In the end of the video I almost had a bird strike! Next flight I’ll mount the camera more forward so that you don’t need to look up my nose. Music by Joakim Karud / joakimkarud
Trim it forward then let go LOL. Cirrus is beautiful !!!. Has a strange quirk , in a full slip nose down the stabulator control goes away . Full forward and back with no response.
I'm restoring my 1970 cirrus! And by the way they mean when you are going very high speed. And you may have a really good trim system as well. that may be it.
You were flying the glider so I'm very reluctant to say 'impossible' when you say the thermal was from the lake..... But I have always understood 'water does not generate thermals'. Where were you flying, and are thermals from maybe the lakeshore a regular feature of the area?
The thermal(hot/moist air) generator in this case is the terrain on the left of the lake. When the thermal let go from the ground it sucks in enormous amount of air at ground level to replace the air which is going up. This movement of air is what you can spot on the lakes.
Water absolutely does have thermals off of it. Where do you think hurricanes come from? Rising moist air turns to cumulus clouds, then turn to cumulonimbus and eventually tropical storm then hurricane. And it all from hot water. Next time you watch the weather channel look at it like it's a giant convection.. because that's what it is. As a general rule: never cross large bodies of water because it's impossible to tell where the currents are causing warm and cool water to mix and create the thermals.
@@Farweasel haha yessir I wouldn't be trying to thermal over water myself, but we do have Lake Okeechobee and I've seen cu build over the shallows of the lake.
