You can never be quite sure where you are going to end up landing when you fly a glider. That can be both terrifying and thrilling at the same time. With training, glider pilots learn to manage their energy and altitudes so well that they can land just about anywhere safely. Here are a few landings I have made over the years that turned out pretty interesting. I hope you enjoy! Thanks as always for watching and for all your comments and support! Bruno - B4
Landings are always entertaining to watch, Thanks Bruno. 🙂 In all the outlandings that you’ve done, you have never injured yourself or even damaged your glider?! That takes the flying skills of a legend, well done! 👍
I'd still like to see a video of the recovery process after landing out.
Usually we are so busy and in a hurry to get it out of the field we are not spending the time to film. Will keep that in mind if the opportunity presents itself.
@@BrunoVassel Thanks, Bruno! Best wishes for good thermals and no forced landings.
Who picks you up?
very unspectacular, a vw bus or truck full of helpers arrives, the plane is loaded onto the trailer and the pilot has to pay for a case of beer (at least here in germany that's how it usually goes)
As a powered flight pilot, you make me want to try gliding. It looks wonderful.
It is the most relaxing flying I have found. You have already lost your engine, weather changes are not much of a factor, few people to talk to, no gas levels to monitor, most times navigation isn't an issue. You just fly and follow the birds if you can find some. Peaceful.
@@bridgefin Until you crash .
@@emmanuelmeysman820 If I had to crash I would prefer to do it in a glider. Slow sped and no gas to ignite. But gliding is very safe for the sensible pilot.
@@bridgefin Plus a plane that's designed to fly without engine, so most probably with a better glide ratio than your engine-plane.
@@blubb9004 Right, two to five times better glide ratio depending on the glider. And you are always mentally prepared to fly and land without power.
I love landing videos. One of the best of glider videos.
Your short field landing reminds me of an Australian pilot flying out of Gawler, who was nicknamed Twang because as he crossed the final obstruction, a wire fence, his tail skid often touched the wire.
Liked how he snuck in the air show footage that got him into a bit o trouble 😊
Loved seeing the compilation of landings. Thanks!
its been soo long i miss these videos
So what do the Farmers say, or do, when you land in their field & level their crops? Also, a video of you recovering your glider from field to trailering it would be interesting to see, if Ever it happens again.
waiting for this. thanks Bruno !
I've watched a lot of your vids. Enjjoy them all. loved all the action in this one. Landing is the most interesting for me. I fly RC planes and that is what I enjoy doing the most, touch and go's, etc. Thanks for posting.
It would be interesting to know when you have to land in a field, how you got out and what the farmer says...
I was thinking the same thing. In the Netherlands apparently it's a custom to bring a bottle of cognac and a cigar in case this happens on a training flight practicing engine shut offs etc. But I never heard anything similar at the soaring club.
Fun collection Bruno. Nicely done. ;-)
@9:02 “I won’t be showing this one”… still posts it to KZhead. lmao! I just stumbled across your page and you’ve got some super cool glider footage! Keep it up and stay safe man!
Landings are my favourite part of your videos, this was great.
Your videos are really appreciated, please keep them coming :-)
Thanks for watching! :)
As long as you land safely, it’s a good landing!. Loved seeing the compilation of landings. Thanks!.
Great compilation.
Awesome as always 👍
Hello Bruno ! A very nice and instructive video. And so welcome for me, as a glider pilot in Normandy with cold and rainy weather 🤧👍👍 Thanks for all your good videos Greatings from France Hans Wolfgang
Merci d'être venu dire bonjour Hans! Je vais visiter la Normandie en avril et j'aimerais voir votre aéroport. Quel est le nom de votre aéroport ? Merci d'avoir regardé et salutations de Utah. :)
@@BrunoVassel Je réponds en français pour la facilité. Mon aérodrome est Boos/ Rouen. Code OACI est LFOP. C'est avec plaisir que je vous rencontrerai. Je serai probablement absent pour voler au Portugal du 9 au 16 Avril.
Good, good stuff, Bruno - thanks!
So nice to watch glider landings
It's like parties - All Landings are memorable except for the 1st bad landing when Goof. Them it's over. Keep the Memorable ones coming thick and fast Bruno.
Any landing you walk away from is a good one!
Thanks Bruno, Roger
Good Stuff Bruno. Is there an expectation that you will compensate the farmer for any damage done to the crops from landing or from recovering the glider?
Often there is no measurable damage, but yes we absolutely compensate for any damage we cause and we carry insurance for this as well
Agree with Garrett. Unless you are landing in high corn or some other non-grain crop, we don't do any damage landing. Of course if there is damage we will gladly pay the farmer for both the crop and their troubles and thank them for preparing a landing site for us. :)
Can you explain what's going on in the first clip for non-pilots? Edit: OK I think I figured it out after googling "greaser landing". But it was confusing... Seemed at first that you had to land long because someone was in the way.
Been enjoying your videos stuck in bed for 4 days with bad case of food poisoning. I’m working on my private, doing the whole nine to commercial. There’s a glider club at my airport and I plan to do some glider training to hone in those energy management skills. Have you ever had any confrontations with property owners landing on their fields? Dan Gryder did a few videos where this mayor refused to release a guys plane after safely landing after engine failure. It didn’t end well for the mayor lol. So then what? Your buddies come with trailers and pick you up?
Sorry to hear about the food poisoning! I’ve now landed 16 fields over the last 29 years. Most of the time I never even meet the farmer. A few have been amused and brought our grandkids to sit I. The cockpit. A few have been grumpy. I’ve never damaged any crops so,luckily, all have been good experiences so far. Cheers and get well.
As long as you land safely, it’s a good landing!😄
My dad always said take off are optional, landings are mandatory….😂😂😂
Wow, it would have been so nice if we had gps back in the 60’s and 70’s when we were doing retrieves…. We got to call person to person to the airport to see if our pilot called in, if he did they accepted the call and gave us directions, of not we proceeded on the route until. The next call in… directions were sketchy things like turn left at the red truck… those were the days!!!
I am a glider pilot and would have chosen the cultivated field next to the long wheat field. It looked it was recently worked and probably much smoother.
This was neat
24:00 not a fan of that fence 😮 How about the "Buzzing an Apache Helicopter" landing 😃? Lastly, is there a minimum altitude that you automatically commit to landing, when landing out, regardless if you find lift? Thanks Bravo 4!
The CG in that aircraft is balanced by balls, big balls.
Where else, other than America would you find such immaculate and endlessly long, well maintained perfect runaways, in the middle of nowhere? How come?
the shortest landing I ever saw was Allan Krosner in an LK10A at yucca valley high school baseball field over the 1/2 outfield fence and stopped on the pitchers mound. It made the yucca valley news paper . It was a least 25 years ago
Wow! That is an amazing landing for sure.
Which model glider are you flying? It's nice that you are recording this in 4K.
Great video, Bruno. Was there any damage to the leading edge or undercarriage when landing out in the crop field?
Nothing. Not a scratch. I have now landed in 15 farm fields over my 28 years of gliding and have never put a scratch on the glider doing it. Good thing wheat is not made of anything too hard. It sure does make a lot of noise though. Haha.
@@BrunoVassel oh wow that's impressive! I'm a paraglider pilot making the transition over to sailplanes after 20yrs of flying floppy wings. Out landings have never really been an issue for me before. Lovin' your videos. Keep them coming!
That first landing, so lucky you didn't catch a wingtip!
Cool. Have lots of family living in Utah.
i am curious, what are those sounds in a glider (muu, miu). What are they for? And what stall speed in glider?
First clip... When I Did an ATPL the idea was to touch down on 'the numbers'.... but not on the 'numbers' at the end of the runway......
On all these landings what is the sailplane you are flying? Got any preference😃s?
Spot shortfield landing part, wasnt that when u got ur licence suspended? Great flying tho
This makes me want to add on a glider rating.
Do it!
Please check out the various landings by hang gliders , for their certification, especially the " fly on a wall " landing
Hey Bruno I will be in Salt Lake City on July 6th-8th.. Is there any chance I could book a flight with you?
Howdy! There might be a chance to get a ride with me or a friend. Let’s see what we can do.
Ws that dive (on the 'ground inspection' landing) to make use of ground effect efficiency? edit: oh, and you showed it later on :D 22:45
We just for fun. Just messing around.
Curious if the FAA said anything about not posting any more videos of your airshow or do they consider it to be a thing of the past since you served your penalty?
They cannot punish him second time for the same infraction...
They never said anything and I never asked. I might as well share it so something good (your entertainment) can come out of that whole debacle. Cheers.
I was wondering exactly the same thing. I would have thought any reposting of that specific video was forbidden.
@@BrunoVassel milk it for all it's worth ;) But maybe always include a disclaimer/warning so that other pilots don't make the same mistake.
It would be a violation of his 1st amendment rights to restrict what he can post.
I’m very curious on how you’re able to find the licenses required to fly a glider plane and how much it costs. I’m a young kid (13) and planes really amaze me, I’ve been longing to fly one for my self.
Hi! I can only tell you what it's like flying here in The Netherlands, but it should give you an idea what it would look like probably for you as well. :) So, you can actually already start learning to fly a glider at 14 years old here! So you have to be a little bit more patient and wait till you're old enough. After that, you can join a glider or fly club. I don't know where you live, so you should look around if there is one nearby for you. Here you can start learning how to fly a glider together with an instructor. Costs depend but here it is around €1000,- a year, but younger kids or students can normally get a reduced fee. This sounds like a lot of money, but with this you can fly with the fleet of the club, you get flying lessons from an instructor and can use all facilities the club has to offer. Be prepared though: in order to keep costs low, you are required to help around on the field as well. You won't get the plane in the air all by yourself so you need others to help you get in the air. In return you also help others fly and so it is expected you help out the whole day.
Its quite easy actually, find a local gliding club, join them, practice, practice and in about 2 years you have your license!
How does that work when you have to be picked up in the middle of nowhere? Are you part of a membership which picks you up?
He called out his location to his team before he touched down so they could come get him, you can hear it in the second clip
@@Name-qj9ql Yeah, but who picks him up? His wife or friend? Or is he part of an organization which will come and pick you up if you need help? A lot of sailor will have some kind of insurance they pay for monthly and if something goes wrong, they will come and tow your boat. I'm just curious if the sailplane guys have something like that.
@@al-du6lb In my club in France is it club members who come out. Good practice if your car has a towbar to leave the keys with the club so they can use it to tow the trailer to your location. I assume it is the same in the US?
@@capnordest interesting. thanks
IS that a control stick in your hand or are you just happy to see me?
Must be a lot harder to fly gliders w/ all the damn chemtrails blocking the Sun these days?
Yeah, and you have to fly with an oxygen tank, so you don't breathe in all that mind-control chemicals in them!
The reason he lands long is, I’m thinking, because it is going to take some time for the ground crew to get him off the runway, and that leaves pretty much the whole runway available if anyone else might need it. But I’m just guessing…
Where is a good place to shop for a sailplane
Do farmers not get pissed when you come streaking into their crops?
It depends moast are pretty chill
1:41 Shouldn't you have stopped there to allow the pedestrians to use the zebra crossing?
Just curious on the ratio of cool landowners vs. ones that aren’t welcoming…
About 80/20 ratio. Most of the farmers I have met have been super cool and even excited to take pics of their grand kids sitting in the glider that landed on their field. The 20% you just try to be respectful and get out of their hair asap.
@@BrunoVassel how do you get out of that field?
this is a weird question, but does the glider have gear or skids?
Watch the video and let us know what you think.
oh i see! do the wings ever get damaged on landing?
Is that a nose @1:34?? Whoa
I seem to recall the airshow was memorable but, sadly, for the wrong reasons!
Uhm the tongue… is nobody gonna say anything?
lmao 1:35
I don’t think I’ve landed on the runway but one or two times.
A greaser.
Take-offs are optional .......... landings are manditory !
Can you put miniguns on gliders?
Already have...
@@BrunoVassel Love it!!!!
Are there anymore new gliding adventures to watch.
how bout spoiler off landing and a full spoiler stuck on landing.
Nice that you share, but I would not advise to take these outlandings as an example. One cannot judge the quality of a field from the video, but the approaches are just not good and risky.
I assume it ends up costing you something when you land in a farm field, in addition to the need to smooth things over with someone who may be upset about the surprise?
I have landed in 15 farm fields and have never had a farmer demand any compensation. I have also not damaged anything so that plays into it as well. Of course there is the old grumpy farmer out there that I might meet one day and I will try to be very apologetic and appreciative of having their field to use in my "emergency landing". ;)
More often you get invited to coffee and cake, or when you land late a beer and a schnapps and something from the grill
That's good to hear. I'm thinking more of the first one where you landed in the wheat (or barley? I don't know) than the second one with the empty field. But I guess maybe in the grand scheme of things the crop damage just isn't that great?
Cool hobby besides the part where you can’t control if you land on someone else’s land. I hope you are reimbursing the farmers for the crops you damage.
Irl elytra
Who pays for damaged crops?
The pilot does - if there is any damage. There was no damage to crops in any of these landings so no cost.
13:21 spanish what?
Variometers always sound like very depressed clangers……..