Another wonderful video, Tim, as ever you captured the essence of flying here brilliantly. For obvious reasons I particularly enjoyed the key move at Andermatt, where you crossed to the other side of the valley due to what you observed that the Gütsch turbines were telling you!
Wow...what an epic flight! And if the day wasn't amazing enough...the locals give you a lift, beer, and then invite you in for food and wine! Rather memorable I would think!
Amazing as always Tim! Thanks for sharing this with us. I just had another amazing evening flight with the birds over Korhogo again. Yours is far more epic!
@@rodragsdale1702 thanks Rod!! It was such an amazing few days! We’ve had low 8/8 cloud for what feels like two weeks (maybe a bit less) now, and doing these vids are the only thing keeping me sane 😂 Envious of your flight…!
Random question Tim, when your flying into these valleys, are you working the valley winds/wind directions out from ground speed or MET reports/ I only ask this as from my very limited Mountain flying I seem to get a bit lost on what is actually happening in terms of winds.
Good question Mark. Looking at your ground speed doesn’t help unless you’re in the valley wind already as when you’re high the wind will be completely different. Most of the time the valley wind flows opposite to how a river in the valley would flow - ie. they blow uphill, and in terms of the bigger picture they flow from the flats in front into the high mountains. Valley winds are stronger in summer than spring because there’s more heating going on in the big mountains (because of less snow). There are exceptions to the uphill rule - when there’s a high point in a valley and the valley winds initially blow from both sides up to the col, but often one side will dominate so then you get it flowing over the col and down the valley the other side. It’s a complex subject and easy to get caught out even after many hours flying in the alps, though experience does help of course. Plus you tend to learn where the tricky valley winds are…
@ thanks for response, totally get the reverse river scenario. I seem to always find myself in the wrong area, maybe it’s more simple than I think? I’ve been caught a few times in rotor where I would have sworn there shouldn’t be.
@@TimPentreath good question, a few occasions I have been caught out where above the ridges in cleanish air to then find your self in sink, drop below the ridge on the meteo wind side but on the valley wind rotor side. If that makes sense. Next time I see you on the hill, if it's early I will pester you maybe. lol.
So cool, and it’s awesome that people are that nice there. Here in California when you land on someone’s property you get a shot gun pointed in your face lol
@@SkidzFPV haha if you think that was kind (which it was) check out the end of day 1 in this series - Interlaken or Bust! ruclips.net/p/PLoPuYNkYv9UUuxky3fcXBgRugxVAu-B4U Everyone is always so friendly and helpful, it’s a joy meeting people!
@ I’ll check it out. Yea I mean for the most part, post people are nice and are curious about what we do. I have noticed although at least where I fly that if a land owner sees you landing in their property they are usually pretty cool about it, even if they really don’t want you there. But, if the landowner doesn’t see you landing, and instead sees you walking across their property with a big backpack then they really get unhinged, where I fly paragliding isn’t popular at all and majority of people don’t know what we are doing, they think we jumped out of an airplane and they can’t understand why we would have done it in their property instead of a regular drop zone. But the United States has been through some challenging times and people are very unsure about things, so we have to be very cautious about landing.
@ yeah, I get that, it makes sense. Luckily paragliding is very popular in the Alps, Chrigel has done TV shows and there was even a Slow TV program on Swiss TV a few years back showing the entirety of a big xc flight that he did with his brother!
@ yes, I think I saw that XC flight with his brother, or at least one of them. Yea, paragliding is definitely a big deal in Switzerland, France, Austria, etc. but here in the states it’s not nearly as common. Can’t tell you how many times someone has heard that I paraglide and then they respond with “I did that in Cancun” or whatever, and then I have to explain that no, they didn’t, they parasailed, and it’s a different thing lol. I think it is growing here though. And it really should, we do have some excellent places to fly.
Another wonderful video, Tim, as ever you captured the essence of flying here brilliantly. For obvious reasons I particularly enjoyed the key move at Andermatt, where you crossed to the other side of the valley due to what you observed that the Gütsch turbines were telling you!
@@XDrRob thanks Rob, glad you enjoyed seeing some of your own turf! Such stunning scenery on the whole flight…
it is a looong way to freedom :-) stunning views, amazing impressions...gonna luvit reaaaaalllllllllY :-)
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent Tim, I was right to be so annoyed about missing that one! Loved the bit in the clouds. Great stuff.
@@NCginga I’m so sorry you weren’t with us!
Beautiful Tim (as always), thanks for sharing!!
@@oskarverkamman8699 thanks Oskar, glad you enjoyed it!
I was at Fisch twice this summer and finally made it to the end of the valley ( and back).
It's a glorious, special place.
@@FreeFlyerUk Great stuff! And yes, wonderful flying arena!
🔥
@@skAt79 glad you enjoyed it!!
Fantastic stuff Tim, (and Barbs... and the others )
Cheers Ken, look out for part 2 tomorrow evening!
Wow, epic flying over absolute stunning scenery. Did I hear an aircraft at 18m30sec? many thanks Tim
@@Robbo1966 thanks Robbo! Listening back to it I think you might have done but I don’t remember seeing anything at the time…
Wow...what an epic flight! And if the day wasn't amazing enough...the locals give you a lift, beer, and then invite you in for food and wine! Rather memorable I would think!
@@steveporter3714 thanks Steve, yeah it was pretty much a perfect day!
Amazing as always Tim! Thanks for sharing this with us. I just had another amazing evening flight with the birds over Korhogo again. Yours is far more epic!
@@rodragsdale1702 thanks Rod!! It was such an amazing few days! We’ve had low 8/8 cloud for what feels like two weeks (maybe a bit less) now, and doing these vids are the only thing keeping me sane 😂 Envious of your flight…!
What a day ;)
Sure was!
So many well known places… 👏👏
Phaaa - what a line!! 🤩🤩
@@fly-swissalps wasn't it just! You live in such a beautiful country!
Random question Tim, when your flying into these valleys, are you working the valley winds/wind directions out from ground speed or MET reports/ I only ask this as from my very limited Mountain flying I seem to get a bit lost on what is actually happening in terms of winds.
Good question Mark. Looking at your ground speed doesn’t help unless you’re in the valley wind already as when you’re high the wind will be completely different. Most of the time the valley wind flows opposite to how a river in the valley would flow - ie. they blow uphill, and in terms of the bigger picture they flow from the flats in front into the high mountains. Valley winds are stronger in summer than spring because there’s more heating going on in the big mountains (because of less snow). There are exceptions to the uphill rule - when there’s a high point in a valley and the valley winds initially blow from both sides up to the col, but often one side will dominate so then you get it flowing over the col and down the valley the other side. It’s a complex subject and easy to get caught out even after many hours flying in the alps, though experience does help of course. Plus you tend to learn where the tricky valley winds are…
@ thanks for response, totally get the reverse river scenario. I seem to always find myself in the wrong area, maybe it’s more simple than I think? I’ve been caught a few times in rotor where I would have sworn there shouldn’t be.
@ but was that rotor from a valley wind, or the meteo wind?
@@TimPentreath good question, a few occasions I have been caught out where above the ridges in cleanish air to then find your self in sink, drop below the ridge on the meteo wind side but on the valley wind rotor side. If that makes sense. Next time I see you on the hill, if it's early I will pester you maybe. lol.
Really wonderful flight! When did you do that?
Thanks Renato, it was back on 9th August - see link to xcontest in the description
So cool, and it’s awesome that people are that nice there. Here in California when you land on someone’s property you get a shot gun pointed in your face lol
@@SkidzFPV haha if you think that was kind (which it was) check out the end of day 1 in this series - Interlaken or Bust!
ruclips.net/p/PLoPuYNkYv9UUuxky3fcXBgRugxVAu-B4U
Everyone is always so friendly and helpful, it’s a joy meeting people!
@ I’ll check it out. Yea I mean for the most part, post people are nice and are curious about what we do. I have noticed although at least where I fly that if a land owner sees you landing in their property they are usually pretty cool about it, even if they really don’t want you there. But, if the landowner doesn’t see you landing, and instead sees you walking across their property with a big backpack then they really get unhinged, where I fly paragliding isn’t popular at all and majority of people don’t know what we are doing, they think we jumped out of an airplane and they can’t understand why we would have done it in their property instead of a regular drop zone. But the United States has been through some challenging times and people are very unsure about things, so we have to be very cautious about landing.
@ yeah, I get that, it makes sense. Luckily paragliding is very popular in the Alps, Chrigel has done TV shows and there was even a Slow TV program on Swiss TV a few years back showing the entirety of a big xc flight that he did with his brother!
@ yes, I think I saw that XC flight with his brother, or at least one of them. Yea, paragliding is definitely a big deal in Switzerland, France, Austria, etc. but here in the states it’s not nearly as common. Can’t tell you how many times someone has heard that I paraglide and then they respond with “I did that in Cancun” or whatever, and then I have to explain that no, they didn’t, they parasailed, and it’s a different thing lol. I think it is growing here though. And it really should, we do have some excellent places to fly.
@@SkidzFPV interesting that its not as popular in the US, tend to see more hang gliding. Wonder why