Competition gliding in Rieti
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- A brief time lapse video about competition gliding (or "soaring" in the US). The video has a 12.5x time compression. The camera is a Garmin VIRB Elite installed at shoulder height inside the cockpit of a Schleicher ASH-31Mi glider flown in 18 meter configuration. The competition is the CIM - Coppa Internazionale del Mediterraneo held in Rieti, about 80 km North of Rome. The flying area is above the Apennine mountain range in Central Italy.
I loved the format with all the info in the screen. And such amazing cumulus around!
A Rieti nel 1962 con un Passero / Spatz ho raggiunto i 4000m in onda, poi dovetti desistere causa freddo intenso e mancanza di ossigeno. Sopra di me veleggiava il col. A. Mantelli col suo Canguro militare fornito di tutto. Che tempi, ragazzi !!
Absolutely beautiful. This kind of things make me think to start flying sailplanes beside paragliders.
Ho volato a Rieti negli anni 6o su Canguro , passero, e m100 . Con un PASSERO ho cavalcato iun onda fino a 3800 m poi il freddo e il poco ossigeno mi hanno indotto a scendere. Questa ormai e la preistoria. Ma quanto era bello .
Ho iniziato il corso per il brevetto sul Canguro, a Guidonia nel 1970. L'istruttore, molto bravo, era Ernesto Bardini.
Dancing between the clouds. Beautiful!
Condizioni fantastiche .... bellissimo!
Bellissimo.
Grazie davvero per aver fatto godere anche ad una papera come me questo fantastico cielo.
Giancarlo (I-NOIR)
L'I-NOIR è un aliante formidabile, ne conservo un barogramma con una bella salita fino a 6000 metri e +30 m/s durante i Mondiali del '72 a Vrsac, l'ultimo dov'era ancora permesso il volo in nube - una pazzia collettiva , ma sopravvissero quasi tutti.
Mi vengono i brividi a pensare in che mani è passato il mio adorato aliante ... anche solo tentare di esserne all'altezza è una sfida ed uno stimolo per me.
Con l'occasione: tanti auguri!
The playback speed ruined it and zero audio, what a pity.
That Final Glide!!
Great video!
I flew there in WGC 1985. This brings back many memories. I even had an off field
landing in Rivisondoli during the pre-contest practice period. My only question is why did you chose to edit out the first half of the third leg? From 15:37 until 16:11 local time, 34 minutes is missing. Looking at the weather ahead, it looks like that was the hardest part of the flight. The altitude trace shows a low point just higher than the original release altitude. When the video resumes at 16:11, you are back at cloud base, but it is the lower cloud base on the east side of the air-mass convergence.
Oh, and the final glide, (for those of you that have not flown there) we called it the "valley of death". It looks impossibly flat to be able to make it, but one gets some help from orographic ridge lift with the sun's heating on the west faces, plus the terrain slopes downhill to the finish. 95% of the time, you make it, although most finishes are straight-
in rolling finishes, and not the flying finish seen in this video. If you don't make it, there are fields to safely land in just short of the airport proper.
Rieti is a great place, and it is very challenging to race gliders there. It can really get your heart pounding, especially if the weather is not as nice as it was on the day this video was taken...
There are two posted videos about the same flight, a 17:56 long, uncut and unedited one -- and a shorter 6:34 edited one with comments meant to visually introduce competition gliding to a general public -- you can see the missing part you are referring to in the longer video. By the way, you are right about the difficulty, because during the part you missed in the short video I flew across a cold "sea breeze bay" entering on my left from the Adriatic Sea and I was lucky to find a low level strong thermal just beyond it.
Ha! I recognized the problem area because 31 years ago, I had already "been there, done that, and gotten the T-shirt". That is why I was really interested to see how you dug yourself out of that hole. I'll look at the longer version. Thanks...
Super flow. TOP.
Wow, great video. Can you tell me what program did you ussed for generating the HUD info?
Thank you for your video! What program did you use to provide the HUD information?
The HUD information can be easily customized in the Garmin VIRB video editing software
Would love to see this flight at normal speed! Please post!
I am sorry, but I cannot do it. The accelerated video is "native", meaning that the camera is taking a frame every 0.5 sec and produces an accelerated video at the end of the flight, there is no original "normal speed" video. Please understand that these videos are mainly recorded for security and post-flight analysis purposes, with a whole flying season fitting in a 64 GB micro SD card.
Turn to final is a bit scary mister :) Beautifull vid!!
+Anne Hoekstra: You're right, the final turn was not well coordinated...
Dedalus Noticarus It is allways a critical moment flying a pattern after XC. I was more wondering how close the left tip was to the ground. If it catches the grass your dead. Best practise would be setting up the finish approach more safely by the competition staff so no one needs a 180 turn to get back into the pattern. Still an awesome vid :)
magnifique
I did not enjoy this fast forward video at all. Please consider uploading a full length version.
Unfortunately I do not have a normal speed "original"recording. I record all my flights at a "native" 12.5 x time compression, due to memory card space limitation (64GB). (Also, normal speed videos of soaring flights tend to be very boring...)This allows to store all my soaring flights of one year on the same SD card; I just turn the camera on before take off and turn it off after landing, all the rest is automatic and works fine... most of the time. To check if it is recording I look at the camera near my shoulder and check if the REC lamp blinks twice every second.At the end of the soaring season I just remove the camera from the sailplane and transfer all flights (the video files and the linked GPS data) with the VIRB software from the Garmin camera to my PC.The battery of the video camera is kept charged by the sailplane battery which, in turn, is charged exclusively by the sailplane's solar panels.
Try slowing the video speed down using youtube controls. Look for the icon that looks like a grey wagon wheel.
Amazing flight and video.
Thank you so much for sharing an amazing flight. Your commentaries are very helpful as well.
Dedalus Noticarus fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing
I suppose your altimetre was optimized in function of the QNH? On the ground you were at 386 m!
svwtsvfcb Correct, Rieti's airport lies at 390 meters above sea level.
Why do you need a tow for a powered glider?
Good question... in competition I often choose a tow for two separate reasons:1. the cooling process for the Wankel engine requires quite a bit of time (3-6 minutes) with the propeller partly extended. In Rieti the initial thermal climb in the release zone can be tricky, so bypassing this step may offer an advantage. Also in Rieti, since last year, powered gliders are allowed to climb an extra 100 meters above the release altitude, so this advantage has disappeared.2. only 15 liters of gasoline are carried on-board and in Rieti, although rarely, you may have to circumvent large cb's to return to Rieti, specially so from "deep South" turnpoints. I once returned with almost an empty tank and since then I tend to conserve fuel.
Nice glider and nice gloves. No need of gloves when I fly my old LS 3.
100km+ before start is rather weird.
+Charloteaux Anne-Marie: gloves are used because of precancerous skin lesions on the hands, probably sun-induced years ago, when canopies were not UV blocking and 100km+ is the flying path length recorded by the Garmin GPS odometer, one hour until the Start at about 100 km/h average.
Che manico
way too fast video.