Very well made video, congratulations! This one stands out particularly through the professional manner in which everything was presented by your speaker. The footage is also fantastic.
Very into aviation (part of air cadets :D) and found this very helpful, took some notes and learnt some new words, and important stuff like how to gain lift from a lenticular cloud, in which when using wave lift you fly underneath the flat looking cloud and gently gain altitude. Thank you! Hopefully after this pandemic is over I will be able to start lessons at deeside scotland. I'm 13 and hope to go solo as soon as possible.
Do mate! I can tell you it’s great fun! I was an international student and been gliding for my 3 years in uni and absolutely enjoyed it! Work hard and get solo soon! Good luck👍🏼
When I was learning to fly gliders way back in the 1960s, I would often get asked by friends, "But what happens when the wind stops?" My stock reply was always, "Simple--you crash and burn."
I died when she said the most common question I get is "did the wind stop?" Lol, I know nothing about gliders and yet I still understood the simple concepts of how they work before she started to even describe them.
I knew a New Zealander who flew spitfires in ww2 who got his engine shot up over France at about twenty thousand feet, he glided about seventy miles back to England. Strangely enough he became a gliding instructor. He also flew Viscounts.
Absolutely lovey informative video with relevant technical terminology. Fantastically explained with surgical precision. Looking forward to seeing more videos. Thank you very much. Best of luck.
Great video, easy to follow and you made it simple enough for us to understand. Thank you. I did want to see and know how a glider gets up in the air to glide.
Wyll Surf Air - Hi! Yes, of course you're right; if you arrive just as the cloud finishes forming there'll be no lift at all, and even if you hook up while the air IS still rising, every thermal's surrounded by a tube of descending cold air ready to spoil your day. At least in a modern glider (with a variable camber wing-section) you can fly through the sink quickly and go hunting for the next up-elevator without losing too much altitude. Those fluffy clouds are still a pretty good guide to what's going on. (And, incidentally, I thought this short video was a good 'taster' for getting people interested in the sport/pastime.) Tackling iffy conditions is where an experienced pilot will have an advantage over someone still relatively new to gliding. I did most of my flying in England, where the summer skies were usually slate-grey or filled with terrifying black storm anvils, so I was always happy to see any kind of fluffy white cloud - especially if it had a bit of blue sky behind it. Blue sky? Sigh... :-)
Can I please get an invitation? I'm crazy about aviation and Soaring in particular ... I learned it all by myself on simulator. And I'm dying to have the chance to try it for real. We didn't even have a flying school in Syria.
@@Mr.Cool628 Migs and SU are killing children and whole families, bombing hospitals. I had to flee and my life is now at risk because I reject to kill my own people. ... Gliders carry no weapons, that's the only thing left in my heart for flying and aviation
@Jon Bjornssen true Jon. Being a Syrian doesn't allow me to ask for favors, and I'm not. I'm asking to be given equal chances, and let me then prove myself and make the grade on my own. Pay It Forward
God bless you all at Glider Britain...It is a essential to those to like me on the are in the way to be a glider pilot...Thank you so much...Hope glider fligths to be so easy as explanations...Great!!!
They would still have to be pulled up by a plane because they have no engine to start the flight by themselves (unless they find a cliff high enough maybe? 🤔) but it would still be a MAJOR cut down on the environment But as said in the comment above, I think it could be about the wind as well. Commercial flights still carry heaaaaps weight. Luggage + passengers + flight crew at the bare minimum. The only reason gliders can glide are because they’re super light and only carry 1/2 people
Great question though! it made me think for a while 🤣 I so wanted to believe it would be better and environmentally friendly but it just wouldn’t work (in my opinion- I could be proven wrong 🤷🏻♀️)
Late reply, but it would be very difficult to make glider transport commercially viable. Gliders have to be very small so the fuselage doesn't generate much drag, so they only carry 1 or 2 people - nothing more as far as I know. They can be heavy, sometimes being heavy is better than being light, they just can't be big. As said before, this would not be environmentally-friendly, and may even be less efficient than normal aircraft. Gliders are either towed into the air by another plane, launched into the air by a powerful winch or launch themselves with a retractable engine - all of which consume a lot of fuel. On rare occasions you may find an electric self-launcher, or an electric winch, but these are fairly rare. Besides, even if the engine is electric, the electricity is probably still coming from a fossil fuel powerplant.
KMAN 4TheWin I know, however the price is that you don’t need such knowledge as pilots do and get to control the glider and glide as much and wherever you want. If you can afford the planes takeoff then you get to enjoy the rest.😋
I've seen it take of with rope and a car.(it reminded me of how you fly a kite) On normal grass field like that. I think with another plane is more dangerous and expensive
As a retired crosscountry glider pilot I have found that making the move to driving electric cars to be quite similar, just follow the energy and plan your journey. As a consequence I have never suffered from #rangeanxiety
Should do, but the weight from fuel/battery and the motor will add weight penalty. However, there are still some gliders which have engines to “top-up” their altitude when getting too low in a cross-country flight! So the engines are only used for as addition energy when needed, but not to be operated all the time.
Yes but no. A thermal only appears when the air relative to the other air is hotter, if you know what I mean. A thermal can still appear at low temperatures. But they won’t be as strong. So if you flew in the Sahara desert, it would be like any other place. Just with the thermals being stronger because the air is still really warm so it rises fast.
🌿اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على سيدنا وحبيبنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين وسلم تسليما كثيرا إلى يوم الدين 🌿سبحان اللَّه وبحمده سبحان اللَّه العظيم 🌿ماشاء اللَّه تبارك الرحمٰن الرحيم الحي القيوم وأتوب إليه 🌿وكفى باللَّه وكيلا وكفى باللَّه وكيلا وكفى باللَّه وكيلا 🌿لا إله إلا اللَّه محمد رسول اللَّه صلىٰ اللَّه عليه وسلم 🌿لا حول ولا قوة إلا باللَّه 🌿إنَّا للَّه وإنَّا إليه راجعون 🌹أستغفر اللَّه العظيم الذي لاإله إلا هو الحي القيوم وأتوب إليه 🌹أستغفر اللَّه العظيم الذي لاإله إلا هو الحي القيوم وأتوب إليه 🌹أستغفر اللَّه العظيم الذي لاإله إلا هو الحي القيوم وأتوب إليه 🌿أشهد أن لا إله إلا اللَّه وحده لا شريك له له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير يحيي و يميت و هو حي لا يموت وأشهد أن محمداً رسول اللَّه صلىٰ اللَّه عليه وسلم
There are three common ways to launch a glider. A tow behind a light aircraft, a winch which reels in a long cable and the glider goes up like a kite and bungee where an elastic rope is used to catapult the glider off a hill. All can be seen in the main Glide Britain video which is on You tube
Adding on to the explanations by Glide Britain, I’ve got aerotow and winch captured quite well on some of my videos in my channel: Aerotow:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eJgQJTkoipQ.html Winch: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uOwOT2_e8-o.html
@@nakkadu it depends on weather, how fast you learn and how many flights you can get in, I've been flying for a couple 9f weeks and can fly circuits and can do all basic flying, but im learning quite fast ive been told, it changes per person
There are three common ways to launch a glider. A tow behind a light aircraft, a winch which reels in a long cable and the glider goes up like a kite and bungee where an elastic rope is used to catapult the glider off a hill. All can be seen in the main Glide Britain video which is on You tube
Adding on to the explanations by Glide Britain, I’ve got aerotow and winch captured quite well on some of my videos in my channel: Aerotow:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eJgQJTkoipQ.html Winch: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uOwOT2_e8-o.html
Our weather is changing you can be sitting in the lovely sun shine the next second it can feel cold so think it's a lot more dangerous to fly those things think they should fit a engine to them for back up
@@michaelhoy662 Without an engine, or sun or whatever, a glider will still fly better than a plane. Engines are expensive also and weigh more than not having one which reduces the performance of the aircraft, too. Extra weight does have an advantage but overall very rarely.
I got beautiful vantage point over looking the great rift valley near Nairobi For aviation interests on the cliff of the eastern rift valley. Beautiful views for gliding and base jumping. I need interests for investment.
