I always enjoy your narration. This looks like such a fun little place to fly. When I was a pre-P2, I used to watch tons of videos of this place. So I feel like I know it really well even though I've never flown it. I need to get up there and try it, it looks like it's a pretty mellow hike from the park. I'm wondering, how consistent is it? If I just drive up there some weekend do you think there's a chance it might work in the morning? I'm guessing that you only noticed the smudge on your lens after you uploaded the video haha! I added wipe my GoPro lens to my pre-flight checklist. How many hours you got on the Delta 4 now? Have you trimmed it recently? We bought laser rangefinders and built jigs and we're doing measurements at least on our gliders now. I did my photon couple of months ago, and it's still pretty close to factory trim. I sometimes wonder if you might have more success at this site and catching a thermal if you headed straight out tried to get as far away from the terrain as possible and maybe catch something where it's more consolidated instead of always being low and trying to get lift in the little bubbles that haven't coalesced.
@@youtubemademecreateanewcha6965 Yes. The glider is always going down at 150 feet per minute. This is normal glide descent for a glider. Rising air will feel like your car going over a speed bump or going up in an elevator. You'll know when you're in rising air. To take it up a level. The brake toggles you can feel if the rising air is hitting the left or right side of the wing. This will let me know to circle left or right to catch the thermel
@@chadzulu4328 Yes. Feeling out the thermal, you can feel it pick you up. Like the beginning part of riding in an elevator. Once the elevator starts moving you don't feel left. Listening to the beeps you'll know you are still in lift and how fast you're being lifted.
@@Coloradodonkeywatch Haha I live in the third richest county in the United States. I own my home outright and all my possessions. I've been to boulder a few times and it's UGGGLY. What did all of you do, cut down all the trees. Where I live a huge oak in my back yard towers above me. Too many pure A-holes in Colorado. You're one of them.
Oh the old training hill....this video brings back a ton of memories.
Wow, that was awesome! Thanks
As Colorado geologist, I know this area intimately… Though not from the air!
I’ve also gotten intimate here
I always enjoy your narration. This looks like such a fun little place to fly. When I was a pre-P2, I used to watch tons of videos of this place. So I feel like I know it really well even though I've never flown it. I need to get up there and try it, it looks like it's a pretty mellow hike from the park. I'm wondering, how consistent is it? If I just drive up there some weekend do you think there's a chance it might work in the morning?
I'm guessing that you only noticed the smudge on your lens after you uploaded the video haha! I added wipe my GoPro lens to my pre-flight checklist.
How many hours you got on the Delta 4 now? Have you trimmed it recently? We bought laser rangefinders and built jigs and we're doing measurements at least on our gliders now. I did my photon couple of months ago, and it's still pretty close to factory trim.
I sometimes wonder if you might have more success at this site and catching a thermal if you headed straight out tried to get as far away from the terrain as possible and maybe catch something where it's more consolidated instead of always being low and trying to get lift in the little bubbles that haven't coalesced.
I learned to fly here back in 1990 or 91... A good beginner's hill but never an easy place to climb out.
@@wtpfeffer Climbing out is always a great achievement at Boulder Hill.
Thanks for sharing! 🤙
Do you feel the lift before the beeper goes off?
@@youtubemademecreateanewcha6965 Yes. The glider is always going down at 150 feet per minute. This is normal glide descent for a glider. Rising air will feel like your car going over a speed bump or going up in an elevator. You'll know when you're in rising air. To take it up a level. The brake toggles you can feel if the rising air is hitting the left or right side of the wing. This will let me know to circle left or right to catch the thermel
So, the little beeper is to let you know when you're in thermal?
@@chadzulu4328 Yes. Feeling out the thermal, you can feel it pick you up. Like the beginning part of riding in an elevator. Once the elevator starts moving you don't feel left. Listening to the beeps you'll know you are still in lift and how fast you're being lifted.
@@carlcolorado3549 Ahh kk. Thanks!
amazing
nice, thanks for sharing
Game over man! Game over!
Why is Coiorado so barren and ugly? Where are most of the trees?
East of the Continental Divide is like this in Colorado. Pretty much everything West of here is more mountainous and lush
High desert. lower elevation is greener.
Says the jealous person who can’t afford to live in Boulder
@@Coloradodonkeywatch Haha I live in the third richest county in the United States. I own my home outright and all my possessions. I've been to boulder a few times and it's UGGGLY. What did all of you do, cut down all the trees. Where I live a huge oak in my back yard towers above me. Too many pure A-holes in Colorado. You're one of them.
Just the location and time of year. Spring comes a month later than the rest of the States.