Hahah definitely. They have to spend eternity cleaning the dead bugs off wings as punishment.

Hey thanks and haha yes! I know it well. Dunkirk is great, but that scene is some ridiculous physics. I actually made another video about it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtqGqs-gxJeqop8.html

Hey Greg haha yep I agree. It's frustrating to see so many movies with such big budgets trying to create realistic aviation scenes. But if the producers just asked anyone with even a little bit of flying experiences they be able to fix glaring errors.

Thanks Tim! Haha I agree that scene with the loose straps is a bit loose! And that's brilliant to hear from you. I've been watching your channel for ages so I appreciate seeing you on mine!

0 out of 10 from me - he must be a really boring fuck...... and doesn't even know what Faye Dunaway looks like..... that was Asastrid Heeren with McQueen, not Faye - which kinda tells me you obviously haven't watched the entire movie...........

Thanks Josh, good point about the pilot who actually flew the glider. The aerobatics are brilliant to watch. I've learnt loops in gliders but I've never advanced onto rolls, which are more tricky. This video is most impressive aeros I've seen in a DG1000 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abuempeY0tjVg4k.html

Another thing with that one is that they appear to be experiencing negative G (girl's hair falling "upwards"), when actually, in a loop, it's all positive@@GlidewithTom

@johnleney9541 good spotting John! Unless he went a bit slow into the loop and then did the old inverted stall at the top and fell back to earth.

Thanks very much for sharing! Much appreciated. Where is your club?

Good point, I should have remembered my floppy hat! If your baseball cap has a button on the top, you're a tall pilot and you don't have your should straps tight then you can also bounce up and hit the canopy with the button.

I have never seen a glider pilot wearing a baseball cap…ever!

Aw, that is great to hear it inspired you! I think films and other media present a opportunity to get new people aware and interested in gliding. More people need to know about gliding.

G00gl3, Choppergirl Variometer, now!

Aw nice, I would have loved to be learn to fly in that era of gliders! No flight computers to make it easy to find lift. Did the release of the movie help with recruiting at gliding clubs?

G'day Mark and oh wow, nice save, epsecially in a K13! A 27 to 1 glide ratio right? Pity there were no GoPros back then to capture it. Haha at 800 feet in a DG1000 you'd airbrakes the whole way back to the airfield! I did a landing once when I was training with an instructor. He intentionally got us very low. But at 80 knots he felt relaxed with plenty of kinetic energy to pull up and over a tree line.

@@GlidewithTom Merry Christmas Tom. This wasn't my scariest, my solo in Le Blanc, France was something😃 Aerotowed up, flying Grob103. Released at 3000ft, problem, no GPS, no radio, no airfield!!!!!! Went for a little height, now at 4000ft, looking for landmarks, below me was a couple of lakes. First thought, look for Poitier, find the Roman Aquaduct, it was at my 10 o clock, track the motorway. Just north of Le Blanc is a natural park so I spotted a thick patch of green near the horizon with a light green/ yellow patch below that, the thick green I assumed was the national park, the light patch below it, .."AHH the airfield" .Made it back half hour solo, the criticism from my instructor (I think he was a bit nervous by this point, half hour😂😂😂😂) that my finals was low and fast😅. It's only years later out of curiosity I looked at Google earth to find where I actually was....found the lakes and measured as 15km from the airfield!!!!!! That was my solo😃 That evening I was the centre of attention from various clubs as after dinner I was ceremoniously ask to sit on a chair centered in the middle of the camp and I was then unceremoniously drenched with left over food and drinks from a bucket courtesy of pilots from various European countries😅😅😅 My instructor was Martin Judkins, the organiser was Brian Spreckley, I'm sure Brian is known to you....

Thanks Peter, that's a great journey moving through different gliders. I sadly haven't had a chance to fly many older or different types of gliders but I'm keen to try. Which is your favourite?

@@GlidewithTom I really couldn’t pick a favourite Tom, I enjoyed them all. Most of my single seat flying was in the Astir. If I was going on a long cross country flight I’d choose the Nimbus, it had flaps and would glide a long way but had very powerful trailing edge brakes which helped in out-landings. Other pilots disliked the Pirat due to its poorly harmonised controls but I had some good flights in that one. The Capstan was good for early training with its side by side seats. I did my Silver C five hour flight thermal soaring in the Blanik and also did some aerobatics and spins. All good fun. If you get the chance to try something you haven’t flown before then go for it, Pete.

Thanks Colin, I had actually not heard of Blue Thermal but I'm watching trailer now, it looks brilliant! Very cool to see it put a lot of effort into the little details. I'll definitely do a review. I now also really want to get to Japan for some gliding!

That Spitfire scene is frustrating! It just keeps going forever! I actually reviewed it in my other video on gliders in action films.

G'day Cameron, thanks for that info, that's great to know. Are Tom and Doris still flying there? It was a great bit of flying by them.

Hey Keith, thanks for those stories, they're brilliant! Those cows are a pest. They see tasty long grass at our airfield near Canberra and occasionally break in and we have to herd them away. I'd love to see a moon light loop! It was the Swiss cheese model for your friend. Just one gamble too many. I'm glad they got out safely. A great escape!

@@GlidewithTom I felt a chill when I saw the loop, because in the remaining light, I doubted he could make a successful approach at the field ( no lights). And cows do like a good scratch, and extremities of gliders are just the ticket for that.

Hey Markus, great tip and wow hahaha that is a bit precious of Pierce Brosnan! But hey if it means more shots of the glider get used in the film then it's all worth it!

Great point, my mistake, that was silly of me! Thanks for spotting that error. I've now fixed the video.

I used to fly commercial glider rides at that gliderport in Salem NH in the late 80's and early 90s when it was turned into a golf course [sigh] in 1993. I now fly and instruct with the Greater Boston Soaring club.

The title was called.... "WIND"

Hey Derrick thanks very much, I'll definitely look it up. Was the scene a good or bad depiction of gliding?

@@GlidewithTom It the most accurate scene I've encountered aside from Disney's "The Boy Who Flew With Condors" circa 1967 (if you haven't seen it.... It was the impetus for my love of flight - especially featuring the, THEN, La Jolla San Diego glider club right on the edge of the Pacific (With a winch launch). Which of course is a golf course now.) - I digress... The '92 WIND scene is brief featuring Jeniffer Grey doing a few loops in a classic Grob trainer with the bright orange Rudolph nose. When she exits the cockpit, she even remembers to slowly remove the weight to ensure the air-frame doesn't teeter back slamming the tail wheel to the ground. Which I've witnessed a time or two... LOL... Anyways, enjoy the films and keep putting up videos about soaring. be well!

Hey Jon, great spotting! I missed that detail. That is a weird alteration for the director to make. I wonder if the Duo Discus remained configured with that set-up. I'm sure there'd be many confused pilots looking around for the canopy latch in the wrong place.

Upon closer inspection, it looks like they have cheated (as it is often done in movies). At 4:37, when the plane is in the air, you can see the hinges in the right side of the plane where they are supposed to be. At 5:21 you can, for a brief moment, spot a "tap" on the edge of the canopy (just behind the actress's head), which looks an awful lot like half of the canopy hinge. So my guess is that what happened, was that they took a normal Duo Discus, and for the field shot they detached the canopy in the usual fashion and probably made some kind of makeshift hinge on the other side with duct tape or something similar to hold it in place temporarily.

"Duo's, like all other planes, are boarded from the left side," Numerous planes - notably Pipers - have only a passenger (right side) door. I don't know why that's the case now, but with the Piper Cub it allowed a pilot to start the engine by flipping down the prop from behind the propellor, standing on the right side of the plane.

Well, my LS6 has a forward hinged canopy so you can get in from either side. Ditto for our club's ASW19. 😀

Yeah for sure! I reckon plenty of glider pilots would have been happy to help out with some advice for free. At least when they were filming real gliders some pilots would have been able to give ideas. But once the editing is underway, that's probably where the unrealistic stuff gets added

What a dude. He had style.

Hey Roger that's a great first date story in a glider! Flying in wave - quite a date! And haha good point about Thomas Crown, maybe that's why he was so rich - he saved his money instead of spending it all on gliding like the rest of us.

Ha ha! Excellent point!

Oh wow, really? That's disappointing vain of the great 007! That's a lot of work for a glider maintainer for a nicer side of the face!

Great suggestion. I have seen this and need to get around to doing a review on it.

Hey Lachie, good question, I can't find any further confirmation but I really hope not. I hope no lovely 1001S was harmed. Potentially DG just built the film a portion of a cockpit or the set designer just copied and recreated a cockpit.

@@GlidewithTom ok interesting cheers

Simulators are sometimes built around the front half of a glider fuselage, when the rear has been destroyed in an accident. Mind you, it would take a lot to wreck such a beautiful aircraft to the point that it wouldn't be worth repairing. I really hope they didn't destroy one.

Ha yes fair enough, I'm here picking apart every fault I can spot. But all those movies were good entertainment.