Again you fall asleep (with flare) ;) You are lucky that you land and that nice 'carpet' field. Usually speedbar without wheels do not skim that good and you go into nose dive. I use smaller wheels on my moyes litespeed s. Just in case for that 'sleep' scenarios.
Ha! It was the same landing from the crap landing video. Just got around to making the full edit. :-) I got damn lucky. That not that smooth. Lots of grass clumps. Better than a rocky field.
At least you did not bonk it; grass stains on your knees add character. It was not horrible, you were way above launch over the airport; A bit after launch, I thought it was going to be a sledder.
Glad I didnt bonk it! Odd piece of air. Flare was still a few more seconds away.... and then it was now. I thought it was a sledder for sure. Just wasnt finding much. Lot of work. Link to the flight in the description. Could not really find much away from the hill. One of those days.....
Its been great. It is 14.1 (151.7 sq feet) it does feel a bit bigger as expected. (I was on a 144. I had a T2C 144 prior and a 154 before that and then Moyes) This was the size Manfred and Christian recommended. Thermals well. Less easy to be upset. Glides great/ VG does feel it takes a bit more effort. Out of the box it takes a bit more high siding. I actually prefer this. Fit and finish is incredible. Sink rate seems good. Buddy has a T3 144 so its going to be fun to compare. Weather has not been cooperative, I only have a handle full of flights. No regrets. Looking forward to getting some distance flights. But the Atos has been hogging them ;-) photos.app.goo.gl/U1MPHaMgyD9jT9a86
That's what I thought I wanted to learn to fly first, then my brother and I watched all the videos we could find for both PG and HG. We chose HG for obvious reasons. We knew as beginners that we wouldn't be able to judge weather conditions well enough for PG. We chose bones in our wings. Best of luck with your Bi-wingalness. Stay safe and active flying always.
nailed it Mike.. would it be safe to say a high performance glider is much harder to land than a single surface glider..? (higher stall speed)..I remember my UP Gemini 164 single surface had a stall of 10 MPH..it would mush in landing all day long..lol anywho good to see U B still at it
@JohnDoe-1000xt yes. As you move up in performance, the flare window gets smaller, and the glider less forgiving, and the stall speed is higher. The WW Alpha 210 and 235, sound similar to your Gemini. Big giant huge flare window at about a walking pace LOL ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n6oZVO2hICo.htmlsi=NiSz3uTNzVz1DxLx
Sometime happens....no damages..not so smart but good save...last saturday I damage a downtube because during the final stall I touch the corn field with my left wingtip...next day I land like a prof...👋
@@MikeBomstad "only"... I don't know how your season has been going so far, Mike, but thanks to this El Niño/La Niña Pacific temperature bu******, XC has been practically cancelled in central Europe this year. It's really quite unbelievable. So to us, it's more like a 31km FAI that we aspire to this year 😠 I wonder - how has it been in the Western US for flying ?
oh, that was just my big flight from a few years back. The seasons anymore are terrible. Each year is less flights. No big flights this season. Now we have fire smoke. Sounds like your in the same boat with poor conditions. Good thing we love flying
every time I've had a bad landing,, it was like this. No whack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That counts dude!!!!!!!!!!! Good landing my my honest opinion!!!!!!!!!!! You got dropped and handled it just fine!!!!
It depends on conditions. I focus more when landing the Atos, its less forgiving. It doesn't get out of shape as easy though. Either one done wrong ends the same 😉
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Auh, the days of platform towing. Your flight brought back some fond memories of our tow road here in Oklahoma. Seeing those dust devils from the air was very nice as well. Thanks for bringing us along with you on this flight!
@Highrockman it really does help. I do carry some drop streamers and if really desperate to smoke bomb. A sailplane can really reach out and go some places, that should be very exciting
Great looking flight Mike, launch and landing, nice to see the land scape from above launch, beautiful (compared to my flight over the weekend LOL)! I'm watching some of your landings to see your set up transition and rotation to landing. Nice work.
Thanks! Sorry I missed you. I can sink you with the best of them :-) Hos the glider treating you? I get up early, one up one down hand placement, the the bar pressure is light enough you get my other hand up I will. I dont want to balloon up, so its usually a bit later .ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1i3S4mARne0.html
@DM-MCMLVI $14,100 At that price it is difficult to hang on to them both. I'm sure I'll be happy with the VR. They both just have a different feeling in the air. A little bit different set up as well.
