A glider pilot shares cockpit video of turning too close to mountains where the sailplane almost crashes into the rocks/trees. Both instances shown were purely pilot error and I was lucky to survive. This is a good lesson to always keep your situational awareness when flying close to terrain. Remember that the wind is likely trying to blow you into the mountain as you turn to the side of it. One mistake flying low in the mountains will be fatal 95+% of the time if the glider hits the terrain. The first video was taken on Mount Nebo near Nephi, Utah. The second video was taken on the western side of Elkhorn Peak north of Malad Idaho. I hope you really enjoy this video, maybe learned a few things, and use it as a reminder to fly safely in the mountains. The glider in this video is an ASW 20BL, 15 meter racing glider. Thanks so much for watching! Bruno - B4
Damn sneaky mountains creeping up on unsuspecting pilots
“pilots”
Mountain: bro iv been here billions of years
@@philipp7935 ye what else are they
Pilot - the mountain sneaking up on me Mountain - I been here a billion years u sneaking up on me I’m not going anywhere be more careful next time thank u
rip kobe
"Everything was perfect, right up until the point I almost kill myself" The name of my autobiography
The difference between it being an autobiography instead of a biography.
you hanging in there?
@@Infiandreas I’m doing great bro, how about you?
1:33 *me when I’m cooking dinner*
Lol XD
HAHAHA
😂😂
LOL
Lmaoo
Just throttle a bit more next time
Gewel ✔ bruh it looks like your channel is verified
😂😂😂
Some gliders have power these days
@Lu B. r/wooosh
@@Knakkerman- its not a woosh he knew it was a joke he literally says it
And that‘s the difference between good pilots and stupid pilots. A good pilot recognizes his mistake, thinks critical about it and learns from it for the future. ...and when he‘s a good guy, he shares his experience with others. Thank you
There are no Stupid Pilots........They are all dead......!!!!
yes that is what a GOOD pilot does.... A GREAT pilot never makes mistakes. A GREAT pilot thinks ahead and always makes the best possible decisions.
I respectfully disagree. Noone doesn't ever make mistakes and nobody always makes the best possible decision.
sym667 yeah that's true
jorgensenmj 😂By your criteria there are no Great pilots. Humans make mistakes, pilots are human. Nobody is perfect although you seem to think you are.
In aviation, you never ever ever stop learning.... ever.
Frederic Borloo You do if you crash into a mountain
Tom Hadler that’s your last lesson
it applies to everything, not just aviation
Ever ever, ever.
Frederic Borloo not true
You know he gets close when the bushes turn into full grown pine trees 😳
Flying with a constant engine failure scares me enough... ;-) Very good mea culpa mate. It takes a real aviator to admit their mistakes. Thanks for sharing. Just remember a famous quote from Frank Borman, "A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill."
Hadn't heard that quote. Great great quote!
@@donszabo7558 It's a junk quote! I'll add platitude alert, platitude alert. This is the most commonly used quote. It is everywhere in aviation clubs the world over along with about twenty other ones like "Piston engines always run rough over water at night," Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect," "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." They're so cheesy everyone ignores them because they don't apply to them. Cheesy, cliched, nauseating platitudes ergh ergh ergh - excuse my while I go and sick up..
Thank you for sharing. It takes guts to admit and share your own mistakes. We must never forget that regardless of the hours/kilometers under our belts we are always one blunder away from Terra Firma.
Yes. I think videos like this make a service to glider comunity. From multiple point of view. First is being critical one self and analytical. Ego is dangerous thing in flying. And second. sharing your experience for others not to have to learn from own mistakes. Perhaps a mistake hundred meters lower. Ridge soaring can be easy flying, enjoying the scenery, but it has its traps.
I don't think its guts....I really feel its simply about keeping all of our Egos in check and never getting to big for our boots because physics doesn't care! He clearly has his ego in check which among pilots can be missing quite often.
@@cilliandepaor5219 Ego is a huge factor and I believe that's part of what he meant by guts, some people lack the ability to swallow their pride even with their own internal dialogue!
They don't appear as dramatic as you describe, but that is most likely because of the fish eye lens of the camera, making things appear further than what they really are. Still, thanks for sharing Bruno.
It's one thing when you are consciously aware and intentionally cutting something close. It's another when you do it by mistake. That's the difference between something that is genuinely dangerous and scary, and something that's only potentially risky.
Both were way to close for comfort, especially in the uncontrolled situations they were done. Intentional is one thing, mistakes are completely another thing... Very cool videos.
You would likely actually need to BE a pilot to understand just how much margin for error is acceptable before a situation becomes “dramatic” enough to be considered unnecessarily life threatening.
She literally said that in the same sentence you're quoting.
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"What saved me was, I was high enough..." There you go kids, eat your vegetables, listen to your elders and get high, might just save your life some day
Amen
He made it because he had the high ground
“You underestimate my power” “Don’t do this anakin”
Get high??? SMH
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great video! Thanks for being humble enough to learn, and help us newer pilots to learn. Glad you're still with us! Keep going!
Hey Bruno, that's a great thing to know that you learned from your mistakes. And it's even greater that you shared them with us, so that we are all aware and can learn as well from them. This said, I'm not even a pilot, but it's one of my goals for next year. Keep up the safe flights!
You always carry plenty of airspeed, Bruno, which I like. Even when the instinct might be to pull, you don’t. That’s part of what keeps you alive especially in a sailplane. My one near death experience was with an instrument student. He was under the hood doing a hold or something and I saw traffic to the east and it was stationary on the horizon. Those are the scary ones. I stared at it for what seemed like only seconds to determine if he was opening the gap or closing. When I realized the gap was closing, I said, “My airplane” and I stuffed the nose and pulled the throttle. The Mooney just passed over us. I actually was half curled in a ball waiting for impact but it never came. There was no reaction from the Mooney. He never saw us. I leveled us out and gave the controls back to the student. He was really cool. He said, “Do I even want to know?” And I said, “I’ll tell you later.”
Something non-pilots can relate to might be braking on a bicycle. If you've ever had to stop fast, your natural reaction is to pull the brakes hard, but you have to control your braking in order to not endo over.
Wes Small Out of instict i Always locked Up the rear tire
Wes Small I see what you mean, but the experiences aren't really comparable at all.
CloudStreets
I've spent plenty of hours in flight sim in a mooney. OMG those are some fast planes. One of my faves. Yeah, that sounds like a scary experience. Good thing you did what you needed to do :)
Thank you for sharing your experience, it is rare to see a pilot telling about his mistakes. We all have taken wrong decisions sometimes and there are no perfect flight. Cheers from Switzerland !
That was very bad. Lucky you made it out of that turn.
Yeah but sharing it is awesome! Kudos!
i dont think it was luck i think it was god that saved his life
@@Tektitictie or maybe Santa Clause? Or, maybe the Anemoi, titan-gods of the four winds and the for seasons, sons of Eos and Astraeus?
@@formfaktor they probably just teamed up for that one
@@thor8334 Bammmmmm ❤️🔥
You're right! I watched both and didn't really identify those turns as dangerous. I thought that they were 'little close but alright', but reviewing this does show the severity of those close calls. Anyway glad you're still amongst us... Keep up the great work and stay safe! Greetings from a student glider pilot from Germany btw...
Liegt aber auch am starken Weitwinkel
Never underestimate the potential for sh!t to go sideways in a hurry haha
Among us
The first one I was thinking "he's just showing off". The second one I was thinking "WTF...Why did he turn right?"
@@aaronhall4755 Sus
I’ve never experienced calm and peace like I have in a glider/sailplane. Thanks for sharing. Be safe
Infinite thank you's for sharing experiences which allow everyone to learn. That is pilot's brotherhood. I'm subscribing right now.
Thanks for sharing your videos. Your experience and instincts clearly helped you recover these turns. Glad you're still here to tell the story...
I've watched a lot of your videos (in fact your and Balleka's videos are what motivated me to learn gliding). This must be one of the best videos - it may actually save lifes. I wish there were more videos like that. If you've got some more 'safety video' ideas, please keep them coming!
I remember watching the first video along the snow covered ridge and when that turn ended I thought wow he's awfully close to that mountain, but Bruno knows what he is doing, so no problem right. Thanks for sharing what you did wrong and even more what you did right!
This is gold for any apprentice pilots, thank you so much for sharing these Bruno!
Very nice your attitude about sharing your experience. Many glider pilots can learn from it and avoid a crash just by watching this video.
Hey Bruno! I enjoy your videos very much! Right now I just finishes my training, got my license and fly in kinda flat lands, with hills neighbored by forests that are rather unlandables then sources of lift, using only thermals. Your videos are inspiring to me and make me look forward to what's ahead down the road in my gliding future. And it's great that you share your thoughts and insights with us. Thanks! Timo
Wow! You are right those turns were harrowing!! Glad you're alive!
God bless you for sharing this invaluable info. Back in the 70's I used to fly RC gliders, and had a few friends who flew full size. Two of the people did loops and the wing snapped both times. I need to get over my fear and get into a full like you. So peaceful to fly☺️☺️☺️☺️
Their full size gliders’ wings snapped or just their RC? Yikes either way!
Target fixation is a problem when piloting anything but in a glider the problem comes at you much quicker and with no mercy for errors obviously. Amazing video and recovery Bruno. The lessons you give here to pilots could save their life some day. All of your glider flights are incredible by the way, very entertaining even to a video gamer pilot.
It’s so peaceful that you don’t realize that just one little mistake could cost you everything💀
I'm not a pilot so I have no real frame of reference BUT I reckon (for what it's worth) that a key strength of any pilot (or sailor, mountaineer, off-piste skier etc) is to look back critically at your actions and learn what NOT to do in future. It is far rarer for those same individuals to publicly air and share their mistakes in the hope that it might educate and assist others. You clearly fall into that second group. Nice one Bruno - an interesting and very scary video!
Finally someone who uses his mistakes to educate others! Thank You! We need more of you!
Bruno, I am a student and found this very valuable. What strikes me most is your humility in admitting you made a mistake and having the ‘stones’ to dissect what went wrong and share it so everyone can learn from it. This is gold - good work mate! 👌
You probably saved a lot of pilots by sharing these greenhorn mistakes,....ego must always be balanced,...the fact that you were humble enough to share this says volumes about your good character Bruno,..thanks!
Bravo! Thank you for puttin up these analyses.
Bruno, thanks for sharing. I not only liked your candor in fessing up about judgment calls that scared you but also giving the state of mind you were in at both occasions. The first one trying to get to grasps with the enormous windfall you were experiencing in a flight with unsuspected soaring joy and the second case happening when you were having difficulty to accept the disappointment of not being able to finish the task. This goes to show that recent (if a decade can be qualified as such) attention in glider pilot training on human factors (not only psychology but also physiology) is money and time well spent!
Extremely helpful and humbling, Bruno, thank you for sharing.
I used to fly my Cessna 150 ten feet above rivers and occasionally below power lines, scared me enough to stop. One month ago a married couple in Minnesota died while flying low over a river and hit power lines. You have to live long enough to stop making an error which both of us have now done. Thanks for the video.
@Mad Max wtf
try paramotoring if you enjoy the thrill of flying low
Very educational....not only the actual evaluation, moreover the ability to self-reflect. Amen to that;-). I know that the competition aspect brings sometimes two conflicting matters on the line. The frustration about 'not winning' and the attempts to still make it. Indeed, as you've mentioned and I think one of the most valuable lessons....while on (improvised) circuit, stay on the circuit....and keep the speed comfortable all the way in that zone. Cheers Bruno.
Love how you had the instinct to drop the nose! Reminds me of every time my CFI would pull the throttle back to idle on me and ask.. "Where are you going to go?" Most often.. at the most inopportune time! Just like a real emergency. Kudos for making a lesson of it for us.. Happy landings!
Thank you Bruno for sharing this ! Valuable to all of us !
I only fly simulators and I get scared from almost crashing, so I can only imagine what you felt in these moments. Cheers. :)
Thanks for the video, Bruno. Hopefully this will help other pilots avoid accidents.
Great video and thanks to share these mistakes. Not everybody is capable to share it with humblness. You're a great pilot! Congrats from Portugal!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom from your experiences!
I've just completed 14 solos and am looking forward to maybe doing some x-country next year shortly after I get my full license and a little more experience. Some good lessons to pass on. Thanks!
Thank You Bruno. This is very important that someone like You talk about own mistakes... We can have 5000 PIC hours, and die becouse of small mistake.
so amazing of you to share this!
Your humility is impressive. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Bruno, this is a very valuable video !!
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i was allready thinking oval ,great video !!
He was high enough lololol
Me, who will never pilot a glider in my life learning what not to do when piloting a glider
You never know where life will take you G, one day your chilling on the block the next you're in a glider saving yourself from Mount Everest. Gl holmes
@@jowolzhd5818 Well at least I'll be prepared
Same, I'm too busy living a safe life on my couch 🤣
I learned very early in my flying career that it only takes one mistake to buy the farm. Thus the old expression; there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots. My father was a career USAF pilot and he taught me several things about flying: 1. Section lines out West always run north, south, east, west. 2. They always write the name of the town on the side of the water tower. 3. Railroad tracks always lead to civilization. 4. If lost over water DO NOT CIRCLE, but fly your original heading until you either run out of gas or you find land. When I was flying hang gliders back in the 70's the rule of thumb was to never make a turn into the mountain. So, every turn when ridge soaring was a 180 degree turn away from the mountain and never a 360. The reason is exactly that you've given. The air mass blowing against the mountain is carrying you along for the ride. Some of the guys I flew with in Colorado were over confident and a few of them made the annual stats section in Hang Glider Magazine. Hang gliding is a sport where even the BEST got killed. Bruno, I'd hate to see an NTSB report on you in the future, so please mind your own advice. :) And, btw, the first time I watched the climbing Mt. Nebo video I found it very strange that you'd complete that 360. There is little in flying that is more thrilling than flying close to a huge mountain, so I get why you do what you do. I get a rush just from watching.
Ur a legend Bruno glad you didn’t die and learned from your mistakes ur an amazing pilot
One thing my father taught me (esp' when driving a vehicle, 2 wheels or 4 - in fact, driving ANY vehicle at speed), was to *always* make sure you have an escape route; you should have an escape route REGARDLESS of *anything*. He told me that, after I'd got home in shock after turning down a relatively steep road on my mountain bike into the path of parked cars on the left and right of the street and a single car coming up who hadn't seen me, I JUST missed being sandwiched by mere millimeters going at speed and having to zig-zag in a fraction of a second to get through a gap I really had no right to have got through - the force of the zig-zag broke the main axle inside the bottom bracket and bent the front wheel slightly too; I had to pay for the repairs, (and rightly so). Needless to say, I'm glad I had lady luck on my side that day. Always have an escape.
The UK Police Biker's handbook has a good formulation of this which they call the golden rule: always be able to stop in the clear distance ahead that you can see. So simple, yet comprehensively advises safe speed in 99% of driving situations.
I remember reading stories about pilots that flew into a mountain and wondering "How?"... but just like you have shown scary situations can sneak up on you when you least expect them. Stay alert, fly smart, and never let complacency bite you in the ass.
The margin for error was so thin, glad you are still with us!
Humbleness keeps us alive in aviation. Congratulations on lessons learned and shared so we can learn too. Excellent video.
Second one had my heart drop when you started leveling out in the turn.
KUDOS for telling the stories!
Glad you’re safe man. This makes you even a better pilot
thank you for sharing Bruno!
Good to see you reacted appropriately, a novice pilot would perhaps panic and forget to gain speed to make the turn achievable
“Hi it’s Bruno” I like this dude
Arena slayer??
Great example of mistake analysis. Thank you a lot for sharing, you might have saved the lives of some pilots in the future!
You may have prevented accidents of other pilots. Very kind that you share your knowledge and experience.
Man, when I saw you turn up into the valley in that second shot, and you started to turn right, I just about shat myself.
Thank you for the humbleness of sharing. As a hanglider pilot for many years scratching the rocks is our middle name. totally understand the missjudgement. Thank you again for sharing. Ps- scratching means literally see birds jumping in the trees between branches.
NoTengoIlusiones Agreed 100% (from another hang glider pilot with 15 years & 1000 hours+ experience)
WOW! Good of you to share this with others. It might save someone's life. I'm not a sailplane pilot, but a few of your other videos had me puckering as you went 1.x wingtips' distance from a different peak. Yikes!
Thank you Bruno, this was so helpful. Good luck!
A brave confess, Deserve my respect man!
You're a very lucky man. And I'm not talking about surviving the near misses - I speak of the opportunity to fly your own glider. Cheers.
Yikes! That's crazy! I'm glad your instincts got you home, safe.
Wow a KZhead video that’s not telling everyone how great they are!!! An Honest and insightful video that is all about identifying and how to approach issues within aviation(and anywhere for that matter) and how to go about improving yourself... it never ends.
Each pilot can make an pilot error, good pilot is able to say I was make an error, but only excellent pilot can make video like this and teach other pilots how not to make same error and save their lifes.
Its good to confess, it can save others lives , being a humble pilot should mean you live a bit longer !
Awesome that your sharing your experiences and tips with others. Crazy close glides
I think it's great that you made this video showcasing mistakes that can happen when you're up there and how to keep yourself from making them. You never know, the information you gave in this video may have even saved someone from making a fatal error.
In my experience, the video footage alone doesn't show how dangerous a situation was, without knowing what went on in the pilot's head. Sometimes people pick on something looking dangerous, but the pilot was aware and had a great plan B, i.e., "ahead of the airplane". Some othertimes, the situtation looks still OK, but the real danger is that the pilot was caught off guard, "behind the airplane". Getting behind is dangerour every time, because the airplane may just take the pilot directly to the crash site... Thanks Bruno, for explaning how and why you momentarily got behind your glider...
jó, de az első esetben kicsit túlzásnak tűnik nekem, bőven volt sebessége, max kiemelkedve hátramenekül a lee oldalra. szerintem komolyabb versenyeken simán beletekernek így.
Lehet, de akkor azt a fordulót úgy tervezik eleve. Ahogy Bruno elmeséli, teljesen kiment a fejéből, hogy a szél rá fogja sodorni a hegyre, nem is nézett hátra, és ahelyett hogy egy pár másodpercig vizszintes szárnnyal távolodott volna a hegytől, folytatta a fordulót és nagy meglepetésére ott találta magát szemben a gerinccel, sokkal közelebb, mint ahogy gondolta volna. Szerencséjere volt annyi magassága, hogy ne legyen belőle baj, kicsit 'át is sodródott a gerinc felett, de ha mindez alacsonyabban történik, szépen belefordulhatott volna a hegyoldalba és akkor annyi... :(
Köszönöm a magyarázatot. Az első videó példaként való felhasználásának oka az volt, hogy meglepődtem, milyen közel álltam a hegyhez, ahogy a körön jártam. Nem szeretsz meglepni, ha a hegyek közelében repülsz! :) Ha nem voltam a lift alatt, akkor pár száz méterrel alacsonyabb lett volna, és nem lett volna elég. Köszönjük, hogy figyelt és kommentálta! Bruno
Thanks Bruno! :)
Flying can be like a very friendly dog that you've known all of your life, and then suddenly jumps at you and bites your face off because you teased him too much.
Very professional to talk about the own mistakes so you and others can learn from them. Cheers!
Thank you so much for showing Bruno ;) Pilots can learn by own mistake but also from others ;) Stay safe and happy flying
33 years ago, age 16, my 4th solo, I can still remember the biggest mistake of watching my vsi more than my alt....and you can guess the rest. Anyway, landed wayyy down the runway and my fellow cadets had to push me really far back. My instructor was very, very quiet with disappoint.
Nothing wrong with making a mistake that you can learn from, and kudos to you for posting so that others can also learn.
Key point: mistake that you can learn from. Other mistakes in aviation are permanent, in blood.
I was watching your vario and at the same time pulling up on the pole in my computer chair. Very honest of you sir! Regards.
I'm no glider pilot but it was still interesting to watch and learn something about it. Glad you had a couple close calls to learn from and live to keep doing what you enjoy.
this fighter pilot A-7D in the unit I was in with the U.S. Air Force went flying between the mountains in a C172 in his spare time with 3 other people with a high density altitude and end up getting himself and all others killed. He got trapped there and his airplane didn't responded with enough stuff. Unfortunate accident. Be careful dude good luck!
What a horrible thing to happen
@@sirsanti8408 RIP all of them...
"I was high enough" gotcha, smoke more weed
Unless you have depression or other issues that are aggravated by weed us. Plus people can get addicted to being high all the time (not a physiological one but a psychological one).
Damien Holland he was joking
what hippie propaganda! If you wanna get high, get real drugs. None of that weak BS.
@@wanderingbufoon "hippie propaganda" "weak BS" LSD.
@@Bellabong I was thinking rocket fuel
Thanks Bruno... I flew my Cherokee 180 from St. Louis direct to Sutter Creek/Westover Airport California. Did it in 3 stops.... we overnight in Milford Utah.. wonderful trip...lots of mountain flying... I cant imagine doing mountain flying trips without an engine.... the Truckee Aviation people told me there are glider pilots that have gone to Mt. Whitney and back ... keep flying...again love the video...
Yesterday was my first flight on a glider in Italy. I do thank you and will follow you to catch all info, tips and suggestions to make my next flights safe and enjoyable.
LOL someone commented they didnt look as concerning on the video, but if it's your rear end in the seat, they are Nightmare makers! When flying our little rc gliders at the slope my dad drilled into me (sometimes in a not very nice manner, I was known as damnit Tom for awhile) that You aways turned away from the slope on every turn. To this day when I'm slope soaring I hear him. Thank you for sharing Bruno, its very helpful to see these examples and you may have saved someones life with it. Is it possible to shoot you an email and pick your brain on a project? Tom
sasquatchjunk I think the point he was making , was to start shallowing-out the turn after the 90 degree point , otherwise the wind would blow him back too close to the ridge before completing a 180 .
Everyone is so hyper focused on the near crash that I'll bet nobody noticed the sasquatch.
Good day, Bruno, a very very good and important video. It ist laudable that you recognize and share you're mistakes. Most pilots doesn't recognize their mistakes or share them so that other pilots can learn from this mistakes. But you did. Very good, thank you :)
I always learn best from real-life examples like this. Thanks!
This is why I think it's really good for people to learn to fly on gliders. I learned to fly R/C on powered gliders, but the power was used just for launch. A huge number of really good R/C pilots who fly primarily (or solely) powered planes do not handle a sudden dead-stick well. Their instinct when power is lost is to pull, get slow, and fly really inefficiently or stall/spin. When people are flying power but who learned on gliders go dead-stick, they instinctively push and maintain suitable airspeed, just as you did here, Bruno. Airspeed is life.
ljfinger couldn't agree more with you I learnt on slope soaring gliders and it's stood me well I have people in my rc club crash all the time because they don't know what to do without power
It' "all" lies in the concept of "best glide speed", any faster or any slower and you will land short... Also we don't often "characterise" RC planes, we just tend to fly "by the seat of our pants" ie. no instrumentation or real procedures. In most aircraft once the noisemaker stops, the best glide speed will be obtained with some aft trim (slight back pressure in the stick) - in full size light planes that trim position is usually "full aft"......
I feel like if you don't have that thought instinctively... you should not be at the controls of any flight... Someone who understands flight and the physics of it, would know before even setting foot in a cockpit. My buddy has only been at the controls one time, but since he's a flight engineer, he could fly a lot of different wings and know exactly what to do. Def not knocking this vid or the pilot... he is definitely one of the people who understands flight or else he wouldn't have created this video acknowledging his mistakes . It's more so the people who take up flight as a hobby and don't have that real passion about aviation like a lot of us... those hobbyists though... wow, some are a danger to us all. You should be able to spout off every tactic from memory, or else not be piloting without an instructor still.
Most of the time it’s not due to them not flying gliders, it’s that they either don’t understand the aerodynamics and forces at play in flight, or they have always had the money to go out and by planean they can’t fly so they don’t care if they crash and or they don’t know how to fly them (aka scale warbird pilots) some people are just better pilots than others though
I'm talking about instinct. Like when you put your hand on something hot, you yank it back. You don't have to think about it. When the engine/motor dies, you push forward, no thought involved, it just happens. Yeah, understanding helps a ton if you have time to think about it., but when it comes to instinctual reactions, it's all practice. Come off a winch, come off a high-start, shut off the electric motor on your motor-glider, you push. Go dead-stick, you push. Why? Because you practiced it on the gliders a thousand times. If you haven't practiced it, you do who knows what and most people pull. And that leads to undesirable results for obvious reasons if you do understand aerodynamics and mechanics.
First thought when seeing the first situation, why make a full circle where an eight-figure is standard? Second thought, absolutely great that you share this with the community.
Has Bruno answered your question? I was also taught this basic rule when ridge soaring... And same for your second thought; this makes you stop and think about your own near misses! And God knows I've had a few of those...
Thanks for posting -- I learned a bunch and clearly a lot of other people have too. Well done!
Very cool video, IMO introspection is one of the most important teachers in life, and you obviously took this lesson to heart!
It's easier to learn when you're above the ground, it's impossible to learn when you are in the ground. Nothing wrong with swallowing some pride and sharing it, it will hopefully keep more out of the ground.
Good job avoiding stall/spins. You remind me of this hang glider pilot I know.....
Big thanks for putting this online ! Moutain flying can be so treateous ! The 2nd one was so low ! Diving to avoid speed loss is very mental..
This is an excellent video and self-critique! Im a CFI, and this has significant value to new students. . Complacency and familiarity have killed many otherwise excellent pilots. What your self-critique shows is that it can happen to anyone. No matter how much experience and proficiency we have, fate is always the hunter. Thank you for sharing this, I’ve learned a lot from your experiences.