Worlds Training in Extreme Heat: Strategy & Gliding Performance

Join me on an official training day for the World Gliding Championship in the Texas heat! In this video, I share key strategies on how to stay fast during good weather conditions, including tips on reading clouds, using the variometer, and optimizing speed in my AS33 glider. Plus, you'll see beautiful in-flight footage and insights into team flying and decision-making. Don't forget to subscribe for more gliding adventures!
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[@CasTheMan_]

Hey Stefan great to see you fly again. My gliding lessons are going great, my instructor says I will be flying solo next summer! 👍

[@kevinleazenby6704]

Great work Stefan, thank you for sharing!!

[@JorgeCarrizo]

happy flying Stefan !

[@CLdriver1960]

Great video Stefan, I’m looking forward to hearing more about your prototype variometer that you mentioned at 7:15. BTW, really enjoying my Stefly Nav 70 flight computer. Cheers from Canada!

[@SteFly]

Thank you! Great that you enjoy our SteFly Nav 70 flight computer. I will keep you informed about the new variometer display. Cheers, Stefan!

[@flyneur]

Thanks a lot! As always, great crafts!👌💫

[@tinchote]

Congrats, Stefan! Amazing result.

[@FPVFrieKi]

Vor ein paar Stunden noch beim OLC Finale und gleichzeitig mal wieder ein Cooles Video rausgehauen😉 Mach immer Spaß etwas mit zuschauen beim Weltmeister 🎉 Glückwunsch nochmal & Happy Landings

[@knowledgebyte]

Great camera a work with the 360 views. Keep up the good work, you’re an inspiration to others looking to get into the sport or returning from years away.

[@SteFly]

Thank you so much!

[@EwenBourillon]

Amazing gliding video, amazing glider you are amazing Stefan

[@AndrewBashtovoy]

Ausgezeichnetes Ergebnis beim Wettbewerb Stefan. Konvektive Strömungen heißer Luft von der sonnenerwärmten Landebahn lassen das Segelflugzeug nicht lange landen und erhöhen den Bodeneffekt.

[@hendroide7155]

Hi Stefan, wie hat sich die AS33 gegen den Ventus 3 geschlagen? Hast du unterschiede zwischen den Flugzeugen feststellen können, wie das der Ventus etwas besser steigt, die AS33 dafür besser im Geradeausflug ist? Danke im Voraus!

[@bonitron5057]

Du wirst hier von Stefan sicher keine Antwort auf Deine Frage erhalten, weil das wahrscheinlich eine riesen Disskusion mit einem Haufen mytischer Argumente auslösen würde. Was Du Dir aber sicher sein kannst ist, dass der leistungsmäßig größte Unterscheid zwischen den beiden Flugzeugen immer das Geschwür am Steuerknüppel ist.

[@SteFly]

Bei dem guten Wetter hatte man schon deutlich den Flächenbelastungs-Unterschied gespürt. Im dynamischen Geradeausflug geht die AS33 merkbar besser als der Ventus 3. Im Kreisflug kann man den Ventus 3 am engsten kreisen, die AS33 hat aber noch einen messbar kleineren Kreisdurchmesser, als die JS3 und steigt somit besser (AS33). Mit den sehr großen Gleitstrecken, war die Steigleistung weniger wichtig als die Gleitflugeigenschaften. Ich war auf jeden Fall äußerst zufrieden mit meiner Flugzeugwahl. In Deutschland bei mittelmäßigen Bedingungen werden die Unterschiede nicht so deutlich zu sehen sein. Für eine detaillierte Analyse kann man sehr gut WeGlide verwenden.

[@hendroide7155]

​@@SteFlyvielen Dank für die ausführliche Antwort!👍

[@rheinbit]

Thanks for the video ❤.. great!! 👍

[@premde]

Excellent video!

[@SteFly]

Thank you Paul!

[@Tannerxcsoaring]

Amazing how fast your average speeds are! I dont know though - I still think you all fly differently because you have the back up motor? maybe more aggressive

[@SteFly]

No, usually there is no difference in the average speed if you have a motor or not. Perhaps at the very critical days where you know you will need to land somewhere, some pilots are pushing a little bit more and are relying on their propulsion system. But also at our "outlining" day I started my motor at a farm strip.

[@Krispzz]

Thought it was going to be a lot busier when u were landing but I guess not.

[@pasipulkkinencom]

Oh it was. Especially contest days :) This was short cut practise day and Stefan was about first back.

[@SteFly]

@@Krispzz At some days it got very busy at landing. But the runway is long and we were also allowed to land on the taxiway.

[@Krispzz]

@@SteFly that’s good then great video keep it up.

[@medosil]

👍

[@carlosc.8725]

Do you use a 360 Degree GoPro?

[@SteFly]

Insta 360 X4

[@mattmatt245]

MC 3.0, wasn't it too optimistic ?

[@tinchote]

Whatever it was that he did at Uvalde, it worked crazy well.

[@SteFly]

To be honest, I don´t have a close look at the MC value for the speed to fly. Fun fact: I was flying with the ASG29 polar in XCSoar because I was too lazy to create a custom polar for the AS33. For me it´s only important for the final glide calculation. At the end I don´t know if a speed to fly with MC value is still very helpful with modern sailplanes. But the new vario technology is amazing to use energy lines very efficient.

[@tinchote]

@@SteFly Absolutely. Already in the late 70s and early 80s Ingo Renner favoured fixed speeds as opposed to following a flight director as many did back then. My own feeling out of my experience is that there is more to lose from extreme speed angle of attack changes than the small loses from not flying at the perfect theoretical speed. Some successful pilots I've meet tended too fly faster than the theory on bombastic days, and slower than the theory on poor days; it seemed to work very well for them; of course the most important part of the equation is that they flew along the best lines between thermals. I assume that the crazy good gliders of today like the AS33 have such good performance that it makes sense to fly super fast all the time. As for using the 29 polar instead of the 33, I'm sure that the random differences in lift and sink along your path are way bigger than the polar difference between those two birds. Anyway, congrats again, Stefan. Winning consecutive worlds, one in the mountains and the other in the flats is really really impressive.

[@XXfea]

, America 🎉

[@toodie-em2mp]

I'm proud of your accomplishment! A world champion, so glad i stayed with all of your flights! You have put the work in,, you pushed yourself by getting a lot of experience, good job! Happy soaring!

[@SteFly]

Thank you so much Toodie!!

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