Clear and insightful, tnx, both Bruce and Karlis!

Very useful tips, thanks guys 🙏🏼

Have to point out a big misconception mentioned in the opening statement of this video. Speed bar does NOT increase glide-ratio. In fact, it does the opposite. On bar, sink rate increases, which is where the increased airspeed comes from. Your glide ratio gets steeper as well, and you won't be able to cover as much horizontal distance. One always has to decide if the increased altitude loss will be recoverable in the next thermal or at the next ridge. The concept is that the quicker you get into lifting air, the quicker you can top out and move on to the next lift, so you want to fly fast between areas of lift, even if you sink a bit. Now, that's pretty common knowledge, known as speed-to-fly. Even though you will penetrate faster, you must sacrifice altitude to achieve this (in still air). If you get lift between thermals, or if you can spend less TIME in a headwind, that's just a bonus, but your glide-ratio is not responsible for that. There's an old saying in airplanes - " You can't stretch a glide." Your most efficient L/D speed is your best glide-ratio speed. Faster or slower results in a less is less efficient glide in still air. The only thing that really affects that speed is the weight of your rig, hence ballast. "However, when the engine quits, or in a glider where there was no on board power in the first place, the "power" is produced by using gravity to convert potential energy (altitude) into kinetic energy (airspeed) to balance the drag. That means the minimum drag airspeed is also the airspeed where you need minimum loss of altitude per unit of time to maintain airspeed, and thus it's the "minimum sink" airspeed. L/D max is exactly what it says it is - the point on a plot of coefficient of lift (Cl) and coefficient of drag (Cd) versus airspeed where the ratio (the distance between the 2 curves) between Cl and Cd is at its maximum. That point on the graph is the "L/D max" or "best glide-ratio speed" and the L/D max occurs at a specific AoA. The airspeed where it occurs will vary based on the weight of the aircraft. That's why you'll see differences in L/D max / best glide speed between a Schweizer 1-26A and a 1-26E. The E model is heavier, and achieves that optimum L/D max AoA at a slightly higher speed to reflect the slightly higher weight. That's also why they use ballast in higher performance gliders in strong lift conditions. Ballast increases the weight of the glider and lets the glider achieve the best L/D AoA at a higher airspeed, without having to pitch down as much to achieve it. That improves penetration for the glider. More importantly, the best L/D speed / best glide speed is almost always higher than the minimum sink speed, which occurs fairly close to the stall speed."

I use the speedbar during thermling at the outside of the turn of my wing...in narrow lifts..it is very efficient.

Video jsem si uložil mezi oblíbené k paraglidingu. Děkuji 🥰

Great video , I have an older 3 liner EnB wing , can i use the C Risers to actively prevent a collapse whilst on bar ?

Please lower the bgm volume mate❤ Anyway usefull tips, Thanks both of you,

Can you steer an A or low B glider by pulling on the C risers while on speedbar?

Hey Karlis, discovered your videos recently and have been really enjoying them, espeically as I wait for delivery of my new Base 2 Lite :). A quick question - it looks like there's three videos in this series but youtube tells me '1 unavailable video is hidden'. Any tips on how I can see it? Thanks for posting great content!

Audio sux

Here's that MacCready speed to fly wikipedia link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_to_fly