Glider Cockpit Video Following Another Glider to Landing (Set To Music)

This was filmed at the Sky Soaring Glider Club (http://skysoaring.com) located in Hampshire, IL just outside of Chicago, IL, USA. I happened to be taking a cockpit video during my landing when I found myself following a friend's glider. It makes for an interesting video. The camera was a Sony DSC-H2 (nearly every digital camera can take decent videos) mounted on top of my instrument cluster. I did get a little too much foot in the video. ;-) I edited the video in Windows Movie Maker (mostly to replace the audio) and uploaded it to YouTube. I then added the labels in YouTube (Video Annotations). Pretty simple really. Let me know what you think! The song is "Big Buck" from the album "Huron Street" by Don Ross.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• glider
• sailplane
• landing
• following
• hampshire
• illinois
• usa

[cemx86]

Some Answers

- The glider with the feet is a DG-101. The glider being followed is a DG-300.

- The glide ratio of both gliders is about 40:1.

[cemx86]

Coordinated controls? I suppose that comment is because my feet don't move very much on the rudder pedals. But to see if I am coordinated, watch the yaw string. If I am uncoordinated, then the string wouldn't be straight (not that it is straight 100% of the time). And yes, soaring/gliding is fun!

[MrJoggl]

very nice landing

[cemx86]

Vielen danke!

[twoaxis]

union illinois?

nice airfield nice flying nice music

[cemx86]

Thank you for your compliments. This was filmed near about 1/2 way between Union, IL and Hampshire, IL.

[keegan773]

If your left foot is called John what is your Right foot called?

[hondahirny]

Excellent job on the video. Love the annotations! Seeing the boots was a unique and entertaining viewpoint :)

[meccabumbleswan]

Nice vid thnks. Excellent energy management on landing, well done.

[jackhodgson]

Great video, and really nice use of "voice bubbles" to do narration. Thanks.

[K0S0s]

What glider is that?

[Cyber000000]

Thanks, very entertaining.

[gerardine13]

A couple of years ago a glider was pushed down, nearly landing on my barn, he ended up in the farmers field ..Great flying!

[twoaxis]

music fits perfectly

are you flying a dg100?

[sailesh2001]

whats the glide ratio on that baby. cause if we entered our downwind in our gliders (2-33A 23-1 glide ratio) at that altitude we would be modding circuit like mad :P

[agrolimond]

Should polish your shoes :-)