THEO DE BLIC'S TUTORIALS: STEEP SPRIAL / STEILSPIRALE

THEO DE BLIC’S TUTORIAL: STEEP SPIRAL
The steep spiral is always hotly debated: dangerous or not? Fact is: it is a highly effective descent manoeuvre. No other technique allows such high sink rates as a proper steep spiral. But you also have to master it!
In this video, Theo de Blic demonstrates with an ION 6 what needs to be considered in order to fly a spiral safely - from the initiation to the sink rate control to the exit. And above all: which dangers to avoid.
Rating: HIGHLY WORTH WATCHING - best several times!
Hint: We recommend to practice spirals first over water during an SIV.
THEO DE BLICS TUTORIAL: (STEIL)SPIRALE
Die Steilspirale wird immer wieder heiß diskutiert: gefährlich oder nicht? Fakt: sie ist ein höchst effektives Abstiegsmanöver. Keine andere Technik erlaubt so hohe Sinkwerte wie eine Steilspirale. Aber man sie eben auch beherrschen!
In diesem Video zeigt Theo de Blic mit einem ION 6, was es zu beachten gilt, um eine Spirale sicher zu fliegen - von der Einleitung über die Kontrolle der Sinkgeschwindigkeit bis hin zur Ausleitung. Und vor allem: welche Gefahren es zu vermeiden gilt.
Prädikat: SEHR SEHENSWERRT - am besten mehrfach!
Hinweis: Wir empfehlen, die Spirale zunächst im Rahmen eines Sicherheitstrainings über Wasser zu üben.
00:00 Intro
01:00 Dangers / Gefahren
01:46 Soft spiral / Moderate Spirale
03:15 Initiating a soft spiral / Einleitung moderate Spirale
04:00 Exiting soft spiral / Ausleitung moderate Spirale
05:47 Kontrolle der Sinkgeschwindigkeit / Controlling sink rate
06:19 Grades of spiral dives: soft - steep - nose down / Arten der Spirale: moderat - steil - Sturzspirale
06:59 Exercise for deep spiral / Übung für eine „echte“ Steilspirale
07:59 Kontrolle der Sinkgeschwindigkeit / Controlling sink rate
08:41 Slow exit technique / Technik der sanften Ausleitung
09:18 Slow exit / Sanfte Ausleitung
11:20 Pitch exit technique explanation / Erklärung Pitch Exit
14:11 Pitch exit technique demonstration / Pitch Exit in der Praxis
15:01 Controlling the shooting when exiting / Kontrolle des Vorschießens bei der Ausleitung
17:54 You can always exit any spiral! / Man kann jede Spirale ausleiten!
18:40 Deep spiral with strong pitch exit / Steilspirale mit Pitch Exit
19:40 Dangers of spiral dive / Gefahren bei der Steilspiral
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[@rh4655]

Thanks a lot 🫡

[@ferelo9538]

Thanks a lot, really really useful, well explained, well filmed and perfectly design of the whole tutorials. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻great!!

[@bjornrathsack5611]

as always, perfectly explained Theo! Thank you!

[@dbrgn]

Great explanation :) Thanks.

[@wahrheitwirklichkeit285]

Best explication!!!! Thank you!!! mercy beaucoup

[@NOVAPerformanceParagliders]

Thanks!

[@seippelweihediemarkenaktiv7252]

thx

[@janingenilsen1991]

Thanks for the detailed review. Do you have a video, where you make use of the steile spiral in a real thermal ?

[@theoflies]

In a thermal everything is the same the main difference is that the sink is reduced by the thermal's strength. But I don't have a video sorry

[@thisisyol]

If I am in a twist and in a spiraly motion while confused about directions can I grab brake lines above the twist and do the messy "both brakes spiral exit" ?

[@theoflies]

Well this is a very bad situation to end up in. And chances are you can't brake it enough by grabbing and pullinb above the twist. But if you can this would do the job. Otherwise I really would say to pull the rescue in this situation

[@andreasriedmann601]

Hello i´m a beginner and fly a A glider (supair eona3) I learned that i hav a small contact on the outside in a nose spiral, dose that mather?

[@theoflies]

Hello,
It’s not a big problem to have a small contact but it’s better to be hands up because having a small contact does not slow down the spiral nor does it help exiting. And often people think this contact is enough to exit so they panic because it does not. So it’s better to be hands up and brake outside when you really want to exit or to control the speed of the spiral by controlling the rotation but just keeping a small contact is useless