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@@dredgeportals agreed 😂

such an underrated comment

Don't give a crocodile red bull

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Yea I bet driving a bus doesn't really feel like flying a glider

Ur gay kid

@@evgenkonyshock4913 depends on the height of the jump

Exactly!!

That's why I make videos :D

"Blown" away. Hehe

Same, when doing emergency drills it's always very stressful to idle your way to a few feet above ground. But without an engine? Holy!

@@user-kl9dd7xo2q Only their aerodynamics and glide ratio is worse ;)

What kind of internet plans are available to crocodiles?

Where was the croc?

Don't get snappy, now...

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It must be hard to land these things on a short runway for that same reason

​@@hyun1141 you have spoilers in the wings which cuts lift immediately and due to this its not that hard to land on short fields.

Water effect?

@@fjp3305 surface type (unless it's not airtight) does not effect what it's called

@@TheWorstBridger That's usually true unless there's a factor involved referred to as the "sense of humor"

he really looked like he needed your advice😁

Garbage American military propaganda.

Every airplane comes close to the ground and even hits it, eventually.

@@stejer211 well I can finally vouch for that as of last month :(

@@FlyingWildAZ what happened last month?

@@FlyingWildAZ wow! Great job doing whatever you did to survive that! Hope you have a speedy recovery and get back in the air soon.

He won't get old

Usually theres a third instance. Keep that mind eye open!

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and I can't handle it when my instructor gives me very clear instructions before we even enter the pattern lol, this guy is pretty chill

Very valid point, Pieter. 👍 In Paragliding we also had to warn new pilots; “If someone else is flying, on a day that the weather seems dangerous, it does not mean that you can go flying”. It all depends on the level of your skills…

Glassy water can bite even the best pilots.

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@@hm09235nd you have gas or something?

Flying close over glassy water like that is a recipe for disaster. It’s next to impossible to gauge your height with conditions like that. He will fly into the water one day.

Yes. Because the conversationists in this country lack any sense of humour (never mind the wild animals…)

its is the fact that it decreased speed slowly due to it being a glider which has a high lift to weight ratio.

@@Matt-xy6cf and for croc's attack, It's just Luck!!😍😍

There are no crocs in Potch dam😂😂😂

@@shrink0001 I agree :D

They are brilliant engineering in efficiency. They simply use the speed coming down as energy to climb and the surfaces can be adjusted based on whether you need to climb, do stunts or want speed because of how light they are they ridiculously efficient with that energy. It looked like there was some wind so he probably could have climbed back up some distance with that energy as well without stalling.

As long as there is sun heating the Earth beneath them, they can fly practically indefinitely.

they can actually stay up as long as they want to. as long as they keep finding air / run out of supplies lol. The world record for a two-seat glider is over 70 hours set in 1961 in Hawaii.

Think when you throw a paper plane. How they go very low and suddenly turn up

@@SophiaAphrodite Actually they have almost the same glide ratio as a commercial airliner

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All gliders use the metrical scale unit.

@@iamnima Since a large number of the most renowned glider manufacturers are from Germany, the default option in their gliders will be metric, but that is not generally true. Look for gliding videos online; many use instruments with a scale in knots, including one of the most prolific ones on youtube, Bruno Vassel.

In the Uk glider ASI’s are typically in knots.

Only countries in the world that uses MPH if thats what you mean are USA, Myanmar, Liberia, and the UK, so easy to remember ;)

He will do as we all do, probably in his bed of old age.........like most pilots - really we should avoid beds they're dangerous........more people die in them than gliders.......

I see that 😂

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He had a high speed going over the lake and thus more than enough energy to climb again and land safely. Although I was worried at first because I didn't know where the runway is haha

Yeah that 1:39 "what?" made me pucker up a bit. I'm sure they know what they're doing.

Haha I was thinking the same, I'm sure they've should've put a bit more forward planning into that one! (Already over the runway) "What?"

It basically indicates the true airflow direction plus I think it can be a stall warning. If it is streaming back that's good. If it is fluttering about sort of randomly that's not good. This is a gross oversimplification from a non pilot.

Ground effect was a big part of this, otherwise we would have had so much less energy to pull up at the end.

It's called a "telltale", "yaw string", or "slip string". It's used to make sure that you're in "coordinated flight" which essentially means that you're pointed in the direction that you're moving, especially when performing turns. If you're pointed too far into the turn (called "skid") or too far out of the turn (called "slip") you lose a lot of efficiency and won't be able to glide as long, and if you get really uncoordinated you can end up in a spin, which pretty much guarantees a fatal crash if you're flying at low altitude. There's a wikipedia article about coordinated flight, and another one specifically about yaw strings, both of which may enlighten you. Similar strings are used on sailboats to give a visual indication of the airflow over the sails, which allows the sailor to make the most efficient use of the wind.

@@tissuepaper9962 Thanks man. Informative and understandable

So Fast We Couldn’t See Em & They Couldn’t See Us😂

The aerial part on top of everything.

If it's a total enery vario, then a negative indication means that energy is being lost which is the case at high speed.

@@thibuss2577 I think this glider has a total energy vario top right and a regular vario bottom right. The bottom one shows descent. Not sure if the bottom vario really is a regular one, but I would guess so since it looks like one and I don't assume there's two redundant total energy varios.