Glider Defies Gravity - Same Altitude After 10 Minutes?

People just don't understand that glider pilots can find and use rising air currents to stay up for many hours and fly many hundreds of miles. This video shows what we call a "cloud street" of lifting air that allows the engine-less aircraft to fly for many miles at 150 mph without losing any altitude. The glider is an ASW27 and the airport I am flying from is Nephi, Utah. This was my first flight back in the glider after an unwanted vacation away from gliding so it made this flight even more special. Thanks as always for watching and for all your comments and support! Bruno - B4

[@Mike_Sierra_2711]

I can't wait to get back up in the air! Hope spring will come soon in Germany this year :D

[@dandaly7305]

What a lovely cloudstreet! Gonna be -26C here tomorrow, a foot of snow Monday... nice to be able to dream.

[@Mike7478F]

Amazing. My daughter was fascinated. Couldn’t believe no engine.

[@mbearden]

Great to see you back in the air and on KZbin! Love your stuff, keep it coming!

[@mikestephens3592]

So glad you are back sharing your epic flying with us Bruno. We have an ASW27b and I keep picking up little tips and tricks watching you fly. Our relatively low cloubases in the UK mean we don’t push on as fast as you, but you are inspiring me to try going faster, here’s to a great 2022 🍺

[@BrunoVassel]

Nice! You are sooo lucky to have and be able to experience the ASW27b!!!! I love mine! I have found that mine flies by far the bast in strong conditions and week conditions right at about 80% aft cg. Any further aft and it just mushes around and feels like it doesn't want to go anywhere. Anything forward of that and I find I am trimming back too much which adds drag. Thanks for saying hi and for watching! 🍺

[@jayconnors998]

Very cool!...yeah with a big screen you can almost feel that kick in the pants from your desk..Thank you Bruno...

[@Doug_Morgan]

I love riding along with you on these cross country flights.

[@Kombivar]

Awesome stuff Bruno! Always enjoying your footages from the mighty ASW27, and glad you're back in the sky!

[@ThirtyOddOne]

I love how with the wide angle, you can 'see' the lift, the nose pops up slightly and the perspective shifts enough to make it visible.

[@Gribbo9999]

Great to see you back! Thanks for all your videos.

[@carveroutdoors]

Thanks for bring us with you Bruno!

[@Scott.Silburn]

Great to see a new video from you, Bruno!

[@brushitoff503]

Fantastic! Thanks Bruno!

[@1hornet1]

Oh man! There you are! Glad to see you're still at it. Thanks for posting more videos!!!

[@danminges9523]

Really like the horizon stableised view! I can almost feel the ups and downs. Great to have you back!

[@TheBdomijan]

So great to see you back!!! Your videos give me such comfort and an almost hypnotizing experience when I watch!!! Thanks soooo much for this!!! Peace and good health to you and yours!! ✌️👍✌️👍

[@BrunoVassel]

Thanks for the kind words and for watching! :)

[@Carefree27b]

I'm having a happy flashback to 2021 18 Meter Nationals. Thanks!

[@petervanek7850]

Nice to see your new videos; much appriciated! What agreat sceneary for gliding; enjoy!

[@soggybottom3463]

Wonderful, sir, thank you.

[@troutman00]

Incredibly awesome stuff Mr. B Specially sense i grew up in some of the tearatory you fly makes it extra special ;)

[@yobentley7274]

Awesome flight. Thanks for sharing.

[@martyking5726]

Nice summer (?) video with winter closing in on the East Coast!!

[@MrSheymie]

Lovely. What a beautiful place to be. Stunning heights too.

[@desertdanblacksmith1394]

Thanks for coming back Bruno....I stream the Grand Canyon trip so many times I know now what comes up next! The new camera gives a new feeling of when you get "thrown around" and gives the viewer a vertigo rush....:)

[@GrantGrove]

Very nice cloud street. Makes for fast flights. ✈️

[@BillSands2112]

Love it!!

[@mrpenguin4288]

Epic stuff. Been a long time follower. Started flying gliders 34 years ago…

[@robertorhymes]

You have that amazing flying thing dialled in I'd call that a win

[@coldforgedcowboy]

@Bruno Vassel... Technically speaking Bruno isn't your sail plane fusion powered?

[@dronepilot260rc]

Nice! Looks like I'll be ordering an ASW style glider for my channel 😎🤙

[@Twobarpsi]

What a plane!!

[@rob4b]

Beautiful wish i could still do it sadly couldn't get over my constant motion sickness so had to give up.

[@Twobarpsi]

What goes up must come down...Unless it's Bruno Vassel in a sailplane!

[@TheSoaringChannel]

Ah man Bruno. You seriously get to enjoy some breathtaking views there man. The height AGL on average, what would you say it is typically? What's your normal height band. I've noticed getting to 10,000' is low for you. Is that around 6,000' ground levels?

[@deezynar]

Bruno, has anyone tried to fly a glider along the Rocky Mountain range with the intention to fly as far as possible using the highest mountains in the country?

[@tomboooty]

Thank you for the feedback on my negative comment. It really is beautiful up there. Might I suggest a couple of more cameras? I watch missionary bush pilots channel. We always see a takeoff and landing. I wouldn’t watch his channel if it was just him up in the air traveling from point A to point B. But what’s really interesting is that he has several cameras all around the airplane capturing different views. That would help immensely with a video like this. Just saying…

[@kaihorstmann2783]

You definitely do not want to put a number drag inducing objects onto your glider when you are seriously going cross-country. I am assuming the videos are a welcome by-product for Bruno to the actual goal: Flying cross-country without an engine over this incredible landscape. That he shares his adventures just adds to it.

[@davesgliding]

Hard to tell with camera distortion, but was that a convergence line, or thermals from valley air riding up the ridge below?

[@SockeCat]

Hi Bruno, the gimbal is very good, you can See exactly all movements of your glider in front of the horizont. Which videoequipment was in use.? .

[@mikestephens3592]

It looks like a recent edition GoPro (9 or 10) with auto horizon levelling set, there isn’t much space for fancy camera setups

[@kendokaaa]

I can't wait for Microsoft Flight Simulator to incorporate thermals/gliding, this looks very fun

[@jonscot8393]

Bruno, you probably left the air brakes on again. Happened to me once, it kept me up half the night.

[@bored-old-man]

Thanks Bruno. How conscious are you of your right hand? How much of what you do is just instinct and muscle memory and how many times do you take over and intervene?

[@BrunoVassel]

Great question! 99% of the time I don’t know what my right hand is doing. The control forces are so light that is is super easy to over control the stick. From watching my own videos I’ve been shocked at how much unnecessary movement I make. If you look at recent videos vs 10 years ago I have made good progress in making less movement. Movement means drag which means worse performance. I still have more progress to make but I’m getting there. Thanks for watching!

[@daveblackford6097]

I saw something I don't understand. At 11:50 the vario started to show what I thought was a respectable climb, but the altimeter looked like it was going down. Kinda curious about it.

[@vasiliterkin9842]

+Успехов вам

[@andrewbroadfoot6195]

Based on the weights, performance of the wing and atmospheric conditions, etc, do you have a long range sink rate when you travel between areas of significant lift?

[@RaptorWRLD]

what happens if the wing breaks or something bad happens?

[@Tinker1950]

Now I understand why they call those things 'joysticks!'

[@peanuts2105]

And here in England - thick fog and drizzle. Kill me.

[@beozzie690]

Mate, what size O2 tank do you have and where is it?

[@julianmeckum8899]

Why are there always sooo good thermical conditions in the rocky´s? Here in Germany is mostly nothing. I´m a bit jealous😅

[@mikemellor8972]

With that height AGL and a quartering wind, weren't you on final glide anyway?

[@bc2578]

How do you stay warm up there?

[@m4inline]

Do gliders have ejector seats?

[@gliderfs621]

Do you fly waves sometimes ?

[@nathanfmaddock]

How long does it take to learn to fly these gliders?

[@therewegoagain9924]

Him :enjoying the sights Me: BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP BEEP *B O O O P* Also please tell me that sound is tho.

[@klh6729]

Man, you are fighting to keep that below 18K.

[@ronkramer3476]

Using O2 up there?

[@BrunoVassel]

Of course. I turn it on and leave it on at 10,000 ft.

[@eglide73]

Bruno, really? You don’t need the click bait titles.

[@Slarti]

Am I correct in my understanding that the clouds indicate where rising warm air hits cold air and condenses thereby showing a path of rising air through which to fly?

[@BrunoVassel]

Exactly! The clouds on a day like this are just a roadmap of the lift.

[@matejbludsky8410]

It doesn't defy gravity at all lol quite the opposite .. stall it and you'll find out right away 🤣

[@tomboooty]

Yeah, that’s cool you were up in the air. But what’s the point of this video? No commentary, no music, no takeoff, no landing. It’s like watching paint dry. I fast forwarded to the end hoping for… Some thing. Alas, nothing. The first minute was exactly like the last minute.

[@BrunoVassel]

Understood. This was a demonstration that paint will eventually dry... ;) Not every video has to be something crazy or scary. This is just one of many videos showing different parts of gliding. Please don't try to watch the entire 6+ hour flight once I upload it. That would drive you to either suicide or coming out to take me out for stealing all those hours of your life. Haha.

[@bkailua1224]

@@BrunoVassel Cloud streets are magic. Nothing like going for miles with no turns at high speed. Brian Neff

[@fortytwo8388]

@@BrunoVassel Suggestion: maybe you could do a separate video for viewers with no background in gliding where you give some background on when/why you fly slow/fast, where you turn to etc? I know you did this in other videos already. Anyways, for me I do enjoy these uncommented "raw" videos a lot. Thanks for sharing!

[@Fukenbumen]

Are u kidding me? This is what every glider pilot dreams of. Reminds me of some glorious days where I did the same im my fully laden glider.

[@pcordellyb]

@@BrunoVassel I’ll take the long version please!