Unusual view of a K21 glider winch launch

[MartijnLaboyrie]

It looks like you rotate dangelously fast

[cirrusflyboy]

I make it about a one second safety climb and a 4 second rotation to the full climb angle, which is fine for a powerful winch.

[homer090]

God i miss the Winch soo much only done it twice, but it was so long ago, did it in the Air Cadets during Air Experience flights, when i finnaly did my scholarship did it in the Grob 109b :( powered glider

[ELbangoo]

it's really the most wonderful feeling ever. i did that one time in my life as visitor. and i soo want to do that again (:

it seemed so unrealistic when you saw the ground getting smaller and smaller and smaller. just awesome :)

[chrisjocelyn]

nice!!

[Balleka]

The rear view gives a good impression of just how steep the launch is. Awesome!!

[bviv]

Fantastic perspective! Amazing the number of glider trailers you have there at :32! I have never seen so many in one place. Really good job.

[cirrusflyboy]

Lasham is the biggest gliding club in the UK and probably the World!

[bviv]

How many different gliders do you have based there? How many different pilots fly there over the course of a year? Again, cool video. I have done a tail cam but not this view.

[cirrusflyboy]

I believe about 140 gliders. We have about 700 members + visitors.

[golfcharlie232]

That's a great view indeed !

How high can you get with those winch ?

It may just be the camera wide view angle but it looks higher than what we actually get with ours.

Do you know the length of the wire ?

[cirrusflyboy]

The launch shown reached about 2300ft, in a K21 flown solo into a 5 knot headwind. We normally load about 1500 metres of cable onto each winch drum, but the normal winch run is about 1200 metres or approx 4000ft.