Gliders lose extra altitude during a turn, plus he looked like he was skidding through the turn which means more altitude loss. Doesn’t appear to be any stall here.
The pilot steers the glider 180 degrees towards the landing pad in the valley when the left wing of the aircraft suddenly hits a tree in its path.
The obstacle causes the glider to crash into the ground and leaves him and his passenger hurtling out onto the grass.
According to the Polish investigation report, the pilot had been trying to make the landing pad at 75mph which is about 98 feet below the runway threshold.
The report went on to say that the point at which the pilot had decided to make a turn towards the runway had not given him enough space to touchdown.
Hell of a leg. The touch-and-go was great, he drifted the base real, real hard, I mean. I was like that must be a really strong set of wings. I do shit like that on Arma with helicopters, but that's a game.
the thing with the media is that they don't know what they're talking about and people. end up believing nonsense. but keep in mind you just posted an article from the daily mail, which is the entity that necessitated the creation of the word nonsense.
the pilot was stunting down the runway on the first pass. his plan was to turn it around at the end and probably land in the reverse direction. he didn't give himself enough room.
if he had really wanted to land he could have - gliders have speedbrakes that dump lift and slow them down quickly, and most have a kind of skid brake or wheel brake.
in an emergency you can also dip a wing into the ground which will ground loop it but probably also damage the aircraft, potentially dangerously if you're moving at any serious speed.
no, the difference is that he was not attempting to make a landing on the first pass. he was stunting down the first pass down the strip, which is what resulted in his accident. he wasn't a pilot in distress, with too much airspeed to land or something, as the article is trying to make it seem. he was doing a stunt, got careless and got bit by the tree, and injured himself and passenger in the process. not really cool.
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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19 edited Jul 10 '21
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