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So beautiful!!

When you ask a local airport if you can launch, do they tend to ask for proof of insurance before they permit airport usage?

Damn, you REALLY need more power. I loved the atom80 as well, but lack of climb is an increased risk. Luckily you didnt have powerlines everywhere this time. Once you get more power, youll look back at this stuff and laugh. More power and you'll be able to enjoy a wider variety of wings as well. Let me know if you want to try my setup. Getting too cold here for me anyhow. Thanks for the vid!

Beautiful bravoo

Time for something more than an atom 80?

Amazing footage in the clouds! Glad you’re ok! How is your camera following you in the air?

Ur simply nutz... I like it!

Love it, that terrain looks awesome to fly over. Im on a Roadster 3 as well. Easy to launch and have fun with. I've been super happy with it.

I loved the video

Silly boy

Ill mention just afew. Always get your gps setting for the area. So while in the air U know exactly where you lz is.check. The amount of fuel before you get ready to fly.other then that .get proper instruction."live and learn or learn and live"

Nice! Textbook takeoff

Wow, that was some gorgeous scenery. I'm sure you learned a LOT on that flight. Glad you and everyone around was ok.

Maverick: permission to buzz the tower? Tower: absolutely not! Thankyou tower 😂😂. I flew pg for 25 years, ppl the last ten or so and have watched thousands of videos of both…. This is one of my favourites, so many things done wrong, some illegal even but….. some of it I’m jealous I didn’t do lol. Beautiful memory this one. Glad you and the peeps nearby were too! Flying in an active sky is mesmerizingly beautiful.

Brave pilot

Posting videos of yourself blatantly disregarding FAA regulations is a GREAT idea… 🙄

Cool video

Rest in peace canopy.

Why not just land on the grass in front?

Lessons learned should be not to land close to peoples tent. There was enough free space. Don't pose in front of people. It is your flight not theirs.

Highly suggest shortening those brakes unless you use trike or another high hangpoint machine also. I was cringing at how deep you were in the brakes but then realized it’s an ozone so it’s probably normal/safe if you didn’t touch them. Feels so much more dialed and on rails when they are dialed in and shortened

Awesome video!! I think i went toward the sun that morning also! The view was epic !

I was thinking that could be disorienting

That was really scary and you were really lucky that it was only a canopy that you hit. I’m sure you know that though. Otherwise great video.

If u run even the free version of gaggle, it would have got u back to the lz even over the clouds which is probably safer. U could have done some s turns at the lz and bleed off some altitude or u can always go around if u have enough gas. 😂 I was camped about 4 spaces to the left from where u landed. Glad it turned out pretty good considering. Blue skies

Great video ñ beautiful scenery, hilarious ending only because you're okay, and learned from it and replaced ur buddyz tent...

Thanks for sharing. Great view and intense video. Stay safe!

So many mistakes were made, VFR flight into clouds, not enough fuel reserve, missed more than one hole in the clouds, turned final into the pit area instead of running downwind further away from runway and making the turn away from the pit area.....lucky to be alive, and not have hurt someone else.

This video shows us that common sense cannot be instilled in the mind of an idiot!

Don’t you have cloud minimum clearances like any other aircraft? Looks like IFR to me most of the time.

Happy you were able to fly another day. Hopefully a few lessons were learned about cloud clearance, scud running, fuel management and landing long.

Glide slope has nothing to do with this. You could have turned well before and missed the camp easily. Beautiful video - not the best execution.

Mountain flying seems something you are at least somewhat familiar with living in Boone. Back in the 1980s I was flying for a wholly owned subsidiaries of the major airline I worked for due to overstaffing, economy softness and to avoid being furloughed. I spent a spring and summer season flying commuter equipment (BE-02-b and c models) in the North East (Bar Harbor Airlines). Marketing folks moved to modify the fleet on the east coast, so they transferred the 1900's I was qualified on to the western operation. Consequently I spent the bulk of the hunting season through the end of the ski seasons, flying in the Rocky Mountains (Rocky Mountain Airways). Both offered plenty of low weather and extremely demanding mountain flying. The ground school for moving to the western operation, was 4 entire days spent on performance and mountain weather! That's a ton of class room time for a professional pilot that was already flying the same equipment. I like to think those miserable days in the classroom kept me alive. To your vid...Unlike more predictable absorption rates, fog burn off, or what ever you want to call it over flatter terrain... mornings in the mountains can see valley fog extended farther into the day for many atmospheric reasons. Cutting up into the center of a narrowing valley that isn't wide enough to turn around in, is a common cause of accidents in general aviation. Add low weather to that equation, especially if the cloud bases and the end of the valley are located in the same general area, leaves one of two choices: Climb blind into the cloud and hope there isn't a radio tower or power line on the ridge or 2) attempt an aggressive 180 degree turn that almost always results in hitting the terrain. Your decision to continue much beyond @0:52 in your video paid off handsomely in scenery and cloud proximity experience, but certainly you understand it could have proven even fatal. The landing was just a symptom that manifested itself from a whole host of other bad decisions. I left the fly-in Saturday morning. I had my wife with me this trip, sometimes on the flight line. I am glad that your decisions didn't hurt other participants and particularly not me, or my spouse. I'd like to encourage you to make better choices, but I suspect the number of views and "COOL!" comments this vid is getting, will overshadow any chance for modifying your, or anyone else's approach to PPG flying. Anyhow I watched the whole thing a few times. I'd say "cool", but I know better.

Amazing flight footage. Glad you were okay. You missed my car, so I don't mind, feel free to drop in any time :P

I had basically the exact same flight that morning. Same experience above the clouds and then they closed up. I took almost the exact same path back to the LZ except I knew I was headed in the right direction and I had plenty of fuel. I always have two forms of GPS, Gaggle and my Garmin watch with F3b Flight software, that shows my location and waypoint back to the LZ. I would never fly an unknown area without at least one. Too easy to get disoriented and turned around in the air, especially with cloud cover.

Nobody is talking about how many mistakes were made in this awesome video.

Sick video tho that’s a wild looking landscape? North east US?

Not a pilot here but considering the weather would you say it was a bad decision to fly in that?

How about forgetting the "glide slope" and not landing near objects and people. I can see the frame when you pulled to the left right into the obstacle. You could have hurt someone.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that was great!

coming in hot!

The music at the end made it sound like you died

bravoo

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing

Wow!

Dude ! best video ever, except the landing, I want to follow you at a Fly-In .

Low fuel on an atom 80? Geez man, you really do like riskin' the biscuits. I think you need buy more lottery tickets, and remember me when you do!

Man, what a video! When you broke through the clouds with nothing but trees right there with low visibility, that was a scary situation. It was good to meet you, thanks for the invite to sit around your campfire.

That was really cool scenery. Wow. I’d like to fly there. But… what if there had been an unseen power line or similar all of a sudden when you topped the dam… when there wasn’t enough time or space to avoid it…. could easily be fatal especially with the water below. Be safe. Happy flying!

I keep telling my sister to buy a house with enough space for me to fly out of.