Ozone Enzo 3 (S) collapsing in a strong thermal Or ( Dust Devil) close to the ground.

From far away i seen the thermal activity. was not sure it was that strong.
But all ended up good and on my feet landing.

[@P4n0r4mA]

Dustdevil flying xD The worst of flying adventures. You can see the rotations in the grass from the violent air movement. You handled that one like a boss! I would have to change pants after that. Well done!

[@coik11]

Nice reflexes! Well done!

[@davidcassar25]

Thank you.

[@elietsd]

Isn't it a kind of dust devil? From 1:00 you can see the "thermal" moving weirdly in the field, seems pretty strong for a thermal.

[@jindrichjochec296]

Dust devil is a rotating thermal close to the ground as far as I know.

[@elietsd]

​@@jindrichjochec296 they are not always visible, so the rotation is not necessarily visible. I watched the video again, no doubt, it seems to be a dust devil.

[@gillgwad2485]

C'est bien rattrapé ! Mais à cette vitesse dans les rouleaux c'est risqué 😏

[@JMT3406]

Looks like when you approach the hill there are turbulences...

[@GriffinJohnston]

Well handled! Where is this, by the way? Looks like a beautiful place to fly.

[@davidcassar25]

Thank you! its spain, i took from Algondales.

[@cabanford]

Bruce Lee!

[@davidcassar25]

😂

[@herbertfritz5796]

you are flying in lee ?

[@davidcassar25]

Not really .it was a string thermal trigger or as you can see on my left as we said before it was a dust devil as you can see the grass going around

[@user-kl3eo4vw3z]

Can i ask what measures other than wrapping brakes you took to not bomb in harder? I don't understand how it doesn't dive harder after having no speed. Did you just pump it down the las few meters?

[@davidcassar25]

Hello. If you notice I was picked up first and then a collapse. I say in english the glider was snatched from my hands. I always go with it and then I catch what I need. I gave a good hard tab on my left to get the glider a bit more straight. Very quick or else it will stall or spin. Then when the glider was on top of me. I pumped the glider and landed. It’s very hard to say what I did in full. Because I go with the feel of the glider. You have to remember that this was not a siv training that you know what is going to happen. I could landed before. And this wouldn’t happen. But I have a hard head. 56 this year and still think im in my 30’s😅

[@Itsallgoodtogo]

You can definetley see the rotating wind in the grass field at 1:00. So a nice little dust devil :) If you would be a bit higher you'd probably get catapulted right to base :D

[@davidcassar25]

Exactly ! If I was higher I might got it. As you see I went with it until it snatched my wing.

[@kiteandpizza]

Glad you made it. Looks like you catched the lee side.

[@davidcassar25]

No it wasn’t the Lee side. First I was thinking it was a thermal trigger. From far away. But when I was close the grass was all over the place that looks more like a dust devil or could been a strong thermal. The wing pulled me up. If it was a rotor the glider would gone only down on a collapse

[@markmcgoveran6811]

When you get close to the ground, in an area like that the wind is rolling along it's a great big round twisting thing. It works like a rotor but the wing span of the glider is small and the radius of the rotation is very large. Good flying though.

[@davidcassar25]

@@markmcgoveran6811 look at the video on your left and zoom in You see it’s not a rotor . I know what is a rotor don’t worry. I fly at gusty sites.

[@markmcgoveran6811]

@@davidcassar25 it's a rotation in an elastic fluid . If you look at the high pressure or low pressure on a weather map on the scale of the whole country giant rotations around the high and low pressure. The radius of these is miles and miles and on the bottom end of it in this giant mass you have rotations of a 2 inch radius and smaller. If the axis is perfectly vertical or real close we call it a dust devil and if it's perfectly horizontal or real close we call it a rotor. It's all complex fractal math. When the wind shifts in the mountains and you get this terrible sinking condition it's because there's a curl in the flow. These things are stochastic and unpredictable. It's kind of like a big low energy rotation, with the axis tipped. It came on you on the lift side. You shot up fast and the curl caught you. This whole thing is turning slowly, and you have two Wing tip rotors affecting the whole thing. Is this for occurring on an airplane runway because of a jet it would be called dirty air.

[@markmcgoveran6811]

@@davidcassar25 yeah and those Gusty sites you were saying have rotational flow.

[@wildniscamper7276]

voll im lee oder?

[@user-kp5pf3ic4q]

You should be able to handle strong thermals if you fly an Enzo and you should be able to read the landscape and it´s luv and lee situations but the most you should be able to be honest to yourself... pilot error... .. .

[@davidcassar25]

its always a pilot error and i said i was stupid to go into that dust devil . it was not a thermal! i seen it from far, but i said by the time i will arrive it will go. but it did not, It was a bad quick Judgment.