guess with the price of fuel this is a greener alternative when dumping chemicals.
And the earth is also flat haha
why are you upset? wtf
Mmmmmm....I love the smell of chemtrails in the morning! 🖖
Guys, this is watter balast in the wings... To make gliders heavier in longer cross-flying tours...
klemen .flo nah. It’s propellant for the jet powered gliders. You can hear the jet at full noise as it passes over. 🙀
@@DB-thats-me That sound is the wind Jesus.. Where the f**k do you have your brains???
Jet powered gliders havve jet fuel inside the cockpit... In the wings you have ONLY watter balast...
Sorry but you clearly do not know ANYTHING about gliders!!!
Fast, low passes over an unoccupied runway by a SOLO pilot are acceptable. Buzzing a populated area with people is not. Nor is buzzing a hanger, car park or anywhere else where there are people. Gliding is a dangerous sport. Gliding clubs have huge lists of safety protocols and documents. But people just have to show off. Save the ego for a computer game and fly safely. If you do not, you are just an arsehole.
I agree with the sentiment, though perhaps not the final description. While the big aviation world has been mandated into the world of safety management systems (SMS) - which includes gliding in the UK and Australia - the gliding world seems to regard itself as some sort of special outlier.
fingerhorn4 alright Debby Downer..
Very nice. The danger with low flying, is the temptation to go lower and lower till something happens - usually death. Must decide BEFORE to quit at a safe altitude.
At very high speeds, glider wingtips bend down due to 'washout'. (Look it up.)
First low pass was on EPBK with Puchacz
What is that thing you control with your left hand?
Flaps
Blue= airbreaks
your mom
Why do they kind of sound like they have a tiny jet engine
That´s just the sound of the airflow. It sounds like a jet though.
Too cool!
Can those things climb back to crusing altitude from that low???just seems impossible with no thrust. But im not a glider owner.
In a word, unlikely. Things like airspeed from diving, ground effert, thermals, wind over terrain, etc can help recover lost height, but it's hard to reach the altitude of your initial launch. Not an experienced glider pilot either though. It's also relatively easy to keep a glider in the air as long as the weather cooperates.
Yes, they just need to find a thermal or some nice ridge lift.
FSX737Pilot X or use the speed they got from a dive
@@eamesaerospace2805 I fly a hang glider..... its officially a brick now in comparison..... OMG? How in the%$#@ can these things fly like that????
With a nice thermal it should be no problem. Regarding EMU EMPIRE, that's inaccurate. You can regain some altitude but altitude is always lost in a dive followed by a climb. You will need ridge lift, wave lift, or thermal lift to get you to the "same" altitude.
What’s powering this glider?
wind...
Gravity and thermal energy rising from the ground
Nothing. Its a glider...
Hot air rises and provides plenty of lift for these suuuuuuper efficient aircraft. You can also use the air flowing off of sharp geographical features (look up lenticular clouds on ridges). They’re amazing. I can’t get a pilot’s license for a while due to medical reasons but I’ll gladly get a glider license in the meantime, I think I’d even find it more enjoyable than powered flight. It’s just not as practical obviously, it’s a hobby for the most part (and way cheaper than powered flight) and requires some strategic thinking throughout your flight
Must be a bloody good glider pilot all those low passes..................
Dude, the least you could do is to refer to the sources of the videos. Good practice and really not that hard.
4:30 whats the trail behind the glider?
They are dumping the water from the glider
Chemtrail
@@theblobfish9614 no
@@williamneedham5304 it is, trust me i'm a pilot myself
@@theblobfish9614 no it's water, I'm a glider pilot and it's water
I guess when the yarn's straight up, things are bad?
Fantastic, Wonderful, Congratulation my friend
Felicitaciones es lo que buscaba, lo encontré
DANKE
0:10 is that Bruno Vassel's Glider?
Yes it is.
You should at least give credit if not permission.
Is there a glider pilot who has tried to use polarizing filters on the cockpit camera to filter out the reflections? Or does it not work?
what a glider at 4:28 ?
ls6 i guess
LS4a
....flying headlong into the danger zone.
What's the average speed & top speed of one of these gliders
The maneuvering speed is between 180 and 270 km/h the top speed is usually around 280
aviation for live maneuvering speed 180? Lmao
LS6. Vne = 270kmh, 150kn. Ventus 3 = 280kmh and even a Ka-6 (1960’s wood and fabric) has a Vne of 200kmh!
0:04 EPBK Puchacz
В крылья установлены малогабаритные авиамодельные двигатели, или он сбрасывает много балласта (воды) и за счет этого не теряет скорость?
Похоже у него тяга есть не от термиков, а от реактивных движков. Шум в кабине не соответствует. Летал я на планере в 70-х. И снаружи звук маленьких реактивчиков. Что-то тут не чисто...
Wish they would have shown the speeds
Got to be over 200km/h … otherwise it would be kinda hard to make a proper landing afterward 😋
3:00 is not a low pass. That's just reckless and dangerous.
It looked like it was spraying something on the fields
Dumping water ballast on an outlanding. Also not exactly sure what's up with reckless and dangerous part, if you that the road has no cars on it, of course you wanna land as low as possible to have the most field available, in case you for example have a bounce or something like that.
@@rederos8079 his winglet passed those pedestrians at a distance way too close for my comfort level. It doesn't take a lot of error on the pilots part or an unexpected move from the pedestrians for that low pass to turn deadly very quick. There is just no justification to recklessly endanger the lives of others, especially people not involved in flying.
I get your point about trying to minimize landing distance, however, that should not be more important than the safety of others.
@@antonymous9196 Right, okay, now I see where you are coming from. To me it seems like the distance was larger than it might look like, I might be wrong though.
@@rederos8079 it's hard to tell how far they really are, but if you consider that this plane, a Discus 2a, has a wingspan of 15m, it looks close. Even though it's not easy to tell from this angle, it looks like you could barely fit another wing between the winglet and the pedestrians. This would put the distance at ~7-8m.
Where is this? Is this by Sutters Buttes in Williams?
Dat is hel lang geleden dat ik nog wel eens een zoemertje maakte, fun!
What are they spraying over the air field?!
I think its water it helps to add weight to the plane so when they want to land they have to get it out
The truth is, that chemtrail pilots also have they starting point. As young they spread from gliders, then from small planes and finally from large poison-planes. Trust me, I'm talking from Internet, so it must be right.
They're releasing their water ballast prior to landing.
These comments poison the minds of unsuspecting viewers. There is no such thing as chemtrails. It’s water vapor here and in every video
@@davemanmartin it was sarcasm
Espetacular!!!
What‘s about all that upside down?
did i spot Wycombe air park in that montage ?
Fantástico!..👏👏👍
Looks like a mqr drone
Nossa. ...as asas são flexíveis !!! No pouso da pra ver elas se mexerem kkk
What do you have to do if you need more power?
cry
some more expensive gliders have a small dual prop single cylinder engine and some even have a small jet engine, both come out of the top behind the cockpit
Thermals. Weather patterns are all currents of moving air. Most of the time, you can find a large body of air moving upwards, which you can use to increase your forward speed, or altitude, or both.
Being that low, you may not be able to thermal your way out. You can only hope to use your forward momentum (energy) to get you in a position to land, or possibly like you mentioned, by the grace of God, after gaining a small amount of altitude, get in a thermal, gain altitude, give thanks to the Man and set up your approach, land and promise you will never do that again. :)
Go full afterburner
2:30 and then someone had the brilliant idea we needed to hear techno not the gliders... skip or mute lol!
6:30 👍🏻☺️
Como ele alcança tamanha velocidade?
Mergulha e não diminui a velocidade?
Ele tem turbina elétrica!
@@jaimeantonio5220 não, esses planadores não são motorizados
Ничего не понял. Когда мне в 76-м довелось подлетнуть на Бланике, всё было не так. Взлёт, набор, отцеп, построение захода, посадка. А тут непонятные кренделя с очевидной тягой...
Looks like they are having heeps of FUN with all those low passes and good on them if they get away with it.......????
whats the glider at about 6.30 , it just seems to have huge wings
Original video says Nimbus 4.
many thanks ,,, i dont know where the pilot kept getting the energy from ,,, spectacular
Probably from the design of the glider, the pilot's skill and the thermal/wind activity.