From a viewers perspective it doesn’t get much better than this, beautiful rolling hills one side and the rugged west coast ocean the other. Visually stunning!
what many people here seem not to understand is how extremely efficient such a modern glass carbon sailplane is. for example take his low pass. he could have continued for many more seconds in the ground effect and only lose 5-10 km/h speed (or a few meters altitude from where he started his descent).
The loopy beepy sound is a signal to tell you if you're flying through an updraft or not. When it makes the droning sound, it means you have no lift and are therefore descending (slowly). When it beeps, you're flying over/through a patch of upward air, which gives you lift and lets the glider climb in altitude. The intensity of the beeping tells you how strong the upward lift is. I learned that playing Microsoft Flight SIm a few weeks ago, ha!
One of the best videos I have seen for a long time. Never tried this kind of ridge soaring and my heart was in my mouth for much of the time. You had great faith in being able to find lift - I was never in the same league - thank you and well done.
Puckered me right up when you got into the turbulence on the back side of that full turn that went behind the ridge line. Stephan's response: "I thought that would happen." Classic.
Incredible flying. And the landscape is just stunning. It's like a blend of the Faroe Islands and the Oregon coastline. I hear New Zealand is a windy nation, especially in the zones between the two big islands. Those hills obviously have helpful updrafts. What a place to fly.
New Zealanders are of the Israelite tribe of Manasseh, with those of England, Scotland, Australia, Canada. Brothers of those of Ephryim who founded the United States of America.
@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 This is clearly a channel for people interested in soaring, rather than the unnecessary division of the human race according to pseudo-science and conspiricy. I'm genuinely interested in what you think you are achieving with your previous post.
I fly under simular circumstances in southern Sweden. But when I run out of lift, I just land on the beach or on the hills, because I fly a paraglider. But heavens - what would you do?? Do you have an electric help motor, a landing strip nearby or are you just stinking good at flying?😉❤️
Ridge running looks so fun and I would love to try it at my club since we are right next to the dunes but sadly I have to wait until next year when I get my license. So it's very interesting to see these videos of other locations and scenarios. so thanks for the high-quality video!
Yah . But if I hadn't seen many of your videos perversely.....I would be wondering IF you lived to fly another day!! I didn't see many suitable landing sites. You should have given Ben much better advice! Like: The air never killed anyone but the ground DOES! Or:there's alot of BOLD pilots and alot of OLD pilots BUT VERY FEW OLD BOLD PILOTS!! From the first director of region four of the UNITED STATES HANGGLIDING ASSOCIATION my favorite saying is: the most beautiful view is from cloud base no matter where you are!! Fly safe Ben.
@@donbeuch1982 You couldn't be more right, I have been very safe during my still relatively short flying career but sometimes, of course, you have to take risks even in places like this where you are flying at a low altitude with very few landing possibilities because the rewards you get from it are great as you can see in the video and there are ways to make these risks smaller such as flying in groups or having a sustainer etc.
@@benjaminedwards3086 i would like to recommend very good reading material: 'The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love' and the follow up articles are great. chessintheair.com/risks-and-risk-mitigation/ Well worth your time, especiallly when you think you have to put yourself into danger to be a succesful and satisfied gliderpilot.
watching him so close to the ground and knowing that the thing has no propulsion on it's own makes me incredible anxious, like they are going to crash any minute
Hi Stefan, what made you decide the lowpass was safe? It was only 220kph, and you only pull out to 70-80m with a negative vario indication, and a part with bad ridge. Just curious to have your opinion! 😄
Nice video, just epic scenery. Feel free to make your way over to east tennessee and come experience gliding thru the Appalachian mounts on border of TN/NC.
Das ist mal ne andere Art von Hangschrubben . Schon beim Zugucken fühlt mein Bauch die Aufwindkicks . Toll . Da muss man wissen ,was man tut . Aussenlandemöflichkeiten scheinen ja nicht so üppig zu sein . Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr .
Thanks for all the cool videos - my flying is restricted to sim flying in Condor, for which I build scenerys. Can't wait to get back to the real thing!
It is a lifelong dream of mine to fly a glider, doing it over gorgeous NZ landscape would just be the cherry on top. Those ridge lines perpendicular to the dominant winds sure make for an awesome soaring playground, from my limited NZ and simulator experience.
I believe I saw you guys fly over Muriwai Beach and my heart stopped when it felt like you nearly buzzed our roof as you went out over the cliff. Thought you might clip a wing! Told my brother in LA who then was served your post. Amazing footage ... magical place ... incredible flying!
@ Stefan Langer - can conditions change quickly in these types of locations where the lift drops so low u r forced to land asap? also are there days in these types of locations where lift is so low u can't fly sailplanes there at all that day?
Stefan, do you ever see any RC gliders slope soaring there? Looks absolutely ideal. Maybe even some dynamic soaring on the backside of some of those hills! I used to fly RC gliders in California...this made me miss it. Unbelievable scenery...looks like I have to visit NZ now!
@Kevan M Allison He did that on purpose because he saw that the ridge line was diminishing. That glass ship is so slick all you have to do is to push the nose down, and gather speed, then ease up for altitude.
Slope soar the Port Hills in Canterbury, NZ. A perfect slope is available regardless of wind direction. ;-D The DS crowd get their kicks on the same slopes.
@@garrykennedy5484 got your point, true... but navigating away from your 'typical' landing zones is part of the adventure - yes, there is a risk to lose or at least damage your machine, just don't get killed and enjoy the time! I never tried hang-gliding, I think it opens a lot more possibilities/flexibility despite the lower range and speed.
That north of Raglan? Two guys did this on hang gliders yesterday, one way from Karioi SW corner. One crossed the Waikato and made it to Manukau heads, then back to Kario surf club. Never been done before.
Wait, you're ridge soaring at the beach in a sailplane? Done that in a paraglider but somehow I never thought people did that in a sailplane. Where do you land?
Thanks for sharing the video! Where is this located in relationship to the city of Aukland? I fly into AUK from LAX once or twice a month for AA. I would like to visit the local soaring clubs.
The Auckland Gliding Club is around 30km south of the city near Drury, the coastal soaring site is around 35km from the airfield, the soarable ridge runs for about 110km
As the Chinese say " it is better to be stupid and ask than not to ask and remain Stupid " l have heard the varying pitch beeps numerous times from Gliders and would love to know the reason behind them ? Secondly right at the start of this video you were almost touching the waves but yet gained altitude . Is this because of rising airflow from the sea ?
The beeps signal an increase or decrease in the Total Energy (TE), which is the sum of the potential energy (altitude) and kinetic energy (speed). For the low pass, altitude was converted into speed (by diving). The TE remained unchanged: Altitude goes down and speed goed up. After the low pass, speed was converted into altitude again (by pulling up).
Cool video. I have a question. When you did a lowpass, how did you know if there is a person down there? From the video, I cannot tell for sure that the pilot would have known for sure that there was no one down there. Just curious.
That is one awesome soaring video... I am not sure how that sailplane is staying in the air with the weight of those giant balls you have to do this with no motor!
Yes it is the audio Variometer. High pitch beeping means gaining energy (flying in rising airmass) (energy in terms of height and/or speed) Low pitch - loosing more energy than usual (flying in sinking airmass)
Stefan, as you know, to non-glider pilots this looks like such a trouble free and easy flight (but it's not). Please tell everyone what skill level is needed to safely fly this shoreline in a pure glider (100 hours of glider experience, 500, 1,000, more?). Do you consider this a low risk flight? Moderate? Severe? Extreme? Why? Also, is this a glider that you are borrowing/renting?
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When the plane said :OoOooooOoOOOOOOOooo o oooOoooOo
I Felt that
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it's called glider
@@nichtverstehen2045 it was a joke
😂😂😂
From a viewers perspective it doesn’t get much better than this, beautiful rolling hills one side and the rugged west coast ocean the other. Visually stunning!
There is still some better footage available from this day ;)
Cool because I’ve just about worn out the big TV watching this one!
And mere seconds from a terrible terrible death. Exciting indeed.
@@VarietyGamerChannel no death
@@VarietyGamerChannel he would survive
Flying a glider appears to be the ultimate in range anxiety!
or the opposite if you think you can fly forever
I don't think the sound of the variometer helps. It would stress me to no end.
Made my day... 🤣🤣🤣
@@Federation42movies in practice, it doesn't. the frantic beeping is actually a good sign.
Ministerium für Startsicherheit It's pronounced mayday.
what many people here seem not to understand is how extremely efficient such a modern glass carbon sailplane is. for example take his low pass. he could have continued for many more seconds in the ground effect and only lose 5-10 km/h speed (or a few meters altitude from where he started his descent).
That low-level pass was one gutsy move. Pure flying moxy.
There are no old Bold pilots, but plenty of old ones.
It's R2D2 in control of your plane?
Yes he is very informative
The loopy beepy sound is a signal to tell you if you're flying through an updraft or not. When it makes the droning sound, it means you have no lift and are therefore descending (slowly). When it beeps, you're flying over/through a patch of upward air, which gives you lift and lets the glider climb in altitude. The intensity of the beeping tells you how strong the upward lift is. I learned that playing Microsoft Flight SIm a few weeks ago, ha!
hateclub how fast do you descend, dangerously?
Beep beep beeeep
the beeping informs the pilot of how much lift the plane is getting from rising / falling (hot & cold) air currents
0:30 "CRAZY!" The glider was just 2 meters above the waves and somehow he was able to avoid taking a swim or walking home. Amazing flight. BRAVO!
The only outlanding strip appears to be the beach. You appear to have been very confident about the cliff updrafts.
Oceanic weather patterns are very reliable up there.
Fabulous, from a hangglider point of view! You can do things I can only dream about, even though I’m doing coastal flying too.
I absolutely love the sound of a variometer. What a beautiful video! I would have loved to experience this.
One of the best videos I have seen for a long time. Never tried this kind of ridge soaring and my heart was in my mouth for much of the time. You had great faith in being able to find lift - I was never in the same league - thank you and well done.
some sailplanes have electric backup, however sailing the cliffs wind ramp is done by seagulls everyday and its amazing
@@crapisnice Yeah but they're professionals!😁
5:48 absolutely beautiful. That wind though :D
Puckered me right up when you got into the turbulence on the back side of that full turn that went behind the ridge line. Stephan's response: "I thought that would happen." Classic.
Incredible flying. And the landscape is just stunning. It's like a blend of the Faroe Islands and the Oregon coastline. I hear New Zealand is a windy nation, especially in the zones between the two big islands. Those hills obviously have helpful updrafts. What a place to fly.
Man!!! you're freaking me out with these low passes!!!!!!!!!!! Really trusting the winds of mother nature here.
In the US you can glide from Maine to Georgia and back again. By way of the Appalachian Mountain Ridge in the spring time.
I don't know about Georgia and back but I do believe I read about someone flying a glider over 1000nm in NA.
That is if you don’t sleep or empty your Texas catheter.
Well damn !!🤔 🤬🖕🏽
That is awesome footage. New Zealand has a great variety of soaring possibilities!
New Zealand is awesome!
New Zealanders are of the Israelite tribe of Manasseh, with those of England, Scotland, Australia, Canada. Brothers of those of Ephryim who founded the United States of America.
@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 How Do you know?
@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 This is clearly a channel for people interested in soaring, rather than the unnecessary division of the human race according to pseudo-science and conspiricy. I'm genuinely interested in what you think you are achieving with your previous post.
New Zealand must be amazing for gliding, I wish I can fly there someday...
Epic. I fly PPG because I love the low flying side of things, but I’ve never seen glider ridge soaring like this. Very cool.
Wonderfull experience ! Amazing scenery ! Clean, smooth, vibrationless flight...Thanks for sharing
Endless free power on the day, the beach low pass was superb. I paid even more attention when he flew behind the hill!
250 KPH!?!? Taking an exploratory / introductory flight is my 2020 goal list - it’s been a dream to earn a gliding license for about 10 years!
do it. one of the best decisions of my life.
Stefan, thank you so much for taking us along!! Yes totally EPIC!!! Sitting inside with freezing rain here.
I fly under simular circumstances in southern Sweden. But when I run out of lift, I just land on the beach or on the hills, because I fly a paraglider. But heavens - what would you do?? Do you have an electric help motor, a landing strip nearby or are you just stinking good at flying?😉❤️
The beach looks empty, they could land there surely?
henkeH2 always JATO the heck outta there xD
@@BigBoootyBass Land on the beach? You mean crash into the cliffs?
Just the name alone Sailplane sounds ultra safe.
One of the items at the top of my bucket list. Loved it!
google your local gliding club and make it happen!
cockpit looks like a game while the ground looks real
Yo! I'm pretty sure i saw you lot flying over karotahi while I was kitesurfing!
I wish I had the balls to do that low pass, over rocks and sea! Amazing.
Ridge running looks so fun and I would love to try it at my club since we are right next to the dunes but sadly I have to wait until next year when I get my license. So it's very interesting to see these videos of other locations and scenarios.
so thanks for the high-quality video!
Thanks a lot! Ridge running is so much fun, but you need to be careful.
Yah . But if I hadn't seen many of your videos perversely.....I would be wondering IF you lived to fly another day!! I didn't see many suitable landing sites. You should have given Ben much better advice! Like: The air never killed anyone but the ground DOES! Or:there's alot of BOLD pilots and alot of OLD pilots BUT VERY FEW OLD BOLD PILOTS!! From the first director of region four of the UNITED STATES HANGGLIDING ASSOCIATION my favorite saying is: the most beautiful view is from cloud base no matter where you are!! Fly safe Ben.
@@donbeuch1982 You couldn't be more right, I have been very safe during my still relatively short flying career but sometimes, of course, you have to take risks even in places like this where you are flying at a low altitude with very few landing possibilities because the rewards you get from it are great as you can see in the video and there are ways to make these risks smaller such as flying in groups or having a sustainer etc.
@@SteFly Definitely, have fun at the competition and fly safe!
@@benjaminedwards3086 i would like to recommend very good reading material:
'The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love' and the follow up articles are great.
chessintheair.com/risks-and-risk-mitigation/
Well worth your time, especiallly when you think you have to put yourself into danger to be a succesful and satisfied gliderpilot.
Top - nice ride to know this beautiful country - congratulations and thanks for sharing with us....
Ahhhh 60fps goodness. That is such a beautiful Video!
watching him so close to the ground and knowing that the thing has no propulsion on it's own makes me incredible anxious, like they are going to crash any minute
Hi Stefan, what made you decide the lowpass was safe? It was only 220kph, and you only pull out to 70-80m with a negative vario indication, and a part with bad ridge. Just curious to have your opinion! 😄
Looks amazing great job!
Big up to my fellow KIWIS...Happy New Year...
Thank you ;)
Nice video, just epic scenery. Feel free to make your way over to east tennessee and come experience gliding thru the Appalachian mounts on border of TN/NC.
I live in that area and fly gliders. Where are you referring to?
Das ist mal ne andere Art von Hangschrubben . Schon beim Zugucken fühlt mein Bauch die Aufwindkicks . Toll . Da muss man wissen ,was man tut . Aussenlandemöflichkeiten scheinen ja nicht so üppig zu sein . Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr .
This is actually a really good ridge soaring video.
Fantastic video, done lots of this in the Uk, why did you turn left near the end and go behind the cliff in the bad sink?
Thanks for all the cool videos - my flying is restricted to sim flying in Condor, for which I build scenerys. Can't wait to get back to the real thing!
I am so blown away, this is just so incredibly beautiful. I want to fly with you...
Beautiful! Nice sloping, excellent videography!
Was that mostly ridge soaring? Wind coming from the sea?
It is a lifelong dream of mine to fly a glider, doing it over gorgeous NZ landscape would just be the cherry on top. Those ridge lines perpendicular to the dominant winds sure make for an awesome soaring playground, from my limited NZ and simulator experience.
Amazing video Stefan,
So far I only have 22 minutes gliding done with Piako gliding club but I am planning on much more once I find the time!
I believe I saw you guys fly over Muriwai Beach and my heart stopped when it felt like you nearly buzzed our roof as you went out over the cliff. Thought you might clip a wing! Told my brother in LA who then was served your post. Amazing footage ... magical place ... incredible flying!
Haha, nice!
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Stefan Langer - can conditions change quickly in these types of locations where the lift drops so low u r forced to land asap? also are there days in these types of locations where lift is so low u can't fly sailplanes there at all that day?
I know you guys have crazy glide angles and energy retention, but watching the video made me super anxious as a paraglider 😅
Stefan, do you ever see any RC gliders slope soaring there? Looks absolutely ideal. Maybe even some dynamic soaring on the backside of some of those hills! I used to fly RC gliders in California...this made me miss it. Unbelievable scenery...looks like I have to visit NZ now!
Incredible landscape! thank you for sharing those hard to reach flights!
@Kevan M Allison He did that on purpose because he saw that the ridge line was diminishing. That glass ship is so slick all you have to do is to push the nose down, and gather speed, then ease up for altitude.
OMFSM Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 graphics look so good.
Ahhh slope soaring great stuff always chasing the wind....
Slope soar the Port Hills in Canterbury, NZ. A perfect slope is available regardless of wind direction. ;-D
The DS crowd get their kicks on the same slopes.
These glider planes are absolutely insane
Hope you enjoyed our beautiful country mate, very cool to see you flying in nz
Just for anybody wonder what the beeping is, it's a device that detects if your going up or down.
more precisely, gaining or losing total energy (0.5*m*v^2 + m*G*h)
I am so scared for you that the wind dies out suddenly. This is risky!!!!! I want to see the entire flight.
then you land, one way or another!
@@w00dyalien That's true. I fly hang gliders, but always have my landing zone in glide distance. Not sure where he would bail out sometimes.
@@garrykennedy5484 got your point, true... but navigating away from your 'typical' landing zones is part of the adventure - yes, there is a risk to lose or at least damage your machine, just don't get killed and enjoy the time! I never tried hang-gliding, I think it opens a lot more possibilities/flexibility despite the lower range and speed.
That was insane. That’s why I fly a paraglider. I can stick a landing in a tight spot if I’m flying XC
Sorry für die Frage aber die hat doch keinen Motor oder? Also die nutz ja nur den auftrieb
It's amazing to think how big this planet is, we can't even see the curvature of it
What happens if you are unable to find updraft? Do you get stranded?
I'd want a motor glider definitely.
No risk no fun 😅
Awesome Stefan. I remember that. One of the best experiences ever.
Just awesome! Thank you 👍🏼
Stunning views, great video quality, real flying.
Thank you!
Should a glider pilot head towards the mountain if the top of the mountain is covered with clouds??
Holy cow! That is an amazing view!
The new Battlefield game graphics is amazing !
That north of Raglan? Two guys did this on hang gliders yesterday, one way from Karioi SW corner. One crossed the Waikato and made it to Manukau heads, then back to Kario surf club. Never been done before.
Yes I think so. 👍🏼
How do people in NZ get into gliding (either hang gliding or under a sail) I'm in the waikato, don't seem to be many options here
Nathan chalecki There is a Gliding club based at Waharoa Airfield
@@nathanchalecki4842 for hang gliding search Facebook for @Skyrider. Sean is based in Raglan and did the flight to Port Waikato on Sunday
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Great stuff. I used to hangglide on that beach. The lift is super reliable.
The beeping would drive me nuts, I would open the canopy and jump in the sea
Turn it off. Watch the vario. Flew for years and never heard a peep.
Fly. Vario free. Just feel it🤩
There's a button for people like you. The 'off' button on the vario.
Not suitable for being a pilot, I can tell. Too much bitching.
@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 lol
@Stefan Langer
Hi Stefan, bist Du dort im WInter hingeflogen und hast ein paar schöne Segelflugtage verbracht?
Wow! Stefan, you are happy man! It's very, very beautiful!!!
Wait, you're ridge soaring at the beach in a sailplane? Done that in a paraglider but somehow I never thought people did that in a sailplane. Where do you land?
Thanks for sharing the video! Where is this located in relationship to the city of Aukland? I fly into AUK from LAX once or twice a month for AA. I would like to visit the local soaring clubs.
The Auckland Gliding Club is around 30km south of the city near Drury, the coastal soaring site is around 35km from the airfield, the soarable ridge runs for about 110km
@@phantomkea2 Thank you! 👌🏼
As the Chinese say " it is better to be stupid and ask than not to ask and remain Stupid " l have heard the varying pitch beeps numerous times from Gliders and would love to know the reason behind them ?
Secondly right at the start of this video you were almost touching the waves but yet gained altitude . Is this because of rising airflow from the sea ?
The beeps signal an increase or decrease in the Total Energy (TE), which is the sum of the potential energy (altitude) and kinetic energy (speed). For the low pass, altitude was converted into speed (by diving). The TE remained unchanged: Altitude goes down and speed goed up. After the low pass, speed was converted into altitude again (by pulling up).
Beautiful! What's that beeping sound?
google variometer for detailed explanation. it tells the pilot if he is sinking or rising.
So what are your land out options on a flight like this? The beach?
Do not make an outlanding and on some spots you can land on the beach
Death. Death is always an option.
Stefan Langer at 0:30 apart from current speed it looks like you land out at the beach... awesome.
Amazing plane, thanks for showing.
But I'd have to silence the beeping. But if you can tune it out, good. What an adventure it must have been.
This is awesome no engine just flying in the fresh air. I would love to try to fly on this thing
what coast is that , near manakau heads ? , guessing here tho ,
Cool video.
I have a question.
When you did a lowpass, how did you know if there is a person down there?
From the video, I cannot tell for sure that the pilot would have known for sure that there was no one down there.
Just curious.
You can see that! The camera has a fishey lense, so it is very wide angle.
Why don't glider have a Artificial Horizon in the cockpit
That is one awesome soaring video...
I am not sure how that sailplane is staying in the air with the weight of those giant balls you have to do this with no motor!
I would replaced that audio signal with Clevelands: No, no, no, no, noooo ;-)
OOOOoooooweeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! That's some flying!!!!!
What does the beep sound mean? That the plane is gaining altitude?
Yes it is the audio Variometer.
High pitch beeping means gaining energy (flying in rising airmass) (energy in terms of height and/or speed)
Low pitch - loosing more energy than usual (flying in sinking airmass)
There's a lot of power in those ridges and the thermal difference. 👌👍
This is a real pilot. A Boeing or Airbus captain couldn't do this.
Where do you place you GoPro when it’s not on your head?
Great to see aviation videos from NZ
amazing scenery, NZ is just Beautiful
this made me so happy
Breathtaking view! Amazing video and Happy New Year!
What is that sound indicating?
What is the price of this sailplane?
Fantastic! Which glider do you use? Winchstart or towing?
Watched one of you guys from Drury do a touch and go at Kario from my Moyes around 97, I felt very slow and draggie😕
Nice flight, thanks for sharing.
Stefan, as you know, to non-glider pilots this looks like such a trouble free and easy flight (but it's not). Please tell everyone what skill level is needed to safely fly this shoreline in a pure glider (100 hours of glider experience, 500, 1,000, more?). Do you consider this a low risk flight? Moderate? Severe? Extreme? Why? Also, is this a glider that you are borrowing/renting?
is it safer than a normal plane?
I did a bit of cliff soaring yesterday on my Paraglider, but you guys have incredibly glide ratios on those sailplanes. 😮
Sailplanes have a slightly better glide ratio :D
how far did you travel?
And that folks sums up the attack wing capability of the RNZAF!