Wonderful video,I like the way that you explain things,it’s really helpful and is good to learn a bit with you as well. 🫶🏻for more vids like that . Mike is a great pilot I like him very much 🙌🏻
Absolutely brilliant flight mate, love watching your XC videos, one day I will venture from the hill for my first XC flight. Might be a while before I tackle a 100k mind you. Keep the videos coming 👍👍
Thanks buddy, I fear it’ll be the last 100km day of the year, but it’s been a great year! You deffo should give XC a go, hopefully it won’t take you 21 years before your first 100km flight like it took me 😂😂
Thanks Marco, however you must have missed my previous three videos - I was actually flying again three days after I returned home from Switzerland… after all, the doctor said to rest and keep your feet up 😂
3 things I would usually do is: 1. Rely on RASP forecast, see the cloud height, the clouds develop on that day etc. 2. Look around and notice how the other clouds look like around me, and if they are over developing chances are that the cloud that I'm under is too.. 3. Stay away from peaks of the mountains where thermal release the strongest, it's usually at these places CuNims love to develop over and over again where they can easily penetrate and climb up through an inversion. (Just sharing what I know 😁) I'm interested to know Tim's answer for your question 😊
Great question Edgars, and also good answer Dammike (although I’m not so sure about 3). You can get a feel for the strength of the lift as you’re climbing up underneath a cloud, and as long as you always observe the 45° rule (ie. imagine a inverted cone with 45° sides underneath the cloud, and don’t enter this cone) then you should always have an escape route. Only once you’ve established that the lift isn’t too strong should you enter the cone and get closer to cloudbase. In the case of a cloud street you can position yourself towards one side of it (sunny side is generally best) then you can peel off to the side if it gets too strong). I hope that helps…
Sadly we were waiting on Conbe for things to get better wind direction wise. Nice flight Tim!!! Question Tim: do you have a separate mic for the GoPro?
Thanks Nik, I think it was better earlier, right? I use the internal mic but cover the whole camera in a cheap foam "windslayer" which makes a big difference.
@@TimPentreath Hey Tim, I was chatting to Benjamin Kellett about this, and I've recently downloaded sportstracklive - at first, I thought "Oh no...." but there's an option to display your track via Google terrain! On a desktop, using screen capture software, it does the job at least as well as Ayvri. Sad indeed for the developers of Ayvri, but as he said, he made a mistake with his business model. Hopefully, sportstracklive will last longer.... Just my experience so far, but give it a try b(^ - ^)d
@@TimPentreath You definitely can. You can create flights from an IGC file (at least from a browser, haven't found how to do in the app). And you can create scenes from multiple tracks of your choice. Love your vids btw 🙂
How can this be relaxing and fun? This beeping thing makes me crazy and i'm behind a PC, can't imagin being actually up there with that thing beeping all the time!
It's called a vario. The higher it beeps the faster you're going up. and if it's a solid low tone you're going down. It's necessary for XC flying and we love it, especially when it's really high. One of the reasons I love Tim's videos is because I can hear the beeping thing. :)
Thanks for replying Peter & Dark Lord 👍🏻 @Luc, as they’ve said, it’s an essential piece of kit (which I also happen to sell in the UK) for cross country flying, and whilst non-flyers might find it annoying, when you’re up there you get so used to it that you don’t notice it as being annoying or intrusive, it’s just there. Obviously if you’re just ridge-soaring (as opposed to using thermals) it’s nice to turn the beeping off now and then.
