Glider climbing like a rocket in wave lift
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- This was the strongest wave I've ever flown in my glider. There were no clouds, so I had to rely on the forecast to find the lift. I faced a extremely strong headwind on the way home.
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Thanks, Ben! Fabulous flight! Terriric video, too. Hopefully next season I can join in on the fun. Cheers!!
17+ is mad, great video
Nice explanation of wave conditions & how you use them. As a paraglider pilot, I can only envy your ability to fly back to your airfield in a 42knot headwind. I'd be going backwards at 12knots, even on full speedbar.
My highest change in vario was as a passanger, we got sink -3m per second, then sudenly to +8 m a second, i was about 10 orso at the time, scared the shit out of me
Thanks. That climb rate was superb!
Love the video, keep up the work!!!
Neat flight. You ever fly the Sierra Wave along the Eastern Sierra? Grew up in Bishop and watched the gliders launch from there on some record breaking flights. Watched a glider on radar about a week ago launch from Minden Nv go north to Herlong then all the way back South to almost InyoKern then back North to Minden a little over 8 hours flight.
I have flown wave a little bit up in the Sierras, but I haven't gone all the way down the Owens valley yet. Hoping to do that this year. The wave is epic up there.
Great video, thanks for sharing your thought process along with the visuals from this amazing wave flight.
Always awesome videos, thanks Ben. 👍🏻..!
ur my favorite glider pilot youtuber
Thanks!
great flight, nice editing! thanks!
Thanks for your video. About your camera overheating: you might want to look into getting a faster memory card.
I'm using one of the cards recommend by the camera manufacturer. These 360 cameras are just known for overheating. They weren't designed to run for hours at a time. I've got some heat sinks and fans I'm going to try.
Thanks!
Thanks so much!
Great vid. Thanks
2500 fpm briefly, in a hang glider, in a hand grenade of a thermal. Had some wave, but gentle stuff. We can't handle the big winds.
Flying a Duo Discus , 18+ knts Omarama New Zealand.
You asked if we have ever climbed at a faster rate and to give comment: I once flew in South Africa (Magaliesburg). Ground level is 4500ft (approx) and cloud base on the particular day was between about 12,000ft and 14,000ft. The thermals were crazy over the top powerful. The needle was constantly right off the gauge. They have a term for this experience in SA - it's called "going up like a home sick angel".
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On a different note: I have never flown wave and have always been curious about how it works. This has to be the best video yet (related to wave flying). You have explained how long the wave stretches, how one crosses from one wave to another and the issues faced when doing this upwind or downwind. I particularly like how you are relying on skysight as there are no lenticulars (except the one).
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One question - what's it like landing in rotar. Very violent? moderately violent?...? Would you ever consider purposefully placing your glider in rotar to show what's it like or is that simply dangerous?
Homesick angel - that's a great expression. I've never had to land in rotor, fortunately. Nor have I experienced rotor that I would call extreme. It's not always present when there's wave. Sometimes you can see rotor clouds that will give you a clue that it's there.
@@BenHirashima thanks for the reply.
17 knots?! All these videos are like the perfect conditions we hear about in textbooks 😂
Also can you view skysight in flight or do you just plan out where you heading before hand? I'm getting into cross-country but I'm still not ready to spend the money on skysight yet.
@@AirJoe there are ways to pre-load the SkySight data and view it in flight. It's super helpful in wave, because it can be pretty accurate.
You should experience 1600fpm in a hang glider… it takes all your strength just keeping the bar from being ripped out of your hands!
Wow, sounds like fun :)
@@BenHirashima your videos are awesome! I hope I can get back in a glider someday but until then I get to experience it through these videos!
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A 28 mile tow ! Wow that was pobably a little pricey ! I love your videos Ben. Always very informative
and well presented. How do you overlay Sports Track Live into your videos ? I've been trying to do that without sucess .
Fortunately, Williams has very good tow rates, so those long tows don't break the bank. I think that tow cost me about $140. With Sports Track Live, I play the flight on their website and record my computer screen. Then I insert the footage into my video editor. On a Mac, recording the screen is easy with Quicktime. On a PC, I can recommend Movavi, but it's not free.
@@BenHirashima Thanks Ben . I found the record button and extracted the recording and saved it, but I could not get it to work until
I converted it from WEBM to MP4 and sped the recording up in the editing program. Anyhow all is good now and looking forward
to incorporating this into my videos.
That was an awesome video! As a student glider pilot myself i wanted to ask you; how do you know where you are compared to the skysight forecast. It looks like your instrument doesn't show the skysight forecast and looks like it's pretty hard to make out exactly where you are. So do you just bring out your phone and use the gps there to see where you and the waves are?
Yep, I just use my phone
Imagine falling asleep in such a peaceful environment?!
I’m guessing your glider isn’t pressurized…. But I don’t see any supplemental oxygen. How do you do it?
@@SteveHicks-q2d yes, gliders aren't pressurized. I'm wearing a cannula for oxygen.
Makes sense, thanks for the info!
Nice flying!