Verry 😎 cool. Always happy landings. Aeroclub bexbach EDRX 😊

... goosebumps 👋

Thanks for sharing. Perfect for my hang gliding journey.

Sehr lehrreich. Vielen dank und liebe Grüße vom Aeroclub BEXBACH

we love it.

Great job! Hope your channel will reach all gliding students!

thanks for sharing awesome animations perfect to learn and discuss with colleagues and students

Alas ... I will be doing most of my training to fly gliders on a simulator. The real art of flying one of these is the one thing a simulator just can't do, and that's the nuanced accelerations up and down that lets you know in real time what the glider is doing. But I think the simulations will help with overall familiarity, develop at least some reflexes in relation to yaw string movements, help develop coordinated turns, and help maintain constant speed so it won't feel so foreign / new in the glider itself.

regarding the landscape investigation - woods are by far the best thermal source. Elevation changes in the terrain also very important (high = good, low = bad). A tractor on a field is close to irrelevant. But luckily, with all the offsetting from wind etc. even a pilot with a completely wrong understanding will statistically find thermals here and there.

Fantastic

amazing graphics and visuals ! with what software do you do particle animation?

Professional paragliding pilot here - really amazing graphics! (Almost exactly the same for us as for sailplanes). My vario also uses an accelerometer - no more 2 second delay (my first various had that delay).

Nice video. I feel "down" and "up" wind can be confusing. Perhaps using "rising" or "sinking" air might clarify things.

Hi, wie hast du die Animation der Thermik gemacht und ist es eine berechnete Simulation oder nur eine künstlerische Darstellung? Ich würde gerne für die Hausberge mal ein Modell machen, um zu animieren, wie sich hier die Thermik verhalten könnte bei bestimmten Bedingungen.

Hi , what mountains are you gliding over at the end of the video

At 5:30 the sinkrate is just 0.6, i can only dream about such little in my ASK 23

Great job. One of best videos I've seen in this subject!

You're really good at doing these graphics and presenting the information in a visual and informative way.

Thanks for the great summary of thermal sources

I am beginner pilot (almost with license) in these glider flights, but your explications are very good! Thanks so much

Super content, thanks! Go on...

Great content. Keep the good work going ;-)

I’m a single engine pilot but I have a lot of respect for the gliding community, man. It’s a whole other world by comparison. Completely different priorities…when you hit a thermal in a single engine, it’s annoying and it messes with the altitude you’re trying to maintain. It’s *especially* annoying when you’re coming in on approach. There’s a lot of concrete near my home airport, so there are days during the summer when you just get heaved up into the air on downwind and have to cut power to compensate.

So cool! Impressive video recordings, easy-to-understand explanations and great animations! Carry on!

In normal English soaring conditions, if you wait 3-4 seconds before turning, you'd have flown through it. ;)

Great Video and good work. Please contact me, I would like to have this video translated into Italian as well… let me know me know if you would interested. Thanks.

Very good - would be excellent without the totally unnecessary and irritating muzak ...

Why can’t they put a thermal detection device in the glider so you can see it in real time

Awesome video! 😊That thermal animation is very good! I learned to gliding by IS-28b2 sailplane in 2005. My instructor always said me " If you can't find a good thermal and your position below 250 meter, go back and land." And fortunatelly I have never landed on a field or crash the glider plane...

"The wind will give him a similar offset as the thermal tube, so he will stay in the updraft". Nope, that is not what happens in real life. The reason is that the glider is extracting energy from the air, and hence it won't climb at the same rate of the air. Instead it will climb at the vertical airspeed of the bubble minus the sinkrate of the glider. As both the bubble and the sailplane drift over the ground at the same horizontal speed, the higher vertical speed of the bubble, means that the thermal tube must have a steeper angle than that of the spiralling glider, as the steepness of the angle is basically given by the ratio of the vertical speed to the horizontal speed. The result is that if you as a pilot does nothing to compensate for the wind, you will slowly drift out of the bubble in the downwind direction. Therefore, if you loose a bubble, a good strategy can be to fly a bit upwind, to try and relocate it.

Excellent video. Thank you for making it. I will share it with my glider students.

Well done !!!

This is really good. Love to see some more like this.

Gliding community needs more educational videos like this. Keep up the good work 💪🏻

...sehr anschaulich erklärt! Großartig! Bitte mehr davon.

Über den Wolken......FANTASTISCH! 🛩🛩

super Video

Super Video, danke!

Ein schönes Video! Kleiner Tipp: Enger kurbeln dann gehts auch besser nach oben!

sehr schöne Aufnahmen!

Super video

Ja, sehr angenehmes Ambiente dort ! 🏖️ irgendwie fettes Urlaubsfeeling

Schön wars!

Hello, can you talk in english please. Thankyou

Super ! Wenn das 3D Videos sind, könnte man die dann mit einer 3D Brille ansehen ? D.h. Wenn ich den Kopf drehe kann ich woanders hinschauen, und das Bild bewegt sich dabei ?

Schöne Aufnahmen

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Grimming immer wieder ein schönes Erlebnis.

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Wundervolle Aufnahme