On Sep 17, 9:11*am, Paul Tribe
wrote:
At 06:48 17 September 2010, TRKA wrote:On 16 Sep., 19:59, Westbender *wrote:
On Sep 16, 12:44=A0pm, Brad *wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=3DUWRX1hcz0_0&feature=3Dplayer_embedded#!



the guy shooting the video has a Flarm on top of his panel, in
some of
the scenes you can see the display lighting up and see the
target
sailplanes. I thought this was pretty cool to see Flarm in
action.

Brad

Very cool.

Hi Brad, it seems you are watching streckenflug.at website ?

Cool video!

If, as I assume it was made using a head mounted camera, what
happened to the scan cycle? The pilot did not seem to look up or
left for over two minutes from 1:33 into the video...

This observation points out the risk of posting online soaring videos.
It is amazing to see how people actually fly once you look back at the
video of their flights including their visual scans. I am not excusing
lack of scanning during any portion of any duration flight, and it
sounds like you are very aware of the need for constant scanning and
probably do a very good job Paul. That said, take up a video camera
and film yourself on one of your next longer flights and you will be
shocked at all the "mistakes" and safety omissions you may end up
committing. In my videos I have found that I need to constantly remind
myself to look over my shoulder to clear the turn before turning.
Watching my own videos has helped me to start identifying these
mistakes and start correcting them in subsequent flights. Again, take
up a video camera, mount it somewhere and forget about it and then be
amazed at what you will learn about your own flying mistakes.

BTW, thanks to lucadema1 for posting the final glide video! It was
quite fun to watch. Good job.

Take care,
Bruno - B4
http://www.youtube.com/user/bviv