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Very enjoyable, thank you

Amazing video and what a view! Would love to fly in Namibia

What's that app on your phone ?

What's wrong with entering a cumulus cloud for a minute or two ? It was not a cumulonimbus.

Das war war wirklich ein beindruckender Flug! Wetter Online auf dem Handy sei Dank!🤣

Great video. I fly similar but with some important differences, but don't really know which is better. I have a theory, but I don't know if I am right, these things are hard to test in soaring, there is no control group :). On days like these, the best days in Nevada are similar, I fly purely visually according to the clouds and rarely let the interthermal vario direct my cruise speed. I'm trying to circle in 8-10 kts only, with clean entry's and exits, and even trying to minimizing straight flight in lift at min sink or best L/D speed. So, I rarely push and pull directed by the vario and fly block speeds instead. I will pull up based on what I'm seeing with the clouds and pick my climb locations well ahead of time, and it needs to be either a big dark cloud or a street. I enter streets as low as I dare but still connect and center quickly and effectively, trying to maintain my STF speed between pullups/climbs. My idea here is that on fantastic days like this I think we may be flying too slow between thermals due to pulling up and cruising at min sink at cloudbase or otherwise. Rather, isn't it better to maintain interthermal SFT based on the true average climb rate between clouds and only circle in the best lift while also minimizing straight flying at min sink of best l/d? Of course all of this is only used in the best conditions and modified when exiting to lesser conditions or trying to reach good conditions. I came upon this idea by looking at Keith Essex flight traces. He is flying very fast and his flight traces are very sawtooth! Especially when conditions are very good.

Spectacular approach!

Dont forget the delay those radar depictions have inherently built into them. Nexrad got a lot of pilots in trouble because of the delay. Be careful using it buddy. 😊

I must use that trick at 10:26-10:36 sometime. Is it good only on final glide or does it work in Thermaling as well? 😂😂😂

So fricken good! Awesome to watch! Thank you for sharing!

Looks like a nice flight!

Sierra Sierra ....was a book about soaring that I read many moons ago

How do you get to fly in Namibia?

Herrlich. Danke fürs Aufnehmen, schön mal so (ganz) andere Länder von oben zu sehen. Diese hohe Basis fetzt auch total. Wie ist es dort mit Freigaben / Transponder?

Es waehre schoen sein wenn so ein flugzeug etwas mehr festigkeit haette. (= groessere weisse arc, kleinere gelbe arc). Einfach voll durch donnern unter denn cumulus. Sehr motivierender video!

Ich bin froh, deinen Kanal entdeckt zu haben. Keine Musik, einfach nur in Ruhe zuschauen, wie ein anderer Segelflieger seinem Hobby nachgeht. Und es gibt sogar etwas zu lernen.

Your videos are great. It is a crime, that your channel has so few subscribers 😢

In the V2 you can carefully deploy the spoilers up to VNE if needed

Any stories of people who have landed out?

Im guessing landing out is not an option as in there no way to get you out of the middle of knowhere..

How much does it cost to charter a glider?

7:24 Waow 12,5m/s netto is crazy for thermal updraft

great!

Bomba!

Not to minimize your achievement........ Ingo Renner (Australia) flew over 1000km nonstop from Victoria to Queensland, in a non-motorized glider. Having a motor makes the challenge a lot easier to achieve.

😍 good job

What sailplane were you flying?

Amazing video !

"On really clear days, you can see how it follows the curvature of the Earth." Flat-earthers: ** triggered! **

It must be fantastic to soar into these skies with these extreme working height bands and then to fly almost straight under a cloud street for hundreds of kilometers. So different from the sometimes cumbersome thermals here in western Europe where you have to work within the 1000 1500 meter band often. But that knowledge all pays off when you run into less favorable conditions flying over Botswana or Namibia I guess. Thanks for the video

What an adventure!

Really nice vid! Can't wait to be able to do just like you guys in the future!

Bist du der selbe wie von the useless trials?

Nice, but sorry, at this point, this is not a glider anymore.

That's one way to get your 3x takeoff and landings really quickly! 😂 Great job! I haven't done this in mine. I have no time with the Wankel/rotary engine. But I do understand it is a 2 stroke also. 2 stroke engines don't like being at idle and windmilling for long because the RPM is high yet throttle nearly fully closed, so it's common practice to "blip" the throttle to add additional fuel/oil to lubricate the cylinder walls. I suspect it's an "old wives' tale" but then again it doesn't hurt anything. That's the only reason I would caution prolonged idling in the air with a 2 stroke engine. Solo warns against so. 🥺 But MAN it sure makes landing currency fast to do it this way!!! Great video my friend!

That’s tho most fun thing I’ve ever did in my life

Only dangerous if low and slow and unintentional. Unfortunately seems to catch a few out each year from novice to experienced.

200m in 9secs? Welcome to skydiving 🤙🏼😜 Fun aside: Nice save!!! 👍🏻❤ (Glad, you're still with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Impressive flight considering how low you were!

Wow you flew 457km in 4:57? That’s an average speed of 5,539kph! That’s got to break a record or two

It said 4:57 in the edit 😂

The best idea is don't do a low save. If you get below 500 feet just go ahead and land safely if there's any place you can. I've been studying these crashes for a while and that seems to be the biggest reason people stall, spin , and crash.

Good one! My most recent diamong goal attempt ended 20km short with an engine start lol I turned the wrong way and into a lake shadow, instead of the other way and making a final glide that would've been very simple.

As I tell my coworkers in the Airbus: You can't have an engine failure if you shut it off! Or better yet, leave it behind!

Another cool video!

Ha ha, donnerblitz, that was a ride!

Very nice video! 💪🏻

You are one of the best gliding RUclipsrs

What se fuck

nice! ❤ maybe, to improve your loop: record "this was fast flying tip nr X " in one take and cut it with good timing. also the sound is disrupting it.