Improve Your Flying by Reading Clouds
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2021
- By analyzing a real life situation I'm sharing my knowledge about clouds. Showing you tools to find thermals more efficiently and asses the wind strength and direction faster by analyzing clouds.
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Top Video. The came is woke and this is exactly what I meant with my last comment, sharing your thoughts and drawing on the screen helps others enormously. Thanks for all the work you put into the channel!
This video is amazing! As a newer pilot, I haven't seen this level of explanation before, the time-lapse really helped.
Thanks for sharing with us this awesome video !
Yes, these cloud quizzes are great and very informative, thank you deeply! I love hearing and watching your post flight video analysis
Wow I learned two things and with the time lapse I know I’ll remember, you made it so visual. Thank you!
Great!
It is what I was looking for a long time.
Thanks!
Yes! Always learning a ton and feeling inspired!
Yes thank you
Very helpful.
Well explained.
Much appreciated
Thanks
Really great video and very useful for a new pilot. It would be great to have a few different examples of this to use as reference. Thank you.
It is planned, lets see when i get to it!
I'd watch 10h of this XD
Excellent
Wow, I learned so much with this video. Excellent work, keep making those!
This tutorial makes me even more anxious to learn things that are too expensive for me.... I even have difficulty having my own paraglider... thank you for the dream :)
very nice video! thank you for the knowledge
Absolutely awesome vid with all the time-lapse back and forth explanations!! 🙏
Great Video! 👍👍👍
Thank you for the great tips. Beautiful video
Great!
Excellent, thanks.
Incredible analysis and explanation. Loving it!
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Great Video
Nice presentation ❤
your videos are just great ! .. keep on with them !
Thanks for the Vid. Very educational. Keep Up the Good Work!
Excelent explanation
Super useful! please share more of your experience in this way!... thank you so much!
Top notch! Thank you.
Thank you for your video, Seb ! Your chanel is the best I found when it comes to learn cross country flying
Absolutely superb explanation Seb! Thanks and I hope you will keep up making these great videos!
Amazing. Great stuff
I wish i could see time lapse while flying. Great video, thanks.
Yay thanks for another great video
Great content, thank you!
wow. more of these please!
Awesome ! Please do more like this one!!
As usual, very clear and interesting.
I love the way that you give us very practical and useful information to help with our flying - great work Sebastian!
Thank you Sebastian, loved it
Great video !
I'm glad I'm able to read the clouds quite well and spot the right one straight away !
Very instructionnal and well explained !
It is a really good ressource for pilot who want to experiment thermal fly and/or cross country.
Brilliant 👏 this is really helpful.
Top vid. Very good!
Very good explanations!
Super idée de faire une vidéo sur la lecture des nuages ! Merci Sebi pour le partage de tes connaissances :) !!
This is amazing! More videos like this please
Awesome video and analysis!
Thanks a lot!
awesome explanation and video, thanks!
Excellent video / explanation!
Another great video Seb, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Super lehrreich, merci Sebastian!
awesome!!!!
Really amazing work! Well done 👍
Another great video! Clear message, great quality. Thanks for helping us learn.
Super cool video, The straight angle helps a lot to see what happens in this timelapse🤩 Thanx for sharing your knowledge👌
This is exelent content. Please continue this format. Thank you very much :)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
thanks so much!
Thank you again
Great video. Thx Very much !
Yeaahh!! Clap clap clap!! Great explanation. I will pray we can get a similar explanation on clouds but on the flats!! Thank you for sharing and taking your time!!
Awesome footage and helps a lot to understand the airmass.. cloud.. keep them coming 🙌🙏👌
Soooo good🤩 thank you👏👏
Totally agree, top video!!! Dankeshen from Argentina
Thank you very much!!! 🙂
Great video, thanks
Excellent tutorial, as always!! Grazie mille :-)
Thank you very much, this was very interesting and I learned a Lot.
Thank you, great one figuring clouds🙂
Top, thank you very well made and I'll recommend that to our glider novices as well as they start getting into XC. With a Glider, due to its higher speed, it is usualy easier to decide which cloud to aim for. With the paraglider, your analysis might be spot on, but once you get to your chosen cloud it might have disappeared into blue air and it is pot luck to catch the next one building, or it might have grown so large, that it has shaded off its source.... Respect for the time you put into that!
perfect explanation combined with an excellent video, very clear and instructive!
A great tutorial on clouds, well done and thanks
Please do more videos like this...!!!
Another great instructional video. Thank you so much for this invaluable information
Thanks for your explainary video about this topic, maybe the hardest subject for us paragliders.
super interesting ! please share more of your knowledge ,we love to learn ! thanks !
Hey Sebastian; I was expecting 15 or 20 clouds from different flights with an explanation for each! But this video was still very good and useful; the more you do the more I will watch hehe, thanks for the effort and keep up the good work, gonna suscribe right now
So sick
Excellent informative video. Thanks so much for passing on your knowledge in such a clear concise manner 👌
Really interesting video. First time I see how a cloud actually forms
And the movie director award goes to... mister Benz Sebastian (standing ovation etc...)
Great video! Many thanks for sharing your knowledge with newbies like me!
Keep making the videos, they are great! Keep the commentary coming - I am learning a lot with each one! I was so impressed by following the X-alps tracks, and your time lapse videos about how much time you guys stay on glide, not hunting thermals on every peak... If it was me, i would be searching for lift on every corner, but then I would not cover much distance... Very impressed and I appreciate your commentary. Helpful
@cameron forster Thanks for the comment! It is an art to choose when to thermal and when to keep pushing. I'm also learning more on every flight!
👍👍🤙🤟
Nice video!!! Thanks for sharing knowledge!!! Can you make a video about wind direction, rotors, lee side, wind valley, etc. That would be great!!!
That's a lot of topics! I'll give my best
Probably the best visualization of that topic I have seen. I thought about doing such a video myself, but now there is clearly no need :-P
Would be cool to see an example from the flatlands too.
Thanks! Yes, it's on the list
Una imagen vale más que mil palabras
Excellent… can you tell us about crisp young growing margins vs raggedy deteriorated margins
Tipptopp. Neuer Abonnent :)
Thanx
Thanks for this perfect example!!
How do you film this?
If you plan on doing more videos like this, I would love seeing multiple different clouds/terrains/winds in one video and maybe even comparing different flights in the same region
He has a video about how he filmes and cuts, just check the video list and you will find it.
Yes: ua-cam.com/video/0a_0t-0_G4I/v-deo.html
Hi Seb,
Thank you for the clip, Can you explain more about the lee and turbulence. In your clip I saw that you fly in the lee but the glider seem okey
Phu, that would take another video (at least)! It is always a combination of wind strength, terrain and lapse rate.
Thank you for the guide , it is superb 👍🏼
I have x2 but getting crazy big file size , how do you make such a long video while still preserving the great quality ?
I use a 512 gb card and filming for a day will fill it....360 video is certainly very resource hungry!
I like this. Is there a way to identify seed of cumulus cloud as it starts to form? Cumulus clouds in my area usually have a life of like 20-30mins. Flying towards nicely developed one often ends in arrival to its base as it dies. Specially on a slower, beginner, wings. Picking a good cloud to commit to is a topic I would be interested in.
Yes, usually I look at small whisps that are forming, if they are growing i head for those. But it is often difficult!
Flat land is so much harder o.0
I'm always afraid I might have missed the cycle when I'm looking for suitable clouds/wisps.
On a good day it isn't
What are your settings for the timelepase? How long is the battery lasting?
Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts! Here are mine ;-) You're right, the first cloud structure comes generally from the left, but not only from the snowy slopes but also directly triggered at the snow line down in the valley and pushed by the wind towards the south. So I would have preferred to shift the line a bit and fly left of the ridge, not right. The thing were I think you are partly wrong is the interpretation of the nice cloud in the end of the ridge. The lee thermal you were sketching, produced by the valley on the right, is not the source of the big cloud but the small fizzy cloud in front of it. This is also the cloud you are catching the thermal from. The bigger cloud on the back I suppose is produced from the end of the ridge and the hot air that is pushed towards it from the valley behind (thus more a luv/sidewind thermal with smoother cloud base). What do you think?
@soundglider Thanks for your comment, my thoughts:
1. The first cloud originates even further to the left, the west facing slope is not really visible in the video, so just flying a bit left would not bring a real benefit.
2. I do think the second cloud originates from the lee side of the peak, of course its always reforming, so new fizzy clouds are forming, growing and getting pushed to the right where they are doomed to die because they are cut off from the thermal supply.
Next time I probably insert a map to make things even clearer.
As a weather nerd, this interests me very much. Few questions:
Does the high albedo of snow create weaker thermals?
Would the wind on the left side of the mountain be moving downwards?
Do lee waves occur here?
The albedo definatelly plays a roll, but the "mental model" for the paragliders explains it more by the fact, that the snow itself does not have a chance to heat up (would waste this energy by melting or sublimating).
In spring and summer (> 0deg ambient on ground), a theoretical black snow would still not produce nice thermals, it would just melt faster.
The snow often triggers the warmer air packages that creap up the slopes to leave the terain and "drop off". They say this happens just from a 2deg C difference to surrounding air
Yes, thats it! Probabbly the wind would move downwards over the snowfield. The wind speed was not strong enough for lee waves, usually when waves occur it is not flyable on a paraglider anymore....
i'm trying do make videos like that on Brazil to help us
schönes Video! nur sehr schade, dass auch hier die deutsche sprache ignoriert wird....
Tja, das ist halt schwierig, am liebsten wäre es mir wenn man in youtube verschiedene audiokanäle wählen könnte.. Aber das gibt es nicht...