Turbulent Glider Flight above LAS VEGAS - USA Ep. 5
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- A fun day gliding at Jean airport, about 25 miles south of the Las Vegas strip. Thanks for this awesome experience!
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Hey I soloed in that funny looking glider!!!
Very cool! I soloed in a ASK13
@Stefan Langer but I actually soloed in THAT glider... the one sitting there.....
I really like the ASK. I used to have an RC model of one with a 3.5 meter wingspan. It was my biggest airplane for about 12 years until it literally flew away. I lost radio contact with it and it was programmed to enter a turn as a fail safe. It hooked into a monster thermal and it just kept going up until I lost sight of it.....
We were flying ridge lift. Nothing but a thousand miles of mountainous terrain downwind of my position.
It flew beautifully. It's only been 8 or 9 years. Its probably still flying.
I wouldn't be surprised if they find it on the moon some day.
Hope they do, I would really like to have it back.
It had a full size video camera in it. One of the old BIG ones.
@@christopherleveck6835 You solo'd in that 2-33? N33923? I fly that almost every weekend!
djakujemo Stefan!
MEGA GIGA schön , Du bist ein Glücks Mensch , überall auf der Welt , an den schönsten Locations , Segelfliegen zu können , FREUDE HERRSCHT , DANKE für die schönen Videos !!! 😍👌🍀
Vielen Dank 😃
Props to the cameraman for filming and playing the flute at the same time, Respect!!
Nice to see that even a Pro like you sometimes feels like he is not capable to center or find a good thermal... happens to me on almost every flight. Great desert footage! Been there many times but only on the ground. Too bad the weather was no good enough to fly over the strip.
If he released at 9,000' he's probably hypoxic.
He’s using supplemental oxygen.
Thanks Robert! Flying over the strip would be very difficult due to the airspace and the international airport directly in Vegas. However from the Red Rocks it would be very close to the city.
@@lautoka63 I used my oxygen system. Some days are very difficult and gusty winds/ thermals. In this case I believe the variometer was also not well compensated.
Excellent footage of a wonderfull day gliding at the skies of California
Most of the flight was in Nevada ;)
Hey… don’t laugh. I learned to fly in those funny yellow gliders. Got my glider license in a 2-33 and then got into the “high performance” 1-26. That thing flew like an eagle (compared to the 2-33).
Hell Yeah!!!!
@@stevenkeltie1233 thats right good old usa gliders, thought that was all there was for many years.
They must be great glider, only something new to me ;)
@@Tannerxcsoaring I think most of us in the US will always have a soft spot for the 2-33 and 1-26. Their easy and fun to fly... and great teaching platforms! You have to admit, though... they would look a bit strange to someone used to glass ships.
The 1-26 is definitely a very agile little glider and can be quite exciting/active on a day with good lift. Slower speeds make cross country difficult... but on the other hand make it quite easy to keep centered in a good thermal.
Thank you Stefan for this beautiful flight !
OH MAN I AM JUST ADDICTED TO IT
🤩
Have been flying there a couple of years ago. Indeed, difficult conditions, until you're on top of a dust-devil.... 6-7 m/sec.
Must be fun!!
Those solar towers near Vegas are visible from a great distance away. I see them all the time flying into Vegas and Southern California as an airline pilot. I’m a little embarrassed the condition of our glider fields compared to Deutschland and Europe in general. It looks more like a junk yard compared to yours.
It was a great experience to fly there. The conditions were not perfect... but that's gliding. I think the high clouds in the morning prevented the ground to heat up enough and the high wind speed in the higher level made the thermals difficult. You can even see lenticularis clouds forming on top of some CUs.
In Germany we usually don't have such a high cloud base but better possibilities to perform a land out. In your area I only had the airfields as an option and always wanted to have a lot of safety margin.
Beautiful video! Nice editing and use of music👍
Thank you so much! Great that you appreciate the music 👍
@@SteFly whats the name of this song. in the middle of the video.
Stephan! GET OUT TO DEATH VALLEY!!!! They have a great airstrip out there and the conditions are AWESOME.
Too much crap flying around the cockpit. One day, it will get ya. Stow that stuff.
I recorded this video in September and are back in Germany at the moment. Perhaps next time ;)
AWESOME!
that funny yellow glider looks like the Schweizer SGS 126.
It is... We call her Tweety and she's a blast to fly!
amazing shots again :D
Hello :)
Like K7s and 8s aren't funny looking? Many American pilots learned to fly in 2-33s and had our first single seat and XC experiences in 1-26s. Not of elegant, but they served their function for decades.
Cool! Check out Estrella Sailport in Arizona if you can. I learned to fly there. I had the honor of taking an acro flight with Les Horvath once.
Ahh you’re not far from me. Never been to this spot.
I can only recommend to make there a (passenger) glider flight!
Over the solar farm - I wonder if there isn't a thumping thermal?
Unfortunately I didn't try. Perhaps some of the local pilots can make a statement about this?
Amazing footage as always Stefan! Question: Do you sometimes have a gogro on a chest mount? I'm curious how you got the footage from the start of the tow.
Thank you! I use the DJI Action 2 on my head from time to time. The chest would be not high enough to get a good view to the outside. ✌
Some days, you drive for hours, assemble the glider, suffer the heat, pay dearly for a high aerotow, and then you have a short mediocre flight. But then the next week when you find fabulous lift, you feel very lucky and fortunate. This is part of what keeps gliding interesting. Choosing when and where to launch is partly skill and partly luck.
Most days like this, the weather forecast, especially a Skew-T point forecast, and the look of the clouds would have predicted the sparse updrafts. But if you're there, you might still take a tow and hope to get lucky. If you do well with a poor forecast, you have maybe improved your technique.
I wonder if the local pilots were able to stay up on this day that Stefan, unfamiliar with the local conditions and 'house thermals' got shot down?
We were the only glider pilots flying there at this day.
Put your gauges or data on the screen! Airspeed, climb, etc.
If you feel like you have a hangover with no reason, chances are good you are dehydrated. Quite easy to do in Nevada, even if the temps are cool.
I don't think this was the main problem. But yes - that's also very important.
Great flight, Stefan! 😃👍
Are you heading out to Namibia again this year? I see they are doing 1000km + flights out there this summer.
Thank you ✌
No Namibia this winter. I was in South Africa and now I´m working on new SteFly products and preparing for the upcoming season in Europe.
I'm from Malaysia.. I'm interested in flying 🇲🇾😊
9000 feet release altitude? Wow!
Yeah, I was used to these high tows from Truckee 😅
The tow pilot said it was his highest tow he ever made from Jean. But the conditions at the beginning very not great and in the area of the airport the high clouds disappeared late. At the end I was glad to connect to the thermals and that I didn't need to make a second tow.
It isn't too wild :) Field elevation east of ABQ is approx 6200 @ Moriarty. Folks usually get off at 9k for training flights. Not uncommon to have thermals past 18k here in the better summer months.
was there no ridge lift .
I didn't try but the conditions seemed to me better for thermal flying.
I could not see if you where with O2 mask or canula, may be that's why you feel a hangover ? nice experience though
He did use Oxigen, you can see it later in the video.
I see the XCSoar on the panel. But what is the device/program stuck onto the canopy?
It's an Oudie N with SeeYou Navigator
Ist der ClearNav Stick mit irgendeinem der Geräte verbunden? Oder ist der da nur als Knüppelgriff drin? 😅
Das ist noch ein Überbleibsel vom ClearNav, also nicht angeschlossen. Das Panel hat der Besitzer in diesem Winter aber komplett überarbeitet ;)
All that loose crap in your cockpit is asking for trouble....
Never had a problem with it... The battery was stored in the side pocket where it belongs.
Wow! How did you become so rich at a such young age?
May I ask how much is that plane?
Hi Stefan, was muss man denn eigentlich alles machen, damit man mit einer europäischen Lizenz dort fliegen darf, aber auch N-Reg Flugzeuge bewegen darf?
Man muss seine europäische Lizenz validieren lassen. Dazu wird ein schriftlicher Antrag gestellt und in den USA benötigt man dann noch einen Termin vor Ort bei der Luftfahrtbehörde. Es kann ziemlich Zeit kosten, vor allem wenn man keinen Termin bekommt. Die Empfehlung ist mind. 3 Monate vorher damit anzufangen.
Is your right foot paralysed?
Why? The yaw string is not installed in the middle... ;)
@@SteFly Is that why it points left when you turn right to enter a thermal? Looks like slipping. My 40-years-ago soaring instructor would bang the stick against my thighs if I did that. Negative reinforcement training.
@@matthewsenay That would be positive punishment, not negative reinforcement.
@@jmlatimer Positive, negative, whatever, it hurt. While whacking away he would loudly say, "Move your feet! Move your feet!" Er war Deutsch.
Have yoy ever Flight in Latin America?
No, not yet.
@@SteFly If some day you think to do it, Here in Guatemala we will receive you with the open arms, we practice Hang Glider
I like this video so much.if you don't mind,I would like to ask your permission to share this video to the other website in China for the embarrassing eadson that UA-cam is blocked from accessing in China.Of course,I will give sources of the original website. Thank you very much.
With that Chinese balloon hovering over US...