Love it....Could watch this all day...No fast forwarding...lets all enjoy every bit....Am just amazed at the glide ratio of these modern hang gliders! around 6mins in it was just cool watching you glide over the road so close! The odd thing was, when you were looking around a few times, it actually reminded me of a few videos I've seen when they attach cameras to eagles backs, it just reminded me of how the eagle does basically the same thing, flying (gliding) like a bird..amazing feeling...i envy you! Subscribed!
retired pilot ( UP Gemini 164).. I have to agree with your comments.." to low over forest" hit sink and well you know.. ended well though.. great vid :0)
Low, lower, lowest. No risk no fun. At minimum 2 areas are without any risk management. A little downwash and you would hang in the trees. But I am only one of the first 250 hang gliding pilots in Germany. Last flight I did with 66 years. I wish you all this wonderful years, but fly with a brain. Air can have surprising conditions, and a low level flight over long distance increase your risk not linear with distance. But.. up to you. And great to see. Very nice clip. Good luck!
Friend, this video is extraordinary ! You had a lot of courage going through such low valleys. You seemed to know the way well. The condition looked excellent, you performed amazingly. I was excited about your flight, congratulations !
Man I miss living in that part of the world. I was stationed in Stuttgart ‘89 - ‘93. Spent all my off time between Stuttgart south: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and northern Italy. IMHO the most strikingly beautiful part of planet Earth. Nowhere else comes close.
No doubt you're an excellent pilot with an excellent wing. Still, nobody can predict conditions 100% and that is the danger. All that had to happen during this final was you encountering a bit more sink and you would have had to land out. We've all had flights where we were fortunate things went well but could easily have gone less than well. You fessing up to your hairline decissions here and admitting next time will be different speaks oceans about your maturity.
@@cloudstreets1396 shame , if you bothered to ascertain re the parameters regarding the subjective comparison before your piggish comment , perhaps then you would of understood better as to what I was categorising the ATOS to .
Absolutely amazing footage from a former Hanglider pilot , Seed Wings .I don't understand where you found all that lift well done . Wish I could have seen the glider you were flying .
I always enjoy watching a pilot fly well and make bold but well-reasoned flight decisions. Thank you for posting the flight. I’m curious if that was the goal for the flight and whether all those other Rigid wings made the same XC flight. Beautiful countryside by the way.
@@HangmanMo , honestly I could have sworn that you had an engine attached to your wing. I don’t know if it was normal video speed after the fast forwards. Whatever you did with the video, I must say that your handling of this flight is boss level. You make me want to fly too. The scenery is amazing; your flight control beyond amazing! Well done, sir!
I see constant adjustments of the flap/tail trim cord. Are you positioning them according to desired glide ratio, sink rate, or trim speed? Very entertaining video by the way!
After some slope landing experience I feel more relaxed watching such a glides but I felt nervous anyway :) Greeting from Ukraine. Hope you like the pod ;)
Hey there, yes I do like the pod very much. Only during slow flying it's a little long and therefor far out in the front. A mount with the pivot point behind and above the speedbar might be an option? But aside from that it's a very nice pod - thanks.
WOW I use to fly back in the 70's and 80's before we moved on to ultralights, these gliders today are like rocket-ships compared to the gliders back then, they look like they have an engine on them. What is the L over D on that wing it has to be 30 to 1 or more.
Beautiful geography, beautiful weather, awesome flight. Only thing ‘scary’ is that apparently, you went through a pass in the mountain range and onto the Lee side of the mountains for the final glide. I don’t see any tree movement so apparently, winds were light and/or variable this day. Fantastic video- thank you ♠️
What kind of a tailwind did you have? Your ground speed was phenomenal and glide ratio easily 1 to 30 if not more. Was it really Lee side because it seemed tail wind all the way and for landing you turned 180 to face the wind :)
The first 2 minutes of this video the wind comes from the left, facing the ridge I'm riding. It's a mixture of soaring and thermal updraft, therefor my glide ratio is very good. After that I transition to the other side of this ridge. This is, where my glide ratio gets below normal. At 07:10 you can see, that I'm entering another valley. The wind situation here is different and the wind is mainly from the right side of the valley. On final though, the wind is very light but straight from the right in the direction of flight. You can find the track here: de.dhv-xc.de/flight/1556182
@@HangmanMo I saw the time markers and read the description too. Only felt or seemed like real good tail wind that you were covering so much distance and hardly any turbulence either.
As I wrote in my description, I think I should've landed. There is definitive a moment where I wouldn't have reached anything but trees, if I had hit some bad sink. As for the sweater - you're probably right. But when it's completely blown up from the airflow, it's not too bad I guess.
This must be called swift flying..Ground effect phenomena in suitable fluid weather conditin with an almost perfect gliding wing and good pilot input.wow..
Do your massive set of stones not reduce the glide ratio? Jeez man, I was on edge watching that! I’ll stick to the ridge soaring with the landing field in close range 😮💨
No VG on an ATOS which is a rigid wing with a fixed sweep angle. The pilot is using the cord to adjust the wing flaps (the black portion of the trailing edge behind the red stripe).
If he slipped over to the leeward side his life could have been "interesting" What's the l/d on that? Ridge soaring is incredibly exhilarating, but I've only flown conventional gilders.
If you've flown conventional gliders this is no comparison when it comes to glide ratio. It depends very much on the fuselage (my body) and how the pilot is positioned against the wind (angle of attack, slip, ...). In the end, truth is something between 1/14 - 1/18. The glide here was very good because of the line and the conditions, not the l/d. But it's so much fun 🙂.
I started on a Perfex (single surface floater) and flew that quite some time. After that I went through some different Ikarus gliders which I was lucky to borrow from a friend of mine. Mostly I flew the Spirit- in that time. I did this for 1 or 2 seasons and started to fly the Aeros Combat. I crashed my Combat (aerobatics) after approx. 5 years and started flying this A-I-R Atos VR. I'm quite happy with that for now, even though I'm thinking about getting a newer (used) one.
Your instruments certainly indicated that it was passing with good finesse, but yes, it was scary and not safe at all with no way to really escape for a very long time!!! I also did the same thing and worse as it was a competition..... But although I can't validate it, sometimes it's a matter of "balls sizes" 🤣😱🤯, when it passes you can always put it on youtube, but anyway, it's so easy to say (rightfully) you shouldn't have done it.
What was scary about that !! People trying to attract views with pathetically inaccurate video titles. Thumbs down from me in the hope it upsets the sad authors UA-cam algorithms. Obviously that is what the precocious prat cares about otherwise why lie !!!!
He’s not lying. This is a helpful and useful video that shows the possible consequences of giving into “gotta make the LZ”-itis. The one section above the pass where he’s just a few feet above a road and close-in tall trees shows poor judgment. One little pocket of sink right there and he has no chance to make a safe landing. He was lucky and he knows it. A good glider pilot never risks putting him/herself in a situation where they need to have everything work out perfectly or they’ll have a dangerous sudden landing or crash. The corollary problem with an event like this is when a pilot learns (erroneously) that close calls will always work out in their favor. Always give yourself margin in the air for that day when the unpredictable bites you in the butt.
@@skypix777 As a retired flexwing and rigid wing pilot of 32 year standing I agree totally with your review. Competition encourages pilots to take on higher risks than we would entertain when free flying for fun. My heart was in my mouth a few times whilst watching this video but the gods favoured the pilot on this day, assisted by the glide ratio of his Atos. I have witnessed one competition pilot fly into the lee of a mountain and got pushed right into the ground in less than a minute, he did not survive. I wish you all many safe landings.
Unfortunately you have little context to compare this video to when you say it is not scary. Perhaps you compare it to wingsuit flying or paraglider malfunctions, but in the context of continuing a hang glider flight into regions where safe landings may be compromised, the scary part is that the pilot has to rely on slim margins to avoid the trees ... or worse. It is an excellent video and appropriately named for those pilots who understand the sport and the situation.
Awesome recording! No music, no crap, just pure gliding! More please!
Superb flying, amazing glide and that perfect landing approach and touch down 10/10!
Love it....Could watch this all day...No fast forwarding...lets all enjoy every bit....Am just amazed at the glide ratio of these modern hang gliders! around 6mins in it was just cool watching you glide over the road so close! The odd thing was, when you were looking around a few times, it actually reminded me of a few videos I've seen when they attach cameras to eagles backs, it just reminded me of how the eagle does basically the same thing, flying (gliding) like a bird..amazing feeling...i envy you! Subscribed!
Didn't look scary to me, just looked like an excellent and well handled flight.
He looked like he was about to stall-spin into those trees. Speed was getting pretty low near the treetops.
retired pilot ( UP Gemini 164).. I have to agree with your comments.." to low over forest"
hit sink and well you know.. ended well though.. great vid :0)
Low, lower, lowest. No risk no fun. At minimum 2 areas are without any risk management.
A little downwash and you would hang in the trees.
But I am only one of the first 250 hang gliding pilots in Germany. Last flight I did with 66 years. I wish you all this wonderful years, but fly with a brain. Air can have surprising
conditions, and a low level flight over long distance increase your risk not linear with distance.
But.. up to you. And great to see. Very nice clip. Good luck!
Excellent views of the landscape and surrounding mountain peaks!!!
Wow that was amazing close getting through that alpine valley so awesome and exciting to watch.................Thanks for sharing
Friend, this video is extraordinary ! You had a lot of courage going through such low valleys. You seemed to know the way well. The condition looked excellent, you performed amazingly. I was excited about your flight, congratulations !
Man, you did it!!!! Wow!! This is cross (theese trees was so close...I can´t believe you flew even miles away from there). Well done!!
Awesome! Those rigid wings REALLY glide forever.....you nailed the flight, approach and landing. A total pro! Blessings from Mexico
Amazing glide ratio
incredible glide ratio
Not much crab angle flyin that line must have been rippin!🎉❤
Absolutely beautiful landing well done nice flight
Excellent video. I'll still stick to my bag wing due to ease and mobility, but love to see the performance of a rigid wing.
Does "bag wing" mean paraglider? Not a pilot. Yes,I googled it,but came up empty.
Man I miss living in that part of the world. I was stationed in Stuttgart ‘89 - ‘93. Spent all my off time between Stuttgart south: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and northern Italy. IMHO the most strikingly beautiful part of planet Earth. Nowhere else comes close.
awesome flight 🤙🤙🤙
No doubt you're an excellent pilot with an excellent wing. Still, nobody can predict conditions 100% and that is the danger. All that had to happen during this final was you encountering a bit more sink and you would have had to land out. We've all had flights where we were fortunate things went well but could easily have gone less than well. You fessing up to your hairline decissions here and admitting next time will be different speaks oceans about your maturity.
the glide ratio on that ATOS is insane , great vid and great flight
20:1 is not insane. That’s pretty horrible actually. A Schweizer 2:33 has a 23:1 glide and that thing is a complete pig.
@@cloudstreets1396 shame , if you bothered to ascertain re the parameters regarding the subjective comparison before your piggish comment , perhaps then you would of understood better as to what I was categorising the ATOS to .
@@JonMcG if you are comparing it to a brick then I agree.
Quick, to the caves - a troll !
@@Theworldofhanggliding Block up the caves , an antagonist !
That thing really cooks along!
MAGNIFIQUE
Absolutely amazing footage from a former Hanglider pilot , Seed Wings .I don't understand where you found all that lift well done . Wish I could have seen the glider you were flying .
He had a thermal finder:) On the left side. There is an audible signal just like in a glider equipped with one. Great pilot ! This is flying! :))
I always enjoy watching a pilot fly well and make bold but well-reasoned flight decisions. Thank you for posting the flight. I’m curious if that was the goal for the flight and whether all those other Rigid wings made the same XC flight. Beautiful countryside by the way.
Yes, that was the goal and most of the other rigids did the same flight. I was not particularly fast on that day - but it was good fun.
@@HangmanMo , honestly I could have sworn that you had an engine attached to your wing. I don’t know if it was normal video speed after the fast forwards. Whatever you did with the video, I must say that your handling of this flight is boss level. You make me want to fly too. The scenery is amazing; your flight control beyond amazing! Well done, sir!
I see constant adjustments of the flap/tail trim cord. Are you positioning them according to desired glide ratio, sink rate, or trim speed? Very entertaining video by the way!
from venezuela , thx for share, love the cámara angle
After some slope landing experience I feel more relaxed watching such a glides but I felt nervous anyway :) Greeting from Ukraine. Hope you like the pod ;)
Hey there, yes I do like the pod very much. Only during slow flying it's a little long and therefor far out in the front. A mount with the pivot point behind and above the speedbar might be an option? But aside from that it's a very nice pod - thanks.
@@HangmanMo thanks. Probably it's possible but sich a mount will make the device only about 3-4cm short.
WOW I use to fly back in the 70's and 80's before we moved on to ultralights, these gliders today are like rocket-ships compared to the gliders back then, they look like they have an engine on them. What is the L over D on that wing it has to be 30 to 1 or more.
Beautiful geography, beautiful weather, awesome flight. Only thing ‘scary’ is that apparently, you went through a pass in the mountain range and onto the Lee side of the mountains for the final glide. I don’t see any tree movement so apparently, winds were light and/or variable this day. Fantastic video- thank you ♠️
Amazing 🤩
I'm glad you are ok.
There were a lot of bail-out fields along the way. Nothing scary here, just beautiful scenery.
Amazing view!!!
Im still waiting for the scary part HAHAHA Looked like A well executed final glide…. Always a bail out in site and well with in glide….
What kind of a tailwind did you have? Your ground speed was phenomenal and glide ratio easily 1 to 30 if not more. Was it really Lee side because it seemed tail wind all the way and for landing you turned 180 to face the wind :)
The first 2 minutes of this video the wind comes from the left, facing the ridge I'm riding. It's a mixture of soaring and thermal updraft, therefor my glide ratio is very good. After that I transition to the other side of this ridge. This is, where my glide ratio gets below normal.
At 07:10 you can see, that I'm entering another valley. The wind situation here is different and the wind is mainly from the right side of the valley.
On final though, the wind is very light but straight from the right in the direction of flight.
You can find the track here:
de.dhv-xc.de/flight/1556182
@@HangmanMo I saw the time markers and read the description too. Only felt or seemed like real good tail wind that you were covering so much distance and hardly any turbulence either.
The man knows his aircraft! Yeah you were pushing it a bit but you pulled it off. Nice wing.
Ill be there this year. Anyway, what camera are you using please? thank you adn happy landings only
Guapo video calidad de imagen y bonito vuelo buen trabajo
That was tight! But safe with all those fields. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Your sweater creates some drag. 😊
As I wrote in my description, I think I should've landed. There is definitive a moment where I wouldn't have reached anything but trees, if I had hit some bad sink.
As for the sweater - you're probably right. But when it's completely blown up from the airflow, it's not too bad I guess.
Was there any reason you didn't fly over the lake to the wind (lo) side? The sun was also onto that side.
This must be called swift flying..Ground effect phenomena in suitable fluid weather conditin with an almost perfect gliding wing and good pilot input.wow..
Well done.
Awesome
When you were so close to those sharp peaks were you at least a little bit worried?
wow!!!!!!! wonderfull view man!! wich cam did you used, and effect? congrats, great video!!
Didn't look scary to me,but I am not a pilot. Still,you sure fly over nice scenery!
Please tell us where this beautiful flying site is ….
gutes Gefühl für die Höhe :-)
Wouldn't it have been faster if you stayed on the left side of the ridge cranking it and only jumping over later?
Dude!! Epic!!! I fly helis and fw but I got to do THIS!!!Epic!!! 👍👍👍👍👋👋👋
Do your massive set of stones not reduce the glide ratio? Jeez man, I was on edge watching that! I’ll stick to the ridge soaring with the landing field in close range 😮💨
Absolute lower than you hope for in a flight. Especially around 5:50, i would have been realy nervous
Just beautiful. No launch video?
It would be interesting to see the wider angle of the wing, when you adjust the VG.
Hi Ziopy😂 E TEAM🎉❤
No VG on an ATOS which is a rigid wing with a fixed sweep angle. The pilot is using the cord to adjust the wing flaps (the black portion of the trailing edge behind the red stripe).
@@dudleymead1828 Aha... Thanks for clarifying. Interesting.
BALLS!!
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If he slipped over to the leeward side his life could have been "interesting" What's the l/d on that? Ridge soaring is incredibly exhilarating, but I've only flown conventional gilders.
If you've flown conventional gliders this is no comparison when it comes to glide ratio. It depends very much on the fuselage (my body) and how the pilot is positioned against the wind (angle of attack, slip, ...). In the end, truth is something between 1/14 - 1/18. The glide here was very good because of the line and the conditions, not the l/d. But it's so much fun 🙂.
Wooooow. What’s the glide ratio on that thing! How many gliders did you go through before you settled on this one
I started on a Perfex (single surface floater) and flew that quite some time. After that I went through some different Ikarus gliders which I was lucky to borrow from a friend of mine. Mostly I flew the Spirit- in that time. I did this for 1 or 2 seasons and started to fly the Aeros Combat. I crashed my Combat (aerobatics) after approx. 5 years and started flying this A-I-R Atos VR. I'm quite happy with that for now, even though I'm thinking about getting a newer (used) one.
@@HangmanMo Gotcha, thanks for the response!
What is scary about this final glide?? Absolutely normal procedure at Greifenburg... tzzz
Looks fun though
Why you keep rotating?
Fun to watch at 2X speed in UA-cam settings.
not scary,,,ffs it are your home mountains,,,you know what you can glide there so does everyone esle flying there...
u hero u
I wasn’t scared at all:D
Your instruments certainly indicated that it was passing with good finesse, but yes, it was scary and not safe at all with no way to really escape for a very long time!!!
I also did the same thing and worse as it was a competition.....
But although I can't validate it, sometimes it's a matter of "balls sizes" 🤣😱🤯, when it passes you can always put it on youtube, but anyway, it's so easy to say (rightfully) you shouldn't have done it.
You took a risk and it paid off with no sink
НИЧЕГО СЕБЕ ЗА ХЛЕБОМ
СХОДИЛ! СРАЗУ ВИДАТЬ
НАШ ЧЕЛОВЕК!
I must have missed the “scary” part of that, or was the “scary” bit put in the title just to get some clicks…… ?
Everyone in the comments laughing it away. That was all in. Too risky for my liking.
Was that scary? Depends on his bail-out options.
Dang, SUPER sketchy.
Didn't care for GoPro style. The angels
Alter Schwede…Ich habe gar nicht gewusst, das ich 6 Minuten die Luft anhalten kann..😳
Waiting for people to realized that super wide angle, horizon stabilized footage looks cartoony, not scenic.
"Scary final glide"
You mean scary LONG ride..
and?????? ----- ???????
Could edit out the first 6 1/2 minutes and the last 2 minutes . A little crux with plenty of glide to clear
Wow, I'm просто охуел. Really..
Overall....This was boring.. But flight should be boring when it is done safely.
Scary 🤔, clickbait title .
not a rigid wing
Click bait👎
What was scary about that !! People trying to attract views with pathetically inaccurate video titles. Thumbs down from me in the hope it upsets the sad authors UA-cam algorithms. Obviously that is what the precocious prat cares about otherwise why lie !!!!
He’s not lying. This is a helpful and useful video that shows the possible consequences of giving into “gotta make the LZ”-itis.
The one section above the pass where he’s just a few feet above a road and close-in tall trees shows poor judgment. One little pocket of sink right there and he has no chance to make a safe landing. He was lucky and he knows it. A good glider pilot never risks putting him/herself in a situation where they need to have everything work out perfectly or they’ll have a dangerous sudden landing or crash. The corollary problem with an event like this is when a pilot learns (erroneously) that close calls will always work out in their favor.
Always give yourself margin in the air for that day when the unpredictable bites you in the butt.
@@skypix777 As a retired flexwing and rigid wing pilot of 32 year standing I agree totally with your review. Competition encourages pilots to take on higher risks than we would entertain when free flying for fun. My heart was in my mouth a few times whilst watching this video but the gods favoured the pilot on this day, assisted by the glide ratio of his Atos. I have witnessed one competition pilot fly into the lee of a mountain and got pushed right into the ground in less than a minute, he did not survive. I wish you all many safe landings.
Unfortunately you have little context to compare this video to when you say it is not scary. Perhaps you compare it to wingsuit flying or paraglider malfunctions, but in the context of continuing a hang glider flight into regions where safe landings may be compromised, the scary part is that the pilot has to rely on slim margins to avoid the trees ... or worse. It is an excellent video and appropriately named for those pilots who understand the sport and the situation.
What is the white cord attached to?
It's attached to the flaps and the horizontal stabilizer. The motion of both is coupled in a special way.