Flying to a Party by Glider 

Thank you!!

@Lori_79 unlike in argentina where our corrupt dictatorship of a goverment demonize them for trying to make money calling them olligarchs and shit like that and charging them around 70% of their profit

@Lori_79 Very true.

I can't handle the abuse from Farmers anymore (in the UK). Maybe its just that I choose the fields managed by an ultra aggressive farm manager each time demanding compo and asking WFT did I think I was doing by landing.The last time the police were called after another pilot seeing me down OK decided to land as well in the same field at is must be safe...... The result of course is that I end up thermally desperately at 200ft trying at all costs to avoid another field landing and yet another confrontation - all of which is not very safe. Alternatively I simply do not go cross country flights anymore - sad but there it is.

@@M9dq76 Oh honey this is not at all sad. I am glad you have some anxieties about this. Emergency landing is somthing else, happens sometimes, completely fine. But if you are doing this for recreation (why else glide) and find yourself landing in peoples farms a little too often, then maybe don't glide. How do you expect people to be accomodating exactly when you are messing up their livelihood? You can't handle the abuse!?. Essentially you are messing with their hard efforts, resources, causing them lots of trouble and for what? For your little hobby. And you are so entitled that you are the one that can't handle the abuse? Should they be happy and be supportive of your little fun of gliding when they pay the price with their sweat and resources? Also consider that it is not just you. If the field looks safe to you, it looks safe to other gliders taking off from the same airport. You are likely, not the first in their farm. So don't be so entitled. Next time you land on sombodies farm, do all the work that was required for the crop you have rendered unusable. I think that should give you some real anxieties about landing in a farm.

Usually the farmer finds you because he will get informed by others. If there is a big damage, I would suggest to call the police.

@@SteFly Thanks Stefan. In the UK, it's often difficult to determine who owns a particular field I want to camp in, but I guess a large glider landing would attract more attention than a cycle camper 😄

@@archivist17 , just a funny idea, to land in a field to camp and spend the night there ^^^ (and to ask the arriving farmer for)

I've landed in about 50 farmer fields in New Zealand, and never once have I had to pay for crop damage. Usually I land on grass, but been in a few small crops. You would have to destroy quite a lot for them to care about it! Usually getting the trailer in will do more damage than the gilder landing. Usually there is someone on farm, often a farm worker, and I ask them who the owner is, then ring them and ask for permission to retrieve the glider. That keeps them happy!

@@PureGlide I've landed in a field last weekend due the fact that the Turbo of the Duo discus malfunctioned and didn't want to retract, Once in the field the son of the farmer started to spit over the plane, and stamped on the wing twice which thank god didn't cause any damage other then the destroyed mylar after inspection... The parents of the child cared more about their 10 plants that got ruined by the landing (worth $3,40), I had to pay $50 in order to get the trailer on the field, while I didn't even knew that I had no damage on the Duo.. Police kind off sorted it, but still terrible experience.

I would charge $1000 to allow the trailer to drive onto my property. If you can afford a $75,000 glider, you can afford the trespassing fee. Don't like it? Then don't try to fly a non-powered aircraft x-country

@@veryslyfox We usually carry the parts out. Most of us also don't have $75,000 sailplanes anyways. They typically cost about 5,000 to 15,000. There are some that cost that much though.

@@veryslyfox why not go for $10000 if you think you can charge anything? Police would sort you out real quick if you think you can demand ransom because their vehicle is on your property. Also, I'm sure you have NEVER parked your car on someone's property without their knowledge. You're just being an asshole honestly

@@veryslyfox I bet you don´t have any property at all.

@@veryslyfox I would pay 1000$ to see an entire race land on your property

Damn, that movie was great, would definitely watch again

@@theflano23 Already have. The scene where they're looking at the airfield (If you know, you know) I was cheering so loud when I realized what was about to happen. Like a kid on Christmas morning.

I just watched it today like 3 hours ago 😂😂

You kid. XD

Looks like the hyperdrive in star wars, doesn't it?

Hahaa, good luck for the outlandings :D

The minimum wingloading of the AS33 ME quite heavy. But of course I would like to fly it and give it a try. A funny side note: I already picked up an Antares electric glider from a muddy field because the motor broke (mechanical issue). It´s horrible to derig the heavy wings and get them out of the field.

@@SteFly yep far better to have removeable batteries in the fuselage a la JS3RES - Schleicher's engineering conservatism in play.

@@SteFly thanks for the update. Yes, early days for these hybrid gliders. I look forward to your flight tests to come.

Wouldn't that just be a normal plane?

@@JSMEsq no, it can soar. Planes need power all the time to stay up. With the ME potentially you can soar and go very large distances. With solar, even further. There’s a custom built solar glider out there and it can go for a thousand KM or more. Plus, a club could get a two seater and remove all the costs of winches and tugs.

Must have been a great experience. I have heard parties at this airfield are the best parties in history of airfield parties, maybe ever. Greetings from the airfield, that shall not be named 😉

@@Felix-tf1ge 👀👀😂

Dankeschön!

same

It's when you land out again, off a retrieve aerotow, it gets embarrassing..........

It´s always a good training!

I was wondering the same thing🤔

Come pick it up with your trailer, the wings detach and it all fits in a trailer.

Every glider has its own trailer where it fits in nicely. The glider pilot calls a friend/ someone from the airfield to bring the trailer and come pick everything up.

I made some bad decisions previously and at the end I was more focused not to make an outlanding and land on the airfield. At a competition I would have tried to fly somewhere else...

I am not sure myself but i think it measures the energy of the air currents and a high pitch indicates that there is a lot of upward streams so that one can gain altitude. you can see and hear it at 1:24.

The beeping at 3:16 shows the rate of ascent and descent without having to look at the variometer which is useful for finding thermals or ridge lifts.

The wings and elevator can be detatched and then the glider can be stored in a long trailer. So it's transported back to an airfield by car

wondering about the same thing

Yes, I still have a lot of footage from Sweden and will make some videos about it. 2nd & 3rd competition day + my first lesson of cloud flying as a student 👍

@@SteFly We are very much looking forward to it.

outlanding has to be nerve racking the first time! you never know if its a hidden animal or something!

Every minute of flying in a engine plane costs money because of burned fuel. A glider only needs the tow plane for 5 minutes and then you can fly for a long time on your own without rising cost. So the longer you fly the more it saves you could say. There's also the option to launch via winch. Then a cable is driven out over the length of the runway, glider attached on one end, and on the other a winch that pulls the cable with 100km/h. Then only the glider gets pulled into the air, so this costs even less fuel. (Though with tow planes you can be towed to rising air, so you'l have more chance of staying in the air for longer. Sometimes after a winch launch you can't find rising air before getting so low you have to land back at the airfield and try again)

No outlandings are made because you cannot reach another place anymore.

@@kedrednael So he was trying to reach his destination in one shot, couldn't, and just found the safest location to land?

@@yikemoo Yes

@@kedrednael ok, interesting, thanks for taking the time to answer! maybe people can be nice on the internet :D

How do gliders get airborne after an outlanding?

@@Udayan_Vishwakarma08 that's one of the reasons why i'm terryfied...I don't know 😅

@@precutopin lol 😂

Self-inflicted

If you can't reach an airfield or climb anymore you will hit the ground somewhere. There's nothing you can do about it then. Better find a place where you can hit the ground (land) without dying.

@Velo ?

@Velo Not to mention the possible fines from the FAA

We disasemble them and put them in trailors

Ein Testgerät, welches aber nur das Display von Air Avionics verwendet

@@SteFly aha interessant, wann wird's darüber mehr informationen geben?

@@nob0dy27_ Das würde ich auch gerne wissen :D

This is the sound of losing/gaining altitude. You can look at the rightmost gauge and see how sound corresponds to the value. Well, in this case it may not be so easy to see

@Velo Does it have Reverse Thrust?😂

@@vincentstohr2216 it doesn't even have forward thrust.

Pick up team wit auto und trailer.

My dad and brother picked me up with a trailer.

@@darkiee69 ok thanks

It's actually pretty common and normally not a big deal, neither for the pilot nor for the owner. Since gliding is highly weather dependent, "outlandings" happen on a regular basis and you even train for it during your training for the licence. The damage to the field is normally very limited, since the breaking distance on such a rough surface is pretty short. About the legal question: It's obviously not forbidden to land your glider on a field (if necessary, not on purpose!!), since you have no other choice when running out of proper thermals/lift and insurance covers any property damage.

@@jasparpaulus7471 ah okay that makes sense. i can imagine you must encounter some pretty pissed off owners tho lmao

@@Askejm I mean I guess. But like. It's not like it's your fault, nor are you targeting them for intentional disruption of their property. Seems dumb to me that people would be that pissed by the once in a lifetime occurrence of a pilot making an emergency landing in their empty field. That's just being crotchety.

​@@Varue sure, I was wondering as well. If it would be happening everyweek then that could be a disturbance and loss for the farmer but I guess if its a once in a life thing its more of a thing to remember and tell your friends about

Kinda sounds like a very American thing to ask.

oh. its a dr.400 sorry

the top gauge in the middle is the speedometer

Variometer, also known as a Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI). It beeps when you go up and drones when you go down. The rate at which you altitude changes determines the frequency and rate of the beeping. There are many variations of this instrument and some are programmable to suit personal preferences. As long as it is beeping you're going up. Sink Alarms are not nice to hear. It basically means you are losing altitude quickly and if you want to keep flying find some lift... quickly.