Stormy Final Glide

First flight of 2020 presented quite a challenge to get back home due to rain showers in the way. After fighting to get enough altitude, this is the final glide back home and landing in strong winds. Was a fun day flying with my friend Josef and it sure was nice to be back in the air. Hope you enjoy. Bruno

[@supedupersauce9300]

That mountainous desert Utah landscape is really spectacular!

[@davidrelite6239]

Well, we had another great flight together......

[@DCGULL01]

Ahhh Bruno, so glad you started the season! My summer is improved when you are videoing your glider flights!

[@MrWM2013]

Thanks for another fun one. The 4K looks great, fun to watch the instruments. Reviving my soaring life in CT with a club that has become very well organized, after a long break, and although I won’t have access to the fleet that was at Cal City, or the super high cloud base, really looking forward. Your videos showing me what the end game dream is. Best from CT, Bill

[@Twobarpsi]

With your cockpit tour, and the new camera, I feel like I'm part of your adventure! The instruments, and scenery look fantastic!!

[@TomTalley]

Thanks. 4K looks great. First time I have seen the wind velocity indicator on the variometer. Suspect it is partially because it was cloudy and the recorder opened up the aperture to let in more light...or could be the better dynamic range...anyway...nice...thank you.

[@Robbo1966]

Hell of a looking sky, glad you got down safely

[@schloemo]

Wow 7:15! I don’t think I’ve seen you hit a pocket of air like that on your videos before. Thanks for making these!

[@BrunoVassel]

That one really hurt! I've probably only hit 10 bad pockets like that in my 25 years of gliding over mountains.

[@pstrzel]

That pig farm down there still has the magic. ;-)

[@dchiffy]

Bruno great vids. Thanks

[@peanuts2105]

You have some amazing scenery in Utah. Cherish it because I'm a flattie from England

[@Minty_Fern]

Hey Bruno! I first found your channel years ago and enjoyed watching all your gliding videos and I think they played a part in sparking my interest in aviation. I have now been a private pilot for a few years and should be taking my commercial checkride in the next couple weeks. It is always in my mind that I should take some glider flights at some point and learn more about this part of aviation. Thank you for sharing your experiences and I hope you keep making these videos for us!

[@BrunoVassel]

Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences flying! I'm glad my videos could even be a small part in motivating your training. Good luck with the commercial and go take a glider flight! :)

[@RogerBurgess]

Hi Bruno. Another great ride, thank you. I would love to hear/ see a bit more about the maintenance and upkeep of a glider if possible. Do you have to inspect the wing structure at certain intervals? How do you get glider in and out of trailer? Paperwork etc.... Thanks again. Roger

[@tadeksmutek5840]

Thank you, Bruno, a lot for sharing this video - as always interesting video-book/story of one flight with original soaring flight sounds and your precious comments.

[@Kimtwister]

awesome bruno goood flight and landing take care buddy

[@daveparker777]

Hi Bruno! This ALS Bag of bones loved this vid! You always make me soar as on wings of eagles!

[@Darkest-Light]

Love and prayers to you. Glad these serve as relief for you. :)

[@wurlitzer895]

Gliding is a fascinating art. Wish I could do it. Loved the video. Thanks for uploading! Peter A :)

[@BrunoVassel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@coldforgedcowboy]

@Bruno Vassel... you are supposed to steer around those potholes. :-) 7:17

[@TwinkieTerror]

make your own videos and then steer around potholes in your own vicinity, please.

[@coldforgedcowboy]

@@TwinkieTerror ... it's called a sense humor, maybe you should pray to St. Athony so he finds yours.

[@rtrThanos]

Bruno, please hook us up with some hours-long vids instead of these shorties. Not only are you giving us amazing views of the country that most of us will never see with our own eyes, but your variometer is like a metronome that helps lull me to sleep. I hope you don’t take this wrong, as though what you do is boring. It’s actually quite the opposite. I’m an insomniac that has trouble sleeping because my mind is constantly racing. But the scenery in your videos captures my attention and makes me forget about everything else, and the rhythmic tones from your instruments are way better than the constant drone of a fan.

[@fitme6650]

hey bruno why dont you upload your flights to OLC then we can see your flights on the logger! That would be a cool feature to put in the description! Greetings from germany

[@andreaboziobralino1122]

Hi Bruno, nice job, I think not easy with that gusty wind. Where is the place you landed?

[@chartphred1]

Love watching yr final glides and landings, always very instructive. But what is the humming noise when you put out the thermalling flaps, sounds like an electric motor?

[@BrunoVassel]

This glider has always had that "feature" so to say. It is a buzzing of the air brakes that come up out of the glider. Any time I pull them more than about half way they buzz like that. I don't feel it in the glider - just hear it. Not all gliders do this. Just mine. It hasn't bothered me enough to spent that much time trying to figure it out. I probably should in case something is lose and needs to get tightened.

[@chartphred1]

@@BrunoVassel I reckon it almost sounds like a form of harmonic vibration, or the sound a loose bit of metal makes, obviously one you can't feel. I guess opening the brakes on the ground and giving various sections a bit of a finger wiggle to see how much play there is?

[@squarewheelsorguk]

Bruno, loving your work. Would you consider a video just focussing closely on the FLAPS in your glider, what the positions on the lever are, what each position is used for, and what the wings look like in those configurations? As an “armchair glider pilot” it’s one of the things I’ve always been afraid to ask.

[@BrunoVassel]

Richard - you read my mind! I was going to do this very video last weekend I flew but it was so windy I decided not to do it because of too much wind noise outside the glider with the camera. I plan on doing this. Thanks for watching!

[@squarewheelsorguk]

@@BrunoVassel Wow Bruno, thank you - great minds, eh! :-) I look forward to seeing it whenever you may have time and conditions to produce it. Quality always preferred over quantity or timeliness!

[@PureGlide]

@@squarewheelsorguk I made this little video a while back, but be careful to read the pinned comment too, as I've been doing it slightly wrong! I'll be interested to hear if Bruno's technique. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWqYZaFrZculm8k

[@west6008]

25 miles from 8000 ft AGL means a 16.5 glide ratio ? Didn't you have a tailwind? Do you remember your ground speed? Wasn't that bump at 7:18 a small core thermal? Your vario needle went up. Thanks for taking us on your flights!

[@g.d.p]

Просто гарно. Наче сам за штурвалом сидів.

[@DNModels]

I miss the long videos.

👍👍👍😀

[@Cirrus4000]

Hi Bruno, nice video. Looked like a long walk back to the car :) Quick questions, why did the ALT show 4980ft when you were on the runway? Does it not get set to the landing point hight? Is it just the video or does the airbrake/spoiler sound like a motor when they are deployed? At first I thought they were motorise but see that they are on a level like other's I've flown. Is it just the air drag making that noise? Not heard other gliders sound like that. Cheers.

[@BrunoVassel]

Howdy. No - the alt should never be set to field elevation. What if I am talking to ATC? What altitude would I tell them I am at? We always set our altimeters to above sea level (ASL) so we are all on the same page. As for the buzzing - This glider has always had that "feature" so to say. It is a buzzing of the air brakes that come up out of the glider. Any time I pull them more than about half way they buzz like that. I don't feel it in the glider - just hear it. Not all gliders do this. Just mine. It hasn't bothered me enough to spent that much time trying to figure it out. I probably should in case something is lose and needs to get tightened.

[@Cirrus4000]

@@BrunoVassel thanks for the reply. Regarding ALT, that makes perfect sense. I was just thinking about how you judge the landing with an incorrect AGL but I guess you you adjust your hight in your head. As you can tell, I've not done any XC yet so all good stuff to learn. As for the airbrake noise just something that makes your glider special :)

[@BrunoVassel]

@@Cirrus4000 Actually I don't even look at my altimeter when I am landing. I judge everything by how things/angles look. You don't want to trap yourself into have exact altitudes at the different stages of landing because every airport is different and the weather is different on every landing. Cheers!

[@Gubson]

You have probably answered this before. But I am new in here. What is that pitching sound going on like an old MW-radio? Guess it's something useful so you don't have to check gauges for som angle or?

[@PontusEgnell]

Did you hit a speed bump at 7:18?

[@BrunoVassel]

Man I sure hit something - that hurt!

[@flynomo]

@@BrunoVassel That almost looked like wake?

[@bentleymurphree216]

Any idea what happened?

[@demandred1957]

purely hypothetical question here. If conditions were right, could you do a transcontinental flight across the oceans? I don't fly, so don't know if it's possible or not.

[@rnzoli]

10:45 wow, a flock of white birds on the right side as you touch down....

[@deputylane17lane70]

Oh

[@briansheridan5208]

Look at the bright side of flying a glider...you dont have to worry about fuel or the sun for a solar flight...just the wind and your pilot glider skills.

[@Rab_1967]

Looks angry out there!

[@rtltelevizija2837]

What are you using for the recording video?

[@BrunoVassel]

GoPro7 Black and Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the video.

[@rtltelevizija2837]

Thanks

[@6Sally5]

What’s the glide ratio on your ship, Bruno?

[@BrunoVassel]

Hi Alan. The mfr says it is 48:1. Pretty amazing.

[@edmoore3910]

your pretty gutsy up in that with a glider.

[@marcomartins4107]

Bumpy one, hmm...!? :)

[@BrunoVassel]

no kidding! :)

[@davidrelite6239]

That "wanna be friends" business is a scam..... Ignore it.

[@keegan773]

David RELITE It's a Bot. It keeps changing its name but has similar moronic messages.