Sailplane does a gravity take off from top of a hill
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2021
- a bit bumpy 1st solo gravity take off in a glider from pilots perspective back in 2014. The place is called Bezmiechowa and located in Poland. The pilots ferry their sailplanes down the hill for a subsequent winch launch or just go directly on the ridge if the wind is good enough.
here the version with upslope wind ua-cam.com/video/KAULgFTLFIE/v-deo.html
Hi Patrick, I was interested in featuring a small clip of the gravity launch video on my UA-cam channel PureGlide, as part of a video on different launch methods. It would be a short clip and I'd link to your original video in the description. Any chance you can flick me an email if that's OK or not? pureglide@pear.co.nz Thanks in advance!
What an crazy takeoff, beauty :) You had there wonderful thermals clouds, the clouds were beautiful, why just jump, or it was training ? :)
@@cptVLK correct, just training. The task was to do the minimum required amount of gravity launches in order the get the rating for that.
60yo private pilot. I've never seen that.
Translation of what they guy on the radio said:
Weather is fine with a moderate headwind of 8 knots I shall now perform the preflight ritual of sacrificing a demon by strangling it with its own entrails **
That was great!🤣
You got me!
Whaaaaaaa!!
That seemed legit until the second half.
@Graf von Losinj Facts!
guy on radio: JDFAISOFHIWQFJWQUFEQWHURTOHQEOFGUIHQWEOITEQ
guy on plane: *nods, understanding everything to the letter*
Edit: DUDE I didn’t even noticed the replies and the likes. First time I get so many lul
Just a matter of practice
I think it would be easier to understand if you spoke the language they were speaking...
It's Polish, every 5th letter should be W or Z.
@@macdom24 im Polish, but i did not understood :D
That's how I felt my first time on public transit
Beginning of video: Placing an order at a drive through and the guy reading it back to me
those old ass shitty mcdonalds boxes
And me just eating Mayo on my Burger even though i explicitly said No Mayo but it's not worth waiting for the correct order.
Wayne’s world ordering their food!
.... and a large orange drink
It's like that old Dane Cook skit.
*Ah yes.. The Earrape*
I saw this comment right before the earrape started and laughed my ass off 😂 what the fuckkkkkk Hahahahahaa
What else would you expect from a russian video
@@Skeptic89cuka blyat yebat inakhoi
much appreciated, I left the volume up form. previous video and got on the button just in time to save the 2am silence, also it was funny af 😂
@@Skeptic89polish*
Now, if he’d landed back at the top of the hill, that would be impressive.
this was quite common in the past until a glider hit the hangar on the top and people got injured.
I was going to say I assume he landed with a tailwind.
So now they disassemble and tow?
@@technophant Use a golf cart?
Could have been possible with ridge/hill lift or a thermal. I've never seen a sailplane gravity launch before, though I've seen a down hill bunjee launch.
i went here with my grandad 5 years ago and this is where i had my first flying experience, i will never forget it
Must be a pain to carry that back up the hill 🤪
They use anti gravity craft to take it back up
Yes and Wishful Thinking
Ski lift?
They use elbow grease!
You must be a Hang glider pilot, because I was thinking of many of my training flights where I spen more time hiking it back up the hill.
What a fun way to take off with a glider and hopefully straight into slope lift.
Much cheaper than an aero tow and more fun by the look of it.
A winch start is not that expensive either. And a lot more spectacular, once you learned how to do that. Ever felt 200 hp on a 400 pound plane?! Heeeeepah!
THIS JUST BLEW MY MIND. been flying HG and PG for 26 years, thermalled together with sailplanes countless times... but never imagined they could launch like this. Just push em off a hill... yeah why not? (i see some reasons why but hey this was epic)
would be cool, could be done on a road :)
I too found this method very unique never having seen it before. Intuitively so simple. Hang gliders like me do it but use our feet just to keep moving over the ground.Newbies use wheels but mainly (only) for landing.
“Gravity” or “slope launching” a super floating at Crestline HG launch: ua-cam.com/video/ELUU5_TPvLE/v-deo.html
@@MatthewPettyST1300 But is it simple? The nose is pointing down, and you have to raise it to take off, and the tail will probably want to scratch ober the tiles in a tailstrike.
@@Chris_1024_ Looked like a little bit of a ski jump at the end. If it wasn't pitched up then even a straight level edge with a drop off of the hill side would do it at that speed.
Couldn't keep it up for longer than 2 minutes. Story of my life.
wow that is glider heaven. I can still feel the intimidation of those first flights when you aren't too sure how far out of the pattern you want to venture to find some lift =)
I like the efficiency of take offs and landings from the same area like PGs and HGs do at Torrey Pines Glider port. Dragging that plane back up the hill must be a big pain in the ice.
What a great way to get in the air!
I like my ultralight better if I don't wanna hear the engine all I gotta do is turn it off and glide back down, and hell it's only a little harder than riding a bike.
@@JohnDoe69986 Good point! Is your ultralight a good glider? Can you catch thermals?
One look and I knew it was Bezmiechowa. Epic place!
Reminded me of Wasserkuppe.
Now this looks fun! And what a perfect spot for takeoff and landing! Great video. Thanks for posting.
Headphone user warning!!!!
Graceful landing and takeoff! Looks like you really matched the angle of the slope when landing.
THE SOUND
is awesome...
ah yes, the smooth silence of a engineless plane. WHOWOWOWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOPoPWOOWFOOOSSHJHHPop.
it's only for about a month.. after that the noise should disappear
@@eeeeeek how?
@@galiltm5168 cause you'll have hearing problem at that point 😂
@@eeeeeek Haha...nice setup k!
Id love to have a glider, and a place to enjoy it
Where do you live?
Sailing the Sky NW Wa. Usa
Join a club and you can fly your balls off for less then a thousand euro a year. Move to Yurp. Germany. The Netherlands. France. And the list goes on. Do something instead of just wishing. Jesus, you need help! Join a gliding club! Do it today!
We call them Gliders in the U.K. I did my very first Solo Flight in a Kirby Cadet MkIII. It’s a very old open cockpit Glider that I made my first Solo flight in when I was just 16 years old back in 1984. Also, 16 is the minimum age to Solo in a Glider, and 17 is the minimum age to be able to fly Solo and hold Private Pilots License in the U.K.
They're gliders everywhere, but higher-performance gliders are called sailplanes.
What a great way to practice circuits! Love it.
Scrolled down to say something similar, what I had been in flight sims, first time witnessed in real life! Amazing.
some day, I would go, from Brasil, to fly in this amazing and beautiful place!
Olá Professor, bom ver vc aqui kkk
@@joaopartiti2681 hehehe, onde tem planador, lá estou eu. É meu esporte!
Did you read the description?
"The place is called Bezmiechowa and located in Poland"
@@someguy5035 no need to be rude, Some guy...
@@spider-man3234 How is that rude?
Thanks for sharing, wonderful video!
This is why people put music on glider video's, to protect people with headphones.
But why do people insert unnecessary apostrophes when forming plurals?
@@legshakermaker1968 I'm sorry. After speaking dutch for 52 years I might have got some bad habits communicating with my fellow humans who can speak only one (less sophisticated) language.
@@forton615 well, firstly I have to apologise for my embarrassing anglophonic assumptions! If it was an isolated occurrence I'd have attributed it to a simple error but, as I'm sure you're aware, the grocer's apostrophe has seriously afflicted our American cousins and is spreading to the UK like a highly infectious virus. To be fair, my experience of travelling in the Netherlands and meeting Dutch people is that your English is generally a notch above that of the average native speaker.
@@legshakermaker1968 Hahaha. But here I have to correct you sir, your guess is too far north.
I live in that little country south of our cheese eating wooden shoe wearing friends.
The country where we have to switch between Dutch, French or even German (or sign language if you're lost in Brussels). Have a nice day.
@@forton615 I seem to have taken one foot out of my mouth only to create space to insert the other! I'm just going to apologise again and leave it there before I embarrass myself further. ;0)
That is the most marvelous sight I've witnessed; albeit on YT.
Must be a good place to practise take offs & landings - you could do many in one day.
And such a lovely landscape ... I could happily live the rest of my days there, with my small woodworking shop tucked under some big, old trees ... with a cat or two, perhaps.
Just move to Poland. You can live well on $2k or maybe even $1K a month.
Good ol' Pirat - a caring and friendly flying machine!
Incredible.
That is so dope
That is the first time ever I have seen any airplane take of just from using downhill... I did not even think of that possibility lol ;)
ua-cam.com/video/jeQP-H_31JQ/v-deo.html
Looks like a great place for an Ozone speedwing if you want to get the exercise. Great stuff thanks for posting
radio: the weather is good but watch out for the djsnwbebjsnsbe.
Pilot: roger. Clear for takeoff.
That is Polish for covfefe.
Whelp, my bucket list just got another item...
Awesome video, feels like sitting in the cockpit yourself!
Impressive take off! And: I love flying PIRAT!
Love it. Subbed!
OMG! This looks like so much fun!
If you like that, paragliding might be for you. I've been in love with it for 20 years. You have to be patient and have the willpower to not fly when the conditions are bad, but it is very safe if you are conservative with your decision making. If you don't have hills around, paramotoring is great too, just noisy.
Glad to see you got the comms from my last game of Counter Strike in there. Classic.
I enjoyed that! What a ride.
Fantastic launch and flying. I'm 100% Polish with my grandparents arriving in America in the late 1800s.
thanks. That's by the way an interesting history. All the best !
Reminds me of Sutton Bank in the UK. Gliders are launched from the top of a 600 foot cliff using a large elastic band.
My favourite place. Love the drive up to the top.
Up the drive in my 1275 Mini Cooper S was almost as much fun as my first launch.
Just amazing.
That is pretty groovy, thanks.
That's an awesome roller coaster. Would go there.
Smooth out the landings and we're good.
Bezmiechowa is quite unique. I flew there uphill and either way, it's not for the faint of heart!
Well that was cool! Never seen something like this.
This is pretty cool, I'd never seen this before.
this is so cool
Spectacular
PL ~~ ATC: Pirat 15, Bez żaglowania, (tylko grawitacja) po starcie w prawo 45* i lewo do lądowania
ENG~~ ATC: Pirat 15 (glider type), without ridge flying, (only gravitation flight), after departure turn right 45 degrees after that - turn left for landing
Or something like that :D
I’ve had some short sledders in my flying experiences, but wow this one was quick! Still, it counts! 👏🏻🙌🏼👏🏻
Damn, that looks fun!
Uphill! nice landing
This is so cool.
Looks like a fun ride
Simple question: can one not convert a ski-hill into a gravity launch site? In winter people ski and in summer glider launch?
Awesome!
Awesome. I hope this place has some fantastic lift at the end of the yellow brick road. The vario doesn't look promising. And talk about a short final! So, do they land at the top of the hill, then use this to do a final landing below, all for an altitude gain of... -120 ft.?
No. They no longer land at the top of the hill, but when they did they could cycle back to the same location. Now they normally launch and land at the bottom of the hill, but in the right conditions they can do this launch from the top, land at the bottom, then tow the glider back to the top (with a car).
Wow that is some great flight
Very cool!
Sailplane? Oh you mean a glider.
The glider is a SZD-30 Pirat. 🙂 I loved my time flying Pirats so much.
nobody:
my teammate turning on his mic 0:04
I want this in my back yard
Great flat slope launch =)
Extremely cool :)
we had rides in a schweizer ,( sorry sp ) 2 seater at harris hill ny , loved every minute !
Wow, skidding all those turns is dangerous, watch the yarn! Also that is like doing a slip and losing altitude, couldn't see if the spoilers were open.
Where is this? Beautiful
I wonder if you could do that off the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, England.
It'd make his eyes water a bit... 😲
Sounds like the guy that takes my order at Burger King
Reminds of ski jumping with wings and no snow.
take off very economical and ecological too but not much time to catch a thermal and in this case a lot of work to get back to take off ...
@@cluelessbeekeeping1322
No i didn't but now i just did,
Interresting, ty for telling me 👍
OK, that’s just nuts!!👍😄😄
This is so cool. Wherever this? Love the wind sound.
Well, that was a short flight.
🎵 Ya gotta get up
To get down...
(Hurh!)
Hi, Wayne! Yep. That's a dead sky all right. It's a day for drinking coffee and planning routes. ;-)
Yep. Where was the beeping vario? Why didn't he follow the ridge? This was a bit dissapointing. He just flew down. But this runway is great fun. No winch at the end! That is weird.
Do the wings need to be supported or do they just slide on the grass until you get roll authority speed?
(also I'm not a pilot so sorry if I'm using wrong terminology)
One wingtip is supported by a runner up to the speed at which the pilot has roll authority... it is a very reasonable running speed. In the glider I flew there was a tail runner as well, to hold the tail down initially.
Didn't find a thermal so he landed I guess.
Downwind landing?
Now I've got to push it back up the hill , no such thing as a free fly .
Mic sound reminds me of PUBG pregame waiting area in the early months before they turned the mics off! #Gamerz
I’ll never forget the constant mic spam of “CHINA NUMBA WAHN” in the golden era of pubg
Dobra robota :)
All kinds of awesome.
Radio: Demon noises for 30 seconds
Pilot: "Roger"
Was just a little disappointed that there weren't any thermals that would put him higher than the take-off, and have him land right back at the place he took off from. (I would think that's technically possible, but locations that would have those qualities are likely rare.)
That is some seriously cool shit. Not a drop of fuel burned to get the glider in the air. I’ve done most of my flights from a winch and a few aero-tows. Never seen this before.
How did they carry the glider up top? Using fuel
Yes, @@Day-wm7nn , but the fuel to drive a small vehicle up the hill will be much less than the fuel for a tow aircraft cycle...and the tow vehicle will be much cheaper to operate. Of course a winch beats either of them, and at this location they routinely launch uphill by winch.
How do you get the glider back up the hill without dismanteling?
You could have flown up there a long time it seems, why land so quickly?
hmmm, How do I get this back up the hill?
so cool !!!
How did you not drag the wings on the floor at low speeds?
I would assume that there was a person holding the wing and running with it for the first few meters as this is the normal procedure for other glider launches.
At around 30-40km/h there is already enough air flowing over the wings for the ailerons to work and keep the wings level👍🏻
I've heard worse radios, but besides that that is awesome! I always imagine doing that and I would love to do that with my Standard Cirrus. What camera is this by the way?
That was an Actionpro X7
@@gajetsky That's a pretty powerful camera. Good luck on your next flights
the good thing about pro radio comm like that is MayDay will sound exactly like MightDie from overly aggressive Cuban street music MCs
Video starts, my ears start bleeding instantly
Very cool. I still like having that spinny thingie on the front. Just in case. 😉
I love these things. First though, glider rc.
doesnt get cheaper than flying like that.
Who put distortion on this?