Gliding is so Freakin Fun! 

Thanks for watching! I have landed in 10 farmers' fields in 18 years of flying gliders. If you don't push it and land out every once in a while you are not having as much fun as you could :) The glider dropped causing negative g's and the phone to go flying. Near the mountains you can get some strong pockets of air going in any direction. It is essential to keep your speed up to have enough energy to get out of anything mother nature has to throw at you. Thanks for watching and take care. Bruno

fantastic! and without f#@!ing music! THX!

There can always be a surprise but these types of fields are cleared of all rocks and then rolled flat before they are planted so they can harvest the grain cutting down low to the ground. Thank goodness! :) Thanks for watching. Bruno

Nice landing choice lol,,,, Miles of safe field or towards the fence and trees......Great vid, thankyou :-)

Great question. The glider most often does less than a dollar's worth of damage (virtually none) so the farmers I have met have just gotten a kick out of it and wanted to get pictures to show the relatives on Facebook. :) Bruno

So amazing No music Just pure flying!!!! I love it

During the summer time here we get some incredibly strong thermals rising directly over the ridges like you see here. They are huge lift generators when you stop and thermal up in them and are even bigger monsters of turbulence when you try to just fly through them. That is what happened in this video. Thanks for watching and best of luck on your training. Bruno

be glad you survived your off field landings. my father was flying in a contest in NM in 97 in his schemp hirth ventus 2b and died in an off field landing as have a few of the guys who flew with him.

Amen! I've never flown in the ASW-20B aircraft, but I've logged a dozen flights in the Blanik L23, and the feeling of flying in gliders, on a beautiful day is, just a phenominal feeling. Thanks for the upload!

I've been watching your videos over the last few days. I want to try this so bad now. Thanks for the uploads.

these are the greatest videosequences on glider flying, ridge soaring I've ever seen! super! Thank you& more of it please.

I discovered your website a couple years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed your videos then. Now I have discovered your RU-vid channel, and it's great to watch! I get such a vicarious kick out of watching your soaring!

Love your videos I can't stop watching them....they look great on a 4K TV. Keep them coming!!!!!

Bruno...your videos are absolutely beautiful. I'm impressed. Keep 'em coming and fly safe!!

Bruno, thanks for sharing so much film. I live in Logan and love seeing the ridges from your vantage point. My son is attending Civil Air Patrol Glider Academy this summer so you have given me a great gift by allowing me to experience what he will get to experience this summer. Thanks.

I'm to nervous to become a good pilot, but i'm glad i tried it when i had the change, because like you say, it is a lot of fun. The moment in your video when you hit the updraft, would have probable scared me to dead, but it shows how intense this kind of flying can be. Thank for sharing your experience.

I've watched a lot of gliding video's, and yours are absolutely the best Bruno......

thanks form making freaking awesome videos. because of these (partly) i joined a glider club and now fly regularly in a mountainous area! thanks for the great videos!

Congrats Christopher!!! I spent my first 100 hours in a 2-33 and still love flying them. Yes, the high performance ships are great too but I still get excited to fly in the 2-33 I trained in almost 20 years ago once or twice a season. Keep flying and enjoy all the first experiences you will be having for the next 20 years of soaring. They really never stop if you don't. Bruno

Thanks Bruno, I enjoy all of your videos every time. :) It is fun especially in winter when I can not fly.

Amazing, beautiful stuff!

Hey Bruno, I did basic training when I was just 15 but shied away from it after an almost unrecoverable spin (forgot the trim ballast!). 20 odd yrs later and after watching your vids I think I am up for it again. Thanks for posting, keep them coming :)

Nice video! That side shot with the glider shadow seen on the side of the mountain is excellent. I wish I could someday take a sailplane ride. Pretty high peaks to require O2, but a good safe precaution. Thanks for sharing.

Hi from the UK. I last went gliding about 10 years go before a bigger mortgage and first child put and end to free time and money :). Watching your vids has rekindled my interest. I really would like to get back into this again, though I've only just managed to go solo before I stopped. It's a beautiful part of the world you're flying over to. Looks like the place I could move to if needed.

Awesome footage! Thanks for sharing... I have done one training flight over the ridges of the Angels Crest National Forest from Llano Ca.... in an old metal Schwitzer.... will never forget that! Soon as we released from the tow plane, we instantly gained 500 ft in a matter of seconds...what a rush!

I'm in awe... Great videos Bruno. Greetings from Croatia.

Your last statement... So true so very true.. Loved the compilation..

Thanks for sharing and sorry you had a scare early on. That would scare anyone. Go take a ridge with someone in a two seater and see if you want to jump back in and start your training again. Best of luck and fly safe. Bruno

Wow, that looks very risky but amazing! I am glad you know what your doing because I feel I would of killed myself in that glider.

Beautiful composition Bruno!!

I have only been gliding the once on a tandem "taster" session. I normally hate flying but i felt like this was something I had to do. It was unbelievable fun. I can't recommend it enough to people.

Beautiful !

Hi Bruno! I'm a young glider pilot from the flat country of Denmark. I must admit, that I have in fact watched all of your videos, from start to end. Denmark is almost completely flat, so we only fly cloud/dry thermals, which is great - it's challenging and I love it. But you have convinced me that there is another side of gliding that I absolutely HAVE to experience; ridge/mountain soaring. I'm absolutely amazed by the scenery you fly in - you're pretty lucky, you know? ;) Cheers, Simon

Great video! Looks like you guys had a blast in the cold and snow. :) Thanks for taking the time to shoot and edit for the rest of us to enjoy. Bruno

Great stuff Bruno, I'm learning gliding myself and it's soooo much more fun than powered flying!

So glad you have enjoyed them. The high grass landing was on the southwest side of Elkhorn peak north of Malad Idaho. Was very easy to get out. I had someone bring the glider trailer, we took the wings off in 20 minutes and we were out of there. Gliders are designed to land out in fields and as long as we don't hit something on landing like a fence or power lines there is usually not a single scratch on the glider. Bruno

haha this is fantastic! It's crazy how you can just glide over the mountains as if it's nothing... It looks so peaceful, yet at the same time, so dangerous...

I live at the Alps in Germany, but YOUR mountains are just incredible ! what a view

Great video - I did my spin training in a glider and loved it. I still fly slope ( RC only ) gliders but the thing that REALLY surprised me was how noisy it was the first time I was up. Nice wind noise but still ! Thanks again. Safe flying

Josh, you made my day! :) That is the reason why I go through the hassle of filming and editing so that other people get the soaring bug and give it a try themselves. Have a great time flying a be safe. Bruno

Love your videos, the fact you didn't use any music or other sound effects on the background is great; it really reminds me of my soaring days in the mountains ... and some forced landings in crops .... Thank you!

I love your videos!

Very cool! I have been up with my brother in a Blanik over the Rockies out of Boulder, Co. What a thrill!

Bruno- cheers for the upload.. you've persuaded me to start gliding.

Man that looks so fun!

Ahh... you bring back many fond memories. I've never seen a nasal cannula used for oxy before. I did my altitude diamond 25 years ago or so, in the Sierra wave just south of Inyokern, in a 1-26C... no mask, just sucking oxy from a tube like drinking from a straw ... I wish I'd had a cannula then, could have kept my free hand warm by sitting on it. ;)

Tomorrow I'll go to see gliders for first time after a long time. I pumped.

when the wind blows onto an obstacle (in this case a mountain) it is forced to rise on the front side. that's where you can find lift. on the back side of the mountain, the air gets really turbulent and you get lots of sinking there (it's called a 'rotor').

Great video, well done!

Perfect video. Before 2 months I flew for 1st time in my life with a glider and it was awesome.I want to do this again and take glider license after finishing school... :-)

The sound you hear is an "electronic variometer". It measures the amount of lift the glider is receiving. The stronger the thermal lift, the higher the pitch which indicates stronger/faster lift. The lower the pitch indicates less lift.

Great vids Bruno!

You are some pilot ! Im going up first time in FT Collins Colorado OWL airport next Saturday ! You got me hooked !

Haha! Great video. Oh that looks like fun!! Finished my CFI in the US just in time to get transferred to the UK, so I'm working on my glider rating over here. The conditions here aren't exactly ideal, but the community is really a vibrant bunch. Can't wait for the chance to get back to the States and see some good LIFT!! Thanks for a little bit of inspiration. :) Krusty

Great video! Was in the air myself today! Greatings from Austria!!!

Very strong turbulence. My friend was flying right in front of me and hit it first. A few seconds later I then hit it. In the mountains you get strong pockets of air. This was an example of "hitting" one.

You're a good pilot. I want to get the commercial and flight instructor glider add-on. Your videos make gliding look like a blast!

Most people don't understand that gliders and go many hundreds of miles in a single flight, fly in air currents where they gain many thousands of feet at a time and can fly often faster than 150 mph over the ground. Go take a glider ride for yourself and find out what they can do! :) Bruno

That silver device was an old ipaq 3975 connected to a gps and running a moving map soaring program called SeeYou Mobile. It really helped to let you know where you were and how far you could glide to given the current air conditions. Thanks for watching. Bruno

Hi Matt, It depends on if you start your training in the mountains or not. If yes, your instructor will help you to know your limits and help you be safe. If no, I would recommend at least 100 hours in the glider you are flying before taking it out to the mountains. It depends on the pilot. Some pilots are still not safe after 500 hours. ;) Mountain flying can be quite rewarding but I have also had a close friend die hitting a mountain as well. With proper training, mountain flying can be safe.

Thank you... Wyoming is such amazing!

Nice view. I should really start doing this myself already. Let the spring come :).

Most of the wheat run over won't break. It bends, and that's why people can make crop circles and not harm the crop; because it turns upright again within a few days.

Awesome video!! Thanks.

Great compilation Bruno!!!!!!!!!!. Greetings!!! Eze Azcona!

me too, I tried twice on a pretty old glider but I should try a recent composit model this saturday in fench pyrenees mountains. I can't wait !

Hey Bruno your videos are amazing and I enjoy watching them and thanks for all the time and effort editing and making them. I'm kind of an adrenaline junkie I've skydived I scuba dive. done questionable things on my street bike, with all those things now the wife it gets scared. She hates it when I skydive! So I problem need to give it up. but I really enjoyed your gliding videos and looking forward to gliding in the future are most gliders able to do acrobatics or would I need to look for a special type thanks again for all your hard work to help the glider community.

Hi, love ur vids, climbing the ridge at Mt Nebo, spectacular! Mountains are great, skied Utah many moons ago, wow .. Had 21 gliding lessons 25 yrs ago, one 3 hr flt in thermal, one to 10k ft in wave, (and plenty to 2k n back in 13 min :p ) brings it all back, thanks :) ..

Great Video really showing what Ridge flying is all about! If you havent already tried it do it now!

dude that was awesome i subscribed for that!

fantastic, every video cements this as a must do. I've got my local club booked for a taster.

Cool footage!

My god man you are sooooo lucky! I just took my first glider flight yesterday and have been bitten by the glider bug! I've flown small Cessna's but its nothing compared to Gliding.. Great videos! Dan in Ireland.

oh ok! i was just curious :) Also i really want to go in glider now because of this video. It looks like an awesome experience!

Yes, the motive was that I ran out of lift and this glider does not have an engine. Mother nature was demanding I land whether I wanted to or not. That field was the best option around. Nothing was damaged and gliders are made to land in fields like that and then we take the wings off and trailer them back to the airport.

Its funny how the biggest critics on you tube have no videos of their own posted. Keep the videos coming Bruno.

Bruno, Sam from the ferrari track day! WOW! This is some awesome footage. That field landing was crazy!

Wow, this is really one of the most gliding videos I had ever seem. I wish one day to try such gling experice thought Ihave a lot of alunches but it is all short ones with no exitments..All the best for you

mY goD..what an amazing thing.

Brilliant.

awesome vids man

The wheat field landing was cool!

Fantastic...

Oh, I would have figured the damage could have been greater than a few dollar's worth. Thank for answering my question! Im planning to get my license after graduating college so I'm trying to figure out as much as I can.

This looks like so much fun! I would love for this to be my hobby after I get my commercial pilot's license.

awesome!!

Un petit vol en attendant le souper, joli panorama : je vous remercie Bruno. Michel.

Great stuff Bruno!!! So long as YOU know what you're doing, keep on doing it! :) There seems to be a lot of sour grapes in this harvest :) Fly safe :)

Great, here I am, watching soaring videos on RU-vid again. I should be in bed; I have a final tomorrow, darnit! Awesome little video though ... I love how your cell phone (in airplane mode, right?!?!) just slides around your canopy bubble, and you just nonchalantly catch it like it's nothing at all.

AWESOME. First minute was...AMAZING !!! and fearful. You're a gangster....:-D

A glider is constantly going up and down. We circle up in areas of lifting air and then glide 10-20 miles to the next area of lifting air and go up again.

Top vidéo !

Pretty much thanks to this video I just had my first glider flight (as passenger) today, video is on my channel. You're right, gliding is so freaking fun :)

You sir, have a new subscriber!

Watching the vario during the turbulence is neat.

The sound is the vario, telling the pilot if he's going up or down as he flies through wave. You can see the instrument just on the right of centre. Good gliders can easily come in over $100k, trainers much less. From a field landing your "crew" come with the trailer, the wings detach.

It is very easy with very little time to get the glider add on. Do it!!! You will have a blast and it is probably the easiest add-on to get. No excuses! ;) Bruno

Fantastic glider :) ad very good pilot ;) good!

Not even a scratch. Gliders are made to land out in farmer's fields. Didn't even make the glider dirty. LOL :)

you are such a great pilot! I wish I could fly my asw 28 as well as you fly your asw 27!