Glider at Airliner Altitude, how far can it go?

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[wayshrtgrad]

There are experienced glider pilots who can travel further with less altitude. There are thermal pockets you can find that will increase your altitude.

[RandomAlaskanKid]

You should see how fast you can go if you go straight down from 275, 000 feet

[tylermatthews]

"Gliders are known for gliding..."

Some high level knowledge right there

[benwachtel]

In other words, for every foot he went down, he traveled roughly 46ft.

[duncanmcgee]

*glides what seems like an entire continent*
"And thats just Florida"

[devrim-oguz]

If you happen to find the right air currents, you can fly indefinitely with gliders.

[EmilioGameair]

"Gliders are known for... Well, gliding" You didn't had to cut me off 💀

[BiasOfficialChannel]

"in the middle of the atlantic ocean" **actually just off florida**

[MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

Imagine how far you'd go if you actually knew how to use a glider. There are insane endurance records for long term flights in these things.

[Thor.Jorgensen]

With the right conditions and an experienced pilot, gliders can potentially glide endlessly... Or until the pilot gets tired and has to go to sleep.

[AngeloXification]

Glider pilots are legit amazing.. Imagine telling the wright brothers people will be flying currents for 100s of km for essentially free. The new gliders with small electric/jet engine start up motors are kinda a game changer.

[sweetteapholifeYT]

I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the ABSOLUTELY GODLY amount of patience this man has.

[TheProblem]

My very first time in a glider I learned about thermal pockets. That's like lesson one to continue your flight and gain altitude

[billboyd]

If you ride the mountain ranges, you can thermal and ridge lift much farther.

[MrHeuvaladao]

"That's not flying. That's falling... with style."

[doodlemouse.]

Thanks for making this video, i always wanted to know this 😸

[FourofHearts]

It's amazing what you can do with a glider. You can fly very long distances with one, and yes. You can go even longer if you go from an airliner's altitude. Even if you went from a Darkstar's altitude, you'd be flying for a very long time, but in comparison from 35, 000 feet in the air, flying from 280, 000 feet would take you eight times as long, 16 hours. Still, though, that looks pretty cool. Keep up with the good work.

[Strgoi_]

Keep in mind that the specific glider you used has a glide ratio of 70:1 (for every meter lost in altitude you gain 70 in length, that’s if the glider you used is the eta, which has a wingspan of 30.9 m) most glider don’t have that glider ratio, the one i use has a glide ratio of 34:0.82, so my glider compared to that it’s like a Cessna 172 compared with an F16, but nice video tho!

[LukeMcCastlain]

I’m a glider pilot and love flying them in msfs. Keep on making glider content pls!

[T..q]

I have an idea: try gliding from 200, 000 ft with 10 knots of headwind all the way from America to Europe or Africa
(any plane allowed)