They give really an amazing feedback of the sky, also because I´m flying without water ballast. But the best is the contrast between two worlds: 18m with 600kg and club class
Thank you! Tried to make an old vlog style video with some explanations. At a record flight like this I only have limited resources to film while I need to make no mistakes while flying ;)
Sehr geiler Flug und auch ein gelungenes Video. Ich finde es immer super, wenn ich deine flugtaktischen Entscheidungen nachvollziehen kann. Vieles davon konnte ich schon erfolgreich auf meine eigenen Flüge anwenden und auch aus diesem Video nehme ich wieder Ideen mit.
Hi Stephan, what an Amazing flight, Even if you had this cloud runway to the final glide, Respect and congratulations only to afford staying in your glider for almost 10 hours, I didn't eard flight Time for the moment ! 🤭🥳🤩😭🤩🤩👍👍👍 Nevertheless, you 've got clever feeling while flying, that's enjoying every flight, thanks for sharing !
Congratulations Stefan ! Very nice flight Some nitpicking : technically your turnpoint was not Geneva in Switzerland but in a small municipality called Septmoncel in France (the border is a few km East or South). Incidentally, this is the home town of a very good local blue cheese better known as "bleu de Gex"
Man if only i were able to do that. Its such a nice feeling being able to control a plane. I had my first "own" flight experience last weekend (I dont have a pilot´s license yet but i was flying with an flight instructor that let me control the plane once we reached an average attitude of about 400-500 meters) and it was so damn amazing but also relaxing.
As a former glider pilot myself I must add to it,that siting in that little cockpit so many hours is not easy for pilot body,how he got out the cockpit I don’t know but he was probably pretty stif and exhorted ,how ever, congratulation !!!👍
Outlandings are my biggest concern. I’m pretty new at gliders and have yet to take my first long glide alone. Wish I started earlier but better soon than never :)
@@SteFly I’m hoping you’re right, my fear is that I misinterpret a field and end up Damaging the glider 😅 But keep up the nice work, I enjoy your videos, learning a lot about the mindset of an experienced glider :)
Thanks! Yes, bug wipers are really mandatory for the LS3 and for all longer flights. The wing still doesn't look cleaned but the elevated parts of the bugs are wiped, which is most important for the aerodynamics
@@SteFly Thanks, that makes that flight more meritorious. And the speeds reached in the last world championship in Australia don't show a significant difference between 15m (with water) and club class . I suppose the club class climbed better .
@@SteFly Teststrecke Gundelhof Immendingen Deutschland Oh, Herr Stefan Langer, natürlich haben Sie etwas gefilmt. Aber es scheint, dass diese „Geheimnisse“ so klein sind, dass man sie nicht sehen kann! 🙂
das ist schön mal den Übergang vom Schwarzwald in den Jura in einem Video zu sehen. Noch besser fände ich irgendwo eine kleine Karte damit man weiss wo du gerade filmst
@@SteFlyHallo Stefan, ich dachte die LS-3 ist noch immer in der 15m Klasse, da der aktuelle DAeC Index mit 108 angegeben ist. Club Klasse ist doch unter 104-er Index?
@@thomaswolf3740 Bei der DMSt kann das stimmen, für deutsche Klassenrekorde und bei zentralen Wettbewerben ist die LS3 aber definitiv in der Clubklasse geführt: www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.fai.org/sites/default/files/sc3ah_2021.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjM0-TA0er_AhWScfEDHTkmC_oQFnoECBMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2gQEhZXlg-VnTbR25oD4AQ
Hi Stefan! Does paragliding disturb your flight? Or is it possible to thermal along with them? What is the best thing to do if you're a paraglider pilot and see a glider coming your way? We don't have many gliders flying in Brazil along with paragliders, hence why I ask. Thank you
I think you as a paraglider can do nothing. We are faster and need to fly around you and usually it works ok to thermal together. There paraglider in the middle and the glider around :D At this flight it was my first time that it was very stressful with a lot of paragliders and even one hang glider in one thermal. Usually I try to avoid it but in this case it was mandatory to gain some meters.
All those bugs on your leading edge and you keep on flying unconcerned . I have bug whipper on my glider , I wonder why you don't use one . I remembere I was in a Libelle at 1,000meters ,30km from the airfield so the flight back home was feasable but as my leading edge was "pelted" with bugs , maybe 1 on each centimeter that a made a forced outlanding halfway (15km) to home .
Stefan, at a 10h flight, with drinking a lot of water to be hydrated, where do you pee it out, or better what device are you using. One way slips for incontinent, or a milk bottle, or special pee bottle, catheter and a plastic bag at the leg, you could do a whole video about this interresting question. 🤔😊👍
Thanks Stefan, i always have a plastik milkbottle in the car, that problem can also occur in long Highway travels with stop&go for hours when you advance only some km. 👍😊
I would love a complete prep, walkaround and launch. would be cool to see the whole process.
I don´t have the time at a 10 hour flight day to film all the preps, but at a competition flight or so.
@@SteFly however a full flight from lift off to launch would be amazing
@@Xantecyou mean from liftoff to landing?
Super !!! Such trips give a feeling of freedom!
Thanks Igor!!
Your videos from cross country flights are just excellent. Always waiting for new releases. Stay high Stefan!
Congrats for such an incredible flight with the great LS3 .
Congrats! What an awesome flight :) conditions looked lovely
Great flight Stefan, shows what can be achieved in older technology
LS gliders have a great feel of the sky
They give really an amazing feedback of the sky, also because I´m flying without water ballast. But the best is the contrast between two worlds: 18m with 600kg and club class
Another wonderful journey captured! Much prefer these straight flying videos with limited use of effects. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! Tried to make an old vlog style video with some explanations. At a record flight like this I only have limited resources to film while I need to make no mistakes while flying ;)
Awesome flight Stefan, truly inspiring.
Sehr geiler Flug und auch ein gelungenes Video. Ich finde es immer super, wenn ich deine flugtaktischen Entscheidungen nachvollziehen kann. Vieles davon konnte ich schon erfolgreich auf meine eigenen Flüge anwenden und auch aus diesem Video nehme ich wieder Ideen mit.
Hi Stephan, what an Amazing flight, Even if you had this cloud runway to the final glide, Respect and congratulations only to afford staying in your glider for almost 10 hours, I didn't eard flight Time for the moment ! 🤭🥳🤩😭🤩🤩👍👍👍 Nevertheless, you 've got clever feeling while flying, that's enjoying every flight, thanks for sharing !
"Ja Ja Ja" is the sound of a pilot that is being relieved by finding yet another 3m/s thermal after 700km of flight and 300km to go. Love it! :)
I'm living vicariously through your life!
Congrats Stefan, incredible flight.
Congratulations Stefan ! Very nice flight
Some nitpicking : technically your turnpoint was not Geneva in Switzerland but in a small municipality called Septmoncel in France (the border is a few km East or South).
Incidentally, this is the home town of a very good local blue cheese better known as "bleu de Gex"
Nice to see flying around my home 😊
Congratulations Stef!!!.. super flight!
Great flight Stefan and beautiful landscapes
Thank you! Was a fantastic scenic flight!
Great flight! Well done and congratulations!
What a great flight and fun video. 👍
Grear flight!, thanks for sharing!
Lovely video as always! Great Job Stefan!
Thank you!!
Waiting for first ridge flying over Jura!!!Ideal mountain shape for NW or SE wind
Incredible footage. I have a technical question though how do you survive a 10h flight without 🚽
Segelfluggruppe Donauworth-Monheim eV?
Super landing, tank you, l wait the next
Man if only i were able to do that. Its such a nice feeling being able to control a plane. I had my first "own" flight experience last weekend (I dont have a pilot´s license yet but i was flying with an flight instructor that let me control the plane once we reached an average attitude of about 400-500 meters) and it was so damn amazing but also relaxing.
Congrats to your trial flight, that's the first step into gliding :)
Also for me it's so hard to realise what´s possible with these skills...
Congrats!!
Thank you!!
Outstanding. Unglaublich!
Danke!
Awesome, Very well done👏🤟👏
Thank you :)
As a former glider pilot myself I must add to it,that siting in that little cockpit so many hours is not easy for pilot body,how he got out the cockpit I don’t know but he was probably pretty stif and exhorted ,how ever, congratulation !!!👍
Brother, how does this glider fly for so long without a motor and engine and what is its price?
Weired question : in this type of long duration flight if you want to pee (urgently can't hold any longer) then what do you do in that situation ?
You have to drive the trailer and glider out to the start point and get someone to drive it back for you at the finish?
Just walk from one end to the other side after landing. No big problem 😅
@@SteFly Ah ok, I thought you flew from one location to another! Thanks for the reply.
nice one- respect & greets from LSV Regensburg
Thanks for your support! :)
Fantastic!
Outlandings are my biggest concern. I’m pretty new at gliders and have yet to take my first long glide alone. Wish I started earlier but better soon than never :)
You will only get less concerns when you made some out landings and understand that it's no big deal. And of course a lot of training helps aswell.
@@SteFly I’m hoping you’re right, my fear is that I misinterpret a field and end up Damaging the glider 😅
But keep up the nice work, I enjoy your videos, learning a lot about the mindset of an experienced glider :)
Machst du das Hauptberuflich??😅
grats! that is impresive!
did You use bug wipers?
Thanks! Yes, bug wipers are really mandatory for the LS3 and for all longer flights. The wing still doesn't look cleaned but the elevated parts of the bugs are wiped, which is most important for the aerodynamics
Brother u have to come to Denmark and fly
Did you have water in the water ballasts ?
No, I never flew my LS3 with water.
@@SteFly Thanks, that makes that flight more meritorious. And the speeds reached in the last world championship in Australia don't show a significant difference between 15m (with water) and club class . I suppose the club class climbed better .
Where is the toilet? :p yo dont need to awnser :P
But what does the black lever
warum ist das standalone-vario-display weg? 🤔
Hatte ich für die 18m DM in die ASG29 eingebaut... schaue da aber eh nicht so oft drauf, da die Daten vom Larus auch im OpenVario angezeigt werden.
@@SteFly achso, hab mich schon gewundert 😅 gibt es das Vario selbst dann später eigentlich auch zu kaufen?
Brother, how does it fly in the air for so long without an engine?
Natural atmospheric phenomenons, for example thermals (basically rising air) allow gliders to gain altitude
4:10 ist das eine Teststrecke von ... Audi, Benz, BMW?
EDIT: Erledigt, Das ist Immendingen.
Wusste ich selber nicht genau. Dann ist es Mercedes Benz... hoffe ich hab keine Geheimnisse gefilmt 😂
@@SteFly Teststrecke Gundelhof Immendingen Deutschland
Oh, Herr Stefan Langer, natürlich haben Sie etwas gefilmt. Aber es scheint, dass diese „Geheimnisse“ so klein sind, dass man sie nicht sehen kann! 🙂
Die beste Werbung für die Clubklasse !
Ja, einfach geil was man mit so einem Flieger von 1977 noch alles anstellen kann!
das ist schön mal den Übergang vom Schwarzwald in den Jura in einem Video zu sehen. Noch besser fände ich irgendwo eine kleine Karte damit man weiss wo du gerade filmst
LS-3 ist not Club class. It belongs to 15m class. Doesn't it?
Today it is a club class glider for competitions and if flown without water ballast!
@@SteFlyHallo Stefan, ich dachte die LS-3 ist noch immer in der 15m Klasse, da der aktuelle DAeC Index mit 108 angegeben ist. Club Klasse ist doch unter 104-er Index?
@@thomaswolf3740 Bei der DMSt kann das stimmen, für deutsche Klassenrekorde und bei zentralen Wettbewerben ist die LS3 aber definitiv in der Clubklasse geführt: www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.fai.org/sites/default/files/sc3ah_2021.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjM0-TA0er_AhWScfEDHTkmC_oQFnoECBMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2gQEhZXlg-VnTbR25oD4AQ
Wie geil ist das denn? 10 Stunden - Boah - geiler Flug...was das Vario teilweise am abkotzen ist
Jaa, war richtig geil!!
19:16 .....So many Bugs !
You got some bugs. Damn 😂
Hi Stefan! Does paragliding disturb your flight? Or is it possible to thermal along with them? What is the best thing to do if you're a paraglider pilot and see a glider coming your way?
We don't have many gliders flying in Brazil along with paragliders, hence why I ask. Thank you
I think you as a paraglider can do nothing. We are faster and need to fly around you and usually it works ok to thermal together. There paraglider in the middle and the glider around :D At this flight it was my first time that it was very stressful with a lot of paragliders and even one hang glider in one thermal. Usually I try to avoid it but in this case it was mandatory to gain some meters.
All those bugs on your leading edge and you keep on flying unconcerned . I have bug whipper on my glider , I wonder why you don't use one . I remembere I was in a Libelle at 1,000meters ,30km from the airfield so the flight back home was feasable but as my leading edge was "pelted" with bugs , maybe 1 on each centimeter that a made a forced outlanding halfway (15km) to home .
Stefan, at a 10h flight, with drinking a lot of water to be hydrated, where do you pee it out, or better what device are you using. One way slips for incontinent, or a milk bottle, or special pee bottle, catheter and a plastic bag at the leg, you could do a whole video about this interresting question. 🤔😊👍
Plastic bags or catheter and a plastic bag are the two common methods for male glider pilots
Thanks Stefan, i always have a plastik milkbottle in the car, that problem can also occur in long Highway travels with stop&go for hours when you advance only some km. 👍😊
Bet you were so glad to stretch your legs after that marathon effort thankyou for the video
It took me a few minutes on the ground to realize how cool this flight was, then I got out of my glider and stretched my legs :D
Wie machst du das? Fliegst 1000 km und siehst aus als wärest du gerade gestartet. Gratulation zu diesem Flug und dem interessanten Video!
brother fly above the clouds
Not legal for gliders in Germany
very beautiful but extremely dangerous sport.