10 metre take off run - off a cliff !!
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Thanks for posting that. It brought back happy memories of a gliding holiday there in the mid 60's. First bungee launch was in a 50 kt wind in a Capstan. On the second go, I hadn't noticed that the wind had moderated a bit and I came in much too fast. My instructor closed the brakes and we did a touch and go back into the hill lift. The third launch was solo in a Swallow, straight into my one and only experience of wave soaring, sadly too short as it was getting dark.
Thanks for posting that. It brought back happy memories of a gliding holiday there in the mid 60's. First bungee launch was in a 50 kt wind in a Capstan. On the second go, I hadn't noticed that the wind had moderated a bit and I came in much too fast. My instructor closed the brakes and we did a touch and go back into the hill lift. The third launch was solo in a Swallow, straight into my one and only experience of wave soaring, sadly too short as it was getting dark.
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The best I saw was the pilot who rolled off a mountain engine off and glided engine off to a valley airfield where he landed engine off
Will try and find the video
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Will try and find the video
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The dead stick takeoff! My hero!
I bet he left little to chance. Probably started off low power, idle power, then deadstick. Those rocks may be hard to hit due to an increase in the slope. As far as where he landed, I think he ended up right where he intended. Looks like fun, but the hills out here in the plains are not quite high enough for me to try it.
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As I recall it, from the point of view of a terrified passenger, that technique, or something quite like it, was used routinely at Saiq in the Jebel Akhdar in the 1970s by SOAF Skyvans operating at military MTOW and STOL regs, and sometimes - whisper - by a GF Skyvan operating under Public Transport regs, but only when no-one was looking.
But memory is a fallible guide, so probably they did no such thing.
But memory is a fallible guide, so probably they did no such thing.
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I bet he left little to chance. Probably started off low power, idle power, then deadstick. Those rocks may be hard to hit due to an increase in the slope. As far as where he landed, I think he ended up right where he intended.
Overall, not what I would call a risk free pursuit, but he most likely approached this with a bit of caution.