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Cockpit views from a DG-1000 glider flying alongside steep, forested mountain ridges in the French Alps. The instrument panel and pilot's hands on the control stick are visible, with an airfield, green fields, winding roads and a river in the valley below. Another glider appears in the surrounding airspace.
View from a glider during an aerotow launch near Santiago, Chile. The glider wing fills the foreground as the aircraft climbs above a grassy airfield, roads, trees, buildings, and mountains.
A sailplane circles inside a thermal, gaining altitude with each turn as it climbs higher toward the clouds. View from the cockpit during thermal soaring.