I found, I found!

[Anders Moen]

I found lift today :D
I've had some tours on about 2-5 minutes with my Spirit Elite, but today I found lift and I was up for some more than 30 minutes

Sailplanes just became much more funnier :cool:

[seanpcola]

:D Ahhh, another one hooked for life! ;)

[ejett]

There is nothing like hooking up and skying out. Good thermals are elusive, but worth the search. Once you get a taste like that it is as addictive as drugs. Maybe it is a drug.

Anyway, congratulations on the great flight and good flying to you in the future. Do you live close enough to a club of kindred spirits to join in with them? Flying with friends definitely makes it better.

EJ

[TheNightowl]

Congrats, Anders. Wish I could send you some of these Kansas summer thermals for a Christmas present!
Nightowl

[rogerflies]

"There is nothing like hooking up and skying out."

Yeah, that's fun, but my most enjoyable flights involve working weak lift down low.

I had one yesterday that lasted 27 minutes. Only three minutes were above launch altitude (probably about 500 feet). After that, I kept finding little bubbles below 50 feet that I could work for several minutes to get back to 300 feet or so.

Roger

[Anders Moen]

:D Ahhh, another one hooked for life! ;)Hehe, yeah, hope so :)

Anyway, congratulations on the great flight and good flying to you in the future. Do you live close enough to a club of kindred spirits to join in with them? Flying with friends definitely makes it better.Thank you
Yeah, I fly with some other guys in the club. One of them is teaching me sailplanes, he's a great guy. He owns a Pike Perfect and I hung in the air longer than him yesterday :D but that could be because it seemed like he was doing 2 minutes flying...hehe

Congrats, Anders. Wish I could send you some of these Kansas summer thermals for a Christmas present!
NightowlI can't wait that long for more thermals hehe


I had one yesterday that lasted 27 minutes. Only three minutes were above launch altitude (probably about 500 feet). After that, I kept finding little bubbles below 50 feet that I could work for several minutes to get back to 300 feet or so.Hehe, I wasn't very high either. I think I was maybe 50-60 meters high +/-. Not sure
But there I hung hehe



But I was stupid on my flight....
With some time I flew a bit away from where the thermal were, so I took a turn and ended up a bit outside it with too little altitude so I couldn't get back in it. Then I came in for landing and lost my speed in a turn and crashed. But luckily: nothing broken except a plasticscrew(?) :)

[dwells]

Congrats Anders. Now you'll be staring at the sky all the time thinking "this is the same way the clouds looked, and the same way the wind felt, is there lift there? Or maybe it's over there...yes, there has to lift over there"

[Anders Moen]

Hehe
Maybe, maybe not. I think so, as I have already done it a few times looking at birds hehe

So now it's just to wait till the guy who has the winch is ready again :)
Also considering buying an electric sailer some time so I'm not completely depending on him and his winch..

[FrogChief]

Hehe
Maybe, maybe not. I think so, as I have already done it a few times looking at birds hehe

So now it's just to wait till the guy who has the winch is ready again :)
Also considering buying an electric sailer some time so I'm not completely depending on him and his winch..

Get a highstart my Norse brother!!! :D

-Sean Kaldahl

[Anders Moen]

No :D
I tried that before starting on the winch, and well. I must admit that I think it's easier to handle the plane on the winch

I've been looking for a new sailer now...I found a used (and cheap) Pike Superior but I'm not sure yet as it sounded a bit too used

[aeajr]

The joy of lift. Now that you have tasted of the good stuff, you will never be the same.

[Hossfly72]

Found some quotes that you're probably feeling right now. Congrats on the flight. It just gets better from here...





My soul is in the sky.

— William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Scene I.

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

— Octave Chanute, regards people who tried his gliders, 1894.

Gliders, sailplanes, they are wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

— Neil Armstrong

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

— Otto Lilienthal

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

— Otto Lilienthal, 1874.

When gliding operators have attained greater skill, they can maintain themselves in the air for hours at a time.

— Wilbur Wright, 1901.

The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends.

— Philip Wills

The fascination of flight can't be expressed with words. But it really lies beyond the capabilities of human endeavor. Once you've experienced it, you'll never be able to forget it.

— Friedrich Oblessor, 127 victories WWII.

Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.

— Michael Parfit, 'Smithsonian' magazine, May 2000

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry