The pilot's comment at 0:35 made my day. Just a simple, uh,oh. muttered quietly under his breath. Super calm, and solved the problem intelligently while building massive G-forces in the spiral. Great thinking !
A similar thing happened to me in my SIV, that is, the instructor kept giving me instructions assuming I am not twisted under canopy. Luckily my situation was not as bad as this and I didn't need to throw my reserve, but I exited a stall while twisted, then couldn't catch the dive as I was untwisting in the meantime and the glider went back into stall. I see this issue over and over again. The ability of the instructor to see the pilot (not just the wing) at all times is very important and too many SIV courses doesn't have that capability.
@@styx85 just had my first flight all alone at the ocean. i am bloody beginner with less than 5 flights done. video is up. thanks again for that advice. now i know what to do if the wing take some salt water. gotta clean my engine now i think🤙
Despite the other ill-informed comments here, the pilot was the idiot not the instructor and was very lucky. 1/. To those asking yes this is a launch from Babadag in Olu. 2/. It would be helpful if you synchronised the audio from the *ground* with the helmet cam in the *air*, and would tell the real story of what happened. 3/. The instructors voice sounds familiar and if I'm right is well regarded in Olu. The pilot failed to control the stall, managed to chuck his reserve into the wing in panic, and then didn't collapse the wing on the way down, or disconnect himself from the harness before they hit the water. I'm sure the instructor was very happy when they went home.
Thats too harsh imo. A student in an SIV course is not necessarily supposed to know how to do a controlled stall (that’s what the course is for) and may never have thrown a reserve before. About the failure to pull up the main, I think the knot between main lines and reserve lines was simply too far and the pilot didn’t know how to.
@@luc4662 people like this guy get off to putting new pilots down. They are always old and bitter and on their way out of the sport (and life). They want to feel like they matter still by telling themselves even though their memory and body and vision is failing them they still have their knowledge. Unfortunately people like this choose to share that knowledge in the most toxic way they can think of. Best to just take what's useful and leave them with an "ok boomer"
@@saxtonhine4843 On the contrary. As both a new and more experienced pilot, I did then and have more recently, made plenty of staggeringly dumb and stupid decisions, I have broken bones and got very lucky to get away with only bruises and plaster casts with my life intact. But here's the thing about old (or not) pilots like me, I never blamed anyone except me, and especially never my instructor. This is free flight, and unless someone else flies into you, it is *always* your fault. If you can't accept that, then pick a different sport that you can blame other people for your failures. You are the pilot, you chose to take off, if it goes wrong is always your fault. Period.
