Dustdevil flying xD The worst of flying adventures. You can see the rotations in the grass from the violent air movement. You handled that one like a boss! I would have to change pants after that. Well done!
@@jindrichjochec296 they are not always visible, so the rotation is not necessarily visible. I watched the video again, no doubt, it seems to be a dust devil.
You can definetley see the rotating wind in the grass field at 1:00. So a nice little dust devil :) If you would be a bit higher you'd probably get catapulted right to base :D
Can i ask what measures other than wrapping brakes you took to not bomb in harder? I don't understand how it doesn't dive harder after having no speed. Did you just pump it down the las few meters?
Hello. If you notice I was picked up first and then a collapse. I say in english the glider was snatched from my hands. I always go with it and then I catch what I need. I gave a good hard tab on my left to get the glider a bit more straight. Very quick or else it will stall or spin. Then when the glider was on top of me. I pumped the glider and landed. It’s very hard to say what I did in full. Because I go with the feel of the glider. You have to remember that this was not a siv training that you know what is going to happen. I could landed before. And this wouldn’t happen. But I have a hard head. 56 this year and still think im in my 30’s😅
No it wasn’t the Lee side. First I was thinking it was a thermal trigger. From far away. But when I was close the grass was all over the place that looks more like a dust devil or could been a strong thermal. The wing pulled me up. If it was a rotor the glider would gone only down on a collapse
When you get close to the ground, in an area like that the wind is rolling along it's a great big round twisting thing. It works like a rotor but the wing span of the glider is small and the radius of the rotation is very large. Good flying though.
@@davidcassar25 it's a rotation in an elastic fluid . If you look at the high pressure or low pressure on a weather map on the scale of the whole country giant rotations around the high and low pressure. The radius of these is miles and miles and on the bottom end of it in this giant mass you have rotations of a 2 inch radius and smaller. If the axis is perfectly vertical or real close we call it a dust devil and if it's perfectly horizontal or real close we call it a rotor. It's all complex fractal math. When the wind shifts in the mountains and you get this terrible sinking condition it's because there's a curl in the flow. These things are stochastic and unpredictable. It's kind of like a big low energy rotation, with the axis tipped. It came on you on the lift side. You shot up fast and the curl caught you. This whole thing is turning slowly, and you have two Wing tip rotors affecting the whole thing. Is this for occurring on an airplane runway because of a jet it would be called dirty air.
You should be able to handle strong thermals if you fly an Enzo and you should be able to read the landscape and it´s luv and lee situations but the most you should be able to be honest to yourself... pilot error... .. .
its always a pilot error and i said i was stupid to go into that dust devil . it was not a thermal! i seen it from far, but i said by the time i will arrive it will go. but it did not, It was a bad quick Judgment.
