I have some time in a Ka6 Cr - lovely airplane to fly, as long as you're not in a hurry. But I understand that it was something of a super ship in its day!

Even more important in thermals. :D

I fly a SGS1-23D built in 1953 still going strong, originally flown by Paul Macready for the Schweizer Factory. A joy to fly!

That's the most dangerous turn in general aviation, too. Falling in love with the rudder can get you killed. In the U.S. we call it a "skid" turn, or leading with the rudder. I've overshot the final approach more than once, but I've never even thought about trying to fix it with the rudder. Just fly back on course once you level out.

Great video. Pretty interested to know how you've mounted your camera.

What may help is less "curing" butter with the control stick! While turning or thermalling is control input. The control stick should should almost never move. As a retired FAA DOE and a sailplane racing pilot, I can tell the difference between a proficient pilot and a less experience pilot by how the control stick move while in flight and definitely while thermalling! Be safe and fly often!

I wish i had the problem of flying under ridges. I live in flatlands 😂

whatever happpens you landed safely great flight great content and a great lesson

Thank you for sharing. Best pilots are those who can recognise their errors and learn from them. One step further is to make a video and share with the passionates!

i have had about 6 Cable Break exercises this year alone, and then a real cable break on the same day we did another exercise. automatism kicks in and the training effects show. quick reaction, proper decision making and execution lead to a safe landing.

Total BS. There is nothing complicated on the turn to final approach. Just maintain your speed and control your sink with the spoilers. I have hundreds of hours in a Class III sailplane and more in powered aircraft. Stall/Spin accidents can happen to anyone, but sailplanes have low stalling speeds compared to powered aircraft and that gives them a greater margin of error. They tend to float on landing. If you're slow in a powered aircraft. add power, put your nose down and go around. Stall/Spin training should be required for a pilot's license, unfortunately, the FAA removed that requirement.

"mean" sea level ;)

You are flying in the mountains. I life in NRW near the dutch border.... How and Where would you catch updrafts without mountains? (My hometown in 50m NN and the highest point is at ~70m NN) I am no Pilot I have no idea I am just a bit curious right now

You didnt idle the thrust..

you look like you are in pain

We learn to always fly circuit at 90km/h. With speed it would be very hard/impossible to use too much rudder and stall, right?

Yes I think a lot of us can emphasize with that " Oh crap, I knew I should have gotten a little higher" feeling. Thanks for your time and effort to produce a great educational video that novice pilots can learn from, and seasoned pilots can relate to.

Simple instrument panel. A pilot doesn't need more to enjoy meditative soaring in a great sailplane. Great video !

During the nineties, a Dutch gliding club had a group going to Switzerland, flying in the mountains as beginners. So, there was an introduction to mountain gliding. It looks so simple, until you know about all the nasty effects of wind and weather in mountainous terrain. A very funny warning was, there are certain spots where you can enter a certain valley, but you got to think about that, because if you can not make it back to that altitude again, thermals do start disappearing, you are going to land somewhere. Tiny problem is, you may be a 100 miles away from your airport, by car and glider trailer that might be 600 miles away. Oops.

Nice vid, but the distance to the clouds is partly far too close !

I like your style of flying. No fiddling with the stick. I can see this very rarely. Just few pilots really understand this. Plane has its own stability that works way better and in your favor than you can ever do by wobbling with controls. Your flight is nice example of how it works. Flying in thermal weather in mountains is anything but calm and smooth ride. Yet you keep the stick steady, which makes your flight more steady. And the landing... I loved that one.

I'd be anxious gliding over a flat countryside, never mind like this with all the hills getting in the way.

I'm proud to say I pre-empted what the lesson would be without being a pilot. However, you did very well in talking through the human factors that guided you to break this rule despite knowing it. Gliding looks beautiful, but I think I'll stay on the ground! xD

I used to fly gliders, but there are no hills/mountains in my country at all, just fields and forrests. To gain altitude we used thermals from highways, freshly plowed/harvested field, big parking lots, etc. Actually, you can get pretty far when following a thermal from a highway.

This kind of stuff needs to be shared more in hobbyist aviation circles - the "I made this mistake, then did the right thing and turned around" and not just the "I made this mistake, tried to force it and nearly died" videos.

Have you ever flowen in EDKN or near this plane

I used to fly gliders but never in mountain ranges.... this just looks scary af, but I'm sure you have control of the situation. Not getting the thermals is one thing, putting yourself in a situation where you are not able to land safely is another, and you never seemed to reach that, even though spinning so close to mountains would scare the bejeebers out of me.

Imagine if an American TV production narrated this... It'd be 5 times longer having repeated some very exaggerated points of danger and near death experiences 50 times with a movie trailer voice and before and after commercial segments, while pushing the expense as far as possible...

I agree. I think someday I’ll get a glider add on +/- commercial.

Amazing scenery and so many fascinating options for soaring. Thanks for sharing. Glad you had a safe out/option.

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Wahnsinns video, die aufnahmen, die darstellung der flugroute, bissi theorie, bin begeistert

I made my first triangle cross country in a Ka6 cr , good memories . After that I bought a Ka6 E and mde a lot of cross country KM and also many outlandings .It was 35 years ago so I don't remember much how this glider handled but I liked it .

I flew in a similar glider, SZD-30 Pirat. Loved every moment of it.

Powered aircraft pilots must consider gliding to be pure insanity.

i flying with k-7 and k-8. whats the difference against the K-6?

Back in1966 I was a very young glider pilot in my club, city of La Plata, Argentina. Thé aérodrome was very close to the wide Rio de la Plata, so the thermals were weak, I took some IFR practice with an old flight trainer Link C3 with the idea of using the summer clouds to climb a little more. The K6 had a very small and simple Turn and Bank indicator. One day I enter the base of what I thought was a modest cumulus humilis and wow! Suddenly the variometer increased to two meters/s up, later three, the altitude reached 3000 meters, then 4000 meters, ice blocked the pitot tube and accumulated over the leading edge, I could approximately maintain the speed with the sound of the wind. I realized this was a much bigger cloud, had no oxygen, and turbulence was increasing, so finally I managed to get out of the cloud who by then grew to a full cumulus nimbus with heavy rain, hailstones and stong winds on the surface, the barograph registered a maximun altitude of 4.500 meters. Two weeks later it took six hours and 280 Km. distance, with weak thermals to earn my silver C badge. The K6 did both flights showing her very good performance. Today I'm a retired Airline pilot but always remember that flight in the cloud as the most significant of my experience.

this channel has a LOT of potential. no bullshitting, nice and undistracting music, a beautiful voice and great shots. keep it up! :)

I had a Ka-6e for 14 years. largest triangle 514 km greatest height 6450 mtr longest flight 10.15 our greatest distance 864 km Who needs plastic!!!

Great video so well done. I'm a commercial single engine and IFR pilot and this stressed me so much. To fly there even in a piston single would be stressful and no engine at all so much more so!

I did the exact same mistake in southern France a couple of years ago. ended up in a narrow valley in the shade and downwind. luckily i had been briefed about an emergency landing spot nearby and managed to land safely.

عاليه ويدئوهاي شما 😍

Wow, that’s amazing 😍

very nice video, danke

❤ Jetzt will ich K6 Zeitlupenfliegen. Bin froh auf 13, 7 & 8 gelernt zu haben. Die K6 hatte ich noch nicht in den Fingern.

Great video! I love my Ka6E and fully agree with you. It's not about racing or competition, but simply the pure, unadulterated joy of soaring in the sky. Not fighting the winds, but working together. Amazing plane!

love love love the Ka6! Even after flying countless high performance gliders there's just something special about the easy, relaxed handling of the glider and the way it feels in the thermals. Our club Ka6 D-4706 has a convertible canopy and was featured on the cover of the most recent Adler magazine (german aviation magazine) with me as PIC! Edit - sehe gerade dass du von Unterwössen aus fliegst - dann bist du mit dem Jan ja eh beim Ka6-Gott schlechthin gelandet!

Love to see and learn more on the K-6, history, Design, etc.

Someone in my club has one, and he restored it to better than new conditions. It has more aerodynamic covers, a moving map display and an more comfortable cockpit. Its funny how he can stay in the air for houers while on weaker days even high performance gliders ony fly circuits 🤣. I realy want to fly one someday, no question.

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