@@tomwilliams3783 “The Civil Aviation Authority permits, under an exemption to ‘SERA.3105 Minimum Heights’ and SERA.5005(f) ‘VFR Flight Minimum Height’, a glider to fly below 150 metres (500 feet) above the ground or water or closer than 150 metres (500 feet) to any person, vessel, vehicle or structure if it is hill-soaring. “

@@lautoka63 you can indeed! Please email us, [email protected]

@@sublime929 please don’t be sorry! Thank you for engaging! 😊 So they are all relevant terms, lots of it depends on how high you are. There is a difference between height and altitude. It’s a lot to type here but to put it simply • Height refers to the vertical distance of an object or aircraft above a specific point, typically the ground or terrain directly beneath it. • Altitude refers to the vertical distance of an object or aircraft above a reference level, usually mean sea level (MSL). In simple terms, height is measured relative to the ground, while altitude is measured relative to sea level.

@@Flying2ZC on a Saturday evening… we all know they don’t work weekends 😉

@@georgehunter2813 real! It was going well!

I've been on a landing out approach there, at less than 100' agl and caught a thermal which got me back up to 2500'.

@NevilleStyke Sounds like stick lift to me.....100 feet to 2,500. You a paraglider?

@@sailflyboy it’s an LS8ST, built by DG in Germany 😊

@@richardpark3054 there is an engine, this is housed in the engine bay but at this height it is unsafe to try and use it. It’s ridge flying so there isn’t much altitude, there is plenty of airspeed and plenty of fields so there is plenty of options. Thank you for the comment but probably worth thinking before you speak. Especially if you don’t know what you are on about which by your comment, it’s clear you don’t. 😂

@@BradleySoanes Sorry, Bro, didn't intend to strike a nerve! I had no idea this was a motor glider! Although, your statement that it was unsafe to use the engine at that height puzzles me: why is it unsafe to use? If it's unsafe to use, how does that add to your options? ' Thank you for your free advice, I shall respect it with regard appropriate to its cost! And while we're trading free advice, here's some from me to you: Being easily offended sometimes has negative health consequences! Cheers!

@ no problem. It’s extremely hard to tell on comments how something was meant, especially when we live in a world of keyboard warriors. This glider has an engine that you can use if you are going to land in a field, that being said it requires a safe height to extend it, dive start it (it has no starter), then recover, overall it uses about 800ft to carry this out safely and when you are on a ridge and the highest point is approx 500/600ft starting it isn’t an option. If it doesn’t start then you have an airbrake out which accelerates your time into a field. It’s vital to always have a field picked incase it doesn’t start at any altitude but when flying this ridge you just have to consider it not an option… unless you climb up on a high bit, get as high as possible then you can start it but this would only be done if you were flying back to another airfield rather than the ridges home airfields which you would glide into.

@ P.S - I’m not easily offended, I just read how it looks to people on the outside 😊

@@herbertfritz5796 it’s in the South of England 😊

Beautiful place 👍

@@diego646464 nothing gliding related, in this sense it was more a case of it was going really well to actually not really well haha

He passed the modellers' bowl at Devil's Dyke, but too low to bother the models, as they would have been well above.

@@Woodduck1 don’t worry. Mine was in my mouth as well.

@@ronaldglider you are correct it’s really hard to work it out. Margin is 100% down to the pilot, if you are flying, can you handle the situation that you are in? There is no distractions, sink is minimal as it’s along in theory what is a working ridge. There are plenty of large grass fields that worst case you turn into wind and land in. The interesting thing with this exact ridge is that it’s low anyway… at any stage you can be less than 60 seconds from being in a field. Speed is your friend in this situation, hence holding on extra speed to convert as required. With the experience I have I was 100% happy that I was content and in control and the worst case scenario is that I land in a field safely. In my eyes that is a win and as I am sure you know, every time you take off you could be battling a climb away from a field in order to not end up in it, landing in fields is always a possibility in gliding even when local soaring. 😊 but, it all comes down to the pilots competency, ability and margin.

@@BradleySoanesYou have great skill!

The very biggest top-to-bottoms along that ridge are 500', so you can be down very quickly.

@@JonDrake1 why? There is absolutely nothing illegal in this flight at all, it’s a glider ridge soaring… exactly the same as a paraglider or hang glider flying on the ridge, they are all required to be in the ridge lift to stay aloft. If you are talking about the 500ft rule then you should read the laws before commenting. “The Civil Aviation Authority permits, under an exemption to ‘SERA.3105 Minimum Heights’ and SERA.5005(f) ‘VFR Flight Minimum Height’, a glider to fly below 150 metres (500 feet) above the ground or water or closer than 150 metres (500 feet) to any person, vessel, vehicle or structure if it is hill-soaring.”

I would chuck the key away - you absolute animal! Next you’ll be advocating for an enhanced end of cross country finish procedure

I've seen Bradley dumping chemtrails as well

@@BradleySoanes Well said, it can be 100% percent necessary to fly like this close to a ridge especially when it is soft. Amazing footage.

@CkwopPabalo thanks, like I said, this is all perfectly safe, low, soft but with loads of speed in hand to convert to height if required and ultimately I would like this to be used as a learning tool. Learn from my mistakes, see the picture you don’t want to be seeing. 😊 just to many keyboard warriors around these days… @steve & @charlie for example 😉😂

@@Paul-vh6ul it was Flarm. I’m not sure if it had one as I couldn’t see from that angle below the nose. I have a hard rule that I won’t cancel a Flarm warning until I have eyes on the other aircraft… that day on the ridge was busy so everyone had eyes on stalks!

Thanks mate! It’s so low it’s unreal and it only takes one cock up to have you in a field… crazy but good fun.

@@allanwright8137 please feel free to make your own content and contribute it to the community.

otherwise great video ! :)

@@karlgaikowski6948 lots of speed.. that is the correct route.

@@diamondderek848 how so? What makes you suggest there is no respect? I was dual monitoring our chat frequency and safety comm. There was 2 light aircraft that called throughout the day. That was it.

@@BradleySoanes During the working week I would advise UK LL common on 130.490 as the most sensible freq. Offically, its for anything under 2000ft but with lots of traffic transiting from high to low level and back, positional calls come out all the time and its worth having on for awareness, especially in Wales. Also, local LARS units would appreciate you on their freq so they can deconflict their traffic.

@ this was a Saturday afternoon, we have radio comms all the time and check in with various stations. There was nobody reporting anything, anywhere.

Not really sure what the issue is here. Why specifically rotary? When it’s relevant we monitor raf valley, though they tend to only be interested when we’re up between fl100 and 195. There’s no lack of respect here at all, just like there was no rotary at all. All day.