Glider Makes 300 Foot Low Save Over Field
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2017
- 300 feet over a farmer's field, I finally hit a little bit of lift. I join 2 hawks circling above the tree tops looking down hunting and I am happy the glider isn't sinking any more. After a few turns, the glider has climbed 20 feet. Maybe I can still stay up! Where did the birds go? The trees lining the field edges look so big, I need to make sure to keep my airspeed up and fly coordinated. At this altitude, there is no room for error. The horizon is so high up in the canopy. It is a beautiful late October day out of Nephi, Utah and I feel so lucky to be able to fly my magic carpet one more time before putting it away in its trailer. Back to circling, I'm still slowly going up. The ground looks so much further away, yet I am still well below comfortable altitude. I could put my gear down and land within 15 seconds. The sun is shining. I feel so alive. My inner battery is recharging. So humbled to be lucky to fly. How I will miss flying it over the upcoming dark winter months. Just another reason to look forward to next Spring. I've now climbed 250 feet. I'm only 550 feet above the ground but it feels like I'm into the stratosphere compared to the 300 feet I was at just ten minutes ago. Where did the birds go? Still climbing only a few dozen feet per minute. I'm in no rush. This moment is perfection. The sun feels good on my bare arms through the canopy. It is so peaceful - the air just a whisper over the canopy. I can feel the little bubbles of lift pushing my long wings up. I must not forget this moment. Thank goodness I'm videoing... :) Thanks everyone for watching, Bruno - B4
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Many years ago, I used to fly gliders in Santiago, Chile, at the foothills of the Andes. One day, circling a thermal, I found myself flying in formation, wingtip to wingtip, with a huge condor. His big eye kept looking at me as if saying “Now don’t screw this up, Junior”. A magical experience. I so wish I had had a camera with me - few pilots did, in those days.
Vive Chile MIERDA!
Very few people know the feeling of being critiqued by soaring birds. I did my sailplane training at 14. Nothing surprised me more than finding that we were literally flying with the birds.
"Look for a cow and follow the Methane plume..." That's priceless.
Nice to watch. Obviously you had landing options all the time, but still it takes nerves to circle at that altitude with almost no climbing. My best low save was a cable break at the winch at 380 feet. Our rule says to do a 360 and land. But I hit a strong thermal, and after 180 degrees I was at 450 feet, so I kept circling. Some minutes later I was at 3000 feet, and got to hear some jokes when I landed some hours later!
I'm taking glider lessons now, because of you videos!
Best thing I have heard all week! Have a blast, be safe, and enjoy every second of the adventure. Please check back in and let us know how it goes! Bruno
How'd it go??
You good
Bruno, your patience is amazing.
Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy your videos.
Wow! Amazing and beautiful low safe!
Very nice demonstration of thermaling in weak lift! Funny that you said you know how to turn left! Watching for bird buddies has saved many flights for me a low altitude.
And dust devils.
Your videos are always wonderful, Bruno. The connection with nature here was a treat. There's my hawk!
Mr. Vassel, thank you for the great video. Now, I want to learn. As Scott Manley would say, Fly Safe!
Massive skills Bruno, brilliant flying👍😎
Scud Running (running out of room) on the cheap and you did it. You have great skills here. Very impressive. Always been a power flight guy but your videos are super-inspiring! Keep up the great work!
Amazing save by one of the best by pilots!
Great work!
The video made me sweat....I wonder if I would have passed out from the stress if I was there?!?! Geeeez Bruno you make it look easy. Nice job Buddy!!
Amazing plane, and pilot! 👍
It's a a rush of adrenaline to save your flight at that hight.
I am a RC glider pilot too like sasquatchjunk and trying to keep the glider up as long as possible.
I succeeded once to save my flight from 33 feet back to 980 feet, it was a fight against the elements.
For me you did a awesome job out there. Thumbs_up and greetings from The Netherlands.
Regards John
Loved your description Bruno - really added to the vid.
Now THIS is PURE flight! :D
Given you had final in every direction and the turns were nicely coordinated, nice save !!
Incredible save 😮
Bruno, very nice save by an experienced pilot in a good glider. I am impressed how cool you remained throughout. While I understand some of the criticism people have posted below, I think this is how we learn; by watching a clearly highly experienced, pilot manage to stay calm and fly the plane. Like watching a racing driver drift a car through a corner, it would be ridiculous to assume that any driver could mimic the control, but you tube gives us insights. This is a great piece of flying by a good, calm pilot. Any pilot needs to know their own limitations, but one only improves by continually testing those limits and exploring the envelope. Thank you again Bruno for sharing these cool videos. I am sure there are many armchair pilots like myself who enjoy, learn, and are entertained by you.
When I saw the title of this video I was thinking, 'at 300 feet you should be lining up your landing not trying to save It's but as I saw where you were (right next to Nephi) and I know your ship has a very good glide ratio, I knew you would be ok. Maybe just mention in your narration, 'don't try this yourself, I'm a pro flying a high performance glider ' or something similar. There are people out there who may try to run before they can walk. Great save though.
Awsome save! I would be proud to do this on the paraglider, so I'm really impressed by your performance :)
Ok that was super cool!! That is exactly why I love gliders so much. I know what causes thermals, how to read for them, how to fly them (rc plane wise) but is still feels a little like magic when you pull one of those off. You could really see how tight the core was and how it bloomed outwards with an additional 100 feet of altitude. Very Nice job Bruno, and thanks for getting it on video. I could watch that kind of flying all day. Thanks again!
Tom
Thanks so much Tom for the kind words and so glad you enjoyed it!
Nice fight AND flight!
I know this is an old video & I have watched it many times for enjoyment since the day you shared it. I'd love to see you do a video on demonstrating & talking about the basics of Roll, Pitch & Yaw & the effects they have on flight. Haven't seen anyone do a decent video on that. Basic knowledge it may be for many but I bet many would enjoy & learn from it.
Great job ! Hawks are your friends but never trust a buzzard .....The're rooting for your demise
Having flown with both, my experience is just the other way. Hawks try to kick you out of a thermal, while buzzards set up on your inward wing and ascend to altitude with you. They (the buzzards) are real gentlemen.
I flew hang gliders over 30 years, and soared with eagles, even thermalled with one in a tight core, circling 180 degrees opposite each other for several circles. It had climbed up from below me,, and it circled in the direction I had chosen. It was no more than 50-60 feet from me as we went around and around. It was amazing. Then it climbed up above me and soon was gone. I'll never forget it.
Another time, a retail hawk disnt want me in its hunting or nesting area, and attacked me. Well, it attacked the leading edge of the right glider wing, about 40% out it's length.it came in from above and behind, grabbed ahold with its talons, rocked forward while leaning it's head at me menacingly, then let go and peeled off.
I pulled in on the bar and dove the heck out of there, hoping it would not strike me again. It didn't, and I didn't want to risk it, so went and landed on the welcoming grass of the Chelan Airport. The kawk and I had been soaring Goat Peak (a round mini-mountain several hundrwd feet high, sitting between the airport and the town of Chelan) and the rocky hillside along the NW side of the airport.
No they are not, Buzzards, but Seagulls are. They will circle in a group and when you join they disappear without a trace and suddenly you're sinking. Feels like they are taking a p... on you. Don't know how they do it. Buzzards never failed me.
On my first ever glider flight, we thermalled wing tip to wing tip with a buzzard (albeit the bird had to deploy the equivalent of its airbrakes to keep pace with us). An amazing experience I will never forget. No wonder I then joined the gliding club and soloed!
Your ASW-20 called and wants its ringtone back. LOL!
Thanks for the ride Bruno, awesome save!
;)
Ruining the....nevermind. lol.
Fixer Upper, as you can see the gliding community is a bit more mature... :)
Yes, sigh. :) I'm sure this is a happy place so I'll never mention it in here again. :)
Good call not answering the phone..Don't fly and talk!
Great situational flying, as always. The risk may appear to be high at first, but you're in sight of your home field so even if the lift vanishes you already know where to land. Now I wonder is this the end of a long flight or were you just towed, looked around for lift and found nothing up to that point? I also wonder you mention if this were the middle of summer this wouldn't work, why? Thanks for the always awesome vids!
I was wondering if you made it home....then... LMAO.....love it!
"What goes up, must come down. Unless you catch a thermal!" Yogi Berra
Awesome!! Little scary though. Oh man, like you said, good thing it was broad and smooth lift. I'm not familiar with your sailplanes envelope and dropping a tip do to turbulence was on my mind. Seeing an airspeed would of set me at ease a little. In my heavy 3 meter RC world I've had wild things happen down low so I save low for landing. Yet my lightly load one meter stuff I slope off a line of cars. It's relative I guess. Thank you for the video.
Amazing footage :)
I wish to be doing this, well not exactly doing low saves, but gliding, when i get older. It is in fact my life goal at this point. Keep up the good work Bruno.
Awesome! You will love it.
That was awesome!
Hi Bruno,
love this video... bit scary.. .but, please, please include your landings - I love watching how they're all setup and executed. More video's - Please!
Haha - thanks for the support. The landing from this flight is actually the next video I will be releasing. Let's just say it is not a standard landing by any means. Cheers, Bruno
Nice. I wonder if soaring birds have a "built in natural Varios"?
Landing off field right next to the airport? The walk of shame...no wonder you climbed out from 300’. I would have thrown out the iron thermal, not available in the ASW20. Love the phone call.
Nice save 👍
Very nice video ! Keep on ! (with landings, if pôssible.. we LOOOve landings ;) )
Birds know the way
Great vid. Now who would give it a thumbs down??? I guess they’re jealous they’re not flying
Yay!
So do you never fly during the winter? January, February and so on?
I once pulled off a 200' save in my hang glider. Zero sink for quite a while, eventually specked out. 300' in a sailplane? My hat's off to ya.
Perfect save!!!! Lowest gld safe ever? :DD
Cool videos as always!! Just curious, what is the sonar sounding beeping that is increasing and decreasing?
Cool flight, Nephi pattern 1000 ft. AGL I assume.
You make nice videos.
Which handle is for the flaps and which is for the air brake?
Do you also use the elevator when you want to descend?
Nice scary video. Just in time for Halloween! Of course you plan to the whole thing, right?
I have become "acceptable" to the local hawks at Mt Sterling in Cache Valley over the last 6 years of soaring my rc gliders there... they seem to know that I'm not there to steal their lunch...If a young one gets too curious I pull a loop to impress...too low for you to do that this time at Nehpi...photoed some great wave clouds over and behind the "Wellsvilles" last week...Your video of November 2015 still impressive and re-doable for a late season flight. I "keep looking up !"
I'm enjoying your vidios Bruno and 300ft. Save over Niphi. Airport in Utah I'm going to take an introductory flight in november before thanks giving holiday weather providing . wish me luck. Dwight from Allenpark,Mi. Near Detroit
I suspect your wings broke loose a thermal. Neat trick!
As Bruno said, there was no room for any errors (spin was just one rudder pedal press away), despite experience, hours in his glider and all skills there was many glider pilots killed in more better position. Yes, it was done well, but I would prefer to be able to watch more clips from you Bruno...
Hi B4, I understand this video is pretty late, but could you explain, why there was a lift on that spot? As a starting glider pilot I would be glad to know. I understand this is usefull probably only for high performance planes like yours, but still...
Talking of low saves, I think the climb out of that canyon at grand Teton rates along with this. That was fun to watch too and would make a good stand alone video too. Just my 2....
Yeah that was a good one!
Nice video
Hawks rule!
sharing a thermal with a hawk, pretty badass.
Do you have to pay for your tow by the foot? Thats twice the ponds have saved you! Enjoy your winter months and hope to see more videos next year/
Nice!
עבודה יפה וסבלנית, כל הכבוד!
Oh by the way, i loved the Hawk fly by. I wonder how many years you took off his life when you quietly slipped past him? Probably went home and told the wife and chicks MAN, you should have seen who I was flying with today!
Hello Bruno! Thank you so much for all the beautiful videos. I got a question, maybe a stupid one:) What's the reason you and other glider pilots always seem to circle in right hand turns?
Hey Geir. Thanks for watching. A pretty lame answer, but with the video camera on the right hand side of my face, if I circle to the right, you can see more of the terrain around me than if I circle to the left. That's the best I got. :)
You know what they say....the birds know where the thermals are
I was in a similar situation climbing for 30 minutes over an abandoned airport between 300 and 600 feet. The stress of the save contributed to another mistake that caused a stall and hard landing that broke the landing gear. It's never just one thing... But what the hell, better to have an accident doing something you love than a coronary behind a desk. Just make sure you have a life insurance/will for your dependants :)
I would love to do something like this for real but sadly closest iv come to gliding is on my psvr playing ultrawings lol brilliant video btw
Thanks for the pleasure.
Thanks for coming along Luis!
300 ft AGL should be the min height of your final turn 😅
On the other hand, given the number of options around you, you could have straightened up and landed at basically anytime, and surely the weather looked quite benign so you could allow yourself to go for it and you did it apparently very well with gentle coordinated bank and safe rate of turn.
Hey could you post a video showing your camera mount? Where do you attach it?
Cheers
Bruno
Was your gear extended?
So, just out of curiosity, how often do you land out? I know you have your corn or wheat field video. Would you say you land out regularly, or is it uncommon? Actually, yes. Why not ask how often people land out, in general?
Happy to answer. I have landed out in farmers' fields 13 times over the last 23 years. I have not made it back to my home airport and landed at another airport another 10 times. 10 of those times landing in a farm field was during a glider competition where I was really pushing it or was sent into a dead area without a chance of making it out. I think landing out is all part of the fun of gliding. If I don't land out at least once every few years, I don't think I am making the most of the day and pushing it. That all said, now that I have had the ASW27 for the last 6 seasons, I have only landed out 2 times. Guess I am getting a little bit better/wiser and glider a lot better! :) Cheers, Bruno
Unless a pilot is very talented and/or lucky, or able to choose only very good days, when one starts flying cross-country outlanding is very common. I wouldn't be surprised by one out of three on a first season. As you get more experienced, it gets down a lot, my own experience was about one in twenty for club tasks, and between one in five and one in ten in competitions (where they will make fly on days you wouldn't open the hangar at your club). Of course these are not carefully calculated stats, just my perception.
The joys of blue flights
I understand your comment if (!) the pilot is over obstacles- trees, cables etc. That shows a bad decision taken moments before during the flight. But no he is safely turning over a huge landing field. He can 'spiral to the ground ' safely. cheers
Or land at the runway, 1 mile away 😃
Think of this not as a low save but for making up for all the Left hand turn flying in all your other videos LOL. I did notice though towards the end you did sneak in some more left hand turns.
Haha - love it! :) I'm not kidding - all of the thermals here in Utah are to the left...Thanks for watching.
I really can identify the feeling with this....had more than 1000 hours & 5000 km XC (cross country) in Hang gliders.....low saves towards the end of summer / mid fall with Winter approaching....we always used birds, dust & bits of grass from low saves up to 18000....(feet above sea level). Black Eagles & swallows / swifts were our favorite indicators....
One big difference....in Winter we could ridge soar or wave soar massive mountains next to the sea (Cape Town, South Africa)
Looks like the same airport a paramoter pilot landed at during the Icarus Trophy race.
Bruno, what about simulator glider flying for the winter times?
Maybe if Condor 2 is ever released! :)
Why not go over that dark field - more thermal lift from that?
Bruno - Amazed at how similar we all are, your description of the emotions that go through your mind is absolutely spot on. I remember a very similar situation about 2 years ago, above an airfield about 50km from home late in the day in the UK. Got a little bubble and just gently drifted up and with it for 30 minutes or so keeping the arfield in range and eventually there comes a time where they either get you home, or you call it a day - Fortunately the former for me in that case, but as you know there are sometimes where we don't get so lucky of course. The bit about 500ft feeling like the stratosphere had me grinning! Thanks for posting.
Although the message is appropriate, I do disagree with others for calling you out on "safety"... Several times you mention being able to dump the gear and land, the fields you guys have got are so huge - Your prime option is always available with undershoots and overshoots all around - Practically a grid of 9 fields to choose from at any one time. A single 400m long field thats flat, roughly into wind and without trees on the approach is a blessing in parts of the UK, and the 27 is a great machine to be in in even limited circumstances. If i were watching that then maybe the message is more valid!
Wishing you many happy kilometres in 2018.
Downwind traffic on 2:00? This looks very unsafe to me to thermal below 1000ft and in the pattern. Fly safe, Bruno . Thanks for sharing.
Valentin Mayamsin I was well below traffic in the pattern ;) - agreed this is not a demonstration of a standard procedure. Cheers.
"Hi. This is Bruno. I can't answer the phone right now, I'm attempting a 300 foot save. Leave you name, number, and message at the tone, and I'll call you back." 😃
48:1 @ 300 feet = 2.7 mile glide 😮😃
👍👍👍
*did you ever think about installing some sort of propulsion on your plane, just in case?*
Nope - I like the thrill of maybe landing out in a farmer's field. Keeps it interesting in the cockpit. :)
lol. that could still happen when you run out of fuel but in the mean time it would give you longer flight time in my opinion. just to get back up to altitude then kill it, thats how i would roll. i suppose its not too surprising coming from a guy who bought an f250 with a 460 that i have almost no use for. id rather have it and not need it than the other way around :)
Put your vario, altitude, air speed etc, on screen!
What is that 'woo woo woo' sound
When you said 5544 feet, that's a cumulative climb total for the flight?
I think he is speaking about the AMSL (above mean sea level). His airfield elevation is a bit over 5000 feet.
very low chance of sink zones, safe to circle
Fine... I’ll sub
1 question i have is about your alt setting. If i understood correctly, you have your altimeter set at sea level where as you are actually 5k above sea level. Why not set your altimeter to local ground level instead of sea level?
As a skydiver we are taught to reset our altimeters to local elevation and not sea level. Please, no rage from the typical youtube goer, I'm simply asking to better understand.
edit: Also, a shout out to that pilot who saw you, recognized you might need the airport more, and gave it to you for use if need be. That was pretty awesome awareness on their behalf. If i understood what happened anyway... lol
Thanks for asking. My altimeter is set to sea level because we go places in gliders. In skydiving - you are only going down. In gliders just like airplanes - we fly hundreds of miles away. The airport 150 miles out from where I took off will not be at 5k so we want to reference everything when flying at sea level. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the explanation bud. Made perfect sense. I hadn't thought about the travel distance. I'm great at falling...flying, not so much. ;)
Stay safe and keep up the adventures!
Superphilipp, read Teddy Roosevelt's Man in the Arena.
To me, like March 2020; The value of my TSLA calls has collapsed. Do I give up? No! I even buy a discounted 2022 call. Then, sure enough, the lift picks up as the world starts to discover the sequel to the CarnotCycleAge.
danger Bruno danger
Airport call's to make sure he can settle the bill prior to landing
Well I'm dizzy a hell now...lol
I worked at several competitions growing up... Taped a guy into his glider. (some pilots like to try and reduce their drag with tap on the canopy. He didn't come back... He may have been trying 150 ft save... IIRC, he was in a Cherokee though...
I don't think this is a Cherokee...
Ever thought of birds judging your glider the same way while they are looking for lift? :)
It's obvious what the birds think: "who is this fat heavy dude?" (the glider, not Bruno!) . "How can he climb so poorly and clumsily?".
They do. And they probably giggle.
Nope - Bruno is fat too! :) Thanks for watching.
I love this and you're probably right on the mark! haha!
Silly humans! Flying is for birds.
Bruno, is that a crack in your canopy starboard of your yarn? It was fun watching this. I fly powered (in my cherokee ) but mostly paragliding and I used to hang glide. We pull off low saves from 60' on occasion but our landings use much less real estate. It's fun climbing with you guys until you top out and speed off. I think I'll go get some sail plane time this year.
Thanks for watching and you need to get in a sailplane for sure! Luckily no, that is not a crack. Just a reflection. Best, Bruno
Isn't a 300 ft save a requirement for getting your glider pilots license?