HAO L-23 Super Blaník - Spins and stalls

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  • Опубликовано: 13 май 2024
  • Basic training aerobatics with L-23. Spins and stalls are beeing trained to teach pilots how to recover from those situations. It´s also last step before solo flights. Enjoy the video!
    Take-off 0:00
    Aerotow 3:22
    Spins and Stalls 9:38
    Gliding 15:42
    Landing 20:30
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  • @dereksollows9783
    @dereksollows9783 2 месяца назад +64

    It has been 35 years since I stopped gliding and I still miss it. I just made your video full-screen and relaxed. That is beautiful countryside where you fly.

    • @u2mister17
      @u2mister17 2 месяца назад +1

      @dereksollows9783 Wow same here, got around 300 hours pic time a guy sold our deal on his Cirrus out from under me
      and I haven't flown since.

    • @erics8302
      @erics8302 2 месяца назад +2

      Same here in the 70s and mid 80s!! Now I'm too old.

    • @Dzordzikk
      @Dzordzikk Месяц назад +2

      Hi, this is in Czech Republic in the middle of Europe, bigger city bellow is Olomouc and airport is LKOL if you want to find it on map.

    • @FredPilcher
      @FredPilcher Месяц назад +1

      Same here! I miss it. I trained in Blaniks, and it's great to see them again! Almost as much fun as flying.

    • @audigga4396
      @audigga4396 Месяц назад +1

      @@erics8302 Same here, now I am too fat and too old now I fly RC gliders.

  • @v1rotait23
    @v1rotait23 2 месяца назад +16

    I'm not sure how you came up in my feed, but thank you. This brought back childhood memories of flying in a Blanic back in the mid '70s as a young boy on holiday with my family down in Queenstown, New Zealand! I can still remember some things about it. As I got older I spent many Sunday afternoons at our local airforce base in Wigram helping hook up gliders and running the wing while launching gliders at the Canterbury Gliding Club. As an adult I went on to fly many Piper and Cessna fixed wing planes and finally, a multi engine instrument rating with a NZL CPL. I love doing spins and doing many stalls, but never without an engine! The glider club moved many years ago out to the countryside near Springfield, so we never see the gliders soaring high over 15000ft above my home suburbs over the Christchurch Port Hills. I've vivid memories of the big Piper Pawnee with its noisy 2 blade propellor tips, always pulling 2 gliders, hauling them skyward over the volcanic peninsula. Great memories of grass, tow ropes, testing the rope release and hooking up the tow ropes and enduring the prop blast from the Pipers in the prevailing easterly wind. Cheers, David.

    • @bearpoik
      @bearpoik 2 месяца назад

      so I guess that's the story why he came up in your feed

  • @lourensgeldenhuys9377
    @lourensgeldenhuys9377 2 месяца назад +13

    I have many hours in a Blanik. Both front seat and doing instruction from the rear seat. A remarkable glider, indeed!

  • @InpointmediaAuSydney
    @InpointmediaAuSydney 2 месяца назад +29

    I did my first training flight in a Blanik at Baragwanath Airfield in Johannesburg in the 1970's. I had an ancient pilot instructor, a German guy who it turned out was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot in WW11. He handed over control to me, first time ever and I became fixated on the instruments. I looked up and we were almost vertical and I was pulling back hard on the stick. I never forget he said as he rapidly grabbed the stick and took over "und now you pull ze vings off und zen ve die ...Ja?".

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад +6

      Haha! Wow that must have been great to have such an instructor! Really made my day thanks! 🤣👌

    • @tazzo64
      @tazzo64 2 месяца назад +2

      My late Uncle (Wessel Marais) was a glider pilot and took me for a flight. It was at Magaliesburg. He told me of a WWII German Ace who flew at the club and appropriately went by the name of Heinz. I forgot the surname. This was circa 1976. Same guy?

    • @tazzo64
      @tazzo64 2 месяца назад

      Sorry for those not from here - Johannesburg South Africa. I think the airfield was Orion. I was 10 years old.

    • @tazzo64
      @tazzo64 2 месяца назад +1

      Going through the online sources I recognise the glider - it was a Grunau Baby II B-2

    • @potrzebieneuman4702
      @potrzebieneuman4702 2 месяца назад +2

      My instructor in the L13 was always telling my to keep my head on a swivel, across the flying panel then outside and across the canopy and back to the flying panel over and over. He was right of course, awareness inside AND outside at all times.

  • @crlguitar1
    @crlguitar1 Месяц назад +2

    I was able to rent a Blanik L-13 decades ago and sure did enjoy it while I was able to fly sailplanes....I surely miss it, especially after watching this video....Thanks for posting this....
    I brought back a LOT of memories for me....

  • @lotsparham1655
    @lotsparham1655 2 месяца назад +10

    Wonderful - brought back memories of learning to fly gliders in the UK almost 60 years ago. Thanks for the video. We had a Blanik at our club in Hope BC, Canada, back in the early 1970's.

    • @deltaskyhawk
      @deltaskyhawk 2 месяца назад

      I flew in that Hope blanik. Nice glider but I got sick as a dog in it.

  • @fritzlehner9060
    @fritzlehner9060 Месяц назад +2

    Blanik finest glider !
    The Z526, tow plane, even more.
    I had a fantastic youth !

  • @dja1353
    @dja1353 2 месяца назад +9

    Thanks Martin. I loved flying both the L13 and L23 at Arlington and Ephrata Washington USA from 1981 to 1999. If I was blind I would know I was in a Blanik from all the little sounds - creaking, cables slapping, etc.

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад +1

      I´m glad to hear that! Exactly as you say this plane really has a personality. Sometimes I´m still little bit nervous about all the sounds this old metal lady is making during the flight. It really makes me proud that those machines made in our small country were used even in the US.

    • @coriscotupi
      @coriscotupi 2 месяца назад +2

      @@J18Flyer Brazil here.
      I got to fly in a Blanik once at a flying club, loved it but was too far away from home to be practical to pursuit gliding, so I went on to "the other side of the force" and learned to fly airplanes. But gliders still have a special place in my heart, I do fly them regularly in the form of radio controlled models.

    • @potrzebieneuman4702
      @potrzebieneuman4702 2 месяца назад +1

      yes !! and the clunk..clunk as the aircraft went over the top of a loop when the weight came off the wings and then back on again, those pins were so hard to get in and out of the main spar when taking the wings off but there was still the double clunk in a loop.

  • @michaeld9731
    @michaeld9731 2 месяца назад +3

    That was a great flight on a beautiful day! What a perfect setting you have. My old gliding club, Mid-Georgia Soaring Association, in Monroe, Georgia, USA, had two L-13s. I really liked flying them. Even after a friend and I bought a Libelle 201-B, I'd still fly the L-13s. Wishing you many years of beautiful soaring. 👍 😃 👏

  • @joaopaulopina843
    @joaopaulopina843 Месяц назад +2

    Thank you for reminding me my 16 years, in Évora, Portugal, in a Rhönlerche II. We also had a Blanik. Beautiful spins and stalls. The altimeter was calibrated to sea level, I guess...

  • @potrzebieneuman4702
    @potrzebieneuman4702 2 месяца назад +3

    12:27 "Don't pull too hard in the dive" man do I remember that, the first spin recovery I pulled about a G and my instructor calmly said "Not so hard on the stick next time", this brings back wonderful memories for me. Stalls were fun, the AC I flew gave a reassuring shudder just before the stall and if my memory serves me correctly the port wing would drop first every time, I seem to remember any aileron use at this time made it worse. Stalls on the L13 were 48 knots I think.

  • @davidweaver4702
    @davidweaver4702 2 месяца назад +7

    We had a Blanik in Cyprus at The Crusaders gliding club while I was serving in the UK HM Forces. I started learning in a Slingsby T21, then went onto a K13 and the Blanik. The Blanik was my favourite to fly, although I loved the open cockpit of the T21 Sedburgh with the wind in your hair. I really miss those days. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Dave W 🍻

    • @rallful
      @rallful 2 месяца назад +3

      I was also a member of RAF gliding clubs in the mid-late 70s (two Rivers at Laarbruch and Wrekin at Cosford). What I really hated about the Blanik was practice cable breaks from a winch launch. The Cosford field is fairly short and it was almost impssible from the back seat to tell how down the field we were!

    • @rallful
      @rallful 2 месяца назад +2

      Further to my comment about the Cosford field being fairly short, some brave crew did get a Vulcan in. Perhaps I'm just naturally nervous!

    • @clivebrealey6795
      @clivebrealey6795 2 месяца назад +1

      I learned on the same types in the same sequence - at Humber G.C. at Lindholme (1978). Our T21 (314) had a 2-piece canopy which attached from either side. Good times, great friends. I believe our K13 was passed on to Crusaders when H.G.C was closed down in 1995.😊

    • @clivebrealey6795
      @clivebrealey6795 2 месяца назад

      @@rallfulWe had an expedition to the Long Mynd from my club at Scampton and borrowed Cosford's K21, it was a hell of a job to tow that up to the top of the Mynd, it almost had me sliding backwards down the hill!😀

    • @pavelkantor451
      @pavelkantor451 Месяц назад

      We never had Blaník in Kingsfield,it was Brasov (Romanian,half alu,half wood),this glider is still in possession of one former club member,not in service now thought.Pav

  • @dennisk5818
    @dennisk5818 2 месяца назад +3

    Spin training was always an energizing time. Learned them flying in a Schweizer 2-33, so the only difference between those in this video (and the stalls) and when I was training, was the wing skin rattling like hell as you approached the stall. This brought back memories of the first spin and how, all of a sudden, you were looking STRAIGHT DOWN at the ground. In a way, spin training taught me more how to keep the ship in proper form, especially in those tight banks in a small thermal.

  • @cloudhunter2
    @cloudhunter2 2 месяца назад +1

    I am currently a pilot in Valjevo, Serbia. There we have a Blanik L-13. It is basically the L-23, except for the tail design. I have over 25 hours of flying, but consider that I started the training in the summer of 2023. It is so nice to hear the command: YU-DCK (Piper PA18 Super Cub that's towing us), takeoff

  • @johnbigglesfriend1289
    @johnbigglesfriend1289 2 месяца назад +8

    blaniks are nice to fly,had share in one,looked nicer to visitors,rather than k13,thanks for video

  • @DonaldRawlinson
    @DonaldRawlinson Месяц назад

    Thank you so much for this video. I have flown fixed wing and helicopters but never a glider. I can't tell you how awesome this was for me. It felt as though I was there right behind you. Just loved it. Thank you and thank your Instructor. WOW

  • @potrzebieneuman4702
    @potrzebieneuman4702 2 месяца назад +1

    I learned to fly in an L13 Blanik way back in the early 1080's and thoroughly enjoyed flying this aircraft. I still have a soft spot for it despite the wing spar problems that appeared later. All of my flights were winch launched and I took my solo after 10.25 hours and had a cable break at the decision height of 300 feet on that trip....exciting !.

  • @Mainbusfail
    @Mainbusfail 2 месяца назад +5

    The indicator of a relaxed and confident pilot is when he / she barely grips the stick, you don't really realize it until you do and its really neat to reach that pinnacle.

    • @GreenCurryiykyk
      @GreenCurryiykyk 2 месяца назад +1

      Just training. My instructors drilled fingertip flying into me. I wasn't great but I didn't fly with a deathgrip. A light touch is a good habit.

    • @Mainbusfail
      @Mainbusfail 2 месяца назад +1

      @@GreenCurryiykyk Oh but I remember my first week out of ground school, I bet you could still to this day extrapolate my hand prints from both sides of the yoke in a couple of 152's and a tomahawk. My hands hurt at night and my ears rung. I wouldn't sell one minute of the agony for all the Bitcoin. I miss those days more than anything.

  • @johanveltheim4331
    @johanveltheim4331 2 месяца назад +3

    Beautiful! I'm an airplane private pilot and have done my share of stall and spin training but watching this video still makes my gut turn!

    • @willemh3319
      @willemh3319 Месяц назад

      me too even with cpl and i mis the damn engine

  • @markharwood6794
    @markharwood6794 Месяц назад

    40 years ago I flew the Super Blanik on my very first solo areotow and loved it, it's a lovely glider. This brought back soooooo many memories, all delightful :)

  • @thomasbenian4701
    @thomasbenian4701 Месяц назад

    Thank you, beautiful video. Brings back memories of my youth. I learned to fly in Slovakia (Czechoslovakia) in 1962,63,64 on Pionyr L-109. Mainly with a winch take off about 160 flights to 350 -450 m and some 20 air tows with Zlin 205 or Brygadir L 60. Our Deep Banking turns, stalls and spins were done from 1500 m.

  • @abbot1237
    @abbot1237 2 месяца назад +10

    White knuckles - relax your grip on the stick, lol. Nice video, well done! 🤣

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад +1

      Yep yep I will work on it thanks! 🤣

  • @thomasengelhardt7940
    @thomasengelhardt7940 7 месяцев назад +3

    Really enjoyed the Video. Reminded me of the time 25 years ago when I learned to fly gliders back in1998, using the Super Blanik L-23 at College Station, TX. The head mounted Video camera is just great, it brings back a lot of the pilot feeling when watching, eg. when you were peaking to the runway while at downwind and crosswind. Thank you!

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  7 месяцев назад +1

      Wow... It always strikes me when I hear that those machines are used so far away from my country. Like on the airfields of Texas USA ... thank you for the kind words my friend. Yeah I wanted to film it on head mounted camera exactly because of this reason. I think it is the best way to let the viewer feel the experience of flying one of these. I´m peaking quite often on a baseleg because as you certainly know you have to eyeball the point where to turn on a final especially when you have strong crosswind which is unfortunatelly pretty common in Olomouc.

    • @vlcik
      @vlcik 2 месяца назад

      S blanikom som lietal v1960 roku…. . Vynikajúca klzavost, luxus, na tie roky skvelý vetroň!!!👍👍👍

  • @kendraaloha7472
    @kendraaloha7472 7 месяцев назад +5

    Thanks for sharing! I used to fly one of these many years ago, so it was fun to see it again!

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  7 месяцев назад +2

      Great! I´m glad you like it!

  • @robfredericks2984
    @robfredericks2984 16 дней назад

    Former US Navy jet pilot and flight instructor here. We did stalls and spins in every type of single engine prop and jet I flew 1967-1971, including "under the bag" instrument flying only. It seems odd to do spin recovery before stall recovery, since the A/C must stall before it can spin. The object is to prevent the spin by recovering from the stall first. Only if the stall is prolonged and asymmetric would it spin, then need the spin recovery. As I said, we recovered from spins even in instrument flying, even in jets. Navy pilots have always been the best! Landing on carriers required more skill and confidence than any other type of maneuvers. I also flew soaring A/C-gliders, the purist form of flying!

  • @powellriver100
    @powellriver100 2 месяца назад +2

    Watching this brings back many good memories of gliding at the Port Alberni Airport 22 years ago !!

  • @craighermle7727
    @craighermle7727 Месяц назад +1

    I haven't flown gliders since the 90s. I have a commercial rating and used to give rides in the L-23. I have a few hundred hrs in the L-13 and 23. It's a solid no-nonsense glider I loved flying it. Some of my 1st commercial rides were in the flying tank, the Schweizer SGS 2-32.

  • @BrilliantDesignOnline
    @BrilliantDesignOnline 2 месяца назад +3

    Nice flight. I, with a friend, taught ourselves to do spins in a Cessna 150. After some practice, we could do many revolutions (>10) and control the rate of the spin with the ailerons. When I took my checkride, the examiner said he would demonstrate a spin, but could not get even 1/2 a revolution even after trying several times 🙂

  • @donf3739
    @donf3739 Месяц назад +1

    That was awesome! Thank you for posting. I've never seen what it was like to fly a glider.

  • @Chompchompyerded
    @Chompchompyerded Месяц назад +2

    Looks like that glider was the only thing keeping that tow plane aloft. As soon as he dropped the cord, the tow plane fell out of the sky.
    All joking aside, it was fun to watch, and the tow pilot did a fine job.

  • @ralpharmsby8040
    @ralpharmsby8040 Месяц назад

    Great video! I had some lessons in 1973 and have been up in a glider only a few times since. This was at Rufforth near York (UK) and they had a Blanik then. I think I'll get myself a flight for my 70th birthday this year!

  • @Wheels-Wheels-Wheels
    @Wheels-Wheels-Wheels 2 месяца назад +3

    Wow, enjoyed that. First time I've been in a glider!

  • @foxwhiskey
    @foxwhiskey 2 месяца назад +3

    Hello ! Thanks a lot for showing this very nice flight in a really nice vid. I was a glider-pilot for many years and this vid brings back sooo many unpayable memories !
    😊😊😊

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад

      Thank you I´m glad that the video served its purpose well!

  • @galdramadur1
    @galdramadur1 2 месяца назад +5

    That was a very interesting Video. Thank`s for sharing. 👍👍👍

  • @Ace_Ivo1917
    @Ace_Ivo1917 8 месяцев назад +5

    Great spin recoveries Martin, I think every J18 needs to do this! 😂

    • @No.10_SopwithMan
      @No.10_SopwithMan 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yee

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  8 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you Ivo! Yeah well that is one of my requirements when I do instructor for somebody in our squad. 😁 Salute my friend!

  • @glennshaw5718
    @glennshaw5718 2 месяца назад +6

    Olomouc, Czech Republic. Olomouc has a beautiful "old town".

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад

      Yes it is ... quite a history as well. Thanks a lot! 👋

  • @SkidzFPV
    @SkidzFPV Месяц назад

    Looks so fun! I’m going to go for a sailplane flight with a friend soon, super excited. I’ve been paragliding for 3 years now, and have done stalls and spins in my paraglider, imagine that they will feel much more benign in a sailplane.

  • @antondillet466
    @antondillet466 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for sharing this veeery nice video! For me it was, as if I was sitting on your seat. My heart rate went up, i was fully concentrated over the whole flight.

  • @jernejfunkl8300
    @jernejfunkl8300 2 месяца назад

    This video brought back memories of this airport, where years ago we made the final decision to buy the ROKO NG6 airplane.
    We did some test flights with him here and also visited the factory where they were made :)

  • @philipperessos5499
    @philipperessos5499 2 месяца назад +1

    Was really great! Thanks for sharing!

  • @lukasolsovsky7299
    @lukasolsovsky7299 Месяц назад

    Prostě nádhera, od malička jsem chtěl lítat....moc děkuji.

  • @pstrzel
    @pstrzel 2 месяца назад +3

    That brings back memories.

  • @user-eq3qk7vv9h
    @user-eq3qk7vv9h 3 месяца назад +2

    My stall and spin training was a little more intense in a k 13 but as long as you have good intro flight it brings you back for more!

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  3 месяца назад +1

      Yep exactly. I mean we have one basic aerobatics display flight with instructor when we are just passangers and that was actually pretty intense as I experienced it for the first time. This was already almost at the end of the spin&stalls course. Anyways I was hooked in seconds!

  • @Devo491
    @Devo491 19 дней назад

    I can see why this sport has so many obsessed players!
    After the clunky tow, pure exhilaration.

  • @dannysloop2236
    @dannysloop2236 2 месяца назад +3

    Great soaring video!

  • @av8tore71
    @av8tore71 7 дней назад

    I miss the Czech Republic! The people are awesome and the food was awesome as well

  • @maxun1
    @maxun1 2 месяца назад +3

    Beautiful

  • @marcusverhoeven9696
    @marcusverhoeven9696 Месяц назад

    Good that you guys still perform real stalls and spins in the training program ! In France this is no longer performed and I think that's not good for security !! Have fun flying in your nice environnement !

  • @wtnjiujitsu365
    @wtnjiujitsu365 Месяц назад

    Tohle video je pro mě dobré na zopakování před sezónou 🙂

  • @hansulrichkeller6651
    @hansulrichkeller6651 Месяц назад

    I have flown a Blanik both as a student as an instructor. There were some accidents in Switzerland after doing spins with this plane.

  • @DutchKC9UOD
    @DutchKC9UOD 2 месяца назад

    Thank you great flight

  • @arturoeugster7228
    @arturoeugster7228 Месяц назад

    front seater: you keep on skidding to the left, correct with left rudder to center the yaw string.
    And instructor : make a full turn spin, to gauge your recovery heading lead, very important in acrobatics, where precision counts.

  • @eracer1111
    @eracer1111 2 месяца назад +4

    Help me understand what happens to the tow rope when released. I would have thought it releases from the sailplane, and the tow plane winches it back in. But I see it drop away from the tow plane instead. Is there some sort of spring-loaded winch inside the sailplane that automatically retracts it? It doesn't release from both aircraft and just drop to the ground, does it?

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад +3

      Well tow rope is just a "regular" rope with eyes on each side ... simply said. They are little bit elastic to absorb some of the sudden pulls. It wasn´t actually detached from both planes as it looks like on a video. It´s optical illusion made by contraction of a rope after releasing from the glider. Tow rope is staying attached to the tow plane which descends and before landing it drops the rope on a ground so it won´t interfere with something during landing. On some airfields they even land with rope attached to the tow plane if there are no obsticles ... but here in Olomouc we have a highway on one side and forest with the metal fence on the other side.

    • @RichardOutdoors
      @RichardOutdoors Месяц назад

      I’m sorry, but you were nowhere near either 60 or 70 degrees nose up. Maximum of 45.

    • @michaelrussell5346
      @michaelrussell5346 Месяц назад +1

      The tow rope has a similar release system to the glider and can drop the rope when required. If the airstrip is suitably safe to land with rope attached ,i.e. no people or objects below the approach and a suitable runway surface that does not harm the rope by chafing such as grass.
      The tow plane can, in an emergency, release the rope while towing a glider. This could be due to engine failure or, the glider not becoming airborne during take off and placing the tow plane in danger . It can also in rare instances, drop the rope when towing a glider and having the glider appear to lose control and drift out of station putting both aircraft in danger of collision.
      It has been many years since I flew gliders and I have no knowledge of tug planes with winches to wind in the rope after release, but I doubt that they would be acceptable because there would be no practical way to dump the rope from the tug.
      Cheers from Downunder👍🇦🇺

  • @skyhy-ec3sn
    @skyhy-ec3sn 2 дня назад

    Thank YOU for flying&video

  • @Mikeandlucy1
    @Mikeandlucy1 Месяц назад

    Learnt to fly in a Blanik, not the most graceful of gliders but a real workhorse of the club I flew with. Sadly it was wrecked when a novice pilot launched too steeply off the winched cable and the cable sagged before slipping off the hook causing him to stall and nose dive 30ft into the ground. He is now a quadriplegic, It was the first of a series of mishaps at the club which eventually lead me to accept that gliding can be a very dangerous sport and as a new father, I owed it to my family to find a safer hobby.

  • @erikisberg3886
    @erikisberg3886 2 месяца назад +2

    Nice spin practice, exit on course! Flew basic aerobatics in a similar Blanik L13 at Boeing glider club way back in the mid 1970:s ... Sadly most of these are now grounded due to wing spar fatigue as I understand it.

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад +2

      Yep sadly they are. Our aeroclub have 2 L 13 grounded because rebuild to meet the safety requirements is too expensive. There was an accident in Austria I believe and there they found out that L 13 has a design flaw ... as I understood it it´s not dangerous for the normal flying regime but in aerobatics there´s a risk of structural failure of the wing spar and loosing the wing.

    • @harrothepilot
      @harrothepilot 2 месяца назад +2

      @@J18Flyer I learnt to fly gliders in an L13 also, great memories. I think the L13 you refer to, was very heavily aerobatted, and ultimately lost its wings in flight prior to just 900hrs tt. We used to pay particular attention to those large ‘ carry through ‘ rivets and what we could see of the main spar pre flight, but I suspect that was more for our peace of mind before flight, rather than picking up on a fault. I do remember the rivets would get a greyish ‘ paste ‘ ( which i used to think was aluminium fragments and dirt and moisture mixed ) between the rivet head and what it was fastening together. Still, it was a good basic aeronautical grounding. Cheers

  • @markr.1984
    @markr.1984 2 месяца назад +1

    That looks really fun. I have the "Condor" sail plane simulator for my gaming PC but it's not very realistic, they say. But it's as close as I'm going to get because I just turned 66 years old. I was a airplane pilot for a short time in the very early 2000s. Flew Pipers and Cessnas but gave it up due to cost. But I did get my license and flew for three years.

    • @lciummo1
      @lciummo1 2 месяца назад

      I took a few glider lessons was I was actively flying powered planes. It was a lot noisier that I expected, and the lessons are short and expensive, especially with two or three flights each lesson. #1 rule I remember after getting released "find the airport and turn toward it". Good advice since a lot of tows took us over the ocean. Maybe if I got to do long cross countries it would be cool.

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад

      Yeah well soaring is something really hard to get into sim engine as thermals and wind conditions are very hard to simulate. This year we have a student who just turned 70 and is starting with the training. He has green light on medical checkup so I mean why not 🙂

  • @CesarpaulRivera
    @CesarpaulRivera 2 месяца назад +2

    I hate doing stalls, but just do'em to see my friends eyes popping out of their sockets.
    I keep the plane level as long as possible, and just let it drop like a rock straight down.
    But I fly a 152, but I go up to around 10.000, and put it on idle and just glide, I mean, you can glide for about half hour,by myself
    Wish it would have retractable landing gear, and those fixable props

  • @donadams8345
    @donadams8345 3 месяца назад +1

    Very Nice!

  • @jackmehoffer7819
    @jackmehoffer7819 2 месяца назад +3

    Wow I could hear them really good above the engine noise.

    • @lciummo1
      @lciummo1 2 месяца назад

      I took a few glider training flight and was surprised how noisy it was. Also too expensive for lesson and tow, w/ 2-3 a day.

  • @stevegilliver5104
    @stevegilliver5104 2 месяца назад

    Great flight, I used to fly a lot, including hang glider. Keep your observation levels up though. Look around more before you turn.
    Enjoyed the vid.

  • @arturoeugster7228
    @arturoeugster7228 Месяц назад

    Front seater: keep the tow plane on the mean hotrizon, on a turn head the nose on the outer wing tip.
    Tow pilot head under the cummuli, there is obviously a clowd street , make use of it, reduces tow time.

  • @robertojpaez9354
    @robertojpaez9354 Месяц назад

    Amazing fly

  • @monostripezebras
    @monostripezebras 4 месяца назад +1

    lovely

  • @kenmcfarland4287
    @kenmcfarland4287 Месяц назад

    Superb !😊

  • @steffenlze0178
    @steffenlze0178 Месяц назад

    nice flight and butter landing ->👍

  • @JohnLivings
    @JohnLivings 2 месяца назад +4

    Nice job, You might release the "Death Grip" on the stick as it would be hard to go 6 or 8 Hours with that Strangle hold
    on the stick. Again nice job.

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад +1

      Yes you´re right. I mean I´m a skinny guy so it looks much worse than it was in reality. But still I was working on it later in the training. It´s not something that goes away just like that you have to focus on beeing calm get used to it. Good point though thanks!

    • @JohnLivings
      @JohnLivings 2 месяца назад

      I would instruct the student to let go of the stick and watch nothing bad happen.
      It's good to trim for hands off flying, Try using your thumb and two fingers with a light touch.@@J18Flyer

    • @markcoveryourassets
      @markcoveryourassets Месяц назад

      ​@@J18Flyer, I get it, man. You should have seen me in my first helicopter flight. 😮😅

  • @markr8904
    @markr8904 Месяц назад

    The camera on his head is a nice perspective as it shows where he is looking.

  • @gzk6nk
    @gzk6nk 2 месяца назад +2

    That brought back memories of learning to fly in a Blanik at Nympsfield in the Cotswolds
    in the glorious summer of 1976. Most of my aeros have been in the Chipmunk and the Yak52, though.
    Have you tried less of a death-grip on the stick? Finger and thumb is just fine!

    • @rogerturner5504
      @rogerturner5504 2 месяца назад

      Who was the CFI when you were there? When I was there in the mid 60s there was a lovely bloke called Peter Ethridge who had a Dalmatian called Rufus and he used to do the last flight of the day with Rufus in the right-hand seat and land the Capstan in the hangar door to save retrieving. Posh bloke called Bentley (first name obvs) on the winch. Happy days.

    • @gzk6nk
      @gzk6nk 2 месяца назад

      @@rogerturner5504 Can't remember. We were only there for a 1 week gliding course.

    • @ralpharmsby8040
      @ralpharmsby8040 Месяц назад

      I noticed that too. Only finger and thumb needed in a Tiger Moth and not that much more in a Spitfire. I had experience flights in both at Duxford.... quite an experience!!

  • @eriklapparent4662
    @eriklapparent4662 8 месяцев назад +3

    Super!Ahoj z Francuszka!

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  8 месяцев назад

      Děkuju taky zdravím!

    • @eriklapparent4662
      @eriklapparent4662 8 месяцев назад

      @@J18Flyer We were three half Slovak airline pilots!In 1963,my late brother was #3 of the European Gliding Cup.He loved aerobatics in gliders.

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  8 месяцев назад

      @@eriklapparent4662 Wow! That´s impressive! I love to hear that the video actually reached airline pilots. Let it fly!

    • @eriklapparent4662
      @eriklapparent4662 8 месяцев назад

      @@J18Flyer For sure,keep him flying,CSK has always been very active in aviation since the begining.
      So I'm proud of my SK links!Ahoj z
      Franzsuska!

  • @dnacannotchange
    @dnacannotchange 5 месяцев назад +5

    real men dont need motors🎉🎉🎉

  • @craigwilcox4403
    @craigwilcox4403 Месяц назад

    Many hundreds of hours in a L-13, N779. Most as an instructor. The L-23 must have slightly larger control surfaces, as I could never hold a spin more than 1/2 turn. This student pilot did pretty good.

  • @stevegreen2432
    @stevegreen2432 4 дня назад

    As a point of interest, it has always been my belief that the stall comes before the spin--every time.

  • @hotttt28
    @hotttt28 Месяц назад

    Nice landing!

  • @Neil-ru7kw
    @Neil-ru7kw 2 месяца назад +2

    Well done 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @cliffordrandell735
    @cliffordrandell735 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for the video 😅

  • @markr8904
    @markr8904 Месяц назад

    The pilot raises his head during the stall and we can not see him pushing the stick forward.It would have been interesting to see that part of it.

  • @DdDd-ss3ms
    @DdDd-ss3ms 2 месяца назад +1

    Enjoyed watching... only didn't understand the decoupling. It looks as if the tug plan decouples the cable

  • @arkiefyler
    @arkiefyler 2 месяца назад

    Am I losing my sight or do sailplanes mount altimeters differently? In other words, why does the altimeter scale have zero at the bottom instead of the top? I started flying in 1968, commercial till 2004.

  • @1FreeSelfGoverningAmericanMan
    @1FreeSelfGoverningAmericanMan 15 дней назад

    Am I see this correctly? You pulled the release and the tow line disconnected from the tug?!

  • @master.sporcu
    @master.sporcu Месяц назад

    @J18Flyer I just want to know why the towplane released the rope too?🤔 And the rope fall from sky to whos head? 🤔

    • @EneriGiilaan
      @EneriGiilaan Месяц назад

      It indeed looks strange. Had to look with the highest resolution and and slow speed - to me it seems that the rope actually remains attached to the tow plane after all. The way the rope behaves after the release looks quite unfamiliar to me - almost like a rubber band released from one end -- perhaps they use more elastic rope than what we use at our club?

  • @MonostripeZebra
    @MonostripeZebra 2 месяца назад +1

    Klasse

  • @Juschius
    @Juschius 2 месяца назад +2

    Oh good old times... get why plane released tow rope though ?

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад

      It didn´t it just looks like that but rope was still attached to the tow plane.

  • @pisgas2008
    @pisgas2008 2 месяца назад

    Great ! But, just confirm ... you reported base leg wwhen on downwind, confirm ?

  • @ronwade5646
    @ronwade5646 5 месяцев назад +2

    Blanik! 😊

  • @FLHTdriver
    @FLHTdriver Месяц назад

    Just a stupid comment but if I remember correctly you need to be in a stall to enter a spin, or have things changed?

  • @expertkis
    @expertkis 2 месяца назад

    Красивое видео (beautiful video)

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад +1

      Cпасибо! 👋

  • @hamikhamik1266
    @hamikhamik1266 Месяц назад

    Nice

  • @outlander-x
    @outlander-x 2 месяца назад

    nice!

  • @rogerturner5504
    @rogerturner5504 2 месяца назад +1

    Would it not be normal to do a test of the Ottfur release each launch?

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  2 месяца назад

      I mean it´s basically done by attaching the rope. If it would be faulty you woudn´t be able to pull that in a first place. So pulling the rope after attachement is sufficient just to know that it won´t detach during tow.

    • @rogerturner5504
      @rogerturner5504 2 месяца назад

      You have to test back-release of the Ottfur release in case of overflying the tow. Don't forget winch launching.

  • @mark46ification
    @mark46ification 2 месяца назад

    Pekne video so super komentarom instruktorky...inak skus sa trochu uvolnit...strasne krcovito drzis ten knipel...chvilami som mal dojem ze ho v tej ruke rozmackas...inak super

  • @No.10_SopwithMan
    @No.10_SopwithMan 8 месяцев назад +2

    I want to see a camel next 😄

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  8 месяцев назад +1

      Well me doing spins with Camel would be most probably my last video 😂

  • @n0emis100
    @n0emis100 8 месяцев назад +2

    Ahoj Martine, tak je to neskutečná paráda, seš borec. Celý polet jsem si krásně užil, 4K obraz je dokonalý. Cítil jsi nějaké Géčka u těch výkrutů? Tak to už je něco jiného než to naše virtuální polétávání, závidím. Musím znovu oprášit toho glidera v MSFS a vyzkoušet nějaké starty z Olomouce. Tak pokud se k tomu odhodlám, doufám, že budeš hlavní rádce. Jen si to hezky užívej, tohoto období si budeš pamatovat celý život. Kéž bych byl mladší. Měj se hezky a letu zdar! S!

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  8 месяцев назад +1

      Ahoj, no po delší době jsem chtěl hodit něco z výcviku. Vzhledem k tomu, že se blížím ke konci tak začínají i ty akčnější lekce jako tahle 😅 Děkuju moc, jsem rád, že se líbí. Ten obraz je trochu kompromis musel jsem z kvality obecně mírně slevit, protože když je na letišti 34° a zavřu se do kokpitu tak já jsem v pohodě protože mě ofukuje větrání ale na GoPro peče přímé slunce a zhruba po 25 minutách se vypne samo z důvodu přehřátí pokud jedu na 4K. Budu to muset nějak vyřešit až budu točit termické lety kde jeden polet může mít klidně 5 hodin. Každopádně u vývrtek byť to na tom videu tak nevypadá cítíš Gčka fakt dost ... možná je to jen tím, že nejsem zvyklý, ale při tom vybírání máš pocit jako bys měl 500 kilo a na tváři olověné závaží. Určitě opraš sám jsem zvědavý jestli je v MSFS nějak nasimulovaná termika nebo jde vyloženě o klouzání ... každopádně bych to rád viděl. Snad brzy zase polétáme nějak se mi nedaří se k simulátorům teď přes léto dostat. Taky se měj hezky a snad brzy ve vzduchu! Ať to lítá! S!

  • @jktl1000s
    @jktl1000s Месяц назад

    Banned in oz because the wings fall of…happy to be corrected ,I learn in a blanik before they were banned loved it

  • @johns.r.lawrence9287
    @johns.r.lawrence9287 2 месяца назад

    Very nice except that before you attempt spins or stalls you need to visually verify that the area is clear of traffic. Keep your head on a swivel and look around to be absolutely sure the airspace is clear.

  • @jirihouska4751
    @jirihouska4751 19 дней назад

    Very nice. I leave at my Radio Controlled plane :-)

  • @user3141592635
    @user3141592635 2 месяца назад

    A spin with a metallic Vlaic was also a funny thing.

  • @yd217723
    @yd217723 Месяц назад

    I can't see a flaps' handle - where it is?

  • @vasikmadl1751
    @vasikmadl1751 8 месяцев назад +1

    Mám pocit že si při úkonech prohodil pásy a řízení, ale jinak super video.

    • @J18Flyer
      @J18Flyer  8 месяцев назад

      Jo jak jsem na to pak koukal taky mi to došlo. Hlavně, že se na nic nezapomnělo. Vím že jak jsem se to učil snažil jsem si zapamatovat, že to jde postupně všechno po kokpitu zleva doprava a k sobě. Díky.

    • @vasikmadl1751
      @vasikmadl1751 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@J18Flyer v pohodeee, mně to taky trvalo😆

  • @MemoWardwell
    @MemoWardwell Месяц назад

    I love gliding, but CHECK OUT THAT TOW PLANE !! Talk about get there fast !