Soaring the Sky Podcast

E108: A Soaring Fix from the Gliding Junkie

Chuck Fulton
The New RC Soaring Digest
3 min readApr 1, 2023

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Our eleventh and penultimate instalment of this ongoing series where we select and present episodes from Chuck Fulton’s highly regarded soaring podcast. See Resources, below, for links where you can find Soaring the Sky, or simply click the green play button below to start listening. — Ed.

On this episode we bring you a guest host and a guest pilot! Barbora Moravcová, AKA The Gliding Junkie on Instagram is a member of the Czech National Gliding Team, flight instructor and comes from a family of aviators with both her parents being pilots. Any free time she has you will find her in the cockpit of her LS8. Barbora chats with our producer Mitch about her recent adventures flying at Wave Camp and other interesting flights she has had.

We will also bring you a fun new segment where we chat with our guest pilot about some crazy scary soaring YouTube videos and what we can learn from them. So join us now and get your soaring fix with The Gliding Junkie.

©2021, 2023 Chuck Fulton

Crazy Scary Soaring YouTube Videos

  • Unexpected Outlanding at the Vilnius Cup — “Now, after some time it is really hard to watch some of my own videos … [h]ow fast situation can change dramatically…”
  • Glider Outlanding in an Alpine Valley — “At that day I was flying SZD–48M ‘Brawo’ … taking part in Austrian Junior Gliding Championships in Kapfenberg. It was my first time there…”
  • A Glider Stall at the Ridge — “In this video you can see how my glider stall, maybe for a strong sink or a change in tailwind. You notice it by the light vibrations of the camera and the aircraft’s roll…”

Resources

  • The Gliding Junkie on Instagram.— “I am Barbora Moravcová, glider pilot and Czech Gliding National Team member, representing my country in this beautiful and demanding sport…”
  • Soaring the Sky — “an aviation podcast all about the adventures of flying sailplanes. Join host Chuck Fulton as he talks with other aviators around the globe”. You can also find Chuck’s podcast on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter

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And we have some spectacular news to round things out this month: rather than mourning the upcoming 12th and final episode under the terms of our current relationship with Chuck and Soaring the Sky — due to overwhelming demand — we’re proud and thrilled to announce we’ve renewed for another year! The Soaring the Sky Podcast in the New RC Soaring Digest lives on! We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Chuck and we look forward to another year of working together.

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