10 Hours Endurance Racing | My First 1000 KM FAI Triangle Glider Flight

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4 жыл бұрын

It is a big dream and a huge challenge to fly a declared 1000 km FAI triangle with a 18 m sailplane in Germany. The weather forecast and the weather conditions must be perfect and you are not allowed to make any bigger mistakes during 10+ hours. I nearly made an outlanding after 800 km...
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@salnichols94805 4 жыл бұрын

Your dad was flying your tow...how cool is that?

@fabiandario6521 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool indeed!

@125Addicted 3 жыл бұрын

How scared was his mom tho? Lol

@User46038 3 жыл бұрын

@@125Addicted my mom is literally erverytime scared when i fly lmao

@eplazai 3 жыл бұрын

Read as Craig Federighi

@hubert1142 3 жыл бұрын

@@User46038 when I go paragliding, my mom always says "break a leg" or "break a neck", which has the meaning of "good luck "in my language lmao

@adarshfaridkhan3361 3 жыл бұрын

hats off to the camera guy, filming and playing flute at the same time

@vikrantrasaily4595 3 жыл бұрын

Wtf😂😂😂

@venkythefoodieguy5351 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@chezuz1981 2 жыл бұрын

Ahaha :-D

@chezuz1981 2 жыл бұрын

Dude now i cant stop giggling everytime i hear "the flute"

@StaK_1980 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes he gets depressed and loses the will, that is when you hear the tone go down an octave :-)

@simeonfritz6408 3 жыл бұрын

Ich habe direkt am Anfang durch deinen Akzent gemerkt dass du ein deutscher sein musst 😂

@aidanguerin5192 4 жыл бұрын

haha “thank you bird” lol 😂

@kirstenlingg6015 3 жыл бұрын

Du bist deutscher oder ?

@insani4047 3 жыл бұрын

@Chandra 7.6 indo nyasar

@jejekk5880 3 жыл бұрын

@@insani4047 lah elu sendiri yg gk jelas

@insani4047 3 жыл бұрын

@@jejekk5880 siapa bilang gk jelas?

@insani4047 3 жыл бұрын

@@jejekk5880 w cuma bilang ada indo nyasar lagian itu bercanda ae

@encartech 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the metric info, no fees foots knots football field/hrs. Just clean and understandable metres

@JonathanNummert 4 жыл бұрын

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu den gelungenen 1000 Km. Das muss ein super Gefühl sein. Mach weiter so. Man kann so viel von dir lernen

@JetJockey87 3 жыл бұрын

As a paraglider pilot, it's always amazing to watch other glider pilots do their thing.

@caiowen7104 4 жыл бұрын

stefan, love the content. I think it would be a really good addition to have a hand held camera with you to look out of the window and get some nice shots of some of the towns that you fly over and other notable scenery

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Watch the Video till the end ;) Unfortunately it is not possible at a record flights like this because flying the glider is already so demanding. There will be other videos with more hand held footage soon. Stay tuned and thanks for your input.

@gillesbkf4315 4 жыл бұрын

Stefan Langer Maybe have more cams so you can edit the best of the panorama :) Incredible to see that it is possible to stay that long up in the air !

@gillesbkf4315 4 жыл бұрын

Like in the end :)

@user-oe1fg2on7x 4 жыл бұрын

Поздравляю с первым маршрутом в 1000 км!!! Желаю успешного покорения дальнейших рубежей!!! Прекрасный полет. Благодарю за ролик. Всех благ и дальнейших успехов!!!

@Scramblejams 3 жыл бұрын

Please post the whole thing! I love putting videos like this on for the ambience, the longer-running the better.

@pixelbogpixxelbog2090 4 жыл бұрын

Wow als dein dad dir schönen flug gewünscht hat, hats mich sehr glücklich gemacht :)

@nicholaslutsch5036 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations Stefan! This is a tremendous achievement worth celebrating!

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nicholas!

@BarryMcGowan 3 жыл бұрын

I fly hand gliders, so for me, what you´re doing here just seems incredible. Great flying, great flight, and well documented! Very exciting...

@justme.9711 Жыл бұрын

`Barry, go for a flight experience flight. I did r/c planes too, but stuff the toy stuff. Anyone can do this and with current apps etc, it's a whole new world with just an ipad.

@steve_neuser 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding flight and congratulations on an impressive achievement, Stefan! You flew near my current home airfield of Weiden in der Oberpfalz on your first leg, which was nice to see. Great job!

@CapFreddy 4 жыл бұрын

excelent video. I am just getting my glider licence. Did my 11th flight this saturday, and it´s amazing. I got from Private to Multi/IFr/Comercial. Got to be a B-727 F.O., had an LSA for three years and I can say that gliding is the most amazing type of flight i´ve experienced. Towed take off is amazing, towed flight is amazing, gliding is amazing and landing is amazing...

@nickr5658 3 жыл бұрын

You still fly commercial? Gliders are cool. In the USA soaring is declining in popularity. You really need a self launcher if you want to fly a lot here

@eeeyakini 3 жыл бұрын

10h... I want to go 3 times to toilet...

@benwilliams677 3 жыл бұрын

That's what empty drink bottles are for.

@EkoEllutionist 3 жыл бұрын

They use diaper

@EkoEllutionist 3 жыл бұрын

They use diapers

@bbulanNoob 3 жыл бұрын

Pampers?

@dranoelr 3 жыл бұрын

@@EkoEllutionist At least men don't. Either plastic bags for the freezer and then dump them, bags filled with absorbent diaper material, or some even have a small funnel and a hose going out of the plane

@xabre9995 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome, you're very fortunate. What a wonderful (and yes, stressful at times) way to fly!

@CalebNorthNorman 4 жыл бұрын

Wow your dad flying the tow plane! 😲 . The pointers and pop up maps you put a lot of development in this video. It was pro. You best video yet! The music in the last two minutes combined well with the footage. And finally, the landscape is simply beautiful to look upon. 👍

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 😃

@jiahao1692 2 жыл бұрын

Could you share name of the music in the last two minutes if you know it? Thank you!

@troublehd7236 4 жыл бұрын

Ein sehr schöner Flug, und ein wahnsinns video. Hat viel Spaß gemacht es anzuschauen :)

@davidalhoff7190 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stefan for sharing these big imperssions with us! Nice flight, nice edit, cool music and helpful comments to also take the paragliding pilots for a ride. Great job. In case your vario missed logging the flight don't worry you fly for the impressions, the scenery, the highs, the lows, discovering and understanding the nature and so much more than OLC points. Took me a while understand that but now even a glide down is cool again:)

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Hi David, thank you very much! Yes, you are right. The impressions and experience are the most important aspect of a glider flight. The category of the PowerFlarm was not high enough for record flights and I also made a mistake with the finish line.

@davidalhoff7190 4 жыл бұрын

@@SteFly Anyway you cleared 3TP, had had quite a low save in the blue, amazing views high under the clouds. Nice flight. For the olc how about a backup like an xc-track on the phone would that be valid for sailpanes? Alternative a small solar powered xc-tracer. Or does it need to be connected to the planes instuments to read if possible engines are switched on?

@dorianfeisel2945 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing flight and great video. Love the timelapse parts where you can see the clouds build up in front of you. Also the animations were very nice :)

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@whyamai 2 жыл бұрын

Hey cooles Video! Möchte nun auch mit dem Segelfliegen beginnen, fasziniert mich absolut! Gute Flüge wünsche ich weiterhin!! 😎👍

@richardhutchinson4740 3 жыл бұрын

Such a great video. Learnt to glide on Grob 103s as an air cadet out of Swansea Airport in South Wales and spent every weekend on cable tows to 1000 ft and flying circuits. Managed some longer flights and thermaling and managed a 45min flight at one point. Can only dream of what a 10 hr flight must be like! Nerves of steel there and exceptional skill.

@aceofspades2711 4 жыл бұрын

Mega gutes Video und herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 1000er 🎉

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Freut mich, vielen Dank! :)

@samuel_tse 3 жыл бұрын

That's like the best way to spend 10 hours, using free energy to fly !

@nocare 3 жыл бұрын

Solar powered airplanes are like this one are very relaxing.

@Aaron-zn8mg 3 жыл бұрын

@@nocare its not solar powered

@nocare 3 жыл бұрын

@@Aaron-zn8mg Sun heats the air, rising air lifts the glider. Thats solar power lol. It's not solar photovoltaic powered.

@Aaron-zn8mg 3 жыл бұрын

@@nocare yeah that is a thermal. Doesn't mean the plane is solar powered

@nocare 3 жыл бұрын

@@Aaron-zn8mg The energy used for flight is directly from the sun. It's not converted to chemical, potential or electrical storage to be used to power flight at a displaced location and time. The energy is directly captured at the time of flight. To specify an energy source conveys information. That's the only purpose of communication after all. Gliders are directly powered by the sun. As opposed to indirectly powered by the sun (fossil fuels).

@PavloLukashuk 3 ай бұрын

I always marveled at the skills of glider pilots who can fly long distances without an engine!👍 Thanks for video ! ❤

@TheKingie07 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video and high quality production with additional map info and explanations, thanks much appreciated! Awesome adventure

@ModellpilotEU 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Stefan, mit dem Video wird es ein schöner Start in den Tag. Danke.

@Hanibaltherogue 3 жыл бұрын

Wahnsinn man, ich will endlich auch mein Kindheitstraum erfüllen und das Gleiten lernen, noch muss ich erst etwas abnehmen aber das motiviert nur noch mehr. Wusste nicht wirklich dass man so lange in der Luft bleiben kann, war irgendwie spannender als nen Thriller vor allem als du dann doch etwas tiefer warst. Ich mache mal nen Abo sieht nice aus dein channel PS: Gerade gemert an diesem Tag wo Du so schön geflogen bist, habe ich geheiratet^^

@Hawkeye948 4 жыл бұрын

Glückwunsch. Toller Flug und sehr schönes informatives Video.

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank, das freut mich zu hören!

@slowlydecaying1062 Жыл бұрын

never new these things existed but wow this is amazing and honestly takes alot of balls to be in one

@mxhdroom153 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats, Stefan. Very envious.

@Berkov1 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing fly and amazing video. Thanks!

@ericgartner9563 4 жыл бұрын

Erstmal sehr schönes Video so wie immer. Es ist echt schön zu sehen wie sich dein Kanal entwickelt hat von Anfang bis jetzt. Und du hast immer deine Qualität beibehalten wie noch bei den 5000 Abonenten und wurdest immer besser.

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Dankeschön! Das freut mich!

@arielmeloful 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing such a great experience!

@thestimp2 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos, great job!

@Orage530 3 жыл бұрын

When you thank the bird for pointing out the thermal haha! The speed up footage is really cool. You can really get a sense of how you use the thermals to get altitude.

@undiaencasa 4 жыл бұрын

1022 Km FAI, muy buen vuelo, para recordar para siempre, nosotros en Parapente no podemos llegar tan lejos, pero se lo que se siente estar ahí volando libre como los pájaros con sólo la energía que nos ofrece la naturaleza. Muchas gracias por compartir estos vídeos. Un saludo.

@pascalkempa8005 2 жыл бұрын

Saludos! De donde están? :)

@SamSue44 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely to watch you enjoy nature with no fuel

@MorDarek 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations Stefan for your achivement! :) Great job! :)

@dion6146 3 жыл бұрын

Well done! Great flying.

@davidsoasti Ай бұрын

Fantástico video! Muchas gracias!

@dleebox2268 3 жыл бұрын

My first time watching 1 of these videos, pretty interesting, lots of distance covered by good skills& good equiptment, nice job my freind, i'm seriously awed & impressed, i'm no stranger to flying.

@agent_cookie1000 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, for me, sitting in one place with minimal movement for 10hrs is a huge achievement in itself.

@filthycasual8074 3 жыл бұрын

i'm so confused how they pick which comment is showed when you click on the video it's the dude with 2 likes not the one with 900

@agent_cookie1000 3 жыл бұрын

@@filthycasual8074 I think it depends on the person viewing video. Have we interacted on KZfaq before?

@philtdi 4 жыл бұрын

Well done Stefan, another great video for XC training.

@joancarles2836 4 жыл бұрын

Epic fly!! 1000km??!! Awesome!

@patricklangan5670 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice indeed. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Well done.

@fahadfawad1 3 жыл бұрын

Just awesome 😎. Give my heartiest regards to your dad.

@hangfly1 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video Stefan and congrats on that low save! I had one or two of those when I flew from Utscheid a few years ago, but I was never so close to the ground. Whew!

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I had an airfield around me for a safe landing ;)

@heinzmiesmann248 3 жыл бұрын

Klasse! Ein tolles Video.

@christophostrowski3382 4 жыл бұрын

Das ist sooo schön zuzusehen

@bryanwatt9751 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, very cool! Well done!

@alfredtraunstein3513 3 жыл бұрын

Da fiebert man sogar als Zuschauer mit, beim Teil mit 250m über dem Wald! Schöner Flug!

@lukas7561 4 жыл бұрын

Respekt für den Flug, bin gerade fertig mit meiner Ausbildung und du motivierst mich sehr außerdem fand ich es sehr schön das du die seeyou Datei mit eingespielt hast

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Das freut mich sehr!

@lukas7561 4 жыл бұрын

@@SteFly kannst du vielleicht mal ein video zur Flugvorbereitung machen weil wie ich finde hat man nie so nh "Liste" die man abarbeiten kann

@tinchote 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats! A FAI 1000k on pure thermals is a great accomplishment. I would like to suggest that you wait a bit to retract the gear; when you do it so low, you increase your possible workload if the rope breaks or the engine coughs. My approach was to wait until pattern altitude to retract, still early in the tow but with plenty of time to deal with an emergency. Unless it was the Open Cirrus with the hitch inside the landing gear :D

@NunoFlyer 3 жыл бұрын

Super flight, awesome!

@SteFly 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!

@niemand5828 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!

@stephaniekent8483 4 жыл бұрын

Hi from New Zealand near Raglan, well done Stefan, not the easiest day, so that was in my book a noteworthy and meritorious flight! :)

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

@jared123123 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Not too knowledgeable about gliders but damn, that’s amazing distance

@user-jq4hm5kr3b 4 жыл бұрын

Ist das geil ein Segelflug-Video über dem Flugplatz zu sehen, wo man am Samstag wieder zum Fliegen hingeht :)

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Um welchen Flugplatz geht es? :D

@RicoRCtv 4 жыл бұрын

Ich hätte damals den Segelschein machen sollen, einfach Klasse was ihr macht👍

@podunkman2709 3 жыл бұрын

U made it! I really admire your skills.

@tomeraltman7491 4 жыл бұрын

the last flight i had was 6 minutes.

@SirDella 4 жыл бұрын

The last flight I had was 0 minutes

@junothejupiterorbiter1035 3 жыл бұрын

SirDella close enough

@prodnaki 3 жыл бұрын

the last flight i had was 1 year🗿

@Marg1312 3 жыл бұрын

@@prodnaki my dad’s been on a flight for 5 years.

@davidlarroya 3 жыл бұрын

@@Marg1312 dude..

@hugogirod1606 4 жыл бұрын

Well done Stefan!!

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thanky Hugo!!

@nob0dy27_ 4 жыл бұрын

Schönes Video! Bin letztes Wochenende zum ersten Mal Einsitzer geflogen, freue mich schon drauf auch Mal auf Strecke gehen zu dürfen 😄

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank! Einsitzer fliegen finde ich deutlich schöner vom Handling her. Viel Erfolg bei deinen ersten Streckenflügen!

@kpv19741 3 жыл бұрын

Очень красиво! Большое спасибо!

@rovinronin1473 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Stefan, congratulation for the flying skills and nerves! ;) Super flight, greatly filmed!

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ;)

@gilnemesis3547 4 жыл бұрын

Nice bet. You're definitely a good glider pilot! I often Ask myself if bug wipers are really usefull till I see your leading edge near the end of the vidéo. Congratulations, nice job! 👍👍👍

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This year it is really important in our area to have bug wipers. In the last years it was not always necessary...

@OverKilL413 4 жыл бұрын

Wow... Das ist voll cool von deinem Dad😍 Ist sind so kleine Sachen die es einfach ausmachen✌🏼Ich bin zwar erst 16 aber so ein Vater will ich auch mal sein👍🏼

@PureGlide 4 жыл бұрын

That was epic well done! I reckon all exceptional flights have tough bits

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim! Yes that's true..

@chedatomasz 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, you had me looking for a field over that forest

@falsephilosphy4048 4 жыл бұрын

You are a very good pilot 👍👍

4 жыл бұрын

Just great 👍, congratulation!. Long ago I flew a DG400 beside soaring as instructor, but gliders and glider performance never lost the attraction.

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@josefbostik1712 3 жыл бұрын

1000kms FAI triangle in Europe! My hat off to you!

@Signor1pc 4 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic, such amazing experience, love it thanks for sharing, keep safe my friend 🙏💕

@zoltansolutions 3 жыл бұрын

That was amaising!

@rishisoundane8893 3 жыл бұрын

smoothest landing i ever seen

@Schwagdag 4 жыл бұрын

Nette Erklärungen nebenbei 👏🏻👌🏻

@JorgeCarrizo 4 жыл бұрын

good job Stefan ! Well deserved congratulations !!!

@nicolasvigh 3 жыл бұрын

Respect!

@foxtrottone 3 жыл бұрын

Vraiment génial !!!

@evaobolecka7399 4 жыл бұрын

moc pěkné,za poslední rameno klobouk dolů =)

@OmIkbal 3 жыл бұрын

I love this

@rampe5610 2 жыл бұрын

Great video mate. Bet that wasnt a comfortable feeling being only 250m above ground level at one point 😉😁

@Highrockman 2 жыл бұрын

Its very interesting watching you fly over terain that my family farmed for multiple generations..Have to make a visit..

@someguy7863 3 жыл бұрын

I wish u had a little green and yellow circle in the corner during the sped up parts to show if youre ascending or descending. Really love the ascpect of just gliding thru the air being one with the enviroment and nature. Maybe one day. Great videos.

@user-sf9pq5ox7w Жыл бұрын

2022 watched, well done!! Nice speed up footage. Good conditions and good glider.

@bobarmitage7981 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations. Could you please add a few more bits of info as you go along - time of launch, evolving height of cloudbase, evolving thermal strengths, tactics you used when it went blue - were you looking for likely thermal sources - factories, urban areas, for example? How far you were able to fly in a straight line "porpoising"? With good wishes for the rest of the season.

@gokhanglider 3 жыл бұрын

This is my dream. 👏👍🦅

@pikkusojo 4 жыл бұрын

Nice fly 👍

@wanashraf4489 3 жыл бұрын

sehr gut

@bthompson1767 3 жыл бұрын

Magnificent

@venomishe 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed a lot ... that was a very tough low save :-)

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

I was really happy to get a thermal there. Thank you! :-)

@MaxiFLY_GO 4 жыл бұрын

Великолепное видео! Полет - высший класс))) Мне очень понравился формат вашего видео)))

@tadeksmutek5840 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulation! Great video, thank you for sharing it!

@SteFly 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tadek!!

@tadeksmutek5840 4 жыл бұрын

@@SteFly Sorry, forgot to ask you, Stefan - at the beginning of this video you have said that yours ASG-29 had full water ballast to fly quicker. Later on during your flight you was in a quite difficult thermal situation, when you had just about 250 meters AGL and luckily you have found this "saving"thermal than - did you have this water ballast during the whole flight or you have dropped this water when the thermal conditions were weak or "eben nicht hammerhaft""?:-) What is your personal criteria to drop water in flight?

@sule.A 3 жыл бұрын

@@tadeksmutek5840 i think he dropped it 200km to go