A great video and I can only agree with what you said, especially about the kill mechanism. I am relatively new to paragliding and I've just come back from a two week trip to Namibia and my biggest problem was actually killing the glider in strong winds. Running up and down the dune etc., that was quickly learned. But after a few days of fiddling around and some input from colleagues and trainers, I've finally found two methods that allow me to put the glider down relatively smoothly in strong winds.
The other trick is to upgrade to a Ventus cT glider, which enables flying in 70knot/130km/h winds with ease, and a handy 49:1 glide ration to jump over the gaps ;)
U should talk about a tip to run down wind of your paraglider what landing in strong winds is possible like I just saw you do in your video. I watched that and ut just clicked how much sense it made
Greg, would really appreciate if you could share some of the valley wind experience you have. From forecast to understand where are the dangerous lee parts of the mountain. Safe flights my friend!
Your videos are epic! Thank you. When you coming to Iceland?! Ultralight club in Reykjavík við cover some of the cost in exchange for a short conference ;D
Wasn't taking this matter too serious even when I ended up in conditions in which my low B wing was barely moving forward even when fully accelerated. Until it collapsed on me maybe 20m above ground but miraculously I was able to recover the last moment imaginable so I ended up impacting into a damp meadow at "only" roughly 4.5m/s vertically and 14km/h ground speed. I pulled up my legs and landed on my butt protector (Skywalk Breeze PermAir) which essentially exploded on impact... but I was fully unharmed. Not even a scratch. Still unsure how I deserve this second chance.
Things you can do , dont fly in strong winds in the first place , if the wind strength increases whilst your in the air think about landing before it gets too strong , simple.
Try to understand how the powerzone works on the ground. It's the same as kiting. You can see very nicely how Greg moves on the ground and the glider immediately loses power.
I like that in the UK we do altitude in feet, vertical speed in m/s, windspeed in mph and distance in km. Here in Pembrokeshire we actually use fathoms/minute for lift.
Flying a moustache also helps for strong wind soaring ;) Solid depower on the breaks. Flys 80km/h easily. Depower on the ground is safety. Depower in the air is safety aswell. The wing feels like being a bird. Did you try it?
I haven't tried it, but I'm a bit concerned with a wing that is capable of going so fast + flown in strong wind + close to ground + turbulence + odd 'reversed' pilot input required (don't catch forward surges or you cause a collapse on reflex, after collapse don't go hands up or you're fully accelerated) ... if it gets turned downwind you come in so very hard. But I'm happy to give it a try! What is the wing kill method like? I'm guessing the A kill won't work (reflex) and the brakes requires going through a power surge first.
@@FlyWithGreg Due to the reflex, it's much more collapse resistant than average paragliders. And as you change the whole angle of attack with the breaks, the classic problem of accelerated breaking collapsing the wing is not possible anymore. It feels so stable while flying, as if you have a hard piece of uncollapsable rock over your head xD. Flying it is actually pretty intuitive. You'll get used to it super fast. Fly it at the coasts in laminar wind, and you will never feel safer on any other wing. It's made for soaring and it does it best by factors. You have infinite control over altitude and wing-power. It can't overpower you on the ground what so ever, and it doesn't suddenly lift you up without your inputs. You have insanely more control to not get blown over the cliff edge and you can manuver a lot better, as you control up and down aswell in addition to left and right. The speed can be dangerous, but it's also safety, especially in soaring it is! They flew it in 70km/h wind at the coast already. Went easy ;) Pretty much unbelievable! You can't kill the wing. A-lines have so much pressure, you can do pull-ups on them and it won't collapse the wing xD. Breaking will just generate lift. If you need to really kill it, you have the kill-mushrooms you can pull, completely depowering the wing, like a kite. Fly it at the coast. You'll never come closer to feeling like a bird, I swear and you never felt safer flying. Just do it in laminar winds. For turbulent termal winds it's a different story. As you can't collapse the wing on purpose with pulling A-lines, doing safety testing is rather difficult. There is not too much experience how it will behave if it collapses, but as said, it's ultra sable in air and super hard to collapse. In one of the FLARE introduction videos, you can see a half-wing side collapse, and it recuperates very gently. Also there is SIV video on youtube, where the guy pulls plenty of stalls. It doens't look any worse than stalls on other paragliders, in contrast, as you come out with speed after stall, you have less problems to handle the developed G-forces, as you can just to hand up and flare the energy out. The wing doesn't develop high G-forces ever, except if you want it to.
All problems I ever encountered while paragliding was due to not having control over lift and sink and not having depower. Got lifted by a sand-devil, which wouldn't have happend with a moustache. Almost hit a power cable, because I didn't have "sink/lift on demand" as I would have needed it right then. Got once overpowered while groundhandling on the dune, which woulnd't have happend with moustache depower. It's addition safety, and it's amazing ;) Since kiting has depower, it got a lot safer. The same will happen with paragliding. A one-axis controlled airplane with such narrow speed windows just sucks, considering the range of what air is capable to do.
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A great video and I can only agree with what you said, especially about the kill mechanism. I am relatively new to paragliding and I've just come back from a two week trip to Namibia and my biggest problem was actually killing the glider in strong winds. Running up and down the dune etc., that was quickly learned.
But after a few days of fiddling around and some input from colleagues and trainers, I've finally found two methods that allow me to put the glider down relatively smoothly in strong winds.
Thank's for the tips 👌
Excellent. Thanks
great stuff !
Thanks for your efforts in putting this together!
Thanks Greg. Today was specially windy for us to fly. I’ll send you a video for you to use if needed ;)
Take good care
Thank you
The other trick is to upgrade to a Ventus cT glider, which enables flying in 70knot/130km/h winds with ease, and a handy 49:1 glide ration to jump over the gaps ;)
agreed! it's just hard to pack into your bag when you do an outlanding on a ventus :-)
U should talk about a tip to run down wind of your paraglider what landing in strong winds is possible like I just saw you do in your video. I watched that and ut just clicked how much sense it made
Sound advice as always.
great tips as always... thanks for sharing
this is awesomely helpful. thanks
Another 10 secrets video! Nice
Super Thank you
Greg, would really appreciate if you could share some of the valley wind experience you have. From forecast to understand where are the dangerous lee parts of the mountain. Safe flights my friend!
Your videos are epic! Thank you. When you coming to Iceland?! Ultralight club in Reykjavík við cover some of the cost in exchange for a short conference ;D
Always something nice and useful to watch. 👍
Great
Next to-do...rears-only landing; would love to see what that final flare would look like.
Wasn't taking this matter too serious even when I ended up in conditions in which my low B wing was barely moving forward even when fully accelerated. Until it collapsed on me maybe 20m above ground but miraculously I was able to recover the last moment imaginable so I ended up impacting into a damp meadow at "only" roughly 4.5m/s vertically and 14km/h ground speed. I pulled up my legs and landed on my butt protector (Skywalk Breeze PermAir) which essentially exploded on impact... but I was fully unharmed. Not even a scratch. Still unsure how I deserve this second chance.
What do you mean by dolphining over terrain in strong wind? I only understand dolphining as dipping up and down.
thanks
Things you can do , dont fly in strong winds in the first place , if the wind strength increases whilst your in the air think about landing before it gets too strong , simple.
2:04 I just understood, why dolphins swim/play in front of ships!
Try to understand how the powerzone works on the ground. It's the same as kiting. You can see very nicely how Greg moves on the ground and the glider immediately loses power.
I lv yr films
Isn’t 20mph 32kph, not 36kph?
indeed, good catch! so imperial pilots can push it to 23 :-)
Seemile 1.8 km.
(Land) Mile: 1.6 Km
I like that in the UK we do altitude in feet, vertical speed in m/s, windspeed in mph and distance in km.
Here in Pembrokeshire we actually use fathoms/minute for lift.
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Flying a moustache also helps for strong wind soaring ;)
Solid depower on the breaks. Flys 80km/h easily. Depower on the ground is safety. Depower in the air is safety aswell.
The wing feels like being a bird.
Did you try it?
And not to forget, amazing content, as always Greg ;D
A wing for very advanced Pilots only though.
I haven't tried it, but I'm a bit concerned with a wing that is capable of going so fast + flown in strong wind + close to ground + turbulence + odd 'reversed' pilot input required (don't catch forward surges or you cause a collapse on reflex, after collapse don't go hands up or you're fully accelerated) ... if it gets turned downwind you come in so very hard. But I'm happy to give it a try! What is the wing kill method like? I'm guessing the A kill won't work (reflex) and the brakes requires going through a power surge first.
@@FlyWithGreg Due to the reflex, it's much more collapse resistant than average paragliders. And as you change the whole angle of attack with the breaks, the classic problem of accelerated breaking collapsing the wing is not possible anymore. It feels so stable while flying, as if you have a hard piece of uncollapsable rock over your head xD. Flying it is actually pretty intuitive. You'll get used to it super fast. Fly it at the coasts in laminar wind, and you will never feel safer on any other wing. It's made for soaring and it does it best by factors. You have infinite control over altitude and wing-power. It can't overpower you on the ground what so ever, and it doesn't suddenly lift you up without your inputs. You have insanely more control to not get blown over the cliff edge and you can manuver a lot better, as you control up and down aswell in addition to left and right. The speed can be dangerous, but it's also safety, especially in soaring it is! They flew it in 70km/h wind at the coast already. Went easy ;) Pretty much unbelievable! You can't kill the wing. A-lines have so much pressure, you can do pull-ups on them and it won't collapse the wing xD. Breaking will just generate lift. If you need to really kill it, you have the kill-mushrooms you can pull, completely depowering the wing, like a kite.
Fly it at the coast. You'll never come closer to feeling like a bird, I swear and you never felt safer flying. Just do it in laminar winds.
For turbulent termal winds it's a different story. As you can't collapse the wing on purpose with pulling A-lines, doing safety testing is rather difficult. There is not too much experience how it will behave if it collapses, but as said, it's ultra sable in air and super hard to collapse. In one of the FLARE introduction videos, you can see a half-wing side collapse, and it recuperates very gently. Also there is SIV video on youtube, where the guy pulls plenty of stalls. It doens't look any worse than stalls on other paragliders, in contrast, as you come out with speed after stall, you have less problems to handle the developed G-forces, as you can just to hand up and flare the energy out.
The wing doesn't develop high G-forces ever, except if you want it to.
All problems I ever encountered while paragliding was due to not having control over lift and sink and not having depower.
Got lifted by a sand-devil, which wouldn't have happend with a moustache. Almost hit a power cable, because I didn't have "sink/lift on demand" as I would have needed it right then. Got once overpowered while groundhandling on the dune, which woulnd't have happend with moustache depower.
It's addition safety, and it's amazing ;)
Since kiting has depower, it got a lot safer. The same will happen with paragliding. A one-axis controlled airplane with such narrow speed windows just sucks, considering the range of what air is capable to do.
The secret of Paragliding in strong wind? # Dont! ;)