The Weather Video: A Study of Thermals, Winds, and Micrometeorology

[@michaelkennedy2528]

Hey KZbin, we need a "Thumbs up x10" please. Folks, if there is any question about about a good instructor and a bad instructor, this video alone should answer that question. This video "dumbed down" the terms just enough for great comprehension and kept the interest alive throughout the video. A great video Kyle, I beleive I speak for many here. 👍🏻x10.

[@scottjulius2834]

If you see the "EI" that means that this program is both Entertaining and Informational, two thumbs up thanks Kyle

[@vmlinuxz]

Got my first solo hike and fly freeflight today, and now another Kyle O'Glee masterpiece video on weather. My day can't bet better than this.

[@ryandinan]

Wow, Kyle! You outdid yourself on this video! I've bookmarked it so I can refer to it again, since there was so much information here. You have a way of explaining these concepts so effectively, that I found myself creating a mental picture that was good enough for me to anticipate what you were going to say next - that's awesome. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and experience with us all - I certainly hope I have the opportunity to thank you in person some day!

[@johnyogiburr2881]

Excellent and informative as usual. Thanks.

[@danielbrice264]

Thank you! Just had a collapse on a hot day on launch and fell 60ft. Bruised but stumbled away. Very lucky. your knowledge in this vid has helped me make more sence of what happened. Will be watching more. Kind regards, Dan. S E England

[@ShomariDeluccio]

Those time lapse videos along with the explanation were extremely helpful. Videos like this are awesome. Helpful info like this is why by brother and I are coming for training in October.

[@SharkyintheSky]

Thanks Kyle O. I love to study weather. It always helps to understand the conditions you fly in. Blue Skies

[@adaltianno]

Good stuff right there. Thanks KO!

[@phobiappg8429]

Holly shiz bud. Absolutely amazing. Words can’t do this video justice. Much love!

[@wntofly]

That was fantastic! You have found your calling Kyle 'O. PLEASE keep using all the many gifts that God has given you to help all of us that were lucky enough to have found this channel. As always, cant wait for the next one!

[@abbott876]

So great Kyle. thank you!!

[@greenboys-paramotorpawnbro2530]

Excellent content. Thanks Kyle

[@stephenlam4820]

Kyle O wrote my new met bible. What a superb video!! Absolute met masterclass. Thanks Kyle. This needs way more than one thumbs up. Top man 👍🏻 x 10

[@josephking7021]

Kyle better than good……great job, Very informative. Strong work.

[@garvanblericom]

Great job again brother! I love your videos and really appreciate all that work and information you put in them for us. Really helps and I'm always learning from your vids. Keep up the excellent job! Look forward to many more!

[@bodhranclive3707]

Thank you Kyle for making a sometimes complicated subject easy for a mere mortal to understand. Fly safe mate.

[@HeliPilotPaul]

Loved the video Kyle, really informative and I liked your analogy of the rain droplets on the windscreen. Keep them coming. Blue skies 👍

[@timothystouffer6716]

Great Video Kyle! Keep doing what you are doing. With each and every video you make, you can see and feel your passion for the sport and your passion to teach. You are by far one of my favorite KZbinr!!! You're awesome man and I hope to someday make it down your way and fly with you

[@kyleoglee]

Thanks Tim! Would love to have you!

[@KnowledgeMavens]

thank you for sharing your expertise. Your channel is very helpful and inspirational!

[@MrRaleighman123]

I watched alot of weather video's but it never clicked for me.. this one did it. Thanks for the practical instruction now to put it to use. If feel like that dull knife in the drawer just got his run iver the sharpener!

[@Mikinct]

Best video ever, A lot of great details & info

[@collinssherertz7101]

I haven't made it through a minute of the video and I like it already well done buddy

[@GolfFoxtrot22]

Can't beat a KyleO weather video. You're keeping us sane over here..

[@kyleoglee]

I feel for yall G! Sadly, it'll likely pass about the time the weather goes tits up.

[@cowlikk]

Great video Kyle. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@timtetiva1747]

Great simplification of a very complex subject. Thanks KyleO, I'm starting to think like a bird. Always learning ...

[@rowanlovell7225]

Absolutely incredible. Thank you for taking the time to put this together!

[@WebberAerialImaging]

Good stuff for even new pilots like me to help identify weather to not fly in, yet. Thanks!

[@JPTulo]

Mark Webber You fly PPG and are a top level race car driver?!?

[@TheHuff417]

Dude.. Great information, Great descriptions, great animations, great video!!! Love it!

[@kyleoglee]

Thanks Huff!

[@DZig]

Can't say enough good things about this video. Two Thumbs Up! and thanks for the micro meteorology refresher course!

[@jimkeys4758]

Awesome Kyle O. So many teachers leave out the details and for us, the ones who build things with our hands and solve problems in our shops with our own tools and machines -- the details are everything. Before I build something or solve a problem I always equip my mind with all the facts and details that relate to the task at hand first, always. Thanks so much for filling that need, the knowledge that you impart is priceless to me in the lifelong dream that I have to fly. It is finally starting to materialize, albeit late in life, but I am just in the fact finding phase and will be reviewing many of your posts for the second and third time. Thanks again for contributing to the subject of weather, it has filled my mind lately as I pursue the goal of flight in earnest now, especially since I will be spending much of my time studying this subject as a constant prerequisite to launching. Thanks again buddy!

[@kyleoglee]

Never stop studying Jim!

[@David_Wolfe]

Let me try my best to be as. Lear as possible..... THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE SHOWN IN EVERY CLASS OF EVERY PARAMOTOR AND PARAGLIDING SCHOOL, Great great video KO. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. This is one I will watch many times over and continue to study.

[@vmlinuxz]

Not really buddy. I just talked to a low hour pilot that watched this video and thought it was incoherent and rambly. This is truly for high hour pilots, it's gobbledygook for new guys.

[@CuCarrot7686]

Thanks Kyle O... I learnt a lot from your video

[@Lontist]

Very good explanations. Three thumbs up.

[@panther-xc8929]

This is really good! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us Kyle!

[@PeterCiesla]

Superb! Thanks Kyle 'O!

[@1falconron]

Also flybubble has some good ones also. As Kile sees A motor and free flight techniques combined would be hard to beat. Also, Chad Bastian wrote about this decades ago. It's nice to see Kile discuss it and apply these techniques combined again.

[@skt613]

Great video, really like the topic, keep them coming!

[@b.garvey9580]

You did an amazing job with this one hoonyat! Really appreciate what you do! 👍

[@seangeary7100]

I appreciate the information and experience. This is really helping me understand micrometeorology :)

[@kyleoglee]

Thanks Sean!

[@MagicJF]

Thanks Kyle, really appreciated the weather tour :)

[@MikeKing]

Thanks Kyle, awesome info and resources in this. Good on ya fr putting all this together. Some cool timelapses as well. 2 thumbs up!

[@jdean216]

Thought I was watching a Nat Geo movie at times except there were a lot of good educational tidbits we ppg guys can actually use. Thanks Kyle, much appreciated. I'll have to watch this one a few times.

[@aaroneye86]

This is the best video ever.

[@michaelsanders6099]

Very grateful for this vid! Thanks 👍

[@DomesticDave]

Thanks for a great presentation.

[@chadmurray4934]

An EXTREME wealth of knowledge from kyle'o. This was an extremely insightful video and how you integrated the time-lapse footage of the clouds as you explained it was perfect! Catch you on the next one 🤘🌮🤘🌮🤘🌮

[@aaronhorn6849]

Surprised you got that into a 30 minute video! All good info.

[@kyleoglee]

There will be more!

[@davidwolford4655]

This is a great video. IT will definitely go in the watch later file. I am hopeful to someday do this sport and this was good stuff to review over and over and ....... you get the point. Thank you Sir!

[@MahMegahed]

Great Great Video - Greetings from Egypt

[@mikecolley-]

Awesome! Learned a lot! Thanks

[@SmittySmithsonite]

GREAT info, Kyle! Much appreciated. 👍🍻 As of now, 248 thumbs UP, and ZERO down! I don't think anyone has ever pulled that off before. NICE WORK!! I'm nowhere near ready to fly in thermals. Heck, I'm still waiting on a nil wind day to play around in - few and far between this time of year up here. Today was a case-in-point - hit 80° in some parts of the state. 76° at my house, but winds were 6-9 mph gusting 22 ... and just 500' AGL according to the Ryan Carlton site from a local airport (about 10 miles south of here), they were 22, and God only knows what the gusts were up there. NOPE, not for me, lol! 😁

[@FlyBabyFlyPPG]

Thanks great info from simple words of a pilot

[@HangtimeParagliding]

this is awesome! Thanks a lot for that video!

[@carlcolorado3549]

Thanks bud. I shared your vid to our group in Colorado

[@kyleoglee]

Thanks Carl!

[@utahballoonflights2716]

Very cool. Always lookin for “turbalence”

[@Miramamapuedovolar]

Whaaaaaat a video !! Thank you so much man

[@fairbanksairriders]

Camp fire smoke “thermals” at 8:30 was very creative. And ET on your shirt - is that a hat tip to the military’s THIRD official video release of a dozen flying saucers? The ten minute pilot interview is challenging to believe. Supposedly he flew in a flat spiral circle at 700 mph while the disk stayed opposite him in a slow tumble, disobeying all laws of aerodynamics, also there was no infra red heat trail from an oil and gas engine - new tech? Spinning opposed rotation magnets can do strange things! According to the pilot the saucer then took off “like a bullet out of a gun” at thousands of miles per hour. Darn I’d like to get a ride in one of those sport models! Haha. Stay healthy.

[@kyleoglee]

I've seen phenomenon off the coast of San Diego that is related to those craft. I was tripping 6 months later when I heard an interview with the pilot who witnessed the same phenomenon.

[@pittsjohn57]

Great vid Kyle

[@PPGGrandpa]

Always give thumbs up on kyles vids

[@1falconron]

I love your videos, keep up the good work. How much will the largest chute hold, been wanting to thermal on my trike I'm 165, 35 pds trike 185, on an older fly products double cage. 4.7-gallon fuel tank. I get about a 4-hour range. I do play in light cloud suck from time to time. It saves fuel on long runs. I'm on a 26m 2017 mojo5. I did get caught in a convergence one day. Now I'm thinking of adding a toilet paper hanger on the trike. The wing handled it fine, with a little slinging and diving. Just make sure to leave my hands up and let it fly out until I could power to a less turbulent place. No wing caspase at all. The sad part is, I saw the convergence on windy app that morning. Showing it to be somewhere in my neighborhood that day in the afternoon of my flight. I mostly look for wind under 6mph. Morning and noon mostly. Three years, 300 hours, no chote. That made me think about getting one. falconronfalconron f/b

[@timothycurran8474]

Great video thanks

[@dannybaines4529]

Wicked 💙 Wicked video thanks 🎶🎶🎶

[@randymcleanwo5m373]

Very Well Done Kyle. I've been a storm spotter for 25 years and consider myself amateur meteorologist. Everything you said was spot on and well explained. I ran across your channel a week ago when researching training programs around my area(I'm in Fort Worth, TX)If anything this video convinced me even more that I need to train with you. Don't know when that will be. I have to convince the wife to let me first. I do have a question unrelated to this video. In another video you mention the equipment you have and talk about radios. One of them was the Baofeng uv-5r(i have several) and you called it a ham radio. Are you a licensed ham? I've been licensed 25 years(how I became a storm spotter) and my callsign is wo5m.

[@kyleoglee]

Not licensed, but we transmit and receive on frequencies used by the USHPA for paragliding activities.

[@MrCoolcool666]

Kyle, you seem to have some sort of critter in your collar? Thanks again for another interesting video!!

[@HighOnYouDroneBoy]

Just about to start my training to become a qualified glider pilot. Thanks Kyle for such a great and informative video! You really nailed it and I was able to fully digest everything you covered! Sub from me!! :)

[@JPTulo]

Great vid, thanks for putting the time in 👍 Just to be clear, you said anyone can thermal right?? 😜😝

[@patrickfain9318]

Awesome! Thanks Kyle

[@AdrianLeviAU]

Thanks for the great content!

[@kyleoglee]

Thanks for watching Adrian!

[@karbide3084]

Hey Kyle curious If you've looked up MS Sim 2020? ✈ Never been into flight sims personally, but this new release uses live updated, real world weather conditions. They've mapped the globe using actual satellite imagery. The terrain is stunningly real. This one has me shopping flight controls for the PC..

[@bobmacfly1207]

That was Awsome!

[@redadeath]

Excellent thanks

[@alexisarsenopoulos]

Great job...a question?...the air the thermals are made off is less dense than the surrounding air...or the opposite ?

[@djucclub]

great stuff thanks

[@davidberman8816]

amazing, thank you maestro !

[@5ty717]

Clear observation: sun doesn’t directly heat the air… most sunshine in the poles is reflected after heating the ionosphere/ ozone products but the ground heats air ALMOST ALWAYS. Simple but…Deeply insightful.

[@austinppg4456]

All I want is the perfect camera.

[@TonyEssig]

Good stuff thank you

[@uhadonejob]

Solid!

[@shanemallery1479]

Awsome vid bud

[@AceHardy]

👑

[@paulaskins9533]

Head turn, "squirrel"!

[@saamip]

Love from Nepal ❤❤

[@handpiecehealer]

This video is awesome.... But rainX your windshield... PLEASE love you wing Brother

[@therealandrewlund]

Thanks for the awesome video! My one question is, how are the rising thermals of warmer air more dense than the cooler air flowing around the column?

[@kyleoglee]

It's the pressure. It has more influence on density than temperature alone. BTW, it's not always cooler higher! Inversions are common.

[@therealandrewlund]

@@kyleoglee well, I understand that air closer to ground is denser, so it makes sense that once it moves up it would bring that pressure with it, but wouldn't it just expand immediately and lose that pressure?

[@kyleoglee]

@@therealandrewlund It's like a train rolling to a stop. Once it's moving, it's moving. It'll keep rising, it does expand, but it retains the density more than the air that has settled above it. Eventually, it'll petre out and fall back down or start condensing and generating it's own heat, then come down hard!😉

[@therealandrewlund]

@@kyleoglee Interesting stuff.. I love thinking about it. Keep sharing!

[@carlosgarcazon9711]

any advice on a mid range radio?

[@12vibaba]

Nice

[@goldwingerppg5953]

You be know your shit, but if i can see its raining, unless I know it’s moving away, there’s not a chance I’m going flying.

[@mattmichael6792]

I do not go out and fly in thermal conditions unless you do not have an engine

[@markmcgoveran6811]

You must be next to the ocean to get laminar air expectation disease. I'm in the center of the country there is no such thing as laminar airflow hear everything has curl . It's a calculus idea

[@MartijnvanGene]

"Is this good content?"

[@markmcgoveran6811]

Water is a non compressible fluid. Air is a compressible fluid.

[@kyleoglee]

Correct

[@abbott876]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/inbTfIGilptmgdk Kyle this is just down the road from my place. bit of over development on this day.