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A nice flight, but it would have been more interesting if the instruments on the Matterhorn were visible.

Vol merveilleu, et production de la video encore mieux: bravo!

Bellissimo!

Toller Flug, super video! Bin in den 80/90ziger Jahren in Fayence geflogen, weniger weit aber auch schön - La mure, Barcelonette, Mte Viso schöne Erinnerungen!

Denver Colorado, USA. Thank you!

Bonjour. Merci. je suis un vélivole ne volant plus. S’il vous plaît pouvez-vous « conserver le bruit de l’air », et pas de musique, merci. Cordialement paisiblement. Hello. Thanks. I am a glider pilot who no longer flies. Please can you "keep the sound of the air", and no music, thank you. Kind regards peacefully.

Bonjour. Merci. je suis un vélivole ne volant plus. S’il vous plaît pouvez-vous « conserver le bruit de l’air », et pas de musique, merci. Cordialement paisiblement. Hello. Thanks. I am a glider pilot who no longer flies. Please can you "keep the sound of the air", and no music, thank you. Kind regards peacefully.

Un beau gâteau le cervin 😊

Merci encore une fois pour cette magnifique vidéo pleine de belles images et de pédagogie. Je recommande souvent ta chaine à mes élèves...

Thank you. Your videos (amongst others) have inspired me to give gliding a go. I have booked a 2 week course in January to get to solo and hopefully beyond.

In the USA this is referred to as "scud running" and is the cause of many fatal accidents because the situation can turn against you without warning. For example, your visibility forward is limited and the next valley could be totally obscured and your path back blocked because of your loss of altitude. I haven't seen your panel, but I would highly recommend having an artificial horizon - and be trained in its use!

Great explanation of how glider performance is calculated, but the title is pure clickbait. Would also like to have an acknowledgement of its creator, Paul MacCready.

Chris . . So good to see another chapter of your flight journey. This episode, IMHO, belongs in one form or another, at the beginning of the instruction manuals for every pilot, tactical operator, Police Officer, Fire Fighter or anyone who needs to keep their head on a swivel. And if we accept the reality that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, or danger, every plan requires contingencies. As they say, "Failing to plan is Planning to Fail",

Another fantastic video! I never knew about safety mccready but I do now. That’s the problem with the high tech glide computers, just like Apple phones, you only use a fraction of their functions. I made it down to the Alps with my glider earlier this year (Sisteron) for a couple of weeks for the first time for a few years, and had a great time reacquainting myself with the mountains - I will certainly learn how to use safety McCready for my next visit.

Placement de produit. Sans interet.

This Tuesday I helped retrieve an ASH31 from a field. The pilot failed to start the engine. Luckily he had picked a good harvested field as his outlanding option.

Another insightful video - thank you (although I watched it at x2 speed). The LX9000 is a wonderful piece of kit. Others also use XCSoar but I'm curious about how those land out fields get uploaded into the LX9000. Like so much technology, half the learning process is extracting more than a fraction of the ability of the equipment. I remember trying to identify a land out field not far from St Aubin on a non flyable day. We went by road, parked and headed on foot in what we thought was the correct direction. There were 4 of us & after 1 hour, none of us were 100% confident that we had identified the correct field. It was either tiny or there were some big trees at one end. Some videos on land out sites would be very interesting !!! Thanks for the brilliant uploads. I enjoy them a great deal.

Very interesting the Safety MC, I didn't know this function in my Lx9070.

Yes, _I had never heard about safety McCready._ Is that also available in XCSoar?

Oui, utile de connaître les réglages de pilotes expérimentés.

Always wonderful to see a new video from you, Chris. I'm reminded of "why I fly gliders " when I do! I've actually been medically grounded since June, but I anticipate getting some fall flying in my Cirrus soon. My ship has a little more than half the performance that yours does, so safety MacCready and knowing where landouts are (and keeping them in glide) is something that is forefront in my planning, even with the short distance flights I do. Anyway, thank you for another beautiful video, and here's to safe flying. ~Sara

Nice work as always. I flew there myself last week during my second advanced gliding course at St-Auban. On last day of the course I crossed the Barcellonnette valley by myself. Flying a glider in the mountains is very rewarding. The rule they teach is to be always within a glide sloop of 20 to an airfield.

As always ,your videos are first rate and very informative.Just a point of clarification , on the arrival altitude , is that an AGL value,or is that the height you will arrive over circuit height ?

Your videos are always sublime and educational. I was a student gilder pilot in uni many moons ago, at an ex RAF base in Wiltshire called Keevil. We always winch-launched, a thrill in itself 😂❤

What glider do you fly?

Another great video!!!

thank you. good to see you back in the alps again

Very risky choice... but the video probably looks more dangerous than the real sit...

Could you do a video on flying below ridge level versus flying above ridge level. I have never done ridge flying ... yet! I believe there are pilots that try stay above ridge level and avoid going below. You seem very comfortable below.

Very useful, but doesn't your onboard motor have a huge impact on your confidence level? I get it that just taking out the motor is like opening your spoilers, but your motor is electric (95% chance of starting up and running) and if you are too low ..... just start it up and....

Восхищаюсь вашими вилео.

Anyone interested in some more thoughts and details on this subject, I just found the article "This Brilliant Man Can Get You In Trouble - Misapply MacCready Theory At Your Own Peril" by Chess in the Air (can't post links, just google it quickly).

Thank you, I will try that on my next flight. What I also use is the visualization on the map, based on my actual McReady Setting, whoch is of course less reliable. I may be flying with a much too optimistic McReady at the time, I am considdering an outlanding option. I would need to realize that in a streessful situation. So this is certainly a smooth way to judge fast and more more reliable.

Yes, helpful! In addition to the Safety MC, do you also set a buffer for the arrival altitude (commonly 300m AGL) which the required LD then refers to (dropping you in the pattern, not on the ground basically)?

Very nice video. Great music choice. I think it wouldn't harm it to have it voiced over. Also informative even for someone doing this just in flight sims and still scratching his head with what MacCready really is :D :D .

Superbe video, de belles images, des commentaires permettant de bien suivre le vol... En finalité le Cervin l'un des sommets les plus beaux des alpes...

Being an old glider pilot felt enchanted at my age of 78. Being with you on this daring flight, i feel so happy. Having been to Switzerland and to Mt Titlis etc i feel so enchanted circumventing Matterhorn...❤❤❤

what does MC mean

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Fantastic how you integrated the instruments and explanations!

Just marvelous. My father had a PPL in the 1970s, but was very busy building up his own enterprise, especially at weekends he had to work and meet with customers, so he hardly had time to fly. When I was 14, I also learned to fly a glider in the "Bavarian Forest" in Arnbruck EDNB. I had a great respect for the gentle hills of this low mountain range, so I know what it means to glide in the Alps.

Thanks,very informative.

This is as close to being an eagle as is humanly possible. Incredible knowledge of your environment and application of skills to complete this incredible flight....magnificent in every way !!

What a great flight and video... Thank you, happy landing!

I took a final glide over the forrest back to Fayence once, in one of the club K6s, taking the shortest route instead of going the long way around where the energy was. It felt like the longest 10km of my life, with nowhere to land. I made it back, just with enough high for a shortend circuit. I learnt a lot that day.

I'm miss Fayence. I flew there for 2 years over twenty years ago now. Never made it to the Matterhorn sadly.

As somebody who’s gliding experience had been mainly over flat terrain and only a rare visit or two to mountain soaring, I am ( many years later) very jealous but totally impressed by this video and also your thoughts and planning decisions that you presented during the flight. Cheers from an Aviation Tragic Down Under👍🇦🇺🇫🇷 .

Hi! Which camera are using?

@20:50 Matterhorn in full. An epic video. Matterhorn is so beautiful it doesn't look real. You are in a vehicle that weights a few hundred pounds; it has no engine. Yet you, soar to and encircle a magnificent mountain peak. A lovely video. Hope you make many more.