New 7 part personal soaring movie in Utah

There is an SSA Director who runs a commercial glider operation who
videotapes landings and coaches even experienced pilots using this
tape. This person says it works pretty good for the coaching,
especially since some of the pilots with 25+ years in the same
glider get enough lift they only launch maybe a dozen or so times a year
for the exceptional days, so they don't do a lot of landing practice.

I've taped landings, and have a treasured tape of a very elegant
ground loop, wings level the whole time, where the 180 set the
guy up for tow out in the opposite direction. I'd heard of this done
in Hawaii on purpose before, but even after watching the tape, I don't
think I could make it happen myself

In article .com,
Bruno wrote:
I am amazed that more people don't film their flights and share them
with others. Yes, it leaves you open to criticism - I know my yaw
string isn't straight a lot of the time. If people had any idea what
we experience up there, we'd have quite a few more friends soaring with
us.

The links to the videos are on my homepage (I hope you have a fast
internet connection).
http://phoebus.vassel.com

Hope you all enjoy!
Bruno



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Mark J. Boyd

I wish I had filmed it... hard to believe otherwise. I witnessed, with
several others, the final moments of a commercial ride at an east coast
gliderport. The commercial pilot turned very short base to final and
failed to level out completely before the right wingtip touch the
ground. The glider rotated 180 degrees in the air, the landed (pretty
smoothly) backwards. It tracked straight for several wingspans, then
touched a wingtip and ground looped 180, once again facing its
direction of travel. The passenger got out and exclaimed it was the
coolest flight he'd ever taken.