Last Minute Change of OUTLANDING Field | Gliding in Sweden

The weather changed quickly and without a sustainer it was not possible to come back to Boras airfield. My first outlanding experience in Sweden.
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[@Fukenbumen]

Everything under control but still the tension in your voice. Outlanding never becomes routine. Thanks for sharing and i really like the headcam so we can see what you see.

[@syrus3k]

Talking through stuff to yourself out loud can be really useful when doing stuff like this

[@tadeksmutek5840]

Congrats, Stefan - yes, it was quite tricky out-landing. Thank you for sharing.

[@aaronpahler5410]

What an amazing performed outlanding, even if you switched reeeally late 🙈 there you can see what an amazing Professional you are

[@SteFly]

Thank you! I had a look at the other field from the ground and it would also have worked out fine

[@aaronpahler5410]

@@SteFly sometimes you have so many options and just have to follow your inner feeling, about what could be the smoothest.

[@jgmendes3664]

I had a similar situation during a brazilian national, getting low in final leg, after somebody there up turned off the skies circuir breaker... !

[@drmartinyoung3761]

The LS4 I used to fly was written off by a young pilot who landed out, but clipped a tree on the threshold of the field. He was lucky to hit very soft and newly ploughed soil and to walk away from the accident. The glider was written off. I was reliving that situation watching your approach. He should have aimed at touching down deeper into the field … I was wondering whether you considered touching down nearer the middle of the field, rather than near the threshold as to seem to have done, where the trees become a threat?

[@roadboat9216]

Very well done! All the way. Nice to have cooperative land owners too! They probably thought it was pretty cool too.

[@jonash6070]

i was wondering how people stored/ transported gliders, i now know that information after watching the end. subbed.

[@droneviewssrilanka4409]

i was just browsing u tube videos lazily and suddenly tumbled upon your one...i have ever seen a beautiful thing like this...fele like now im addicted to see your videos...keep it up brother....

[@greensagan]

Those trees at the end there had me nervous lol

[@SteFly]

Yes, it was close... but I also didn't want to waste my landing distance

[@darlingtonmachona2010]

Congratulations Stefan for your win

[@DevinDTV]

I like seeing landings and tows back into the air. Honestly more interesting than the part where you're gliding.

[@omaninman9961]

good view

[@willobrien2872]

Great Skill Excellent Video Table top debrief would be a bonus Thank You Happy Landings

[@nestortafah3311]

Waow.... Amazing

[@gliderpilot8882]

Always enjoy your soaring videos Stefan. Come visit us in the USA (California / Nevada / Utah) sometime.

[@SteFly]

Thank you! I´m planning a trip to the LA area in September this year :)

[@Borgillios]

Congratulations to your victory and good luck in the following flights. Also this outlanding video is very interesting to see.

[@briand3837]

The landowners never raise a fuss about landing on their property? Just curious.

[@SteFly]

I never had a problem with the land owner but in worst case the insurance covers the costs

[@fralinuz8291]

They don’t really get angry, they just get worried, like they think there’s a plane that has crashed on their land.

[@blubb9004]

And he even helped load the plane if I see that correctly? What a nice person and really almost all of them are. We had also been offered help by them, manually and even with machines, if we'd needed them. Awesome people.

[@erikisberg3886]

Very nicely done! I am in northern Sweden and our gliding season has not even started here.... our grass strip is still mud. I used to compete in hot air ballooning, and the sight of lake Vättern and Visingsö looked very familiar. There are 2 competitions there each year at the town of Gränna. North tip of Visingsö has an airstrip btw and You can retrieve by the ferry to Gränna. South of that lake there is often a large blue sea breeze area without thermals. When ballooning You land out every flight. Farmers are usually very nice, no problem if You behave decently ands respect them. One rule I always followed is to never drive onto a field without permission.

[@majojose307]

Very nice

[@ImtiazAhmad-lt3kg]

Congratulations 👏👏

[@arvidlillieskold7852]

So cool to see you flying in Sweden. The iland is caled Visingsö.

[@guilhermeASan]

Keep up with the awesome content!! Congratulations for the Sweden SGP Trophy, you Rock! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@SteFly]

Thank you 🙏

[@basilbaby4274]

Nice brother

[@jaysonmendoza-lh3hy]

fly safe bro.

[@deadmanschest4322]

even if it was a bit uphill, the condition of this field (surface finish and vegetation) is a perfect one for a (out)landing. And to be honest, I've seen and "felt" worse regular landing strips.

[@DarthWindu06]

The surface and vegetation of that field may have been perfect, but the field itself wasn't. Not at all. The camera may have distorted the image a bit, but it was a really short field (too short for comfort I'd say). Also, having to fly your final over relatively high trees when landing in such a short field really isn't something you want to do 0.o

[@SteFly]

@@DarthWindu06 For the available fields in this area, I was quite happy.

[@DarthWindu06]

@@SteFly Fair enough😀👍

[@aswaniasokan9156]

Nice...

[@StudentGoose]

Thanks for sharing! Just a question: Why not land in the field diagonally, so instead of over the trees, you would fly your baseleg a bit longer, and then fly around the trees. If you look at 8:22, where the blue car is and the white house in the distance.The field would also be longer diagonally. Downside would be that the slope would then also be diagonally, instead of direct upslope like you had now. Anyway, thanks for sharing, outlanding videos are always very interesting

[@GothaRsk]

I was thinking the same, but by the wind noise it seems like it was windy. At 6:48 he mentions the wind is from front. So by landing diagonally he would have strong crosswind instead of headwind. And as a result, the landing distance could be longer and it wouldn't make much difference in the end. In addition, as you noted, with headwind he was also landing uphill which helped a lot.

[@qaywsxefb]

I would love to see that landing from the outside with that dive. Unfortunately chances are really really low. Well done.

[@YouriCarma]

Love this stuff!

[@Invest-Q]

that was very close from the trees !!

[@urbanlife2091]

Great

[@saqibahamd1290]

Nice

[@user-co3qg7dd4k]

Good

[@rogeriolopes6297]

Beautiful video!

[@PureGlide]

Niiiice. Great field

[@SteFly]

For an NZ field it would be large :D

[@lautoka63]

@@SteFly For a North Island field, yes. In the South Island, you need to take a packed lunch and thermos to get from one side of the field to the other.

[@PilotSpam]

"first flight with this glider, first outlanding this year with this glider, everything went perfect" Thanks a lot for sharing this video, I´ll have an other video for my students to show how not to do outlandings. Something gives you unlimited luck, please do not finish that all. Stay safe Maybe @PureGlide Tim has the time to give you and the community some hints on how this should be done to keep it more safe

[@SteFly]

This has nothing to do with luck, that's a lot of experience and skill. Take it as a good example how the angles of the fields change when you are lower and that you get a better perspective. The only thing that would have been better to do is not to fly cross country at all at these weather conditions. But I prefer to fly and practice an outlanding in the competition area before the competition starts. Commenting and reacting to such videos is easy...

[@PilotSpam]

@@SteFly Flying cross country on a glider without prior training on short field landing (on the airfield) is not common practice, neither good airmanship. I´m not going to blame in detail the mistakes, just saying you find good practice on how to outland in almost every gliding book or even the first results on google are quite good to see how it should be done. I really want to see your gliding videos for longer time, so plz, stay safe. cheers

[@randyirby7968]

In general, what is the attitude of farmers and land owners when you land on their property? Also, since you have flown in the USA, what is their attitude?

[@randomguyinanglider4090]

they are moastly pretty chill. I once had an outlanding and the farmer only proceeded to mow his field where i joust landed on he didnt even said one word to me XD

[@williamstoertz]

I've seen you in Colorado, Switzerland, New Zealand, Sweden. I like going on a world tour with you, just by sailplane! Here's a question: Do you think it is possible to soar all the way from the Sierra Nevada range in California to the Rockies in Colorado non-stop?

[@waqarahmad-fj4tn]

nice

[@colinplayz6476]

This looks so fun where can i get one of those

[@naseefaamindato4670]

I want to try mag sakay sakay this one😂

[@domp127]

Hey Stefan, great video! :) Was wondering why you left the flaps at 6 and not L. Any particular reason or just happened that way? Good luck in Sweden!

[@SteFly]

Thank you! I was not sure if I´m high enough to use the L flap and when you land uphill you want to have some more speed to make a proper interception arc. For some other landings the L setting might be better... but also on the airfield I usually use 6.

[@TheSoaringChannel]

Landing uphill you burn a lot of energy already. Granted, it would have helped get down and touch down earlier, but Stefan obviously judged this to perfection. The main concern with uphill landings is running out of energy as you round out and parallel the ground. Having full flaps you will have less buffer to get the flare correct. This is what having a big thick logbook is sailplanes can do for you - I hope (I'm sure like others) to one day have that sight picture and feeling made in my head like Stefan has. Nice landing buddy.

[@domp127]

Gotcha, makes sense. I really like the L in the 29 with it's low stall speed and good handling. I pretty much always use it for landing, even uphill until now. Will see, might rethink that ;)

[@williamstoertz]

The standard of "freedom", IMHO, is gliding: Now in Europe it is possible to fly freely, without obstruction, anywhere in Europe. But one cannot do that in many other parts of the world. Our world will finally be free once a glider pilot can soar anywhere he or she wants in their sailplane, limited only by the weather conditions, terrain, their own endurance, and of course their beautiful Machine.

[@joshd95]

Wow. That was cutting it close. Speed was 100kph? If so too slow. Height over trees on threshold seemed way too close for comfort. Looks like end of roll is quite close to buildings. OK field surface/slope and into wind but only just long enough! All too risky for me.

[@ChrisPinCornwall]

Ausgezeichnet!

[@manojshrestha7254]

👍👍

[@CalebNorthNorman]

👍

[@neerajkulkarni6506]

Did you transport your glider all the way to sweden or did you just rent one there?

[@gahazebrouck]

Super nice if you can share this sport with your brother :-) I am still in the learning phase and what I find most difficult in gliding (at my particular stage) is making decisions when getting low... One of my instructors told me the other day that "you always have to think several minutes ahead and plan your maneuvers carefully as every turns costs tens of meters". But when you get low, and the trees become larger and larger, it is sometimes hard to avoid the anxiety and doing stupid things. I guess that comes with the experience :-) I saw in some of your videos you were only at 500m or so while very far from the closest airfield... How do you handle the adrenaline? Do you also become a bit anxious then, even having a lot of experience?

[@ksp-crafter5907]

👍👍👍

[@dandaly7305]

I see Max is flying D2CT - how is the relative performance at low and high speed?

[@SteFly]

I think with the wingloading limit of 48 kg/sqm it is not a huge difference. The D2C has a bigger wingarea, so he can fly heavier..

[@waynewang7851]

Just curious, do you need permission to land on private property?

[@NevContractor1]

Jeeze, you are so in control to be able to give an explanation in another language!

[@mikipilotgoodmusic6165]

Hi I miki and I got lenses for gliding k21

[@orhei9253]

I‘m new to gliding and I love your videos! But can I ask why most planes don‘t have a small electric motor in it just in case you can‘t get home with thermals? Is the plane much more expensive or is it simply about the challenge? Wouldn‘t it also be safer especially with these kind of outlanding options?

[@realpokski]

Most modern cross country gliders sold now actually have some form of engine, either gasoline, jet or electric. Stefan is one of the few flying this contest which doesn't have an engine (as he mentions earlier in the video, most of the other guys used their engine to get home).

[@SteFly]

The price for this little engine is 30 - 40k € and for competitions it´s great to have more ballast range. Of course I can imagine to have an electric propulsion in the future ;)

[@Fukenbumen]

In general it's more convenient to have a sustainer engine but it does come with its own challenges. For one thing you'll always assume that it won't work and prepare for ouitlanding. Then when it does work, you fly home safely. Many accidents have happened with pilots lacking this kind of discipline.

[@TheSoaringChannel]

@@Fukenbumen Yes, as evidenced by one of my recent videos - you should always be surprised it starts AND be satisfied when you are the one that turns it off. haha!

[@grove.thomas]

You couldn't reach Herrljunga Gliding Club?

[@SteFly]

At one point I had 200m plus at MC 0... and I tried to find some thermals.

[@grove.thomas]

@@SteFly at least you know it’s there ;) I flew Nordic Junior Championships from Falköping in 2014. It’s now an easy area to outland in!

[@rheinbit]

Perfect. Looks OK. And now one Pizza 🍕

[@droneviewssrilanka4409]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@ioannisp.5956]

the f** beeping sounds would drive me crazy Otherwise good video

[@romeromf]

Good work Stefan!.. do you have a link to the gopro canopy mount?.. thanks!.

[@christophostrowski3382]

Haach...schee - mal zu sehn, wie man sich rettet

[@r.p.3192]

Na, weiche Knie, gell 😉👍

[@SteFly]

Ist schon immer etwas spannend :D

[@r.p.3192]

@@SteFly 😆🤙

[@pilotzephy3115]

What's your glider model ?

[@maximilianzorn734]

Asg 29

[@adamlhotak8180]

No it's Cessna 152

[@SteFly]

ASG29

[@justanaturalcarguy4031]

@@adamlhotak8180 Cessna 152 is a propeller plane, this is a Glider, which is an ASG 29

[@adamlhotak8180]

@@justanaturalcarguy4031 duh🙈🙄

[@josephinebennington7247]

No locals spotted you, showed internet, curiosity, grumbling about their privacy?

[@MDSBock]

How embarrassing outlanding, should have turned around when the conditions deteriorated, task finish determination can get you in trouble. Why didn't they send a tow plane instead for retrieval ???

[@ibmicroapple9142]

1. Because you can't just land and take off from any field you like in europe 2. Because it's expensive af 3. Because it's dangerous to do towed takeoffs or just any takeoff from agricultural fields

[@johngalloway156]

The possibility of outlandings is a normal part of gliding and a good one is not embarrassing at all.

[@inverted01]

"How embarrassing outlanding" WTF are you talking about?! And at what level do you compete in gliders may I ask?

[@MDSBock]

@@inverted01 Knew I'd ruffle some feathers... 400 tows, 2000 hours, he was streeting a kid can fly those conditions, was warned of deteriorating conditions, task fixation competition, should have turned around, could have wrapped someone's glider around a tree.

[@inverted01]

​@@MDSBock 5h average flight time....right. Anyway, you don’t have the complete picture to make those conclusions. I know the task-area, and the out landing fields are plenty along the route. There is absolutely no risk pushing the envelope and plan for an out landing as long as you stop in time and prepare, like he did. That's how you practice and prepare for collecting scoringpoints in competitions. Mr. Langer is ranking 33, flying in the FAI World Series, who the hell are you referring to anyone with; "he was streeting a kid can fly those conditions". I don’t see your name one the list….. You just sound like a wannabe “besserwisser” looking for attention.