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I want one!

I love watching these ultralight videos and appreciate the interesting, instructional explanations. It's a shame that I've watched small airports disappear, one-after-another, as soaring land values have developers offering deals small airport owners can't refuse. The nearest uncontrolled airport is now 70 miles away from me.

First plane i ever flew was a single surface rudder only quiksilver. I was in the USAF at the time. I sold it after 120 hours of rebuilding it to perfection including sails and engine. The first flight i hit a pocket of air and lost complete control. I remember watching the brace wires and wing tips flex in the turbulence which on this day was so calm the balloons were flying. (If hot air guys were out i usually was too). I got the plane down and another puff of wind pushed me off runway. As to not sideload the plane I just kinda went with it as the side was grass. I came to rest in a large fire ant pile and they climbed up the tire and destroyed my legs and thigh. I healed up fine, plane had no damage, so i parked it. 2 weeks later the FAA called me and notified me in was under investigation for leaving the runway at this small airport on my rollout. I explained what happened and at the time i was a student so i wasnt quite solo legal to fly and my thirst for flight was immense so i flew ultralight between training. Theybdid their best to try and revoke my student pilot license but it took a lot of convincing ultralights dont count. Turned out the airport Karen had reported me, and said i hit a runway sign. This particular sign was always bent from time ive been there and still to this day its bent. They fined me a couple thousand for the sign and inwasnt allowed to fly again till i finished my pilots license. After that things just weren't fun anymore and lost its magic. I still fly alot and enjoy it but im very anxious when flying now and hate being recorded which happens alot.

“Cockpit” is no longer allowed by the wokesters. It’s “flight deck”😂

I also had such an experience, for me not long after solo. Flying a Blanik L13 glider my shins hit the bottom of the instrument panel just after lift off behind my clubs 180 Super Cub. After fighting for control the entire ~15 minute flight I opted for 80mph rather than 55-60 in the pattern. I’m not sure if that was really smart, but it worked. Our field was enclosed by trees so there was almost no wind on the ground. Landed long of coarse. Spoilers really help get rid of speed. During the flight my ASI was swinging up and down even though I maintained good attitude wrt the horizon. It must have stabilised enough to set the speed. Like you there were hills around us. Thanks for sharing.

Phantom X1 is the best ULA made. If you are in the market for a UL, check out the X1. The X1 is king. No other UL even comes close.

Спасибо Вам большое ,за то что так наглядно объяснили принцип скольжения на крыло ! Удачных Вам полётов !

Good sound stuff. I'm a bit surprised that you didn't use sideslip to adjust the approach gradient.

So kool & these don't require a license..... lol, it's all good & I'm here to check out the channel for a while. Thanks & I'll be seeing ya.... peace

Really inspiring! Thank you for sharing your story. I'd love to learn to fly :)

Touched down way past the "numbers", is that normal for ultralights or the Quicksilver?

Wow...nice!!

This is such a great step-by-step video for something that isn't widely talked about. Thanks for giving us such a straightforward explanation!

Hi. Ihad studying this aircrafts for some time. They really seem very fragile, tubing and cloth. Better avoid flying them at all cost. My very best regards, you are fantastic pilot!

This would be one big NOPE for me.

Awesome job Courtney! (I loved doing slips from the very first time I was taught to do one!)

Love your videos ❤

Do you have a llittle parrachute with you😮to jump out..

Nice work

What's the happy feet thing? Why do you do that?

Nice job. Great and informative video. I would install strobe and marker lights as you want other large aircraft to easily see you. Just a suggestion. I use to fly around in 152s a lot and that was a barrel of fun - especially just off shore near the Gulf of Mexico beaches. Again, a great upload. Have fun.

It has two seats, it's a light sport

I like how your videos don't have any background music. I like being able to hear the engine sound, I'm not a pilot myself but enjoy watching others.

Ultralight flying- play for wise, responsible adults!

Drifting and donuts into the sunset, with the wind in your face? Yes, please !

Awesome sunset and awesome landing 👍🏽

Do you teach?

The forward slips I've done (all J3 Cub) involve stick into the wind (windward wing down), adjusting for direction, and almost full opposite rudder. I've only ever done these (aside from practice at altitude) on final to landing. Contrast this with a side slip that has stick into wind, but opposite rudder only enough to get nose aligned with runway centerline. I'm a relatively novice pilot, so this question may reflect that: is your forward slip taking place initially doing a 360° turn?

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Nailed it.

Great stuff as always, picture in picture is nice but that's my opinion, others may disagree.

*Sweet!*

perfect...job done

perfect...job done..

perfect... job done..

Do you like the picture in picture format or prefer side by side?

*_Flying by the seat of your...seat._* 😉

Great video. Subbed...👍

That would scare the crapola out of me, think i'll stick to flying my R/C airplanes.🙂

We do not use MPH but KTAS instead. Pilot''s language. That makes sure what you are talking about.

I definitely lack the gonads to do ultralight. Are they 'experimental' aircraft? Is every bolt and cable and screw and system FAA tested and approved? ( I just Googled it, and see that the craft are not certified by FAA. Which makes you not only brave, but potential insane too lol )

as someone before me told: it is nkt rocket science and all about stall speed... i.m quite convinced that all those crashes happen bcs people don,t even read a single page of any flight insteuction manual at all. i read "stick and rudder" last winter...it is basically horrible ro read as ghe author always tells what people "think and say"...so hebp,ants a lot of misconcemptions into every chapter which he then corrects...a very idiotic and tiresome experience ro read...but surely came feom his experience with student pilots... people shoukd get the basics: min. speed= stall speed for every maneuvre and flight condition...and never go too close to that, for that one needs ro know the basic rules for higher stall speed multiplied by factor due ro higher weights and G loads, ...as high desity altitude gives already "corrected " speed on pitot fed wind speed meters.... ok, so why do they crash: maybe bcs they just don,t use any avionics at all! or when they use a GOS these give "over the ground soeed" not relative wind speed! only the latter is relevant...lack of education and knowledge about physics...most people don,t even jnderstand any FAA literature! many instructirs don,t do either, they just repeat over and over again empty phrases...but knkwing a phrase does not mean understanding the content... sorry for typies...and i suggest ro read at least stick and eudder before trying to fly anything...then fo for at least one flight and try it out with some rented airplane and it,s pilot... it is not difficult, but you need to get the basics like on a bicicle or when you learn walking! contacting a Slovakian club for UL lessons they told me : 4 hours, the rest is just for patternwork or for the law...crazy! or real? and for those who learn with crow hops: don,t leave ground effect, get a working wind speed metering device, no matter if you built it yourself or hwatever, stick a tabella onto your panel with basic G loads and minimal speeds for your design( if you don,t know those don,t fly anyways! learn the basics...took me 2,5 years to learn all the details in aerodynamics...) ...and when you play stupid and force something you will die! 30% of all private pilots died not long ago on their "hobby"... oh yes: get an idea about wingloading and drafts, many ULs simply get blown away on landing by a draft or upwind, turned all over and so on...second a sidewind kills your lift! similar ( or basically exactly as ) in a crab or sideslip floght condition....the margine fro ULs is very barrow, as ghe wing loading is so low! the lower the lading the lower the speed...the smaller the margine! fighters take off in storms...yes, but any bird would never do so... try to find those speed values for your bird and kind of flying, i t sadly is burried somewhere in hundreds of pages of FAA material or in marginal instruction...all you need is 3 tabellas...turns, altitude/ high desity altitude, sidewinds( good luck finding anything for the last one) , then you get an idea about flight conditions and stall speeds , which change deliberately in diff. conditions....at least, no matter if anyone will give me instruction for my money or not, those are the numbers i write on my panel all around the speed scale! this is what i was taught by a military pilot on a Sxottish channel, he flies like that! and it works on a DS-1 ! good luck, clear skies...and i wonder if i get an invitation for training.. for my gard cash off course...or i learn it alone...

the list shows that people act like idiots knowing nothing! the FAA gives you free learning material online! read it! read it all and make a lisz what is really esssential for flight: stall speed, turning speed, maneuvre speed, basic weather and high desity altitude knowledge, properly working equipment! 90% of UL videos online teel about crappy rusty half worn out falling apart engines and rusty nolts frames and baby trolley wheels on ULs! it,s ridiculous! but look up wheels for ULs on Aircraft speuce, many don.t even fulfill FAA requirements for airplanes=3 times weight as min static load! when i mailed to them they just made excuses that they have to ask the supplier..but basically 3 times the weight is not really didficult to dond out, there is max limit for ULs and everyone stresses that out!

he died in a crow hop? that is almost impossible unless people don,t know what a ceow hop actually is! the method was told before ww2 in all contruction books regarding airplanes ( yes, i read about all the 5 online available in online lobraries, and half of the technical design calculations are basically idiocies...). .but the crow hop method uses ground effect to get a feeling for the airplane in very slow floght just above ground! so how did he die? and the UL was homebuilt, hmmm? and now it,s the training that killed him while nobody actually knows if the bird was built correctly!

Where is the extreme turbulence?

That looked like a lot of fun. Thanks!

Flown and had lessons in all types of aircraft. The ultimate is the sailplane. First lesson in a Grob wihen I was 15. Do it. Thermalling is on another level.

Thank you for your awesome videos! You've opened my eyes to the discovery flight thing. Luckily I have a flight school nearby. Going to book a flight on a cesna 172. 😁

first teach me how to fly an aircraft❤👍

Wow maam ur very good hope i can learn that...hope u have a tutorial making of ultralight step by step so i can wtch thank u from the philippines...