Lowlevel Glider Chase | Westcoast New Zealand 

Beautiful. Thanks for not adding music!

Watching these videos while isolating from Covid 19 is absolutely therapeutic mentally. Thank you.

I’ve watched three glider videos back to back. I never gave them a second thought because I thought they were always silly seeing them in the long trailers on the road, how they have to get towed into the air, can’t land without tipping over and don’t even have proper landing gear. However after seeing a few of these videos I get it now. An amazing and freeing way of being up there in one I am sure. Thanks for sharing! This was absolutely incredible.

without music makes it perfect, the wind, the beeps....no need for meditation

Beautiful Live Audio Video Stefan! Thank You So Much For Not Overlaying It With Any Detracting & Unnecessary Music Or Other Noise! Live Audio Only Is The Best Way To Showcase These Types Of Videos!👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!!

I sail yachts and it Always gives me great joy, but this is like going to heaven. My mind understands how you can fly but the little boy inside me is utterly enamoured. Thank you very much. Just the sound of the wind is beautiful.

Mum, I’m going to play outside. Ok Timmy, watch out for gliders.

That entire flight, made my day. I literally grinned, while watching. Thanks so much for posting!

Im a power pilot, but this looks like so much fun

That is absolutely unbelievable. Looks like extreme serenity. Thanks Stefan!

Wow man, that is soooo groovy. It still blows me away what we can accomplish with aerodynamics. I mean, no engine, just lift. I love it! So low on the beach..

That’s incredible!! How can you be so sure to always find a good lift to recover from such a low passage? It’s mind blowing in that landscape..

I don't have a glider but thanks for the opportunity to watch such beautiful videos, so peaceful

What a totally amazing flight. Thanks for not adding music. Listening to the vario is nicely therapeutic. Happy soaring Stefan from Dave W in the UK 😎

you have the best place to isolate yourself; and for me this is one of the best videos to watch at home at this time..! Thank you..!

Once again thank you for this beautiful flight. I already miss your videos !

Thanks for transporting us around this beautiful coast especially during this Covid 19 lockdown. A real welcome relief.

I'm from New Zealand and I must admit, it's pretty damn beautiful here

Stunning video. You should ensure the maintenance of your air brake mechanism is meticulous though. If it ever stuck on extension you would be swimming for your life ... ( I have seen one stuck open and the gentleman landed short and was sadly injured after flying through a hedge )

Ausgezeichnet!!! Fantastically AMAZING video - simply WOW! Nice use of the spoilers to maintain formation / energy. I need to get back into gliders...nice to see what I'm missing! Thanks again for the "uplifting" video, as I'm in quarantine lockdown. You ROCK, Stefan - Hals und Beinbruch!

This is divine, so beautiful...Thanks for sharing.

Bloody awesome as usual. Good use of spoilers/ brakes there too.

OOOOH look at me!! mr I'm under 100' and have SOOO much lift i need my spoilers from getting too high!!! cries in thermals....

Thank you very much for sharing with us such incredible gliding experience Oh, and I forgot: amazing sceneries

What a terrific video! Thank you.

such dynamic flight! beautyfull! or full of beauty!

Excellent flight, great silence and a beautiful landing !!

I practice free flight (paragliding) and I enjoy flying glider a lot. My dream to fly in one of these. Someday I'm going to take a flight on that toy of yours. kkkk Health to all and have excellent flights !! Your flight was wonderful!! Congratulations guys!!

Crazy how long gliders can maintain level flight. Glider was told "You need propulsion to create lift", "Hold my beer".

Must be some super nice lift running that coast? That’s absolutely amazingly fun stuff! Thinking you run up, then run down? Guess that was answered. Yeah would be interesting to know the conditions, but then I suppose the flight says it all! Sailing along fancy free watching the day and all the heaven around. Absolutely beautiful. Cheers 🥂

That’s so cool and the view is amazing!!

thank you for sharing- you were moving at a good pace!!

Fantastic flight! Thanks for sharing this.

Best video i ve ever seen about gliders, top skills! RESPEKT

Awesome! West coast of NZ is my favorite place, but to fly along it.. Wow! This video gave me goosebumps!

Great Video! Thanks for posting

I wouldn't have the nerve to do this in a sailplane. I've flown hang gliders for over 20 years along coastlines like this but it's much easier to put down on a beach or top land compared to a sailplane (and then carry it out). What a great flight. I really enjoyed this.

Getting amazing flight , serious speed great filming !

Love the sound of these

Vielleicht hätte ich das damals doch anfangen sollen… Danke für die tollen Videos!

Amazing, thanks for this content!

Hello there mate You do what I only could dream about doing So I fly RC 😉 Superb flight and views thanks for sharing your experience and skills with us Cheers from Denmark Lase

Well done Stefan! So cool this Video!

One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen

Superb, that's how to lead and follow!! I'm learning to ridge soar, lead and follow is very skillful.

As far as flying is concerned, sailing along seashore cliffs, using zero fuel at high speed, is the coolest thing ever.

I've been a solo glider pilot , but suffered a lot of air sickness while thermalling . Ridge soaring is the way to go , especially where you are in NZ . Well done and thanks for the flight !

Glorious flight!

And now.... I'm going to become a glider pilot. Great vid!

I like the cockpit, it is like a fighter jet.

Geil, irgendwann will ich sowas auch machen, wenn ich mit meinem Segelflugschein fertig bin! Hast echt mehr likes verdient!

What a fantastic flight. 236km trek as best I can tell. I am going top try and simulate in MSFS now that fliders are in. :)

Every time that other glider was right in front of you, I kept expecting you to fire your lasers. Pew pew!

What a nice unlimitet playground ! You are luky pilotes ! And greatings from Germany !

I like the sound of the wind hitting the canopy~!

My goodness! That's the nearest thing to actually flying. What speed were they doing? No minimal height in New Zealand and here I was thinking it was nanny state in the extreme. Love it.

That’s the Dr. Thermal treatment! I wish I could have wild sea cliffs here ... Cheers mate

This is why I want to move to New Zealand! So beautiful!

Great bit of flying and no engine, impressed!!

The camera geometry makes it look like you are looking virtually straight out close to that right wing almost the whole flight. Makes me nervous, even when the outcome was obviously good, since the video exists. I'm assuming that was actually not so much the case, or that you know that area/topology/what's UP next REALLY well. Looks like a BLAST, and an amazing slope! Thx, enjoyed it. Still, maybe some head swiveling now and then...just sayin', for my old heart's sake. Spectacular shot of your buddy Tim, apparently, skimming down below you there @ 2:10 ....absolutely gorgeous. High performance, high aspect ratio sailplanes are the most beautiful man made things in the sky, to me. Saw a gorgeous display at Oshkosh many years back, with triple multicolored smoke and a pilot lazily performing pretty much continuous aerobatics in one, starting really high...again, one of the most beautiful of all the flight demos that week. Looks like a great place to do some distance diamonding if that coast keeps going on like that, and if that is allowed (not a glider pilot, not manned, anyway, so I don't know the requirements).

Very nice video Stephen.

wow i love how you were following the other glider along the way, made the video 2x as enjoyable!

Very very cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good flight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful. And (attention all RU-vidrs) I subscribed without being asked. Imagine that.

You are a good pilot Stefan ! Everytime I enjoy your videos. Especially your video with the joy flight on K13 with the young girl as first pilot, as I am a beginning glider pilot ( age 65...). ( but I did it when I was 20 in St Hubert -Belgium). Now I am flying in Maubray ( Tournai Air )

Thanks for the link and the video! It was a fun day :)

Wet and cool in Auckland today, Stefan. You'll be the envy of your friends with the flying you've done, as the northern hemisphere gliding looks to be very limited.

Incredible Performance

impressive, thanks you sharing.

THIS IS MADNESS !!!

Wow guys you are incredible ! Thanks for this video and thanks for not adding musik !!

great video!

Thx for natural ASMR :) apreciate it

Amazing!!

Absolutely amazing to watch. Made me a little emotional becauce my dad flew gliders 😘

How does one not panic being this low to the ground without any propulsion. This feels so dangerous. I've been binge-watching all your videos. Thanks for sharing.

A good time to fly! SW, SSWers for a couple of months. Too windy and in the lee of the shoreline with turbulent air to dinghy sail for us but nice to the wind being put to good use.

Awesome trip!

this is beautiful

what a great way to isolate!

Amazing low level soaring. I wish you would narrate the flight.

Spectacular views!

Well that was f ing awesome !!

nice flying !

what a flight!

Holy lord anyone else’s eyes just glued to the altimeter and vario?

It's so awesome man ! I wish I could go fly in new Zealand one day, between this and surfing the wave in the moutains it looks like the best place to fly Is there anywhere where we can find an igc file of this flight ?

so beautiful view

this is a fun and fast flight. sometimes i wonder about the legalities of flying so low to the ridge, as technically you would not have the landholder approval to fly low, and you would also be outside civil aviation airspace guidance as you are below 500 ft. then again, you are in a glider which is down the ranks in GA, so perhaps there is a dispensation. not meaning to take a bite at the pilot, as I am a paramotor pilot and glider enthusiast also, i like to take risks but also always want to know and respect the legality of the operation.

beautiful

Insane ! RESPECT !!!!!!!!!!

So cool!

For a moment there I thought you were gonna bail out into the water. 😶 Man that was some low level stuff!! Great Video mate! 💗👌👌😊

And a nice landing at Raglan. Have you flown as far North as 90 mile beach and the Cape? Would love to see a vid of that, not enough ridges for lift?

Than you Stefan for again showing more of your recent trip to NZ , so relaxing to watch. What is the longest flight time you have logged? Stay safe .

That landscape designer is godlike.

Just awesome

this is so cool

Amazing. The piece where you are skimming the beach at 50 ft is where I learned to fly paragliders. I'm guessing it was pretty windy that day... 40km/hr West winds?

Stefan super!