Ashley finally goes for a glider ride. She flew for almost an hour and a half, flying with hawks, doing zero G dives, ridge soaring snow capped mountains, and have an overall great time. After all that fun our bums were sore due to not enough seat padding so it was time to come back and land at Nephi, Utah airport. The glider is a Grob Twin Astir and the lucky pilot to take her was her dad - Bruno. She did great on her first flight and it was so much fun to watch her raw emotions as she experienced flying in a glider for the first time. She did great...other than maybe she could have put her phone away for at least a few moments and look outside. Haha. What a fun father/daughter day to go flying in Utah's amazing mountains. Hope you enjoyed the flight and I look forward to hopefully many more gliding videos this year! Cheers, Bruno - B4
Bruno trying his best to explain the concept of climbing in a thermal while she ignores him and records her insta material :D
then the... we should go back....
@@shawnwalden2669 yeah like she was just there to post a couple of videos on her socials smh
@@nicuukk1779 sad days, imagine how much more of a nice experience this would have been for both 20y ago
@@thomasbummer4361 indeed
Boomers lol
The best part: „Ashley, you have control....“ - Ashely grabs her phone.... 😳
That was amazing indeed!
Glad you got your license back man👍
Thanks!
@@BrunoVassel We really missed you man! :)
@@BrunoVassel We really missed you man! :)
Yep. Good to have you back!
@@BrunoVassel But not the money .Sorry
It's kind of sad, how much time Ashley actually spend fixed on her phone instead of just enjoying the incredible view. The floating part was really nice. I would have sold my kidney for that ride ;D
I know! I was in the back so I didn't see it until editing the video. I would have told her to put it away for sure. I guess a good lesson to be learned for other pilots giving rides is to tell their guests to put their phones away and enjoy the moment!!! Cheers.
THIS! I was yelling at the video "put your phone down and enjoy the experience!" heh.. Kids these days - I don't get it.
she was basically recording videos the whole time. she enjoyed the ride but also took some videos to save the moment, whats wrong with that ? nothing sad about it. lighten up
She was enjoying the ride, and catching it all on her phone. Not watching a damn TicTok or KZhead while flying. Get w the times guys - phones have camcorders built in nowadays
I agree with PistachiOS. That is just kids theses days. Plus I'm sure she can talk her dad into flying again some day. :)
She'd have enjoyed that so much more if she had left her phone behind. If you want to adopt any adults Bruno i promise my phone will stay in the car.
You are an amazing dad, she must be so proud of you. Take care and have fun Bruno ✌️
At first I was thinking she should put the phone down, but then I remembered how I wish I could have a video of my 2 glider rides I've done. I think she had a good blend of filming and enjoying the flight, and now she can share the moment with her friends and family as well as keep this moment with her forever. Awesome video as always Bruno! 👍🏻
Imagine how jealous her friends are going to be when they watch that video
@@glidingadventures I think that is the main point of sharing this kind of content like her father is not recording this already and in better quality
What a great video. Ashley had a lot of fun even if she was fixated on the phone a lot. Its just today's kids. I would give anything to be able to fly again and take my sons with me. I know you are loving these times!! Glad to see the new video and can't wait for more!
Bruno could have just taken the phone up and handed it back to her after he landed.
Coolest dad in the world. I could spend hours and hours flying around these gorgeous mountains, I'm glad you do - gives me a perspective of the area I live in that I never get to see.
What an amazing experience, thanks for posting and thank you for all of your soaring videos!
7:04 Superb ridge running & video footage in strong lift.
Man, that made me smile so much. So glad you’re back.
He's back! And he brought friends! Glad to see you're back in the air, and fun to see someone get to fly in a glider for the first time. Got some pretty cool perspectives of the wing we don't usually see, here's to more great flights this year!
What a wonderful video with your daughter Bruno. Brings back memories of when I got my license at 16 back in the late 70’s, and couldn’t wait to take up every member of my family, friends, etc. I was very fortunate to do my soaring back then at Black Forest Gliderport, which sadly closed in the late 80’s. It was an amazing place. I still remember the excitement of introducing those who didn’t know the first thing about gliders to the world of soaring. I think what I enjoyed most was taking friends of mine who had their single-engine ratings up in a sailplane, and then listening to their shock that we didn’t just fall out of the sky and have to land immediately. The two things that always surprised them were the aerodynamic performance, and how close we flew to other sailplanes in thermals. I have to admit that it was pretty satisfying to watch their young pilot cockiness disintegrate when faced with an aircraft they didn’t understand, and that blew their minds. I also enjoyed showing them that rudder pedals are not just footrests. Thank you so much for all of your videos. I haven’t flown in years, and have been living vicariously through the videos, but I am really thinking about getting current again. I miss it terribly.
Great video, great flight. It's nice to have father/son father/daughter moments and experiences.
My son and I did something similar when he was 16. We ran the spine of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado flying out of Silverwest Airport. We were in a Blanik L-23. Great memory. Enjoy the experience with your daughter!
Glad you're back Bruno!!
So cool! yay!! We're getting Bruno vassel videos again! Cool that you got to take Ashley up there :)
I love how you get as excited about showing something for the first time, as you seeing it for the first time.
Very nice! Some years ago i flew with my daughter for the first time when she was 8 years old. Such a beautiful experience that cannot be replaced by anything.
Nice! Not many of us get to experience that. You are lucky!
Thanks Bruno, what a wonderful vidclip ..... made so much better having the Vario' sounding in the background .... Best to You and Yours from NZ
Seeing a glider ride afterwards on a screen is already nice... but a flight like that retrieved from your own memory is a total different experience. I feel very privileged to have learned not to depend on a phone to document my life;-). Many happy landings Bruno! I'm happy to see you got your license back. Cheers from France.
Great to have you back!!!!!!!! Happy flying.
It's good to have you back gliding I like being in planes at 30 or 40,000 + ft but not on tall buildings vertigo kicks in, I real enjoy your channel.
Glad you're back Bruno :-) !!!
You're back!! I'm so happy!
Nice to have you back!
Glad to see you back in the air Bruno!! Nothing better than taking someone for their first ride when they are that excited.
Bruno you're really lucky. I have three children and when I have taken them up in a glider all three have very quickly felt sick. To quote one of them, 'the trouble with gliding is you spend a long time waiting around, then you go up in the glider which could be fun but you immediately feel sick'. When I took my daughter up in a motorglider she said 'I enjoyed it until you switched off the engine'. Flying up that mountain looked wonderful.
BRUNO....so glad to see you where you belong... in the sky...great video. SGT
You're a great and patient father. Keep up the great work.
Beautiful and heartwarming. It's remarkable how the younger generation find it so difficult to pry their attention away from their phones.
Bruno, great to see you back in force! You were my final inspiration to start my add-on. Almost there!
Gotta get the Insta video and photos so all her friends can like them. Rather than enjoy the majesty of flight, she is fixated on the phone. How sad. Bruno, you are a great dad for doing this, but it is wasted on this generation. Glad to see you back.
The worst thing about her generation is that older people are constantly nagging about her generation... If she wants to record and share it, so be it...
@@kvvint7618 Exactly!!! ✅
@@kvvint7618 I don't expect you to understand. Ironically, you miss the point entirely. As did she. Did you, or she, notice the GoPro camera recording the entire flight perhaps ? But hey, it's far better to be vacuous, facile and narcissistic in the pursuit of likes than to enjoy the actual experience. The overwhelming number of comments here are about her fixation on the phone. It says something about your point of view.
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw in a magazine. The family was overlooking Niagara falls, and the father says "Hurry up! Just take the photo and we can go see some more. We can look at the photos when we get back home!"
@@speedbird8326 I'm pretty sure I got it. But interesting to see how much you can read into her using her phone. Yeah sure, people in her generation (same generation as me btw :)) are using her their phone and social media a lot. Some use it more, some less. When I fly with guests on their first flight, they often have their phone out recording and taking pictures, even if there is a gopro recording. No matter the age... But the thing is that I keep my mouth shut about it unless there is a safety issue with them recording... It's their choice. And just like Ashley, if she wants to record it and share it with her friends immediately, there should be no one telling her otherwise. You say it like she didn't care about the flight. I say she thought it's so cool flying with her dad that she had to share it with her friends...
Hi Bruno Welcome back to gliding ,and am glad you and your family kept safe during this time as well, so enjoy this summer y Justin
wowww bruno that was a great flight ashley passed with flying colors hope to seee some more videos comming soon all the best kim
Absolutely lovely- tx for sharing!
Cracking Vid Bruno. Welcome back to the skies and what better way to do it with a teenager wielding a phone for all her friends on IG/Snapchat and all the likes. You have a great connection, that was wonderful to see. Keep 'em coming Sir!
Awesome Bruno! Taking first timers in gliders is the best!
Thanks for sharing Bruno. Lol you daughter on the phone. Ultimate dad badass still can’t wain 🤣🤣
Nice ride, and ridge lift, plus it was nice to hear the vario again, welcome back!
Outstanding! You inspired me to write and record a song about soaring. I sent it to you today I hope you two like it! Thanks for sharing these special moments with your daughter with all of us!
That was so awesome, thank you!
I have missed your videos! I loved Ashley’s reactions. I am a private pilot but that is a different type of flying for sure! I want to get into gliders!
Do it. I always hear that it also improves your PPL skills. It is great fun but can be nerve wrecking if you push too far too soon.
Thanks! I am having trouble finding a glider school near me though. I am looking anywhere from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake. I recently had my engine “miss” as I was flying and I have had a little anxiety ever since. I wonder if taking the engine out of the equation will help my anxiety even with my powered flights. Ha!
Awesome video of the hawk! Got to do circles with a hawk up around 10,000-11,000 MSL over Heber Valley a few years ago, such an amazing feeling! Great to see you up again, Bruno!
Soaring with raptors is an amazing experience! I remember the first time I did it a quarter of a century ago. I remember the bird right off my wingtip and I could see it blinking. What a magic experience not just the first time but the thousandth time too! Cheers.
So cool. I just started looking these gliders up. I completely forgot all about them till today. I just didn't think anything of it years ago when I was a kid. Now that I'm older these things fascinate me. Nice video dude.
Those Grob Twin Astirs are awesome planes, especially in the hands of a great pilot. Some excellent father daughter time.
Haha this is awesome, I love her reactions
Good to see you flying again Bruno! Looking forward to more vids. Get my fix.
Awesome to see you flying! Great to get your daughter out flying with you. I'm bet the phone was a good security blanket, lot to take in the first time.
This made me smile throughout the whole video 😊 None of my parents is a pilot, but we have done wonderful stuff together, too... like canoeing, hiking ... it's so nice to see you having a great time together 👍
but the kid end up living in Metaverse anyway
Wonderful to see you back in the air Bruno!
So glad i stumbled upon this channel. I got my private pilot glider add on years ago and i am itching to get back into soaring.
What a great first upload since your hiatus!!
Lovely video, what a great place to take your first flight. I know she was distracted by her phone, but then I think why not, she is growing up in a connected world where she was using her flight to share her experience with her friends while she was in the air, which is in itself truly amazing technical achievement.
She’s such a doll. I’m sure she loved it😣.
Hey, don’t diss on Ashley & her phone! She showed up, she got in, she went for the ride & she liked it. She’s living her life on her terms. Maybe a couple of her Insta followers will be there for rides next weekend, who knows!
Right, now word of mouth more fans will support the gliding community
@@fixitluis Yes, and of course, you’re using the term “word-of-mouth” as a metaphor to describe Instagram...
WHO CARES!
Very nice!! How lucky is she!!!! Wow!!
Ah Bruno youre back finally! Back in the year in wich I'll finally solo
Good luck and keep us informed!
@@BrunoVassel thank you! I hope it will work because of the covid stuff here. Happy Landings, Bruno!
nice to see you are back flying Bruno !
Good to see you back in the air!
can you tell me why he was gone? Was his license pulled? for what?
Yes he had his license taken away after performing at an airshow. kzhead.info/sun/hNuEadutb3WumKc/bejne.html This link has the story, or type in Bruno Gliding Ban.
Awesome video Bruno! I have to remind myself this sometimes, so maybe pass the word on if you feel prudent: Enjoy the moment and leave the video and picture taking to the memory banks (and the GoPro).
Totally agree! Just shows you how addicted the youngins are to their phones. I couldn't see from the back seat how much she was playing with it or I would have told her to put it away and look outside. At least she didn't fall asleep after 10 minutes into the flight like my son did.
@@BrunoVassel lol I know it. So before this whole pandemic thing whenever we would go to dinner and be in the waiting area I'd obnoxiously say to my wife "don't you miss the days when people didn't stare at their phones and they'd talk to each other???" And I'd be staring across the waiting area at the entire group and suddenly they'd all be scared, look up, and put their phones away - maybe for about 5 minutes. LoL
he will never forget!
You two seem awesome, it's nice to see another younger person so interested in aviation. I'm 25, I don't have an opportunity to fly but I'm hoping after I finish my engineering degree I can get a plane and learn, I can't wait. I used to have a friend whos father had a plane, we'd take day trips 5 states away for lunch, that's what got me into aviation
You are a blessed father
That's awesome! My soaring instructor way back when I was young was an uncle who flew Kittyhawks in WW2
In the early 70s, I had a soaring instructor who’s pilot’s license was signed by Orville Wright 😎!
@@Skyprince27 Whoa, that's pretty cool!
@@adamchristymichell3062 Yes, I thought so!
Awesome! Congrats on getting your license back 👍🏽
Great to see you sharing your love of gliding with your family Bruno. Both my teenage daughters have been up with me... the older is now a qualified glider pilot herself... and the younger is eager to learn (she loves thermaling to cloud base almost as much as she loves aerobatics). Now even my wife wants to learn!
Thanks for commenting and that’s awesome that your family is also so interested in gliding. You are extremely lucky! Cheers.
When you had her grab the controls after she started getting sick... reminded me of my flying lessons, and how to deal with sick passengers.
Great video. I fly with a whole bunch of nieces and goddaughters all the time. I have a few vids on my channel too of that. My oldest niece that's been flying with me since she was 5 just got her pilot's license!!! She's working hard on her flying career. Thanks for sharing!!!
As beautiful as this ride was, I can't help but be incredibly annoyed by this phone A ride like this, I would remember forever and ever and I would not waste one moment to look at something I look at everyday
congrats for 100k!
Awesome video buddy ... God your a lucky guy.. not jealous at all lol
As a photographer I can say that I too would have a camera in my hand. This is part of how I enjoy my experiences and share them with others. It’s good to put the camera down sometimes but it also can be part of the experience.
Welcome back, I hope you keep that glider!
Cool shots!
Welcome to the 100K YT subs club!
Cute kid. Is she going to get her license?
@@janaaj1an889 AWS or Google certificate?
100,000 ? Is that an actual number ? Or in the neighborhood ? Either way it is a sadly low number.
@@anmihovil Neither. 100K YT subs
@@toddprifogle7381 Nice troll
Wonderful!
awesome video Bruno👍 hi from France
What a cool dad.
First of all - great seeing you back in the seat Bruno, looking forward to check your uploads of many (legal😉) flights this season. I go with some here, its just like that nowadays with mobiles, tablets etc. No problem if she records this experience. But if she will join you again, she should really leave the mobile on ground, or?
Yah, it's great taking folks up for the first time. I don't think it's something I'll ever get tired of doing. Due to Covid-19 protocols, the only folks I could take up last year were people in my family bubble, so I took up my 89-year old father-in-law in our club Grob 103. I suspect you've got a similar limitation at the moment. Have you taken your wife up yet? Loved seeing the hawks. It's amazing soaring with the real pros!
Bruno, if there was one person I'd want to take a ride with, it'd be you. Still in training and flight instructors are very cool folks, but you really have become iconic!
Thanks for the kind words. Fly out to Utah and maybe it can happen. 😎👍
Phone? My eyes would be stuck to the plexiglass!
2:17 Imagine the towing pilot hears not also the „thank you“ of Bruno, but also the scream in the background: „Wuahhhh“
Great video .hope to take my girls flying too in a few years
love it!
you are an awesome dad bruno
That phone being more used than some peoples pace-maker. Thats an addiction if i ever saw it.
True
Good to see you back in a plane :-)
hahaha... wonderful & funny !!
She’s adorable! Her laugh and smile really made the video! I’m so glad you’re back! Keep up the great videos.
Bro welcome back, so glad your flying again, people trashing cities and nothing, you did a couple loops...OMG...CRIMINAL.
Yeah...glad that’s over. Go figure. Thanks for watching!
@@BrunoVassel yea man, maybe I'll make a vid or 2
Sharing. I hope to one day do the same with my daughters. Thanks Bruno.
Ok Daddy you take control === you are a great dad!
Nice Bruno. My dad took me for my first gliding flight (ES 52 Kooaburra) way back when I was a baby in the 60s. I was fortunate enough to take him for his last flight a few years ago and he took the video this time. Hardly anybody sees the video but his final and all his footage much of it 8mm from the 60s and 70s is on my channel.
"We're actually going up" thank god for that.
It makes me happy to see you back in the air!
Great to have you back. No experience is an experience any longer unless you point your phone at it! I get that people want to snap a few shots. Fine. But personally I would allow two quick photo sessions, one on the ground and a quick session in the air after which phones should be securely placed in a zipped pocket. They are in the category unsecured "loose objects" that if dropped could jam the controls. At least that would be my excuse......