I’ve watched three glider videos back to back. I never gave them a second thought because I thought they were always silly seeing them in the long trailers on the road, how they have to get towed into the air, can’t land without tipping over and don’t even have proper landing gear. However after seeing a few of these videos I get it now. An amazing and freeing way of being up there in one I am sure. Thanks for sharing! This was absolutely incredible.
@@christianmeynard4952 is there a visual one? I would be surprised if there wasn’t another way to get this information as I am sure the lack of noise would be ideal.
Beautiful Live Audio Video Stefan! Thank You So Much For Not Overlaying It With Any Detracting & Unnecessary Music Or Other Noise! Live Audio Only Is The Best Way To Showcase These Types Of Videos!👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!!
The winds are quite predictable when you're on land aside a huge body of water. They are very predictable unless there's a monsoon or hurricane out there. With those cliffs like we see here, I can see how it is even more predictable what those winds will do with a glider. Beautiful video. Fun to watch.
The wind is coming into the shore at nearly 90* The wind has to flow up over the land. If the pilot puts his glider into the place where the wind is going up faster than his glider will sink, he can put the nose down and trade the potential energy for kinetic energy. It’s like a surfer riding a wave......
@@tedshredz58 Great description. I flew in a glider a few times at a local club where, in addition to the usual thermal type of lift there was another form nicknamed by the club as "wave". Someone explained to me it was caused by the wind meeting hills many miles away from the airfield and then moving forward wave-like over the field. "We're trying to catch the up ones", he told me.
@@mickflick8998 The type of lift here on the coast is dynamic lift from the Wind hitting the Cliffs and Hills and going up and over them "Wave" Lift is due to Air flowing over Mountains that are in lines one behind the other the Airflow flows over and then down the other side until it meets the next line of mountains then it raises again if the Frequency is right as the air starts to resonate and with each new line of mountains the Air gains more and more height in Mountains like the Alps wind like the Misteral can generate lift into the tens of thousands of feet it also is marked by Cloud formations known as Lenticular which form smooth Saucer shape clouds or Cigars so they are different types of lift that Glider Pilots use to gain height
I sail yachts and it Always gives me great joy, but this is like going to heaven. My mind understands how you can fly but the little boy inside me is utterly enamoured. Thank you very much. Just the sound of the wind is beautiful.
Wow man, that is soooo groovy. It still blows me away what we can accomplish with aerodynamics. I mean, no engine, just lift. I love it! So low on the beach..
..as a possibly retire glider pilot, the entire flight made me verry nervous - given the land out options, they were relying heavily on hitting no 'sink'...
I've been a solo glider pilot , but suffered a lot of air sickness while thermalling . Ridge soaring is the way to go , especially where you are in NZ . Well done and thanks for the flight !
Stunning video. You should ensure the maintenance of your air brake mechanism is meticulous though. If it ever stuck on extension you would be swimming for your life ... ( I have seen one stuck open and the gentleman landed short and was sadly injured after flying through a hedge )
Hello there mate You do what I only could dream about doing So I fly RC 😉 Superb flight and views thanks for sharing your experience and skills with us Cheers from Denmark Lase
Must be some super nice lift running that coast? That’s absolutely amazingly fun stuff! Thinking you run up, then run down? Guess that was answered. Yeah would be interesting to know the conditions, but then I suppose the flight says it all! Sailing along fancy free watching the day and all the heaven around. Absolutely beautiful. Cheers 🥂
I practice free flight (paragliding) and I enjoy flying glider a lot. My dream to fly in one of these. Someday I'm going to take a flight on that toy of yours. kkkk Health to all and have excellent flights !! Your flight was wonderful!! Congratulations guys!!
I wouldn't have the nerve to do this in a sailplane. I've flown hang gliders for over 20 years along coastlines like this but it's much easier to put down on a beach or top land compared to a sailplane (and then carry it out). What a great flight. I really enjoyed this.
Ausgezeichnet!!! Fantastically AMAZING video - simply WOW! Nice use of the spoilers to maintain formation / energy. I need to get back into gliders...nice to see what I'm missing! Thanks again for the "uplifting" video, as I'm in quarantine lockdown. You ROCK, Stefan - Hals und Beinbruch!
Wet and cool in Auckland today, Stefan. You'll be the envy of your friends with the flying you've done, as the northern hemisphere gliding looks to be very limited.
How does one not panic being this low to the ground without any propulsion. This feels so dangerous. I've been binge-watching all your videos. Thanks for sharing.
Stefan Langer excuse my ignorance but is the left lever that you were pulling on,raising flaps to break speed so that you wouldn’t get too close to the glider ahead?
@@nixl3518 cos you would bring airspeed dangerously low given flying conditions and drop the lead plane from vision below the nose - i believe he was popping air brakes, not flaps?
The camera geometry makes it look like you are looking virtually straight out close to that right wing almost the whole flight. Makes me nervous, even when the outcome was obviously good, since the video exists. I'm assuming that was actually not so much the case, or that you know that area/topology/what's UP next REALLY well. Looks like a BLAST, and an amazing slope! Thx, enjoyed it. Still, maybe some head swiveling now and then...just sayin', for my old heart's sake. Spectacular shot of your buddy Tim, apparently, skimming down below you there @ 2:10 ....absolutely gorgeous. High performance, high aspect ratio sailplanes are the most beautiful man made things in the sky, to me. Saw a gorgeous display at Oshkosh many years back, with triple multicolored smoke and a pilot lazily performing pretty much continuous aerobatics in one, starting really high...again, one of the most beautiful of all the flight demos that week. Looks like a great place to do some distance diamonding if that coast keeps going on like that, and if that is allowed (not a glider pilot, not manned, anyway, so I don't know the requirements).
You want to move to New Zealand. You have not researched the requirements to go there. You have to have a ton of money and at your age a vocation that the government needs. No free loaders coming to NZ. And no medical problems that would be a burden to the health system. So, just a wish that will not happen. Research the immigration requirements, basically it is visit NZ spend a ton of money and go back to where you came from. I say, good for them.
@@ohwell2790 yeah unfortunately I know it probably won't happen, I know a friend who moved and he was a financial advisor and it took ten years for him to be able to go live there, just a dream
Oh well he was expressing a dream not actually a desire, I would hope. Wanting to live in New Zealand and actually living there are two different things. And the reality is that you really don’t want to live in New Zealand. The isolation is staggering if you don’t grow up like that plus the inability to integrate with that society is next to impossible.
Thank you! I was also getting goosebumps when flying there. The landscape is so amazing and versatile. Flying there so low and fast is just unbelievable. I´m very greatful that I have had the chance to be there.
Thanks for the video. Can you do a special video showing us the cockpit levers, pulleys ( and their effect on the wings) ? Not only avionics. , vario, gps, batt etc thank you !
@@SteFly Cant wait, great video, thank you so much for sharing, and thank you for not putting music on the video, the raw, pure natural sounds created by the wind is perfect! Great works, I'm so happy I watch this video. Is it expensive to get the license to fly gliders?
You are a good pilot Stefan ! Everytime I enjoy your videos. Especially your video with the joy flight on K13 with the young girl as first pilot, as I am a beginning glider pilot ( age 65...). ( but I did it when I was 20 in St Hubert -Belgium). Now I am flying in Maubray ( Tournai Air )
Yes Stefan. Let's hope. In fact I am pretty sure we will fly again this summer 2020. But it is possible that the corona tragedy can return... And that will be terrible for the economy on planetary echalon. What we are experience today in our world is quite unique. It never happened before. Here in Belgium everything is closed. So, this summer I flew alone on Ask13. I did already 5 flights with the 'rolling cable'. That's why I like your video : ' the historic flight with the Ask 13. Normally I must do my glider theory on 9 April. But I think the Office will be closed in Brussels... The next possibility will be in July. So many greetings from Belgium / and I still enjoy your videos - especially your last one's ( triangle in New Zealand ) Andre ( Andrew)
My goodness! That's the nearest thing to actually flying. What speed were they doing? No minimal height in New Zealand and here I was thinking it was nanny state in the extreme. Love it.
A good time to fly! SW, SSWers for a couple of months. Too windy and in the lee of the shoreline with turbulent air to dinghy sail for us but nice to the wind being put to good use.
Never seen anything like that. So, you're using the on-shore wind to go up and down the coast??? (I thought gliders just slowly 'fell' from altitude). Amazing 👍⭐️😀
Gliders are constantly falling down in the air. But when the air is rising enough, we gain altitude. And the performance of these gliders is great. With this glider you can fly 45 km with an height of 1 km (ideally).
I would never have believed that a glider could fly so low and fast for so long. You have me fascinated, have to try it! Such a shame that the current situation means I have to wait...
@@SteFly You have me hooked. I had a 20 min demo glider flight a while ago, but was nothing like that. Pilot was kind of timid. Not that safety is unimportant - I spend time in helicopters and my background is motorsport so appreciate safety - however, your type of flying and aerobatics would be what interests me.
I had the same thought. Really amazed that with the right glider and skill and knowledge as a pilot and weather and topography that we humans can actually come close to duplicating the ability to glide that a bird has. What I would give to have my life to live over and to find the time an resources to take up gliding and enjoy experiences like this.
@@SteFly Habe in Oerlinghausen im Verein meine Segelflugausbildung gemacht ,die fing 1985 im August an . Der Sennesand erzeugt gute Thermikbedungungen und bei Südwestwind erzeugt der Teuto zuverlässig Hangwinde .
Wir der Airspeed in Knoten angezeigt ? Danach sah Euer Speed jedenfalls streckenweise aus; Du musstest ja auch ständig immer wieder mal "stören", um Deinem Kumpel nicht ins Leitwerk zu rauschen! Danke fürs Hochladen; hat echt Spaß gemacht - wenn auch wohl nicht so sehr, wie für Euch ;-)
Hi Stefan, brill flight. It's got a lot of people asking questions (I've answered a few). One thing I'd like is, in the description, a brief of the flight, date, duration, launch and landing (if different) sites, aircraft type and I'm assuming you logged the flight, a gps track at the start or end of the video. Found you provided some of the answers when replying to comments, but in one place would be great. regards, Chris
The SHORE is for SURFING not for GLIDING. Just kidding - what can I say you are living the dream fly glider in the afternoon and go surfing to cool off.
If you paid attention to the ground below, there was not a soul in the water and almost nobody on land in the entire stretch, but for one village and most importantly,those waves were definitely not for surfing! :)
Beautiful, thank you. I wonder if it might help if you were to relax and loosen your grip on the stick. Hold the stick between your fingertips instead of in your fist.
At these speeds we were flying, the forces on the stick are relatively high. If there would have been an unexpected turbulence or Tim would have done something unexpected, I would not have been able to react fast enough with two fingertips. The distance to Tim and the height above ground is very low. (It's a wide angle lens) There is no big margin for any failure. Usually I fly with my two fingertips, especially when flying higher in thermals. But when the life of two pilots can be in danger, I prefer the fist.
Amazing. The piece where you are skimming the beach at 50 ft is where I learned to fly paragliders. I'm guessing it was pretty windy that day... 40km/hr West winds?
this is a fun and fast flight. sometimes i wonder about the legalities of flying so low to the ridge, as technically you would not have the landholder approval to fly low, and you would also be outside civil aviation airspace guidance as you are below 500 ft. then again, you are in a glider which is down the ranks in GA, so perhaps there is a dispensation. not meaning to take a bite at the pilot, as I am a paramotor pilot and glider enthusiast also, i like to take risks but also always want to know and respect the legality of the operation.
Great flight and video! Thank you. About halfway through the video (about 11:30 min) you turn around. What is the maximum distance there or how far do you fly from Raglan airport? We want to try to fly this flight in MSFS2020 and try to recognize the landscape in the video. Thanks.
It's so awesome man ! I wish I could go fly in new Zealand one day, between this and surfing the wave in the moutains it looks like the best place to fly Is there anywhere where we can find an igc file of this flight ?
Beautiful. Thanks for not adding music!
Oh, I'm also wondering where is that earraping EDM bass cancerous music that spams all show-off videos. I guess this guy just respects himself.
Watching these videos while isolating from Covid 19 is absolutely therapeutic mentally. Thank you.
I’ve watched three glider videos back to back. I never gave them a second thought because I thought they were always silly seeing them in the long trailers on the road, how they have to get towed into the air, can’t land without tipping over and don’t even have proper landing gear. However after seeing a few of these videos I get it now. An amazing and freeing way of being up there in one I am sure. Thanks for sharing! This was absolutely incredible.
without music makes it perfect, the wind, the beeps....no need for meditation
yups
@Roger Dodger thermal detector?
@Roger Dodger Electric variometer. Beep-beep= You are climbing ⬆️ 😊 ⬆️
@@christianmeynard4952 is there a visual one? I would be surprised if there wasn’t another way to get this information as I am sure the lack of noise would be ideal.
@@GMoney-B Yes of course but a glider pilot see outside for a better sécurity
Beautiful Live Audio Video Stefan! Thank You So Much For Not Overlaying It With Any Detracting & Unnecessary Music Or Other Noise! Live Audio Only Is The Best Way To Showcase These Types Of Videos!👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!!
This is the level of expertise I can only dream of achieving when it comes to soaring skill! Hopefully one day!!
BRAVO!!! 👍🏻👍🏻
That’s incredible!! How can you be so sure to always find a good lift to recover from such a low passage? It’s mind blowing in that landscape..
You trust the wind 🦅
The winds are quite predictable when you're on land aside a huge body of water. They are very predictable unless there's a monsoon or hurricane out there. With those cliffs like we see here, I can see how it is even more predictable what those winds will do with a glider. Beautiful video. Fun to watch.
The wind is coming into the shore at nearly 90* The wind has to flow up over the land. If the pilot puts his glider into the place where the wind is going up faster than his glider will sink, he can put the nose down and trade the potential energy for kinetic energy. It’s like a surfer riding a wave......
@@tedshredz58 Great description. I flew in a glider a few times at a local club where, in addition to the usual
thermal type of lift there was another form nicknamed by the club as "wave". Someone explained to me it was
caused by the wind meeting hills many miles away from the airfield and then moving forward wave-like over
the field. "We're trying to catch the up ones", he told me.
@@mickflick8998 The type of lift here on the coast is dynamic lift from the Wind hitting the Cliffs and Hills and going up and over them "Wave" Lift is due to Air flowing over Mountains that are in lines one behind the other the Airflow flows over and then down the other side until it meets the next line of mountains then it raises again if the Frequency is right as the air starts to resonate and with each new line of mountains the Air gains more and more height in Mountains like the Alps wind like the Misteral can generate lift into the tens of thousands of feet it also is marked by Cloud formations known as Lenticular which form smooth Saucer shape clouds or Cigars so they are different types of lift that Glider Pilots use to gain height
I sail yachts and it Always gives me great joy, but this is like going to heaven.
My mind understands how you can fly but the little boy inside me is utterly enamoured.
Thank you very much. Just the sound of the wind is beautiful.
Im a power pilot, but this looks like so much fun
It is :)
Wow man, that is soooo groovy. It still blows me away what we can accomplish with aerodynamics. I mean, no engine, just lift. I love it!
So low on the beach..
That entire flight, made my day. I literally grinned, while watching. Thanks so much for posting!
..as a possibly retire glider pilot, the entire flight made me verry nervous - given the land out options, they were relying heavily on hitting no 'sink'...
What a totally amazing flight. Thanks for not adding music. Listening to the vario is nicely therapeutic. Happy soaring Stefan from Dave W in the UK 😎
I don't have a glider but thanks for the opportunity to watch such beautiful videos, so peaceful
Great, thank you!!
OOOOH look at me!! mr I'm under 100' and have SOOO much lift i need my spoilers from getting too high!!!
cries in thermals....
It is ridge lift, do the math.
you have the best place to isolate yourself;
and for me this is one of the best videos to watch at home at this time..!
Thank you..!
This video was recorded back in January, when the world was still okay. Thank you!
Mum, I’m going to play outside. Ok Timmy, watch out for gliders.
teehee
Hahaaa!
I've been a solo glider pilot , but suffered a lot of air sickness while thermalling . Ridge soaring is the way to go , especially where you are in NZ . Well done and thanks for the flight !
That is absolutely unbelievable. Looks like extreme serenity. Thanks Stefan!
Stunning video. You should ensure the maintenance of your air brake mechanism is meticulous though. If it ever stuck on extension you would be swimming for your life ... ( I have seen one stuck open and the gentleman landed short and was sadly injured after flying through a hedge )
I'm from New Zealand and I must admit, it's pretty damn beautiful here
Hello there mate
You do what I only could dream about doing
So I fly RC 😉
Superb flight and views thanks for sharing your experience and skills with us
Cheers from Denmark
Lase
Must be some super nice lift running that coast? That’s absolutely amazingly fun stuff! Thinking you run up, then run down? Guess that was answered. Yeah would be interesting to know the conditions, but then I suppose the flight says it all! Sailing along fancy free watching the day and all the heaven around. Absolutely beautiful. Cheers 🥂
I practice free flight (paragliding) and I enjoy flying glider a lot. My dream to fly in one of these. Someday I'm going to take a flight on that toy of yours. kkkk Health to all and have excellent flights !! Your flight was wonderful!! Congratulations guys!!
I wouldn't have the nerve to do this in a sailplane. I've flown hang gliders for over 20 years along coastlines like this but it's much easier to put down on a beach or top land compared to a sailplane (and then carry it out).
What a great flight. I really enjoyed this.
Bloody awesome as usual.
Good use of spoilers/ brakes there too.
Thank you! Yes, the performance of the Discus 2b is slightly better than the DG300.
Excellent flight, great silence and a beautiful landing !!
What a fantastic flight. 236km trek as best I can tell. I am going top try and simulate in MSFS now that fliders are in. :)
Thanks for transporting us around this beautiful coast especially during this Covid 19 lockdown. A real welcome relief.
This is divine, so beautiful...Thanks for sharing.
Ausgezeichnet!!! Fantastically AMAZING video - simply WOW! Nice use of the spoilers to maintain formation / energy. I need to get back into gliders...nice to see what I'm missing! Thanks again for the "uplifting" video, as I'm in quarantine lockdown. You ROCK, Stefan - Hals und Beinbruch!
Every time that other glider was right in front of you, I kept expecting you to fire your lasers. Pew pew!
Superb, that's how to lead and follow!! I'm learning to ridge soar, lead and follow is very skillful.
Wet and cool in Auckland today, Stefan. You'll be the envy of your friends with the flying you've done, as the northern hemisphere gliding looks to be very limited.
Unfortunately we are grounded at the moment, but there are other bigger problems in the world right now. Stay healthy!
How does one not panic being this low to the ground without any propulsion. This feels so dangerous. I've been binge-watching all your videos. Thanks for sharing.
wow i love how you were following the other glider along the way, made the video 2x as enjoyable!
Thank you! ...and made it 4 times as challenging to fly 😂
Stefan Langer excuse my ignorance but is the left lever that you were pulling on,raising flaps to break speed so that you wouldn’t get too close to the glider ahead?
@@nixl3518 Yes! The glider I was flying there has a slightly better performance
@@SteFly Excuse me once again, but why not raise the nose to brake more gently?
@@nixl3518 cos you would bring airspeed dangerously low given flying conditions and drop the lead plane from vision below the nose - i believe he was popping air brakes, not flaps?
Fantastic flight! Thanks for sharing this.
Once again thank you for this beautiful flight. I already miss your videos !
The camera geometry makes it look like you are looking virtually straight out close to that right wing almost the whole flight. Makes me nervous, even when the outcome was obviously good, since the video exists. I'm assuming that was actually not so much the case, or that you know that area/topology/what's UP next REALLY well. Looks like a BLAST, and an amazing slope! Thx, enjoyed it. Still, maybe some head swiveling now and then...just sayin', for my old heart's sake.
Spectacular shot of your buddy Tim, apparently, skimming down below you there @ 2:10 ....absolutely gorgeous. High performance, high aspect ratio sailplanes are the most beautiful man made things in the sky, to me. Saw a gorgeous display at Oshkosh many years back, with triple multicolored smoke and a pilot lazily performing pretty much continuous aerobatics in one, starting really high...again, one of the most beautiful of all the flight demos that week.
Looks like a great place to do some distance diamonding if that coast keeps going on like that, and if that is allowed (not a glider pilot, not manned, anyway, so I don't know the requirements).
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
Thanks man ✌🏼
This is why I want to move to New Zealand! So beautiful!
You want to move to New Zealand. You have not researched the requirements to go there. You have to have a ton of money and at your age a vocation that the government needs. No free loaders coming to NZ. And no medical problems that would be a burden to the health system. So, just a wish that will not happen. Research the immigration requirements, basically it is visit NZ spend a ton of money and go back to where you came from. I say, good for them.
@@ohwell2790 yeah unfortunately I know it probably won't happen, I know a friend who moved and he was a financial advisor and it took ten years for him to be able to go live there, just a dream
Oh well he was expressing a dream not actually a desire, I would hope. Wanting to live in New Zealand and actually living there are two different things. And the reality is that you really don’t want to live in New Zealand. The isolation is staggering if you don’t grow up like that plus the inability to integrate with that society is next to impossible.
Awesome! West coast of NZ is my favorite place, but to fly along it.. Wow! This video gave me goosebumps!
Thank you! I was also getting goosebumps when flying there. The landscape is so amazing and versatile. Flying there so low and fast is just unbelievable. I´m very greatful that I have had the chance to be there.
thank you for sharing- you were moving at a good pace!!
Thank you very much for sharing with us such incredible gliding experience
Oh, and I forgot: amazing sceneries
That’s the Dr. Thermal treatment! I wish I could have wild sea cliffs here ... Cheers mate
such dynamic flight! beautyfull! or full of beauty!
Thanks for the video. Can you do a special video showing us the cockpit levers, pulleys ( and their effect on the wings) ? Not only avionics.
, vario, gps, batt etc thank you !
Thank you! Will try to do that when we are allowed to fly. At the moment we are grounded because of Corona.
Pretty sure he drops a flour bomb when he pulls the lever with his left hand
@@Dawnseeker2000 eheheh I've done that in a precision competition with my hang glider. 🤣
@@SteFly Cant wait, great video, thank you so much for sharing, and thank you for not putting music on the video, the raw, pure natural sounds created by the wind is perfect! Great works, I'm so happy I watch this video. Is it expensive to get the license to fly gliders?
@@SteFly Yup best not drink & fly.
As far as flying is concerned, sailing along seashore cliffs, using zero fuel at high speed, is the coolest thing ever.
I like the sound of the wind hitting the canopy~!
You are a good pilot Stefan ! Everytime
I enjoy your videos.
Especially your video with the joy flight on K13 with the young girl as first pilot, as I am a beginning glider pilot ( age 65...). ( but I did it when I was 20 in St Hubert -Belgium).
Now I am flying in Maubray ( Tournai Air )
Thanl you! All the best for your glider training. Hopefully we are allowed to fly again soon.
Yes Stefan. Let's hope. In fact I am pretty sure we will fly again this summer 2020. But it is possible that the corona tragedy can return... And that will be terrible for the economy on planetary echalon.
What we are experience today in our world is quite unique. It never happened before. Here in Belgium everything is closed.
So, this summer I flew alone on Ask13. I did already 5 flights with the 'rolling cable'. That's why I like your video : ' the historic flight with the Ask 13.
Normally I must do my glider theory on 9 April. But I think the Office will be closed in Brussels...
The next possibility will be in July.
So many greetings from Belgium / and I still enjoy your videos - especially your last one's ( triangle in New Zealand )
Andre ( Andrew)
My goodness! That's the nearest thing to actually flying. What speed were they doing? No minimal height in New Zealand and here I was thinking it was nanny state in the extreme. Love it.
A good time to fly! SW, SSWers for a couple of months. Too windy and in the lee of the shoreline with turbulent air to dinghy sail for us but nice to the wind being put to good use.
Getting amazing flight , serious speed great filming !
What a nice unlimitet playground ! You are luky pilotes ! And greatings from Germany !
Vielleicht hätte ich das damals doch anfangen sollen… Danke für die tollen Videos!
That’s so cool and the view is amazing!!
Great bit of flying and no engine, impressed!!
Glorious flight!
Thanks!!
What a terrific video! Thank you.
Never seen anything like that. So, you're using the on-shore wind to go up and down the coast??? (I thought gliders just slowly 'fell' from altitude). Amazing 👍⭐️😀
Gliders are constantly falling down in the air. But when the air is rising enough, we gain altitude. And the performance of these gliders is great. With this glider you can fly 45 km with an height of 1 km (ideally).
@tiestu I'd rather hear from an expert, but sure, you believe everything on the internet ;-)
@tiestu Good for you👍 Its a pity you're not a nicer person 🖖
@@MrJames_1 Thats a nice way to call him a DICK. I am also a Full house glider pilot but not a DICK!
@tiestu Using the Internet I was able to look up the definition of a Troll: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
Crazy how long gliders can maintain level flight. Glider was told "You need propulsion to create lift", "Hold my beer".
Great Video! Thanks for posting
Love the sound of these
I like the cockpit, it is like a fighter jet.
Beautiful. And (attention all UA-camrs) I subscribed without being asked. Imagine that.
Thank you! 😊
And now.... I'm going to become a glider pilot. Great vid!
Well done Stefan!
So cool this Video!
And a nice landing at Raglan.
Have you flown as far North as 90 mile beach and the Cape?
Would love to see a vid of that, not enough ridges for lift?
Thanks for the link and the video! It was a fun day :)
Thanks Tim and congrats to 100 subscribers! Will you upload a video about your wing repaint?
@@SteFly Yes I should eh!
Than you Stefan for again showing more of your recent trip to NZ , so relaxing to watch.
What is the longest flight time you have logged? Stay safe .
In NZ it was about 6 hours. My longest flight in Germany were about 11 hours, only with thermals.
@@SteFly Amazing, thanks again.
Best video i ve ever seen about gliders,
top skills! RESPEKT
I would never have believed that a glider could fly so low and fast for so long. You have me fascinated, have to try it! Such a shame that the current situation means I have to wait...
That's what I'm trying to capture. Gliding is not a slow and boring sport 😎
@@SteFly You have me hooked. I had a 20 min demo glider flight a while ago, but was nothing like that. Pilot was kind of timid. Not that safety is unimportant - I spend time in helicopters and my background is motorsport so appreciate safety - however, your type of flying and aerobatics would be what interests me.
I had the same thought. Really amazed that with the right glider and skill and knowledge as a pilot and weather and topography that we humans can actually come close to duplicating the ability to glide that a bird has. What I would give to have my life to live over and to find the time an resources to take up gliding and enjoy experiences like this.
@@richardbowman7424 If you have reasonably good health, it's never too late.
That landscape designer is godlike.
Herrlich ,immer wieder schön .Dageģen ist hangschrubben am Teutoburger Wald bei Bielefeld die reinste Schlafpille 🤣
Danke! Dort bin ich leider noch nicht geflogen :D
@@SteFly Habe in Oerlinghausen im Verein meine Segelflugausbildung gemacht ,die fing 1985 im August an . Der Sennesand erzeugt gute Thermikbedungungen und bei Südwestwind erzeugt der Teuto zuverlässig Hangwinde .
Very very cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good flight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wir der Airspeed in Knoten angezeigt ? Danach sah Euer Speed jedenfalls streckenweise aus; Du musstest ja auch ständig immer wieder mal "stören", um Deinem Kumpel nicht ins Leitwerk zu rauschen!
Danke fürs Hochladen; hat echt Spaß gemacht - wenn auch wohl nicht so sehr, wie für Euch ;-)
Ja, das sind Knoten ;)
Amazing low level soaring. I wish you would narrate the flight.
It's amazing how far they can fly low and slow for so long.
That’s it I think I’m going out to buy a glider and do this. Lol 😂 that looks so much fun I would love to see the coast this way
This the opening scene of the next Bond movie...?? How does it stay in the air while carrying such big brass ones? Awesome!
For a moment there I thought you were gonna bail out into the water. 😶 Man that was some low level stuff!! Great Video mate! 💗👌👌😊
Thanks mate!
Amazing, thanks for this content!
Hi Stefan, brill flight. It's got a lot of people asking questions (I've answered a few). One thing I'd like is, in the description, a brief of the flight, date, duration, launch and landing (if different) sites, aircraft type and I'm assuming you logged the flight, a gps track at the start or end of the video. Found you provided some of the answers when replying to comments, but in one place would be great. regards, Chris
The SHORE is for SURFING not for GLIDING.
Just kidding - what can I say you are living the dream fly glider in the afternoon and go surfing to cool off.
Gliding do’nt disturbs surfing.THE SHORE IS FOR EVRYBODY !!
@@jandembinski2787 Except, of course, when they're kite surfing and Stefan comes past!
It's for BOTH, and anything else cool you can think of, long as it doesn't harm the shore. Maybe NOT building on, though.
Conocuneus
If you paid attention to the ground below, there was not a soul in the water and almost nobody on land in the entire stretch, but for one village and most importantly,those waves were definitely not for surfing! :)
Wow guys you are incredible ! Thanks for this video and thanks for not adding musik !!
Very nice video Stephen.
Scary as hell :- O the beeps must be the R2D2 saying "uy uy uy uy...."
Beautiful, thank you. I wonder if it might help if you were to relax and loosen your grip on the stick. Hold the stick between your fingertips instead of in your fist.
At these speeds we were flying, the forces on the stick are relatively high. If there would have been an unexpected turbulence or Tim would have done something unexpected, I would not have been able to react fast enough with two fingertips. The distance to Tim and the height above ground is very low. (It's a wide angle lens) There is no big margin for any failure.
Usually I fly with my two fingertips, especially when flying higher in thermals.
But when the life of two pilots can be in danger, I prefer the fist.
That makes sense ;-)
Incredible Performance
where was the wind to provide lift? coming from ocean and blowing upward when it hits the cliffs/mountains? amazing
Thx for natural ASMR :) apreciate it
what a great way to isolate!
Amazing. The piece where you are skimming the beach at 50 ft is where I learned to fly paragliders. I'm guessing it was pretty windy that day... 40km/hr West winds?
this is a fun and fast flight. sometimes i wonder about the legalities of flying so low to the ridge, as technically you would not have the landholder approval to fly low, and you would also be outside civil aviation airspace guidance as you are below 500 ft. then again, you are in a glider which is down the ranks in GA, so perhaps there is a dispensation. not meaning to take a bite at the pilot, as I am a paramotor pilot and glider enthusiast also, i like to take risks but also always want to know and respect the legality of the operation.
Absolutely amazing to watch. Made me a little emotional becauce my dad flew gliders 😘
Gappie Al Kebabi Yes he is. He died 2,5 years ago. He began to fly gliders when he was 60. I think that makes him somewhat cool 😪
Great flight and video! Thank you. About halfway through the video (about 11:30 min) you turn around. What is the maximum distance there or how far do you fly from Raglan airport? We want to try to fly this flight in MSFS2020 and try to recognize the landscape in the video. Thanks.
Geil, irgendwann will ich sowas auch machen, wenn ich mit meinem Segelflugschein fertig bin! Hast echt mehr likes verdient!
Amazing!!
Well that was f ing awesome !!
Holy lord anyone else’s eyes just glued to the altimeter and vario?
It's so awesome man ! I wish I could go fly in new Zealand one day, between this and surfing the wave in the moutains it looks like the best place to fly
Is there anywhere where we can find an igc file of this flight ?