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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!interrail@discuss.tchncs.de
!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport
!maatapitkinmatkustus@sopuli.xyz ← (Finnish) surface travel

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

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7 Hour Glider Flight from Bavaria to Côte d'Azur (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago by MrMakabar@slrpnk.net to c/solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Very cool to see such low carbon aviation. How dangerous are these to fly? And do they make any that can carry a few passengers?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

Gliders are mostly used as a sport and it is reasonably safe, if you know what you are doing. In WW2 gliders were used to land troops via air, but I do not know of any modern gliders used as transport.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

how dangerous

According to this infographic, moderately dangerous, but no more than general (hobby) aviation

Edit: two person gliders are common, but not more than that

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. So do you mean the somewhat dangerous category?

I have heard of two seaters but it would be nice to be able to bring a couple friends on a little trip like this. Maybe someday when the tech advances a bit more.

I guess rail will remain the main option for this, but sadly I live in the backwards USA where our rail network is quite limited and there are only a handful of realistic destinations.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Gliders are listed under "dangerous" in that infographic, 1 death in 50,000 hours, which is 200x more dangerous than commercial aviation.