Just want to mention here: your airspeed dropped so fast and i think should pushed the more and consistenly. You were by any means not perfect in this Situation.

Top ruddering makes the whole thermalling exercise safer. Less likely to drop a wing....

You'd fail your bronze for that. Stick on the back stop please before landing.

The reason for trim forward is this. If you set the trim to neutral, the aircraft will be trimmed for about 80-100 kph. During the initial part of the take off roll and first seconds of flight you are below trimmed speed, and so the stick will be wanting to move forward because of the trim spring overpowering the aerodynamic force of the elevator. You’ll be pulling against that force to pull the aircraft off the ground, which is normal…pull to climb. As you leave the ground, the aircraft accelerates further and reaches trimmed speed, where the stick force has reduced to zero. But as you further accelerate to tow speed, the aerodynamic force of the elevator overpowers the trim spring and you now find that, in order NOT to climb (which is what the glider wants to do as it wants to return to trim speed) you now have to push on the stick, a very unnatural thing to do and very easy to get into PIO. If you take off with the trim well or fully forward, you will need to pull back throughout the tow, which is normal. Trim after release. To avoid PIO , the blue angels also fly trimmed well forward throughout their formation flying. They actually want a pull force of about 40 pounds throughout the flight, also helps increase the G tolerance as pulling back makes you strain those abdominal muscles. Always learn and fly safely

What’s the rate of climb? Looks very difficult to rig with such large wings

Spoilt by the loud music.

a woman could never take up the slack so why fuck are they commecial pilots?

Don' need no steeenking driving instructions..... Oops faaa..... Okay, maybe a few.

That's a very questionable day to be going up

Airspeed went from 70 to 50 in 2 seconds

Man I feel like the trim in the 2-33s I fly does absolutely nothing. I get a forearm workout when I'm on tow keep forward control pressure.

It’s the best club by a country mile.

"Twitchy bum time." Depressingly relatable...

just retrim it

Almost a normal take-off. I expected much worse from the video´s description!

No

What would you rather have, cable break or cable dont detach ?

Who reads that manuals? U'll have a lot of time in hospital to read throw it.

BGA policy is to keep your hand on the release. Basically so you don't kill the tow plane pilot. Only takes a few seconds to sling shot above the tow plane pilot while you look down trying to find the trim, cell phone, camera or release etc. This is no different than the teen driver adjusting the radio only to look up and be in the ditch. I believe once you get to 1000' agl you can make adjustments. Seems like a good method. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/plane-flips-catches-fire-in-crash-at-byron-airport/2287494/

The parallel (not pivoting) for/aft stick movement on DG’s lends itself to PIO first time out for sure.

👍🐨✔ only paid for a 200 ft launch. Keith Australia

wow perfect

You handled that pretty damn well!

USELESS

Is that a chipmunk?

Landing practice! Nice job...

Just seen this. Is that Shenington you flying out of?

Add a lanyard to your tow release so it is not so crowded at the mixing stick.

Good skills

Don't worry, I've done much worse with my DG-300 with the wing dropping and staying solidly "attached" to the ground :)

funny way to get to the other side of the runway

"I know better than the manual" The last man i knew who said this won a one way trip to his gravehole

That left hand on the release knob is not necessary and prejudices the piloting movements of the stick.

That didn't look too bad! No big oscillation, didn't hit the ground again. Seen a lot worse.

is the new janus as heavy as the old Janus c. the rudder in the old lady is like a stone

Engine assisted aerotow?

meh. I've done way worse :-)

Just watched 'Part 1' again and found it a bit scary - just bought a share in a Standard Cirrus (belly hook and all flying tailplane) and not done an A/T in it yet. This video is a bit more reassuring!

Ah - I see you have the trim set to ‘fat boy mode’ much like myself 😉😂. You must have been pulling away from this other boys with the K8 on that day?

"All flying tail" ? Don't they all fly? I thought it is an all moving tail plane?

It's not rocket science is it guys!?? What you need is an extension LANYARD!! Of VERY STRONG Nylon cord on the release, and a Yellow T handle on the end of it, plainly a ridiculous design flaw of earlier generation gliders where the release for pilots, in a lot of cases is almost out of reach., and restrictive of full left aileron, just when you may NEED full control deflection, either on the ground, or smashing your way through low level turbulence ( Memories of Aboyne!!) Also, Trim WELL forward for Aerotow launching, particularly with a CG hook, again why do manufacturers continue to produce aircraft with only ONE hook, when it doesn't take a lot to beef up the nose cone to take aerotowing loads.!!

Veryy good! But why do gliders have an AH? I flew gliders and spent many years teaching both ppl and cpl. When doing to old Silver C conversions, I would take a glider pilot into cloud deliberately and over 95% would be in a very upset attitide very quickly. If you are not curent instrument flying, leave it on the ground, flying in IMC without pratice gives you about 90 seconds of life

Great video Jonathan, thanks. Helps recall all the memories flying there.

Can’t wait to join u guys in that fantastic airspace

The engine going back into the fuselage was cool to see. Thanks.

That's odd. The FAA manual says to turn right after release, not left. Are you in the UK? Or maybe this is something you hash out with the pilot before you go up?

nice

Just Beautiful

Great video-love flying there

What a great birthday experience. I hope Dan is still flying! My syndicate partner went solo on his 14th birthday about 3 years ago. He'll be a BI by the end of this season.