Thermaling Advanced - Animations and Examples

[@sonfigo4412]

I am beginner pilot (almost with license) in these glider flights, but your explications are very good! Thanks so much

[@spitzflight]

Great to hear!

[@justinf1343]

Thanks for sharing. Perfect for my hang gliding journey.

[@davesgliding]

You're really good at doing these graphics and presenting the information in a visual and informative way.

[@BartoszWisniewski-nl1gc]

Great job! Hope your channel will reach all gliding students!

[@botondban2290]

Thanks for the great summary of thermal sources

[@Hemersonr]

thanks for sharing awesome animations perfect to learn and discuss with colleagues and students

[@spitzflight]

its my pleasure. I am thinking of making an aero-tow animation + reality ...

[@LSVFlachkurbler]

regarding the landscape investigation - woods are by far the best thermal source. Elevation changes in the terrain also very important (high = good, low = bad). A tractor on a field is close to irrelevant. But luckily, with all the offsetting from wind etc. even a pilot with a completely wrong understanding will statistically find thermals here and there.

[@cabanford]

Professional paragliding pilot here - really amazing graphics! (Almost exactly the same for us as for sailplanes). My vario also uses an accelerometer - no more 2 second delay (my first various had that delay).

[@spitzflight]

Of course, compensated is better, and with accelerometer also ...

[@dougsmith6793]

Alas ... I will be doing most of my training to fly gliders on a simulator. The real art of flying one of these is the one thing a simulator just can't do, and that's the nuanced accelerations up and down that lets you know in real time what the glider is doing. But I think the simulations will help with overall familiarity, develop at least some reflexes in relation to yaw string movements, help develop coordinated turns, and help maintain constant speed so it won't feel so foreign / new in the glider itself.

[@eisenhans9]

we love it.

[@EFIS.Onlineschulung]

Great content. Keep the good work going ;-)

[@spitzflight]

We will!

[@sailingjabulani]

Nice video. I feel "down" and "up" wind can be confusing. Perhaps using "rising" or "sinking" air might clarify things.

[@spitzflight]

Thanks! Will use this terms in the next vid ...

[@nelsonpesenti9704]

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[@JörgBächtiger]

Super content, thanks! Go on...

[@spitzflight]

More to come!

[@alex-in-the-sky]

amazing graphics and visuals ! with what software do you do particle animation?

[@spitzflight]

blender

[@alex-in-the-sky]

@@spitzflight beautiful !!

[@petercrowhurst]

Hi , what mountains are you gliding over at the end of the video

[@spitzflight]

"Mittagsspitze" between Carinthia and Slowenia. See here: (sorry, only German): kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpKvkKawlJ5rf8U

[@AeroclubBexbach]

Verry 😎 cool. Always happy landings. Aeroclub bexbach EDRX 😊

[@mcyounglordlauch7012]

At 5:30 the sinkrate is just 0.6, i can only dream about such little in my ASK 23

[@spitzflight]

did my first solo on ASK23 !

[@mcyounglordlauch7012]

@@spitzflight i did mine a bit over a year ago on our ASK 21, an beginning of this year i got to fly our 23 :))