Soaring
Gliders are airplanes without engines. Soaring is flying a glider into rising air and flying as high as 18,000' and even higher, and flying cross country as far as 1000 miles in a flight!
Check out our club member who's known for his long cross country flights http://yanetz.blogspot.com , and these videos.
Check out our club member who's known for his long cross country flights http://yanetz.blogspot.com , and these videos.
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Here's the basics of how gliders flyLift, being on tow, and a bit on the airplanes. All filmed by bay area soaring pilots in California.
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Cross Country SoaringGliders can fly hundreds of miles even without an engine. Check out our club member Ramy's flights - each color is a single flight from 2016! Here's his blog at http://yanetz.blogspot.com
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FlightChop's YouTube episode on gliders #1Popular aviation YouTuber "FlightChops" visited the Truckee Tahoe Soaring Association where we fly over summer.
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FlightChop's YouTube episode on gliders #2Popular aviation YouTuber "FlightChops" visited the Truckee Tahoe Soaring Association where we fly over summer.
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European Glider ChampionshipsGlider racing is a thing. Pilots race around a set of waypoints for the fastest time. Distances can be 500 miles over the ground, and two to five hours in the air!
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SF Bay Tour Flight 1Club member Ramy Yanetz took on a challenging feat in a glider, fly from club HQ in Byron out to the Pacific Ocean and past, navigating around the San Francisco Airport's airspace. For his first attempt he did this below SFO's airspace.
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SF Bay Tour Flight 2Club member Ramy Yanetz bested his first bay tour fight navigating around the San Francisco Airport's airspace, this time above it flying between 15,000' and 18,000'
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SF Bay Tour Flight 3
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