Exciting flight with a low save in the Modane / Maurienne valley
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- (Glider) Plane is a Ventus 2ct with 18m wingspan. joing me for an exiting 314km flight with a low save in the french/Italian alps.
In September 2023 it was my first day back in the French alps (since the spring) for what seemed to be the best weather for the coming week and with a nice forecast towards the Modane this is where i wanted to go. I only got caught out as the conditions in the modane valley were more stable and the southerly wind blew the thermals over the ridge making it look like the conditions where still great but were in reality not so good. this is where i ended up low desperate for a climb. close to an outlanding on Sollieres i managed to find the saving thermal that good me back up to past 3000m again. the road back was not easy either and with a tight final glide just managed to make it back to Sisteron. Hope you enjoy the video that includes my mistakes, thinking and paths chosen.
Flight tracks:
www.weglide.org/flight/331877
www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0...
00:00 - Intro clip
00:40 - Take-off from Sisteron
01:38 - Parcours and heading to Barcelonnette
02:55 - Searching the Grand Berard
04:08 - Heading to Briancon
05:30 - Climbing North of Ecrins
07:23 - Searching along south ridge of Maurienne
07:46 - Searching for a climb but getting lower
08:35 - With no luck trying to head back
10:03 - To low to head back and need another plan
10:43 - Heading to North Maurienne / Modane ridge
12:02 - Searching low in Maurienne
13:31 - Traversing back to Bardonecchia
16:20 - Climbing back just north of the Ecrins
17:40 - Near Tete d'amont
18:38 - East of St. Crepin
19:21 - South of Ecrins
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Spectacular, and quite close to running out of altitude.
Fantastic. Thank you.
I love what you have shared! Exciting, the moment where you was a bit low and shared your backup plan, and then nice climb - excellent. Maybe in the far far future I will be there :).
Great video, love the way you have tied the yaw string to your Flarm antenna!
Haha yes looks like it. I like it when things are symmetrical and as the flarm antenne is located in the centre of the instrument panel its a great way to centre the yaw string on the canopy
Thanks for sharing Sven! Our mountain hero, respect❤ What a relief catching that 3meter climb haha 🎉
Beautiful video. Thanks for sharing.
Ufff I was in stres with you in Morienne Valley...
Thanks for a nice flight!
thats definitely very challenging, beeing at 2000m in the Modane Valley. Very often this means game over. Congrats you made it back.
Thanks luckily it worked out indeed, shows how quickly you can go from comfortable at 3300 down to 2000m. Thanks to your videos i have learned a lot about the area which surely helps. Keep them coming 😉
Nice!
So low in the Modane Valley it is allmost impossible to get out, due to the inversion.
I would cross back to the south over the Col de Valley Etroite, thats lower and (i think) saver with that low cloudbase.
But you could get out, great job!
You took the right day to fly, i flew the next day, and that was with marginal conditions.
CU, 2024 in Sisteron!
EW
Yes i also took that route because of a slighly easterly windflow so the ridges more north in the modane were aligning better with the wind. And conditions towards the west seemed more stable. Was not a great flying weather that week Unfortinately with only short tasks but enjoyed it non the less. Cu next year
You did well to save yourself in the Maurienne Valley, which is often a trap. Sollieres is not an easy outlanding, it is on a steep slope.
Thanks yes and to add to it the main road to it was closed so the only option would be an long tow out so happy i didnt have to go for that one to attempt to start my engine 😉
Leaving Savoie entering Les Hautes Alpes clearing Col de Névache looks challenging!
yes indeed why i normally dont do this if i dont have 3000-3500+ plus a good outlook ahead
Nice video. What type of glider is that please? Looks like a Ventus?
Correct included it in the description of the video, its a ventus2ct
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Thanks for making this video for us to learn from! Do you have any remark about the high cloud that seemed to cover a large part of the sky?
Do you mean the cloud at around 7min in? This was the initial one i was heading for but was to low to make the connection, here you often have a larger cloud cover often due to some converging airmasses in this case a stronger north wind north of the modane and a southerly flow in the south. Where you can also experience some overdevelopment in the afternoon (not this day though)
Hi Sven,
Thank you for sharing. I enjoy flying the Alps myself. However, due to work obligations and living far away from the Alps, I sadly don't get to fly there very often. Therefore I love watching videos like yours in an attempt to expand my own flying experience.
I have a question for you about your decision of leaving the Guisane valley (option B) and head north (option A).
Did you chose option A due to landing options (Aérodrome de Sollières-Sardières)?
In hindsight, would you have chose option A following the west side of the south-north running ridge with Mount Thabor and head straight for the north side of the Modane valley to arrive much higher than you did?
Did you plan on going further north from the Modane valley if the weather conditions looked good? What would then be the next landing option - Aoste?
Thanks for your comment and watching. I wanted to follow the dark line of clouds towards the north but was to low to connect. Normally indeed the better route is to follow a more direct route via Mont Thabor or even further east near Bardonecchia but this was mostly blue. the reason why i headed east when in the Maurienne valley was because there was a slight south easterly wind in the valley meaning the north ridge was better aligned to the wind and not trusting the thermals much i decided this was the best option and was also heading me in the direction of Sollieres. if conditions allowed i would have gone into Aosta as that is a great part of the Alps but requires an altitude of 3400m just to cross the ridges and today was certainly not a day which was like that plus you need to be sure you can make it back from there.
At app. 6:46 Col du Galibier looks good ...
Probably further west ... maybe Pic des Trois Évêchés?
yes a more westerly course to connect and climb to cloudbase would have been the better option@@larsbojohansen5117
Mount Thabor at 15:08?
well spotted ;)