Do this to become a better Glider Pilot - Three tips to improve!
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Three excersizes you can do on local flights to improve your gliding! I hope that they can help you at the end of this season to become a better pilot.
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Great video idea and good tips for any pilots, flying doesn't need to be boring if you use every single flight as a lesson!
Good tips. But here is an even more basic one. You can always fly "cross country" on a local flight. You just have to fly a short enough course, centered at the airfield. If you fly an equilateral triangle centered at the airfield, the farthest distance to the airfield is 75% of the leg. Say your margin is 500 metres at 10km, this allows you to fly a 40km triangle (three legs of 13.3km); this is easily doable with a cloudbase of, say, 1200m (if the person who asked the question is "getting bored" on local flights then the conditions aren't that bad).
Thanks for the tips!
Another tip i give flight students who want to practice for XC flights is to stay always under a certain attitude. For example never go over 500m agl. With this exercise you can practise finding low level thermals and to center them efficent. I really can help you if you have a low point on you xc flight!
Really like the second tip and will give it a go.
I'm preparing to go XC so your last tip about finale glides is somthing I Will be trying to do some more! Great video again!
MrPilot1304 Perfect! Good luck and have fun!
If you would've only made this video earlier. I was waiting one and half year until I was allowed to go cross crountry and your tips really help! Thx and keep it up
Good tips..
The first two things my instructor kind of pushed me into, but didn't tell me that directly, first, the favourite site: mit FI told me when I sense a thermal to go on the side that I dislike and try to center it on that side😅 I thought it was counterintuitive, but now I get why he trained that. Second: make predictions, another FI told me the same thing, not with certain values but for the start, predict, whether it's going to rise or fall😬. That helped. Lastly on my first cross country in an LS4 (120 km) I completely underestimated the performance of the glider: I started my final glide at about 5000 ft AGL😅 and ended up flying with 180km/h and still ending at the field with about 1200ft AGL. This taught me a lesson🙌🏼 but great video as always😉💪🏼
Thanks so much Florian!
If you're only getting perhaps 20 cross country days per year, you need to come visit us 'downunder'! We'd be unlucky if we had 20 days per season when we couldn't go cross country! Good tips though Simon. There's something to learn on every flight, even if it's a local one within glide range of the airfield!
It's definitely on the bucket list!
Fly the right speed, climb fast, don’t fly in s- -t was what I was told.
We're only allowed to thermal to the left within 10km from the airfield. That's due to the extremely crowded airspace with often several dozen gliders in the air on good days.
Another trick is to cover the vario and turn off the sound. Open the sliding DV panel in the canopy about 1" (2.5 cm). Listen to the whooshing / whistling sound the gap makes as you pass through the core and use it to centre the thermal. It is quite a challenge, but I have actually used this for real, when my battery died on a 7 hour cross-country flight.
I use also sometimes the sound of the air in addition to the feeling of my but in thermals !
@@henrih3080 If you do what I suggested, it is almost like a loudspeaker for the air.
Good tips Simon! I have personally a good lesson learned to become a better pilot: learn a thermal assistent and try to combine it with your own feel for the thermal. I've noticed it when team flying and it's generally more profitable to make good thermals than good glides. What's your take on that?
Certainly a good one! But it only works if you fly the same glider over and over again and know the delay of the vario! Sometimes it can be easier to just focus on your butt ;)
I prefer thermaling to the right, but I've worked on my "weak" side and it's much better now. I'm guessing your preference is left, am I right?
Left it is ;)
thermalling right way feels a bit weird to me lol but no real difference to left tho just feels a bit weird as i said hehe
Hi Simon great advice! My problem instead is this. I have the basic for thermalling but I don't know how far I can go without risking landing in a field. I'm always looking visually for the airfield because I'm afraid my altitude will be not enough to try other clouds. Not familiar with the area. How would you suggest to start?
Take the glide ratio of your glider and use it to compute an inverted cone. As long as you are inside the cone, you know that you can make it back. Use circuit height as the point where you place the tip of the cone. Compensate for wind, so that you know that you can make it back safely.
Rough maths: For a glide ratio of 36:1 = 36,000' distance per 1,000' of altitude
Divide by 6000' feet per nautical mile (6050 is the actual conversion) to give nautical miles = 6 nm / 1,000'.
Multiply by 2 (1.852 is the actual conversion) to get 12 Km per 1,000'.
Round down to 10 Km to compensate for the rough maths (actual figure would be 11,02 Km) and other factors
Draw some 10 Km (5 nm) circles on your chart, so that you can identify the ground features.
If your circuit height is 1,000', in calm winds you can be: 10 Km away at 2,000', 20 Km away at 3,000' etc. Decrease distance e.g. 8 Km / 1,000' if you are downwind (headwind returning to the airfield) and increase e.g. 11 Km / 1,000' if you are upwind.
I used this calculation technique to win a gliding competition in an LS4 with only a GPS to tell me how far away I was. It was a case of: "I'm 45 Km from home and at 4,500'; I know I can make it back with a straight-in landing!"
@@rogeri2468 Very good advice, I'll try to prepare a map like this, thank you!!
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