NZ's Biggest Mountain: Let's Soar It!
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Flying around glaciers and Aoraki / Mt Cook is an amazing experience. I fly up the Tasman Glacier and try to get to the top of the mountain.
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00:00 Launch
00:17 Getting Started
02:06 Into the Mountains
04:35 Flying up the Tasman Glacier
07:16 Timelapse South
08:26 Aoraki Mt Cook
12:07 Tracking South
13:48 Timelapse Home 
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Awesome flight Tim, what a Country we live in, we are truely blessed. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Colin!
Stunning stunning stunning.
Thank you! Cheers!
I visited NZ and Australia when I was 18 in 1988-89. As my father is from NZ he had the perfect itinerary planned out that involved planes, trains and automobiles with a ferry ride that sparked memories of when I was there at age 4. The people were so incredibly nice that I have to check myself and ask myself, "what would an upside down person do?"
Hi, from New Hampshire USA.
Hi thanks for watching! Glad you have fond memories of NZ :)
Wonderful vid!
As a kiwi now living in Australia this made me a bit homesick, the scenery is just out of this world!
Thanks! Pretty awesome eh :)
@@PureGlide Absolutely!, keep living the dream mate! Really enjoyed the vid, everything including the scenery was epic!
I’m not even from New Zealand (spent my honey moon there ) and I’m in love with NZ.
“Home sick” as well...can’t wait to go back and explore some more!
That is fantastic. I flew with a Brian Chadwick in ZK-BCP just before he disappeared in this area in 1962 in ZK-AFB - the Dragonfly. They are still looking for him. My film of that trip was on the old 8mm and I thought that was spectacular as did others who posted it for me on RUclips. Now the pilots of engined aircraft have to keep well clear of the mountainside due to noise abatement. Loved flying gliders in Cornwall and the absence of sound just like sailing but in 3D. Thanks for sharing -brings tears to my eyes after all these years!
Hi Robin, thanks for taking the time to comment! Great to hear you enjoyed it. I didn’t know about Brian, so very interesting. Cheers
It is highly likely that you are soaring above the site of the missing Dragonfly so keep your eyes open. Thanks for the experience once again which reminded me of gliding at Perranporth all those years ago
Oh my. You are an amazingly skilled pilot. Thanks for making the video.
Wow, thanks!
Spectacular, thanks for sharing.
My pleasure!
Wonderful, brings back memories 👍🏻👍🏾🙏🏻🙏🏾
Glad you enjoyed it
Outstanding Tim!
Thanks!
Amazing video. New Zealand from gliding perspective seems like one great playground. In Poland we have many landmarks to see from the air, but the are far away from each other, you seem to have all within gliding range!
Wow, so cool!
Thanks so much! It was pretty awesome
I used to think that The Grand Tour presenters had the best job in the world. I was wrong, yours is way cooler !!!
Ha if only I was paid properly for this!
Just another day in your Mountain- paradise, and Mt Cook was wearing a white “wig”.
The thermal you called “a ripper that’s 7 freekin knots”, that made me laugh so hard! 😁
What a spectacular video, thanks for sharing, Tim. 👍
Awesome eh :) Cheers!
That looks amazing. I'm getting my gliders license soon and I'm so exited
Excellent to hear!
Spectacular scenery, love the mountain flybys 📸👍⭐️
Not bad eh!
Beautiful 🇬🇧
Thank you! I love my glider too. Oh you mean the scenery, yes it is.
Sorry just me being funny
Loved it!!!
Thanks!
So beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
No, thank you for watching!
Well done for getting up to Mt Cook. Another very enjoyable VLOG
Thanks 👍
Superb
Thank you! Cheers!
beautiful ! very nice narration !
Thank you!
beautiful scenery, great video. thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Wow! Thank you for sharing that experience. An Amazing landscape, I walked up the trail near the Tasman Glacier many years ago. Awesome to see the view from above. I was on the edge of my seat as you attempted that last climb up the side of Mount Cook 😅 👍
So cool! Thanks for your comment, and glad you enjoyed the video. It really is a magic place to fly. One day I'll have to do some walks too, but flying is so much easier :)
Another crackin' video, Tim. Thanks for the entertainment again from a cold and damp England!
Shame you didn't get to soar the summit ridge proerly. I have a marvellous photo of footprints in the snow along the summit that I took during my first visit in 2011. Great experience and to date, still the only time I've had to use O2 to go ridge soaring. LoL!! :-)
Thanks Graham! Luckily I've done it before :)
@@PureGlide I thought you said you didn't know what you were doing!! :-)
Spectacular!
Thanks!
Nice flight Tim. I was in Omarama exactly 2 years ago flying with Milan from Glide Omarama. After struggling west of Magic mountain we finally landed in a paddock near the Lindis Lodge west of the Ahuriri river. After getting towed out we finally climbed up and got into the wave just northwest of the fork of the Dobson and Hopkins river and got up to Mt. Cook. Looking forward to your next video of you in the wave! Cheers.
Awesome, sounds like a fun adventure too!
Words escape me, absolutely stunning. :)
It’s pretty amazing :)
great videos mate!
Thanks Blair! Much appreciated
Kia Ora Tim,
I have been following you for a while, I fly RC Gliders and have flown full size gliders as well. We came on holiday to NZ in 2018, I went flying with Gavin at Glide Omarama which was brilliant.as We also went to Hobbiton and drove past Matamata airfield, so I have been to the areas you are flying, which brings back great, memories. Your videos are simply stunning and your laid back commentary is great to listen to. I have learned a lot from your thermaling technique and will try and apply it to the 3-4m gliders that I fly in Wales in the UK. This will be after Covid -19 lock down and when we have some decent warm weather. Keep up the great work and fly safe. All the best.
Hi thanks for your comments, and glad you’re enjoying the videos! Cheers, Tim
"Hello RUclips" G'day Mate! Awesome flight man, those mountains look sketchy as! Glad you got back safe!
They are pretty rugged mountains. Amazing stuff really. But don't worry it probably looks worse on the camera than it is actually, I am able to glide back to an airfield at all times.
Great video thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Well it’s been a while since I’ve done that....you sounded wonderfully relaxed...I was on the sofa flying along, crushing the stick so hard I cracked the plastic :)
Haha I get more tense when it’s stronger winds doing crazy things :)
That was fun!
It was! Glad you enjoyed it too
Maybe that is the Hooker Valley when you pointed to the large valley. I hiked up the Mueller trail and the view is just incredible (and your view is even better !!). Happy times!!
It’s pretty awesome eh!
Mountains everywhere, just awesome. One minute you are tracking South and the next back at Mt Cook. The wavy bits in the valley must have worked then.
Yeah sorry that wasn’t very clear! I had to go south a bit to find a climb, then was able to cross over to Mt Cook
Very Nice! Thanks!
You’re welcome!
@@PureGlide I took my glider certificate in Sweden 1972, 17 years old and am now in the process of regaining it after about 40 years. I am now 65 years old and soaring is still just lovely. This spring Im looking forward to have my certificate in hand again. :-)
Amazing to soar over crags people have probably never set foot on, awesome work!
I often wonder about that while I'm flying over the mountains :) certainly been a LOT of gliders over them at least. I also keep looking for any people, but haven't seen anyone yet
we bought a Ventus c in my club! while waiting for the start of the season to try it I watch your videos and it makes me even more impatient!!
Awesome! They are a good glider, I flew the non engine C in Australia too. I'll be making some videos about spinning and wing drop behaviour soon, so keep an eye out for that!
@@PureGlide I am subscribed so as not to miss anything. we have extensions in 17.6 and mazak winglets in 15m
this so makes me wana get my license !! epic flight !!
Cool eh!
simply amazing ! think your very intrepid going into tiger country on your own like that phew! Te Aroha was enuff for me lol
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Stunning video Tim, I expected to see Sir Edmund Hillary below you and Sir Richard Attenborough in the back seat. There can't be many people who filmed Aoraki/Mount Cook in 4K from the air, it just looks awesome.
Thank you Dennis! I wondered if many people have filmed it flying half way up too :)
@@PureGlide Probably only tourist operators flying helicopters or ski planes that land on the glaciers. Bet they don't look as good as your video though.
Long time ago I did my 5000 mtr alt gain at Omarama, one of the most epic flights in my nearly 42 year flying&Gliding career 😇
It's a place that's hard to forget!
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Very nice and well explained video.Thank you very much for sharing this video. p.s are there any LS 10 's out there in New Zealand?
Hi thank you! I don't think so, only LS8s!
Lovely part of the world. Nice view of Lake Oahu near the end there on the way back. Stayed there in a cabin a few nights in 2018 so know the area pretty well - Twizel, the salmon farm etc.. Gotta glide NZ one of these years... :)!
Yeah come do it one day!
@@PureGlide Deffo! As a fairly new glider pilot with mostly ridge experience (bit of thermal and wave), is there a large element of ridge lift involved here too?
Played around in Condor2 last night in the same area from your vid....fantastic...will have to do for now LOL
@@witblitsfilm Hey that's awesome, hopefully you can do it for real one day...
@@witblitsfilm And yes, the wind was definitely helping on this flight, so it was a combination of ridge and thermals. In the mountains the thermals generally work when directly above the peaks.
Hello Tim,
enjoy your videos.
if you make a circle for climbing, use you
only your aileron, or also your rudder?
greetings from the Netherlands
Hello from New Zealand! Yes to turn we use both rudder and aileron in a coordinated way. Although I must admit it’s hard to make my glider do it perfectly every time!
it's beautiful and scared to be so close to the ground
Agreed!
Have you ever gotten a car tow? It seems like it would be a lot more cost-effective than an aero-tow, and, if you have an engine, just as good.
Yeah it's certainly possible, especially with the jet engines. Trickier with mine because I have to dive to start it still...
Uuhhh I don know what I'll do.
Man I'm more nervous than you are, what if you don't get a thermal inside those values . Or do you always get one?
Very scary in between all them ridges . How many years experience do U need to do that risky flying .
I so wanna have a go myself
Yes understandable! It is intimidating for a newer pilot. However the glider I'm in can glide almost back to the home airfield from anywhere in this video! They go an incredibly long way. And there happens to be a good airfield at the bottom of Mount Cook, so plenty of landing options. And not nearly as risky as it might look. If you are a beginner you will generally fly close to your home airfield to start with, and generally with instructors.
Hi - where do you post your flight logs?
Hi on SeeYou cloud and also OLC. Here is this flight! seeyou.cloud/flight/rY3kgPlRlbR6E7Nd
Just curious, what was the ~OAT at that altitude in the Mt. Range
OAT?
Oh Outside air temp. Took me a while. About 9 degrees at 7500’, so pretty warm. I have it displayed on my vario instrument, although hard to see in the video.
@@PureGlide Thx
Wow what a great place to fly. Respecting nature. Question: where is your O2 device? 🙂
I have an oxygen bottle and dispenser behind me, I use it any altitude over 10,000 feet.
@@PureGlide Thanks! What an amazing views, it gets us here (The Netherlands) through the winter time. Although it was really good flying weather last week for the time of year already. My brother in law lives in Wellington. 🙂
@@wiebebosman that’s a great excuse to come flying in NZ sometime!
Wave at my place when you go past next time. Bottom of Ben Ohau near the start of the canal. Although I'm not there at the moment. LOL. And if you haven't flown an ASH, take GTF up for a fly, assuming it's still at Omarama. Oh boy, big wings do big things!
Haha they sure do, And will wave on the way past!
'I don't know what I'm doing...' yeah nah...
Sometimes I have no idea :)