PZL Junior Sailplane - North Plains, OR, Oct 11, 2006

Sailplane flight October 11th, 2006 in North Plains, Oregon, USA. View from the cockpit of a PZL Beilsko SZD 51-1 "Junior". The Junior is a 15m fiberglass ship that seats one and has a fixed wheel landing gear, and a glide ratio of 35.8:1 at 43 knots (50 mph).

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Sailplane
• Glider
• Soaring
• Junior
• SZD-51-1
• North
• Plains
• Oregon
• airplane

[DaltonArgue]

I live in north plains

[glallee]

@DaltonArgue - so have you ever taken a ride? We are open days that start with W -- Wednesdays & Weekends :)

[hrford]

Sailplanes are simple beasts. Surely it's better to know the checklist and be looking OUT of the cockpit rather than have it written out anywhere? If you have the tendancy to 'forget' the checks perhaps you shouldn't be flying? Here in the UK there are only 3 major checklists. Launch CBSIFTCBE, acro HASSLL and Landing FUSTALL. It's part of the training and quite straight forward. The letters are normally labelled on the instrument panel.

[glallee]

Of course its better to be looking out. Of course, if memorized checklists were reliable, folks wouldn't continue to land wheels up. And its just hubris to think that sailplanes are some special exception; they are the ONLY category of aircraft not REQUIRED to use printed checklists. As noted earlier, the checklist needs to be on the dash or a kneebooard, not handheld, so you can keep up the 16 seconds out / 4 seconds inside scan.

[Pik20b]

Glallee,

Is it my imagination or was your turn to final at barely 40 ft. AGL??? If so, hope your circuits are better now and you aren't mowing grass any longer. Good video, by the way.

[glallee]

Started the turn at 250 ft AGL (450 MSL on altimeter) and finished at 150 ft AGL. Club safety guidance is no turns to final below 200 ft AGL, and when reviewing this with my instructor he clarified the 200 ft AGL should really be the *end* of the turn (not the start). Of course this was two seasons and 50 flights ago, too. (As I said below, this flight was a deliberate exercise to land at the threshold.)

[stormbreaker11992288]

Awesome!!!! Thank for uploading this! Check out my sailplane vid.

[Perovitch]

Fantastic! Thank You Very Much.

Great Video. Reminds me of my summer best moments.

Thanks again!

[gregmos1994]

polish gliders is best

[love2mine4]

nice but small town i live there

[sbb53199]

TCK8....I agree,that was the fastest preflight check in a glider I have ever seen.

Base turn and the final were very ill defined...just ended up as a giant u turn.

I probably would have trimmed the plane for the circuit speed.....one less thing to worry about.

half dive brakes on the base turn seemed a bit automatic doing this most surely left him low on final.

Also..I would not have touched the divebrakes until I was absolutely sure that I was going to be in an overshoot position.

cheers s

[CarsonMcCullers0]

The "pipe organ" sound you hear throughput the video is characteristic of the PZL Junior aircraft; I'm not sure if it is the tail lifting handle (which I usually push into the fuselage) or the area where the elevator linkage is located (which we usually have taped over). The sound is a bit eerie but you get used to if after a while.

[TheCryptKeeper8]

Bad points. dont mind a read check at the beginning but seemed rushed.You kept adjusting your shoulder strap; should B part of initial check.Reading check on circuit is really bad-need a good lookout in the circuit. Testing your spoilers seemed surplus to requirment. You only lose valuable height and you will know if they work or not in a few secods as you turn base/final anyway. I could be wrong but it looked like you flew it onto the ground instead of letting it settle. Thanks for post

[TheCryptKeeper8]

Good points first.excellent vid .good detail. good co-ordination. nice captions and explanations. Good RT. Nice, clear and with pauses.

[huginhoinyoin]

nice

[LeveLageLanden]

ik ben ook nl