Epic Elevator - 6 m/s Thermal in a Glider 

Ladies and gentlemen, we have the first high altitude aphid! Someone call Guinness!

Bruce I know the feeling haha. On my third solo I found some great thermals only to have to put the k13 on the ground because my slot was coming to an end

On my third solo flight (same day as my first) I hit powerful lift just south of our airfield. I could see a very clearly defined cloud-street from the field to the next town. Unfortunately the glider was out of battery so the vario was out but I managed to find the lift using the mechanical gauge anyway. I decided to fly to the next town 10km away and return. I did it at 160km/h and locked at 750 meters to stay below airspace in an ASK21! Once I returned, it turned out my instructor had been yelling at his radio for the last 10 minutes and I didn't hear any of it. I'm pretty sure he was unsure whether to be really pissed or quite impressed! 😂

"one of my first solo flights" - every pilot remembers his first solo flight. Do not bullshit me by saying "one of my first solo flights" You either remember your first solo flight, or you are an imposter.

@@ildart8738he probably meant it was when he started doing solos so it was one of the first few😊

I didn’t mean the emoji lol

Me too😂😂

I assure you, that would never be a thing at any airport ever

I wouldnt be to shure about that😂😂, i have Seen similiar stupid Things before on airfields

Utku Okçu imagine being locked up with that thing i would open the canopy and bail out

Pilot Bravo thats why you are wearing a parachute :)

Haha yes 🤣

Should open the DV panel

Thanl you 👍

That's true! For that reason, I start the launch with +5 Flaps, and go to +10 as soon as airspeed is sufficient.

It is an LS3, no LS3a. Flaps and aelerons are not seperated

It was in shot for the take-off and the landing. I think it had stories to tell its family...

@D Mark rofl, me too also between 7:26 - 7:27

Great achievement 🤣

Best thing you can do 🤙🏼

What's wrong with it?

The most interesting aerotows were the two "500m-500ft" tows🤔

@@bruchpilot3727 oh jaer, you saw it... Luckily it wasn't me, but the pilot got a talk with instructors from the club. And I really hope he learnt something. I just can't understand how he couldn't see it out of the window.. But when he did it the second time, it made me a bit scared, what he might else do.

Wetter war halt gut 😅

@@SteFly naja trotztdem aber schönen flieger hast dir da für die worlds ausgesucht

War super 👍

It is the flap lever. The flaps are in the rear edge of the wing, and by adjusting them you can create lift, to climb faster in thermals, or to go faster when on a straight line of flight. Lever to the back increases lift, and pushing it forward allows the wing aero dynamics to make the glider go faster ...

The glider has a very good aerodynamic coefficient. It has very little drag and is very lightweight. It also has very long slender wings and body. The plane in front tows the glider to a safe altitude via a tow rope. Once the pilot of the glider disengages the tow line the glider has sufficient forward momentum to glide at a predetermined rate of descent. This is typically 26-29 to one. I.e it travels a distance of 28 feet or so horizontally in the forward direction and loses one foot in altitude. On a warm day the heat off the ground creates whats called thermals. These thermals are upward rising air and the glider is lofted by these thermals to higher altitudes. In this example the pilot was able to achieve a rate of climb of 6 meters per second using these thermals. The thermals are localised regions of rising air so the pilot uses the instruments to fly into these thermals and circles around and around to maximise the rate of ascent. Another use of getting altitude is terrain and wind direction. If the wind is sufficiently strong the glider can go into a head wind and pick up altitude and then circle around and pick up a tailwind to get forward momentum.

@@sneekmatrix thanks. I get it now

Yes, without water ballast

And the faster ones at about 17 m/s www.archdaily.com/879757/which-building-has-the-worlds-fastest-moving-elevator

XCSoar

Its a airbrake, gliders are so efficient that you need to decrease your glide ratio to land

It'd die eventually

And that's why i feel bad for the insect

No insects were harmed while making this video :D

@@kaihorstmann2783 i bet

😂 😂 Definitely

For a thermal that is really good. I've heard that wave lift can get way better though.

Gliders fly larger circles compared to paragliders. The strongest thermals are in the centre of the lift bubble, where the glider fly around it. But the glide-ratio of 40 makes it more than good.

Landau

Ls3

And a fk9

I once had a PPL pilot riding the backseat of the K21 I was flying, he felt he was on an aerobatic flight when I circled the thermals ;)

@@soaringhal my first gliderflight at 13 yo was arobatic I was solo at 14 Yo :)

That's the air brake (spoiler). Normally it is only used for landing. When it looks like a ski stick grip, that's because it is exactly that! I have the same grip in my glider.

@@chrisehmke1651 and what is the other one? when circling in a thermal

@@741741 The black handle beside the blue one is for the flaps. They are used for thermaling and landing when positive (handle is pulled back) and for high speed flight when negative (handle pushed forward)

@@chrisehmke1651i thought segelflugzeuge haben keine flaps. oder nur some of them?

@@741741 Standard class gliders don't have flaps. 15m and 18m class gliders have, open class as well. By using flaps, the glider can fly optimal in a wide speed range.

Good wave lift can be very quick

In northern Europe thermal updrafts to 5-6 m/s are called good thermals. In Spain thermals to 7 m/s can be found now and then. Deep inside well developed thunderstorms updrafts up to 30m/s are measured. In such clouds hailstones fall down, but are lifted upwards against the stream, and become heavier and heavier until they eventually drop down as tennisballs so big. This is however very seldom.

@@louisvanrijn3964 As a former hang glider pilot I once entered a +12 thermal in the Owens Valley, California, spectactular and almost sickening.

Do not speak of such things! Landru will be displeased.

Congrats! :D

No you can't. Bullshit questions are not answered in a serious channel.