Glider Racing in Strong Mountain Turbulence - Trusting Wings Don't Come Off
2019 ж. 29 Жел.
128 296 Рет қаралды
Gliding in a glider race in the mountains is flying any sailplane at its best. Guess who just stuffed the first sentence with keywords. Haha. This flight shows a sailplane (glider) flying from the Logan, Utah area up into the southern Idaho mountains competing against a couple of dozen other gliders. The task and entire flight lasted just over 3 hours and the glider flew over a 225 mile course line. The glider is an ASW27B 15 meter high performance ship with a glide ratio of 48:1 and a top speed of 180 mph. I hope you really enjoy this last video of 2019 and I look forward to sharing a bunch more flying in 2020 with you! Cheers! Bruno - B4
Thanks for the metric units! :)
the way it is yo do you do piloting?
@@datgio4951 yeah
Dam!... it was kilometers per hour... I kept on staring at that wondering why his Knots Per Hour were wrong... (which is totally stupid... if he had knots it would have been KIAS or something like that)
Love your videos! You need a Bruno bobblehead or something like that to convey the turbulence to the viewers!
I'm hooked on the vids Bruno. Thank you for your service.
Bruno, love your peaceful soaring videos! Stay safe and catch those thermals!
Love "flying" with you Bruno....Best videos on youtube. So glad I accidentally discovered your youtube channel.
I love your vids. Good cam and good flying...sometimes too much risk but that is only your problem. Happy new year 2020 and fly save.
I always love watching your videos, Bruno. Would love to try it sometime. The speed and altitude at the bottom is a great addition to the videos. Happy, safe flying.
Great video Bruno. I really like the on-screen metrics. I hope to see more video in 2020.
Another great flight. Thanks for having me aboard Bruno Cheers from down under !!!
Living my dream vicariously through your wonderful videos. Thanks so much for sharing them!
Gliding is a great sport, watching your videos is very inspiring. Thank you for this wonderful content Bruno, it never gets boring.
Thank you Bruno. This was wonderful while locked down on the kitchen table. Great flying and huge views of beautiful foreign lands. A big thank you from the UK.
Never knew Gliders could fly so Dang long, looks so much fun... Awesome!! And love the Rolex!! My favorite model
Nice one Bruno. Thanks for taking us along. Long time subscriber. I really enjoy the longer videos.
Thank you so much for sharing these videos,i'm hoping one day il be able to do this myself,i'm really enjoying every video.
Awesome video Bruno! Thank you for sharing, I love all of them but especially the long flights and comp days, so good!
A really beautiful ride, Bruno, thanks.
Wonderful! I felt like I was there with you. :-) I've never done any ridge soaring - only thermal and wave flying. It looks hairy! Beautiful flying.
My favourite of all your videos ever! Stunning sustained high speed running in massive mountains....and in "big air" too.
It's one thing to watch these videos, and hear the vario start to sing, and sometimes you can even see some rise as you hug the mountains, but at 3:16 just from looking out the window via watching the video there was simply no missing that quick less than 10 second 225 foot bump up. Always loving your videos Bruno!!👍
Such a good view :) Thanks for sharing! And great flying.
Just amazing terrain every time I watch this vid some day ! 👍
Thanks Bruno for flying the Wellsvilles in both directions...Recognized many things : The Water Ski Park,Brigham City-but you turned off the camera just before crossing over my hang glider launch sight at the Micro Wave Reflectors going south and when you came north,the nose covered them on your return...The Willard Peak Launch sight above the rock outcroppings,Sherwood Golf Course[closed] in Sardine and a bit of Hyrum Reservoir off to the right as you tracked over HWY 89...Fledge 3 ET,1990-1999...Hit 12.5 msl [BD-5 Altimeter] over Mendon once...brought back cool memories...THANKS !!! for the air time !
Time stamps 3:19 goes up a 150 ft turbulent 4:27 goes up 200 ft turbulent 28:20 highest altitude ↓ show support
Thanks!
Thanks!!!!
thanks
where da top speed at then?
Thank you so much. I love Bruno's videos but I don't have time today to sit and click through everything to get to the turbulence. You are a hero!
Another great one, thanks Bruno!
You make me reconsider my paraglider ways. Great videos.
I'm off to re instate my gliding license That I'd did some many years ago, in the next few months . Thanks for the vids and inspiration . looking forward to your next season
Another great upload!!
Bruno, this is an incredibly generous gift by you to the world wide glider fratern/soror/ity ..... many thanks to you. You are giving us years and years of experience gratis and you are able to give us your decision making considerations so succinctly and clearly. That in itself is a gift. Thanks from Australia. Repeated watching will enhance the experience.
Now, to get some of that Utah/Idaho air and mountains down-under!
Nice seen a few of your videos now stunning views, nice to see you have the HUD metrics up
Thanks for taking us along, Bruno!
Really appreciate your videos along with other sail plane pilots. I am looking to getting a private license after flying models for decades along with sailing and I believe a glider is the way to go for me once out of instrument! :)
Awww crap. My KZhead hasn't been showing me your uploads. Glad to see ya!
OMG! Been flying airplanes for 15 years and I just fell in love with soaring from this video! 3 hours in the air?? You serious? And those views from that canopy! The silence! Oh man!!!! Beautiful location too!
Me too! Wish I would have known people that instructed soaring. I've been flying aircraft since 1966. This gives a different perspective of sailing! Over the right terrain with patience and knowing how to work with nature. We can efficiently enjoy spending time in the air not burning much fuel. Thanks Bruno for sharing. I'm hooked.
Envy, rarely exits my lips but Bruno, I am Envious of you my friend, Wow. Love your vlogs.
So enjoyed this!
happy new year and safe flights in 2020! :)
By watching your video and allowing me to fly vicariously with you, you have saved me from having yet another ridiculously expensive hobby.
Hello Bruno, Enjoyed your whole video 👍👍👍
I am a PPL and your videos make me want to try gliding. This seems so much fun. Never realised you could cover so much distance with the right conditions
Listen Bruno, your laughter is so infectious. we HAVE to meet... lol... we'd have so much fun.... you could see me here watching your video... had a similar flight the other day in the alps - i can feel it. but you make it sound so authentic - thank you. you saved my evening after the office... Thanks a lot, Roger.
Haha -so glad you enjoyed it. Come out to Utah and let's meet up. I have plans to make it to the Alps in the next few years and look forward to seeing your stomping grounds. Cheers.
Glider is my dream.. I contented myself with piloting the RC on the mountain slopes.Compliments.. 👌
very cool video again, Bruno :)
Stumbled on this whilst idly trawling during another boring lockdown day In Thailand. Ended up watching the whole damn thing completely enthralled. Used to fly a standard 15 metre Cirrus 75 in Kenya back in the '90s and this brought it all back. Maybe I'm wrong but looked like you might have a preference for left hand thermalling (?) - I was always more comfortable with right hand turns in thermals. Shouldn't be any difference but found it difficult to break the one direction thermalling bad habit - maybe something to do with the strong and narrow thermals we had to find quick off the top of our 1,200 foot winch launches. Great commentary on this video - plan to take in one a day until lockdown's done !
Thank you! Thank you ! for metric !!! Doing the ( aprox) math kills the view experience. Cheers !
Holy you’re speeding with that plane
Thats really beutiful out there Bruno..I see why you like to soar out west..
I like the new graphics on the video!
Great video. Thanks for showing speed and hight
Nice flying and great scenery.
Beautiful country, love from Czech Rep.
Such a cool video! I would recommend you putting the speed and altitude on the top right and left corners. I think it would be better! Also,good job for using metric!!!
Thank you for sharing this with us. Would you consider making a (ground-based?) video showing us round the flaps control and what all its settings could be used for? It seems like a bit of a closed book to me - obvious only to those who already know! I only flew an experience flight in an ASK-21 and that doesn't have them. :)
WOW I found a new hobby - Watching sailplane videos on KZhead !
Thanks for the flight (vicarious)...
I love Utah! It's the most beautiful place in the country. I haven't spent any time in Logan, but I've spent a lot of time between Ogden and Provo with a couple of vacations down to Moab and all around Kanab.
I must love this...I burnt my dinner watching..Ha!
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If we are adding Data, then it was a 370 METERS landing on runway 28 :) Thanks a lot Bruno and have a happy new year
Nice little challenge for the day.
love the display of ft and speed
No more trying to read his panel!
This is one of the few things in life that make me envious to see! Wish I had the money. :(
You can do it! I managed to pass my glider exam during my apprenticeship :)
Fantastic. I was hoping that you'd get as far as Weber Canyon so I could get a glimpse of your famous transcontinental railroad. Maybe next time...
That was Mount Ogden I love watching that video it's awesome
Great vid!
i didn't know you can glide this long, thats amazing.. i always thought gliders would have to come down after maybe 15 minutes of flying :D and here this dude is gliding 1h25mins..
the longest glider flight is 70 hours
@@sicfithgaming3665 that pretty cool :)
Thanks for the numbers (and in I.S. units!). If, when, you can, outsidde tempertura and azimuth... ;-)
Thanks for the amazing ride - forgot my sun cream & water tho ...
Awesomeness!!!
Thanks for sharing that was way cool. I wish you could put on a smart watch and then put your heart rate on the HUD. I know mine was racing. I was wondering if the most nervous part is landing or around the mountain peaks?
weird to see this kind of vegetation up on 3000m looks lower than that. Nice gliding area and nice video
So cool!
30:00 -- *SORRY TO INTERRUPT,* but my comment is apropos to what you're saying re: viewers. I *WAS* watching for glider footage! And I love the overlays with flight data. Thanks again Bruno!
Bruno!!!!!!, I really need to work, stop posting great videos :'D
Beautiful rolex
As always enjoy the ride would have been nice to see the whole flight though
"It's strong but it's tiny." Missed opportunity.
One tip I was taught by a jet jockey to avoid pilot induced pitch changes during fast final glides in turbulence was to put both hands on the stick, one above the other, I was sceptical but I found it worked and surprised how much of the pitch in turbulance was caused by involuntary movement of my limbs.
Got the same tip from my aerobatics instructor. It really improved my flying in turbulence and under shifting g loads as well. Supposed to decrease risk of high speed flutter in gliders as well.
Great job keeping those wings on! Woild love to see a vid where you tell us what your doing with your left hand and what effect it has on flight. Whats the high low noise and so on.... I have never been in a glider...
His left hand is adjusting the flaps which basically adjusts the shape of the sing to make it better at climbing or going fast etc. The beeping noise tells him whether he is climbing or descending.
Hey Bruno, great vid and even better flying! What is the speed/altitude overlay you used for this, Dashware or something newer?
I can watch this allllll day. Do you do joyflights, Bruno??? I'd love to fly over from Australia and come up with you.
If you come over from Australia between May and September I would love to take you up for a ride. I can't promise you won't get sick and puke...bring a bag. :)
I wish personal aviation industry should grow 1000 times more than what it is now. It could help economy grow a lot.
Interesting fact, Ben Lomond peak is the inspiration for the Paramount logo
Man watching this makes me wanna learn how to fly a glider. so if i ever get mad at my wife i could just hop in one of these.
Great videos Sir. I've flown gliders a little in my past in the UK; some in Tahoe too where i had some wonderful wave lift. Just a quick question if i may. Early on in this video i notice you're flying on a ridge but there is a further ridge to your left...now i'd have thought this to be tricky whereby you get caught in the sink of that ridge. Do you encounter such interference or is it about separation? You've spurred me to get back into gliding though! Safe flying!
I signed myself to the A1 sailplane category classes, to get the licence at the age of 14 but couldn't make it because of my health problems 😫
I've done a little RC soaring from Logan peak, it can be a wild ride.
Salut tank you vidéo magnifique super vol
Very cool.
I still have to tell you I am super jealous.
No surprise, think we all are.
This guy sounds like he knows what he is doing. I pray I am right because I would be making a mess in my pants. Live well everyone.....
What flight computer is that? Looking forward to hearing you talk in Little Rock.
really enjoy. highly recommend use a 360 camera
Hey B4 what about some video with you old aircraft? Is that still possible? It would be interesting to see you in your old instrument at work again :)
You're a lucky man getting to do this. A bit jealous :) Those speeds on the screen are ground speeds?
Yeah ground speed.
Great video thank you. I'm a UK microlight pilot considering taking up gliding. One thing - there is no context. Ie is there any way you could pop up a piuc of your task with the route you plan and the waypoints? Be good to see and know how well you did. Anyways Thanks
Bruno.... Hoping all is well.... Are you going to make any more vids? Really love them.
Great to hear you are enjoying them. I take the winter off from gliding because it is just too darn cold here in Utah. I hope to be back up and flying pretty soon. Cheers!
I remember a ride in a T-34 thru the rotor off the Sierra Wave. +3 and -2Gs with rolls to 90 deg and pitch +_ 60 deg. Ride lasted 3hrs (it must have been at least 3 minutes) emptied my wife's purse all over the plane. No rotor cloud that day... Glad it was in the T-34 and not in a Cessna 182.
Which glider model are you flying nowadays? I train in an ASK-21 :-). As usual, great stuff!
that's so absorbing
Your vids are great, but could you add also a vario next to alt and speeds?