10 Hours Endurance Racing | My First 1000 KM FAI Triangle Glider Flight

[@adarshfaridkhan3361]

hats off to the camera guy, filming and playing flute at the same time

[@vikrantrasaily4595]

Wtf😂😂😂

[@Mrgocool_1155]

😂😂😂

[@chezuz1981]

Ahaha :-D

[@chezuz1981]

Dude now i cant stop giggling everytime i hear "the flute"

[@StaK_1980]

Sometimes he gets depressed and loses the will, that is when you hear the tone go down an octave :-)

[@salnichols94805]

Your dad was flying your tow...how cool is that?

[@fabiandario6521]

Very cool indeed!

[@125Addicted]

How scared was his mom tho? Lol

[@User46038]

@@125Addicted my mom is literally erverytime scared when i fly lmao

[@eplazai]

Read as Craig Federighi

[@hubert1142]

@@User46038 when I go paragliding, my mom always says "break a leg" or "break a neck", which has the meaning of "good luck "in my language lmao

[@JetJockey87]

As a paraglider pilot, it's always amazing to watch other glider pilots do their thing.

[@Scramblejams]

Please post the whole thing! I love putting videos like this on for the ambience, the longer-running the better.

[@caiowen7104]

stefan, love the content. I think it would be a really good addition to have a hand held camera with you to look out of the window and get some nice shots of some of the towns that you fly over and other notable scenery

[@SteFly]

Watch the Video till the end ;) Unfortunately it is not possible at a record flights like this because flying the glider is already so demanding. There will be other videos with more hand held footage soon. Stay tuned and thanks for your input.

[@gillesbkf4315]

Stefan Langer Maybe have more cams so you can edit the best of the panorama :) Incredible to see that it is possible to stay that long up in the air !

[@gillesbkf4315]

Like in the end :)

[@pixelbogpixxelbog2090]

Wow als dein dad dir schönen flug gewünscht hat, hats mich sehr glücklich gemacht :)

[@nicholaslutsch5036]

Congratulations Stefan! This is a tremendous achievement worth celebrating!

[@SteFly]

Thanks Nicholas!

[@CapFreddy]

excelent video. I am just getting my glider licence. Did my 11th flight this saturday, and it´s amazing. I got from Private to Multi/IFr/Comercial. Got to be a B-727 F.O., had an LSA for three years and I can say that gliding is the most amazing type of flight i´ve experienced. Towed take off is amazing, towed flight is amazing, gliding is amazing and landing is amazing...

[@nickr5658]

You still fly commercial? Gliders are cool. In the USA soaring is declining in popularity. You really need a self launcher if you want to fly a lot here

[@АлхасАргун-о9з]

Поздравляю с первым маршрутом в 1000 км!!! Желаю успешного покорения дальнейших рубежей!!! Прекрасный полет. Благодарю за ролик. Всех благ и дальнейших успехов!!!

[@aidanguerin5192]

haha “thank you bird” lol 😂

[@kirstenlingg6015]

Du bist deutscher oder ?

[@insani4047]

@Chandra 7.6 indo nyasar

[@jejekk5880]

@@insani4047 lah elu sendiri yg gk jelas

[@insani4047]

@@jejekk5880 siapa bilang gk jelas?

[@insani4047]

@@jejekk5880 w cuma bilang ada indo nyasar lagian itu bercanda ae

[@JonathanNummert]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu den gelungenen 1000 Km. Das muss ein super Gefühl sein. Mach weiter so. Man kann so viel von dir lernen

[@simeonfritz6408]

Ich habe direkt am Anfang durch deinen Akzent gemerkt dass du ein deutscher sein musst 😂

[@CalebNorthNorman]

Wow your dad flying the tow plane! 😲 . The pointers and pop up maps you put a lot of development in this video. It was pro. You best video yet! The music in the last two minutes combined well with the footage. And finally, the landscape is simply beautiful to look upon. 👍

[@SteFly]

Thank you so much! 😃

[@jiahao1692]

Could you share name of the music in the last two minutes if you know it? Thank you!

[@BarryMcGowan]

I fly hand gliders, so for me, what you´re doing here just seems incredible. Great flying, great flight, and well documented! Very exciting...

[@justme.9711]

`Barry, go for a flight experience flight. I did r/c planes too, but stuff the toy stuff. Anyone can do this and with current apps etc, it's a whole new world with just an ipad.

[@dorianfeisel2945]

Amazing flight and great video. Love the timelapse parts where you can see the clouds build up in front of you. Also the animations were very nice :)

[@SteFly]

Thank you!

[@samuel_tse]

That's like the best way to spend 10 hours, using free energy to fly !

[@nocare]

Solar powered airplanes are like this one are very relaxing.

[@Aaron-zn8mg]

@@nocare its not solar powered

[@nocare]

@@Aaron-zn8mg Sun heats the air, rising air lifts the glider. Thats solar power lol. It's not solar photovoltaic powered.

[@Aaron-zn8mg]

@@nocare yeah that is a thermal. Doesn't mean the plane is solar powered

[@nocare]

@@Aaron-zn8mg The energy used for flight is directly from the sun. It's not converted to chemical, potential or electrical storage to be used to power flight at a displaced location and time. The energy is directly captured at the time of flight. To specify an energy source conveys information. That's the only purpose of communication after all. Gliders are directly powered by the sun. As opposed to indirectly powered by the sun (fossil fuels).

[@eeeyakini]

10h... I want to go 3 times to toilet...

[@benwilliams677]

That's what empty drink bottles are for.

[@EkoEllutionist]

They use diaper

[@EkoEllutionist]

They use diapers

[@bbulanNoob]

Pampers?

[@dranoelr]

@@EkoEllutionist At least men don't. Either plastic bags for the freezer and then dump them, bags filled with absorbent diaper material, or some even have a small funnel and a hose going out of the plane

[@Lettuce-k6j]

never new these things existed but wow this is amazing and honestly takes alot of balls to be in one

[@davidalhoff7190]

Thanks Stefan for sharing these big imperssions with us! Nice flight, nice edit, cool music and helpful comments to also take the paragliding pilots for a ride. Great job. In case your vario missed logging the flight don't worry you fly for the impressions, the scenery, the highs, the lows, discovering and understanding the nature and so much more than OLC points. Took me a while understand that but now even a glide down is cool again:)

[@SteFly]

Hi David, thank you very much! Yes, you are right. The impressions and experience are the most important aspect of a glider flight. The category of the PowerFlarm was not high enough for record flights and I also made a mistake with the finish line.

[@davidalhoff7190]

@@SteFly Anyway you cleared 3TP, had had quite a low save in the blue, amazing views high under the clouds. Nice flight. For the olc how about a backup like an xc-track on the phone would that be valid for sailpanes? Alternative a small solar powered xc-tracer. Or does it need to be connected to the planes instuments to read if possible engines are switched on?

[@undiaencasa]

1022 Km FAI, muy buen vuelo, para recordar para siempre, nosotros en Parapente no podemos llegar tan lejos, pero se lo que se siente estar ahí volando libre como los pájaros con sólo la energía que nos ofrece la naturaleza. Muchas gracias por compartir estos vídeos. Un saludo.

[@pascalkempa8005]

Saludos! De donde están? :)

[@Orage530]

When you thank the bird for pointing out the thermal haha! The speed up footage is really cool. You can really get a sense of how you use the thermals to get altitude.

[@PavloLukashuk]

I always marveled at the skills of glider pilots who can fly long distances without an engine!👍 Thanks for video ! ❤

[@ModellpilotEU]

Hi Stefan, mit dem Video wird es ein schöner Start in den Tag. Danke.

[@agent_cookie1000]

Wow, for me, sitting in one place with minimal movement for 10hrs is a huge achievement in itself.

[@filthycasual8074]

i'm so confused how they pick which comment is showed when you click on the video it's the dude with 2 likes not the one with 900

[@agent_cookie1000]

@@filthycasual8074 I think it depends on the person viewing video. Have we interacted on KZbin before?

[@richardhutchinson4740]

Such a great video. Learnt to glide on Grob 103s as an air cadet out of Swansea Airport in South Wales and spent every weekend on cable tows to 1000 ft and flying circuits. Managed some longer flights and thermaling and managed a 45min flight at one point. Can only dream of what a 10 hr flight must be like! Nerves of steel there and exceptional skill.

[@ericgartner9563]

Erstmal sehr schönes Video so wie immer. Es ist echt schön zu sehen wie sich dein Kanal entwickelt hat von Anfang bis jetzt. Und du hast immer deine Qualität beibehalten wie noch bei den 5000 Abonenten und wurdest immer besser.

[@SteFly]

Dankeschön! Das freut mich!

[@user-jq4hm5kr3b]

Ist das geil ein Segelflug-Video über dem Flugplatz zu sehen, wo man am Samstag wieder zum Fliegen hingeht :)

[@SteFly]

Um welchen Flugplatz geht es? :D

[@troublehd7236]

Ein sehr schöner Flug, und ein wahnsinns video. Hat viel Spaß gemacht es anzuschauen :)

[@kopibin9532]

this awesome. simply really amazing. congrats. a stupid question: how do you hold from going to the toilet.

[@thepilotF]

condoms can work as well, but you need to wear long zipped trousers between your legs, as it is not easy to use the pinky while sitting :)

[@TheKingie07]

Awesome video and high quality production with additional map info and explanations, thanks much appreciated! Awesome adventure

[@whyamai]

Hey cooles Video! Möchte nun auch mit dem Segelfliegen beginnen, fasziniert mich absolut! Gute Flüge wünsche ich weiterhin!! 😎👍

[@melcrose]

Would love to have pictures of any tasks you fly so we can re-create it in Condor.

[@SteFly]

You can have a look at the flight track. The link is in the description below the video.

[@lukas7561]

Respekt für den Flug, bin gerade fertig mit meiner Ausbildung und du motivierst mich sehr außerdem fand ich es sehr schön das du die seeyou Datei mit eingespielt hast

[@SteFly]

Das freut mich sehr!

[@lukas7561]

@@SteFly kannst du vielleicht mal ein video zur Flugvorbereitung machen weil wie ich finde hat man nie so nh "Liste" die man abarbeiten kann

[@Hawkeye948]

Glückwunsch. Toller Flug und sehr schönes informatives Video.

[@SteFly]

Vielen Dank, das freut mich zu hören!

[@xabre9995]

This is awesome, you're very fortunate. What a wonderful (and yes, stressful at times) way to fly!

[@encartech]

Thanks for the metric info, no fees foots knots football field/hrs. Just clean and understandable metres

[@oldhikinthesticks4524]

With all that Woo Woo noise, I'd be trying to check the rearview mirror for cops.

[@randomguyinanglider4090]

Its an vario it shows us if we are gaining or losing altitude

[@bobarmitage7981]

Congratulations. Could you please add a few more bits of info as you go along - time of launch, evolving height of cloudbase, evolving thermal strengths, tactics you used when it went blue - were you looking for likely thermal sources - factories, urban areas, for example? How far you were able to fly in a straight line "porpoising"? With good wishes for the rest of the season.

[@aceofspades2711]

Mega gutes Video und herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 1000er 🎉

[@SteFly]

Freut mich, vielen Dank! :)

[@tomeraltman7491]

the last flight i had was 6 minutes.

[@SirDella]

The last flight I had was 0 minutes

[@junothejupiterorbiter1035]

SirDella close enough

[@prodnaki]

the last flight i had was 1 year🗿

[@Marg1312]

@@prodnaki my dad’s been on a flight for 5 years.

[@davidlarroya]

@@Marg1312 dude..

[@mxhdroom153]

Congrats, Stefan. Very envious.

[@SamSue44]

Lovely to watch you enjoy nature with no fuel

[@steve_neuser]

Outstanding flight and congratulations on an impressive achievement, Stefan! You flew near my current home airfield of Weiden in der Oberpfalz on your first leg, which was nice to see. Great job!

[@Filip-0602]

Endlich wieder ein Video ist mega geworden 😍

[@SteFly]

Danke Dir!

[@dleebox2268]

My first time watching 1 of these videos, pretty interesting, lots of distance covered by good skills& good equiptment, nice job my freind, i'm seriously awed & impressed, i'm no stranger to flying.

[@joancarles2836]

Epic fly!! 1000km??!! Awesome!

[@tinchote]

Congrats! A FAI 1000k on pure thermals is a great accomplishment. I would like to suggest that you wait a bit to retract the gear; when you do it so low, you increase your possible workload if the rope breaks or the engine coughs. My approach was to wait until pattern altitude to retract, still early in the tow but with plenty of time to deal with an emergency. Unless it was the Open Cirrus with the hitch inside the landing gear :D

[@Highrockman]

Black Forest area is where my family is from..Would love to go back there to see it..

[@Hanibaltherogue]

Wahnsinn man, ich will endlich auch mein Kindheitstraum erfüllen und das Gleiten lernen, noch muss ich erst etwas abnehmen aber das motiviert nur noch mehr. Wusste nicht wirklich dass man so lange in der Luft bleiben kann, war irgendwie spannender als nen Thriller vor allem als du dann doch etwas tiefer warst. Ich mache mal nen Abo sieht nice aus dein channel PS: Gerade gemert an diesem Tag wo Du so schön geflogen bist, habe ich geheiratet^^

[@Highrockman]

Its very interesting watching you fly over terain that my family farmed for multiple generations..Have to make a visit..

[@PureGlide]

That was epic well done! I reckon all exceptional flights have tough bits

[@SteFly]

Thanks Tim! Yes that's true..

[@hangfly1]

Wonderful video Stefan and congrats on that low save! I had one or two of those when I flew from Utscheid a few years ago, but I was never so close to the ground. Whew!

[@SteFly]

Thank you!! I had an airfield around me for a safe landing ;)

[@Tensai0]

Stefan, how do you know where the hot upward wind is to fly around?

[@andrewmilliken4315]

The little strip of string thing, and also the beeps

[@josefbostik1712]

1000kms FAI triangle in Europe! My hat off to you!

[@alfredtraunstein3513]

Da fiebert man sogar als Zuschauer mit, beim Teil mit 250m über dem Wald! Schöner Flug!

[@someguy7863]

I wish u had a little green and yellow circle in the corner during the sped up parts to show if youre ascending or descending. Really love the ascpect of just gliding thru the air being one with the enviroment and nature. Maybe one day. Great videos.

[@adameffenberger7460]

1 000 km really? That's AMAZING. good job

[@nob0dy27_]

Schönes Video! Bin letztes Wochenende zum ersten Mal Einsitzer geflogen, freue mich schon drauf auch Mal auf Strecke gehen zu dürfen 😄

[@SteFly]

Vielen Dank! Einsitzer fliegen finde ich deutlich schöner vom Handling her. Viel Erfolg bei deinen ersten Streckenflügen!

[@r63amgowners79]

Schöne Aufnahme & Flug! Muss mal wieder anfangen zu „Segeln“. Heute wird es nur mit ne B738, aber das ist ja nur gradeaus ....

[@MaxiFLY_GO]

Великолепное видео! Полет - высший класс))) Мне очень понравился формат вашего видео)))

[@fahadfawad1]

Just awesome 😎. Give my heartiest regards to your dad.

[@StefanoBorini]

in the uk retracting the gear on tow would be considered very dangerous. you don't want to do anything else but focus on the tow until you release to prevent any chance for tug upset, and you absolutely want to have the gear down if the cable snaps or releases at that height. drag at that time is the least of your concerns. you have a big plane pulling you up and you tend to overtake it anyway.

[@davewilkins5222]

Thanks for posting climb rate, altitude, airspeed/groundspeed when relevant

[@gokhanglider]

This is my dream. 👏👍🦅

[@towhidulislam1]

Great to watch! Amazing how the glider pilots can even think of flying so high without an engine! You even dont seem to worry a little! Great scenario! But I dont understand how you can raise your altitude?

[@niconico3907]

He looks for bubbles of warm rising air under the clouds, and go in them.

[@gilnemesis3547]

Nice bet. You're definitely a good glider pilot! I often Ask myself if bug wipers are really usefull till I see your leading edge near the end of the vidéo. Congratulations, nice job! 👍👍👍

[@SteFly]

Thank you! This year it is really important in our area to have bug wipers. In the last years it was not always necessary...

[@hugogirod1606]

Well done Stefan!!

[@SteFly]

Thanky Hugo!!

[@chedatomasz]

Wow, you had me looking for a field over that forest

[@falsephilosphy4048]

You are a very good pilot 👍👍

[@philtdi]

Well done Stefan, another great video for XC training.

[@NunoFlyer]

Super flight, awesome!

[@SteFly]

Thanks mate!

[@patricklangan5670]

Very nice indeed. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Well done.

[@RicoRCtv]

Ich hätte damals den Segelschein machen sollen, einfach Klasse was ihr macht👍

Just great 👍, congratulation!. Long ago I flew a DG400 beside soaring as instructor, but gliders and glider performance never lost the attraction.

[@SteFly]

Thank you!

[@unclewho]

I love to watch rich guys showing off their hardcore gadgets.

[@clarazegarelli5861]

I am sure there is a glider club in your country, no need to be rich.

[@rodmaiquez726]

@@clarazegarelli5861 you definitely belong to the rich 🤣

[@thestimp2]

Love your videos, great job!

[@christophostrowski3382]

Das ist sooo schön zuzusehen

[@basheerbaizeed3719]

Was für eine coole Familie hast du 😍

[@_Zilba]

You are the best glider pilote 😉🛩️

[@figuwolf7227]

Liebe Grüße aus dem Südsteiermark 🇦🇹💜 Mach weiter so! 👏🏾😎☀️

[@rohanjoshi7556]

Huge fan of yours, Stefan! Owning and flying a glider is in my bucket list for sure. What song did you use at 07:02?

[@Berkov1]

Amazing fly and amazing video. Thanks!

[@rampe5610]

Great video mate. Bet that wasnt a comfortable feeling being only 250m above ground level at one point 😉😁

[@jared123123]

Great video. Not too knowledgeable about gliders but damn, that’s amazing distance

[@stephaniekent8483]

Hi from New Zealand near Raglan, well done Stefan, not the easiest day, so that was in my book a noteworthy and meritorious flight! :)

[@SteFly]

Thank you! :)

[@MorDarek]

Congratulations Stefan for your achivement! :) Great job! :)

[@dion6146]

Well done! Great flying.

[@chrismofer]

wow what a glide slope. it got pretty hairy there at 250m. I'm amazed at these planes (and pilots) ability to fly such distances on no power.

[@sircrapalot9954]

It’s crazy, these modern gliders have a glide ratio of upwards of 50:1. I was trained to always aim to be steep on approach in a glider. The dive brakes (spoilers) are very effective at increasing your sink rate in these modern glass ships, and you don’t get a go-around! And on a long runway like this you’d want to land long so you don’t have to push the glider as far to park.

[@chrismofer]

@@sircrapalot9954 I've been playing with RC sailplanes and got a 2-meter Radian, which doesn't want to come down without significant kinetic energy making it impossible to land at a tree-lined ball field. installed off the shelf spoilers and now it drops like a space shuttle on demand :)

[@heinzmiesmann248]

Klasse! Ein tolles Video.

[@andreasschwarz3359]

wow, was für ein schönes Hobby. Ich frage mich immer wieder wie die Piloten hier in Hamburg Aufwinde finden. Danke für das Tolle Video.

[@hans-peterhegmann2895]

Hallo Andreas, genauso wie in Karlsruhe - immer schön suchen und die Augen und Ohren offenhalten ... ;-)

[@phoeteus]

Sehr geil! Hattest du Wasser noch drin als du tief warst?

[@SteFly]

Das Wasser hatte ich schon ein paar Kilometer vorher abgelassen.

[@Slazlo-Brovnik]

@@SteFly Aprops Wasserlassen. Hat man da ne Flasche mit oder so? 10 Stunden....

[@jamex7704]

Echt super man kann soviel lernen mach bitte weiter so🔝und jetzt weiß ich auch dass wirklich niemand freiwillig ins donautal runterfliegt xD

[@SteFly]

Danke Dir!

[@venomishe]

Enjoyed a lot ... that was a very tough low save :-)

[@SteFly]

I was really happy to get a thermal there. Thank you! :-)

[@muammergulcan4098]

13:25 While you are just 250m up of ground. What would happen if you did not gain altitude ?

[@SteFly]

Land at the airfield

[@muammergulcan4098]

@@SteFly thank you

[@Bennie_Tziek]

WTF 10 hours? Mad respect

[@germanmusic7316]

The three most elegant vehicles ever created are... gliders, yachts and bikes. 😙

[@bryanwatt9751]

Wow, very cool! Well done!

[@Jojoc_HD]

Ich finde deine Videos cool und mach weiter so

[@rovinronin1473]

Hi Stefan, congratulation for the flying skills and nerves! ;) Super flight, greatly filmed!

[@SteFly]

Thank you! ;)

[@podunkman2709]

U made it! I really admire your skills.