Final Glide in Heavy Rain - World Gliding Championships Australia

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  • Опубліковано 6 гру 2023
  • Interesting final glide in a heavy rain shower back to Narromine airport. In a glider it is very hard to estimate the performance degradation due to the water drops on the wing profile. Fortunately I was high enough and was able to land safely at the airport.
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  • @bochristensen9830
    @bochristensen9830 5 місяців тому +11

    This video clearly demonstrates the one nice thing about flying in rain: the wet yaw string stays glued to the center of the canopy instead of randomly flipping from side to side the way it usually does when I fly. So whenever I feel my inadequate stick-and-rudder skills, I just go looking for rain.

  • @Liger._King
    @Liger._King 5 місяців тому +15

    Stefan simply nailed this landing! One of the best pilots out there! 👏🏾👏🏾

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you!

    • @Liger._King
      @Liger._King 5 місяців тому

      @@SteFly, my pleasure. Thank you for all the wonderful videos with which you keep us highly entertained.

  • @s14slide
    @s14slide 5 місяців тому

    Just watched your video for the first time on a 4k screen. The rain on the canopy looked amazing. Glad your video was the first one I got to watch on my new computer screen!

  • @imsoaring
    @imsoaring 5 місяців тому

    Nicely done. Good example for lower-time pilots showing how, provided you keep your calm everyone can get in safely.

  • @Johan-ex5yj
    @Johan-ex5yj 5 місяців тому +1

    Super accurate landing, Stefan! 👍

  • @nicholaskennedy4310
    @nicholaskennedy4310 3 місяці тому

    Excellent demonstration on how to correctly handle landing with others!!
    Don't do anything weird or unexpected and don't hit anything, land as long as possible and or have energy to taxi off out of the way

  • @Milo.Maenner
    @Milo.Maenner 6 місяців тому +1

    Segelfligen macht echt Spaß und ich freu mich wenn ich dir zuschaue echt nächstes Jahr wieder fliegen zu können.

  • @robertodibenedetto2020
    @robertodibenedetto2020 5 місяців тому

    Well done Stefan ! 👏👏

  • @VINCEAKOKO
    @VINCEAKOKO 6 місяців тому +3

    so majestic

  • @steveanacorteswa3979
    @steveanacorteswa3979 5 місяців тому

    It was cool watching that sailplane off to the right dumping ballast, I really miss flying the Grob and ASW in the California Desert, I was lucky

  • @markplain2555
    @markplain2555 5 місяців тому

    WOW!!! what a super glider (and great pilot). With all that rain, a strong headwind and 10m/s of sink, I thought to myself, "okay let's see his outlanding". Man was I wrong

  • @christianboulay
    @christianboulay 5 місяців тому

    Nice! Bravo Stefan!

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Thanks ✌

  • @donaldingraham5784
    @donaldingraham5784 5 місяців тому +1

    Hey Stefan, if you were a few kilometers further away from the finish line (runway - haha), would you have flown slower or faster in the rain? Parasite drag is very high in rain and even higher at speed...

  • @lucabenedetto5381
    @lucabenedetto5381 5 місяців тому

    Nice experience, tried last June under a cumulonimbus, with also, however, landing under deluge and hail!

  • @krasw
    @krasw 5 місяців тому +1

    Good old Wortmann profile doing it's magic in rain

  • @a64738
    @a64738 Місяць тому

    Is the cockpit glass treated with water repellent? The droplets on the glass looks very similar to when I treated my car window with water repellent, very effective as you normally would not need to use the windscreen wiper if you had a little speed :) The water droplets would just be few and very small and the rest would just blow away with the wind.

  • @XCNAV
    @XCNAV 5 місяців тому

    What happened to your ATD showing the LARUS indication? You only use the Xcsoar internal needle?

  • @timlucas4014
    @timlucas4014 5 місяців тому

    Cool watching te other Gliders dropping water bellast

  • @theflyingfool
    @theflyingfool 6 місяців тому +1

    Finely judged landing there Stefan :D

  • @MonostripeZebra
    @MonostripeZebra 6 місяців тому +1

    traumhaft

  • @PureGlide
    @PureGlide 6 місяців тому +1

    Is this yesterday, the Thurs 7th Dec? Nice stuff!

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Yesterday we had a rest day. So it was the day before 6th Dec. ;)

  • @medosil
    @medosil 6 місяців тому +1

    Oui.

  • @northskyrc3670
    @northskyrc3670 5 місяців тому +1

    🇵🇱 Es gibt nur ein Weltmeister - SEBASTIAN KAWA - Polen 🇵🇱
    Herzliche Glückwunsch❤

  • @jgmendes3664
    @jgmendes3664 5 місяців тому

    I have flown many brazilian championships in the past and have experienced the chalenge of evaluating final glides in rain. But it was a long time ago. I wonder if modern final glide computers can support different polars for light and heavy rains... Can they ?

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Never heard of that. Then we would need to have polars for different rain scenarios first...

  • @lukasernst4033
    @lukasernst4033 6 місяців тому +4

    Die LS3 hört einfach auf zu fliegen im regen

    • @Cassiow106
      @Cassiow106 6 місяців тому +2

      Contrarly to the Twin Astir 😂

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому +1

      Leider!

  • @aerospeeed
    @aerospeeed 6 місяців тому +1

    Escape from the storm?

  • @tahirballikaya213
    @tahirballikaya213 Місяць тому

    what is the black lever on the left side for?

  • @skizzofly
    @skizzofly 5 місяців тому

    Sierra FOX, Stefan?
    Why Fox and not Lima?

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Because I also have the ASG29 which is already Sierra Lima

  • @ExExecutive1
    @ExExecutive1 5 місяців тому

    Smooth landing like oil on glass.

  • @glidingadventures
    @glidingadventures 4 місяці тому

    It was a crazy day, I waited over an hour for my team to land. They were circling just beyond the storm.
    P.S. Glad you liked the photos

  • @mktwatcher
    @mktwatcher 6 місяців тому +6

    That's just a light partly cloudy fair day shower. It's not Heavy.

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Thanks for the comment 😂

  • @vidgrabarevic6947
    @vidgrabarevic6947 6 місяців тому +1

    Have u thinikig about to come to croatia one day?

    • @FrankSchellenberg
      @FrankSchellenberg 6 місяців тому +1

      Organise world Championship in the Clubclass and I am sure he will be 😂

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому +1

      I was twice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where I also flew above the Croatian border. Perhaps next year I have the possibility to come by glider to Croatia :)

    • @adamopacak305
      @adamopacak305 5 місяців тому

      ​@@SteFlyCome to Slavonski Brod ther is Aero club "Brod" 🤠

  • @kevinerickson2595
    @kevinerickson2595 4 місяці тому

    👏👏👏👏

  • @Churchii
    @Churchii 6 місяців тому +2

    Wie viel Gegenwind war das? 170 km/h IAS und gefühlt 50 km/h über Grund haha

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Das sieht nur so aus...

  • @jme104
    @jme104 5 місяців тому

    The world competition in Australia showed that the LS3 can win over the ASW20 . That's the end of the myth of ASW20 superiority . That's means a lot for the LS3 pilots .

  • @Gustav4
    @Gustav4 6 місяців тому +1

    Are gliders used for long distance transportation if its work related?

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      No, that's not practical. The best thing you can do is to make a travel by glider trip for your own joy.

    • @Gustav4
      @Gustav4 5 місяців тому

      @@SteFly If compared to driving 10-15 hours on the highway to get home in a car vs a glider, maybe twice every month, would that be a good solution?

    • @waynerussell6401
      @waynerussell6401 3 місяці тому

      Only WWII!

  • @nob0dy27_
    @nob0dy27_ 6 місяців тому +4

    FX67-K170 / 150 und Regen, nenn eine bessere Kombi 😂

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      keine 🤣

  • @Tom-or2bm
    @Tom-or2bm 6 місяців тому +1

    Wow - 5 Segler gleichzeitig im Anflug. Das muss aber gut abgesprochen sein, wer wie landet.

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Joa, viel Absprache gibt's da auch nicht. Man muss zumindest viel Vertrauen haben, dass die anderen auch rausschauen.

  • @xiancesi3043
    @xiancesi3043 5 місяців тому

    My instructor's voice comes automatically behind my mind "centerline!"😅 do they have a local rule of landing to one side? (Edit: with larger display I saw the other landing gliders, then landing to one side makes perfect sense. )

  • @rossnolan7283
    @rossnolan7283 5 місяців тому

    Overan the active area of the runway (past the piano keys and in the rough -the other glider turned off so as not to block the strip - "nailing it"? Straight in finishes seem to have been banished for state competition and earlier world's here (Benalla 2017) which made it much less spectacular than in the 'old days' but safer --the finish line is higher and quite far from the airfield . "Heavy rain" --in pretty clear air, smooth but high sink not sure how much due to air vs speed , having encountered sleet in a glider (M200 ) many years ago with huge noise as well this is not really 'unusual' -having a final glide margin to fly through rain is wise but standard practice.

  • @Tom-or2bm
    @Tom-or2bm 6 місяців тому +1

    Trotz der 170kmh sieht's so aus, wie wenn Sie auf der Stelle stehen würden. Ziemlicher Gegenwind, oder ?!

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Gar nicht so viel. Ist nur eine optische Täuschung mit den Regentropfen auf der Haube.

  • @jme104
    @jme104 5 місяців тому +1

    In the heavy rain 170 km/h and -4.5 m/s that's a glide slope of 10:1 Without rain it's about 23:1 . What a difference .

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      Yes, the LS3 doesn't like rain

    • @jme104
      @jme104 5 місяців тому

      @@SteFly I know I have one .

  • @ThomasGreenhill
    @ThomasGreenhill 5 місяців тому +1

    Good thing you have a ls3 and not a pik 20😂

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому +1

      LS3 is shit in rain aswell 😅

  • @colinjacobs176
    @colinjacobs176 5 місяців тому

    Sorry for the bad Australian weather! Gutes fliegen aber.

    • @SteFly
      @SteFly  5 місяців тому

      It's interesting

  • @user-mn5ny6rv8q
    @user-mn5ny6rv8q 6 місяців тому +1

    Наверное самая красивая смерть.....