A beginners guide to thermalling.

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Published 2020-04-26
Preparation for your first thermal to cloud base and what to do when there.
This is aimed at the new pilots and has been left just basic with not over doing the instruction.

All Comments (15)
  • @BobJones20001
    Thanks Marc, I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I think a first ever XC flight ending after 15km by being able to thank a farmer then off to the pub to be a brilliant day
  • @glyngin
    Great video Marc, Annecy looked really nice!
  • @climb315
    Thank you wery much! Love the videos!
  • @jasonheight
    Nice vid.....not even got as far as thinking about any xc at all this year. just trying to be patient for when lockdown is over and then try and build up currency slowly till i hit my first cloud base.
  • I love you man you're great I just got my wing I'm still studying and I have to figure out where to fly near my home because I'm poor. This idea of being kind to Farmers is something that you didn't stress. You should find farmers who have a place you would like to launch and then tell them you will fly up the cloud base and throw out some cornstarch so it will rain on their fields. From the respectful way you speak I can tell you got a lot of self-respect and you don't want to go someplace and ruin it for everybody because some farmer let you in to seed clouds and make money. Whenever I land in someone's field if they come speak to me I'm going to tell them I ran into a haystack and offer them $20 for the damages of me hitting the hay stack. I already have farmers who will let me launch from their big hill and I want to have a ring of hills around my house no matter which way the wind is blowing I'll always launch on a ridge and try to fly home. I want to wiggle around in my seat and worry about landing in exactly the perfect place and you're talking about knowing one field and settling for Another. It's very reassuring. I have lousy launching conditions but good landing.
  • @MatrixMachine
    me just checking in to get familiarize before getting in to learn fly :)
  • @moritzleidler
    Hi Marc, had a bit of a bumpy ride with a lot of thermals here in the alps. Therefore I wanted to ask you, how I should act once, for instance, I can feel a pull at the right of my wing and it gets shaky? Where to pull the brake and how much approx.? Where the weight putting to? Sometimes it pulled me out of a sudden with 3 m/s like an elevator and that was a bit scary πŸ˜… So just to know the basics how to act once it starts pulling at one side of the wing would be highly appreciated πŸ™πŸΌ Cheers and have a great weekend, Moritz