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We use spotters to give the person flying a big sailplane info on when and where parasails enter the window etc. Info given (from direction) approx height, color of sail, tandem or single. You might also hear "all clear to the South, or North". We give the same info when landing.

​@@sdmollerThey're not parasails.

@@twinspark540 time to start one. 😎👍

@@sdmoller In Germany is Envy too much🥲

There are some great spots in Germany. On my bucket list is to come over to Germany and fly some gliders. One day.

It is such a great flier. Love flying it there.

Well, I think he bought it as a result of watching us fly ours and raving about them. It's truly a great thermal flier. Not meant to do big fast dives or fly by's but simply just float and the handling is incredible. Easy as a trainer to land.

Yep, he is a showman for sure. I personally love to watch him fly almost as much as I love flying my self.

@@sdmoller That's awesome!

Thank you. 🙂

LOL, it's a great flier. Im sure you will enjoy it.

Truth be told. He test flew my Heron and after that flight it was no longer mine!!! Here in this video he is flying on his radio after we transferred over the file. If this video cost you $400.- don't watch any of the other videos..... It could cost you anywhere from $5k to $20k. :-)

@@sdmoller You're right. I will ask my bank before they play another video

Yes, it is suppose to calm one down and ease tension. :-)

Thank you :-)

They tried back in the late 70's but it failed. I know coming from Denmark that the metric system is much easier to use as most here could not tell you off hand how many ounces there are in a gallon! Even worse is now many feet or yards are in a mile. Metric I could easily tell you there are a thousand meters in a kilometer etc. I asked the question as I relate to wing span mostly by meters as so many kids I work with come from Europe.

Thank. you. 🙂

Steffen was there Wednesday & Thursday but had to go back early Friday monring. I have forwarded your comment to him.

Thank you Ray. Hopefully next time you can join us.

Well the Spektrum is more popular here in the USA, but I agree with you the Jeti seams more advance and with the dual band more reliable. Not sure if the programming is any easier on the Jeti then on our Spektrum. Well glad you enjoyed, there is more to come.

@@sdmoller Just kidding but I really like Jeti. I feel that the programming is very straightforward but it all depends what are you used to. What I really hate is OTX, I bought a Radiomaster just to experiment with OTX and I got rid of it.

Not exactly sure what you are asking, but she doesn't fly that fast. I think if Aaron was to put a lot more ballast into it, it could pick up some speed in the dives.

Aaron got it second hand already built. I did an overhaul on it mainly just replacing servo wires that were old. I believe it is an old Baudis kit (moulded fiberglass fuse and wings).

The LET Model DG-1000 is 5.3m and 4.8m with the short tips

@@sdmoller What technology are used to make the wings?

@@vasilkarpec3282 the sailplanes comes already constructed in all fiberglass and carbon fiber. All one has to do is install the electronics.

Now they have stairs the whole way down. No more sliding down the hill. I've had to go down a few time in the early 80's to retrieve my sailplane that I thought could stay up floating in the light lift days.

It was ok. The wind would come and go.

Thank you John. Yes we are still not allowed to have props, although a few flights have been done with props but we usually disconnect the motor.

first off he has this sailplane 2nd hand. But I think who ever built it looked a pictures of the full scale and must have seen the HB-3241 and liked it and copied it. We actually had the current owner pop in and say hello. My sailplanes I will some times copy color schemes but usually change the N number to something that is personal to me like my AMA # or my birthday. We can do almost anything we want. I'm from Denmark but my 44% DG-1000 sports the Swiss colors.

The paraglides lines are made out of nylon and would work as a cheese cutter on our sailplanes. It does take a bit of experience in getting full control of one’s flying to the point you are not even thinking about it but the glider is flying the exact path you want. We do have to keep looking ahead to make sure we don’t fly into them. We observe a flight rule which keeps us out of trouble, always blue sky between them and us. A rookie flyer usually flies something much smaller and mostly out of foam. We have see many times foamies hung up it their lines but there are no damage or real danger there. The biggest issue for us is them violating their window rules. The window is the area between the south and first north flag. Their rules that can complicate things for us when they break them is: 1). No turning in the window. 2). Only one of them in the window at one time. 3). Whistle repeatedly while flying through the window. 4). No flying in over the RC pit and mound area. Most common rules that they break are multiples flying through the window at one time that makes it complicated for us to fly in between them. Another is when they fly in over our mound from behind us. We can’t see them until they’re out in front of us. The other is when they turn around or do aerobatics in the window in front of us that makes it really difficult to pick a clean line around them. I have watched my friend Steffen, who flies in this video who is a very talented pilot dump a $7000 glider straight into the ground because the parasail out in front chose to turn around together with multiple other parrisales through at the same time, left my friend no place to go but two point the light way to the ground Basically a total loss