A beautiful sport/hobby/obsession. I love the way you can 'see' the wind and the air currents so that every flight tells a story. With no radio control inputs to affect the glide and just the auto-rudder to maintain a heading, watching a plane's path as it lifts and dips or drops a wingtip is just glorious. When I was a kid, my dad bought me a pair of 10x50 binoculars [still got 'em!] and I'd spend literally hours at a time studying birds soaring: buzzards, kestrels, kites, gulls, pelicans, vultures, eagles... I was (and still am) utterly enthralled. Seeing these gliders picking their way through the atmosphere is very much like watching those birds - things perfectly attuned to their environment, guiding themselves with the tiniest shifts of form and balance, maybe just the twitch of a feather or two. Thank you so much for this upload - it's sheer bliss! :-)

I didnt see how the auto rudder works. Is it the vertical element at the nose? Nice to watch. I love gliders.

Ech, piękne hobby! ;))) Serdecznie pozdrawiam miłośników tego sportu! :)

weird seeing someone with my name (which Incidentally is a very rare name )..... Hello from Robert (Bob) Sifleet in the UK.

This is like the hard core version of what I do lol

こんにちは 夢がある飛行です。

Glider