Melinda Green I know right ?! This thing is staying in the air FOREVER! oO

Must have been good Thermals that day... I'm looking at the Tassle thing...

That is so cool to hear! Congrats on learning to soar yourself!

@@BrunoVassel thank you, I need to get back in the saddle!👍🏼

Clement Allen Ya did one on Saturday! :P

Oh yes I did! How time flies :)

That just means that it is time for you to take a ride in a glider and maybe even consider getting your rating! You would be amazed at what we can do. I also fly power and own a T210 but my longest flight ever in any ship is over 500 miles in a glider! :) Take care, Bruno

Pretty much all since the 80s do.

And we even understand what the Beeps are telling us. And R2D2 has many Brothers with different Voices.

thats a good one :D

Sounds like there's a Clanger trapped behind the panel (only the UK readers of a certain age will get that...)

On a low pass the ideal speed is around 250kmh !

Somewhere around 100 ft above the ground and going 140 knots indicated. Watch the video again on a big screen and in HD. Much better! :) Bruno

That's an instrument called the variometer, the higher and quicker the tone peeps, the more positive rate climb you will have. For gliders thermal conditions are essential to lift up the plane. Without thermals the glider couldn't create altitude. With a mountain a glider can also create altitude from the wind that is blowing upwards the ridge of a mountain. The variometer will also peep faster and quicker here if you have more positive rate climb. When a glider descends the variometer will peep slower with a lower tone.

BlueSky Btw, nice flyby and landing, also nice video's on your channel!

@@boeingcontrole52 It lets you enjoy the view rather than have to look at the instrument panel so much. Divides the work between eye and ear.

So the first lever is controlling the flaps used either for reducing drag on higher speeds or lowering your minimal flying speed, second lever is controlling air brakes used mostly during landings in order to slow down the plane or increase sink rate

stealhty1 Flaps

Yes. High performance gliders use both positive and negative flaps. Airplanes use only flaps for takeoff and landing. Gliders have flap settings for all different speeds and phases of flight.

seen this asked in other vids of yours...i always wondered the same thing. Great vids! Really enjoy them, keep'm coming!

Long story short: private airport among friends. :)

justsnappy you must be a joy at parties.

Oh. Buzz Killington here

Dude....

Surprisingly enough, touch down speed was right at only 40 knots. You have three things working that make the speed look faster. 1. there was a cross wind and no head wind on landing. 2. Landing is at 5,000ft MSL so everything is faster than at sea level. 3. Yes, being so low to the ground it visually looks faster as well. Great question! Bruno

Bruno Vassel Might add that with a glider pílot's point of view being lower (no landing gear legs, reclined position) it seems pretty fast during flare as compared to powered aircraft whose pilots don't get as low during landing. Also, the GoPro ultra-wide angle lens exaggerates perspective, which further adds do the sense of speed when moving. That said... WOW! You seem to be having a blast. I'm a pilot but have flown gliders only twice (and one was a powered glider at that). ...Envy! Thanks for posting.

Bruno Vassel i dont understand how how the altitude might change speed perception?

ziomorph For every 1000 ft above sea level you go up, you lose about 2% of the air mass. The air mass blowing into the aircraft's pressure tubes is what causes the instruments to read correctly. With going up thousands of feet above sea level, you have less air blowing into the tubes so you are actually going faster (ground speed) than you would be at the same indicated airspeed down lower. I probably explained that wonky but I am not an instructor. Trust me on this one... ;)

Bruno Vassel ah i understand thank you for the reply!

No power, it's just converting its kinetic energy into gravitational potential energy

OK. but soo much? as if it has its own power? Is it the ground effect?

simple physics.. at the second low pass he probably has something like 220kph (62m/s) give or take and afterwards like 110kph left. 1/2*mv²=m*g*h h=v²/(2*g) => dh=((v1)²-(v2)²)/2g ≈ 150m or 500ft.

Rizwan Khan the lever on the right side releases the landing gear.

ah OK :)

The lever on the left is the spoiler

AndrewRG10 there are two levers on the left. The one I mess with the most is actually the flaps.

Some gliders are powered and therefore have an engine or electric motor. However if there is not enough lift or height to get you back you land out in a field etc

would *have could *have

Not free. You gotta buy it from the towplane.

Airspace warning. I flew within 1 miles of a military area that is just north of the field.

It's R2D2

spoilers/dive brakes. the create drag and reduce lift along the wing. They allow the pilot to better control the rate of descent. used primarily for landing, it allows a sailplane to be able to better control the approach and descent. without them the plane would have a hard time landing as it would tend to float a lot.