It has been 35 years since I stopped gliding and I still miss it. I just made your video full-screen and relaxed. That is beautiful countryside where you fly.
I had a share in a Blanik at Sutton Bank in the UK. Some of my happiest memories. Soaring😊, instructing, and flying the Super Cub and the Pawner. We had it all: ridge soaring, wave and thermals. That was more than forty years ago. Good to see that the Blanik is still flying. Thank you for sharing.
I did my first training flight in a Blanik at Baragwanath Airfield in Johannesburg in the 1970's. I had an ancient pilot instructor, a German guy who it turned out was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot in WW11. He handed over control to me, first time ever and I became fixated on the instruments. I looked up and we were almost vertical and I was pulling back hard on the stick. I never forget he said as he rapidly grabbed the stick and took over "und now you pull ze vings off und zen ve die ...Ja?".
My late Uncle (Wessel Marais) was a glider pilot and took me for a flight. It was at Magaliesburg. He told me of a WWII German Ace who flew at the club and appropriately went by the name of Heinz. I forgot the surname. This was circa 1976. Same guy?
My instructor in the L13 was always telling my to keep my head on a swivel, across the flying panel then outside and across the canopy and back to the flying panel over and over. He was right of course, awareness inside AND outside at all times.
I was able to rent a Blanik L-13 decades ago and sure did enjoy it while I was able to fly sailplanes....I surely miss it, especially after watching this video....Thanks for posting this.... I brought back a LOT of memories for me....
Great !!! I once flew in a glider from Boulder Colorado local airport. Since the plane pilot who was towing us was paid for every glider he took up, the pilot was in a hurry to be back down. My glider pilot told me to watch the towing plane once we released the cable: The towing pilot provoked an air stall on purpose & his plane dropped like a stone... impressive. Of course, the towing plane must have been built to resist the violence of the procedure 😄😄😄
That was a great flight on a beautiful day! What a perfect setting you have. My old gliding club, Mid-Georgia Soaring Association, in Monroe, Georgia, USA, had two L-13s. I really liked flying them. Even after a friend and I bought a Libelle 201-B, I'd still fly the L-13s. Wishing you many years of beautiful soaring. 👍 😃 👏
Thank you for reminding me my 16 years, in Évora, Portugal, in a Rhönlerche II. We also had a Blanik. Beautiful spins and stalls. The altimeter was calibrated to sea level, I guess...
Thank you, beautiful video. Brings back memories of my youth. I learned to fly in Slovakia (Czechoslovakia) in 1962,63,64 on Pionyr L-109. Mainly with a winch take off about 160 flights to 350 -450 m and some 20 air tows with Zlin 205 or Brygadir L 60. Our Deep Banking turns, stalls and spins were done from 1500 m.
I haven't flown gliders since the 90s. I have a commercial rating and used to give rides in the L-23. I have a few hundred hrs in the L-13 and 23. It's a solid no-nonsense glider I loved flying it. Some of my 1st commercial rides were in the flying tank, the Schweizer SGS 2-32.
40 years ago I flew the Super Blanik on my very first solo areotow and loved it, it's a lovely glider. This brought back soooooo many memories, all delightful :)
Spin training was always an energizing time. Learned them flying in a Schweizer 2-33, so the only difference between those in this video (and the stalls) and when I was training, was the wing skin rattling like hell as you approached the stall. This brought back memories of the first spin and how, all of a sudden, you were looking STRAIGHT DOWN at the ground. In a way, spin training taught me more how to keep the ship in proper form, especially in those tight banks in a small thermal.
Yes tight banks in small thermals are sometimes like walking on a rope ... I really like when you don´t have to put it on the edge but spin training is great for getting confident in those situations.
I learned to fly in an L13 Blanik way back in the early 1080's and thoroughly enjoyed flying this aircraft. I still have a soft spot for it despite the wing spar problems that appeared later. All of my flights were winch launched and I took my solo after 10.25 hours and had a cable break at the decision height of 300 feet on that trip....exciting !.
Oh 300 ft is really a bad height to have cable break indeed ... not high enough and also not low enough .... it depends on a rwy lenght of course but for example at our airfield this would be probably the worst altitude to experience it ... that must have been intense .... My instructor simulated the cable break at about 400 ft at my solo and he didn´t told me about his intention ... just wanted to see my reaction to that. It was already enough to safely perform go-around the winch but still it wasn´t pleasant.
@@J18Flyer Thankfully our strip was about 5000 feet so it was no issue to land straight ahead but it was still intense. My instructor must've been having kittens watching me.
12:27 "Don't pull too hard in the dive" man do I remember that, the first spin recovery I pulled about a G and my instructor calmly said "Not so hard on the stick next time", this brings back wonderful memories for me. Stalls were fun, the AC I flew gave a reassuring shudder just before the stall and if my memory serves me correctly the port wing would drop first every time, I seem to remember any aileron use at this time made it worse. Stalls on the L13 were 48 knots I think.
Yeah exactly. Well we know how that felt right? When you see the ground and you are heading face down towards it it´s pretty hard to keep your hands calm 😅 L-23 stalls at about 60kph which is approx. 32 kts if I´m counting correctly. Realistically it´s little bit less but flight envelope says 60 Kph. It gives you the reassuring shudder as you say and plane is relatively stable at the stall ... it´s even hard to keep it in the spin for more than one turn.
Thank you so much for this video. I have flown fixed wing and helicopters but never a glider. I can't tell you how awesome this was for me. It felt as though I was there right behind you. Just loved it. Thank you and thank your Instructor. WOW
Really enjoyed the Video. Reminded me of the time 25 years ago when I learned to fly gliders back in1998, using the Super Blanik L-23 at College Station, TX. The head mounted Video camera is just great, it brings back a lot of the pilot feeling when watching, eg. when you were peaking to the runway while at downwind and crosswind. Thank you!
Wow... It always strikes me when I hear that those machines are used so far away from my country. Like on the airfields of Texas USA ... thank you for the kind words my friend. Yeah I wanted to film it on head mounted camera exactly because of this reason. I think it is the best way to let the viewer feel the experience of flying one of these. I´m peaking quite often on a baseleg because as you certainly know you have to eyeball the point where to turn on a final especially when you have strong crosswind which is unfortunatelly pretty common in Olomouc.
@@J18Flyer “”J18 F, do aeroklubu trencin sme ho s obdivom prijali v 1960 roku , myslím v máji. Vtedy som bol začiatočník- žiak. Súhlasím, skvelý stroj. Vtedajší náčelník aeroklubu p Smolka Jožko mal prelet TN- Rumunsko cca 950 km, na Blaniku!!!! Dobré zdravie človek!👆🏿🍀🍀👍
Former US Navy jet pilot and flight instructor here. We did stalls and spins in every type of single engine prop and jet I flew 1967-1971, including "under the bag" instrument flying only. It seems odd to do spin recovery before stall recovery, since the A/C must stall before it can spin. The object is to prevent the spin by recovering from the stall first. Only if the stall is prolonged and asymmetric would it spin, then need the spin recovery. As I said, we recovered from spins even in instrument flying, even in jets. Navy pilots have always been the best! Landing on carriers required more skill and confidence than any other type of maneuvers. I also flew soaring A/C-gliders, the purist form of flying!
Hey! Thanks for your comment it´s an honor to get info from such an experienced pilot. The sequence of the aerobatics elements here isn´t really done by the "logic" of the stuff but more by the alt limitation as the spin is more alt dependent than stall. Also this wasn´t the first training flight I had for those scenarios so we were doing only some part of the training plan here. Basically extreme flight mode training (I don´t know if I translate it correctly into english) is beginning with the stall prevention than we go for the stall training and than to spins and spins from incorrectly performed turns. And how to prevent that of course. I can imagine that carrier landing must be extremely precise maneuver. Our instructors are pretty demanding in the matter of defined space landings and it´s already quite difficult with a sail plane. I can´t even imagine that I have moving RWY in front of me and I have to land precisely with almost few meters tolerance.
Hello ! Thanks a lot for showing this very nice flight in a really nice vid. I was a glider-pilot for many years and this vid brings back sooo many unpayable memories ! 😊😊😊
Looks like that glider was the only thing keeping that tow plane aloft. As soon as he dropped the cord, the tow plane fell out of the sky. All joking aside, it was fun to watch, and the tow pilot did a fine job.
Great video! I had some lessons in 1973 and have been up in a glider only a few times since. This was at Rufforth near York (UK) and they had a Blanik then. I think I'll get myself a flight for my 70th birthday this year!
This video brought back memories of this airport, where years ago we made the final decision to buy the ROKO NG6 airplane. We did some test flights with him here and also visited the factory where they were made :)
I taught glider flight instruction when I was 20 (1975), flying out of Crystalaire Airport in the high desert north of Los Angeles. There was a Blanik L-13 at the gliderport and somehow I was allowed to use it for recreational flights. I thought it was pretty cool, with a retractable landing gear, fowler flaps, a very low thermalling speed (28kts?) and that beautiful aluminum skin. The L-13 was always said to have poor penetration if you needed to get home in a hurry, but it was a lot of fun when the lift was strong. One nice feature was that the main gear didn't completely retract, so if you landed gear-up, it didn't damage the aircraft. Don't ask me how I know that...
Thank you for sharing this veeery nice video! For me it was, as if I was sitting on your seat. My heart rate went up, i was fully concentrated over the whole flight.
Já děkuji jsem rád, že se líbilo. Snad toho v budoucnu přibyde. Plánuju každopádně dát nějaké video, až se budu pokoušet o pětihodinovku a časem třeba i nějaký ten přelet. Ať se daří!
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I'm not sure how you came up in my feed, but thank you. This brought back childhood memories of flying in a Blanic back in the mid '70s as a young boy on holiday with my family down in Queenstown, New Zealand! I can still remember some things about it. As I got older I spent many Sunday afternoons at our local airforce base in Wigram helping hook up gliders and running the wing while launching gliders at the Canterbury Gliding Club. As an adult I went on to fly many Piper and Cessna fixed wing planes and finally, a multi engine instrument rating with a NZL CPL. I love doing spins and doing many stalls, but never without an engine! The glider club moved many years ago out to the countryside near Springfield, so we never see the gliders soaring high over 15000ft above my home suburbs over the Christchurch Port Hills. I've vivid memories of the big Piper Pawnee with its noisy 2 blade propellor tips, always pulling 2 gliders, hauling them skyward over the volcanic peninsula. Great memories of grass, tow ropes, testing the rope release and hooking up the tow ropes and enduring the prop blast from the Pipers in the prevailing easterly wind. Cheers, David.
Front seater: keep the tow plane on the mean hotrizon, on a turn head the nose on the outer wing tip. Tow pilot head under the cummuli, there is obviously a clowd street , make use of it, reduces tow time.
Ono u těch vývrtek a pádů je těch úkonů dost. Dělal jsem to teď po cca půl roce a dalo mi práci si vzpomenout na všechno. Jsem rád, že to tomu účelu poslouží. 😀
That looks really fun. I have the "Condor" sail plane simulator for my gaming PC but it's not very realistic, they say. But it's as close as I'm going to get because I just turned 66 years old. I was a airplane pilot for a short time in the very early 2000s. Flew Pipers and Cessnas but gave it up due to cost. But I did get my license and flew for three years.
I took a few glider lessons was I was actively flying powered planes. It was a lot noisier that I expected, and the lessons are short and expensive, especially with two or three flights each lesson. #1 rule I remember after getting released "find the airport and turn toward it". Good advice since a lot of tows took us over the ocean. Maybe if I got to do long cross countries it would be cool.
Yeah well soaring is something really hard to get into sim engine as thermals and wind conditions are very hard to simulate. This year we have a student who just turned 70 and is starting with the training. He has green light on medical checkup so I mean why not 🙂
Good that you guys still perform real stalls and spins in the training program ! In France this is no longer performed and I think that's not good for security !! Have fun flying in your nice environnement !
Yeah I´m thankfull for that as well. It really gives you some kind of confidence and what I found usefull as well is that it tells you where are the limits of your aircraft. You know where you can go and where you´re beyond the limit. We have also lot of training on a winch launch emergency situations. When you learn how much can go wrong during those launches you´re almost scared to take one but it´s good to learn that as well.
Looks so fun! I’m going to go for a sailplane flight with a friend soon, super excited. I’ve been paragliding for 3 years now, and have done stalls and spins in my paraglider, imagine that they will feel much more benign in a sailplane.
I wish you best of luck man! It´s wonderfull way to fly .. I flew in duo with paragliding pilot once and I must say that the contact with the enviromnent is something I really miss in a glider. Everything has something to admire. See you in the sky!
@@J18Flyer yes that contact with the environment is something special. When you enter a thermal you can hear the wind speed picking up, sounds like you’re in a vacuum, and you can feel the temperature change, it’s very visceral.
Nice spin practice, exit on course! Flew basic aerobatics in a similar Blanik L13 at Boeing glider club way back in the mid 1970:s ... Sadly most of these are now grounded due to wing spar fatigue as I understand it.
Yep sadly they are. Our aeroclub have 2 L 13 grounded because rebuild to meet the safety requirements is too expensive. There was an accident in Austria I believe and there they found out that L 13 has a design flaw ... as I understood it it´s not dangerous for the normal flying regime but in aerobatics there´s a risk of structural failure of the wing spar and loosing the wing.
@@J18Flyer I learnt to fly gliders in an L13 also, great memories. I think the L13 you refer to, was very heavily aerobatted, and ultimately lost its wings in flight prior to just 900hrs tt. We used to pay particular attention to those large ‘ carry through ‘ rivets and what we could see of the main spar pre flight, but I suspect that was more for our peace of mind before flight, rather than picking up on a fault. I do remember the rivets would get a greyish ‘ paste ‘ ( which i used to think was aluminium fragments and dirt and moisture mixed ) between the rivet head and what it was fastening together. Still, it was a good basic aeronautical grounding. Cheers
Tak jako příznivce létání mne tohle video potěšilo, akorát se musím přiznat, že až na konci z komunikace plota s věží, kde mne udivilo ohlášení "Olomouc rádio", jsem pochopil, že se létá nad Olomoucí. Njedřív jsem chvíli přemýšlel, co to je za nesmysl, vždyť přeci hláskovací abeceda má pro O a R jiná slova (nyť s námořními papíry znám spíš abecedu anglickou) a kromě toho letadlo bude mít patrně značku OK a nikoli OR. Totálně mne předtím zmátla zmínka pilota o směru na Poděbrady. Měl jsem zato, že let probíhá někde v Čechách a Poděbrady jsou tamní město ... Až na konci mi podle komunikace došlo, že se jedná o Olomouc a jako rodilý Olomoučák, který ale už 35 let žije u Jihlavy, jsem Olomouc ze vzduchu zprvu nepoznal. Ona se taky Olomouc za ty desítky let hodně změnila. Za mne Olomouc směrem na Brno končila kousek za Hotelovým domem, na místě dnešní nesmyslně řešené křižovatky u příjezdu od Brna stála ještě lidová hvězdárna (také jsem tam chodil) a kousek od ní před Hněvotínem bylo travnaté letiště, kam jsme coby letečtí modeláři chodili létat s R/C modely. Takže video si pouštím znovu a jdu se znovu podívat na místa, která jsem jako kluk kdysi znal a teď nepoznal, byť jsem nad Olomoucí párkrát byl, když mne Vraťa (také bývalý modelář) vzal do luftu při mé návštěvě Olomouce.
To be honest I´m not sure if I ever saw exact procedure for this specific training course. What I experienced is that before stall and spin training flights every student goes through ground briefing and stall prevention course so he can learn about those edge flight regimes but spin is usually done first as it requires higher alt limitation than the stall training.
To je podle mě teda nejtěžší lítání. Občas mají na letišti provoz modeláři a to jakým způsobem jsou ze země schopni některé manévry odhadnout je mimo mé chápání.
@@J18Flyer Teďka Megera z Brusele stanovila vzletovou hmotnost RC na maximálně 250 gramů. Výsledné Reynoldsovo číslo tak odpovídá zhrubaa kouli ze zmačkaného papíru. S tím pak tělejte přelety mezi termickými proudy.
Very nice except that before you attempt spins or stalls you need to visually verify that the area is clear of traffic. Keep your head on a swivel and look around to be absolutely sure the airspace is clear.
Jo jak jsem na to pak koukal taky mi to došlo. Hlavně, že se na nic nezapomnělo. Vím že jak jsem se to učil snažil jsem si zapamatovat, že to jde postupně všechno po kokpitu zleva doprava a k sobě. Díky.
Jo no ono spíš výjimečně se to podaří dát tak že to je opravdu rovně. Dělal jsem pak ještě pár záběrů v Šumperku, ale ty byly tak mimo, že jsem je tady ani nedával. Je třeba aby před letem někdo zkontroloval jak to snímá a to se dost blbě dělá pokud už člověk nesedí přímo v kokpitu kdy už na to moc není čas. Už jsem aspoň vychytal ke konci sezóny jak to dávat horizontálně rovně, ale ten sklon to je vždycky odhad. Spíš mám s GoPro 11 jiný problém, a to že se v kokpitu strašně rychle přehřeje a po nějakých 20 minutách automaticky vypne.
I was watching the tug going straight through thermals then dropping you in a hole 😂. But i guess you were a student. Gliding without vario sound was strange too, and a down wind landing, although it looked very calm.
Exactly as you said I was a student and to be honest I wasn´t even looking on a vario in the moment ... I realized that there were multiple thermals along the way after the flight when I watched the recording 😆Point was to get as high as possible for some reasonable flight prize. Considering we flew through the hole at least the last 30 seconds of the tow I decided to detach. And about the landing ... we are forbidden to land on RWY 27 in a glider due to multiple reasons so we can´t choose up or downwind attitude in this case. Usually when there are unfavourable wind conditions we don´t fly the gliders at all. In this case there was almost no wind so it wasn´t a problem.
It didn´t ... it´s the optical illusion. I watched the sequence multiple times as lot of similar comments started to come up on this video. What I can recommend is to watch the attachment point on a tow plane when I decoupled ... you can see that the rope is staying attached at that point for a brief moment.
I admit that when I see it from the video it was on the edge ... It needed little bit less speed ... it went into the spin when I was already half way through the maneuver.
I mean it´s basically done by attaching the rope. If it would be faulty you woudn´t be able to pull that in a first place. So pulling the rope after attachement is sufficient just to know that it won´t detach during tow.
It didn´t ... it´s the optical illusion. I watched the sequence multiple times as lot of similar comments started to come up on this video. What I can recommend is to watch the attachment point on a tow plane when I decoupled ... you can see that the rope is staying attached at that point for a brief moment.
I don´t know how is the basic sailplane license training going in different countries but in CZ spin and stall training is mandatory part of basic training course.
It indeed looks strange. Had to look with the highest resolution and and slow speed - to me it seems that the rope actually remains attached to the tow plane after all. The way the rope behaves after the release looks quite unfamiliar to me - almost like a rubber band released from one end -- perhaps they use more elastic rope than what we use at our club?
It didn´t ... it´s the optical illusion. I watched the sequence multiple times as lot of similar comments started to come up on this video. What I can recommend is to watch the attachment point on a tow plane when I decoupled ... you can see that the rope is staying attached at that point for a brief moment.
Ahoj Martine, tak je to neskutečná paráda, seš borec. Celý polet jsem si krásně užil, 4K obraz je dokonalý. Cítil jsi nějaké Géčka u těch výkrutů? Tak to už je něco jiného než to naše virtuální polétávání, závidím. Musím znovu oprášit toho glidera v MSFS a vyzkoušet nějaké starty z Olomouce. Tak pokud se k tomu odhodlám, doufám, že budeš hlavní rádce. Jen si to hezky užívej, tohoto období si budeš pamatovat celý život. Kéž bych byl mladší. Měj se hezky a letu zdar! S!
Ahoj, no po delší době jsem chtěl hodit něco z výcviku. Vzhledem k tomu, že se blížím ke konci tak začínají i ty akčnější lekce jako tahle 😅 Děkuju moc, jsem rád, že se líbí. Ten obraz je trochu kompromis musel jsem z kvality obecně mírně slevit, protože když je na letišti 34° a zavřu se do kokpitu tak já jsem v pohodě protože mě ofukuje větrání ale na GoPro peče přímé slunce a zhruba po 25 minutách se vypne samo z důvodu přehřátí pokud jedu na 4K. Budu to muset nějak vyřešit až budu točit termické lety kde jeden polet může mít klidně 5 hodin. Každopádně u vývrtek byť to na tom videu tak nevypadá cítíš Gčka fakt dost ... možná je to jen tím, že nejsem zvyklý, ale při tom vybírání máš pocit jako bys měl 500 kilo a na tváři olověné závaží. Určitě opraš sám jsem zvědavý jestli je v MSFS nějak nasimulovaná termika nebo jde vyloženě o klouzání ... každopádně bych to rád viděl. Snad brzy zase polétáme nějak se mi nedaří se k simulátorům teď přes léto dostat. Taky se měj hezky a snad brzy ve vzduchu! Ať to lítá! S!
Am I losing my sight or do sailplanes mount altimeters differently? In other words, why does the altimeter scale have zero at the bottom instead of the top? I started flying in 1968, commercial till 2004.
Pekne video so super komentarom instruktorky...inak skus sa trochu uvolnit...strasne krcovito drzis ten knipel...chvilami som mal dojem ze ho v tej ruke rozmackas...inak super
Když začla letošní sezóna vzpomněl jsem si na tvůj komentář a říkal jsem si: "Musíš na to myslet trochu volněji to drž!" Pak mi poryv v aerovleku málem vytrhl knipl z ruky a zase jsem to držel jak bylo v tu chvíli třeba. Jako uznávám, že čím lehčeji to člověk drží tím lépe se to řídí ale zrovna ty Blaníky u nás potřebujou teda pevnou ruku ... alespoň v rámci možností. Je taky pravda, že jsem dost hubený takže on ten stisk vypadá daleko hůř než jaký ve skutečnosti je.
@@J18Flyer jasne...za aerovlekom je to divocina...skor som myslel pocas samotnej pilotaze...potom mas v ruke vacsi cit...ale uznavam ze Blanik potrebuje viac sily...tak nech ti to dobre lieta ;)
09 ? runway is 10 R ! Caption is off, Seriously, it is imperative to call the correct magnetic runway heading , in this case heading is 100° , so it's runway one-zero right!
Well magnetic heading is 10 but VFR manual for LKOL says that grass RWY is 09 and asphalt RWY is 10 ... even though they are in the same mag. hdg. It´s just for the differentiation purposes.
Tyjo to tady všichni říkají ale jako fakt ne 😂Jako opravdu to je optický klam to lano zůstalo připnuté na vlečné ta to shazuje až těsně před přistáním. Když už se třetí člověk ptal proč ho shodila tak jsem se na to koukal a jako jo vypadá to tak no ale 100% ne 😄
@@J18Flyer Years ago I was watching sailplanes at the start of the runway...a tow plane came back with toe rope out full length and still attached that seemed very dangerous for everyone...snapping and going in all directions...seemed to me if that rope caught a fence post or on the ground the tow plane would soon follow...
Yeah both of us had a chute. You basically must have something on your back just to fly this plane because the seats are designed with expectation of you having a parachute. If you don´t have one you´ll be at least very uncomfortable.
Wonderful - brought back memories of learning to fly gliders in the UK almost 60 years ago. Thanks for the video. We had a Blanik at our club in Hope BC, Canada, back in the early 1970's.
