Is Glider Landing / Crashing Short of Runway???

Modern gliders can do amazing things like flying many hundreds of miles in a flight, using wind current to actually climb faster than a powered plane, and land exactly where you want it to touch down. This little video shows ground effect in action and how a glider can float over the ground much further than it looks like it can at first. Sometimes gliders need to land in farm fields and we need to get in and stopped in as short of a landing roll possible. It is good to practice landing exactly where you want to on every landing so you don't crash when it counts in some farm field somewhere. This airport is in Nephi, Utah and the glider is an ASW27. I hope you enjoy this short video and look forward to sharing more soon. Bruno

[@davegriffiths]

Astounding bit of flying! Until I watched your videos I realise I didn’t know anything about gliding. As a UK PPL living in the flatter southern half of the UK, gliders are things we watch out for around gliding airstrips where they are normally winch launched to a few hundred feet and circle around the direct vicinity. I always appreciated that glider flying was ‘proper flying’ if only for the fact that you have no ‘go around’, but the distances and airborne times you achieve are phenomenal. Plus the scenery is quite unlike anything I see when airborne over pretty rolling green (damp) scenery local to me! But can I also thank you profusely for another service that you have provided unwittingly. I am recovering from cancer treatment and have, for the first time in my life, suffered from insomnia. Having stumbled on your channel I subscribed and I think I’ve now watched everything, while fully awake I might add(!). Your longer videos are so watchable and one night during a particularly troubling patch of insomnia I was re-watching one of these epics, as an absorbing distraction. Somehow I watched for a solid hour and all the tension which was stopping me sleep vanished and I drifted off. That sounds terribly rude but I’m truly grateful and will continue to plug into the magic of a four hour flight to help me through a difficult phase! 😄

[@Zebness990]

May you have a full recovery and live a long and fulfilling life. I wish you the best of health and all the happiness there is. Bless you.

[@MrProfessorNietzsche]

A litte clickbaity but nice to have more content from you❤️

[@cloudstreets1396]

Put a “50’ obstacle” in front of the threshold. Then see how you do. :)

[@rheinbit]

Finally - a film from you.... I have not been able to fly so much this summer (due to work and weather) - but there have been a few flights - including an outlanding on a military training area - very tight, very little space. I had only 200m and had to fly over obstacles (ASG29) .... because a field is already very short. Good brakes were also helpful. Hey - I'm happy about every video from you -great, Roger.

[@oskarr5201]

Awesome description! Very informative

[@LAZARUSL0NG]

Having come straight from a video about dedicated ground effect craft design, I knew this wasn’t even close. 🤣

[@billpennock8585]

Link please.

[@LAZARUSL0NG]

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[@ChrisVonToph]

Nicely done! Yet, to do the last turn just 321 ft above AGL means you have a quite short final - which is in my opinion not favourable in an outfield landing. I´d opt for a longer final with a steeper descent. But then again you have loads more experience in these things... so who am I to judge. ;-)

[@sjonjones4009]

Hell yeah! You borrowed some of that nice ground effect for the last stretch of that landing.

[@soarboulder]

Good thing for ground effect.

[@dinos8557]

Welcome back.

[@erikisberg3886]

Great to se a video from You again! Nice precision landing. I tend to practice both steep and very shallow approaches, both are useful in different situations. It is sometimes good to maintain airspeed through windshear etc. to preserve control authority. It can be a rather scary experience when the ailerons are just not enough... Most gliders I have flown loose airspeed rather quickly when pulling the spoilers/brakes. It is not possible to be both high and fast into a small field though...

[@johngalloway156]

No fence/trees/road/wires on the final approach so you can round out before reaching the runway adds to the shortness

[@Twobarpsi]

Miss your uploads...

[@toddprifogle7381]

Beautiful just Beautiful !

[@Johan-ex5yj]

Ground Effect is just Magic, isn’t it?! 😀👍

[@toddprifogle7381]

Im not a pilot but i just thought i had to say that was beautiful .

[@_marcus_does_]

Lovely to watch

[@darkcloud8098]

BRUNO IS BACK.👍👍

[@coldforgedcowboy]

Nice landing Bruno!

[@donbeard3018]

You executed that very well.

[@Jim610]

That sort of approach would see you back on 2 seat training here in the UK!

[@rnzoli]

Wow, touchdown right on the threshold markers! Nice :) Good that you don't have runway lights though :)

[@Scott.Silburn]

Nice to see you in the air again, Bruno! Would love to see more low flights around the mountains... You have no engine in that glider, do you? I'm always amazed how calm you appear to be when low and looking for lift around ridges...

[@2ndDayRiffs]

So can I ask? Do you just not eat or drink anything for a few hours before you fly?

[@davesgliding]

Nice short landing .... if you don't have fences/trees/raised roads to clear. Still, good landing short on pavement. Well done!

[@skipsmith9692]

Beautifully done….😎❤️😎

[@huntera123]

You make it look so easy!

[@redtoyotarav4]

love these videos

[@Twobarpsi]

How's soaring season going this year?

[@live2fly]

That's amazing

[@billpennock8585]

Hmm, landing on a precision point, good. Selecting that point as the very start of the runway, maybe ok for a very experienced pilot to practice piloting with minimum aero energy concern? I guess with the fact that a miss was into a flat empty field its ok.

[@DNModels]

Low low low :)

[@natelove187]

Close🍷

[@s.porter8646]

Like a dog, I like to scratch my planes belly

[@christopherleveck6835]

I meant to do that.....😉

[@acexprt]

how do you clear the runway fast after that? manually pull the glider off ?

[@christopherleveck6835]

That's a go around. We glider, er uh, sailplane pilots don't believe in them.... The unofficial motto for gli sailplane pilots really ought to be, "I can land anywhere once" (actually, more like "I can land anywhere. Once.").

[@teddynebel]

I wish. We’ve got trees at the end of our airfield

[@AstrAustralia]

Bruno believe it or not but you were missing

[@andycoppes]

Nice. You know, your videos are pretty inspiring showing green flight. I wish you had access to catapult or winch launch, so no tow plane is even needed. Big DC electric motor with a long cable will do it 👍

[@paulmanning8897]

Yes of course, then all you`d need is about 1 ton of batteries and a diesel generator to charge them. And a 10 ton truck to transport it all.

[@andycoppes]

@@paulmanning8897 ass

[@SkywaySoaring]

Always impressed with your landings; I'm trying to get to your level :)

[@Rahhhhhnman]

Well blowed if I know, seemed almost like a crash to me. No explanation in the video. Not sure what I just watched tbh.

[@TheSoaringChannel]

Am I first?! 😂😁🤷‍♂️

[@christopherleveck6835]

If you're not first, your last.

[@bruce2357]

@@christopherleveck6835 His last what?

[@TheSoaringChannel]

@@christopherleveck6835 😂

[@michaelmcfeely6588]

Wanted: videos of flights with snow on mountain peaks. News accounts tell us that whatever snow there is won't last long.

[@Joemama555]

heheheheheheeh :)

[@payettc]

‘Clickbaity’

[@stefanweidemann6944]

I like your videos, but that title is clickbait. Are you in need of that?

[@Slow370Z]

CLICK BAIT

[@spleefdowny]

Was that the “short field landing over 4” obstacle” procedure? ;)

[@jacekpiterow900]

Nice video Bruno. I have a comment if it is a OK. Usually when glider is getting low a field can be spotted, and then from the hight, let's say, 500ft (1k will be nice but hard to check details) need to swoop down and put it on shortest distance. Often trees, fences, bushes, or other obstacles surround it. Here we have long shallow approach. I not even see where the runway is.

[@ScottGinn]

You are better than baiting your audience with ‘crash’.

[@brucebaxter6923]

perfect, why waste runway behind you. love how long it can hang in ground effect, was it you that came up short over water and traded height for speed and rode the ground effect to shore?

[@gahazebrouck]

I think that one was Stefan Langer :-)

[@MarcoNierop]

Done the same thing on my home airfield on Sunday... actually, I try every landing to be a target landing! Great to see you back in the B4 Bruno!.

[@nicholaskennedy4310]

If you're going to hit something, try to make it soft and cheap.

[@Yealo]

Mans back!

[@alanmydland5210]

Looked good to me

[@toddprifogle7381]

Nice Landing

[@dinos8557]

I am hoping you keep us posted during the 18m Nationals. I am not from the USA and not a member of SSA therefore I can't log on to follow this contest. Please don't say 'join the SSA', membership to follow one contest is cost prohibitive.

[@BrunoVassel]

Thanks for commenting! I will be sharing the 18m nationals updates on the SSA facebook page. That should be open to the public.

[@DumbledoreMcCracken]

My DPE "made" me stop in 200 ft, iirc, I would have slipped down like a mo, but to each his own.

[@DumbledoreMcCracken]

But my density altitude was probably 500 ft.

[@NaBaseVooaVela]

Great video Bruno! #nabasevooavela

[@kristopherdetar4346]

Beautiful work. Hope the FAA didn’t bust your balls too bad with that air show deal. They are just ridiculous since the administration changes and I’m glad to not be flying anymore. They are not for anyone other than commercial operations and always out for the pleasure flyers.

[@leighrate]

Now you get the pleasure of doing lots of pushing 😭😭😭

[@zane812]

Congrats on 100k subs!!

[@Doug_Morgan]

I remember back when I was an active pilot my instructor had told me when I was learning to fly that if I could make the first taxiway exit at our local airport I had short landings mastered. It was only 300' from the threshold of 09. The following summer I was on approach for 09 with a 15 knot headwind a went for it. I touched down right at the edge with the horn blaring and I made the exit. The guy in the tower came on the air and told me he was impressed. It sure felt good to hear that from him and I only had 100 hours under my belt at the time.

[@hanginwithjames6727]

God you're an impressive pilot Bruno!! I need to make it a priority to try and set up a time to fly with you! I'm a local hang glider pilot and my dad used to fly gliders with three Utah Soaring Club out at Cedar Valley I think it was just before you joined the local game. But I'd love to get some real air with a sail plane soon, are you taking tandom flight appointments? I think you mentioned before that you usually do those later in the summer..

[@BrunoVassel]

Hey James. We can arrange a flight with one of the club instructors ASAP or you can wait till end of summer to go with me. Either way - go for a flight! You will love it.

[@hanginwithjames6727]

I can wait, I'd prefer to fly with you if possible. I can keep flying my hang glider in the mean time :)

[@Fukenbumen]

Nice digital altimeter :)