How to Increase your Average Speed at Cross-Country Flight

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@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

My 3 most important tips: 1. Only use the upper 1/3 of the hight between ground and cloudbase to find good energy lines and good climb rates. But also don´t thermal too often. Use this hight band to make long glides. 2. Only pull up completely if you know there is a very good lift and if it will stay for some time. Flying like a dolphin up and down will increase your flight path and high Gs can destroy energy. 3. Always have a look at the clouds and try to connect them with a maximum deviation of 30 degrees. Even small CUs can generate good lifts and more options are better. Bigger deviation below a CU in rising air is fine.

@PureGlide 6 ай бұрын

4) Buy AS33?! :P

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

@@PureGlide Of course this is a great option but the pilot factor can make more difference than the performance difference between LS3 and AS33 🤣

@ThermalWave 6 ай бұрын

How far do you pull out when it is actually good? All the way down to best glide (like 90kph?) or stay somewhat higher until actually pulling into a circle for climbing? Do you sometimes fly S-turns in lift when you're sampling if it's good enough to circle in?

@hangfly1 6 ай бұрын

More straight forward flying videos with limited visual effects like this please! Very much enjoy watching you soar over Europe, the US, and elsewhere. Prost!

@BartoszWisniewski-nl1gc 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Stefan. Great lesson!

@michaelderflinger5002 6 ай бұрын

The title is a little bit clickbaity, but okay with the comment. The video itself is once again beautiful, thanks.

@Tom-or2bm 6 ай бұрын

Du hast es echt raus, deinen Flieger bis "vor die Haustür" zu rollern :-)) (Landung). Ich dachte mir nur: jetzt kein Schlagloch ... Toller Flug !

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

Jaa... muss man immer aufpassen und darf sich nicht nur auf die Bremse verlassen ;) Vielen Dank!

@Juhujalp 6 ай бұрын

Da gibt es ein schönes Video von jemanden, der mit einer "homöopathisch wirkenden Bremse" in der Hecke gelandet ist. Kennst du sicherlich. @@SteFly

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

@@Juhujalp Ist mir bekannt 😂

@KestrelYI 6 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing : ) Right up to the trailer.

@AndrewGlobus 6 ай бұрын

Vielen Dank für den Meisterkurs Stefan.

@peteronel4051 6 ай бұрын

On your left you have two levers a blue one and a black one you operate the black lever often what do you adjust other wis to good to be true. I am from the Western Cape South Africa

@aleksanderswiech9352 6 ай бұрын

Wonderfull!! I need back to sailing.

@romainhornung2732 6 ай бұрын

Wunderschöner Flugplatz !

@oshadilakshini2878 6 ай бұрын

GREAT EXPLANATION 👌MAKE MORE VIDEOS FOR LEARNING TO US EVERYDAY👍FLY MORE 🛩️BE SAFE❤EVERYDAY WE'RE WAITING FOR YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEOS🥰

@karoksta 5 ай бұрын

I like to buy self starting glider for traveling every week from Netherlands to Poland and back so which is the best for me ?😅

@caique83 6 ай бұрын

landed with tail wind?

@bassamali4250 6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure how the speed for your glider translates into MacCready number? does 150km/hr around MacCready 3-4?

@holzi3787 6 ай бұрын

Do you fly forward with MCgrady or only constantly with one speed?

@phmwu7368 3 ай бұрын

Know Polar curve of Your glider... Best glide & Minimum sink speeds are most important !

@ThermalWave 6 ай бұрын

Do you think the WeGlide coach is correct in its recommended glide speeds? It pretty much always tells me I fly too slowly and/or that I'm carrying too much water, even if I feel like I'm flying relatively aggressively (roughly following speed command with MC set to something a bit below the average climbs I'm getting, usually between 0.8 and 1.5 m/s).

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

WeGlide coach works ok but also says I should do something differently even if it’s a perfect flight for me. You can share a flight here and I will have a look at it. So you get the SteFly coach comparison :D

@derrickmooney8566 Күн бұрын

Shit we do have it good in Australia I was averaging 6mps max 10mps on climb between 3000ft 1km to 5000ft 1750mt guessing scratched like a chook in a garden bed off launch cable launched first thermal lost 600ft multiple cores got good connection to the main thermal at 2500ft climbed out to CB at 4500ft restricted on CX ATM just getting back into it again apparently my original licence doesn't allow me to go to far anymore Just more than happy to be back up their check us out Bundaberg soaring Queensland Australia small club good crew happy for visitors 😊

@lowik1973 6 ай бұрын

Interesting competition format with handicap translated to distance with variable turn point sector radius. Do you know of any tool to calculate such, e.g. for use in club day races for fun.

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

I have not seen a tool but I think our club made an Excel sheet to calculate this.

@AndrewBashtovoy 6 ай бұрын

Das Erspüren von Wolken und Energielinien kommt wahrscheinlich mit Studium und viel Übung.

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

Korrekt. Viel Übung, gutes Vario und ausprobieren. Eigene Erfahrung ist nur schwer zu ersetzen.

@santiziano2118 6 ай бұрын

@@SteFly Trotzdem irgendwelche Tipps, wo man unter Wolkenstraßen am besten fliegt? Will demnächst beim LIMA mitmachen :D

@rolfroscher3761 3 ай бұрын

HI stefan, wie findet man herrau, was die beste Geschwindigkeit zwischen den Wolken/B.z.w. beim vorflug. beispiel Discus cs oder ls4?

@SteFly 3 ай бұрын

@@rolfroscher3761 Man kann nur das nächste Steigen abschätzen und die effizienteste Vorfluggeschwindigkeit ergibt sich dann aus dem MC Wert für das entsprechende Flugzeug

@Tw3e 3 ай бұрын

laso lese ich einfach die mc geschwindigkeit ab die für das erwartete steigen angegeben ist?

@phmwu7368 3 ай бұрын

MacCready ring... in Sink ...🤔

@wargor 6 ай бұрын

Tailwind landing?

@tangocera 6 ай бұрын

Thx for the advice im still trying to get my average speed above 100kph and I will try this on the next good day.

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

Increase your glides with good lines and pick good lifts. Of course it´s a lot of practice but it's so much fun when you feel the flow.

@michaelderflinger5002 6 ай бұрын

100kph is alread, very good, i think. i am trying to get above 75 :D

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

@@michaelderflinger5002That’s true. 100 kph is already very good depending on the glider and weather conditions.

@msierra3827 6 ай бұрын

Hammer! Vielen Dank!

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

Gerne!

@nob0dy27_ 6 ай бұрын

warum hast du die ganze zeit die uhr aufm handy an? 🤔

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

Standardeinstellung 😂

@beeishinggamer4381 6 ай бұрын

Please give me answer brother 🙏 from where we can buy glider plane?

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

Go to a club and make you license first.

@CasTheMan_ 6 ай бұрын

Is it cold in the plane?

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

Depends on the altitude, weather and how shaded it is. In spring you need warm clothing but these days it´s fine with a long shirt.

@CasTheMan_ 6 ай бұрын

@@SteFly thanks, in a month I’m going to start gliding.

@name_missing2147 6 ай бұрын

Läuft die Stauscheibe über eine normale Düsenkompensation oder gibt's da nen Trick bei, dass man so eine saubere Anzeige bekommt? Finde die Anzeige in der LS3 auf den Videos super anzusehen, vorallem wenn man selbst Vereinsflugzeuge gewöhnt ist bei denen der Höhenruderausschlag gefühlt 1 zu 1 auf der Stauscheibe abgebildet wird.

@SteFly 6 ай бұрын

Das ist eine normale Winter Stauscheibe mit einer Ilec TEK Düse. Da kommt es am Ende nur auf die Düse drauf an und ich versuche stärkeres Ziehen zu vermeiden. Immer nur die Nase leicht nach oben nehmen wenn das Steigen kommt. Zu große G-Kräfte verträgt auch das Larus nicht.