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  • Nice crash

  • @ollyg007 Don't know much about gliders, do you.

  • lol seemed a little steep and rough there..

  • no offence...............but that was fuckin dreadfull

  • @1virginatlantic I was looking on your page for all the videos you have done of your glider landings, but all I saw were a few Flight Simulator videos. Maybe you should do the real thing before you insult others.

  • lol glad i wernt in that glider cos think i would of messed myself lol

  • Fucking civilians....can't land gliders for shit. One of our trainees could do a better job!!

  • @TheGarandGuy You're 19. You know nothing about it, but how to be critical.

  • u had me scared. i thought u wer gunna crash right in to those bulidings. U were comin in a little fast but good save, and im glad your okay. Im aj, and 11 years old and hope to become a pilot. This is 11yearoldpilot, and i approve this message.

  • Thank you for the informative video description. What at first looked like a near horror story looks like a fairly routine landing.

  • Could you have stalled pulling back like that?

  • Its a bike jaja

  • That is AWESOME!

  • hey what happened to the crash landing?.......

  • Problem #1:It looks like you entered the base leg phase of the approach too early to give yourself a comfortable altitude and distance from the runway. Problem #2: You did not anticipate wind on final and had to yaw into the wind which is an expected reaction (ref 00:01). Problem #3: Your flare was too steep. Problem #4: Watch your flaps or spoilers on approach.

    Otherwise it was a good landing!

  • 0:45 begin pissing pants

    0:58 praise the baby jesus! we're alive!

  • wow that looks looked steep to me

  • how fo u measure knots?

  • Wasn't that a bit fast?

  • how big a moron do you have to be to land a glider with the help-engine on???

  • I'm no pilot, but that looked like a very bad landing

  • dude... really bad landing.. nothing to be proud of.

  • looks a bit high on finals but speed looks good

  • "a forester's lodge assault" landing. One landing two flights not bad.

  • your number one problem is that death grip you have on the stick...its much harder to "feel" your aircraft with such a tight grip on the control stick. loosen up a bit and try to enjoy the ride..Oh and you may want to flare a little sooner next time :)

  • woo woo just like in Condor

  • What a bad landing. Much too fast. Hey man, it's aglider, not a jet. Kepp practicing or one your next landings will be your last.

  • What was that buzzing sound?

  • @ripcord1022 It's the weed eater engine on the back used as a glide extender ;)

  • Crapy landing...reminds me of my very first one in the cockpit of a Hungarian built R-26 SU GÓBÉ in 1994...I'm still ashamed of myself... :D

  • You wants blast try a penetration landing in a glider.... the base leg is the apex of a hammerhead....you coming low and fast riding on the ground effect....I don't recommend it for a novice pilot though, you have to know your glider very well because it you try to do the hammerhead with out enough alt... you are a hole in the ground.

  • At first I thought a cockpit was (gun)shot while trying to land. I expected millions of deaths and blood and what did I get?

  • L.M.A.O! You made it down safe! But it seem like when stuff was going bad your training came in to play!

  • If you will keep landing like this, one day you gonna land... on graveyard ;] Have nice flight ;]

  • dont kille the stick man! youve got the grip of death on it.

  • I would love to get a glider endorsement.

  • worst approach and landing ever you are a glider destroyer

  • I'm not a pilot but that looked a little bit ugly.

  • I'm aware of 3 gliders that have flaps but no spoilers: Schweitzer 1-35, Pik-20, and Concept 70. All have a very distinctive nose-down attitude on final that has to be pulled out prior to touch down. It was hard to make out airspeed, but he absolutely did take off at least 20 knots prior to touch down, its very possible there was a little tailwind.  Unless you are familiar with landing those aircraft, you aren't in a position to criticize the pilot.

  • @hpmaxim The voice of experience and knowledge...

  • @hpmaxim You forgot the HP14!!! That had terminal velocity flaps (no spoilers). You could dive at a 45 degree angle and never exceed 60 knots!

  • Actually, I think all HPs were like that, not just the 14, but you are right, I forgot it. I know people who own or have owned the others. I've never actually seen an HP (in person).

  • @hpmaxim as pilot it appears to me a bit hectic in last final stage. So it was not a good landing. My tipp:

    Precise Approach ensures right altitude on final. DO NOT PLAY WITH YOUR AIRBRAKES SHORT BEFORE TOUCH DOWN.

  • @huwi581 No airbrakes it's a 1-35 

  • @hpmaxim LS-6c?

  • Is this the way to fly a glider? You nearly killed yourself...

  • bad landing. your approach was too steep and you had too much speed

  • man, if you came in any hotter the title would be "glider landing accident" XD

  • Well done, youve passed your final exam. Now go change your underwear

    ;)

  • Fly along the runway about 1 foot off the ground, keep moving the stick back as your speed bleeds off. The stick should hit the seat a split second before you touch down. This helps with spending the least amount of time bouncing around on the rough ground. As you touch down pull the air brakes to 100% so you stop as soon as possible.

  • To make it safer use a long straight approach crack your air brakes early to about 50% then lock your left arm and concentrate on flying the glider to your aiming point.

    This removes a variable so your decent rate is constant and frees up your CPU so you can concentrate on your airspeed and your stick. Use a long radius to round out looking down the runway at the horizon helps you to see your position relative to the ground.

  • @EVZebra Sounds like landing instructions for a powered airplane. This is a glider. Gliders are suppose to use a steep approach to land. Long straight low to the ground approaches are danger for a glider. This landing appears to be a normal landing to me. Nothing wrong with it.

  • @jcb2001 I never said the approach should be long and straight and low to the ground the approach should be normal but after you have rounded out keep it off the ground as long as you can provided there is lots of space.

    Having a longer less steep approach gives you more time to set up for: crosswind gusts, wind direction change, wind speed change, cattle gliders or vehicles on the runway, rotor, thermals on the runway - if you go smashing in like that your time to fix a surprise is .....none

  • @EVZebra I was taught that height was everything. I agree with your statement and understand what you are suggesting. Your point is well taken.

  • @jcb2001 watch this and have a laugh : )

    watch?v=e9toldznOJk&feature=re­lated

  • @jcb2001 Yep, you can't put in a little power to extend the approach!

  • no offence but if i was in that glider, i would be wearing the brown trousers!

  • If I ever made a landing like this I would give up (if I survived it)... Either that or I would expect to have my ass kicked out the club...

    If you have not yet killed yourself, go get some training.... and get this embarrassment of a video deleted (or leave it for us to show people how NOT to land).......

  • Nice flyin' cowboy.

  • that would scare the SHIT out of me.

  • nutter spaz landing

  • really why the fuck would you hold your stick with 2 hands, it is supposed to be kept whit one hand so the other is free and you can use it quiqk, what a fucked up landing... in @fotoavia no spoilers, you got one from before WWOII

  • What kind of glider is this? i mean... NO SPOILERS? seriously?

  • very poor approach.. id never roll it across a taxiway like that... and the sudden grab of elevator almost got your wheel shoved up your a**... then dragging the wingtip in that left hander was just the cherry on top of how to not land, how to tear up your airframe and how to risk welding cracks in the airframe.... Glad im not in that club.

  • @IndyHelis You guys really don't understand glider flying. Our club in England does hanger flights at the end of the day of flying, in order to get the sailplanes close to the hanger for storage or their trailers. That is flying and landing a sailplane right up to the hanger. Been doing it safefy this way for over 20 years. Normally, the runway is closed for glider operations, so crossing it is no big problem. Gliders operate differently than powered aircraft.

  • @jcb2001 I do understand as im a glider pilot myself... Just some people treat their equipment better than others. Still stand by my previous comment. Bad pilot skills on his flare, and his rollout...

  • holy.... moly.... iv'e seen monsters less scary than that. as a pilot, flying doesn't scare me... but errr... that did.

  • CAP?

  • dude, i'm a glider pilot myself, and I've seen some landings, some good, some bad, but dude ... this was the worst landing i've ever seen. If an instructor would have seen this you would undoubtedly lose your license, or at least fly a twin seater and do your training all over again. This is just dangerous.

  • I think we do it because if I where to make such a landing (which I have come close) I would tell myself "dude, that was a f'n horrible landing, choke yourself" hahaa! I just think it was amazing that he did almost no flaring, just rammed into the grass =P

  • 0:45, NOPE.

  • Wauw , you guys come in fast, I'm a paraglider myself and thats much slower.

    Did have about 40 lessons in a Rohnlerche glider though, but these where also very slow, never flown plastic must give that a try sometime.

  • I hope you've taken up fishing instead cos I sure as hell don't want meet you in a thermal!

  • a wise man once said to me after a slight baloon landing that 'a good landing is one that you walk away from and a great landing is when your glider is still servicable' however this may be the exception ;) never the less we all make mistakes

  • I am sorry but that was a terrible circuit, base leg and approach, topped off with a horrid flare. You probably need to do a few more circuits with your CFI.

  • almost fucked up at 0:45

  • looks like a poor landing.

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  • Shocking.

  • Quite a high speed and quick descend landing, and speed wasn't down before the forced touchdown. Not the way landings are taught, is it? It seemed safe though.

    It's good practice to turn off the variometer so you rid off stress factors.

  • possibly the worst 'landing' i have ever seen, next time keep you wings level. -_-

  • omfg

    was war denn das?? das wär fast ins auge gegangen..

    die landung war ja schrecklich..

  • @Ka2Pilot also bei uns fängt man früher ab ... das war ja echt ne knappe sache

  • @TheWalabi

    ja na klar, bei uns auch..

    das hat ganz und garnicht gut ausgesehen..

    Zudem noch die Klappen beim Aufsetzen raus, bzw gleich wieder rein...

    Schreckliche Landung..

  • @Ka2Pilot der hat ja echt mit eine übelzten überfahrt an den boden gedrückt..leck mich fett..wasn das überhaupt für ein flugzeug sieht ja schrecklich aus von innen

  • @michschm2

    ganz genau das habe ich mir auch gedacht.. verrückt sowas!

    und das flugzeug ist hässlich, da hast du recht ;)

    Lg

    (was das für eins ist? kp da bin ich überfragt...

  • @Ka2Pilot sah so aus als ob die übelzten wind hätten dann könnt ichs verstehen das man mit 120 anfliegt..aber so brutal wie der das ding ran knüppelt im warsten sinne xD

  • @michschm2

    naja gut, das mit der geschwindigkeit ist ja garnicht so schlimm..

    aber der abfang bogen war ja zu 0% enthalten :D

  • Im not a pilot, but interrested. What stick or handle does the pilot push before he get the nose up? airbreaks? Speed seems to be a little high and cause the poor landing, but it doesnt look dangerous. Good video, great sport, have fun.

  • @fyfanharrusett

    The only thing you'd want to be touching is the airbreaks. If the airspeed was too high, then when he flares, he would go back up (called ballooning). The airspeed was ok, he just flew it into the ground and didnt flare enough or flared too late. Tho nose came up when he hit the ground, the pilot didnt do that the ground did.

  • @fyfanharrusett Now here's an honest guy... This glider is equipped with a control stick which you would pull, as the pilot does to keep the nose from digging an asparagus trench in the ground. This glider does not have speed brakes (spoilers) but instead relies on flaps (80 degrees) to descend rapidly without gaining too much airspeed. It is these flaps which retracted (popped out of the detent) and caused the sudden drop. Lucky there was enough speed and the glider did not stall at low altitud

  • @zsurfer NO spoilers ? What type of glider is that ?

  • @fyfanharrusett I am a power pilot, but I have some glider experience. The "stick" takes place of the yoke in a powered aircraft (don't know how much you know about flying?) and is very much like a fighter plane. Generally, to get a glider to land you have to set out spoilers, which just take away lift, as well as set out flaps, which increase lift and drag at the same time. You compensate by pulling back on the stick, to pull up the nose. I am surprised how few fatalities there are in gliding.

  • Respond to this video... Anyhow, I am very surprised at how few fatalities there are in gliding, relative to the number of accidents. Yes, there are quite a few, and every glider pilot I know has gotten into em, and came away without a scrape. Off airport landings because yes no engine, and flipovers, and not often talked about is the fact that gliders do lots of aerobatics which often gets passengers - and pilots real sick! Vomit on the canopy makes it hard to aviate and navigate.

  • You shall stall out the plane when you land. Don´t land at the main wheel, flare out about 1-3 meters above the ground and slowly bring the stick back and follow whit your air brake. And be sure that your tail will hit the ground first, still have the stick back as far as you can. This is the perfect landing.

    Practise is the only way to be good at flying.

  • Holy cow that was a terrible approach and landing. I bet their backs hurt after that

  • whats what noise?

    

  • Shotgun never going flying with you if your gonna flare like that!

  • i flew in there a few times. Nice field. Just outside of Boston. They ever open up the cafe? Pretty shitty landing. You walked away and that is about the only good thing I saw. Good luck on the next one and be careful. Maybe hit up the two seater with a good pilot or instructor.

  • now for the landing im gonna want to NOT CRASH INTO THE GROUND!! WHOAAAA BESSYY WHOAAAAA!!!

  • People are so quick to blame the student; I think it was more the fault of the instructor for the lack of adequate instructions.

  • @followben LOL I fly gliders there It shows what happens when you film a video rather than land a complicated glider (1-35)

  • wth?are you still alive?one of the worst landings ive ever seen, try practicing a little...and whats withe the 2 hands on the stick?

  • @gianlc It could have been worse, two hands on the stick and two feet on the dash!!!!

  • wth?are you still alive?one of the worst landings ive ever seen, try practicing a little

  • i honestly thought this thing was going straight twords the ground but it didnt you got her down!!

  • omg

  • OMG!!! What kind of glider is this?!

  • Seems like that big (and necessary) yank on the stick at 0 :46 was the instructor saving his ass from being penetrated by the wheel! But he shouldn't let someone come in for a landing like that with no airspeed control, how is he ever gonna learn to land on the spot? Weird flying, sloppy and tense at the same time.

  • Still better than the last time I flew Southwest...

  • @followben The funniest comment in years!!!!!!!!

  • Bloody dreadful approach and like somebody said, what's with the two hands on the stick?

  • bumpy landing :P stop talking

  • try again.

  • absolute crap!....dangerous approach and huge baloon. and then you land it without using rudder to bring it back round!

  • Nice flare...

  • omg if u allways land like this ill never fly with you, start your approach at around 300m and around 500 or 600meters!!! asshole

  • I would have used the rudder and made som small gentle nips with the wings during that windy approach.......but you came out alive so dont let this stop you!

    We all fail some time :)

  • He seemed like he had to much nose down.When he was about on ground or it just me who thinks this?

  • Lucky boy! if you did that @ my airfield you would be back on checks. 1) dont use two hands on the stick on approach, gear down, one on the stick one on the breaks. 2)approach should be flown @ approach speed with 2/3s airbreaks, not diving at the ground, round out balloon, over shoot and run of the runway. 3)round and lookout i think you had your head inside the cockpit and it surprised you, why you then over shot and didnt use the breaks is beyond me....get some more instruction.

  • Easiest than the FSX!

  • What the f...ck were you thinking when posting this footage???? Need two hands on the stick? Jeez! Take up plane spotting and how real pilots handle landings FGS.

  • best landing of all times !!! so amazing :D

  • did you intend that to be utter shit?

  • ew

  • noob

    

  • the landing looks crazy ...

    

  • Sorry dude, but my flight instructor would ban me for this landing...

  • He rouded-out too close to the ground, and I think he nearly stalled when he pulled the nose up sharply.

  • i walk away from the landing and the aircraft can fly again so it was a good landing any landing you can walk a way from is a good one and landing where the plane can be used again is a great landing plus i bet it was loads of fun

  • @nintendoDShow2s

    Ok let's say he had a probability of 1/10 to crash the glider (it's quite optimistic^^). If he lands it this way everytime he flies, the probability that he crashes it after only seven flights is over 50% (52% actually). That's the reason why a good landing is a landing you can make hundreds of times SAFE.

  • @thibaud1300 i agree if he always lands like this but i bet he only did once to mak this video to make it different from the rest but if he lands like this every time then there is a realy high risk of crashing the glider

  • so amaznig how they dont stall

  • i know it was a bad landing, but i do think he was new to this, may have been first landing aloud to do pretty much solo, so guys cut him some slack... :P

  • who let him to fly?

  • pull the nos up erlyer then it would be better

  • Do you know, I love all these fucking armchair pilots that think they are it! With their sad arse anorak views towards this video! Shut your fuckin mouths all of you! This is a great video that looks cool! You lot are a bunch of armchair spastic pilots that think they are it!

  • @saintwinky29 Well, that's because the people commenting and critiquing probably know how to land properly, because they are real world Pilots. That includes myself. That's a shitty landing. Way to much control movement, very jerky hold of, and hard touch down. So learn about aviation.

  • @LaszloK94 Big deal! The video looks cool! And besides I don't profess to be an aviator of any sorts, let alone even learning about the subject! I just don't like armchair critics or anoraks that put their neb in!!!!! The guy flying the thing managed to land it! So big truck duckin deal! Ha! Your all right mate you are! Maybe you and i should get lashed and then do some flying together! Ha

  • @saintwinky29 He managed to land it because he was very very lucky, but next time maybe it wont be anymore. my instructors have a saying: in aviation you start with 2 bags. One full of luck & one with experience, empty. The ideea is to fill the one with experience before you empty the one with luck.

  • @saintwinky29 it's a poor video and it looks like shite... It's not a landing but a crash down...

    I bet you that that glider lands itself much better if that pilot just lets go of the stick... btw - why the need to hold it with two hands? - answer: not trimmed properly...

  • @florinbaiduc What is a crash down?

  • @mathyoo01791 This landing :))

  • Nice example of a bad landing.

  • I love gliders. They're very graceful. The landing surprised me, though. Not so graceful... Don't they have decelleration chutes or something?

  • You were lucky not to drive the gear up through your arse with a sphinkter peckering flare like that. A great example of how not to handle an approach and landing. All over the place on approach and, as I said, f'-ing dangerous flare! I'd be embarrassed to post it as anything other than'wot not to do'.

    And what's with the constant two hand grip? It's not necessary.

  • @8technical He's fling a 1-35 (Doesn't help) and he's also an academic type.... lots of thought patterns not so much brains...

  • @8technical My sphinkter flared just watching it!

  • @8technical Pilots.. always our own worst enemies! ..what I mean by that is that I don't understand why so many Pilots seem to love nothing more than aggressively pointing out each others mistakes. Nothing wrong with discussing mistakes and constructive criticism but the constant nitpicking and insulting is so destructive to ourselves. In aviation we don't have that many friends as it is, we should at least try to not make enemies out of one another. We've all made mistakes and will make more!

  • Is this at sterling? I started my prop training here.

  • You do tend to see some two hand approaches in IGC competition gliding when they are approaching VNE on long final glides, or coming in on ground effect/penetration approaches from a few km's back when the whole cockpit of a D2b, LS8 (or whatever is being flown) is rattling around. It is rather unusual to double grip the stick in the pattern or on final like us "non" competition guys though. ALWAYS keep one hand ready on flaps and/or spoliers on flinal!!! Rule #1 of approaches.

  • i would have completely and utterly SHIT if that ever happened on one of my landings

  • Goin gliding 4 the first time in 2 days with cadets, now im terrified!!

  • @Soon2bFamous242 Well, don't be. As Cadet Pilots, we have a much higher standard, and the instructors wouldn't even let a pilot like that solo, let alone give a familiarization ride with a pilot like that.

  • lol you almost crashed at 0:45 you say fuck :p

  • maybe if you were landing the space shuttle...  and I feel very very sorry for the poor glider.

  • Truth be told.... and if your honest with yourself, that really really was a crap landing.

  • @yocker6 I detected a certain lack of flaring before the landing. She almost touched the ground at about 15 secs before real landing and then chewed up 300+m of runway. Ive done some bad ones in cessnas so I cant talk, but that was not one i'd rate as good if id done it.

  • Demonstrated very nice how NOT to land a glider.

  • To improve on your flying, try this small step...

    OPEN YOUR EYES AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH.......

    IDIOT!!!!!

  • your in a glider you should have crashed

  • you suck! why the fuck do you put to hands on the stick anyways top gun?

  • isn't the part where the plane sort of skids through the air on final to burn of airspeed called crossing the controls or something, (right bank left rudder and vice versa?)

  • learn to land. you fucking suck

  • Big words coming from a newbie who only soloed an airplane last year. When you get a few more hours under your belt and a little real world aviation experience, then you can comment on other peoples' landings. Yeah, he had a small mishap, but he recovered and landed with no damage to the ship. I just hope you and your smart mouth have the skills to correct anything uneventful on a future landing you might have. I hope, but am not too convinced that you'd be smart enough to learn much from it.

  • @claflin75 and this coming from a person who has never stepped foot in an aircraft. and that video is 2 years old and was uploaded last year. and I guess im a "newbie" since i have 154 hours and 567 landings. And how do you know there was no damage? did you overlook that glider? I doubt it. you're a complete fucking moron.

  • @gypsykingg....never stepped foot in an aircraft? Multiply your hours by about 20 and you',ll have close to my flight time Jr. I'm commercial/ instrument rated for single and multi-engine airplanes.. Also glider rated. Have you ever flown a glider Jr.? I highly doubt it. Look out airlines, Jr. has 154 hours!! Woo Hoo!!!! You're an arrogant little twerp.

  • @claflin75 commercial/instrument rated? no shit? seeing that if you have a commercial license you would have had to already obtained your instrument. You have never stepped foot in any aircraft. you sound like a fucking idiot.

  • @gypsykingg........You can get a commercial rating without an instrument rating. It just limits what you can do. You are showing how more and more how stupid you are with each post.

  • Wow @ 0:45 did you look away for a second?. Look like you almost put it in a hole.

  • xD what a bad landing xD

  • lol it was great landing heheeheh

  • Cooles abfangen;) sieht gefährlich aus....währe mir zu heickel:)

  • Wow! What was that last minute pull back on the stick? Looked like the pilot scared himself/herself with the nose pointing into the ground.

  • not a landing geeez