Bay Tour 2

Bay Tour 2. Wave soaring between 15,000 feet to 18,000 feet over San Francisco and the Bay Area

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• soaring
• wave
• glider
• sailplane
• Bay Area
• Bay Tour
• Flying
• San Francisco Bay Area
• gliding

[ramyyanetz]

Thanks. For those who wonder why the title says Bay Tour 2, this was my second bay tour. I flew a similar route across the Bay nearly a year ago, but instead of flying in wave above the airspace between 15000-18000 feet, I flew in thermals below the airspace between 2000-4000 feet. I'll try to post here the clip from that flight.

[ramyyanetz]

No need for clearance as I was at least 5000 feet above the ceiling of the class bravo airspace at any time. I used GoPro HD Hero which is very wide angle and held my hand outside the canopy window until my fingers froze...

[ramyyanetz]

Thanks all. @Bruno, I actually had Byron in glide, over 50 miles away, for most of the flight.

[ramyyanetz]

I was flying between 15,000 to 18,000 feet. No wave windows as I was below 18K yet way above the ceiling of the airspace. Wind was NNE 40-50 knots, which generate wavelets downwind of the bay area mountains.

[MrEngelchen]

Wowsers! That was epic.

[waltergiordani]

Great video & Greets from Italy!



[miseethi]

Very nice!

is it difficult to get a clearance in this area?

[Wingdinger1]

How in the world did you do the shots from outside? Sticking your hand outside the canopy?

[Wolkenstecher]

Great video, thanks for taking us up there

Blue skies and greets from Spitzerberg Austria!

[bviv]

Ramy - just amazing man! I showed my wife and she was like, "Where was he going to land out? Alcatraz?!?!?" Very impressive and thanks again for sharing the flight with us. Bruno