Glider Thrill Rides

Think about it, if you decide a gliding club one day visit. Are you up for a sedate float around the sky in a glider rules, or you would like a little more experience? Print this article and take it with you next time you for a passenger flight to an Gliding Club! Use one of the suggestions to spice up the flight for you or your family!

Here is a summary of all the exciting things that you can go, when to ask for a passenger ride in one is> Glider. These ideas for the thrill rides were many memories of my years until moving dredged material as a teacher. I recognized my passengers, and students had experienced a number of interesting little escapades. Especially teenage passengers, they are usually game for a coaster of some kind!

Now I think most of you who have read this book, not really taken a ride, a glider, glider or whatever they are called. These are the full-size aircraft, I'm talking about,not hang! Gliding clubs are spread over many countries, particularly in Europe, the USA, Australia and South Africa. It's easy to contact a club and you just turn up on the weekend for a passenger flight. I will not rise in prices, as this varies a lot from country to country and even club to club. But the costs are very reasonable in most cases for a 10 or 20 minutes flight. Longer flights are possible if the weather conditions are suitable.

Winch launch

If you try toa flight to get to a club, use of Glider winch launch. Yes, actually gliders in the sky at the end of a long cable winch. The winds will be driven by a strong engine, often a V8, and it draws the screen like a giant dragon. Sometimes the cable breaks, but that is simply routine and results in a short flight and a little inconvenience to the ground! Come to think of it, could this situation as a roller coaster for an unsuspecting passenger! First, theRuck, if the wire breaks. Secondly, the rather abrupt nose-down motion of the glider as the pilot makes sure that remains the airspeed. Sudden but smooth.

Well, why not even normal winch launch exciting? Because you walk like a fighter jet, that's why. The nose of the glider points to the sky at an angle of 45 degrees or so, and you will reach release altitude in less than 30 seconds. Even an experienced glider pilots tend to enjoy it again and again! I am suredid.

An even more exciting form of start is now only rarely done in days. They called it start a reflex. The tow rope, a rope is not even a wire or cable, had a bit to stretch it. It was connected to the glider's release point at one end, and the other end was attached to a powerful car. A loop was created to put a certain bias in the rope, before the vehicle went down the runway collection. TWANG. I remember a Blanik L13 with 2 persons on board off the ground in lungemaybe 3 meters (10 feet) and begin climbing like a homesick angel. Ah, those were the days.

Pushing The Envelope

With "the limits" I mean by a plane a little closer to its limits than usual!

Some are trying to say is not too extreme, but still exciting enough for your mother or grandmother, it is asking for the pilot to throw in a few really steep turns. Sailors often need to ever do to stay within the confines of the narrow patch of risingAir and thermals. OK, how steep? Try 60 or 70 degrees. That's pretty steep, it will seem like the screen right onto the page. What's more, gentle G-forces to begin pulling at Granny's face, while the aircraft is held in the fall, and the horizon spins past.

Now it's Dad's turn. Let's rough it a little more than grandmother! Ask the pilot to throw in a few stalls and spins. Here's what happens in a deliberate stall. The pilot slows the glider down throughThe aim of the nose up and keep it there with back pressure on the joystick. But without engine, the aircraft can not climb like this for very long. After a while everything goes dead silent when the airspeed falls below the stall speed of the screen. Suddenly, the nose pitches down and Dad can be found staring at the ground far below, diving, and apparently straight at them! The screen again builds up speed very quickly, then there are the pilots carefully stageFly again. Dad was surprised, but thinks he can just enjoy the next one!

Continues the pilot of a spin. Everything is the same as for the stable. IN ADDITION, just before the nose drops occurs this time of the pilot in full rudder. The joystick is again held at the attacks. Denied Poor aircraft, only to fly now. A wing drops, the ground is directly in front of Papa, turned the nose drops around and around and around. The altimeter winds, mom on the floorwonders what it's like raising children will be on their own ... But no problem. The pilot skillfully keeps spinning and gently pulls the screen from the resulting dive.

Now it's the kid's turn. He has a big grin on his face. Give me everything that had grandma and father, please, plus more! The Kid is a game for anything, so the teacher chooses to go through so much of the basic aerobatic repertoire as height. Steep turns, stalls, spins, then wing-overs, loops, a slow roller, aTo make stall. A little bit more tame than what you might see Pitts Special doing at an air show, but The Kid loves every second.

A few strange things

I can not resist throwing in a few odd-ball remember things that I do. First, the fun exercise of throwing a complete toilet roll-out of the clear view window of a glider. Then he turned back to the unraveling streamers floating down through the air on the spot. What's the point? To chop it into pieces, of course, with theWings of the screen, yes, so much fun to fly back and forth, dive through the streamer again and again until it's time to think about the landing. I can imagine some of the passengers would be fun to see it. Maybe.

A little trick I used to point to my passengers, was from time to time, inspired by astronaut training. Yes, really! Uses the 2-seater airplane to have a microphone on a curly cord properly connected to the dashboard. The passenger would be asked to extend theirHand, with the microphone resting on her palm. Then, after the aircraft fueling up to near it's maximum speed, I'd climb suddenly in a pull-up. What followed was a demonstration of the Zero-G. That is, of weightlessness. By easing the joystick forward in the right way I could get the microphone to get up out of the hands of the traveler and hover there, weightless for a few seconds! If it is not driven for the belts, the traveler, and I want to have the cockpit!

You see, ifYour friendly local gliding instructor wants to do something similar to the last two!

Conclusion

Everything described here is very safe when performed by an experienced pilot. In fact, some things such as steep turns and stalls are an integral part of the standard training for glider pilots. Thus, the game and have a good time!

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