The REALITY of a Gliding Contest

[@BenSoar]

I had my seccond glider flight this weekend and your videos are really cool to see and inspiring as I am in NZ too. I hope to fly cross country some day as you do!

[@PureGlide]

Awesome, which club are you at? No doubt we'll see you there at some stage

[@lautoka63]

Once you're post-solo, you can think about coming to the cross-country course run at Waharoa by the Matamata Soaring Centre. That'll let you follow Tim around the sky - if you can persuade him to fly around with his airbrakes partly extended!

[@robert100xx]

So similar and so frustrating to the conditions we put up with in Britain. I have a Discus 2ct and Duo T flying out of Lleweni Parc in North Wales (Denbigh Gliding)

[@wesk123]

Had a day like that flying out of Sutton bank, UK about 20 years ago. Crept around the task (200km) in nearly 5hrs. The high (low) point was trying to climb away in 1/8knt from 650ft over fields of lettuce for 45mins! Was so slow I thought everyone else had got back and put their gliders away. Turned out only 3 got back (out of 30). Flying an ASH-25 so I averaged just over stalling speed for the task...

[@PureGlide]

haha yeah, sometimes just staying in the air until things improve is the secret!

[@Will-ui7dv]

I loved the back of the van shot of you moving your trailer. Really cool!

[@PureGlide]

Cheers!

[@JimboBurgess]

Top 4 can't argue with that! 😁... That patch of green at 8:10 is that still an airstrip? I used to load the Fatty topdressing off there many moons ago.

[@PureGlide]

No they removed the strip, it's now just a field with a road down the middle. The 'spud patch' we used to call it. I've landed there quite a few times.

[@andrewpreston4127]

Ha... "Paddock landings round here are not great.." as forest stretches in every direction, not too far below.

[@PureGlide]

Yip! But don’t worry there’s always a landing option, even if you can’t see it on camera…

[@gonegliding2966]

The gliding comp rain dance produces the goods again

[@BobGnarley.]

only 2 made it! wow haha. honestly sounds like fun just being the guy who makes it. living the dream!

[@PureGlide]

Yeah exactly, it's often a challenge to stay in the air rather than a race

[@tomekkniat6733]

at 5:19 your alt meter goes from 2140 to 2200 suddenly at the release. Do we know why?

[@simona6229]

Altimeters in gliders can be somewhat sticky not having the vibration of an engine to keep them reading true. Tapping the panel to the side of the glass can 'unstick' them to make the jump up or down depending upon whether you've been ascending or descending. It was the jolt of the release that put a small shock into it and made it read correctly and as expected it was lagging the correct value having been on tow so it went up. Not much to worry about unless it starts to jump by a significant amount. Want to buy a second hand and perfectly crap altimeter recently removed from my glider?

[@tomekkniat6733]

@@simona6229 Thank you for the explanation

[@Will-ui7dv]

A lot of airliners and other jet aircraft actually have vibrators in their instrument panel to unstick the altimeter. We don't have those in gliders since it would use a lot of battery power, add weight, and add noise.

[@PureGlide]

Yeah exactly what the others said :)

[@Jake_Rounds_Gliding]

Welcome to the average day at my club thermals are very hard to work at but is great fun, hope there next comp goes better!

[@PureGlide]

Thank you!

[@traffictraffic]

I just found your channel and subbed. If you've got the time could you make a video on gliding for beginners. In 3 days Microsoft Flight Simulator will support glider flying and I picked up the Discus 2C by Got Friends and would love some tips on how to find and fly in thermals, how to know where the lift is on mountain ridges and best glide speed for maximum lift/glide ratio etc.

[@PureGlide]

Great idea, I'll see what I can do!

[@CLdriver1960]

Hey Tim, hope the next days are better. As for your van, is it a do it yourself build? Could you do a tour on it some time? I know it has nothing to do with flying it self, but it sure seems like a great home away from home. I’m building out a microcamper from a Promaster City cargo van.

[@PureGlide]

Hi you’re in luck, do a search for “eat sleep van”

[@CLdriver1960]

@@PureGlide Thanks Tim! I’ll have a look at your videos.

[@kiwifruit5603]

Glider noob question. "Overdevelopment", that sky on day 2 looked like it had far more vertical energy than day three, what is overdevelopment and why cant you fly when it's like that?

[@gazzas123]

what is the beeping and what does the change mean???

[@PureGlide]

Hi that is a variometer. It tells us if we are gaining or loosing energy (i.e. have we hit some lift or sink). It beeps so we can keep looking out the cockpit and know what is happening.

[@glennwatson]

I bogged the aircraft today near the fuel pump. Crazy conditions here. I guess you're looking for more convective cloud?

[@PureGlide]

Yeah I see some Aussie comps being postponed, hopefully it dries out soon!

[@glideslopeza924]

This must be epic... im planning on doing some contests when if all goes well and I manage get my gliders license ☁️🤙🏼🤙🏼 For now im stuck with Simulator Gliding... 😁

[@PureGlide]

Awesome, it's lots of fun, and not usually this bad!

[@Joshkaviation]

How you liking the hawk? Just put one in my Libelle. Flew it once and have some tweaking to do I think

[@PureGlide]

Good! The wind in particular is great, and it's weird having a vario that matches what I feel exactly. I haven't tweaked it at all.

[@Joshkaviation]

@@PureGlide thanks! I can’t wait to get a good day to let it rip! Keep up the good work!

[@karlgaikowski6948]

Hey, have you got a new trailer ?

[@PureGlide]

I have! Why thank you for noticing...

[@pauljohnson2175]

Cool to see Jeremy's tree. RIP 15/04/89.

[@davidallan9624]

I thought that there weather was meant to be nice in NZ - certainly better than here in the UK. When we visited NZ a few years back it was wall to wall sunshine in the summer with only a few damps days. Having said that though we had a night in Arthur's Pass and it was positively a monsoon. I was persuaded to go on a walk, so that we didn't pass up the opportunity, to look at some water falls and I got soaked through. I hope that you have better weather for the rest of the comp.

[@PureGlide]

Can be! A bit early in the season I suspect, and a bit of bad luck with a system sitting on us this week.

[@davidallan9624]

@@PureGlide I wish you all the very best for the rest of the comp. Looking forward to seeing some of your terrific flights.

[@lautoka63]

Day 4 update: weather remains unchanged. We don't envy Tim the task setter, but wish he'd organise the weather a little better.

[@PureGlide]

Yip it's a bit sh*t

[@TheMkoester]

🤣

[@antonlawrence638]

The FOMO in me is operating at 1 out of 10 just now. Hope it improves but not looking flash. Maybe Taupo will be better.

[@PureGlide]

Glad I could help!!

[@Johan-ex5yj]

The good news is; the weather can only get better... Could be worse though, like the 1 in 100 year floods we have in Australia right now.

[@PureGlide]

True, not good over there!

[@johnrobertson9945]

Seems like a tradition for November at Matamata

[@PureGlide]

More of a tradition of early November, just ask Taupo

[@AMJB100000000]

How crap has the weather been! Ahhhhhh

[@PureGlide]

A lot crap!

[@gliderpilot8882]

It beats work. ;-)

[@PureGlide]

So true!

[@JustinRawley]

Well, ….poo! Hope your weather gets better 😊

[@PureGlide]

It sure didn't! maybe next contest

[@fishfoolishness4222]

I realize this has nothing to do with your day and I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering. What the neck was that HHH on the ground all about.

[@PureGlide]

What's HHH?!

[@denniscook390]

@@PureGlide Chicken sheds

[@denniscook390]

At 5:44 heading towards the ridge there are 6 poultry sheds with structures between them that create an image of HHH

[@TheMkoester]

Crap//shit - I felt with you - familiar that every pilot is staring at the sky - rubbish 😫😫

[@bagoistvan3182]

👍⛅⛅☁️☁️☁️🍺🍺🍺 AWESOME !!! 🍺🍺🍺😁😁😁

[@K0S0s]

Meanwhile im sitting in North America cold

[@PureGlide]

You're not missing much here!

[@brushitoff503]

Ahh

[@PureGlide]

Yip

[@1littlelee]

its a very old man sport isn't it

[@soaruk3697]

No, it's a sport for nearly everyone, but they are in the majority - but that is slowly changing worldwide......... if you want a different younger outlook maybe these channels might be better for you........ kzbin.infovideos.......... kzbin.info kzbin.infochannels

[@PureGlide]

In some ways yes, but we've got a good number of young people in our club, I just didn't happen to capture them here!

[@robert100xx]

Many if not all of the old boys seen in this vid probably started gliding 30-40 years ago. when they were youthful.

[@lautoka63]

Well, yes, but I started in 1975 and am still flying. Here in NZ there is the Youth Glide NZ organisation, which does a good job of getting young people flying. One of our sons started with YG and is now an accomplished competition pilot and instructor.

[@julianday]

Never used to be , gliders are that much more expensive than in the past.