Thank you for a beautiful video of my favorite thing to do - flying the glider in the Alps ! Although I do live in USA, I love to fly gliders in the Alps. The view of the scenery within the large DG 800 canopy is the best I have seen in any video ! Please make more videos ! We, who live elsewhere, need plenty of mountain gliding to keep our dreams alive ! Danke !
Not a glider pilot but just love watching videos of gliding. Did have a flip on one which was on my bucket list for a long time. What is that stuff that looks like tape in front of cockpit. Great video, gliding in the Alps must be absolutely great !!
Very nice Ronald! I have a few tips from my own learning curve using these blasted cameras. They will overheat if you try to charge and use them continuously. They simply can't record full time, and that's a real shame! Secondly: get some 3M Dual Lock adhesive tape. The device will click into place like a button snap. It will not come off. The adhesive is great, and easy to clean up if you need to move it. Third: try to eliminate anything white inside the cockpit. Both for our viewing pleasure and your safety. A glider is white. If you have white reflections in the cockpit, it makes it challenging to see the glider, and the gliders are hard enough to see as it is. I'm currently 18mins into your video and I'm loving it. It's a lot of work to edit 360 video! Mind blowing amount of editing. Finally: when you want to chat from the cockpit, use speed commander for audio for that period. I forget the setting but I have it set to a continuous tone, and softer tones, as well as a 5kt airspeed gap. Also, if you will be talking from your computer what is happening, turn the audio of the video down for that segment so we can hear your voice better over the Vario and ambient noises. I hope these help. I can't follow my own advice it seems... But I do hope this helps! I have enjoyed your videos very much! The 800 doesn't have an engine? It's an 800S? Or the engine is simply removed?
Thanks! I guess very few customers use them for long sequences. I've had a long discussion with Insta to suggest that they 1) log events to a text file (such as shutdown due overtemp/undertemp) and 2) if they do shut down close the current file. The good news: the latest firmware update seems to have improved things. The last flight (need to edit) I recorded about 5 hours of the 6 hour flight. *thanks for your tips!* DG-800 naming is very confusing. 'S' has no engine 'M' does (M for motor, not meters!)
@@ronaldglider haha yessir! I'm surprised they didn't do the same naming system as the 500/505 by calling the Solo engine an MB. The 80x series are kind of confusing. One day I'd love to own one (an M competition) for personal use. The 505 is just.... She's just massive. It's not realistic to rig the wing tips themselves by yourself.
@@ronaldglider how do you like the voice control functions? I've come to find that it can't hear me at high speed (still dealing with a buffeting buzzing sound above 65-70kts) and that I am never sure if it heard me at lower speeds lol like you said, it feels like babysitting the camera when flying the glider takes priority. On my biggest flight yet: I had hit the record button several times thinking I was starting and stopping video. Then I realized when I got home that I was taking photos the whole time. 😵💫😞 I was kind of sad because it was the most epic flight I've done in a glider. So now I "preflight" that thing as well and try to prefer to use voice commands. But again they only work "sometimes" haha! Thanks for sharing another great video Ronald 😊 I show all my favorite glider videos to my children who are also into soaring big time (check the Condor video, and the 10kt thermal video). They love this stuff.
@@TheSoaringChannel Voice control works in my bedroom but not in the glider. I use the android app to start and stop, using a 20Ah power bank (with a wink to pure glide) to power both phone and the One X2. send an email to ronald.glider@gmail.com and you'll get a link to footage without canopy reflections... I saw your instragram page: You're invited to pass by at LSZM...
What an incredible scenery! Question: How does the DG800S perform in weak conditions? The low wing loading (my data suggests around 30kg/m^2) and high performance suggest to me it should be really good in weak conditions, but what is your practical experience? Also, how do you like the coordination of the glider? I know some DG800 owners (with engine) who complain about the smaller rudder compared to DG808.
I love this glider. I fly the 18m version, it handles very well in weak conditions and is also great in strong days. I find it easy to fly / no complaints about rudder. My only complaint is I cannot wear a parachute (1.92m tall). The HB3345 is club owned and thus I never flew with water. Groeten uit Zwitserland
Thank you for a beautiful video of my favorite thing to do - flying the glider in the Alps ! Although I do live in USA, I love to fly gliders in the Alps. The view of the scenery within the large DG 800 canopy is the best I have seen in any video ! Please make more videos ! We, who live elsewhere, need plenty of mountain gliding to keep our dreams alive ! Danke !
thanks for your encouragement - soon I will put out more video.
really like the way you do commentary both on and off camera. great flight!
Thank you!
Not a glider pilot but just love watching videos of gliding. Did have a flip on one which was on my bucket list for a long time. What is that stuff that looks like tape in front of cockpit. Great video, gliding in the Alps must be absolutely great !!
The tape is used to temporary fix the camera to the instrument panel, as this is a club glider.
Beautiful flying!
Thanks, Henry!
Very nice Ronald! I have a few tips from my own learning curve using these blasted cameras. They will overheat if you try to charge and use them continuously. They simply can't record full time, and that's a real shame!
Secondly: get some 3M Dual Lock adhesive tape. The device will click into place like a button snap. It will not come off. The adhesive is great, and easy to clean up if you need to move it.
Third: try to eliminate anything white inside the cockpit. Both for our viewing pleasure and your safety. A glider is white. If you have white reflections in the cockpit, it makes it challenging to see the glider, and the gliders are hard enough to see as it is.
I'm currently 18mins into your video and I'm loving it. It's a lot of work to edit 360 video! Mind blowing amount of editing.
Finally: when you want to chat from the cockpit, use speed commander for audio for that period. I forget the setting but I have it set to a continuous tone, and softer tones, as well as a 5kt airspeed gap. Also, if you will be talking from your computer what is happening, turn the audio of the video down for that segment so we can hear your voice better over the Vario and ambient noises. I hope these help. I can't follow my own advice it seems... But I do hope this helps!
I have enjoyed your videos very much! The 800 doesn't have an engine? It's an 800S? Or the engine is simply removed?
AWESOME final glide edit and music. That lake is amazing.
Thanks!
I guess very few customers use them for long sequences. I've had a long discussion with Insta to suggest that they 1) log events to a text file (such as shutdown due overtemp/undertemp) and 2) if they do shut down close the current file. The good news: the latest firmware update seems to have improved things. The last flight (need to edit) I recorded about 5 hours of the 6 hour flight.
*thanks for your tips!*
DG-800 naming is very confusing. 'S' has no engine 'M' does (M for motor, not meters!)
@@ronaldglider haha yessir! I'm surprised they didn't do the same naming system as the 500/505 by calling the Solo engine an MB. The 80x series are kind of confusing. One day I'd love to own one (an M competition) for personal use. The 505 is just.... She's just massive. It's not realistic to rig the wing tips themselves by yourself.
@@ronaldglider how do you like the voice control functions? I've come to find that it can't hear me at high speed (still dealing with a buffeting buzzing sound above 65-70kts) and that I am never sure if it heard me at lower speeds lol like you said, it feels like babysitting the camera when flying the glider takes priority.
On my biggest flight yet: I had hit the record button several times thinking I was starting and stopping video. Then I realized when I got home that I was taking photos the whole time. 😵💫😞 I was kind of sad because it was the most epic flight I've done in a glider. So now I "preflight" that thing as well and try to prefer to use voice commands. But again they only work "sometimes" haha!
Thanks for sharing another great video Ronald 😊 I show all my favorite glider videos to my children who are also into soaring big time (check the Condor video, and the 10kt thermal video). They love this stuff.
@@TheSoaringChannel
Voice control works in my bedroom but not in the glider. I use the android app to start and stop, using a 20Ah power bank (with a wink to pure glide) to power both phone and the One X2.
send an email to ronald.glider@gmail.com and you'll get a link to footage without canopy reflections...
I saw your instragram page: You're invited to pass by at LSZM...
Mollis^^^^Glarnerland Gruppe
What an incredible scenery!
Question: How does the DG800S perform in weak conditions? The low wing loading (my data suggests around 30kg/m^2) and high performance suggest to me it should be really good in weak conditions, but what is your practical experience?
Also, how do you like the coordination of the glider? I know some DG800 owners (with engine) who complain about the smaller rudder compared to DG808.
I love this glider. I fly the 18m version, it handles very well in weak conditions and is also great in strong days. I find it easy to fly / no complaints about rudder. My only complaint is I cannot wear a parachute (1.92m tall). The HB3345 is club owned and thus I never flew with water.
Groeten uit Zwitserland
@@ronaldgadget Hartelijk dank! Thank you!