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  @charleslongley786212 күн бұрын

  Nice video John!

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  @johnfoster120112 күн бұрын

  @@charleslongley7862 Thanks! It was a lot of fun. A GREAT experience.

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  @jamesa572017 күн бұрын

  Great video in the old Phoebus A from a guy who used to fly the old Std Libelle. I bet we can out thermal today's ships costing 20 times as much, ha. I don't think about Washington State having desert-like terrain, but the eastern section looks like a great area for lift. In my much younger days, I would make an annual sojourn with a couple of other pilots out to Marfa, TX, where I did a couple of tasks as a group, but it definitely adds anxiety.

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  @johnfoster120117 күн бұрын

  @@jamesa5720 Thanks James. My Phoebus will climb with a Libelle, if I do my part. 😉 Eastern WA, especially the area around Ephrata, is a FANTASTIC area to grow your XC legs. Lots of good land-out fields and thermal markers like dust devils when down low. The soaring is pretty darn good!

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  @obiwanrazzy21 күн бұрын

  Awesome video, John. Looking forward to next year's competition already!

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  @johnfoster120120 күн бұрын

  @@obiwanrazzy Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

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  @Discusb4421 күн бұрын

  John, Your video made me feel so homesick. Since 1999 through 2022 I participated in the R-8 comp. Many great memories. I am glad you flew the contest. My first one was the best soaring education I ever received. My experience each year added to the previous one and eventually I got fairly good at it. Not on the winners circle much but there were times I did not make so many mistakes and did come in second and third. Had I been able to continue soaring I might have finished first.

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  @johnfoster120121 күн бұрын

  Thanks for the encouragement! I'm hoping to participate in many more future R8 events. I agree that it is one of the best soaring educational events you can attend. I learned SO much!

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  @Rocky6able21 күн бұрын

  Thanks for a very nice video, John!

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  @johnfoster120121 күн бұрын

  @@Rocky6able Thank you. It was fun producing it, and even better collecting the footage. 😉

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  @AdrianMelia-023 күн бұрын

  On top of everything, the Music! Please provide links!

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  @johnfoster120123 күн бұрын

  @@AdrianMelia-0 Thanks Adrian. Music is from the “Sound Tracks” available music in iMovie. Tracks are: 20 Miles North Big Sky Image Enchancementalist

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  @AdrianMelia-023 күн бұрын

  Thanks, John, the gliding is, of course, magnificent. I'm so glad that you're taking that Phoebe's to places it might never have gone were it not for your efforts.

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  @johnfoster120121 күн бұрын

  @@AdrianMelia-0 most of my other recent videos use music from Uppbeat. uppbeat.io

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  @SteveMinar26 күн бұрын

  John! Really enjoyed seeing your videos. Nicely done! Love the WeGlide content mixed in. Hope to join you in the air one of these days!

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  @johnfoster120126 күн бұрын

  @@SteveMinar thanks Steve. I hope so too.

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  @lautoka63Ай бұрын

  Nice work: thanks for sharing.

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  @johnfoster1201Ай бұрын

  Thanks. It’s fun!

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  @nickr56585 ай бұрын

  Wow, John! Great video. I almost bought a Phoebus back in 2013.

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  @johnfoster12015 ай бұрын

  Thanks. It’s been fun to fly. Lots of “bang for the buck”.

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  @zman972115 ай бұрын

  What software did you use to render the flight path?

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  @johnfoster12015 ай бұрын

  I did a video screen capture from WeGlide 3D flight replay. One of the features that the SSA makes available to us through the partnership with WeGlide. www.weglide.org/flight/336650

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  @user-yv4hg3gy9t6 ай бұрын

  Dear John. Nice weather, nice flight. I have got a Phoebus C, and I would like to ask how much force is on aileron when you deflect the ailerons? I feel relatively big force on it in the air. On the ground easy to move. Thank you very much! Best regards, Szabolcs

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  @johnfoster12016 ай бұрын

  You may notice I often fly with both hands on the joystick. This is for two reasons: elevator is very pitch-sensitive and light, so this gives me more control. The ailerons are quite heavy in flight. I would say it is similar to the G103 I have flown-light elevator, heavy ailerons, just more so. The rudder is also very heavy and responds slowly, but once it starts to respond, it is a big response. It is a big rudder on the Phoebus.

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  @lessainsbury85086 ай бұрын

  Hi John. Excellent flight . It must be quite rewarding to fly this classic glider that you restored. Watching enviously from fozen Canada

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  @johnfoster12016 ай бұрын

  Thank you sir. A little inspiration for the warmer months, posted from frozen Montana. 😉

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  @chrisbehm59476 ай бұрын

  Great flight John. Yeah it's tough when 13k seems low, right?!

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  @johnfoster12016 ай бұрын

  Thanks Target. Yep, at times 13K seems low. But learning to trust your flight computer and knowing you have glide back to your airport is very reassuring. But this comes with experience, and knowing you have the right data set in your flight computer.

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  @dfrobledo6 ай бұрын

  Wow ... Beautiful !!! Thank you John. I really enjoyed every single second.

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  @johnfoster12016 ай бұрын

  It was fun editing the video, but even more fun collecting the footage. 😉

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  @noelwade6 ай бұрын

  Congrats on a nice flight! As you get more comfortable with XC soaring, you'll be able to take days like this and easily do 300-500kms. Was this your January 1st flight? If so, I'm surprised at how little snow is on the ground out there!

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  @johnfoster12016 ай бұрын

  Thanks Noel. This flight was on 9/17/23. I’m really looking forward to more and longer XC flights. 🙂

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  @robertcouncil8396 ай бұрын

  What O2 system do you use?

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  @johnfoster12016 ай бұрын

  A first-gen Mountain High.

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  @soaringeagle10 ай бұрын

  Your gliders haunted that vario sounds like a screaming banshee . Isn’t that annoying?

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  @johnfoster12019 ай бұрын

  I no longer use that audio Piep vario. I now have a LX Nav S80, which I MUCH prefer.

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  @lessainsbury850810 ай бұрын

  Nice job on the restoration John. It's nice to see people restoring these old birds to their former glory .The Phoebus is one of the most aesthetically pleasing designs.

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  @johnfoster120110 ай бұрын

  Thanks. I wish I could do more.

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  @BenHirashima11 ай бұрын

  Spectacular scenery there!

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  @johnfoster120111 ай бұрын

  Yes indeed! Can’t wait to go back again. 😁

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  @dgrombach111 ай бұрын

  Where did you get the tow plane ?

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  @johnfoster120111 ай бұрын

  It belongs to Big Sky Soaring at the Flying Y Ranch airport in the Paradise Valley, just north of Yellowstone National Park.

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  @MarcoNierop11 ай бұрын

  That vario would drive me crazy! I have replaced my old cambridge beep vario (same thermo risistor technology, same nervous squeeking sound, but not as bad as yours! (check my older YT videos!)) with an LXNAV S80 a few years ago that I have given a pretty large dead band, Much better and relaxing than this thing LOL! But amazing views and good to see these old ships still fly so good. I have a Mini Nimbus from 1977, still flying clubclass competition with her, and doing amazingly well. This binding aileron, good call to go back, I had once a buzzing sound from sealing tape departing my Mini Nimbus, at the time I had no idea what it was, I was on the ground in no time, but was flying just locally so just one or 2 miles from the airfield. Keep on flying your Phoebus! Its a good sailplane with a huge money to fun ratio! ;-)

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  @johnfoster120111 ай бұрын

  Thanks for the encouragement. I have since replaced the Cambridge vario with a LX Nav S80 as well. I MUCH prefer it! I also added a PowerFlarm Core, which talks nicely to the S80. Nice to be able to see other traffic on the S80 as well. This can be seen in some of my newer YT videos.

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  @MarcoNierop11 ай бұрын

  @@johnfoster1201 Ok, much better!!. a few weeks ago I replaced my old red box flarm with a LXNav PowerMouse, which includes an ADSB receiver as well. Much better range now. Of course also connected with the S80 and via Bt the S80 is connected with my Android smartphone running LK8000.. I fly competition with this setup!

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  @andreas713611 ай бұрын

  The video would be better without music. Simply the noise of the wind and the beeping of the variometer..

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  @johnfoster120111 ай бұрын

  Thanks for your input. I'll keep that in mind when I'm editing my next video. Thanks.

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  @xptical11 ай бұрын

  Why did the flight at 9:19 not count? My Silver was 1000M gain, 50KM distance and 1HR duration...but that's from Condor.

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  @johnfoster120111 ай бұрын

  A Silver Badge in real life has 3 parts: 50km distance, 1000m altitude gain, and a 5hr duration. They don’t all have to be done in the same flight, fortunately. I don’t think Condor requires the 5hr duration, but could be wrong.

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  @xptical11 ай бұрын

  Just getting back into Condor and I see you killing it on the leaderboards while still getting IRL flights and editing videos.

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  @johnfoster120111 ай бұрын

  Flying is fun, whether in Condor or IRL. 😁

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  @benbayma997111 ай бұрын

  Always fun no matter what! Thanks for sharing.

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  @johnfoster120111 ай бұрын

  My pleasure. You're absolutely right!

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  @petermach8635 Жыл бұрын

  Yikes, what a super job and now you have a glider that fits you like a well made glove. At the start was that just dust on the canopy or had it uv misted ? Did it clean up, polish out or need replacing ?

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Originally when I picked it up, it was paint overspray on the canopy. I had to polish it out. The canopy is not perfect now, but definitely useable and a LOT better.

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  @WilhelmvonFahrvergnugen Жыл бұрын

  Superb Jon. I really look forward to watching you fly.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thank you! I look forward to getting many more hours of footage. 😉

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  @francisnonain4430 Жыл бұрын

  @@johnfoster1201 Bonjour John, tes images sont très belles, mais seront beaucoup plus agréables à regarder quand tu auras fait des coupures dans tes prises de vues: il est insupportable de devoir regarder du fil accéléré pendant 13 mn ...!!

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  @@francisnonain4430 Thank you for your input.

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  @nadgeemark Жыл бұрын

  Wow, a vario audio based on a Theromin. It would be like sitting through the soundtrack from a 1950s science fiction movie. 🤣

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Haha. For sure! Modern varios certainly have a less annoying sound.

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  @MarcoNierop11 ай бұрын

  Correction: HORROR movie 🙂

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  @terrycollins5429 Жыл бұрын

  Double speed!! whats the point!!

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Some people don’t like to watch long videos.

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  @josefsoltes8572 Жыл бұрын

  I did the similar on our way smaller hill in LKPN, Czech Republic. One hour flight, was even possible to jump to wave! But as it was only training flight with instructor, we did not try too hard :)

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  I’m looking forward to when we will do training flights here.

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  @WilhelmvonFahrvergnugen Жыл бұрын

  Wonderful again John. I made a video in MSFS 2020 in the AS33 Me inspired by your flights around Ronan.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  I saw that one! Very nice.

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  @lautoka63 Жыл бұрын

  True. One of our sons did about 260km yesterday (here in NZ) on what others described as an average day, with a low cloudbase. Pretty much what he said, except that he went out and flew for distance.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  "Fly when you have the time, not when the weather report is supposedly good", is what I say.

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  @jeremyreynaud5399 Жыл бұрын

  Wonderful!

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thank you!

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  @emiliosagichnicht7521 Жыл бұрын

  Man that Vario sounds like a histeric choking cat.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Haha. You’re right. Pretty amazing technology for the time though, right? But I’m glad to have something better in the cockpit now.

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  @frddybear Жыл бұрын

  So good to see you starting with the angels and fulfilling one of your deep longings! One day I trust I’ll be flying around with you in the heavens😂 without a vehicle!!! God Bless you John, so glad you finally got your baby up there!

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thanks Fred

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  @jocave1282 Жыл бұрын

  Wir hatten einige Jahre einen Phoebus C, damit zu gleiten prima! Im Gebirge zu drehen war nicht immer das Gelbe vom Ei. Und dann der Bremsfallschirm!! Trotzdem danke :)

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Fortunately I don’t have to deal with the drogue parachute with this glider. The spoilers work very well on the 15m wing. But I’ve heard they “anemic” for the 17m wing. It’s amazing what an extra 2m of wingspan can do, isn’t it?

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  @stanislouse4168 Жыл бұрын

  Another cell phone ready to knock out some teeth in a neg G.dive.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  How often does that happen? I've never heard of it happening before, but I imagine its possible.

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  @julianday Жыл бұрын

  Lift all over , it’s certainly not Britain.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  It was such a promising day! I was so bummed to have to go back due to this mechanical problem.

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  @WilhelmvonFahrvergnugen Жыл бұрын

  love the end bit, where you are trying to keep the wings flying!

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thanks. With enough headwind it is good practice to keep your reaction time fast.

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  @liss2166 Жыл бұрын

  pքɾօʍօʂʍ 🎉

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  I'm not able to translate this comment, so not sure how to respond. Sorry.

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  @terrycollins5429 Жыл бұрын

  brilliant video!!

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thank you.

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  @josefsoltes8572 Жыл бұрын

  Hello, how is the phoebus sizewise? Would 186 cm and 110 kg "small" person fit?

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  I’m about 185cm. I had to move the rudder pedals all the way back, and rebuild the instrument panel to make sure the cut-outs for the legs were high enough that my legs didn’t hit it. But I fit without hitting my head on the canopy. With parachute, I’m about 90kg. My elbows are against the cockpit walls, which somewhat limits my arm movements, but I’m able to still move the joystick through its full range. It’s tight, but doable for me. You’d have to “try it on” for yourself to see how it would work for you. Also, my glider has some damage history, which has added weight to it, which has cut down its max pilot weight to 95kg. Watch out for that.

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  @josefsoltes8572 Жыл бұрын

  @@johnfoster1201 Thanks.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  @@josefsoltes8572 You're welcome.

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  @sUASNews Жыл бұрын

  Nice one John

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

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  @cloudstreets1396 Жыл бұрын

  I think Phoebus means “enormous rudder” in Latin.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Haha 😂. It certainly has a very big rudder.

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  @SuperReasonable Жыл бұрын

  Those top and bottom brakes caused so many leakage problems they had to set them back so far towards the trailing edge, they became ineffective especially at high speed. It’s such a shame fully sealed top fitted brakes hadn’t been developed when the Phoebus was built because in the air, it was very nice to fly, although I only flew the 17m version with about 90hrs on type.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Apparently, the effectiveness of the spoilers on the 15m version is very different than on the 17m version. Mine are VERY effective, and other A and B model owners have reported the same to me. On the 17m (C model)-not so much. Thus the need for the drogue chute.

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  @lautoka63 Жыл бұрын

  Nice! I'm into my second syndicate, on the basis that I can't fly the glider all the time and it's nice to divide the bills in two when they arrive.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Very nice! That’s a good way to spread out the costs.

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  @wrinkledm Жыл бұрын

  That is one interesting vario tone for sure. You're a better man than I am, I try and turn mine down pretty low on tow to reduce the distractions. Seems like I can hear a second vario as well. Are you running two?

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  There is the museum piece “Piep-Vario” that makes the harsh squeal, and then an audio beeping from XC Soar running on the Android Phone.

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  @jimmygadd Жыл бұрын

  HAHAHAHAHAH like R2D2 was high on crack

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  @baldohnegez2191 Жыл бұрын

  Great to see that you keep this Plane working... Greetings from Mendig. What Place do you Fly?

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thanks. Montana is a FANTASTIC place to fly with many beautiful vistas to enjoy.

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  @tadeksmutek5840 Жыл бұрын

  Great job!:-) Have fun & safe flights only!

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thank you! Will do!

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  @AdrianMelia-0 Жыл бұрын

  Simply fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

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  @johnfoster1201 Жыл бұрын

  Thanks Adrian. It was fun putting the video together, but even better producing the footage. 😉