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Hi Clemens, thanks for making this video of your flight. I particularly appreciate the way you shared the thought processes you were having and your observations about the weather along the way. A few tense moments with the cirrus, virga and end of the day fluky lift kept me cheering for you as each one was overcome.

This is amazing! I've learned so much in the last 58 minutes! It's truly fascinating to see your reasoning and how much there is to know about the air! Instant sub!

An absolutely stunning analysis. I can not say more than the previous comments. Can I ask what vario are you using please?

Very good, ,informative

Sorry for the loss of your friend! A great video! Just an FYI, I would watch the full 9 hours - it's never boring!

Watched most all of the “Chess In The Air” videos at least several times and “Wave, Rotor, Convergence, and Thermals” four times. Thank you so much for putting these excellent videos together with accompanying dialogue.

great ride❤

to much lift! what a glider problem:) great vid!

Love it thx ! Great explanations & helpful graphics !

Great video!

What was tow cut altitude?

Next time i would like to see the instruments too)

I knew IL, and I still think about his accident a lot. At one point, we were both members of Piedmont Soaring in NC. Did you guys get to talk about this amazing flight after it happened? Congrats! No doubt his accident had an effect on you. On later flights, have you had to implement any of your new contingency plans such as 3k AGL arrival to the home airport due to bad weather, or 1000AGL on final? I'm curious if you feel like any of the things listed on your website should have been applied to this flight?

What kind of glider are You Flying? A pure one?

I'm kinda late to this party, but this is a great video! I'm just starting to learn cross-country. I'm curious, it didn't look like you were banked at a very steep angle in the weak lift that you had; is that a strategy for weak lift? If so, why?

Incredibly instructive video! Great job!

Great video, after 18 years of living in Golden, I never flew out of Boulder, all my hours were in So Cal, didn't think they would have the lift there.

Great glide I stayed up till 2 am to finish the vid thanks for sharing 👍🇺🇸

Excellent.

Some tense moments there.

wow................. I can't imagine sitting that long!

Best gliding movie for pilots to optimise their flight paths. ❤👌👍

Any tow plane pilot has a set of speeds to fly with empty gliders or heavy gliders. If you tell the pilot, I’m heavy or full of water he would know what speed to fly. Even then levels of tug pilot experience can result in slow tows. Glad you survived ok.

Congratulations, amazing video, I absolutely loved it. One question: where did you get the accesory to fit the high performance Flarm antenna vertically? (it seems to stick beautifully to the top of the instrument panel)

Congratulations on an amazing achievement and thanks for uploading this incredible video!

Great video. Thank you for posting this!

How does the task in your oudie know what your finish alt has to be? You would only know this after you started the task. Can you put the finish alt into the task while you are “on task”? Are you using the new oudie N? What a fantastic flight. Congratulations. This video was amazingly educational. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this all together, and sharing it with us.

Fantastic video, very interesting. Many thanks 'Chess' 😎😎😎.

Congratulations for your marvelous and amazing flight!!!! Your video is very well done! All along, I felt like that I was at your place in the cockpit!! Again Bravo and Bravo!!!

Great soaring flight. Arrival at Boulder greeted with mobs of cheering glider pilots, typical. Variometer does suck, by the way.

Congratulations Clemens on a great flight and nice video. Thought I heard Shmulik's voice on the radio? Brought a tear... Seriously, your vario and audio are horrible! One can get used to almost anything but that's really not OK...

Congratulations. Epic flight and impressive perseverance given the uncertainties at play. Great commentary. And I really appreciate the beautiful scenery of Colorado, which I remember well from my childhood (I was born and grew up in Boulder until the age of 10 and my father was a glider pilot).

Curious if there is a “wave window” around your area for clearance above 18K that Denver center could provide?

Thanks for this great video, and sorry for the loss of your friend.

Congratulations on a great flight! I love your commentary and explanations of the decisions that you were making as you progressed. I often see videos like these in which the pilot makes very sketchy choices that could lead other less experienced pilots into flawed decisions based on bad judgment. Your choices carefully balanced safety and managed risk. Very well done! I am sorry for the loss of your friend.

epic!

17,000 feet , here we have 6,000 on a very good day.

No particular time reference, just enjoying this again, reminded me of the old Ball & Tounge saying. Step on the Ball! Visually I see it otherwise. Muscle memory knows the answer. If you love aviation, learn how to fly Gliders first (All of the experiences) I't's the best lesson you'll ever need to know about Aviation.

Another excellent video!!!

Good lesson about timing the thermals for their climb rate. Teaches us to balance our odds, keeping the overall goal in sight, and sunset.

Wow!!! I have just watched your entire video. I don't know how to express my gratitude for this video. I hope to some day fly a 1,000kms triangle myself. You have just taken me through the whole process in impeccable detail. I don't know what is more amazing: the fact that UA-cam has allowed me this experience, the fact that you undertook the entire experience and filmed it - or more important the fact that you narrated your enire thought process. . I have many questions to ask but for now.... I just want to say thank you so much for this video. . I am sorry to hear about Shmuel Dimenstein and my condolences to his family - it is never nice to hear of a fatality in our sport.

Thank you for the master class, Clemens! Truly inspirational!

Thanks for taking us along on the ride. I appreciated the long video and the especially the detailed comments. If I may suggest, chapter marks and showing your position on the track and map more often would help watching it in parts. Oh, and the icing on the cake would be a quick insight in the weather for the day at the beginning. Enjoyed it all and you had me on the edge of my seat around TP3.

Thought I would never make it through a 3 hour video but turned out to be a real nailbiter. Could be the next Netflix box set! Great flight, Challenging sky at the end...perseverance and good decisions paid off, well done and congratulations.

Thanks so much for this inspiring flight! Congratulations! I was watching all the 3 hours and I enjoyed every minute and learned a lot! Especially the race against the cirrus far from home was tense. I will take a lot from this for my future flights! Cheers!

I found your video last night and it kept me up an extra hour. First thing this morning, I finished watching. Congratulations on your task! I am amazed at how hard it was and how you stuck it out for 9 hours! Well Done! Thanks for the video.

as a glider pilot for soma 50 years i enjoyed the 1000k flight. the pilot rip was very careful he could have taken much more chances in my opinion on speed but did not so top class pilot sorry to hear of his death i see he had a ventus 2xct for record does it have a turbo. ie not shark as accident glider

How much water did you carry, what was wing load?

3:00:03 That reminds me of the A Brave New World album cover by Iron Maiden.

This description epitomises most gliding trips on a good soaring day. Good and bad decisions. Good luck and bad luck, and relief when the last thermal gets you home. Nice commentary.