There are experienced glider pilots who can travel further with less altitude. There are thermal pockets you can find that will increase your altitude.
Glider pilot here. My instructor was the lead pilot on team USA gliding and his most recent flight was Wichita Kansas to San Antonio Texas from a 2,000 ft tow.
If we can some how use the ground effect on the glider the gliding effect lasts longer it's basically the end of the wings tilt 90⁰ downwards which gives it like mire rake off or longer glide
@@camdenschneider4421 Nice! One of my A&P instructors was a glider pilot. He would always derail off topic and talk about incredible flights and possibilities of a glider lol.
It really drives home how remarkable technology has gotten in the past century or so, doesn’t it? It used to take days to get just a few towns over by foot or even horseback. Now you can drive up and over (or thru) a mountain in minutes, or fly across a continent within hours. Travel is so fast now that the world has practically shrunken down to a fraction of its size as far as travel times are concerned. Shit’s crazy, and we’re only at the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Actually that is not true. You are not looking for air currents but thermals which are rising pockets of air. The pilot tries to spend as much time as possible in a thermal to gain as much height as possible.
@@Project_VideoGame the funny thing is it does exist in real life. Search for glider and wave. It happens in certain conditions when strong winds blow over high mountains and form a giant wind rotor movement on the flat land behind.
@@kaeez the internet is a beautiful thing. Look it up. Basically he is saying for every 1km of altitude you have, you can glide for 46km. That glide ratio is really good where as actual commercial airliners are in the single digits.
What if... We built an autopilot system, from which data can be extracted from our flight decision,remote sensing, and topology mapping.... Dunno i just Uni student in mech eng
@@YAWBAD You still need the right conditions. They wouldn't be able to fly in a straight line. You'd need a mountain range to follow and perfect weather. This means you'd practically only manage to fly in circles as long as the weather allows for it.
Glider pilots are legit amazing.. Imagine telling the wright brothers people will be flying currents for 100s of km for essentially free. The new gliders with small electric/jet engine start up motors are kinda a game changer.
The aerodynamics at that altitude become impossible to support any winged aircraft. There is a glider (Perlman II) designed to fly up to 90,000 feet. At that altitude the air is so thin that you have to go nearly supersonic to have enough airflow over the wings to support it.
Keep in mind that the specific glider you used has a glide ratio of 70:1 (for every meter lost in altitude you gain 70 in length, that’s if the glider you used is the eta, which has a wingspan of 30.9 m) most glider don’t have that glider ratio, the one i use has a glide ratio of 34:0.82, so my glider compared to that it’s like a Cessna 172 compared with an F16, but nice video tho!
It's amazing what you can do with a glider. You can fly very long distances with one, and yes. You can go even longer if you go from an airliner's altitude. Even if you went from a Darkstar's altitude, you'd be flying for a very long time, but in comparison from 35,000 feet in the air, flying from 280,000 feet would take you eight times as long, 16 hours. Still, though, that looks pretty cool. Keep up with the good work.
Paramotor pilot here, I believe a typical glider has a 50:1 glide ratio. They’re all different based on design of the plane but if you were 35000’ up, you could travel 350 miles. Of course it doesn’t work the same way in real life as it does on paper but if you were to find thermals and really search to see how long you could stay up there, it may never end. There’s always rising air somewhere. Next to the rising air is sinking air, there’s a good bit involved but you get the idea
I believe in the original msfx there is a glider training mission. I had the most fun flying those; not the jets and other planes. I remember the "instructor" said "it's like magic, isn't it?" While i was thinking it.
@@regalblack1503 Gliding is without thrust and flying is with thrust. Not exactly a difficult concept. Do you think pilots just turn off their engines mid flight lmao?
Glider if you have a 60:1 ratio. Every 1’ of altitude you go 60’ forward. So you can do the simple math and find out how high you gotta go to go a given dist. In summer time I always had to wear extra socks, it gets cold!!! Oh, and fill the oxygen tank up. I started gliders at 12 got my rating when I was 14. Soaring is where my heart is at
A better comparison for how far the glider went from beginning to end is If the glider started at Jacksonville, FL, it would have touched down at the Everglades national Park, so it Basically flew the entirety of Florida.
At 35k feet after all for a glider it's worst than an airliner because the air is less dense and having that whole wing span helps but not so much at lower altitudes per exemple at 8000 feet, the glider is going to be more stable and travel at a higher speed. But they can some of them are also pressurised, must of the times it's worst than flying at lower altitudes but if you are at 45 k feet you may have a better chance of encountering some wind thermals that help glider a *lot* .
Mr Nitpicky here...When your glider ran out of altitude 300 miles to the east of Tampa, it splashed into the Atlantic, but not anywhere close to "somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic".
You could have probably made it out all the way to the Bahamas like the barefoot bandit. He was in a propeller powered Cessna but it's still impressive. I wonder what the longest glider flight is irl?
When they use the rising air to stay aloft they can go a long way for a long time. Yesterday, starting off tow at 2000 feet above ground I flew over 200 miles over 4 hours. (Could have stayed up longer). It was an average day.
Basic knowledge. A glider like that can easily do better than 1:40 glide slope. So 1 meter loss in altitude will move you forward 40 meters. So from a height of 10,668 meters and in stable air it will get you at least 427 kilometers.
One of the people that holds a number of records was Hanna Reitch . Look her up very interesting woman. Some believe she was the first astronaut flying a missile as a test pilot. But because of secrecy nothing was mentioned.
If you find the thermals you can theoretically stay up forever. Flying gliders is fun. Quite a while ago I was taking courses to get a glider pilots license. Made it about 1/2 way thru and life happened so I had to quit.
Assuming the destination is at sea-level, zero-wind conditions, and no thermals or sink, then a glider starting at 30000 ft with a glide ratio of 50:1 can fly 246 miles. If you have lift, it can fly much further.
Next time should I try taking off from Tampa and travel across the US I’m pretty sure you can hit the thermal pockets of warm air to raise the high up enough to continue gliding for several more hours
pretty cool! but there are actually gliders out there that can do way more. record atm (if i remember correctly) had a very advanced glider actually climb to over 70,000 feet on thermals.... they are expecting to make another attempt this year with the goal of getting up to 100,000 feet!
gliders can travel indefinitly if you use thermals. It's not as simple as being dropped from a certain altitude to get a certain feet. you can climbs thousands of feet in the same spot by itself just by climbing thermals.
If you had stayed over land your flight would have lasted a lot longer. Urban areas can provide updrafts that will give a sailplane lift. You can hopscotch all over the Eastern seaboard.
This might seem kinda unrealistic initially but there have actually been successful stratospheric glider flights up to almost 75,000 feet - higher than the highest altitude a U2 has ever flown and in theory it's possible to reach 90-100,000 feet which would be higher than the SR-71 Check out the Perlan Project
If the thing could handle the speed, you probably coulda gotten a lot farther over the ocean if you did the ground-effect slingshot that sailplane pilots are taught for if they can't make the runway - dive, build speed, and level off only a wingspan or two off the ground and you can rocket like 20 feet off the ground for an insanely long distance
Try an IFR flight out of a busy airport with VATSim. The radio communications alone will keep everyone busy. Also, the simulation speed can be adjusted.
It would be interesting to see how far it would go if you put weather factors in so you could probably get some thermals and maybe get more than 300 mi
I think best glide ratio is 1:70. But that must be at 10 000ft max. Higher up falling faster is the name of the game. But there areas near mountains where glider is gaining altitude whole day
You can calculate that distance thanks to parameter known as glide ratio, don't need an experiment. If there will be no updrafts of course, because if there are, in theory you can fly until you die out of dehydration :)
I wonder if you could use a path which takes advantage of Coriolis acceleration to go further on glide ratio? This would of course continue the idea of doing it without the use of glider techniques such as ridge soaring and thermal soaring which both allow the craft to climb. I have not done the math on it, I'm mostly curios if it is possible. I'm guessing a larger(continental large) right banking circle from a western heading at the tropic of cancer or the opposite from bank from the tropic of caper corn may be in the ball park of what would work if it could work at all.
There are experienced glider pilots who can travel further with less altitude. There are thermal pockets you can find that will increase your altitude.
Glider pilot here. My instructor was the lead pilot on team USA gliding and his most recent flight was Wichita Kansas to San Antonio Texas from a 2,000 ft tow.
If we can some how use the ground effect on the glider the gliding effect lasts longer it's basically the end of the wings tilt 90⁰ downwards which gives it like mire rake off or longer glide
@@camdenschneider4421 Nice! One of my A&P instructors was a glider pilot. He would always derail off topic and talk about incredible flights and possibilities of a glider lol.
@@pratikhyamohapatra2193 ground effect only works within a few feet of the ground. That’s why gliders take off with a very short roll, 200 ft or so
yeah i've seen videos on here of people gliding 900+ km, it's pretty amazing
You should see how fast you can go if you go straight down from 275,000 feet
It caps out at 185 knots. I tested it
HE MADE THE VIDEO BTW🎉😅😮
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@@sadfxces I meant with a glider
In other words, for every foot he went down, he traveled roughly 46ft.
he's got a pretty good glider than. most normal ones go 40 distance for 1 height
And that's called glide ratio!
Well worked out ben
@@Sanyu-Tumusiime the best are up to 70 these days
@@MaximBaranov5 WOW I guess they really improved their tech then.
"Gliders are known for gliding..."
Some high level knowledge right there
*_TheMoreYouKnow_*
😂
*glides what seems like an entire continent*
"And thats just Florida"
Yeah the world is much bigger than we think
Most European countries are
The world is much bigger than you think and he's also moving really slow
It really drives home how remarkable technology has gotten in the past century or so, doesn’t it? It used to take days to get just a few towns over by foot or even horseback. Now you can drive up and over (or thru) a mountain in minutes, or fly across a continent within hours. Travel is so fast now that the world has practically shrunken down to a fraction of its size as far as travel times are concerned. Shit’s crazy, and we’re only at the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Lol not most people maybe to you but that seemed like the appropriate amount do u know how big a continent is have even ever flown? Anywhere ?
If you happen to find the right air currents, you can fly indefinitely with gliders.
No, the point of video is without wind
Actually that is not true.
You are not looking for air currents but thermals which are rising pockets of air.
The pilot tries to spend as much time as possible in a thermal to gain as much height as possible.
And not always thermals, any swirl of wind or difference in wind shear can be taken advantage of, as birds well know
Ridge lift is a thing instead of thermals, too. Guys in NZ call it "The Wave", and can get to 20k feet+. I'm in Texas, so stuck with just thermals :(
That was one hell of an updraft.
I think he meant it as a joke about the rise at the start
an updraft that lifts you up to airliner altitude
@@Project_VideoGame That's right.
@@Project_VideoGame the funny thing is it does exist in real life. Search for glider and wave. It happens in certain conditions when strong winds blow over high mountains and form a giant wind rotor movement on the flat land behind.
Wh
Lol I wish we had slew mode irl
Imagine how far you'd go if you actually knew how to use a glider. There are insane endurance records for long term flights in these things.
That wasn't the test he was doing though.
Glide ratio 1:46
Thank you
How you measure that
@@kaeez the internet is a beautiful thing. Look it up. Basically he is saying for every 1km of altitude you have, you can glide for 46km.
That glide ratio is really good where as actual commercial airliners are in the single digits.
@@kaeez distance ÷ altitude and you hot it.
That's not the best out there
With the right conditions and an experienced pilot, gliders can potentially glide endlessly... Or until the pilot gets tired and has to go to sleep.
What if... We built an autopilot system, from which data can be extracted from our flight decision,remote sensing, and topology mapping.... Dunno i just Uni student in mech eng
@@YAWBAD You still need the right conditions. They wouldn't be able to fly in a straight line. You'd need a mountain range to follow and perfect weather. This means you'd practically only manage to fly in circles as long as the weather allows for it.
@@Thor.Jorgensen i need more deep dive in journal to verify if it's viable.
"Gliders are known for... Well, gliding" You didn't had to cut me off 💀
Glider pilots are legit amazing.. Imagine telling the wright brothers people will be flying currents for 100s of km for essentially free. The new gliders with small electric/jet engine start up motors are kinda a game changer.
Motor gliders are pretty cool one at my gliding club is used and they have flown to Germany and back (I'm in uk)
I have an idea: try gliding from 200,000 ft with 10 knots of headwind all the way from America to Europe or Africa
(any plane allowed)
At that altutude there would be hundred of knots of wind
@@theburningorange3622 that's why he wants only 10
@@theburningorange3622 i mean would there? Atmosphere n all that
The aerodynamics at that altitude become impossible to support any winged aircraft.
There is a glider (Perlman II) designed to fly up to 90,000 feet. At that altitude the air is so thin that you have to go nearly supersonic to have enough airflow over the wings to support it.
If you ride the mountain ranges, you can thermal and ridge lift much farther.
Using wave is okay but thermalling is far safer and more reliable
@@hdwoods3853 The topic here is distance not safety, breaking records leaves many dead bodies along the way.
My very first time in a glider I learned about thermal pockets. That's like lesson one to continue your flight and gain altitude
It's not so much pockets it's more columns and above FL19 you get very few
"That's not flying. That's falling... with style."
I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the ABSOLUTELY GODLY amount of patience this man has.
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Keep in mind that the specific glider you used has a glide ratio of 70:1 (for every meter lost in altitude you gain 70 in length, that’s if the glider you used is the eta, which has a wingspan of 30.9 m) most glider don’t have that glider ratio, the one i use has a glide ratio of 34:0.82, so my glider compared to that it’s like a Cessna 172 compared with an F16, but nice video tho!
i thought max glide ratio was 60:1
That glider was closer to 1:40 and competition gliders are 1:75
It's amazing what you can do with a glider. You can fly very long distances with one, and yes. You can go even longer if you go from an airliner's altitude. Even if you went from a Darkstar's altitude, you'd be flying for a very long time, but in comparison from 35,000 feet in the air, flying from 280,000 feet would take you eight times as long, 16 hours. Still, though, that looks pretty cool. Keep up with the good work.
"in the middle of the atlantic ocean" **actually just off florida**
Thanks for making this video , i always wanted to know this 😸
I’m a glider pilot and love flying them in msfs. Keep on making glider content pls!
congratulations to the camera man 👏
My dude here spent a few hours to experiment something he could’ve calculated in less than 5 minutes.
Zoomers 🤷🏻♂️ Calculation requires too much 😂
Explain
We need a glider at the edge of space video please.
Perlan 2 does exactly this. Currently flying at 60,000 feet with an ultimate ceiling of 90,000 feet.
@@christianjforbes I think it got to 76 000
Try and glide from Florida or Maine all the way to UK! Love the Channel
Thanks for spending your time for our entertainment
Bro thanks for starting at Tampa
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Paramotor pilot here, I believe a typical glider has a 50:1 glide ratio. They’re all different based on design of the plane but if you were 35000’ up, you could travel 350 miles. Of course it doesn’t work the same way in real life as it does on paper but if you were to find thermals and really search to see how long you could stay up there, it may never end. There’s always rising air somewhere. Next to the rising air is sinking air, there’s a good bit involved but you get the idea
This dude is pretty chill for someone who landed somewhere in the middle of the ATLANTIC OCEAN!!!
Wind is the main factor gliders can fly for more than 4 hours, just gotta stay near the mountains or an updraft from the ocean.
Have you ever heard of thermals?
This is called officially "Lift-to-drag ratio"
Bro I really love your videos!!!
I believe in the original msfx there is a glider training mission. I had the most fun flying those; not the jets and other planes. I remember the "instructor" said "it's like magic, isn't it?" While i was thinking it.
Airplanes glide more than they fly 👍
No they don’t
@@FG-td4vs you think wrong why don't you fly air plane with out wings
@@regalblack1503 Gliding is without thrust and flying is with thrust. Not exactly a difficult concept. Do you think pilots just turn off their engines mid flight lmao?
Bro give this man a reward he goes through all this pain for our entertainment
That’s pretty cool, Aaron awesome
lots of people take gliders all the way across canada on a single tow up.. you can find thermals and go forever
Hello Aaron!
Hi man!
Glider if you have a 60:1 ratio. Every 1’ of altitude you go 60’ forward. So you can do the simple math and find out how high you gotta go to go a given dist. In summer time I always had to wear extra socks, it gets cold!!! Oh, and fill the oxygen tank up. I started gliders at 12 got my rating when I was 14. Soaring is where my heart is at
I love how I knew you were over Cape Canaveral without even having to think lol
imagine a visual video simulation of what the most unreal experience of walking on tightrope might be like, epic and mesmerizing, the virtual YOLO!
and dream about flying as well
Something soothing about the Wii music in the background lol
Next test: "How far can you glide a helicopter?"
Thank you for putting the distance in kilometers my dude
0:00 you didn’t have to cut me off (like that)
A better comparison for how far the glider went from beginning to end is
If the glider started at Jacksonville, FL, it would have touched down at the Everglades national Park, so it Basically flew the entirety of Florida.
" No external factors "
Lift effect : Oh really? Then I guess it's a goodbye.
At 35k feet after all for a glider it's worst than an airliner because the air is less dense and having that whole wing span helps but not so much at lower altitudes per exemple at 8000 feet, the glider is going to be more stable and travel at a higher speed.
But they can some of them are also pressurised, must of the times it's worst than flying at lower altitudes but if you are at 45 k feet you may have a better chance of encountering some wind thermals that help glider a *lot* .
This video has been on my fyp over 16 times for some reason
Mr Nitpicky here...When your glider ran out of altitude 300 miles to the east of Tampa, it splashed into the Atlantic, but not anywhere close to "somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic".
Try following that popular path down the grand canyon. I used to like flight simulator until I started to travel.
You could have probably made it out all the way to the Bahamas like the barefoot bandit. He was in a propeller powered Cessna but it's still impressive. I wonder what the longest glider flight is irl?
The lift to drag ratio of an airplane will give the amount of distance it can travel vs the amount of altitude it loses.
Gliders are known for gliding*-u didnt hv to cut me off 💥
When they use the rising air to stay aloft they can go a long way for a long time.
Yesterday, starting off tow at 2000 feet above ground I flew over 200 miles over 4 hours. (Could have stayed up longer). It was an average day.
As a Floridian, I've never seen that much mountains before
Try Yucatán to Tijuana in a single glide. With the right headwind, I’m sure it’ll be easy
Basic knowledge.
A glider like that can easily do better than 1:40 glide slope.
So 1 meter loss in altitude will move you forward 40 meters.
So from a height of 10,668 meters and in stable air it will get you at least 427 kilometers.
One of the people that holds a number of records was Hanna Reitch . Look her up very interesting woman. Some believe she was the first astronaut flying a missile as a test pilot. But because of secrecy nothing was mentioned.
If you find the thermals you can theoretically stay up forever.
Flying gliders is fun. Quite a while ago I was taking courses to get a glider pilots license. Made it about 1/2 way thru and life happened so I had to quit.
Assuming the destination is at sea-level, zero-wind conditions, and no thermals or sink, then a glider starting at 30000 ft with a glide ratio of 50:1 can fly 246 miles.
If you have lift, it can fly much further.
Next time should I try taking off from Tampa and travel across the US I’m pretty sure you can hit the thermal pockets of warm air to raise the high up enough to continue gliding for several more hours
This man's voice is superb
😂😂😂😂 what did he just say at the beginning gladders 😂😂😂😂 bro nooo it’s called a glide-der😂😂😂
Some glider pilots glide from Reno Nevada to an airport outside Las Vegas Nevada! Then back That's over 400 miles each way!
pretty cool! but there are actually gliders out there that can do way more. record atm (if i remember correctly) had a very advanced glider actually climb to over 70,000 feet on thermals.... they are expecting to make another attempt this year with the goal of getting up to 100,000 feet!
Bro I really love this vid I’m not gonna lie I’ve wonder how fa gliders can go thanks for entertaining me
bro fr ascended 💀
Thank you for flying over my city
I’ve personally down a glider up to 28,000’ in Southern California. Good times my friends mart Eiler and Steve fossett both are record holders
"Hey bro, i messed up. Can you come give me a ride back?"
Amazing to see how far it flew. Perhaps something like this could be used militarily for stealth purposes?
I Mean Hey, The Space Shuttle Acted Like One Back When They Were Returning From Space, Back When It Was Being Used.
At first I thought it was a huge updraft, then I realized it was slew mode. Haha
gliders can travel indefinitly if you use thermals. It's not as simple as being dropped from a certain altitude to get a certain feet. you can climbs thousands of feet in the same spot by itself just by climbing thermals.
an A380 and a B747 had made this Expiriance as well :)
I love your vids keep making them pls but can you do a vid abt dog fighting
If you had stayed over land your flight would have lasted a lot longer. Urban areas can provide updrafts that will give a sailplane lift. You can hopscotch all over the Eastern seaboard.
This might seem kinda unrealistic initially but there have actually been successful stratospheric glider flights up to almost 75,000 feet - higher than the highest altitude a U2 has ever flown and in theory it's possible to reach 90-100,000 feet which would be higher than the SR-71
Check out the Perlan Project
You could just look up the glide ratio for it. Usually its around 45 to 1 for gliders like that. Every mile up you can go 45 miles!
People who put metric and imperial in their videos: 💪
“Middle of the ocean”
Shows picture of it about 100 miles off shore lol
If the thing could handle the speed, you probably coulda gotten a lot farther over the ocean if you did the ground-effect slingshot that sailplane pilots are taught for if they can't make the runway - dive, build speed, and level off only a wingspan or two off the ground and you can rocket like 20 feet off the ground for an insanely long distance
Dammm that thing can glide from Miami to Jacksonville
How do people have this much patience, I would've gotten board in the first 5 minutes Holy shit💀
Try an IFR flight with VATSim out of a busy airport. Just the radio communications alone will keep everyone busy.
Try an IFR flight out of a busy airport with VATSim. The radio communications alone will keep everyone busy. Also, the simulation speed can be adjusted.
It would be interesting to see how far it would go if you put weather factors in so you could probably get some thermals and maybe get more than 300 mi
Coulda went up florida, but yea gliding into the ocean totally makes more sense
A glide ratio of 50:1 is pretty good. Nowadays high performance gliders can have a ratio of 70:1, altitude 10 km with a range up to 700 km.
I never realized how mountainous Tampa was.
That’s not flying, that’s falling…with style 😂
Thanks now I’m gon glide my ass across the states
"No external factorys"
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I think best glide ratio is 1:70. But that must be at 10 000ft max. Higher up falling faster is the name of the game.
But there areas near mountains where glider is gaining altitude whole day
This is how Australian aborgines got from Indonesia to Australia.
You can calculate that distance thanks to parameter known as glide ratio, don't need an experiment. If there will be no updrafts of course, because if there are, in theory you can fly until you die out of dehydration :)
big brained Flys straight into open ocean for a great reference
I wonder if you could use a path which takes advantage of Coriolis acceleration to go further on glide ratio?
This would of course continue the idea of doing it without the use of glider techniques such as ridge soaring and thermal soaring which both allow the craft to climb.
I have not done the math on it, I'm mostly curios if it is possible. I'm guessing a larger(continental large) right banking circle from a western heading at the tropic of cancer or the opposite from bank from the tropic of caper corn may be in the ball park of what would work if it could work at all.
You can actually stay airborne by riding currents