Very good, most helpful, I’m watching as much as I can before investing in a glider, 40 years powered model pilot, this is the most exiting next step, many thanks.
Great technique and video. I watch the launch frame by frame. You take a really wide stance before unwinding. I've learning more from this video than if I was there in person. If anyone deserves high frame rate slow motion video, it is you. Thanks for your efforts. My highest launch today.......58' !!!............from which I caught a thermal.
You make it look easy!,i am just so glad nobody watches me when i launch mine,i end up inverted,but practice makes perfect i guess,excellent tutorial thanks!
Skip miller also has some great dlg's. I'm just starting I'm flying a dream flight libelle it reads lift very well and climbs in the smallest lift of thermals but lacks penetration to fly upwind. Great video by the way learning to launch is very difficult its all about form and fallow through like a golf swing I'm still learning and hope to get a molded f3k bird soon.
Hi, Use a preset in the elevator so it has some up in it. Tune the elevator in both phases (rotation and vertical) so it gives you the trajectory you want.
Hi Paul, You can get an MX-20 and all the accessories through Modelflight. You will find them on Google in South Australia and they have an excellent postal system all over the world
Chris c. You can always use a high start to do this and best of all no twisting, a high start is old school , you can buy one on most any large Hobby retailer it's a string and rubber you stretch and hook to your glider and off you go, you will need to add a hook of sorts To the glider. Hope this helps
its to bad you have to do all that knee action for this aspect of the rc hobby.. i think id really enjoy gliders etc. but i have a bad knee, fake knee, etc and i just can not put any kind of load on my legs or ill end up in the hospital needing surgery. i am tempted getting a DLG and just throwing over hand may not get 200 feet or compete or anything but its about the only option i have. stay healthy kids, never know what hobby you may pickup where you need your body in good condition :D rock on from AZ.
Hi Marcus, I had my first goes at DLG today :-) I love it! When I throw my plane straight it doesn't go up by itself and I always have to pull the elevator to make it gain height. Should the plane go up just by the ailerons or do you have some elevator in the launch mode as well? I have a Blaster 3
Great video, thanks for teaching. I flew my first DLG flight (ever) today and ended up with broken fuselage =( . Sometimes it gets inverted when launch. I wonder, sir, how many DLG's have you already broken since day one before getting to be this good?
Hi Marcus ! There is a guy who is asking for subtitles on facebook.:-D Can You write something in the steps of the video, or a small text to explain important steps under the video frame ? Many thanks, and, holly sh..! what a launch !
Interested in starting this. I noticed in all the launch videos I've seen the glider does a rapid ascent. Do you have a seperate mix switch to add in up elevator to do this and then switch off for normal flight? If so what % throw is it? Been flying models for 30years now and gliders have always been my favourite, most recently electric ones but this does look decent.
Hi Marco, Sorry, I am not very good with UA-cam yet. I will try in the future. If you go to rcgroups under 'Launch Video - Comments please' you will find lots of info. I am called Machineman.
Hi Christophe, Unfortunately I do not know how to do subtitles on video's. I can only take then and upload them. Maybe someone can PM me. Sorry. Marcus
10 years later and this is, in my opinion, one of the best demonstrations of dlg launch out there! Fantastic, you still flying dlg's
Very good, most helpful, I’m watching as much as I can before investing in a glider, 40 years powered model pilot, this is the most exiting next step, many thanks.
Great technique and video. I watch the launch frame by frame. You take a really wide stance before unwinding. I've learning more from this video than if I was there in person. If anyone deserves high frame rate slow motion video, it is you. Thanks for your efforts. My highest launch today.......58' !!!............from which I caught a thermal.
you are one of the few people that makes sense and has the ability to make a understandable sentence...thanks
Super, thanks!! Looks very powerful
When you actually throw at the end of the video, you add a couple more steps before the hop.
A great video. Well set out and easy to follow. I shall be watching this again and again.
The best tutorials over time!!
You make it look easy!,i am just so glad nobody watches me when i launch mine,i end up inverted,but practice makes perfect i guess,excellent tutorial thanks!
Remember kids, don't throw up! Keep the airfield and your shoes clean!
Skip miller also has some great dlg's. I'm just starting I'm flying a dream flight libelle it reads lift very well and climbs in the smallest lift of thermals but lacks penetration to fly upwind. Great video by the way learning to launch is very difficult its all about form and fallow through like a golf swing I'm still learning and hope to get a molded f3k bird soon.
I found back to this great masterpiece now I think I will do better at throwing again.
thanks
Hi,
Use a preset in the elevator so it has some up in it. Tune the elevator in both phases (rotation and vertical) so it gives you the trajectory you want.
Hi Paul, You can get an MX-20 and all the accessories through Modelflight. You will find them on Google in South Australia and they have an excellent postal system all over the world
Thank you for this .. my mediocre way of launching gives 20m .. I'll practice more and use your tips.
Chris c. You can always use a high start to do this and best of all no twisting, a high start is old school , you can buy one on most any large
Hobby retailer it's a string and rubber you stretch and hook to your glider and off you go, you will need to add a hook of sorts
To the glider. Hope this helps
Tanks Marcus, I'm new in DLG and in my first launches I think I've reached only 30 meters hight.
Makes me want to pick up a transmitter again! Nice video.
Actually, there is a lot of written information on 'rcgroups' under the heading 'Launch Video - Comments Please' I hope this helps.
Thanks for very interesting suggestions
Thanks for the lesson :)Nice to see a Graupner too!
its to bad you have to do all that knee action for this aspect of the rc hobby.. i think id really enjoy gliders etc. but i have a bad knee, fake knee, etc and i just can not put any kind of load on my legs or ill end up in the hospital needing surgery. i am tempted getting a DLG and just throwing over hand may not get 200 feet or compete or anything but its about the only option i have. stay healthy kids, never know what hobby you may pickup where you need your body in good condition :D rock on from AZ.
Hi Marcus,
I had my first goes at DLG today :-) I love it! When I throw my plane straight it doesn't go up by itself and I always have to pull the elevator to make it gain height. Should the plane go up just by the ailerons or do you have some elevator in the launch mode as well? I have a Blaster 3
Great video, thanks for teaching. I flew my first DLG flight (ever) today and ended up with broken fuselage =( . Sometimes it gets inverted when launch. I wonder, sir, how many DLG's have you already broken since day one before getting to be this good?
Alan, A Graupner MX20, but they will soon be called SJ Hit
Nice!!!
Is it possible to put subtitles?
Many pilots can follow your tips!!
Best regards.
Marco
What a man
Hi Marcus !
There is a guy who is asking for subtitles on facebook.:-D Can You write something in the steps of the video, or a small text to explain important steps under the video frame ? Many thanks, and, holly sh..! what a launch !
Went looking for dlg launch techniques and guess who I found?
Interested in starting this. I noticed in all the launch videos I've seen the glider does a rapid ascent. Do you have a seperate mix switch to add in up elevator to do this and then switch off for normal flight? If so what % throw is it? Been flying models for 30years now and gliders have always been my favourite, most recently electric ones but this does look decent.
Hehe....Step 4
Informative video.
Why not showing the plane after the launch instead of holding the cam in horizontal direction?
I know, thats why I made this one showing the trajectory :-) ua-cam.com/video/3Cckl5BuT2U/v-deo.html
What telemetry system are you using?
Hi Marco, Sorry, I am not very good with UA-cam yet. I will try in the future. If you go to rcgroups under 'Launch Video - Comments please' you will find lots of info. I am called Machineman.
Where can I get one of those here in usa.
Hi, where did you get your telemetry system form?
I’m guessing like anything learn by crashing
Hi Christophe,
Unfortunately I do not know how to do subtitles on video's. I can only take then and upload them. Maybe someone can PM me.
Sorry.
Marcus
Marcus Stent
You can get all the gear you need from Armsoar Composite Gliders.
Good luck
what telemetry system u using?
Where can I get one of those?