YES!! This Is How You Film A Hang Gliding Video! NO MUSIC! Just The Sound Of The Glider Moving Thru The Air With The Vario Singing! Beautiful! Absolutely Awesome Site! Great Camera Setup! I Love How You Let The Video Speak For Itself!
i guess Im asking randomly but does anybody know a way to get back into an Instagram account? I was dumb forgot my account password. I love any tips you can give me.
@Alejandro Lian i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and Im trying it out atm. Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
Ho visto questo video pochi anni fa…. Lo sto rivedendo con soddisfazione perché altri video che ci sono in giro non sono all’altezza di questo. Solo musica e inquadrature poso soddisfacenti. Questo è il migliore video del web. Complimenti
You're absolutely right. I started hang gliding in my teens in the early 70s and stopped about 1977 after a bad skiing accident. Now, after watching some of these amazing videos have started flying again at the tender age of 69.
You have an AMAZING life my friend. Just got my Hang 2. Looking forward to many flights. Hope I can land as good as you just did. What a great day you had. WOW!!!
The 'Dolomiti', what a beautiful mountain range; I won't be flying but I have to pay that place a visit some time. Thanks for giving such a unique and dramatic perspective of the place.
CabrioDriving This is really nice as well but nothing can compare to the feeling of a wingsuit. The feeling of being a light feather with just a light backpack on your back. Going 150kmh to 200kmh. Nothing beats that! You can easily get 4 minutes of flight time from 15000ft and deploy at 5000ft if you’re a lighter individual using the larger wingsuits. It’s awesome.
StrigoiVampirism The thing about wing suits to me is it just seems like You’er always on the verge of dying where this seem much safer and like you have more time to enjoy it. I have to admit I haven’t tried either though and I know there’s different types of wing suit flying. I’m wanting to get into hang gliding.
Érico Schmitt Thanks Im taking my first tandem ride and lesson June 12. I’m a private pilot , flying mostly Cessna 172 -152 but I’m really getting interested in this and flying airplanes is ridiculously expensive. For less than what I spend on it in a year I can get a nice hang glider and the accessories I need to do it right. Thing is I live in Nevada and nobody does it here that I know of but only a few hours away is suppose to be some of the best hang gliding in the world, Utah! 👍
I could make a great flying in Dolomite thanks to Gerolf's guide in September 2016. The flying route was ColRondella(takeoff,2400m)- Antermoia-Head-Rosepeak-Rosengarten-Langkofel-Solla-Bece-Canazei(landing,1400m). I made record 3600m hight and 2.5 hours flying. It was the most impressive flying for me due to the fantastic mountain scenery and airmanship with pilots from worldwide.
Superb! Reminds me of hang gliding times in the Alps. Wonderful times, glad you have it recorded so well. (From a triple-diamond open class glider pilot)
This is excellent video with unbelievable scenery. I would like to suggest to put two strings from your front camera to each end of the control bar. This would prevent the camera swings.
im working on getting my hang 2 and this both excites me and scares the crap out of me. i hope i can one day overcome both the mental and technical challenges to do something like this. anyway, awesome video
i know nothing of your sport, never seen one before. Your flight is "amazing " to say the least. You could actually fly like this as long as your body can deliver??? No parachute? The Mountains are very rugged and beautiful. Thank-you for sharing...."May God keep you safe. Amen"
WOW! What very out-of-this-world scenic views! It's breathtaking! Never seen anything like this! In the future, I would like to experience this! Anybody out there, I have a few questions: where did this took place at? How high was he able to go; who is this person? Is there a place where visitors/vacationist which are first timers can ride with a tandem hang glider with a certified ‘USPHA’ rated tandem instructor at their side? If so, I'll wait for your answers! Thank you and anybody who attempts to try this adventure, good luck and have a great time!
It is Dolomite in North Italian Alpes, I'm weekend plot but my first hang-flight was in 1984 and keep flying until now. You can find a good tandem hang pilot in Italian hang site, www.gardaflyingparadise.it.
0885ful USPHA is for USA you know... if you live there, I think on uspha they list instructors. Or google it. As far as I know in US all pilots must be certified anyway, specially tandem, so probably any commercial pilot you find advertising will be certified. I myself live in Brazil and things around here are a mess. I don’t have any certification at all (not an instructor though), but many instructors don’t have it as well. There’s no law requiring it. CBVL has the status of a club, and I hope it always stays like this because they are completely fucked up and I’d rather fly illegal than pay a cent to them. Hope that helps :)
Tolle Aufnahmen, die Frontcamera an eine Gabel und dann sind diese Aufnahmen auch besser, denn man sieht deutlich wie sie pendelt.Professionelle Landung !
the Godfather I flew back in the 1980's, then ran out of time to do it. I planned to get back to flying during my retirement, but I ran into some health issues. I am hoping to get those resolved and start flying again this fall. I plan on finding a local flying school and starting from square 1, the learning is half the fun! I hope you get the chance to try it, it's amazing! Find a reputable school or instructor - that makes all the difference.
Couple of questions: 1. Could you definitely fly back to your starting point if you wanted to? 2. If you want to call it off, can you always descend and land pretty quickly?
sfbluestar 1) not definitely, but possibly depending on weather conditions and some skill to find thermals to bring you back there 2) You can always dive to go down quickly, but that only helps if there is a nearby landing zone that a car can pick you up. Other than that the best you can do is a “speedrun”, fly along the ridge as quickly as possible to the nearest landing zone. Check Wolfgang Siess channel, he has filmed many crazy speedruns.
@sfbluestar= To complement the answer of Érico_Schmitt: The problem if you have to land in an unplanned area is to find the right spot. It is preferable to find a flat expanse of land, but not a must: my first contact with hanggliding was to retrieve a pilot who had landed in the dry bed of a river, which was strewn with rocks! The beauty of hanggliding is that one can land like a bird, just on a chosen spot. The danger is elsewhere: if there is wind and obstacles such as trees or houses near the landing spot, these can generate rotary air-turbulences and the hang glider can be brutally thrown to the ground with no possible remedial move. As I recall, one Brazilian champion lost his life while landing during a competition in the Alps. There was an innocuous sheperd’s cabin near the landing zone which induced turbulence, and that made his glider fall so badly that he was killed. __
Nice video, fantastic scenery. I took off from the same spot in 2017! May I suggest you shorten your hang loop a bit? You´re kinda hanging heads up. If your hang loop was shorter you could be a lot more aerodynamic. Happy flights!
@@elon6581 Cool. This place has the most beautiful mountains I have ever seen, if you get a chance to visit when (if) the world comes back to normal, by all means, go!
Patrick Frani the reason is to reduce the speed and flying distance when landing. Especially, this landing area has down slope like as skiing slope. So the opening of drag is needed to secure the safe landing .
@Eddie_B.= The sound is that of a Variometer. An instrument sensitive to air pressure which tells the pilot - by the pitch and frequency of the sounds - if the air-mass (in which the hangglider is flying) is moving up or down and at which rate (in ft/s. or m/s.). The Variometer is an essential tool for identifying the ascendant masses of air, circling into them, and thus gain altitude in order to make long flights.
I just got interested in this sport, and I am looking for tips here and there. Could you share any tips, please? By the way, I have watched so many hang gliding videos already and I must say that your footage is the most impressive so far. I don’t think anyone out there would produce anything better than what you’ve done on this one. I must add that you really took us on a joy ride. Thank you for the video and for not ruining it with music like most youtubers do. Well done!
Liger King look for local instructors, that’s all you need. They will advise you on equipment. Also consider, if you have the spare time, that it might be cheaper to learn it in Brazil due to the current exchange rates. Even considering travel expenses. Plus two of the best harness manufacturers in the world are brazilian (rotor and x-wings, I have a rotor but I’ve been to x-wings factory and would go for that next time) and that piece of equipment will be cheaper here. Reserve chute too. So you could have an unforgettable vacation. Here where I live (Florianópolis) there’s a great school called Voe Asa Floripa (voeasa.com.br) that can teach you in a very short time since they use boat tow in tandem to get you several flights in a few days. You learn to fly and control the glider before learning how to run and land (contrary to the usual) so when you actually go on foot you will learn much quicker. Plus you will learn two kinds of take off in a package (tow and foot). The instructor know as Formiga is very experienced, having held south american records in 80s and 90s, as well as an accomplished sailplane pilot who has done things like recording series to the Off channel. He has been to many countries flying. There will be other instructors and places where you could possibly get something similar in south america, and will probably pay off the travel expenses.
Érico Schmitt, wow! You're so awesome for taking the time to give me the valuable information you put down here! Thank you so very much. I'm from Texas, United States and I looked up a few training schools around me (got a tip from someone who cared just like you). But I know what you mean. Everything is expensive in the United States. I looked up different glider models and found out that the cheapest costs a little over $3,000 and it is a low performance type. The highest performance in the list is just over $8,000. This is just glider alone. Glider training could cost $2,000+/-, depending on some factors. But I hope to enroll as soon as the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted and the schools are able to reopen. But again, thank you immensely for being so kind to answer my questions that even the channel owner hasn't acknowledged. You're indeed very awesome!
Liger King I’m probably going for a masters degree at SHSU later this year, just north of Houston! I’ve done my research, it seems there’s only Cowboy Up nearby, and another school near Austin. Hopefully I’ll have the cash to bring my HG stuff with me.. but right now the orchestra I play is closed, and my reserve cash (in brazilian real) is loosing value real quickly so I’m screwed, just hoping I can somehow get there by august. My glider costs 7500brl, around 1300 usd now, brand new. I’ve seen for 5k with some 20 flights and for 3k in good shape. Afaik its a copy of a Falcon 2 project but somehow performs much better. Some people have tried Falcon 4 or Malibu and say this Skyway wing is on par. The exchange rate skyrocketed recently, so I’m not sure if prices will be the same post-covid. But anyway, a boat-tow course would cost 5000brl, and a foot-launch course alone would cost that as well. But if you do both things with the same instructor then it will be a lot cheaper than 5+5k. Just check google for the exchange rates, I’m talking in BRL A rotor harness was somewhere between 4 and 5k brand new, I got my rotor used in great shape for 1500. My chute was about 3k brand new (because you should always get a brand new chute even if everything else is used). All I got so far including all courses costed me some 18k brl if I’m not forgetting anything, and the only used thing I bought was the harness. I recommend strongly that for a vario you but 2 Bluefly Vario from australia. Cheap, simple, small, super precise and pair to your phone. Thats all a beginner needs. Open the Xc-track app and off you go. Strap them to your helmet strap, leave one off as a backup (but battery lasts some 10 hours). So.. I’d say you can get all your equipment brand new plus the course here in brazil for some 20k which would translate to $3500 only. The difference pays for traveling and you can possibly even manage to bring a glider broken-down back to US. I February I met a guy here who lives in US and was planning to buy one glider just like mine and bring there... He also took some lessons here.
Liger King if you happen to live near Houston (or huntsville) find me on facebook and lets keep in touch! Or if you happen to come to Florianópolis to learn.
Érico Schmitt, wow! This is awesome info! Yes, I live in Houston. I used to be on Facebook. But not anymore. However, I could give you an email that I use for the purpose of getting info. Then, we could share counteracts via email..., if that sounds good to you. Let me know what you think. Thank you bro.
how many times to get learning this thecnique and Fly hight and hight up ... your technique is wow not easy at all Sir ... how we can learn this Hang Gliding
YES!! This Is How You Film A Hang Gliding Video! NO MUSIC! Just The Sound Of The Glider Moving Thru The Air With The Vario Singing! Beautiful! Absolutely Awesome Site! Great Camera Setup! I Love How You Let The Video Speak For Itself!
i guess Im asking randomly but does anybody know a way to get back into an Instagram account?
I was dumb forgot my account password. I love any tips you can give me.
@Brandon Augustus instablaster =)
@Alejandro Lian i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and Im trying it out atm.
Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Alejandro Lian It did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thanks so much you saved my ass :D
@Brandon Augustus Glad I could help :)
Ho visto questo video pochi anni fa…. Lo sto rivedendo con soddisfazione perché altri video che ci sono in giro non sono all’altezza di questo. Solo musica e inquadrature poso soddisfacenti. Questo è il migliore video del web. Complimenti
The pioneers of hang gliding back in the 70’s look at the modern gliders in awe, all with the same thought, “I wish that I was young again!” 👍
You're absolutely right. I started hang gliding in my teens in the early 70s and stopped about 1977 after a bad skiing accident. Now, after watching some of these amazing videos have started flying again at the tender age of 69.
incredible, remind me when I started it in 1979. 22 years young. No cameras or altimeter technology then. Best times of life.
Awesome.
Great video.... beautifully filmed, great location and no silly background music. Exactly how it should be done 👍..!!
I has music... Vario music XD
You have an AMAZING life my friend. Just got my Hang 2. Looking forward to many flights. Hope I can land as good as you just did. What a great day you had. WOW!!!
Nice flying. Brings back memories of my early hang gliding days in the 70's
Awesome video! Great views of the Dolomites, super flying. Quite a long ways from our first flights on the dunes at Cape Kiwanda, Oregon in 1974.
The 'Dolomiti', what a beautiful mountain range; I won't be flying but I have to pay that place a visit some time. Thanks for giving such a unique and dramatic perspective of the place.
Human dream of flight, experienced by you. Not a 1 minute fall with a parachute or 2 minute falling with wingsuit. This is real flight right here.
CabrioDriving This is really nice as well but nothing can compare to the feeling of a wingsuit. The feeling of being a light feather with just a light backpack on your back. Going 150kmh to 200kmh. Nothing beats that! You can easily get 4 minutes of flight time from 15000ft and deploy at 5000ft if you’re a lighter individual using the larger wingsuits. It’s awesome.
StrigoiVampirism I’d rather fly than fall... wingsuits cant soar up. Although I might do it someday too, but HG is great.
StrigoiVampirism The thing about wing suits to me is it just seems like You’er always on the verge of dying where this seem much safer and like you have more time to enjoy it. I have to admit I haven’t tried either though and I know there’s different types of wing suit flying. I’m wanting to get into hang gliding.
The Last Rebel Show go for it!
Érico Schmitt Thanks Im taking my first tandem ride and lesson June 12. I’m a private pilot , flying mostly Cessna 172 -152 but I’m really getting interested in this and flying airplanes is ridiculously expensive. For less than what I spend on it in a year I can get a nice hang glider and the accessories I need to do it right. Thing is I live in Nevada and nobody does it here that I know of but only a few hours away is suppose to be some of the best hang gliding in the world, Utah! 👍
.Awesome. God bless you, sir.
Thanks for not adding music. Beautyfull flight.
I could make a great flying in Dolomite thanks to Gerolf's guide in September 2016.
The flying route was ColRondella(takeoff,2400m)- Antermoia-Head-Rosepeak-Rosengarten-Langkofel-Solla-Bece-Canazei(landing,1400m).
I made record 3600m hight and 2.5 hours flying.
It was the most impressive flying for me due to the fantastic mountain scenery and airmanship with pilots from worldwide.
Breathtaking - and with the teardrop helmet and body covering, you're obviously a serious professional.
Thanks for not filling this with music, just the sound as it is up there...
Amazing flight and to do it in one of the most beautiful places on earth, Wow!
This is serious inspiration. Not for the faint-of-heard. Highly experienced Pilot!
Yep, great inspirational video with stunning scenery
Very cool Video with spectacular scenery, keep them coming.
Excellent , no music , brilliant , and great flight , well done
Excellent flying combined with a great area. Keep em coming.
Superb! Reminds me of hang gliding times in the Alps. Wonderful times, glad you have it recorded so well. (From a triple-diamond open class glider pilot)
Beutiful backdrop and looks like you had a wonderful experience. Have many more. The Best
This is excellent video with unbelievable scenery. I would like to suggest to put two strings from your front camera to each end of the control bar. This would prevent the camera swings.
fantastic landscape and great flight......
Great video!
No place like cloud base!
I think I just found my favourite hang gliding video
im working on getting my hang 2 and this both excites me and scares the crap out of me. i hope i can one day overcome both the mental and technical challenges to do something like this. anyway, awesome video
경치가 끝내줘요~~~아름다운 산에서 비행 해 보고 싶네~~~
Very high above in the air... wow
Wonderfull word, amazing flight and land, congratz my friend.
Fantastic video
*Insanely beautiful place and beautiful flight, I also just started flying, I hope to fly in such places too*
* I will be glad if someone likes it) *
Good good 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Premium
Great vídeo
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Absolutely amazing, thanks for the flight!!
Un vuelo muy profesional, digo bastante profesional te felicito.
COSTA RICA 🇨🇷 pura vida
멋진 비행 입니다.!!!
Too, too cool. Thanks!
Would scare the shit out of me :-) I am happy I have a plane around me with way more control. Respect and always good flights!
i know nothing of your sport, never seen one before. Your flight is "amazing " to say the least. You could actually fly like this as long as your body can deliver??? No parachute? The Mountains are very rugged and beautiful. Thank-you for sharing...."May God keep you safe. Amen"
I have a rescue parachute at right of chest.
Beautiful video! -- Love the Italian Alps
great video, super compliments. !!!!
Way to stick the landing............GREAT JOB!!!!!!
멋지십니다.
WOW! What very out-of-this-world scenic views! It's breathtaking! Never seen anything like this! In the future, I would like to experience this! Anybody out there, I have a few questions: where did this took place at? How high was he able to go; who is this person? Is there a place where visitors/vacationist which are first timers can ride with a tandem hang glider with a certified ‘USPHA’ rated tandem instructor at their side? If so, I'll wait for your answers! Thank you and anybody who attempts to try this adventure, good luck and have a great time!
It is Dolomite in North Italian Alpes, I'm weekend plot but my first hang-flight was in 1984 and keep flying until now. You can find a good tandem hang pilot in Italian hang site, www.gardaflyingparadise.it.
0885ful USPHA is for USA you know... if you live there, I think on uspha they list instructors. Or google it. As far as I know in US all pilots must be certified anyway, specially tandem, so probably any commercial pilot you find advertising will be certified.
I myself live in Brazil and things around here are a mess. I don’t have any certification at all (not an instructor though), but many instructors don’t have it as well. There’s no law requiring it. CBVL has the status of a club, and I hope it always stays like this because they are completely fucked up and I’d rather fly illegal than pay a cent to them. Hope that helps :)
@@ericoschmitt It did. Thanks!
@@sukwonkim Thanks!
Это прекрасно ! Счастья ! Здоровья ! Попутного ветра !
Beautiful! I wanna learn to fly so bad
You are very lucky at 15:38 that your brake parachute dont touch the little fence on the meadow. But Beautiful video at all! 👍👌🙂
Beautiful! So freaking cool.
Really good flight. Best regards
You should have added some commentary in flight on your front camera. A very good video by all means.
landing very easy and smooth
Very nice xc 😎👍
wonderful flight canazei is the beautys places wat i know
I really need to try such kind of thing one day in my life... becuz it's amazing 🙏🙏🙏
Tolle Aufnahmen, die Frontcamera an eine Gabel und dann sind diese Aufnahmen auch besser, denn man sieht deutlich wie sie pendelt.Professionelle Landung !
Show de imagens, voo maravilhoso e a paisagem linda.
Absolutely amasing!
great video
"This is the way it was intended; To look at the world through God's eyes."
" Out of Africa"
Congratulations on a beautiful flight!!
Amazing! ...but too scary for me, I'll never do this sport. :P
Beautiful!
Stunning, thank you!!!
Congratulations from Bonn, Germany.
Stunning, what a flight!
I watch every night.
excellent video. even better cos you didn't spoil it with orrible muzak
Amazing flight
Wenn ich noch daran Denke 1969 ,gegenüber heute .Wir waren echte Pioniere
What height were you able to achieve, that is just the very ultimate in flying!!!
Complimenti per il volo
BEAUTIFULLL👍👌
It's my dream
the Godfather go for it and learn then
the Godfather I flew back in the 1980's, then ran out of time to do it. I planned to get back to flying during my retirement, but I ran into some health issues. I am hoping to get those resolved and start flying again this fall. I plan on finding a local flying school and starting from square 1, the learning is half the fun! I hope you get the chance to try it, it's amazing! Find a reputable school or instructor - that makes all the difference.
Espetacular🤗🤟🏾🙌🏾🥰
Supeeerrrbbbbb ....😍👍👌
Real nice , you almost touching the moon just unfortunately it’s daytime.
Couple of questions: 1. Could you definitely fly back to your starting point if you wanted to? 2. If you want to call it off, can you always descend and land pretty quickly?
No
Excellent. I'm a hang glider pilot too .
Flew some what in same type mountains in Pakistan
sfbluestar 1) not definitely, but possibly depending on weather conditions and some skill to find thermals to bring you back there 2) You can always dive to go down quickly, but that only helps if there is a nearby landing zone that a car can pick you up. Other than that the best you can do is a “speedrun”, fly along the ridge as quickly as possible to the nearest landing zone. Check Wolfgang Siess channel, he has filmed many crazy speedruns.
@sfbluestar= To complement the answer of Érico_Schmitt:
The problem if you have to land in an unplanned area is to find the right spot.
It is preferable to find a flat expanse of land, but not a must: my first contact with hanggliding was to retrieve a pilot who had landed in the dry bed of a river, which was strewn with rocks! The beauty of hanggliding is that one can land like a bird, just on a chosen spot.
The danger is elsewhere: if there is wind and obstacles such as trees or houses near the landing spot, these can generate rotary air-turbulences and the hang glider can be brutally thrown to the ground with no possible remedial move.
As I recall, one Brazilian champion lost his life while landing during a competition in the Alps. There was an innocuous sheperd’s cabin near the landing zone which induced turbulence, and that made his glider fall so badly that he was killed. __
Very nice!
I really must get out more!
Thank you sir
Nice video, fantastic scenery. I took off from the same spot in 2017! May I suggest you shorten your hang loop a bit? You´re kinda hanging heads up. If your hang loop was shorter you could be a lot more aerodynamic. Happy flights!
Which place is this ??
@@elon6581 Col Rodella, Val di Fassa. In the Italian Dolomites.
Oo thanks bro I am from India
So I don't know about this palce
@@elon6581 Cool. This place has the most beautiful mountains I have ever seen, if you get a chance to visit when (if) the world comes back to normal, by all means, go!
❤️❤️❤️❤️where is this beautiful place?
It is Domlote in Northern Italian Alps.
Show.....imagens espetaculares..... parabéns de pouso..
Rio de janeiro-brasil
Beautiful...
i want to see the telemetry you have on that little screen so bad.
Anyo HaseYo !! Pangaksumida .. how high was it , !0K ft ? Excellent video
Wow... 👍 i believe i can Fly😊☝
الإمساك بالأيدي متعب .سلامة الراكب ؟
Hi - why did you have your chute open when you were landing? What's the reason for that?
Patrick Frani the reason is to reduce the speed and flying distance when landing. Especially, this landing area has down slope like as skiing slope. So the opening of drag is needed to secure the safe landing .
@@sukwonkim Hi - thanks. That's what I thought but I wanted to make sure. :o)
Make that Vario sing a High-C!!
Listening to that monitor is scary enough ! 🤣 What is it for anyways ? Wind speed ?
@Eddie_B.= The sound is that of a Variometer. An instrument sensitive to air pressure which tells the pilot - by the pitch and frequency of the sounds - if the air-mass (in which the hangglider is flying) is moving up or down and at which rate (in ft/s. or m/s.).
The Variometer is an essential tool for identifying the ascendant masses of air, circling into them, and thus gain altitude in order to make long flights.
great video!!
I just got interested in this sport, and I am looking for tips here and there. Could you share any tips, please? By the way, I have watched so many hang gliding videos already and I must say that your footage is the most impressive so far. I don’t think anyone out there would produce anything better than what you’ve done on this one. I must add that you really took us on a joy ride. Thank you for the video and for not ruining it with music like most youtubers do. Well done!
Liger King look for local instructors, that’s all you need. They will advise you on equipment.
Also consider, if you have the spare time, that it might be cheaper to learn it in Brazil due to the current exchange rates. Even considering travel expenses. Plus two of the best harness manufacturers in the world are brazilian (rotor and x-wings, I have a rotor but I’ve been to x-wings factory and would go for that next time) and that piece of equipment will be cheaper here. Reserve chute too. So you could have an unforgettable vacation. Here where I live (Florianópolis) there’s a great school called Voe Asa Floripa (voeasa.com.br) that can teach you in a very short time since they use boat tow in tandem to get you several flights in a few days. You learn to fly and control the glider before learning how to run and land (contrary to the usual) so when you actually go on foot you will learn much quicker. Plus you will learn two kinds of take off in a package (tow and foot). The instructor know as Formiga is very experienced, having held south american records in 80s and 90s, as well as an accomplished sailplane pilot who has done things like recording series to the Off channel. He has been to many countries flying.
There will be other instructors and places where you could possibly get something similar in south america, and will probably pay off the travel expenses.
Érico Schmitt, wow! You're so awesome for taking the time to give me the valuable information you put down here! Thank you so very much.
I'm from Texas, United States and I looked up a few training schools around me (got a tip from someone who cared just like you). But I know what you mean. Everything is expensive in the United States. I looked up different glider models and found out that the cheapest costs a little over $3,000 and it is a low performance type. The highest performance in the list is just over $8,000. This is just glider alone.
Glider training could cost $2,000+/-, depending on some factors. But I hope to enroll as soon as the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted and the schools are able to reopen.
But again, thank you immensely for being so kind to answer my questions that even the channel owner hasn't acknowledged. You're indeed very awesome!
Liger King I’m probably going for a masters degree at SHSU later this year, just north of Houston! I’ve done my research, it seems there’s only Cowboy Up nearby, and another school near Austin. Hopefully I’ll have the cash to bring my HG stuff with me.. but right now the orchestra I play is closed, and my reserve cash (in brazilian real) is loosing value real quickly so I’m screwed, just hoping I can somehow get there by august.
My glider costs 7500brl, around 1300 usd now, brand new. I’ve seen for 5k with some 20 flights and for 3k in good shape. Afaik its a copy of a Falcon 2 project but somehow performs much better. Some people have tried Falcon 4 or Malibu and say this Skyway wing is on par. The exchange rate skyrocketed recently, so I’m not sure if prices will be the same post-covid. But anyway, a boat-tow course would cost 5000brl, and a foot-launch course alone would cost that as well. But if you do both things with the same instructor then it will be a lot cheaper than 5+5k. Just check google for the exchange rates, I’m talking in BRL
A rotor harness was somewhere between 4 and 5k brand new, I got my rotor used in great shape for 1500. My chute was about 3k brand new (because you should always get a brand new chute even if everything else is used).
All I got so far including all courses costed me some 18k brl if I’m not forgetting anything, and the only used thing I bought was the harness. I recommend strongly that for a vario you but 2 Bluefly Vario from australia. Cheap, simple, small, super precise and pair to your phone. Thats all a beginner needs. Open the Xc-track app and off you go. Strap them to your helmet strap, leave one off as a backup (but battery lasts some 10 hours).
So.. I’d say you can get all your equipment brand new plus the course here in brazil for some 20k which would translate to $3500 only. The difference pays for traveling and you can possibly even manage to bring a glider broken-down back to US. I February I met a guy here who lives in US and was planning to buy one glider just like mine and bring there... He also took some lessons here.
Liger King if you happen to live near Houston (or huntsville) find me on facebook and lets keep in touch! Or if you happen to come to Florianópolis to learn.
Érico Schmitt, wow! This is awesome info! Yes, I live in Houston. I used to be on Facebook. But not anymore. However, I could give you an email that I use for the purpose of getting info. Then, we could share counteracts via email..., if that sounds good to you. Let me know what you think. Thank you bro.
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Great stuff!! I have a question, was it the camera angle or did you hang not really horizontally in the A frame? from the side i looks a bit upright.
The scenery looks too good to be real.
Nice view.Where is it?
Good video...
Beautifull Beautifull video !👍👍 What a flight !
What is your Highest fly ?( altitude )
What a beautiful flight. What a beautiful flight. Looks like 5m/s thermals?
Jan Smíšek yes it was more than 5m per sec
how many times to get learning this thecnique and Fly hight and hight up ... your technique is wow not easy at all Sir ... how we can learn this Hang Gliding