K13 Glider Solo Soaring Flight - Winch Launch, Thermalling, Landing - Cockpit View GoPro
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2015
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Since my first solo flight in September 2014, this was the first time I filmed a solo flight of mine, and it was quite a successful catch! Having lost the zero lift I came across right after releasing from the cable, I took the decision to fly to the brown fields on the west side of the runway as I recall finding lift above them numerous times. What first looked like barely any lift developed to a strong 4-6 knot up thermal, strong enough to take me thousands of feet up. Simply maintaining my altitude in the thermal before it became strong was enough to put a smile on my face, but what happened next was my first proper solo soaring adventure, and the best part is I had my GoPro in the cockpit to share it with you! Watch the nicely executed winch launch and the crosswind landing, after being informed that the wind had changed 180 degrees and I should be landing on the other runway. I underestimated the wing strength and landed a bit crabbed, after rounding out a little late. We all learn from our mistakes, despite our level of experience!
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GoPro HD Hero 3+ Black, 1080p Superview
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GoPro Suction Cup Mount - Розваги
Landing looked too extreme
Less than 5 years ago and now you are flying somewhat more advanced aircraft, well done!
Matthew
This is how it all started.
Its clear that you where very new, and we've all been there, so its not about your flying that but the thrill and happiness you show its just so much showing what you feel when soaring "Gets you"😎 Nice vid;)
Thank you so much! Watching these videos back gives me the chills, there is nothing like gliding.
Nice video, i was lucky, at my 1st Solo I was able to stay up for about half an hour. Sun was already going down so the view was awesome
Great thermo. I used to be flying in simulator..the joy comes when it singing rapidly
I learned some things about thermalling from this video, thanks.
Great flight, mate. Cyprus looks amazing.
Great video! Just joined the SSA and looking forward to the flights! That first solo must be nerve wracking.
Wow that landing looked exhilarating! Makes me want to try my hand at gliding. I’m used to small aircraft like Cessna 172’s and in my head watching that dive my mind was just screaming pull up! flare! What an intense glide slope 😀
Gliding is like nothing you’ve ever tried. Never gets boring!
Great man :D
Amazing video !
I love it
I totally feel your enjoyment trying to catch the thermals.
I loved the landing! Awesome video thanks for sharing.
Some pretty kick ass thermals there and a good glider pilot as well well done :)
Great flight! Thanks for sharing.
nice video, reminds me of my youth. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, just once, to be age 17 again! I'm 54 years older then 17 now. Demetris, when I was 17, going to the drive-in outdoor movie theater on a warm Friday or Saturday evening with friends was something to do. But, you, are blazing your own trail to a life in the Aerospace Industry, even if you don't already realize it. Great video with your Go-Pro. Since I'm older and fat, here is some unsolicited advice. You're performing wonders for your mind; now, don't forget to exercise your physical skeletal muscular frame. Continued fitness is paramount!
Really enjoyed watching that.Stay safe and and fun....
Man, the memories...Got my license in that bird. Will always love it just because it's so gentle and easy to fly.
Glad you're here! I missed soaring, too.
Very enjoyable mate!
Great video again !
I see you noticed the late rouandout but be careful with the rudder. You are more at risk of spinning because of in turn rudder and sometimes out of turn rudder. You will glide for longer with better executed rudder, it will come with time. We'll done with staying in the thermal though.
Amazing, nice launch btw! Thanks for sharing this! ;D
Please upload more these kind of video's! :D
It's weird seeing exactly the same procedure in different places😂
Wow, that takes me back. I always found a winch launch really dramatic ... although a tug launch is just as hairy when you are starting out. :0) As always, a brilliant video - glad I am a subscriber.
When I realized how fast you were going while landing, I thought it’s the end this guy is dead.
Nice video bro
Looks like fun!
Fun video, It would be good to get a new altimeter so you don't have to tap it. We were tapping ours years ago as well. bugs or water in pito tubes can do it as well.
Great isn't it?, enjoyed your video, nice to see the ASK-13
Just as I start gliding I start seeing everything gliding appear on my social media haha
beautiful place to fly
I'm no expert but I would say that was well done. Very nice!
brilliant to watch
15:42 made me laugh. Great video!
Greatflyer i think you should do a tou and show us the outside of it and show how to control it and that stuff
That's what I call a narrow landing strip!
Matthew
Indeed!
I couldn't work out where it was to begin with! The narrow strip must really concentrate the mind! Is a Silver C acceptable in Cyprus, or do I have to get my SPL licence?
Very enjoyable film dude, why did they order you down you were doing really well keeping her up there.
Very nice video! As somebody who knows nothing about gliding I was surprised by the landing. The steep approach and low width of the airstrip threw me off, and only when very low I realised the speed. Much higher than expected. It also seemed like a difficult landing in the sense that the aircraft is not particularly stable - yet the airstrip is not very wide. Would you be able to land safely on rough(er) terrain, say, the grass next to the airstrip?
it looked quite fast because he had a tailwind
yeah, the approach and ground speed is quite uncommon. and yes, gliders are designed to be able to land on pretty much any terrain (grass, asphalt, dry ground, even something like corn fields)
K13's really fly like a dream, don't they?
Were you circling in the take off zone? I know you gained height but you began looking for thermals as soon as you detached from the winch cable. Just a question.
Ah, good old K13s 😊
Love your accent man! Care if I ask what it is?
Never leave lift. You were nowhere near cloudbase. The thermal gets wider and smoother the higher you go
Cool video. What is the device that launches you? Didn't see a tow plane in front of you.
Spencer Maze Its a machine called a winch that pulls in a rope quickly and launches you into the air basically
I hope the alti has been fixed ...
A naive question? Could you roll ower or be in a corkscrew with a glider, and if there is a greater danger to fly this gliders compared with a plane with engine.
Awesome
How is it possible you gain altitude when you are circling?
awesome
Do you have to touch the altimeter from time to time to get lift from the thermal? :P
In old glider and more specificly in old instruments needles tend to stick do a light tap on the instruments gives them motivation to work again
Awesomeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Just that
Well done, not bad for a recent solo pilot. Yuo need to sit on your left hand though!! Stop tapping the gauges.....OK once on downwind, but while going up?? No need. And work on keeping in balance, glider goes up even quicker then. I'll be back in November to fly in Cyprus, see you then. Webby
webbevents our k13 variometer gauges also get stuck every now and again so I have also learnt the nasty habit of tapping them regularly. lol
I would like to know how the mechanism works that pulls you up into the sky ..the pully cable
there's a big winch that winds a cable
where is this?
How much did it cost
Weather you had very strong tailwind or your landing was just incredibly fast for an k13 - and theres something called pulling speed out before touchdown😂
Sorry to find my landing technique inadequate - this is an old video, one of my first solo flights in fact, feel free to check out my newer ones :)
@@greatflyer_aviation way better. Everyone find his own technique and gets better and one should be perfect from the beginning. By the way do you only have older schleiche wood planes or also newer glider at you club?
Any landing you walk away from is a good landing I've heard.
Someone to explain what's that pitch sound during the flight?
What's the purpose of it?
+TheGreatFlyer Thanks and sorry for bothering, I have read the comments below and I found my answer.
Why didn't you do spins or aeros to lose that height? That would have been good practice, as well as making the video a little more exciting.
My God... Still can't believe that the glider flies without engine! ))
Is there a reason why you keep tapping that instrument on the panel?
No vibration device on the altimeter means a huge amount of lag unfortunately.
@@greatflyer_aviation never rely on that, use your jugment
Do gliders have flaps
Some do. The one he is flying doesn't.
thn wra pou ekanes decend nomiza oti tha karfwtheis polu megalh gwnia anyways (y)
den exw petaxei pote opote (y)
Tour
At how many feet do you need 02?
10,000 recommended
Very nice, but what's that noise bleeping in the background?
W |Polsce ciężko trafić na takie noszenie
This landing looks like diving. I would not teach anyone to do this type of landing.
Petru Simion it’s done to not stall or spin during landing
15:35 that must have been scary lol
Haha
I am 15 i want to learn to fly these am i old enough?
***** if your parents are willing to spend $10,000 that it :D
+dwon “F4NCYFR33ZE” johnson Solo at 14 for Glider in US.
+dwon ‘F4NCYFR33ZE’ johnson in the Netherlands you can fly solo in a soaring plane if you're 14
Motorplanes can be flew solo if you're 16
Hey mate, are you a real pilot ?
+Edison Skywalker Nah, I'm pretty sure it's a fake video, probably FSX.
PaulinhosmBR you dont need a pilot license to fly one of those mate.
Edison Skywalker Not where I live.
+Edison Skywalker you mean is he licensed. i'm fairly sure he's "real".
Is such a steep approach standard practice? To my untrained eye, it looked like you really screamed in rather steeply. Before you pushed the nose down, I thought for sure you were going to overrun the runway.
I have some training in a hang glider, and the utility of extra speed on approach is common in that type of flying as well. I think two things threw me in your video: (1) In a hang glider, one doesn't have speed brakes, so a dive at that angle would make you go very fast, whereas in a glider with speed brakes, you'd stay closer to a constant speed. Also, (2) that runway you're using is so narrow, that it looks like you're quite a bit higher than I think you really are, because my brain tells me I'm looking at a standard-width runway, and to be as narrow as it appears, it seems to my eyes like you're starting your approach way higher than you really are..
Great video but what is that annoying noise
tells him whether he is in lift or not
That noise is the audio variometer You can tell your rate of climb or sink. It complements the visual variometer which shows the actual rate in feet per minute.
this video was not good for me I got dizzy, I use a translator I'm from Brazil
Why did you “air-brake” it down? Why not some loops and rolls and shit? Spend all that energy you stored up on some crazy aero-batic shit on the way down
Not signed-off for aerobatics at that time though.
? this is like watching golf......
Move on then...
Mate I do not think you found any thermals the thermal you were in came to you. Sorry but that is how it was seen.☹️ dude there was cues that had popped all around you. Blah blah yack yack.
you dont drive :))))))
Correct, I was not old enough to drive back when this video was filmed.
@@greatflyer_aviation congragulstions. 👏👏👏
@@greatflyer_aviation hard to keep the turkey. we dont unfortunately dont contunue. because there is only one place. that is eskişehir inonü. :(( and just square tour. dont between contries. :(( be lonely for glider.