Extreme mountain glider flight video link

It’s cold at the base of those clouds, especially in shorts …
The crazy stuff here is that he gets overspeed warning all the time when he is pissing away altitude on the run down that chute.

Was it an overspeed warning ??
I thought it was the ‘Sink (down) Alarm’ on the vario/flight director !
Then again I am a little out of date on glider instruments 😀

It’s cold at the base of those clouds, especially in shorts …
The crazy stuff here is that he gets overspeed warning all the time when he is pissing away altitude on the run down that chute.

Yes saw it a few weeks ago…would love to do that sort of flying 😀

Crazy but awesome.:)

Wow!

That looked radical! Loads of lift about – all they had to do was slow down to use it . Most worrying – the guy was wearing shorts!!!! If he had “landed out” he would have been dead in hours from Hypothermia.

I’m no pilot but was that variometer just showing a constant 6 – 8 down all the time.. Didn’t see any evidence of lift.

If you pay close attention to the variometer you may notice some occasional lift, but nothing that lasts. Depending on the wind, I imagine that a few rotors might appear here and there in that area.

I’m not familiar with FAA VFR or rules for ridge flying with gliders. Were the persons in the video enjoying very liberal rules or breaking them?

in my opinion that was kind of reckless, all he needed was one small down draft and he would have been a 6 lettered word beginning with F and ending in D

Although the scenery amazing 🙂

I’m no pilot but was that variometer just showing a constant 6 – 8 down all the time.. Didn’t see any evidence of lift.