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Fall colors over Nederland.
We had a chance to fly N2472W out over the aspens and mountains on Friday for some pictures. Thought I would post one here.
u/Kentness1 — 4 days ago
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How to properly self study
Hello everyone, I hope you are doing fine,
I am going to start my gliding training soon (21. November) and I need to self study very much. I need to read the book “Fliegen ohne Motor“, but I don’t know how I am going to remember everything on those 300+ pages.
How do you all properly self study? Do you note every important things on your iPad? I don’t have a tablet, but I don’t want to write everything on paper…? What are tips that helped you?
Thanks and have a good day :)
(English isn’t my first language so please be respectful, ty)
u/MultiFabiReal — 3 days ago
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Gliding meet-up/competition in the UK this weekend?
Hi! My husband and I have just driven down from Edinburgh to Cambridge and saw 3 cars towing (what I believe to be) gliders. One was heading north, two heading south. We have never seen one before so were curious as to if there was some sort of gliding event in the UK this weekend which led to us seeing 3 in one day! Ta :)
u/kkbods16 — 5 days ago
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Jet Startup and stow - JS1 B
A casual day out and decided to start up the noisemaker to get away.
Not a last minute start but an indication of what's involved.
The climb is then about 4 kts. Best operation is to fly at around 80 kts. As a past Solo turbo operator that takes some getting used to as with the 2 stroke you tend to climb at min sink speed not belting around! As I got the jet started this time I flew in to a bit of lift so just shut down again.
The control panel is on at the start of the video. It takes about 10 seconds to come on and do some self tests.
at 25 seconds - switch the control to 'erect'. When up the drag is less than having the wheel down!
at 30 seconds I switched the power source to battery 1, battery 2 is an old 10Ah pack and cant withstand the current required by the ignitors any more. Battery needs replacing.
at 36 seconds ( 11 seconds after selecting engine up ) the engine contro flips over to 'Switch to run' )
at 39 seconds I switch to run. The FADEC then takes control of spool up and start.
at about 57 seconds the ignitor starts firing as 3000 rpm is reached.
at 1:22 the engine is at idle 30000 rpm and I can throttle up. Roughly 60 seconds and 140' from erecting the engine.
before 1:30 has elapsed I have full power ( I only throttled up to 85% or so ).
a minute later I was in lift. Throttle down, Ignition off, wait a minute for it to cool and put it away.
u/nimbusgb — 8 days ago
Longer video of the glider accident
I've had this saved for a while, it provides better context into what they were doing and why they were in that position.
There were only minor injuries as a result
u/Easy_Pin1636 — 12 days ago
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First glider
Hey, I'm about to finally get my license after several years of training. I'm thinking about purchasing my own glider next year since our club is growing very fast and seats are getting a little bit rare especially if you plan to do long cross-country flights.
My budget is 30-40k€, I'm 1,93m and quite slim. The aircrafts I have in mind are LS3/LS4, ASW20 and DG300. I flew the LS4neo and loved it, also I could fit in very comfortable.
I would love to read some advices of pilots who are experienced in at least one of the gliders since I only flew the LS4neo.
Thanks!
u/Sea_Chemistry2944 — 13 days ago
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SkySight launches 100m Ridge & Wind models
SkySight’s new 100-metre Wind and Ridge Forecast model has left beta and is now generally available across all SkySight forecast regions. It works great for mountain flying, helping you find the fastest ridges and avoid getting dumped. It's very useful even in just hilly terrain, as the local flow peaks tend to be good for thermal formation.
We trained this model on 100m OpenFOAM CFD simulations over the entirety of our forecast areas, running on GPU's. We think this will be as big of a step forward as when we brought wave forecasts into the cockpit in 2017.
Would love to hear what everyone thinks, especially those who've been flying with it via Copilot. I'm available to answer questions.
u/SkySight-Weather — 14 days ago