cockpit shot of glider landing

Full instrument panel of a Schweitzer 1-35 glider (no spoilers or dive breaks on this type of aircraft) 80 degrees of flaps.

At 45 seconds, and most importantly before the glider touches down, the black flap handle comes back into view which means the flaps were retracted from 80 to about 30 degrees which would cause the plane to drop from the sky, necessitating the increase in the angle of attack to prevent a hard landing. Note that as the glider skims the ground the black flap handle is in the same position as it was at the very start of the video.

Category:

Howto & Style

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• aviation
• gliding
• cockpit
• landing
• flapped
• final
• approach
• flight

[hpmaxim]

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.

[zsurfer]

@hpmaxim The voice of experience and knowledge...

[tomperanteau]

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

[tomperanteau]

@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.

[tomperanteau]

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

[ollyg007]

Nice crash

[Sjoerd9314]

lol seemed a little steep and rough there..

[1virginatlantic]

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



[hooch330]

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