Site of the 1968 Winter Olympics. I was 12 and had just started skiing. Jean-Claude Killy was a big star. He’s still alive I see. 80 years old, I towed behind an 80 yr old tow pilot. He came and got me out of a duster strip, so no wing runner. He gave me just what I needed, no tug at all prior a gentile but firm sudden pull. So I didn’t hit any runway lights. I’m hoping to get another gentile but firm pull from another octogenarian in 2025. I think he has it in him. Thanks for the beautiful views Stefan.
Ich bin selbst Paraglider und möchte mich bedanken, dass ihr Rücksicht nehmt weil es für uns oft sehr Erschreckend ist wenn ihr da vorbeiflitzt….. wir können da nicht viel tun als schwächerer Teilnehmer….. Fanet+Flarm ist dabei damit ihr uns(mich) früh genug seht….. weiterhin viel Spaß 😉
Its super easy and relatively cheap to get! Its also international. In the US most sailplaning is thermals, but in the alps its all ridge lift. . . which is different and loads of fun!
Thanks Stefan for your great videos! I restarted flying sailplanes after 40 year hiatus, thanks to you, and flew local competitions on Condor during the winter. Next month, I will be flying my first (dual) competition at my gliding club.
When I was a kid in my native country, it was very hot 40-50°C most days with no wind. If I look up, I'd see hundreds of eagles / kites in groups of 20+ gliding round and round all day in specific but changing spots in the horizon. Didn't know what they were doing until I got bored one day and looked at them for a couple hours. They'd start close to the ground going round for 20-30 minutes, gaining altitude until they got so high that they'd look like a dot in the sky. Then they all break formation and split out in every direction, still gliding. I learned later they do this to get a wider view of the ground, searching for prey with their sharp eyesight. So I decided one day to test their eyesight. Got raw meat cut into small 2" pieces and threw it in the air (maybe ½ kg total) while the eagles were probably a few kilometers up. They seen it from up there, switched to dive mode, and in less than ½ a minute, theres about 50 eagles doing high-G maneuvers to grab the meat. Your video reminded me of it. Very cool, I like it. 👍👍👍
Maybe it was a way for them to cool down if it was so hot there too, cooler air mass up higher. It would take a bit of energy though having to hold the wings out stiff though you'd think but the adrenalin it would produce would override the fatigue. Less oxygen too. I wonder how long they can stay up there
It's amazing the life that you can have in some countries. Does not looks like the same world that we all live. Far from Violence, Corruption, Social Media Wars... At least that's the image that I have seeing this video. AMAZING!!!!!
Some countries? France has a far worse socialist dictatorship than the US and far higher cost of living and taxes. All of this glorious glider flying you can get in the Rockies or Sierra Nevada in the US if you want it...but the pizza might not be as good.
Beautiful footage. Gliding is so rare to see these days with powered flying being so readily accessible. There is something about the simplicity of gliding that's just beautiful.
I'm definitely getting a glider license... Also : I just LOVE the canopy design, it's the closest thing to flying "open" in the sky if you catch my drift...
Deine Videos immer so wunderbar schön. Ich bin nur ein Modellflug Segelflieger auch schön, aber die großartige Freiheit in einem manntragendem Glider blieb mir bis jetzt untersagt.
Sehr geil! 👍😃 Am Anfang bitte langsam an das Gebirgsfliegen rantasten und von lokalen Piloten zeigen lassen. Meine Flugweise ist nicht immer das, was man lernt und am Anfang machen sollte.
@@SteFly Absolut. Ich habe auch keine Erfahrung im Gebirge, aber genug Zeit mir das langsam aber sicher an zu eignen, gibt viele tolle Piloten in Lehrer da unten. Es gibt noch viel zu lernen aber ich freue mich drauf 😃 danke für die zusätzliche Motivation und stay Safe up there😉
Wow !!! What a fantastic video. The journey must have been absolutely amazing from your point of view. A lot of the scenery was the most amazing I have ever seen, and probably never will in my lifetime. I used to enjoy gliding as a hobby in Cyprus, and North Rhine-Westphalia in my younger days (30+ years ago). Thanks for sharing your videos Stephan 👍😊
Keep in mind a glider like that is like over half a million to buy new. It's not your typical "I've seen one of these at a local airport" glider. It's high performance and extremely costly.
You guys are amazing, heartiest congratulations on your invention, thanks for showing spectacular bird eye view. Wish i could fly too like you all.Hopefully some day. High regards and respect Riyaz
Thank you! Yes, it's more important to spend more time to fly and get experience than spend endless time to improve everything of the glider 😅 But I like to do both 🤙🏼
@@SteFly From Grenoble to the south , slope soaring on the "corniche du Vercors" (the cornice of Vercors) , a flight I made a few times on "Condor" LOL .
@ 1:30 WeGlide chart & the ayvri @3:45 & 7:20 and later, really help so well with the visualisation of your flight. Please do keep including them ! At the end I was wondering what kind of beer you were going to drink. Maybe that comes a little later. Another great video. Thanks.
havent seen such a cool thing on youtube, for a long while. and will not see any better soon i guess. jaw dropping, and beautiful. thanks for sharing it
Thank you for this video! There are some decent places to glide here in the USA.. But, this is absolutely breathtaking! It is a little counter to some of the thermal training I had decades ago (me, mentally), but wow! You've probably sold a bunch of people into this even if they are well into jet av... So cool!!! I can almost feel that variometer sound! ;)
To this day, I still love to follow your flight video clips. because it still reminds me of my desire to learn and even have equipment for paragliding. The environment I live in is mountainous terrain which allows for that. God, how I want It
i don't know why, but as someone who has never flown outside of a taking commercial flight I find it endlessly amusing that you just fly by some paragliders and waved... like "hello sky person. i too am a sky person as you can see. have a good one!" as if that is just a normal human interaction. what an amazing experience
people do it on the water, people do it in the woods while jogging, people do it in the gym why wouldnt they do it in the air. always nice to meet like minded people
Amazing one! It makes me remember my time when I was flying gliders for the FSCO :) Keep enjoying mate! I switched the air for water, but this makes me wanting to find an aero club down here in Portugal and start again :)
For the English viewers, it would be super nice to have your radio comms translated, because your conversations and considerations are super interesting.
Thank you for not using horizon stabilization in this video. It made the ride (the watch, haha) more fun :D RUclips pilots have been using horizon stabilization too much over the last couple years.
Hi Stefan, thanks for sharing this beautiful flight so close to the mountains. Needs to be very careful with the paragliders enjoying their flight with eagles !
Greetings from Sweden. I wonder how much of planning and reconization you do before a flight like this. Have you got landing spots for all of the flight or is by feeling?
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I cannot imagine anything closer to the absolute freedom.
America.
@@feddde.g9928 no... just no.
@@mactalk2871 bro do not talk or you're going to get freedomed as well
@@feddde.g9928 lol
Ninja H2 is closer to that imo
Segeln in der Luft und auf dem Wasser sind die schönsten Hobbys auf Erden.....vielen Dank fürs Hochladen mit lieben Grüßen aus Deutschland....
Site of the 1968 Winter Olympics. I was 12 and had just started skiing. Jean-Claude Killy was a big star. He’s still alive I see. 80 years old, I towed behind an 80 yr old tow pilot. He came and got me out of a duster strip, so no wing runner. He gave me just what I needed, no tug at all prior a gentile but firm sudden pull. So I didn’t hit any runway lights. I’m hoping to get another gentile but firm pull from another octogenarian in 2025. I think he has it in him. Thanks for the beautiful views Stefan.
Ich bin selbst Paraglider und möchte mich bedanken, dass ihr Rücksicht nehmt weil es für uns oft sehr Erschreckend ist wenn ihr da vorbeiflitzt….. wir können da nicht viel tun als schwächerer Teilnehmer….. Fanet+Flarm ist dabei damit ihr uns(mich) früh genug seht….. weiterhin viel Spaß 😉
+1 Als Gleitschirmpilot denkt man viel kleinteiliger. Flarm ist ein muß.
I'm an airline pilot and enjoyed the heck out of that. Makes me want to go back and get my glider license!
Its super easy and relatively cheap to get!
Its also international.
In the US most sailplaning is thermals, but in the alps its all ridge lift. . . which is different and loads of fun!
Just put from -to on your MCDU enough
All of my instructors have been active or retired FedEx or military pilots. They still seem to love it so much.
Where do u get one I want it so bad
And how old u have to be
Thanks Stefan for your great videos! I restarted flying sailplanes after 40 year hiatus, thanks to you, and flew local competitions on Condor during the winter. Next month, I will be flying my first (dual) competition at my gliding club.
Great! Good thermals and a lot of fun for your first competition 👍😃
@@SteFly In Frankreich wir sprechen fransôzich.
When I was a kid in my native country, it was very hot 40-50°C most days with no wind. If I look up, I'd see hundreds of eagles / kites in groups of 20+ gliding round and round all day in specific but changing spots in the horizon. Didn't know what they were doing until I got bored one day and looked at them for a couple hours.
They'd start close to the ground going round for 20-30 minutes, gaining altitude until they got so high that they'd look like a dot in the sky. Then they all break formation and split out in every direction, still gliding. I learned later they do this to get a wider view of the ground, searching for prey with their sharp eyesight.
So I decided one day to test their eyesight. Got raw meat cut into small 2" pieces and threw it in the air (maybe ½ kg total) while the eagles were probably a few kilometers up. They seen it from up there, switched to dive mode, and in less than ½ a minute, theres about 50 eagles doing high-G maneuvers to grab the meat.
Your video reminded me of it.
Very cool, I like it. 👍👍👍
Cool. what is your country
@@musicsequencebr
Pakistan 🇵🇰
Maybe it was a way for them to cool down if it was so hot there too, cooler air mass up higher. It would take a bit of energy though having to hold the wings out stiff though you'd think but the adrenalin it would produce would override the fatigue. Less oxygen too. I wonder how long they can stay up there
man i love your story
@@livingadamman7994 Did you even try to think this through???
One of your top 5 videos Stefan - really nice!
Thank you so much 🙏
Beautiful scenery and flying, amazing!
It's amazing the life that you can have in some countries. Does not looks like the same world that we all live. Far from Violence, Corruption, Social Media Wars... At least that's the image that I have seeing this video. AMAZING!!!!!
It's not about a country, no matter where you live, trust me, there are people doing this in your country, even if you don't know about it.
Some countries? France has a far worse socialist dictatorship than the US and far higher cost of living and taxes. All of this glorious glider flying you can get in the Rockies or Sierra Nevada in the US if you want it...but the pizza might not be as good.
Ich hab heute meine praktische Prüfung für die SPL bestanden und jetzt noch ein Stefan Langer Video. Geiler Tag! 😀👌
Gratulation :)
Herzlichen Glückwunsch und viele tolle Flüge. Jetzt fängt das (Streckenflug) Training erst so richtig an 😉
danke danke
@@SteFly Nächste Woche gehts schon los mit einem Streckenfluglager in Lüsse.
@@Terra_X Sehr geil, viel Spaß 😊
So many memories from my childhood when I see this. In Colorado Springs you would routinely see gliders riding the thermals. Good times.
I noticed that the first time I went there. Always wondered how long you could stay up.
Sehr schöne Aufnahmen! Da werden bei mir alte Kindheitsträume wieder geweckt die ich mal hatte ;-)
Beautiful footage. Gliding is so rare to see these days with powered flying being so readily accessible. There is something about the simplicity of gliding that's just beautiful.
Não tenho o inglês, mas muita vontade voar, como fazia aqui, muitos anos atrás, incrível a performance, os recursos técnicos q vcs tem,
os caras do videos estao falando Alemao.
@@fazendeiromilenar3221 Se tu não souber falar inglês fluentemente, suas opções na aviação vão ser bem limitadas.
I'm definitely getting a glider license...
Also : I just LOVE the canopy design, it's the closest thing to flying "open" in the sky if you catch my drift...
Well, you have also this guy in the open :) ruclips.net/video/j3IDPW_0YyI/видео.html
I'm from Grenoble and I know these mountains but damn, this is another level, it's so beautiful, ty for sharing !
Absolut genialer Ort zum Fliegen, danke fürs Teilen!
Tolle Aussichten und volle Kanne am Grat entlang. Da bekommt man das Grinsen nicht mehr aus dem Gesicht. TOP.
Danke für das Video Stefan.
Dieses Anfängerkurs Flötenunterricht ist das beste 😁
you went above my village I had never seen a such view of it thank you very much !
Amazing, beautiful, beautiful flight! Thanks.
Deine Videos immer so wunderbar schön. Ich bin nur ein Modellflug Segelflieger auch schön, aber die großartige Freiheit in einem manntragendem Glider blieb mir bis jetzt untersagt.
Absolut brutal. Habe letztes Jahr meine Lizenz gemacht und plane Ende dieses Jahres nach Innsbruck zu ziehen um mir auch diesen Traum zu erfüllen.
Sehr geil! 👍😃 Am Anfang bitte langsam an das Gebirgsfliegen rantasten und von lokalen Piloten zeigen lassen. Meine Flugweise ist nicht immer das, was man lernt und am Anfang machen sollte.
@@SteFly Absolut. Ich habe auch keine Erfahrung im Gebirge, aber genug Zeit mir das langsam aber sicher an zu eignen, gibt viele tolle Piloten in Lehrer da unten. Es gibt noch viel zu lernen aber ich freue mich drauf 😃 danke für die zusätzliche Motivation und stay Safe up there😉
Absolutely amazing scenery. I was surprised to see so many paragliders too.
seegelfligen ist so cool und entspanend
Stimmt
It is a big joy and adventure to fly with you great pilot. Stay save
Wow !!! What a fantastic video. The journey must have been absolutely amazing from your point of view. A lot of the scenery was the most amazing I have ever seen, and probably never will in my lifetime. I used to enjoy gliding as a hobby in Cyprus, and North Rhine-Westphalia in my younger days (30+ years ago). Thanks for sharing your videos Stephan 👍😊
Cyprus sounds interesting! Does it make sence for me to come there and to make some videos?
@@SteFly YES!
Another spectacular flight. Especially enjoyed the ridge soaring - incredible scenery and flying. Many thanks for sharing the experience. 😊
I can't believe how much performance these gliders have when they hit those thermals making that tight of turns. Awesome footage, subbed.
Keep in mind a glider like that is like over half a million to buy new. It's not your typical "I've seen one of these at a local airport" glider. It's high performance and extremely costly.
@@EinBick No its not! You can get a decent Ls3 for 25000 dollars.
You guys are amazing, heartiest congratulations on your invention, thanks for showing spectacular bird eye view.
Wish i could fly too like you all.Hopefully some day.
High regards and respect
Riyaz
Ive been watching your videos every Saturday morning and i really continue to enjoy your work. 👍
Wow, great 🙏
Hey Stefan...... Its a nice glider yes..... But your an excellent glider pilot. Thanks for the ride.
Thank you! Yes, it's more important to spend more time to fly and get experience than spend endless time to improve everything of the glider 😅
But I like to do both 🤙🏼
Wow, epic ridge soaring there at the start!!! 😅
What an amazing flight! 👍
Thank you mate 🤙🏼
@@SteFly From Grenoble to the south , slope soaring on the "corniche du Vercors" (the cornice of Vercors) , a flight I made a few times on "Condor" LOL .
Just found your channel. This experience was absolutely beautiful! I wish I can fly somewhere like this someday!
Super Cool Video, TY for Sharing!
You are living the life 🫡 Love from HIMALAYAS 🇮🇳
been up in a glider near Silverton Colorado , have to say your video was amazing what a area to catch thermals . ty
So beautiful...almost as in I am flying up there with you!
France is the paradise of sailplanes and gliding, welcome to the Alps.
Looked in one breath. Very beautiful! Посмотрел на одном дыхании, очень красиво!
Whew 😥 y’all look to be flying so close to those mountains 🏔 omg 😳 I kept thinking the wing was going to scrape the mountain relaxing video thou ❣️😌
Amazing!!!👍👍👏👏Our beautiful planet❤️
@ 1:30 WeGlide chart & the ayvri @3:45 & 7:20 and later, really help so well with the visualisation of your flight. Please do keep including them ! At the end I was wondering what kind of beer you were going to drink. Maybe that comes a little later. Another great video. Thanks.
havent seen such a cool thing on youtube, for a long while. and will not see any better soon i guess. jaw dropping, and beautiful. thanks for sharing it
Thank you for this video! There are some decent places to glide here in the USA.. But, this is absolutely breathtaking! It is a little counter to some of the thermal training I had decades ago (me, mentally), but wow! You've probably sold a bunch of people into this even if they are well into jet av... So cool!!! I can almost feel that variometer sound! ;)
Mulțumim pentru filmare și efortul depus 😃👍
I am a old skydiver ...fly is everything!!! God bless the flyers!!!
To this day, I still love to follow your flight video clips. because it still reminds me of my desire to learn and even have equipment for paragliding. The environment I live in is mountainous terrain which allows for that.
God, how I want It
I used to work in Grenoble occasionally, great pizza places on the cliff side of the river.
Awesome !!! Love that!! Greetings from Turkey!!
Thank you!!
If there was ever a justification for gopros, this would be it. Just beautiful.
Sinking winds are dangerous as hell in those mountainish settings for those gliders, glad you all know what u doing.
i don't know why, but as someone who has never flown outside of a taking commercial flight I find it endlessly amusing that you just fly by some paragliders and waved... like "hello sky person. i too am a sky person as you can see. have a good one!" as if that is just a normal human interaction.
what an amazing experience
I just want to be kind and enjoy the reactions of the paraglider pilots 😂
It's so funny to see them waving with their huge gloves 👋
people do it on the water, people do it in the woods while jogging, people do it in the gym why wouldnt they do it in the air. always nice to meet like minded people
bizlere yaşattığın bu eşsiz deneyim için teşekkürler Stefan ..
Fabulous flight guys, such a beautiful place to fly in.
This is the essence of pure awesomeness.
waving to a paraglider is so cool!
As PG pilot I see now that how important to be visible by Flarm for you. Amazing video as usual.
Amazing one! It makes me remember my time when I was flying gliders for the FSCO :) Keep enjoying mate! I switched the air for water, but this makes me wanting to find an aero club down here in Portugal and start again :)
Excellent 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
That was a quick Taxi via BRAVO!
Hi just wanted to say you're awesome, I love your videos & I love you. Have a great life😊
Thank you. I wish you the same 😄
Love the visualization!
Great video, as always 👏👏❤️
For the English viewers, it would be super nice to have your radio comms translated, because your conversations and considerations are super interesting.
You can look at the radio comms translated in the subtitles
Talking about landing points and then finding the thermal :) i thought that was a paragliders luck. Nice video thanx
You're living a dream man.. awesome! Greetings from Brazil!
+Впечатляющая съёмка. Успехов
Incredible, you got a new subscriber today. Thanks for bringing us along!
Incredible, Brazil here! 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Great flight, congratulations!
wow the loot in the cliffside cave must be really good.
Amazing flight! greetings from Brazil
Beautiful!
Thank you for not using horizon stabilization in this video. It made the ride (the watch, haha) more fun :D
RUclips pilots have been using horizon stabilization too much over the last couple years.
Hi Stefan, thanks for sharing this beautiful flight so close to the mountains. Needs to be very careful with the paragliders enjoying their flight with eagles !
I subscribed and hit the bell on as thanks for the ride ! I love it !
Some huge thermals. Nice flight.
Hi Stefan, your video “rocks”. Cheers Palle
Very nice flight..!! 👍👍
Totally amazing!
Greetings from Sweden. I wonder how much of planning and reconization you do before a flight like this. Have you got landing spots for all of the flight or is by feeling?
Who is playing flute in the back of the plane?
That's called a variometer a measuring device that beeps while we gain or lose altitude. The more height we gain or lose the more frequent beeps
And when you hear it, you do not need to watch the instrument. That is a big deal for safety, you can watch outside far better.
It’s the climb and descent fairy
Some people wouldn't understand a good joke even if they got slapped around the face with it, good one dude lol, made me laugh 😂😂😂
The “flute” hums when your in the negative and beeps when your positive (climb rate). I still don’t know who that person playing the flute is
Stunning.
stunning!
Haha so cool to see those paragliders high up in the middle of nowhere too.
This would be a dream come true for me.
what a blessed life you have in there dude
Nice flight. Should have been a beer in your van fridge 😉
Thank you so much for the video. Really entertaining. Great footage. It looks so easy. I bet I could do it ;-)
Красота!!!👍🙂
Know nothing about gliding or flying in general, but i can say its a beautiful video and i stayed for the entire ride along ;)
Браво!
Thanks again Stefan for a wonderful flight! Just Awsome!
Thank you Tommy 😊
Great video, REALLY like the flybys.. helps me visualize which lines you are picking!, keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! That´s motivating for new videos 😀
@@SteFly Best regards from Nephi, UT and LS3 A6.. nowhere near as nice as yours!, but super stoked to see how capable our LS3’s are in good hands!
super schön.
i love the pilot german thing of waving to eachother
I love the maping you do
마지막에 탑건 BGM을 틀었어야 했다~
우왕굿~