Flying without an engine?! 3hr Cross-country GLIDER Flight

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Back to where it all started; flying gliders!
Today I’ll be taking you along on a cross-country flight together with my friend Maurits.
Maurits learnt how to fly gliders at the age of 14 and has accumulated more than 700 hours since.
Join us on a 3 hour cross-country in the beautiful Duo-Discus; an ultimate high-performance glider with a compact “hidden” sustainer engine. Do we make it home without using it?…
Check out my Instagram: / pilotbambi
More stories on my blog: pilotbambi.com/
Gliding club (GOZC) = www.gozc.nl
DISCLAIMER:
- Editing has removed certain context
- I am speaking out of my own experience, rules and regulations may vary per aircraft and/or country
- I am learning and improving everyday and encourage you to share your insights or point out any areas of improvement :-)
Music from: www.epidemicsound.com/

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12 июн 2020

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@speedbrake1469 4 года назад

Awesome, I learnt to fly a very long time ago when I was 17. I’m still at it professionally some 45 years later but unbelievably I’ve never flown a glider or a turbo prop. I guess there’s more I’m going to have to try and do before it’s to late!

@jozefsnopek352 4 года назад

This channel is going to explode in no time. Such a great content!

@NiloAzzurro 4 года назад

I agree!!!

@davegrant2167 4 года назад

Hey, this is how I started too! Teaching Air Cadets in the Grob 103 and 109. Glider pilots make better pilots!

@jackamo1997 4 года назад

Oh yeah, another episode. This has just made my day 😃

@larrymayberry2312 4 года назад

I love watching your videos. Your smile and laugh are infectious. Thanks and safe flying !

@ronaldvairfields4348 4 года назад

Right after the "mooi man!" (7:55) you're overhead my home town (Harderwijk) and catching the thermals at Beekhuizerzand and Ermelose Heide. Fun watching you!

@jimsandoval7633 3 года назад

Your smile and love for aviation make your videos so entertaining and fun to watch. Thank you for your efforts posting videos.

@daveseddon5227 4 года назад

Cool glider! Fun watching you having fun - enjoyed the vid. Thanks for sharing. 😊🙃😊

@BoomerKeith1 4 года назад

I don't know much of anything about gliders, so this video wasn't just entertaining, it was also educational! Looks like a great time and I would love to fly with Maurtis! Great video, as always.

@garyellis456 4 года назад

As soon as we see your smile we know we're in for a great time, nice 🇦🇺

@trinipilot2246 4 года назад

Hey Bambi, awesome video!!! This glider ride along was really cool. I've always wanted to fly a glider and now you make me want to go get my glider rating!! lol By the looks of you falling asleep in the back says a lot, as to how comfortable the ride must be. Having that engine as a backup gives you such a piece of mind to be able to go even longer distances. I enjoyed every minute!! Thanks

@Haralddv 4 года назад

"Flying without an engine", proceeds to fly in a glider.. with an engine

@iflyc77 4 года назад

Yeah. in the thumbnail even. lol

@53weazel 4 года назад

So it’s...Pilot Bimbo then ?

@mytube082007 4 года назад

They didnt use the engine, did they now?

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

It's a sustainer and not used for regular flying. The Duo Discus XLT is still classified as glider 👍

@Alan.livingston 4 года назад

If I’m not mistaken old mate said that they are obligated to test the engine if they were doing cross country and then they retracted it.

@atys1966 4 года назад

Thank you another lovely video.

@gliderpilot8882 3 года назад

Flying gliders is the best recreation in aviation. I have flown power and gliders. I prefer gliders for 33 years now.

@rickzelke6478 4 года назад

Awesome video Rosita ..I have 10 flights in a Schweizer glider ..drops like a rock lol ..so enjoyed seeing you on the Mentour channel ..very informative since I haven’t flown since the army ...your enthusiasm is contagious 🤗🤗🤗🤗bravo can’t wait till the ferry flight video...

@Hermandbl7 4 года назад

It's great to witness your passion for flying. I'll bet you don't even call it WORK! Keep reaching for the sky...

@maartenk7885 4 года назад

Another awesome video, Thanks bambi!

@Maik_Budweg 4 года назад

To fly in a glider is just awesome. Because you constantly feel like the air is carrying you.Thank you for sharing! Rosita, and many thanks for the live stream on Sunday with Petter. It was beautiful!

@henrih3080 4 года назад

That is absolutely true I have flown today a glider lesson with a instructor in the evening from 18:25-18:29 at the HAC Boberg it is a Gliderclub in Hamburg Germany! It was a really amazing traffic pattern takeoff and landing !

@Maik_Budweg 4 года назад

Congratulations! My first flight in a glider was in 1991 in Pirna Aeroclub. Launch by winch. Will never forget it.

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

@@Maik_Budweg Do you have a gliding licence? So worth taking the training!

@Maik_Budweg 4 года назад

@@LUXAviators I have no license. I had an instructor in glider and motor glider and C 172 and Z 43. So you can fly it but without take off and landing. Nevertheless a great time and useful to learn about it. If you really want to learn it and make a license , search for an aviation club. It's the best thing learn to fly.

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

@@Maik_Budweg I do have my licence already ;)

@cloudk2088 4 года назад

I feel the need...the need....to glide! Fun video as always!

@redfive9559 4 года назад

Giving a content with a big smile, make a video so special you are amazing 🤗👏👏🤗

@geschut 4 года назад

Yes! Here we go again!!! Soesterberg, my backyard :-)

@davidmerullo551 4 года назад

Bambi doing what she does best! Flyin and youtubin

@natal777 4 года назад

beautiful flight thank you for sharing 😊

@Tom-qr6hd 4 года назад

Love the Duo-Discus! Just came back from gliding as well today and this awesome video finishes off the day perfectly.

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

But it's a pain to land actually :D the airbrakes on the original Duo Discus are not very effective

@Tom-qr6hd 4 года назад

@@LUXAviators Haha true but a Duo Discus is not made to go down easily ;-) the glide ratio is just awesome

@rafabeton609 4 года назад

Nice! I went flying today, happy times!

@DetailxpertsNet1 4 года назад

Wooooow! Thanks for sharing this amazing experience!

@ashikihsan1946 Год назад

Hi Bambi, I like your wonderful cross country flying adventure by the GLIDDER Flight. You are great Bambi

@scorelegends4848 4 года назад

This is very beautiful, keep making content, I love you ❤

@grandmasterflash213 3 года назад

Awesome, this has made my mind up as to booking a trial glider flight👍

@snowman100 4 года назад

Asante sana for the videos! Fun and inspiring

@abufrancesco1939 4 года назад

Duo discus is really amazing glider !! Well done Bambi !

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

It really is! The original was a pain to land though! :D

@mikercflyer7383 4 года назад

I love gliders I only been up 3 times it was so much fun now I do not live near a glider port so now I fly a lot of Radio Controlled sailplanes. Safe Travels see you soon.

@PilotBlogDenys 4 года назад

Great! Glider gives unique experiecne. You soar like a bird.

@ghostcustoms9224 4 года назад

I'm new to this channel but I'm really enjoying the content👍

@positivelybobby 4 года назад

Beautiful! I really have to try that someday. Well done :-)

@ForFunFlyer 4 года назад

Nice ep again, Rosita! 🤙🏻

@holtg007 4 года назад

love gliding!

@lucypretorius972 Год назад

Awesome always exciting...

@peterellison2220 4 года назад

No better sound than the variometer beeping faster! I started with gliding at 15 too, I miss it so much!

@fingerhorn4 4 года назад

Infernal machines. There is nothing worse than these sound polluters beeping away all day. You have a variometer gauge to look at. A slightly more pleasing tone would be ok, but not beeping three times a second. Bloody things.

@peterellison2220 4 года назад

fingerhorn4 good thing we can mute them

@redbikerdude 4 года назад

What a nice flight. Thanks for sharing it and including the tips like thermals are better on the sunny side of the cloud, and hopping cloud to cloud. Many non-glider people ask about these things. Also nice to bring the power and non-power parts of the community together as there is such a divide. Paragliding next?

@zendesigner 4 года назад

redbikerdude it’s the combination of the sun and wind side. So if the wind is from the opposite side it can be either. The nice thing is that no day is the same. So you always have to figure out the specifics for that day

@kylianvanschijndel4818 4 года назад

Omggg it is flying maurits 😍

@aviator_z9188 4 года назад

this is so awesome!

@Andrew-xx4ht 4 года назад

Awesome!!!!! I feel younger looking at this video!!!!

@michi795 4 года назад

really enjoy your videos Rosita, thanks for sharing! By the way, I also fly Huskies for glider towing in our club had to laugh at 03:05 "yeah, I'll drive" ;-)

@dickmoore7341 4 года назад

That does look like fun Rosita, and so much quieter then a small planes engine noise. I have that one on my bucket list!!! Thanks for taking me along!!! I was the one sitting on your lap!!!.....lol Have a great weekend!!!

@lmartinez3633 4 года назад

Nice gliding adventure

@lowik1973 4 года назад

Awesome to see you in a glider. Also been flying glider since 14. You should try mointain flying in a glider as well. Love you content.

@soaruk3697 4 года назад

Ah 'real flying' at last :-) - all the really good pilots learn to fly gliders - I know some switched on airlines usually prefer them as they usually have superior handling skills and are more attuned to nature i.e. my friend used to use the wave lift coming of the Alps, flying out of Milan to gain height quicker and save fuel and of course money. I myself for example have used thermal lift in cloud streets in Saskatchewan in a Cessna 182 to increase speed by about 20% and decrease fuel consumption by about 30% at the same time, and using ridge lift to help climb over mountain passes in the Canadian Rockies in an underpowered Luscombe. Most power pilots who haven't flown gliders have little understanding of how to use the atmosphere to aid them or when to be cautious.

@Flyingdutchy33 4 года назад

Exactly where I wana end up! How is soaring in BC, do you happen to know?

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

That seems interesting! I ask myself, yes you can use cloud streets but running the engine on idle only increases drag which is not very efficient? How do you handled that then?:) I fly a Super Dimona where you can just shut off and feather the prop, decreasing drag a lot.

@antigoon78 4 года назад

Whahaha Maurits' socks. Legendary on their own.

@lovelightshining4444 3 года назад

Absolutely loved this video! Have you seen the glider's that have a tiny retractable jet engines to self launch. They're amazing. You're the best Thank you so much for the content! Everyone who watches definantly love flying as much as you do!. Blessings eternally dear heart ✨ Laughing so hard at your pre flight fun..... 💖♾️

@hpmaxim 4 года назад

The bravest thing in the whole video was getting behind that underpowered tug in a Duo at high density altitude. Towing behind a Super Cub in a Twin Astir, there have been times when I was descending.

@nicknocturnal652 4 года назад

Hey Pilot Bambi, I just watched you live stream with Peter (Greasy Looking Swedish guy - lol) thought you were brilliant! Very interesting lots of well answered questions and inspired me as a PPL modular student from 🇬🇧

@MrBannap 4 года назад

I love this channel, I can spent my whole day watching this gorgeous girl

@mgobets 4 года назад

Very cool!

@MonostripeZebra 4 года назад

An inversion with a sloppy integrated meter of climb in the blue and a sleeping pax in the back.. Duo Discus Turbo has never felt so much like trucking! ;=P

@Trevor_Austin 3 года назад

This took me back. I spent nearly 20 years whizzing over this area going into and out of AMS.

@stefanweidemann6944 4 года назад

What a Gentleman. "It's cold up there", puts on his Yeti-Sky-Boots and leaves you freezing in the back.

@daveseddon5227 4 года назад

But now down to more serious issues. I've watched all your content. So now it's time to make more, more, more! 🙂🙃🙂

@eileenstack255 4 года назад

I just love anything that flies 🙋‍♀️🇮🇪👍

@limadeltazulu 4 года назад

Gliders are kings of the skies

@Alniemi 4 года назад

Yes and the gliders like the large women, the 747 XD

@Motion.Pichures 4 года назад

After watching three videos. Subscribed!

@eileenstack255 4 года назад

You guys are cool brave as John Denver would say Far out 🙋‍♀️🇮🇪👍

@adilsaleem8846 4 года назад

Love it

@ratters33 4 года назад

Flying a glider just made my bucket list!

@MotoSnax 4 года назад

7:33 Amersfoort! Handig, zo'n motortje op een zweefvliegtuig. :) Leuk kanaal!

@emiliosagichnicht7521 4 года назад

I must admit the duo is really comfortable, I totally understand falling asleep it's just the best.

@PilotBambi 4 года назад

Haha i'm glad you get me 😂

@undiaencasa 4 года назад

Muy buen vídeo, un saludo.

@beepilot 4 года назад

Pilotlife 🤘🏻

@antoniobulhoes3831 4 года назад

Excelente o vídeo! Sou piloto no Brasil e com certeza não tenho essa coragem de voar sem ter um motor.

@patrickmaartense7772 4 года назад

i still remember gliding in NL ( solo at 14 EHMZ from EHAC (1980) ) after moving to AT, that is a different ballpark , only limit is the capacity of your bladder there... (or you O2 supply)

@KARLHAB 4 года назад

Duo Discuss my fave

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

But the original one is a pain in the ass to land.. It's built to fly :D

@jimfrigo5580 3 года назад

Exciting your living life

@zendesigner 4 года назад

Lol dat je het voetenstuur al vergeten was 😀 enkel in het zweven leer je echt vliegen he. Een zweefvlieginstructeur. 😀

@projectpacer 4 года назад

Never flown in a glider before. My understanding is that rudder input is very pronounced and required for good coordinated turns. The string on the canopy is your friend from what I have read. Great that you get to try different types of aircraft. Sounds like you were having fun.

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

Indeed, the rudder is used much more then the aileron in gliders. Every pilot that tries gliding for the first time completely messes it up cause they aren't used to using so much rudder

@mozzmann 4 года назад

We tend do adopt Low tow rather than Hightow , my best flight was just on 9 Hours covering some 2500 Km triangle

@ivo2829 4 года назад

9:45 Lol that's Heerewaarden, Rossum & Kerkdriel. Last one being my home village! Which triangle did you fly?

@wancoet 4 года назад

wow what a match, you were flying glider in glederland

@rthjong 4 года назад

Leuk! 🤗👍🏻🤗

@rajeshsooklal9317 4 года назад

Wow I love it..won't you afraid of the landing?

@splvega1 4 года назад

Bambi, pull that man's man card!!

@casaamaril 4 года назад

Mooi in beeld gebrachte overlandvlucht Rosita, ook leuk dat Maurits uitleg geeft over verschillende dingen, welke route zijn jullie die dag eigenlijk gevlogen?

@thomasbolam8671 4 года назад

First! Thanks Bambi!

@U2EdgeFan 4 года назад

Its fun at least 30mins into the flight for non-accustomed passengers. Then the sickness usually sets in. 😀🤙

@LUXAviators 4 года назад

Depends on the weather as well 😅 Had one passenger who got sick after 5min cause we were circling tight at 4-5m/s

@veenagodara5300 4 года назад

You have the best life ever....!

@steekle7 4 года назад

I miss gliding. I'm to busy with my study and there isn't any gliding fields nearby anymore. I'm also dutch btw

@anti2167 4 года назад

nice

@ebrahimosman8590 4 года назад

New sub

@NowayNL 4 года назад

Awesome video's, Keep up the hard work! I got this channel recommended after i searched for a AFF skydive course in The Netherlands 🛩️ I have watched them all, Everyone just subscribe! ✔️

@theaviationchannel9111 4 года назад

lol u fell asleep. I had so much fun. I am learning to fly gliders at the age of 12

@tritherail9812 4 года назад

12:12 I got MAJORRR a350 vibes

@arctic_haze 3 года назад

I do have a feeling that Maurits have been upgraded from a friend, since 😄

@robertg5393 4 года назад

Als je ooit in North Carolina komt, laat het me weten; Ik vlieg een Citation in de VS, en ben ook begonnen met zweefvliegen op m'n 14e op Soesterberg (AcvZ). Woon sinds 17 jaar in de VS. Gaafe video!

@simonvavra6608 4 года назад

I feel old starting at 16 :D

@Wilem35 3 года назад

Gliders is where it will likely end as well in retirement. I'll have to drop by next time we visit.

@valeriaarcelli5372 4 года назад

MAURITSSSSSSSSS LOLOLOL

@mumblecake251 4 года назад

Title: "Flying without an engine?!" Thumbnail: Glider with extended retainer motor Other than that very nice vid. Especially liked the face shots of Maurits as you could see very well how he was constantly going through the scan cycle of his look-out.

@musique0105 4 года назад

I thought he was your brother. you look like each other :)))))))))))) I have a fear of flying :(( greetings from the netherlands

@Dimensvlz 4 года назад

Thank you for the nice video Bambi! What was permanently beeping during the gliding flight?

@peterkjellstrom3100 4 года назад

That was the vario (vertical speed instrument). Higher pitch beeping = going up faster. Not having to look at the instrument is convenient when handling thermals.