glider simulated cable break

[Frosty615]

Sorry that was meant to be in a reply to someone!

For those of you that say it was a good recovery? I would suggest you could tell that this is a trainee's attempt at a plf...Why? Look at the yaw present on the ground run before take off. Simple - Our instructors would NEVER allow that to happen!

[juanboecke]

el corte del cable nunca puede ser causa de accidentes si se recupera a tiempo la posicion de vuelo del planeador y se decide correctamente que hacer...el remolque por torno es seguro y barato!!!!

[fetborsted]

Simple cable break. Stick forward, land straight ahead. No big deal. Certainly NOT a near miss crash. Was a well controlled recovery.

[mustang2005]

gliders have a very low stall speed so recovery from a launch failure is quite easy as long as you keep it in good control and a steady float back the the ground without stalling.

[hawker445]

i see u guys used a launch cable

[wilmo2000]

OMG this is insane, i wonder if he kept on flying after this?

[Rickenbacker69]

Of course he did, this is a normal part of glider training.

[hrford]

@blowy1984: Can you update the title and tags of this video? Remove "near miss" and "crash". It wasn't either of those! Instead try "Simulated Cable Break" or "Launch Failure" :D

[6axe1man5]

OK...just for all you silly people out there. This clip was filmed at RAF Kenley where i fly from...this is called a Practice Launch Failure (PLF), these get practiced several times every weekend so that if it were to happen on a solo flight, the pilot would know what to do. This video shows a perfect example of what to do...there was no 'near fatality' at all.

[Rickenbacker69]

Umm, there's no near miss in this video. Also, there's no crash. Lines break now and then, which is why glider pilots are trained to deal with it, which this guy did admirably.

[TherealDeltaEcho]

yeah...kinda gay. specially at the end where the gay person goes: "hime-eee-own" through his nose! LOL

[rigsbytheking666]

LAUNCH FAILURE ! ! !

[elusiv329]

That was gay and the landscape looked like a piece of paper

[champsofcrow]

that is so close to being a fatality! did the pilot survive?

[Antilopax]

I think I read about it on the news - 5 deaths :(

[hrford]

champsofcrow: Yeah I think he must have taken out a whole city.

[halfadollarsuck]

your a lil dram queen right?

[MLeyden91]

'Near miss crash'?

Nah mate

[Robert4m]

Haha crash jaja dit is gewoon een standaard kabelbreuk... Easy!

Greets

[Pouipouine]

This is a normal procedure dude...

[trumpet34]

was war jetz daran spektakulär? Das kann halt schon mal passieren, dass das Seil reißt!

so what was so spectacular?

every pilot has to be prepared that the rope can brake! ;)

[HawkVP]

I love when some GIC puts a video of a perfectly executed PLF/LF online and names it something silly. Reminds me of the morning tabloids. Only for every pilot in the world to tell them how wrong they are.

[ysblueangels]

Just a winch break. not a 'near miss crash.'

[DougRodrigues]

Yup, I agree. This was a practice maneuver. You can hear the tow release while still at low altitude. Interestingly, my new license doesn't say Aero Tow Only. I've never done a ground launch?

[jmhfighterpilot]

well im also a glider pilot and have all three launch ratings. Since they were doing auto it looked as if the the pilot was pulling back too hard on the stick causing the rope to back release.its very common among new pilots, you just have to shove the stick full forward when it happens, to pervent a stall at 150' which is deadly.

[Frosty615]

lol, no way at all. I've done over 3000 launches most of which were at the airfield where his was videoed and I've NEVER had a 'rope' (or as we in the air cadet gliding organisation like to call them 'cables') back release in the full climb. EVER. Your terminiology is cracking by the way - Shove the stick forwards? lol

[MrTumnus8896]

@Frosty615 Its pretty easy to back-release the glider at the top of the launch by just not pulling the release knob but I've never seen it back-release in the normal climb but I've heard that it's happened.

[m3stu]

was that at kenley?

[borlox]

Near miss crash? Not at all. The video title is very irritating. A rope break is a manoeuver every glider pilot has to learn.

Though, the pilot did a nice landing as far as I can see. But this is nothing extraordinary, just a standard procedure.

[maxpiemont]

Agree, as a glider pilot I learned how to react to these situations well before my first "solo" flight.

Missing a crash is a very very different situation.

With the due respect, it would be much better if "non pilots" avoid to use such titles for situations they are not familiar with.

In any case, apart the title, the video is good and istructive.

[barrettrifles]

agree I hate this video's

[124ty]

y does every 1 think they no everything wen it comes to stuff like this y cant they jus say dat was funny or wts the point in this n i am talkin to enzo n ryan

[SquallJaythepally]

Because they're proberbly all glider pilots themselves... I'm guessing your not thoigh, by what you said... but yeah.. BTW i'm training to fly too :P

[enzo501]

IIRC (it was a while ago) above 200ft AGL go-around, anything below continue forward and land immediately. Remember my pre-solo, failed at around 250ft, pitched nose down to maintain 60knts, proceeded to go around left-hand pattern and land safely. Wasn't until we were down did it come to my attention that the rope failed and it wasn't an induced launch failure by my instructor!

[flythec152]

omg i LOVVE this song

[ryanm406638]

That mis-launch was VERY nicely handled.

[rwilliams184]

That's standard procedure for a failed launch.

[Antilopax]

Twin Astir yehey!

[scidhuv1]

Haha, is that the Portmoak ATC I spy

[blowy1984]

i apologise for classing this as a near miss, the guy filming was working next to the airfield, i know nothing about gliding but this appeared as a near miss to me, sorry again

[srussert28]

I'm not going to bash the title of near miss.

But technically wouldn't a near miss be a collision? He almost, nearly missed the tree. If he almost missed it, or nearly missed it the he did or exactly hit it, right?

That was the nearest miss I ever seen right up until he hit the tree. It's almost like saying a little bit pregnant. What do you think?

[Rossmilliner]

near crash that was just a simple plf! and it was even planned as u can see the yellow rover is ready next 2 it! im a member on a vgs which is where that video was shot and that was in no way anywhere near a crash!

[davecchappell]

I've got 1000hrs flying & instructing on gliders and the video shows a totally routine launch failure (probably simulated) followed by a land-ahead - this was the correct action in the circumstances.

[StaticEquilibrium]

I agree with Stirling, cable breaks are very common in gliding, students get trained to respond appropriately, nothing "bad" happened here

[badbear76]

Stirling & Static, you are exagerating this occurance.....,yeah it happens, and yeah we're trained for it.. but you make it out like this happens all day every day. hardly good for our sport..

[ryanm406638]

You must not have much experience with an old rope then(soaring club with limited funds). I've seen a rope break at least 3 times in one day, and I've had one real one myself.

Haha, my instructor was flying with another glider pilot and they had a rope break at 600 ft AGL. He took that thing into a thermal and got it up to 1500ft. Lots of luck there. He's very experienced though. Over 3,600 glider flights.

[EnzoSzolnok]

Last summer I broke the cables 3 times in 2 hours (the 2 lasts were in 15 minutes). I was the winch operator, and I was very angry at 8:00 pm when we finished repairing the old ropes in the dark. :)

[ryanm406638]

Right, so people who think they're terribly uncommon simply have never used an older rope.

[StirlingMGB]

Near miss my ass. Its just a plain old cable break. Its happened to me loads of times. Still at DSGC at North Hill our cable had more joints than Tescos.