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.
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!👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!!
@@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.
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.
..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'...
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..
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 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!!
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 )
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.
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!
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 !
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?
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 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.
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 🥂
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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)
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
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.
Question: I used to paraglide and skydive and BASE jump, and in those aviation sports a big way to stay safe was to not fly over any unlandable terrain without having a reasonable landing area in mind. This is obviously more important with a glide ratio of three-ish or ten-ish, but I’ve always wondered how you guys make decisions about flying close to terrain or at low altitudes when you have a GR of 40 or so - when on the one hand you can cover some serious distance, but on the other hand it’s a lot more difficult (and dangerous?) to conduct an off-site landing. So when you fly so low like this, and you’re presumably far from a landing strip, what are your outs? Are you assuming that you can catch enough lift off of the coastline to put it down in an adjacent field? Are beach landings easy to do? Or is it just so easy to maintain ridge lift that you’re willing to risk a glider water landing to fly an awesome line?
The ridge lift is reliable if you are experienced + they carry a lot of air speed to account for areas without lift. Worst case scenario you have to dump it in the ocean. Which is expensive but not dangerous and very unlikely
Stefan: Thanks for another classic. I noticed that when you are flying low near the ocean water/beach that your vario is indicating down, but your altitude doesn't seem to change. Assuming that your vario is compensated, help explain this, or is it indicating a Netto type of air mass. Thanks.
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).
Very cool! I did some glider flying in germany about 20 yers ago, in old ASK13, Schleicher K 8, and also ASK21, was great fun. Never something like this though. What type of glider are you flying?
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 ;-)
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.
At this day we were using the ridge lift which is generated by wind. Wind is a lot more reliable than finding thermals and the forecast is also more precisely. At the end there is still a small risk... Landing on the beach would be a comparatively good option but the retrieve can be very difficult.
Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but how can you fly so close to the ground (beach) then go upwards to continue flying for what seemed another 30 or so minutes... ? Where did the thermal cone come from? The beach, wind... ? And how do you manage to stay airborne for so long with just cruising around the island on the same altitude?
Moving air=wind=energy. Every foot he drops in altitude is more than compensated for by that wind coming off the sea and lifting the aircraft. He stated he did 600kms that day, max speed 150mph/240kmh...all done with the use of energy in the wind. www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aircraft/glider_handbook/media/gfh_ch05.pdf
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, 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.
@@Postdisclosureworld This type of flight is called "dynamic flight", in this case you travel along an elevated shore using the sea wind that hit those elevations and changes its angle upwards generating lift for your aircraft. When you flight over the peak of a mountain that effect is considerably increased. Greetings.
I am quite certain it is in knots, just look on the upper end of the scale. The final turn speed is not so crucial if you know what you are doing :) On comps it used be well over 170 km/h when the old finish line was in use - and that was normally already over the runway. The spoilers are very effective on higher speeds
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.
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!👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!!
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
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.
This is the level of expertise I can only dream of achieving when it comes to soaring skill! Hopefully one day!!
BRAVO!!! 👍🏻👍🏻
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'...
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’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
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!
Im a power pilot, but this looks like so much fun
It is :)
I don't have a glider but thanks for the opportunity to watch such beautiful videos, so peaceful
Great, thank you!!
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 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!!
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 )
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.
That is absolutely unbelievable. Looks like extreme serenity. Thanks Stefan!
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!
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 !
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?
I'm from New Zealand and I must admit, it's pretty damn beautiful here
Mum, I’m going to play outside. Ok Timmy, watch out for gliders.
teehee
Hahaaa!
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
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 transporting us around this beautiful coast especially during this Covid 19 lockdown. A real welcome relief.
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.
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. :)
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 🥂
where was the wind to provide lift? coming from ocean and blowing upward when it hits the cliffs/mountains? amazing
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.
This is divine, so beautiful...Thanks for sharing.
As far as flying is concerned, sailing along seashore cliffs, using zero fuel at high speed, is the coolest thing ever.
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.
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.
Every time that other glider was right in front of you, I kept expecting you to fire your lasers. Pew pew!
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.
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.
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
Thanks man ✌🏼
Excellent flight, great silence and a beautiful landing !!
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.
Thank you very much for sharing with us such incredible gliding experience
Oh, and I forgot: amazing sceneries
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
Once again thank you for this beautiful flight. I already miss your videos !
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!
Are you 'slope soaring' by getting lift generated from the wind blowing in from the sea and being pushed up over the cliffs/hills?
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?
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.
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)
WOW! I want to try this in the simulator.. what airport did you land / take off from?
Best video i ve ever seen about gliders,
top skills! RESPEKT
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
Crazy how long gliders can maintain level flight. Glider was told "You need propulsion to create lift", "Hold my beer".
I'm thinking west coast of the Nth Island? Did you bring your glider down, or hire one while there. Great, video btw!
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.
Question: I used to paraglide and skydive and BASE jump, and in those aviation sports a big way to stay safe was to not fly over any unlandable terrain without having a reasonable landing area in mind. This is obviously more important with a glide ratio of three-ish or ten-ish, but I’ve always wondered how you guys make decisions about flying close to terrain or at low altitudes when you have a GR of 40 or so - when on the one hand you can cover some serious distance, but on the other hand it’s a lot more difficult (and dangerous?) to conduct an off-site landing.
So when you fly so low like this, and you’re presumably far from a landing strip, what are your outs?
Are you assuming that you can catch enough lift off of the coastline to put it down in an adjacent field? Are beach landings easy to do? Or is it just so easy to maintain ridge lift that you’re willing to risk a glider water landing to fly an awesome line?
The ridge lift is reliable if you are experienced + they carry a lot of air speed to account for areas without lift. Worst case scenario you have to dump it in the ocean.
Which is expensive but not dangerous and very unlikely
Stefan: Thanks for another classic. I noticed that when you are flying low near the ocean water/beach that your vario is indicating down, but your altitude doesn't seem to change. Assuming that your vario is compensated, help explain this, or is it indicating a Netto type of air mass. Thanks.
thank you for sharing- you were moving at a good pace!!
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).
And now.... I'm going to become a glider pilot. Great vid!
Beautiful. And (attention all UA-camrs) I subscribed without being asked. Imagine that.
Thank you! 😊
What a nice unlimitet playground ! You are luky pilotes ! And greatings from Germany !
Very cool! I did some glider flying in germany about 20 yers ago, in old ASK13, Schleicher K 8, and also ASK21, was great fun. Never something like this though. What type of glider are you flying?
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 ;)
Fantastic flight! Thanks for sharing this.
such dynamic flight! beautyfull! or full of beauty!
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.
What a terrific video! Thank you.
Are there always thermals along the coast? I'd be worried about not finding one and not being able to get back up.
At this day we were using the ridge lift which is generated by wind. Wind is a lot more reliable than finding thermals and the forecast is also more precisely. At the end there is still a small risk... Landing on the beach would be a comparatively good option but the retrieve can be very difficult.
@@SteFly interesting. Great video and thanks for posting.
Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but how can you fly so close to the ground (beach) then go upwards to continue flying for what seemed another 30 or so minutes... ? Where did the thermal cone come from? The beach, wind... ? And how do you manage to stay airborne for so long with just cruising around the island on the same altitude?
Moving air=wind=energy. Every foot he drops in altitude is more than compensated for by that wind coming off the sea and lifting the aircraft. He stated he did 600kms that day, max speed 150mph/240kmh...all done with the use of energy in the wind.
www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aircraft/glider_handbook/media/gfh_ch05.pdf
That’s the Dr. Thermal treatment! I wish I could have wild sea cliffs here ... Cheers mate
Vielleicht hätte ich das damals doch anfangen sollen… Danke für die tollen Videos!
Glorious flight!
Thanks!!
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!
Amazing !
A question : what's the distance between you and the sea at 3'38 ?
Thanks :) !
5m - 10m? Sometimes it was really low.
@@SteFly wow
what are the beeps all about? what does that signify?
Great bit of flying and no engine, impressed!!
This the opening scene of the next Bond movie...?? How does it stay in the air while carrying such big brass ones? Awesome!
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 ?
Well done Stefan!
So cool this Video!
Wow guys you are incredible ! Thanks for this video and thanks for not adding musik !!
Getting amazing flight , serious speed great filming !
I like the sound of the wind hitting the canopy~!
I like the cockpit, it is like a fighter jet.
What make/model? So awesome, surreal, I'd feel guilt, but not as much as I'd feel ADDICTION!
Great Video! Thanks for posting
Amazing low level soaring. I wish you would narrate the flight.
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 ;-)
AMAZING!! Absolutely nuts.
What's the clicky clack on the left hand side do?
Speedbrakes/aerodinamical brakes to reduce speed and keep distance from the other glider.
xabbi bronson how is he maintaining altitude? Is this risky?
@@Postdisclosureworld This type of flight is called "dynamic flight", in this case you travel along an elevated shore using the sea wind that hit those elevations and changes its angle upwards generating lift for your aircraft. When you flight over the peak of a mountain that effect is considerably increased. Greetings.
Love the sound of these
Great!!! My question when I see these videos is where is your emergency land. Are there any fields to land near the coast?
There are some beaches where it would be possible to land.
@@SteFly Thanks!!
@@SteFly How would you retrieve your glider if you had to land on some isolated stretch of beach? Aren't you taking a huge risk of losing your glider?
@@marks6663 We do have helicopters in New Zealand; some large enough to transport a glider which has been disassembled into it's large components!
Great video mate! What kind of speeds were you guys doing?
Up to 250 kph
Wow these gliders are slippery . Is that ASI in Knots or km/hr ?... turning final at 90 so I'm guessing KM/hr ?
I am quite certain it is in knots, just look on the upper end of the scale. The final turn speed is not so crucial if you know what you are doing :) On comps it used be well over 170 km/h when the old finish line was in use - and that was normally already over the runway. The spoilers are very effective on higher speeds
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!
Is your left hand adjusting flaps or breaks?
What a flight! thank you for this video, it is mouthwatering while we all wait to be back in the air! How long is that ridge?
Thank you! The ridge is about 100 km long 😀
Where on the Coast was this???
That gauge in the middle - is that the speedometer? Is that mph or kph?