Glider returning from wave soaring flight through cloud

[bilshut]

exceptional video one of my favorites on all utube well done!

[LorKPioWarrior]

@airbus198 In the most part of the world, the minimu age to support the exam for the pilot license (either engine-propelled or glider) is 16, but many flight school allow to begin the lessons before the 16th birthday. =) enjoy the best sport in the world!

by a 22 years old glider pilot! ;-D

[Wilq59r]

Absolutely stunning. I'm into aviation since I was a kid and I'm planning to do a gliding permit. But as far as I understood thermal flying so far - it's impossible to fly on thermics above the clouds right? So were you ascending on an airwave created by the wind hitting a big obstacle (like a mountain)?

I'm asking because flying between the clouds always seemed most.. appealing for me, it was always my biggest dream :). So how difficult is it to get above the clouds?

[Shnatzcke]

great video and nice landing =) ^^

[XxyokobabexX]

yeah slip it to the ground :D

[GutpileCharlie]

OUT STANDING! video. 

[thibaud1300]

And if you meet someone else in the cloud? :s

[9VARZ]

What are the possibilities of encountering traffic whilst cloud flying? Say from other gliders, birds (birdstrikes are very nasty) or powered aircraft? Or would the airspace around this sector generally be cleared of all air traffic?

I'm surprised that the general visibility through such clouds is almost virtually zero.

[MrCrazyfeeling]

Luckily very few pilots cloud fly which keeps the probability of collision down to an acceptable level. The risk is obviously higher than flying in clear air. If unfortunate enough, it's likely to be with someone else taking an equal amount of risk or a lump of mountain granite because your GPS is duff. Birds have the sense to keep out of cloud and passenger jets have their own airspace. The biggest risk is from spatial disorientation and loosing control of your aircraft, not from collision.

[Ululuro]

is this a duo discus?

[oversteer80]

@Ululuro DG1000

[jetfueller]

Nice video and an excellent choice of background music..The back seat guy really does look like Bill or Ben. Beautifull sideslip before landing

[innersilencedotcom]

beautiful video, great flying but here's a tip: any flying video is incomplete without the original sound of the air flowing on the wings. i could care less about your music tastes. if i want music i shall play my own while i`m watching it. this video is very good, and it's a shame cause it could have been great with the original sound. anyways, thumbs up, and +fav definitely.

[liebguger]

Soaring is the best thing you can do with wearing cloths and in a wave its the best thing you can do above clouds

[miseethi]

Very, very nice.

[Boeing94]

Must bee an amazing feeling flying above the clouds!! I can't wait until my soaring lessons start!!

[thewritingwriterof89]

that was a wicked slip at the end.

[taxi2flyer]

wow! that´s pretty awesome! i´ll do it when i´ve got my licens !

[cosminx2003]

whta's the red line on the cockpit?

[weaville]

I think you might be refering to the 'Yaw String'. It's a bit of coloured string or more often wool thats taped to the outside of the canopy. It tells the pilot whether he's flying acurately (or not).

And I really like the music.

[catandpiddle]

great video, atrocious and childish music ...

[amclpreston]

Agreed. Why do so many glider video-postings have really naff music tacked on. I love to hear the swish of air, the beeps of varios in the sink and lift, the flexing of the wings as you approach maximum speed, the uncouth language in a crowded thermal near a start line in a comp, the brown feeling in your trousers as you just about walk away from some field-landing.....

[thcbamboo]

@catandpiddle childish? Muse is so great :)

[Bartek0146]

What altitude in the highest moment of fly?

[linoleumcarving]

my daddy says when you make a hole in a cloud all the water runs out and it rains. will you make some holes above my house mommys garden is so dry. have you ever seen a ufo when up in your flying machine?

billy

[cosminx2003]

lol

[yonieter]

Awesome vid!!! i favorited it:P but i have a question? are you allowed to fly above clouds? because i've flown above clouds too but i had to get lower fast! though it was cool

[scdidadm]

thanks.

Yes, in the UK gliders are allowed to cloud fly.

[vxl788]

*gg* Well, otherwise they couldn't even take off, could they... :p

Would be interesting to know whether this allowance was actually born out of the fact that the weather over in the UK really is pretty cloudy after all...

[tommoutrie]

bloke in the back is dressed like one of the flowerpot men - its amazing he's allowed to fly at all looking like that

ha ha...

[TheSoarer151]

@tommoutrie well nice to see that you would like to freeze your ass off in negative temperatures to look not like a flowerpot man

[catsfiveuk]

@tommoutrie - I think I have flown in that glider with that block in the back, except it was a gentle thermal bimble from Lasham to Chievely and back!

[Piano541]

Great video wonderful

Friedhelm

[tincholimonada]

fantastic!!!!!

[Flyawaywithme11]

awesome

[Valy18]

It's flawless

[slityu]

Been there done that. I flew six flights and almost five hours in the Royal Wave same day with Puchacz. Thanx gratefully for the film. Istvan from Hungary

[whiternoise2]

Out of interest, how did you navigate back to your airfield?

I assume GPS? Or did you fly it visual?

[scdidadm]

Definitely not visual. Used GPS navigation and Turn&Slip to keep the glider upright in the clouds. That part was flown from the rear seat by a pilot who has the capability to cloud fly, not me, yet.

[whiternoise2]

Pretty impressive nonetheless!

[roelesch]

@scdidadm No artificial horizon was installed in the glider?

[keegan773]

Another great vid. Thankyou.

[weaville]

Nicely done.

We were the ASW15 that was parked next to you in the trailer park at Aboyne.

Best Regards

Camphill Member