Answer to your question: So what happens with almost no weight and a streamlined/aerodynamic aircraft is that your energy doesnt get transformed into heat energy that fast because you only have wind resistance Now yes you cant lose energy please thats simple we have never created or used energy it just can get transformed (for example with your phone its electricity into heat and light energy) Now what happens when you dive down is that your weight tranforms with gravity into kinetic energy And you lose your potential energy But now you got all this kinetic energy and if you pull up you make it into potential energy again But some gets lost to the wind resistance (you heat up the air and your aircraft) And if the aerodynamics on your aircraft are really good you lose almost nothing You might not be losing height and it seems that you are not losing energy but you really are Maybe your airspeed was like 1 knt slower Of course with a huge Airliner you have a ton of windresistance meaning to keep your kinetic energy to keep lift you gotta lose potential energy to compensate the air resistance which makes heat I am sorry for the essay you dont gotta read it all but if you are interested Greetings from Switzerland (I am a physicist btw.)
Wonderful analysis and you are of course 100% correct! So many comments are saying there was ridge or thermal lift and that was clearly not the case in this video. I was trying to demonstrate exactly what you were explaining - the glider has a lot of built up kinetic energy when I dove and with so little drag, it was able to use that energy for a long time flying low and still have enough energy to pull up to almost the same height as before the initial dive. Thanks for chiming in and for watching! Bruno
not only does Bruno get people interested in the videos.. his addictive videos got some of us to pursue our license and start doing these shenanigans ourselves..... may you always have +5 on your vario Bruno!!
Same here, I was interested before but Bruno's videos helped seal the deal for me. I hope to start flight lessons soon. Great video Bruno.👌👍 People at my job think I'm crazy for wanting to fly a plane with no engine, they just don't understand!😁
I learned how to hang glide at age 17. Got my private pilot's licence at 18. Flew my first glider (similar to this one) at age 19. Got my first stick time in a Huey, while in the military, at age 21. Got in a motorcycle accident that paralyzed me from chest down, but learned how to fly paragliders at Torrey Pines, in San Diego, to be able to keep flying without the weight/bulk of a hang glider. I love flight more than anything! Hands down. This video gives that near insatiable itch! Let's get high! In the air, that is. LOL
Alex Moto that's a silly comment as I'm sure you know the statistical significance of paralysis occurring from motorcylce use is much great than that of stair use
Hi Bruno, I'm a new glider pilot-in-training, have u got any tips for me on how I can do some videos from the gliders and tips on how to fly them well?
Barnstorming with a glider, there's a new one! The people on that ridge probably had almost as much fun watching as you, flying! ...Thanks for posting yet another inspiring video.
This sorta reminds me when I was learning to fly Blaniks at the Royal Australian Navy's airstation NAS Nowra in the early 80s, we had a bunch of Shitduck pilots (A4 Skyhawks), used to fly the gliders on the weekends and there were a couple who had knack of doing an incredible aerobatic routine over the field from a few thousand ft, but the way they managed to milk every last bit of energy out of the tiny bit of height was mind blowing... Although an old Blanik has nothing on your machine! Nice video... Please keep em coming.
I truly believe a glider is the ultimate flying machine. looks and feels as a fighter jet, bubble canopy can be aerobatic, dont need to mess with airspace radio blah blah dont need to mess with fuel oil pressure noise headset so natural and purely for the love of flight. I started with SEL and quickly understood that its the flying and manipulating the airplane and the controls is what Im seeking more than getting from point A to B which has its place as well. However, flying a 172 cannot compare to a glider and I am working on getting my rating add on now. The tow plane in the club is a NASA test pilot who flew anything possible and he told me that gliders are his true love. Nevertheless, each aircraft has its own place in aviation.
I agree 100%. Similarities to a fighter: wind rush noise (with engines at the rear, or in this case, no engines), hot landings, tight cockpit/cabin fit, the ability to "eject"(if parachute is worn), more judgement required (given no engine), oxygen required (at altitude)...many many similarities....
For a minute, I thought you were attempting to replicate the dynamic soaring (with RC models) videos! Great fun to watch. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Pompey Monkey he sort of does the dynamic soaring by coming back off the hill into the lift generated by the slope. He climbs a heap at the end before his last high speed run, I wouldn't be surprised to find he used the dynamic soaring principals to time his accent to gain every bit of energy he could get.
Fantastic as always Bruno. Oh how I wish we had such ridge flying where I lived. We have just a few very low ridges and flakey wind, but it does tend to make you really improve your techniique in the hunt for lift. Brilliant footage as usual. Thanks for all your great videos.
I love your videos. I'm just about to solo. I started on the prairies but now I'm in Invermere in the Canadian rockies. Thanks for the inspiration. Flying a glider in the mountains is probably better than going to the moon.
Some epic video footage man... love the way you so fearlessly throw that glider around so close to the ground... great energy management... yet another fantastic video! Thanks!
Looks like your DSing! (Dynamic-Soaring) great content, thanks for keeping me chomping-at-the-bit to get some new training & hours in my dusty log book.
Airspeed when I was down low was around 110 - 120 knots indicated. My wings were full of water so I was able to keep a lot of the energy from the dive down transferred back to the pull up. Yeah - it was amazing to end at about the same height I started 4 minutes earlier. The only difference was I started by having about 110 knots indicated and ended at about 80 knots indicated. Those 30 knots difference we able to power all that playing around. Pretty crazy huh?
Being a Hang glider Pilot myself I am.going to go out on a limb and say that You KNOW Better than the Nonsense that is called the " Laws of Gravity ". Stay safe bud....nice vids.
I can't wait to have enough money and free time from working and just living to be able to afford, maintain and fly one of these. Love your videos man.
Sweet and Scary Bruno...I keep recommending your flying videos and hope that you can Fly the Eclipse in a couple of weeks...Any hassle with the FAA ? Hope not !...Should be an outstanding record of your skill and daring.
Be nice to have readout of your altitude and speed on the screen. Great videos! I'm a paraglider pilot and really appreciate to see how much speed and altitude you guys have to play with!
Crazy bank angles you getting there! It's not the glide ratio at work here though Bruno, but rather, sink rate. And modern gliders are less than 1m/s now for min-sink, I am pretty sure. What's truly amazing is how your sink rate doesn't rapidly skyrocket when you have a good amount of bank on!
Great stuff! You need another camera focused on the instruments and put it in a small corner window. It's hard to see the gauges with the one camera and can see the climb indicator but not the altitude.
Hey Bruno, you should try a touch and go off of that trail next time! LOL. I'm sure no glider pilot has ever done a touch and go during flight, and then landed at the originating airport 😁
Whether you understand what is going on or not, what this guy is doing here is amazing. Energy conservation at its finest. Not sure what the disliking people were expecting? Glider taking off to space?
Ridge lift is fun even in an ol' heavy Twin Astir, but modern single seaters are something else in terms of agility! Had the opportunity once to witness the locals battling it out on Innsbruck Hafelekar on a rather windy day, enough that you were better holding on to something on the ground and to make the clouds all dancing. The glider action was quite intense and a bit terrifying tbh.
Beautiful as ever. You put up great vids of flight. I've always been enchanted with flight. and you vids really do it justice...ahh so cool. Thank you. Questions (2) - What are you doing with yellow lever on left side of cockpit? What is that sound I hear high pitch swing to low pitch? Does that tell you when you are in updraft?
Thanks for watching! The lever I keep using is the flaps handle for the glider. Gliders use both positive and negative flaps. Airplanes only use positive flaps. We use negative flaps when flying fast to reduce drag on the wings. I change flaps settings as I change airspeed. There is a correct flap setting for every condition of flight. It only takes about 5 minutes to learn at the beginning and then I haven't even thought about it since. The sound tells you if the air around you is rising or sinking.
Hello sipzter I am also a glider pilot and I can answer your questions on behalf of Bruno. The yellow handle is to release the rope from the tow plane or winch, how ever you must've mistaken it for the flap lever next to it, the flap lever changes the shape of the wing making it easier and more efficient for the glider to fly at different speeds, when you want to go faster you can push the stick forward and also move the flaps into negative, pitch making the glider fly faster. On the other hand if you want to go slower you can extend the flaps making the wing surface bigger and produce more lift, and also pull the stick back raising the nose. The sound you are hearing is an instrument called a variometer, this is very important and tells the pilotaient the glider is in lift ( rising up) or in sink (falling down) this also says how quickly this is happening by the pitch of the sound ( higher pitch and or pulsing =lift, lower pitch and a more depressing sound = sink) this is crucial to find weak thermals and other lift how ever it can be done without. I hope this helps and that it's not too long. Regards
William and Bruno- Thank you both for your explanations. I think you're right as far as my error re: flap lever. I had no idea that it would be used as frequently as he does it! I just thought - ok you use the stick and rudders for everything. Also, the variometer is very interesting, too. Now I understand Bruno's title re: flying Xcountry without a vario. Your response was really educational and not too long! Thank you.
Amazing, Bruno ! In France (Pyrenees Mountains), we have several places to do the same thing... for exemple in the "cirque de Gavarnie" with m'y DuoDiscus !! Where is this place ? Utah ?
I'm definitely hooked. I've taken 16 lessons so far. Here in Eastern Ontario, it's fairly flat, so we don't do any ridge soaring (and with all the rain and low-cloud cover this year, not as much thermalling as I'd like). On good days, I'm told it's possible to get almost 10,000'AGL, though 8,000 is more typical. Do you ever do any spins for fun?
Awesome to hear you are having fun with your training Dave! Sounds like your area offers some unique challenges. Yes, I have done some spins in the past, but my glider does not allow spins when there is water in the wings. I pretty much always fly with wing ballast so it is a no go. Thanks for watching.
Spoke to a lady at the Nebo market about all the gliders around Nephi and she said their always trying to go around Mt. Nebo. I know Minden NV. is a big deal for soaring but Nephi looks like a well kept secret, maybe I'll get there one day.
I fly RC planes. And we do slope soaring off the cliffs with non-powered gliders. Really fun, can get some insane speeds, and because no motors, can fly for ever.
Thanks a lot for sharing - a really great video. Am I correct or aren't you more using thermals than wind. I did a lot of paragliding in the alps and know the feeling. Also based on where you are flying I assume it's more the thermals. Or really dynamic wind ?? - Best
Thanks for watching. I was not using any kind of lift in this video. That is why I really wanted to share it. All of the energy for staying up during all of these passes was collected during the initial dive. Wind was extremely light at the time and there weren't much thermals. Pay attention to the vario during the entire video and you will see it reacts to the dives and climbs but not really much to outside lift or sink.
Wow, I'm a helo pilot and was really impressed buy what seemed to be so 80 degree angle of bank turns..man that is wild. What is the soft beep or worbble sound in the background. Some sort of stall alert?
Bruno just wanted to say thank you for your videos, I am 59 years old started flying ultralight in 83 have 17 or so hours in a S 2-22 but didn't have the money to finish. I found Bellaka through you thanks I really enjoy watching you and him. I hope he was a Christian. YHWH bless you brother
Awesome! Do you ever search TH-cam/ Instagram/ Twitter for where you are flying, plus glider? Such as "grand teton glider". Might be worth digging through the search results. Thanks for sharing!
I tried it about a week later and was disappointed. The location was here: 39.07751 -111.53864 It is in an area called the Wasatch Plateau and is east of Salina Utah. I hope someone puts something up - would be amazing to see what it looked like from the ground. Thanks for watching. Bruno
Here's a direct link to google maps with the coordinates Bruno has been posting. www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B004'39.0%22N+111%C2%B032'19.1%22W/@39.0773145,-111.5336911,1710m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d39.07751!4d-111.53864?hl=en
Answer to your question:
So what happens with almost no weight and a streamlined/aerodynamic aircraft is that your energy doesnt get transformed into heat energy that fast because you only have wind resistance
Now yes you cant lose energy please thats simple we have never created or used energy it just can get transformed (for example with your phone its electricity into heat and light energy)
Now what happens when you dive down is that your weight tranforms with gravity into kinetic energy
And you lose your potential energy
But now you got all this kinetic energy and if you pull up you make it into potential energy again
But some gets lost to the wind resistance (you heat up the air and your aircraft)
And if the aerodynamics on your aircraft are really good you lose almost nothing
You might not be losing height and it seems that you are not losing energy but you really are
Maybe your airspeed was like 1 knt slower
Of course with a huge Airliner you have a ton of windresistance meaning to keep your kinetic energy to keep lift you gotta lose potential energy to compensate the air resistance which makes heat
I am sorry for the essay you dont gotta read it all but if you are interested
Greetings from Switzerland
(I am a physicist btw.)
Wonderful analysis and you are of course 100% correct! So many comments are saying there was ridge or thermal lift and that was clearly not the case in this video. I was trying to demonstrate exactly what you were explaining - the glider has a lot of built up kinetic energy when I dove and with so little drag, it was able to use that energy for a long time flying low and still have enough energy to pull up to almost the same height as before the initial dive. Thanks for chiming in and for watching! Bruno
Bruno Vassel thanks for reading, good sir
And keep up the good work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Falcon I’ve been learning this for the past year and a half
Cosiest Hydra866 what are you doing as a profession??
Falcon what do you mean
I was never interested in gliders until I found your videos. You're getting me hooked.
me too, i think one of his videos just turned up on my screen one day and I've been hooked ever since.
Awesome guys! So happy you are enjoying them.
Bargain Boondocker such a good pun
not only does Bruno get people interested in the videos.. his addictive videos got some of us to pursue our license and start doing these shenanigans ourselves..... may you always have +5 on your vario Bruno!!
Same here, I was interested before but Bruno's videos helped seal the deal for me. I hope to start flight lessons soon. Great video Bruno.👌👍 People at my job think I'm crazy for wanting to fly a plane with no engine, they just don't understand!😁
Brilliant video.
Nice to hear the real sounds too, and not some crap music track.
Thnks for posting this.
Happiness is a screaming Vario.
I learned how to hang glide at age 17. Got my private pilot's licence at 18. Flew my first glider (similar to this one) at age 19. Got my first stick time in a Huey, while in the military, at age 21. Got in a motorcycle accident that paralyzed me from chest down, but learned how to fly paragliders at Torrey Pines, in San Diego, to be able to keep flying without the weight/bulk of a hang glider. I love flight more than anything! Hands down. This video gives that near insatiable itch! Let's get high! In the air, that is. LOL
How did you get 1m subscribers
Sorry to hear about your accident. A reminder for me not to ride anymore. Nice to hear you're still doing things you love. Fly On High!
People fall off staircases and break their necks - that's your reminder to not walk anymore as well.
Alex Moto that's a silly comment as I'm sure you know the statistical significance of paralysis occurring from motorcylce use is much great than that of stair use
Joshua stop making sense, I want to get a bike
Bruno, your glider videos are the best on the internet. I used to fly and everytime I Watch your videos I want to get up flying again. Awesome job!
Thanks!
Sir Paul, thank you. Will check him out!
Hi Bruno,
I'm a new glider pilot-in-training, have u got any tips for me on how I can do some videos from the gliders and tips on how to fly them well?
paule312 So glider pilots dies often? That's my biggest fear when I think to fly again.
You're lucky you didn't get a ticket for breaking the law of gravity. :)
NASA did this in a movie set
Makes sense.
Got a title?
As always Bruno I love your videos and your passion! WD M8
CloudStreets lashwrty
Awesome Bruno! Your flying skills are like a Jedi Master!
That would have made my day being those people on the ground!! Looks like so much fun!
Barnstorming with a glider, there's a new one! The people on that ridge probably had almost as much fun watching as you, flying! ...Thanks for posting yet another inspiring video.
This sorta reminds me when I was learning to fly Blaniks at the Royal Australian Navy's airstation NAS Nowra in the early 80s, we had a bunch of Shitduck pilots (A4 Skyhawks), used to fly the gliders on the weekends and there were a couple who had knack of doing an incredible aerobatic routine over the field from a few thousand ft, but the way they managed to milk every last bit of energy out of the tiny bit of height was mind blowing... Although an old Blanik has nothing on your machine! Nice video... Please keep em coming.
I truly believe a glider is the ultimate flying machine. looks and feels as a fighter jet, bubble canopy can be aerobatic, dont need to mess with airspace radio blah blah dont need to mess with fuel oil pressure noise headset so natural and purely for the love of flight. I started with SEL and quickly understood that its the flying and manipulating the airplane and the controls is what Im seeking more than getting from point A to B which has its place as well. However, flying a 172 cannot compare to a glider and I am working on getting my rating add on now. The tow plane in the club is a NASA test pilot who flew anything possible and he told me that gliders are his true love.
Nevertheless, each aircraft has its own place in aviation.
I agree 100%. Similarities to a fighter: wind rush noise (with engines at the rear, or in this case, no engines), hot landings, tight cockpit/cabin fit, the ability to "eject"(if parachute is worn), more judgement required (given no engine), oxygen required (at altitude)...many many similarities....
For a minute, I thought you were attempting to replicate the dynamic soaring (with RC models) videos!
Great fun to watch. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Pompey Monkey he sort of does the dynamic soaring by coming back off the hill into the lift generated by the slope. He climbs a heap at the end before his last high speed run, I wouldn't be surprised to find he used the dynamic soaring principals to time his accent to gain every bit of energy he could get.
Fantastic as always Bruno. Oh how I wish we had such ridge flying where I lived. We have just a few very low ridges and flakey wind, but it does tend to make you really improve your techniique in the hunt for lift. Brilliant footage as usual. Thanks for all your great videos.
Good video Bruno. The people on the ground enjoyed your flight for sure!
I love your videos. I'm just about to solo. I started on the prairies but now I'm in Invermere in the Canadian rockies. Thanks for the inspiration. Flying a glider in the mountains is probably better than going to the moon.
How I wish I could go for a ride with you sometime. Always loved gliders but have never been in one. Bucket list for sure!!!
Some epic video footage man... love the way you so fearlessly throw that glider around so close to the ground... great energy management... yet another fantastic video! Thanks!
I could watch your videos all day long Bruno.
Watching all that rock polishing, turns toward the cliffs, and high speed passes got the ol’ pucker factor going.
Airplay!!
Smiling with you the entire flight. No - rails roller coaster.
Whoot! Dynamic soaring! Learned a lot from the Albatross.
Another wonderful video, thanks Bruno. : )
Maybe you can find the video on the UFO sighting websites. ;-) "Dude, this thing made no sound. Just a woosh as it swooped by. Freaky!"
Haha - totally!
Oh, it makes a sound alright!
Love your videos & the commentary which I find very interesting.
Your videos are awesome man! You inspired me to start gliding.. gonna have my first lesson next sunday
Awesome! Have a blast and be safe.
Very awesome. First time I've seen you going that fast that low. Pretty exciting, be careful out there. :)
Love these videos. Keep them coming.
Looks like your DSing! (Dynamic-Soaring) great content, thanks for keeping me chomping-at-the-bit to get some new training & hours in my dusty log book.
Nice flying. What was your airspeed? Looked like you easily got back 500' or more when you pulled up?
Airspeed when I was down low was around 110 - 120 knots indicated. My wings were full of water so I was able to keep a lot of the energy from the dive down transferred back to the pull up. Yeah - it was amazing to end at about the same height I started 4 minutes earlier. The only difference was I started by having about 110 knots indicated and ended at about 80 knots indicated. Those 30 knots difference we able to power all that playing around. Pretty crazy huh?
Would be cool to see if someone posts your low passes .....Cockpit view never gives a good prespective of true speed.
Being a Hang glider Pilot myself I am.going to go out on a limb and say that You KNOW Better than the Nonsense that is called the " Laws of Gravity ".
Stay safe bud....nice vids.
Haha - exactly. We sure have fun breaking it don't we. ;) Take care and stay safe as well. Bruno
When i think of glider planes i always think of a Horten Ho 229 without engines, but then i remember that's not the case.
I can't wait to have enough money and free time from working and just living to be able to afford, maintain and fly one of these. Love your videos man.
Always enjoy your videos! Amazing!
Sweet and Scary Bruno...I keep recommending your flying videos and hope that you can Fly the Eclipse in a couple of weeks...Any hassle with the FAA ? Hope not !...Should be an outstanding record of your skill and daring.
Wow you're getting great thermal and up lift action in that area that's great
simple ...good thermal updraught and air flow pushing up over the ridge , simple physics. Great flying :-)
ahaha, I bet first thing all spectators did after the airshow was googling 'how the glider fly' ...amazing flight BTW :)
Be nice to have readout of your altitude and speed on the screen. Great videos! I'm a paraglider pilot and really appreciate to see how much speed and altitude you guys have to play with!
It's awesome what you're doing for the sport Bruno, but be careful mate
The performance of modern sailplanes never ceases to amaze me!
Broke the G-meter if nothing else. Great video as always!
Fascinating vid, have plenty more of yours to catch up on too!
Really good slope soaring. Great video!
dynamic soaring the thermals is real
Awesome flying there!
Think our old Blanik was about 19:1 glide ratio. Lively video mate.
Getting some good pockets of ridge lift there too.
"Mr. Vassel, We just watched you violating penal code GR-101. No one gets away with breaking the law. Yer comin' with us,".
Amazing and awesome in one shot video brother!! Thumb's up!~John
Wow! What a day, what a lift, what a ride! Is that Utah? looks beautiful. Thanks a lot for your posts Bruno! :)
I wonder if your going to show this one to the wifie... I loved it!
I like your Videos. Gliding in your Videos is awesome.
Crazy bank angles you getting there! It's not the glide ratio at work here though Bruno, but rather, sink rate. And modern gliders are less than 1m/s now for min-sink, I am pretty sure. What's truly amazing is how your sink rate doesn't rapidly skyrocket when you have a good amount of bank on!
Great stuff! You need another camera focused on the instruments and put it in a small corner window. It's hard to see the gauges with the one camera and can see the climb indicator but not the altitude.
Nice fly over those cars!
As an airplane pilot, I have to admit those glider pilots are the best stick and rudder people out there.
Don't forget flaps and spoilers😃
Hey Bruno, you should try a touch and go off of that trail next time! LOL. I'm sure no glider pilot has ever done a touch and go during flight, and then landed at the originating airport 😁
This is like a thousand flying dreams I've had. Amazing.
Would have loved to be the hiker and watched you wizzzing past :) Amazing!
Better than watching a fighter jet doing low alt training...
This is cool too, but how so?
@@aaronw4437 Fighter jets are waaaay too loud
Whether you understand what is going on or not, what this guy is doing here is amazing. Energy conservation at its finest. Not sure what the disliking people were expecting? Glider taking off to space?
Ridge lift is fun even in an ol' heavy Twin Astir, but modern single seaters are something else in terms of agility! Had the opportunity once to witness the locals battling it out on Innsbruck Hafelekar on a rather windy day, enough that you were better holding on to something on the ground and to make the clouds all dancing. The glider action was quite intense and a bit terrifying tbh.
Forget about traffic. I'd fly to work 😁
That thing looks incredibly fun to fly.
It is called LIFT! It is found in abundance around mountain tops and ridges. ... Glad I could help.
Eventually, gravity wins, but its fun breaking the law while it lasts! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful as ever. You put up great vids of flight. I've always been enchanted with flight. and you vids really do it justice...ahh so cool. Thank you.
Questions (2) - What are you doing with yellow lever on left side of cockpit? What is that sound I hear high pitch swing to low pitch? Does that tell you when you are in updraft?
Thanks for watching! The lever I keep using is the flaps handle for the glider. Gliders use both positive and negative flaps. Airplanes only use positive flaps. We use negative flaps when flying fast to reduce drag on the wings. I change flaps settings as I change airspeed. There is a correct flap setting for every condition of flight. It only takes about 5 minutes to learn at the beginning and then I haven't even thought about it since. The sound tells you if the air around you is rising or sinking.
Hello sipzter I am also a glider pilot and I can answer your questions on behalf of Bruno. The yellow handle is to release the rope from the tow plane or winch, how ever you must've mistaken it for the flap lever next to it, the flap lever changes the shape of the wing making it easier and more efficient for the glider to fly at different speeds, when you want to go faster you can push the stick forward and also move the flaps into negative, pitch making the glider fly faster. On the other hand if you want to go slower you can extend the flaps making the wing surface bigger and produce more lift, and also pull the stick back raising the nose. The sound you are hearing is an instrument called a variometer, this is very important and tells the pilotaient the glider is in lift ( rising up) or in sink (falling down) this also says how quickly this is happening by the pitch of the sound ( higher pitch and or pulsing =lift, lower pitch and a more depressing sound = sink) this is crucial to find weak thermals and other lift how ever it can be done without. I hope this helps and that it's not too long. Regards
William and Bruno- Thank you both for your explanations. I think you're right as far as my error re: flap lever. I had no idea that it would be used as frequently as he does it! I just thought - ok you use the stick and rudders for everything. Also, the variometer is very interesting, too. Now I understand Bruno's title re: flying Xcountry without a vario. Your response was really educational and not too long! Thank you.
yeah baby.... more of these
so cool how powerful the ridge lift is
Amazing, Bruno ! In France (Pyrenees Mountains), we have several places to do the same thing... for exemple in the "cirque de Gavarnie" with m'y DuoDiscus !!
Where is this place ?
Utah ?
is there any video of a gliderflight at cirque de Gavarnie? I would love to watch it!
Dynamic soaring? I'd love to see more of that.
Real full size gliders can not dynamic soar. Too many g's. This was simply using the energy gained from the first dive at the beginning of the video.
I liked your video so I liked your video. Nice!
I'm definitely hooked. I've taken 16 lessons so far. Here in Eastern Ontario, it's fairly flat, so we don't do any ridge soaring (and with all the rain and low-cloud cover this year, not as much thermalling as I'd like). On good days, I'm told it's possible to get almost 10,000'AGL, though 8,000 is more typical.
Do you ever do any spins for fun?
Awesome to hear you are having fun with your training Dave! Sounds like your area offers some unique challenges. Yes, I have done some spins in the past, but my glider does not allow spins when there is water in the wings. I pretty much always fly with wing ballast so it is a no go. Thanks for watching.
Muito legal Bruno..... realmente vc pegou um dia espetacular............
Obrigado por ativar a tradução do TH-cam ok............
Absolutely awesome.
Wow! Now that's flying!
Spoke to a lady at the Nebo market about all the gliders around Nephi and she said their always trying to go around Mt. Nebo. I know Minden NV. is a big deal for soaring but Nephi looks like a well kept secret, maybe I'll get there one day.
Hi Bruno Thanks for your short video it was lovely to see you flying on free energy and could you tell me when the video was shot? Y Justin
It was shot on the weekend before the 4th of July. Don't remember which day.
I fly RC planes. And we do slope soaring off the cliffs with non-powered gliders. Really fun, can get some insane speeds, and because no motors, can fly for ever.
Thanks a lot for sharing - a really great video. Am I correct or aren't you more using thermals than wind. I did a lot of paragliding in the alps and know the feeling. Also based on where you are flying I assume it's more the thermals. Or really dynamic wind ?? - Best
Thanks for watching. I was not using any kind of lift in this video. That is why I really wanted to share it. All of the energy for staying up during all of these passes was collected during the initial dive. Wind was extremely light at the time and there weren't much thermals. Pay attention to the vario during the entire video and you will see it reacts to the dives and climbs but not really much to outside lift or sink.
Super flying 😉
This is a great piece of film, but what were the Clangers doing in the cockpit?
Amazing stuff
Wow, that looks fun.
Damn that looks like fun!
Wow, I'm a helo pilot and was really impressed buy what seemed to be so 80 degree angle of bank turns..man that is wild.
What is the soft beep or worbble sound in the background. Some sort of stall alert?
Bruno what type of glider is this?
Thanks for the inspiration man!!
Liked it so much I watched it twice,
Bruno just wanted to say thank you for your videos, I am 59 years old started flying ultralight in 83 have 17 or so hours in a S 2-22 but didn't have the money to finish. I found Bellaka through you thanks I really enjoy watching you and him. I hope he was a Christian. YHWH bless you brother
Awesome! Do you ever search TH-cam/ Instagram/ Twitter for where you are flying, plus glider?
Such as "grand teton glider". Might be worth digging through the search results.
Thanks for sharing!
I tried it about a week later and was disappointed. The location was here: 39.07751 -111.53864 It is in an area called the Wasatch Plateau and is east of Salina Utah. I hope someone puts something up - would be amazing to see what it looked like from the ground. Thanks for watching. Bruno
you should do a video and walk us through all your dials and instruments.
Smokin the hilltops baby yeahhhhhh🙌
AMAZING!!! YOU ROCK!
It would be interesting to see if the people on the ground posted a video of it.
Just amazing! In my next life I'll do that too for sure. Thanks for share this (another) amazing experience.
You have balls flying this low with a glider. Do you have an engine because normaky The ASW27B hasn't got one. Greetings from Germany.
Bruno...Where were you flying during this great video?
In the mountains east of Salina, Utah
Here's a direct link to google maps with the coordinates Bruno has been posting.
www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B004'39.0%22N+111%C2%B032'19.1%22W/@39.0773145,-111.5336911,1710m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d39.07751!4d-111.53864?hl=en
Nice - thanks for sharing.
dang.. that would take me 32hrs of driving... bummed
Be careful Bruno👍😬
Thanks man. Smacking the dirt would ruin the day for sure.
Ridge lift. Watch Turkey Vultures, hawks, etc.. They love it too.
Amazing to rely on flying so low away from the airstrip.
He Didn't Break The Law Of Gravity, He Just Used It Together With The Law Of Aerodynamics!