Gliding the New Zealand Coast: Adventure Soaring

[@SteFly]

What a dream!

[@PureGlide]

Thanks Stefan. Great we can get any flying in over winter. Won’t be long until thermals are back... I enjoyed your vids on the electric competition and your vintage gliders! Keep it up 👍

[@antonioiozzi9171]

The old jellow/red Pawnee was in my club in Switzerland for long time. Many flight behind him ! 💓

[@colinkellynz]

Great scenery, great adventure, thanks for taking us with you.

[@PureGlide]

Cheers Colin! Soon that'll be you :)

[@robwad1]

Thanks Tim, Really enjoy your vids. Its really useful for me to have your descriptions and lovely task maps as I have spent many happy hours recreating your flights on my Condor Simulator. :-) Happy Landings Mate

[@PureGlide]

Great to hear!

[@pauldonnelly7949]

Nice to see home sweet home from over here in the UK. Spent many an hour gliding over those hills out of the Thames Aero Club in their old Blanik, it's dead now. Nice day for it!

[@PureGlide]

Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I think it's still at the back of a hangar there...

[@pauldonnelly7949]

A question, do you need an enhanced licence to fly with a motor, or still covered under your standard glider licence?

[@bryankincaid1912]

awesome , thanks gents , learnt to glide in a T31 in the late 60's

[@PureGlide]

Very cool!

[@johnlynch6589]

Wonderful. Thank you. Lovely to see Gods own country again. Miss it so much.

[@PureGlide]

Thanks John. Glad you enjoyed it

[@blubb9004]

Your country is really amazingly beautiful. Once we find a way of flying eco-friendly, I have to get over there and rent a glider from your club!

[@PureGlide]

Thank you!

[@williamstoertz]

You make me fall in love with New Zealand. My mom visited your country in 1965 on her way to the South Pole. Now I'm to the north of you by about 10,118 kilometers near Seoul. Quite different! I'll have to pay a visit, and hopefully go ridge soaring!

[@PureGlide]

Awesome hopefully you make it here sometime soon!

[@terrycollins5429]

Nice one!

[@PureGlide]

Thanks Terry

[@no-engine-no-cry]

Great flight. The scenery is simply amazing!

[@PureGlide]

Thanks! Yeah not bad eh!

[@iamnoone9498]

I’ve done that part of the world in a boat thanks to an expat mate. It was great to see it by air and to watch the other gliders. Thanks for posting. Cheers, Pete.

[@BigRedNZ1]

I’d love to experience this sport. But between my wife’s concerns and the fact I’m 6’7 & >110kg, your videos will do nicely.

[@PureGlide]

Yes that gets tricky, I'm 6'4" and barely fit in many gliders. You can probably go for a ride in some twins in the back seat to see what it's like at least...

[@ToddHahn]

Nice flight, thanks for sharing.

[@PureGlide]

Thanks for watching!

[@SoaringMidlo]

That is some nifty soaring you all do in NZ. Congrats on pushing into new territory. That coastline is beautiful and to have the ridge system running up to the point - lucky dogs!

[@PureGlide]

It really is an amazing to fly in! Hopefully you can visit sometime. Thanks so much

[@robertsmitsnz]

Enjoying your videos immensely Tim! Well done! :-)

[@PureGlide]

Thanks mate! Glad you like them. Been flying recently? haven't seen much on the 'ol facebooks

[@henrih3080]

Now the flying season kick offs in New Zealand in 5 Weeks is the start of the summer down there !

[@henrih3080]

And in Germany is the start of the Winter !

[@PureGlide]

Yes! I’m at our second comp of the season. More vids coming soon!

[@stephaniekent8483]

absolutely amazing flight, I managed firth of thames a few ks up the coromandel but turned around, I was in a single Astir, not much data those days ie computers etc 1983 and in a club ship didn't want to cause a retrieve, but got back to matamata ok and was pleased with my flight thanks for the ride! love the beat up of the camp site lol :)

[@PureGlide]

Thanks Stephanie!

[@brushitoff503]

Awesome Loved it!!!

[@PureGlide]

Thanks 🙏

[@petertaylor49]

Epic, great ridge soaring you have up there. Nice edit.

[@PureGlide]

Thank you Peter!

[@chrisbehm5947]

Awesome video, thank you!

[@PureGlide]

Thank you!

[@davidscott430]

Absolute EPIC flight! OH PLEASE post the unedited long version, OH PLEASE!!! While the edits keep it to the point you don't get as much of the sense of going somewhere. It would be real nice to see how you worked your way to the tip of the peninsula and back.

[@PureGlide]

Hey thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately I just can't leave the camera running the whole flight, it uses too much data and battery on the camera, so just focus on the key decision points. Also in this case it wouldn't be very interesting, as I didn't loose much height, i was simply flying in a straight line at around 2000 feet! Couldn't have been easier :) If it helps I have the flight traces listed in the description so you can see exactly where I went for the whole flight. The SeeYou cloud version you can play through.

[@davidscott430]

@@PureGlide Too bad, I really like watching all the minor details that make up a full flight. Between yours and Stefan's videos I am getting very familiar with that part of NZ.

[@flyeatsleeprepeat]

enjoyed it so much! those shots with Sony came out so smooth! and an amazing landscape just adds to the experience. Thanks for posting!

[@PureGlide]

Thanks! I won't show you the raw footage then :) A lot of it is post-stabilised. Actually I can show you some raw footage! here are some first attempts kzbin.info/www/bejne/joPKemt3rJKbitE

[@flyeatsleeprepeat]

@@PureGlide not bad at all! :) it seems that in-camera stabilization is very decent... and with some PP it gets buttery smooth :) I use Sony RX100 mk2 (besides Nikon Z6), but plan to upgrade for the next season... might be ZV-1 or one of the latest RX100... Sony makes some great compact cams, very convenient to be used in the cockpit...

[@PureGlide]

@@flyeatsleeprepeat Yeah the ZV-1 is great, the only downside is it is not very wide angle. Equivalent of 24mm-70mm, and then it crops in when 'active' stabilisation is on. Although you can turn it off in camera and use Catalyst Browse to stabilise later. I haven't yet tried that, but should. It records Gyro data for that purpose. I have a GoPro 8 for wide angle anyway, so thought the two would be a good combo.

[@PureGlide]

@@flyeatsleeprepeat A couple of those shots were post stabilised, you can tell because they 'blur' the glider sometimes. That's the slower shutter rate bluring the picture, then the stabilisation on top. It looks a bit like a car stereo bass blurring the image. So I learned you have to shoot with a high shutter rate if post stabilising.

[@richardleschen4191]

Great video Tim, I was not aware that one had such good hill soaring slopes so far up the Coromandel coast line. Sure beats anything we have in kangaroo land or as Kiwis say “across the ditch.” Me can’t wait to live in New Zealand. I hate Aussie’s stinking overlasting long hot summers getting hotter every year. Or as the pop-song goes..... .”Rhonda Rhonda help me ! Cheers, Richard L or Vimana Man.

[@PureGlide]

Thanks Richard! Yeah pretty good eh, although Australia has its perks too, I've flown in Kingaroy and Benalla now, although it's flat in parts, its' not THAT flat everywhere and was a lot more interesting flying than I thought it would be :)

[@Flying2ZC]

That ridge is sick Ive just tracked your route on STGlider. Weren't kiddin about lack of land out options. Having an iron thermal helps :-)

[@PureGlide]

Thanks! In reality we were in glide of a lot of airstrips the whole time. And once we're on the main ridges we knew they were working well, so was never in danger of not having somewhere to landout. The engine isn't that reliable, it's best to think of it as a 'save a road retrieve' instead of 'save from not having somewhere to land'. There should always be somewhere to land!

[@doc-nobody-glider]

That´s great! I would like to glide there!

[@PureGlide]

Hopefully you can one day!

[@clelanddg]

I did an out and return in a K13 from Matamata to the Coromandel In January 1991, great trip 3:11 hours

[@PureGlide]

Awesome, not bad in a K13 at all! Ridge, thermals or convergence? I'm keen to do some more up there in thermals/convergence over the coming summer...

[@clelanddg]

@@PureGlide All ridge when we got to Thames that was a bit interesting with the jump needed. I had a more senior pilot with me. The K13 was from Auckland GC, Foxtrot Yankee.

[@clelanddg]

I was with Nigel McPhee. Hello Nigel

[@thisnightcreeps]

Made it look easy!

[@PureGlide]

It's easy to go downwind! Getting back wasn't as bad as we thought in the end. Although I only tried it because I had the engine if I couldn't get high enough to get back!

[@thisnightcreeps]

Approaching those hills from downwind definitely had some good narrative tension 😎

[@PureGlide]

@@thisnightcreeps Haha good to hear :) one day I'll write a script

[@joelindrebo871]

Your videos are great! I have a question though, how many extra batteries for your GoPro do you bring with you on an average flight

[@PureGlide]

Hi yes 1 battery does not last, although it nearly does, as I turn the camera on/off, I don't leave it running the whole flight. So I have a USB power brick and charge it from that, but it only does so when not recording.

[@joelindrebo871]

@@PureGlide thank you!

[@GregorHarih]

Great content and your videos look amazing. What camera gear do you use?

[@PureGlide]

Thank you! That’s a GoPro Hero 8 for the over shoulder, and a ZV-1 handheld for the closeup shots

[@GregorHarih]

@@PureGlide Thanks for the info. Do you feel it would be nice to have an extra zoom for the ZV-1?

[@PureGlide]

@@GregorHarih Yes although it becomes harder to keep it stable!

[@pakhomov1306]

Mutual subscription))

[@PureGlide]

Thanks!

[@mikederksen6232]

Nice video! What kind of wing tips are on your Ventus cT? Have not seen those before.

[@PureGlide]

They are special 18m wing extensions! I'll do a video on them sometime soon.

[@Omar-iy3il]

How much approx is a self launching glider and because it has engines is there benefits/limitations agianst the gliders that don’t have engines thanks

[@PureGlide]

You're in luck, I made a couple of videos about engines that mentions how much they cost. kzbin.info/www/bejne/il6uiqJ8fK-ja9E kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIO3nHuebNNoa7s