@@jacobgodde6576 the guy selling it sold it the same day I went to go look at it😔. Still haven't gotten into it have been looking to buy a dirt cheap wind and harness since then
@@WaleedWahidi get an experienced pilot you can trust to check wings and harness. Plenty of old, cheap, high end wings that will kill an inexperienced flyer
@@huepix new update. Picked up a $500 wing and did some practice yesterday. Back at it today. Let's see if I can finally get some flight time after all these years
You can teach yourself to groundhandle. Groundhandling is 50% of your lessons. Takeoffs and landings are the riskiest part of flying. If you know how to groundhandle ... you understand how your wing works. Flying ... FORGET IT. The moment you want to lift off go to school. My story: Personally I did loads of groundhandling on an old EN-D wing from a friend(he explained to me the basics) and I did somewhere around 15 hours of groundhandling by watching youtube videos and looking at the weather forecast to know when the breeze is gonna be just right. After I felt like I had the wing in check even when the wind was a bit stronger 5+ m/s I said to myself ... ok now I wanna fly. And I went straight to my friend again who pointed me in the direction of a good teacher ... First day of school I went up the hill walking behind my teacher just listening to what he was saying to his pupils over the radio. I didn't touch a wing. I was just observing. All those trials and errors that I was doing on my own, I was now observing on other people, who went straight to school and were still learning the basics ... I didn't get cocky. I just observed everyone and noded when the teacher was explaining stuff to me. It was "too windy" for my first try he said. Second day I put on the harness and his EN-A school glider. When I pulled on the wing it was nothing like the EN-D glider I had fought for months before. When I pulled on my old wing it rocketed straight up giving me no time to think, so I was already used to pulling on the A lines and breaking the wing when it came overhead. It all happens in a moment. When I pulled this school wing it was like an old mule I had to pull it hard and wait for it what felt like ages. I didn't even have to break it that much... it did it all by itself or so I was thinking. Its was like going from a sports car to an old tractor. My teacher was doubting me and said "Eh just beginners luck". I let the wing fall back down and repeat the same thing although I had to correct the glider when it was a bit slow on one side. This time he is amazed and compliments that I did everything without even looking at my lines or hands. It was at that point that I realized I already had muscle memory of how to bring up the glider and keep it there without having to think about it. I was flying down the learner hill the same day. After a few days the teacher said ... you are ready for your height training. Usually people are trained on the learners hill for at least 10 days(most need more). I was done in 4. I met a woman roughly my age who has been on the training hill for at least 2 weeks and was just moving on to the big mountains when I cam in for the first day of training where I Was just observing and chatting. She was visibly confused when I came to the meetup point under the mountain. I just smiled "It is what it is :) ". So yeah the point of this: Practice the basics. Watch all the youtube videos you can. Respect mother nature. Shell fu*k you up if you don't :D Now I'm doing my height training for the last two months, which is allot slower because conditions have to be perfect(even though I feel like I could handle the midday thermals by now). I hope I'll be done with the school by the end of this year and do my first solo flights next year. PS: I bought everything used EN-A wing, Vario, Helmet, Reserve. The only thing that is new is the chair. I'm on the taller side and I had to go for a custom XL harness. But you don't change harnesses when you progress. All together it cost me 2k. Amazing how cheap school wings are. But I'm changing to a EN-B wing as soon as I'm done with school. I already experienced the poison that is competition level gliders. I wanna be up there feeling every pull on my risers.
Really cool video dude! Here in the UK I started flying for 2000£ all up. 1000£ for official training, 500£ for a mojo 1 with only 50 hours (old but in great condition) a 200£ good condition used woody valley harness, 200£ good used reserve and a new 100£ helmet, and after a little while i got a 50£ simple vario and 20£ baofeng!
@@AndreBandarra1 There you are!!!! HI! Thank you so much. I love your channel and you set a great example and inspiration for my own channel. 2000 pounds is pretty good! I tell people they should be able to get a nice used set up for $2000 dollars. And if you're smart and social, you can learn without an instructor. I just couldn't bring myself to endorse self-instruction in directly in my video. Thanks for reaching out!
@@AriintheAir yeah I think if you have the right attitude and environment it is possible but because paragliding is the right fit for so few people in general, learning on your own would apply to even less people so if you endorsed that it would be the right advice for only a minority of people and bad advice for most people. All in all the video comes across really well, from the right place and really agree with it, well done dude :)
@@charadremur333 hahaha... dude i fly a paramotor now.. self thaughr aswell... im 10 hours in .... bought enC 27 meter that i kited and ridge soared all summer then bout a paramoror setup with a macpara charger 25... thats like flying a toy compared to the uturn passion
I went through Eagle paragliding, Rob and Chris are the rest of the crew there are all amazing! And if you get gear through them it’s actually pretty affordable. Definitely get lessons, I was thinking about teaching myself and I’m so glad I didn’t, upmost respect for my instructors!!
At 9k I could buy a used ultralight, an SUV, a trailer to bring it to an airfield, and some gas for it. Of course I might not be any good at flying it, but the FAA doesn't require me to get a license.
I like how you talk. Simple. I am a ski instructor and I often watch other instructors talk too technical with newbies. Just mentioning a vario you said what it does. Some instructors would not do that and assume the student knows what it is. Like a ski instructor talks about the downhill ski vs outside ski. Or the fall line. Often a student won't know what the instructor is talking about and won't ask because they don't want to stand out.
I spent $11K in order to get in the air with training which included new gear, training, $ tips, two weeks in an Airbnb, gas and food. Granted I didn't buy cheap used gear but I bought what my instructor suggested knowing I was probably going to keep the same gear for at least 5-7 years. Happy flying!
I was so lucky money wise. Local instructor let me pay off the PG1 lessons. Then I got some work and could afford to get PG2. The instructor has all the gear and hires it out, so that was my plan. But then I got some residuals for previous work that was exactly the cost of a midB and harness. I use the smart phone for altimeter and logging flights and have tracked down an unused 2nd hand reserve (from a pro i trust). 4 years later, im starting to get to be a reasonable pilot. And a pretty good amateur meteorologist!
I’m 55 and want to get into para motoring. Watching a lot of utube for a few months now. I kind of like this guy. I bought the seed a month ago…so hard without wind. I know that because on my third visit to a field I had a little wind and then I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. So exciting when that thing inflated and I started to see that I somewhat was controlling it.
Great video. I'm a newbie. I'm an American living in China and have been taking lessons from an instructor completely in Chinese. A private instructor because there's no dedicated school here in Beijing. I'm not fluent in Chinese but I've lived here more than 20 years so I can manage. I'm a professional helicopter Pilot with near 40 years under my belt so there's plenty of similarities between the two types of aviation. I appreciate your message. I'm currently stalled waiting for my equipment. Ordered an Advance Alpha 7. Thanks for spreading the safety first message. I've not lived this long as a Pilot without thinking the same. Keep up with the great videos.
Great advice. I was experienced with skydiving and paragliding about 25-30 years ago. However, I had kids and took a long break. Now the kids are adults, I’m ready to get back into paragliding. I took a course in the 90’s in California (bunny hill through to my first high altitude solo). However, back then I found paragliding a bit boring so I changed to skydiving. Got about 100 jumps under my belt then wife got preggers. So, now I’m 57 and will soon move to Fetiye, Turkey which has a 7000’ coastal mountain which seems to be quite famous as a take off site. I’ll probably take lessons again, because I can afford it and I’m safety conscious, then buy a used rig. Just have to wait until the pandemic is over. Can’t wait!
@@jaredmarban9771 I haven't moved to Turkey due to the pandemic but I'll try to learn in Mongolia where we live. There are courses and dealers here too. Also, quite a few mountains to launch from. Power paragliding might be possible too since there aren't too many high mountain launches for long flights.
@@low-costgearbudgettour714 how is it going?) im 16yo in progress of obtaining my PPL for airplane, got interested in paragliding, although I cant do it until im 18 was thinking of doing a discovery one with instructor
I fell lucky I found a person who was upgrading and did not have room for his beginner wing and with no damage it was sent to the producer and inspected and passed
Muy buen vídeo Yo estoy aprendiendo a volar por mi cuenta, llevo ya 3 años y vuelo poco, hice como 100 horas de practica en el suelo. y luego mis primeros vuelos los hice con un amigo que lleva 2 años volando. Si he hecho algún vuelo por mi cuenta pero teniendo muchísima precaución y asegurándome de que las condiciones estaban bien. Recomiendo a todo el mundo que haga el curso y vuele con mas pilotos por que así van a aprender mucho mas rápido.
Man, cool video! I’ve been trying to talk myself out of trying the paragliding for over a year now. I guess, im taking safety too seriously.. Finally, I feel like I just have to give in and just do it, let it out of my system. And you made a good point: paragliding is aviation, but perhaps people tend to forget that. Paraglider is a lot safer than an airplane, if people only treated it with an equal degree of respect. Thanks for your vids!
Safety is the responsability of the pilot. if you get quality training, good gear, and learn as many things as possible, from as many sources as possible, paragliding will be much safer than the guy who dont what he is doing, jump off a cliff with a 15 year old competition glider with no instruction in high wind.
I can’t fault any of what you say. It’s all good advice. IF you live in the USA or Western Europe. Maybe some other developed countries. But I live in Mongolia. I’m an expat. I did my training 40 years ago in Southern California and did a solo high altitude flight. However I was young and felt paragliding didn’t have the adrenaline rush I wanted. So I went back into skydiving. Now I’m older but still want to fly but live in Mongolia. Paragliding hasn’t taken off here. There’s maybe one guy teaching courses and offering tandem flights. My budget is low. The sport is almost nonexistent here but I’m inspired to try (again). I could sell one of my motocross bikes to get the kit.
I love everybody little bit and I love you a lot more after I saw your effort here to try and understand poverty. When you explained to me that you used to be a skier I understood that you are excluded from understanding poverty. I paid all my money that I have to spend on this hobby for my wing and epsilon 9 high-end be and it's the biggest one they got and I'm coming in heavy on the wing I don't have any choice I can't go out here and buy something in the mid-range that I would fit. The guy cut me a deal and told me that if I bought the wing and the lessons and every bit of equipment from him all at once he had the whole outfit from another guy my size that moved up or something and that epsilon 9 I got is like new. I'm not squeamish. I don't have the money to go around like a skier staying in ski lodges and flying in the air at a ski resort because they don't have any snow right now so everybody is flying in the air at the mountain in the ski resort. If I listen to you I just might as well throw my wing in the wood stove and quit now. I can't afford to go to new flying sites I can't afford to go to Old flying sites all I can afford to do is fly here in my home and that's what I'm going to do right here in the back end of the devil's anus. I already have one forced place to fly out of it's a giant field my friend owns and I can go cut out cedar trees and stuff like that all I want to get myself a good deal. I simply don't have the money to go somewhere even if I didn't fly. So I'm going to fly out of that guy's place and every time I get up in the air I'm going to try to throw out a box of cornstarch and tell everybody I'm a cloud cedar and the reason he's rich is because I make it rain on his farm not yours. Then I'm going to have an exclusive personal one guy invitation to most of the flying ground here that is even remotely possible to fly. I'm going to try to do one of two things either launch from this place I'm at fly up wind throw out some cornstarch, and fly back to my car. The only other thing I'm going to do is launch from someplace and fly to my house. I'm going to have a bunch of flashing strobe lights like bicyclist have and a big loud boat horn with me so I can fly over and everybody will see me and I can honk the horn at him and get him to look and then if I have to land I'm going to honk the horn and try and get everybody to see me so if I crash land they'll know where I am to help me. I'm going to go around and lie and tell every farmer that I made my friend Rich and I got him an extra $6 in of rain on average every year. The story is going to grow like wildfire. I'm already famous around here for my various exploits riding motorcycles working on boats and all sorts of other crazy things like shaking off a hit. I had a crazy anorexic girlfriend and her family was mean to her all her life everybody's been mean to her and now all of a sudden I show up and she was so pretty and I was a big ugly giant from the boats. Her mom would leave town and she would be running the bar for the weekend and the second that bar closed we were upstairs and moms bed for a 6 hour tests of my trustworthiness.her brother didn't like it. He tried to run me over and eliminate me from the gene pool in front of the entire town. Everybody thought I should call the police or something I don't know what their problem is but my girlfriend was in the best possible mood when her brother tried to run me over and she broke up the biggest fight in the history of the bar. She said "I got the board to fit your ass Moses getting that bar we're closed everybody else go home."I'm not just a person who's learning to fly a paraglider and has to hide and be afraid of everything and can't find his own new land zones in his own new launch zones because Ari told me I couldn't and I better just cry. I'm not a gangster Gary I just play one in a small town. So yeah I'm flying heavy on the wing cuz that's what I could get and I'm coming in heavy cuz I'm a gangster and if I have to pay with my life I'll pay it. So yeah ari, thanks for your advice about poverty. I would say you missed your mark right out of the get-go. Don't buy any equipment rent the equipment at the flying School. That way you won't have the huge expense of buying equipment that you can't drive anywhere to use and if you don't like the sport after you try it you aren't in for five or six thousand. If you can get your lessons with rented equipment is there any way you could just rent, after you get your license and fly? If you have to travel you're going to have to pay an extra baggage fare every time you take that wing and equipment with you on the bus or the airplane. There again you finally get a clue that everybody isn't going to progress to do acro. I'm not studying to be a paraglider pilot I'm studying to be an epsilon 9 pilot. You need to learn a bunch of wings and change and progress and grow and do this and that I just need to learn one thing so I can fly around here like a even though I'm not a gangster I just play one in a small town. I won't have anybody flying with me probably ever around here but I'm going to have 9000 people on the ground talking about me gossiping about me bragging that they saw me flying honking my horn and if it gets dark and my girlfriend calls 911 and asked about me they'll put a thing out to all the volunteer firemen first and ask them if they saw me. My roommate will know where I'm flying and was I intending to fly a loop and come back to my car or was I intending to fly a line back to my house.when the announcement goes out over the radio for the fireman to step out and have a look for my flashing light in the tree phones will ring and somebody will call in and tell everybody where I am so they can come help me. If I get to where I can fly the epsilon 9 I may have to have an invitational fly in an invitational hike and fly and tell all the people like you and the world's champions they can't beat me here. We can all take off from the same place and we can all fly towards the goal and as soon as you land you won't be able to launch again no matter how good you are because some farmer will tell you this is private property if you weren't a cloud cedar like that McGoveran 16:36 over there you are not coming on my property. Every one of you has a right to land anywhere you want on the face of the United States on a good green earth the Lord gave us... None of you has a right to launch from private property if the owner tells you know and tell me yes so I can beat the best in the world and I can fly right down here in the back end of the devil's anus for turbulence.
Funny story so i watched this video 6 months ago riggt before buyin a uturn passion 27 meter enC... i watched alot of flybubble videos and he helped me through most of wat i was struggleing with...which wasnt anything really but i learned from him... anyway im out in the country and we dont have mountains or big ridges but i did get some airtime and that wasnt enough so i decided to buy a paramotor and now i have 10 hours on my motors hour meter... happy flying... ps dont self teach..🤪🤪😁
I am not condoning self teaching but I am self taught, but I have an extensive background in BASE and HALO, but I am self taught on paragliding and paramotoring, I am still overly cautious about when, where, and how I fly.
Excellent advice and content. I'm a very new pilot and much of this advice sounds straight out of my instructors mouth. With my climbing background I find myself pretty gungho which I know is no no. I just want to soar haha. But yes is best to take things slow in this sport.
Is there a really good site that gives unbiased reviews on wings? If I wanted to pick up a low B, I'd really want to know what that means. I get the point, but am afraid the manufacturer may oversell it. So want to see what are truly considered proper Low B.
I’m thinking progression wing from an en A to a B wing in your weight range that suits your level competency and skill , do some homework there are plenty videos on the topic of choosing a wing and above all talk to instructors involved with paragliding to point you in the right direction .
I have been saving my money for a long time and I finally purchased a new wing it is an O-Zone Atom-3 , it’s a medium I Purchased a kiting harness, and after about 10 hours of desperately trying to keep the wing above me without it dragging me all around the soccer field I finally learn the ropes I actually think that I did very well for such a large wing to be starting with, I live in New England I took it to Mount Washington to take a chance on going for a short little ride and and when I saw. What I was up against I chickened out due to lack of experience and went home...... Paragliding and powered paragliding has not caught on yet in New England and I’ve been researching , Looking for flying instructors and I find there is nobody for me to go to from around here, I am not a wealthy person and leaving and going to another state for flying lessons is out of the question, I have a small metal fabrication business that would collapse without me at the helm , so for me it looks like it’s going to be a very long process of taking baby steps I am right now in the process of building my. On power unit, I sent away for a detailed instructions on the correct way to go about it but flying it is definitely not in my future plans, tell me do you think after being an expert at kiting the wing should I just throw caution to the wind and strap on the motor and go? Taking very small short flights naturally, I just don’t know where to go from here
Dont learn paramotor by yourself. Its dangerous and expensive. If your business cant survive while you are 1 week away for instruction, how will it survive if you have a twisted ankle or broken leg? A bad landing with a heavy motor on your back is enough. If you dont know what you are doing, you will break your propeller many times, which is few hundred dollars. If the propeller touches anything ( lines, cage, grass...) while spinning it is damaged. I borrowed the motor of a friend and the propeller touched long grass on take off, and my friend had to send it to be rebalanced. You need help by someone who knows how to fly. To learn take off and landings at least
Ari, another question for you, and a strange one perhaps. Would it be feasible to use paragliding functionally, not just recreationally? As in, a free or nearly free (after it pays for itself), natural and carbon neutral alternative form of transport? Assuming you live rurally, of course, with a decent take-off point on your doorstep. Really rapidly coming to the point where I have to face the reality that I may just have to take the plunge and learn to do this thing (having already done a bit of microlighting as a teen). But that question interests me. If I learned, could I take the glider instead of the car for some journeys? I get that it's dangerous, but so is driving, and I love driving, and loads of people do it accepting the risks. More danger on the depth axis with paragliding, but presumably less on the length and breadth if I approached it with the same healthy caution and rigour specific to the discipline as a learner driver ought to with driving. So if I didn't become a sky racer, how dangerous would it be in comparison?
Never flown here. Which should I do first? 50 hours kiting practice or learn how to fly with trainer? I think it would be more useful to practice kiting first so the trainer/trainee can focus on teaching flying.
I'm based out of Bend Oregon. And YES! Buying (or getting for free) an old glider thats not air worthy anymore is an excellent way to start learning. The older, more beat up gliders are harder to kite, so when you finally move up to a new, modern glider, it will feel so easy!
This is very much my speed Ari. I went to our local (boulder, co) launch almost a year ago and talked to a lot of pilots. I got totally jazzed about getting involved and have literally watched about every RUclips video on learning to paraglide. I just got my first LOW B wing used and plan to spend this entire season just mastering kiting skills. My question: you (and EVERYONE else) recommends taking lessons before flying. That's my plan as well. But what about in my case just mastering kiting? If I'm spending those 50+ hours on the ground, can't I just become the boss without lessons? I know there's the possibility of picking up a few bad habits and having to relearn them, but I plan on trying EVERYTHING and seeing what works best. Is there any harm in this? Keep up the awesome work! (and kudos to Andre B as well).
I would say that you can teach yourself to kite. I don't think you can teach yourself to fly in the same way. You don't necessarily need an instructor, but you need a mentor who is an instructor - which is kinda a paradox that leaves your best bet being an instructor. I think you can lower the cost and the time of instruction by showing up as a kiting boss!!!
@@AriintheAir Thanks for the response Ari. I take this activity with great respect, and am patient enough to learn well. When I'm ready to fly I'll for sure go with an instructor. As you said, you have to be licensed to fly anywhere anyway, and want to be accepted in the community. I'm excited just with kiting for now, and have put in about 10 hours following Andre and Gemma, along with you, flybubble, etc ,etc (I like Peter Holdy's guidance as well). Super stoked to be getting involved, and appreciate your positive and thoughtful videos Ari. Keep 'em coming!
In my opinion, you could easily learn to control a glider on the ground via RUclips videos and ground handling. The reason that an instructor or mentor becomes so important is because you don’t know what you don’t know. Meteorology and weather, indicators of dangers, etc, are very hard to learn and identify without someone more knowledgeable showing you what to look for. The value of taking a P2 course is less learning how to control a wing, and more learning what will kill you. I’ve been flying for a bit over a year at this point, and there are still many circumstances where i have to make conservative decisions because i simply don’t know what I’m looking at. Wether it’s a cloud or some weird wind, it’s an incredibly complex thing. Get started ground handling, but be careful, the wind is a lot more powerful than you think. Start in light conditions, but stay grounded until you have a mentor or instructor
I was lucky. Friend bought me glider bgd epic 2018 40 hours, lightly used advance progress 2, new reserve, all for 1800€. I have pracrise near his home 4 dais lunch and land and groundhandling. Then I went to course for 2.5 day. One day jus me and instructor. It cost me. 200€. So for me to start paragliding 2000€. Mi advise is find friend who is paragliding. :)
@@AriintheAir no but i see people regularly try and fly locally to me that have done little or even and groundhandling or training. They are a danger to themselves as well as potentially others... even a free tester/taster course or a phone call to an instructor will show the level or knowledge you should logically posses before taking to the hill let alone the air...
Well, I bought a used truck and the engine siezed 11 miles later. I then doubled down and spent $2300 on a new motor and Harrison and I spent 5 days putting it in. Then I was out of money and the truck was having a few hickups, and I stressed myself into a cold sore. Change of seasons, stress, sun - the perfect storm. Didn't let my facial virus stop me from vlogging!!!!
Ari in the Air I hate when that happens. I get them sometimes too when I am stressed out. Love what you are doing with these videos. I am almost done watching your High Wind video right now. Such great information. I am going to suggest them to everyone on Thursdays show. Have a great night!
![Learning to Paraglide [What it's REALLY like]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uhnUE-Bt5KM/mqdefault.jpg)
You want lessons on saving money? Ask a man with a flip phone. :)
Hahahahahaha!!!! So true. I love my flip phone!
"Stoke as currency"
That is an outstanding concept that applies wayy beyond paragliding!
About to buy a $500 wing a harness combo, wish my luck boys😂
Update please
@@jacobgodde6576 the guy selling it sold it the same day I went to go look at it😔.
Still haven't gotten into it have been looking to buy a dirt cheap wind and harness since then
@@WaleedWahidi get an experienced pilot you can trust to check wings and harness.
Plenty of old, cheap, high end wings that will kill an inexperienced flyer
@@huepix new update. Picked up a $500 wing and did some practice yesterday. Back at it today. Let's see if I can finally get some flight time after all these years
@@WaleedWahidi do vlog style videos bro
You can teach yourself to groundhandle. Groundhandling is 50% of your lessons. Takeoffs and landings are the riskiest part of flying. If you know how to groundhandle ... you understand how your wing works. Flying ... FORGET IT. The moment you want to lift off go to school.
My story:
Personally I did loads of groundhandling on an old EN-D wing from a friend(he explained to me the basics) and I did somewhere around 15 hours of groundhandling by watching youtube videos and looking at the weather forecast to know when the breeze is gonna be just right. After I felt like I had the wing in check even when the wind was a bit stronger 5+ m/s I said to myself ... ok now I wanna fly. And I went straight to my friend again who pointed me in the direction of a good teacher ...
First day of school I went up the hill walking behind my teacher just listening to what he was saying to his pupils over the radio. I didn't touch a wing. I was just observing. All those trials and errors that I was doing on my own, I was now observing on other people, who went straight to school and were still learning the basics ... I didn't get cocky. I just observed everyone and noded when the teacher was explaining stuff to me. It was "too windy" for my first try he said.
Second day I put on the harness and his EN-A school glider. When I pulled on the wing it was nothing like the EN-D glider I had fought for months before. When I pulled on my old wing it rocketed straight up giving me no time to think, so I was already used to pulling on the A lines and breaking the wing when it came overhead. It all happens in a moment.
When I pulled this school wing it was like an old mule I had to pull it hard and wait for it what felt like ages. I didn't even have to break it that much... it did it all by itself or so I was thinking. Its was like going from a sports car to an old tractor. My teacher was doubting me and said "Eh just beginners luck". I let the wing fall back down and repeat the same thing although I had to correct the glider when it was a bit slow on one side. This time he is amazed and compliments that I did everything without even looking at my lines or hands. It was at that point that I realized I already had muscle memory of how to bring up the glider and keep it there without having to think about it.
I was flying down the learner hill the same day. After a few days the teacher said ... you are ready for your height training.
Usually people are trained on the learners hill for at least 10 days(most need more). I was done in 4. I met a woman roughly my age who has been on the training hill for at least 2 weeks and was just moving on to the big mountains when I cam in for the first day of training where I Was just observing and chatting. She was visibly confused when I came to the meetup point under the mountain. I just smiled "It is what it is :) ".
So yeah the point of this: Practice the basics. Watch all the youtube videos you can. Respect mother nature. Shell fu*k you up if you don't :D
Now I'm doing my height training for the last two months, which is allot slower because conditions have to be perfect(even though I feel like I could handle the midday thermals by now).
I hope I'll be done with the school by the end of this year and do my first solo flights next year.
PS: I bought everything used EN-A wing, Vario, Helmet, Reserve. The only thing that is new is the chair. I'm on the taller side and I had to go for a custom XL harness. But you don't change harnesses when you progress. All together it cost me 2k. Amazing how cheap school wings are. But I'm changing to a EN-B wing as soon as I'm done with school. I already experienced the poison that is competition level gliders. I wanna be up there feeling every pull on my risers.
Thanks for sharing your story Jerry!
Really cool video dude! Here in the UK I started flying for 2000£ all up. 1000£ for official training, 500£ for a mojo 1 with only 50 hours (old but in great condition) a 200£ good condition used woody valley harness, 200£ good used reserve and a new 100£ helmet, and after a little while i got a 50£ simple vario and 20£ baofeng!
Oh, thanks for mentioning the GHC dude! :D
@@AndreBandarra1 There you are!!!! HI! Thank you so much. I love your channel and you set a great example and inspiration for my own channel. 2000 pounds is pretty good! I tell people they should be able to get a nice used set up for $2000 dollars. And if you're smart and social, you can learn without an instructor. I just couldn't bring myself to endorse self-instruction in directly in my video. Thanks for reaching out!
@@AriintheAir yeah I think if you have the right attitude and environment it is possible but because paragliding is the right fit for so few people in general, learning on your own would apply to even less people so if you endorsed that it would be the right advice for only a minority of people and bad advice for most people. All in all the video comes across really well, from the right place and really agree with it, well done dude :)
@@AndreBandarra1 I like that perspective. Thanks so much man! Lets stay in touch.
Andre Bandarra Andre Bandarra is it possible for now to get cheap stuffs like what you got ? Any recommendations information to get that , thank you
Im in the middle of nowhere... just bought a used setup... im broke now... planning on taking it slow... gonna teach myself..
You still alive?
@@charadremur333 hahaha... dude i fly a paramotor now.. self thaughr aswell... im 10 hours in .... bought enC 27 meter that i kited and ridge soared all summer then bout a paramoror setup with a macpara charger 25... thats like flying a toy compared to the uturn passion
I went through Eagle paragliding, Rob and Chris are the rest of the crew there are all amazing! And if you get gear through them it’s actually pretty affordable. Definitely get lessons, I was thinking about teaching myself and I’m so glad I didn’t, upmost respect for my instructors!!
In Europe/Germany you pay about 4500 € for a full equipment new and about 800-1200 for the lessons.
At 9k I could buy a used ultralight, an SUV, a trailer to bring it to an airfield, and some gas for it. Of course I might not be any good at flying it, but the FAA doesn't require me to get a license.
Good luck with that haha
I like how you talk. Simple. I am a ski instructor and I often watch other instructors talk too technical with newbies. Just mentioning a vario you said what it does. Some instructors would not do that and assume the student knows what it is. Like a ski instructor talks about the downhill ski vs outside ski. Or the fall line. Often a student won't know what the instructor is talking about and won't ask because they don't want to stand out.
Thanks man!
too often kids get sent straight into racing without being able to ski at all and it turns alot of kids off the sport.
I spent $11K in order to get in the air with training which included new gear, training, $ tips, two weeks in an Airbnb, gas and food. Granted I didn't buy cheap used gear but I bought what my instructor suggested knowing I was probably going to keep the same gear for at least 5-7 years. Happy flying!
I was so lucky money wise.
Local instructor let me pay off the PG1 lessons.
Then I got some work and could afford to get PG2.
The instructor has all the gear and hires it out, so that was my plan. But then I got some residuals for previous work that was exactly the cost of a midB and harness.
I use the smart phone for altimeter and logging flights and have tracked down an unused 2nd hand reserve (from a pro i trust).
4 years later, im starting to get to be a reasonable pilot.
And a pretty good amateur meteorologist!
Thank you for watching and participating bro! Fly safe
I’m 55 and want to get into para motoring. Watching a lot of utube for a few months now. I kind of like this guy. I bought the seed a month ago…so hard without wind. I know that because on my third visit to a field I had a little wind and then I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. So exciting when that thing inflated and I started to see that I somewhat was controlling it.
Great video. I'm a newbie. I'm an American living in China and have been taking lessons from an instructor completely in Chinese. A private instructor because there's no dedicated school here in Beijing. I'm not fluent in Chinese but I've lived here more than 20 years so I can manage. I'm a professional helicopter Pilot with near 40 years under my belt so there's plenty of similarities between the two types of aviation. I appreciate your message. I'm currently stalled waiting for my equipment. Ordered an Advance Alpha 7. Thanks for spreading the safety first message. I've not lived this long as a Pilot without thinking the same. Keep up with the great videos.
Great advice. I was experienced with skydiving and paragliding about 25-30 years ago. However, I had kids and took a long break. Now the kids are adults, I’m ready to get back into paragliding. I took a course in the 90’s in California (bunny hill through to my first high altitude solo). However, back then I found paragliding a bit boring so I changed to skydiving. Got about 100 jumps under my belt then wife got preggers.
So, now I’m 57 and will soon move to Fetiye, Turkey which has a 7000’ coastal mountain which seems to be quite famous as a take off site. I’ll probably take lessons again, because I can afford it and I’m safety conscious, then buy a used rig. Just have to wait until the pandemic is over. Can’t wait!
How goes it?
@@jaredmarban9771 I haven't moved to Turkey due to the pandemic but I'll try to learn in Mongolia where we live. There are courses and dealers here too. Also, quite a few mountains to launch from. Power paragliding might be possible too since there aren't too many high mountain launches for long flights.
@@low-costgearbudgettour714 how is it going?) im 16yo in progress of obtaining my PPL for airplane, got interested in paragliding, although I cant do it until im 18 was thinking of doing a discovery one with instructor
Just realised your name is an anagram of 'air'. This seems serendipitous (or perhaps nominally determinative?)
So many things ring true with me in this video. Great advice man!!
Thanks Ben! Got another video exporting now about how to not be blown back in strong wind. Stay tuned!
I fell lucky I found a person who was upgrading and did not have room for his beginner wing and with no damage it was sent to the producer and inspected and passed
Exilent advice ,thank you .
Muy buen vídeo
Yo estoy aprendiendo a volar por mi cuenta, llevo ya 3 años y vuelo poco, hice como 100 horas de practica en el suelo. y luego mis primeros vuelos los hice con un amigo que lleva 2 años volando. Si he hecho algún vuelo por mi cuenta pero teniendo muchísima precaución y asegurándome de que las condiciones estaban bien. Recomiendo a todo el mundo que haga el curso y vuele con mas pilotos por que así van a aprender mucho mas rápido.
Wow I just found your channel. You rock!
Man, cool video! I’ve been trying to talk myself out of trying the paragliding for over a year now. I guess, im taking safety too seriously.. Finally, I feel like I just have to give in and just do it, let it out of my system.
And you made a good point: paragliding is aviation, but perhaps people tend to forget that. Paraglider is a lot safer than an airplane, if people only treated it with an equal degree of respect.
Thanks for your vids!
So glad you watched, Alex! You won't regret paragliding, its the best! Where are you located?
Safety is the responsability of the pilot. if you get quality training, good gear, and learn as many things as possible, from as many sources as possible, paragliding will be much safer than the guy who dont what he is doing, jump off a cliff with a 15 year old competition glider with no instruction in high wind.
I can’t fault any of what you say. It’s all good advice. IF you live in the USA or Western Europe. Maybe some other developed countries. But I live in Mongolia. I’m an expat.
I did my training 40 years ago in Southern California and did a solo high altitude flight. However I was young and felt paragliding didn’t have the adrenaline rush I wanted. So I went back into skydiving.
Now I’m older but still want to fly but live in Mongolia. Paragliding hasn’t taken off here. There’s maybe one guy teaching courses and offering tandem flights.
My budget is low. The sport is almost nonexistent here but I’m inspired to try (again). I could sell one of my motocross bikes to get the kit.
I love everybody little bit and I love you a lot more after I saw your effort here to try and understand poverty. When you explained to me that you used to be a skier I understood that you are excluded from understanding poverty. I paid all my money that I have to spend on this hobby for my wing and epsilon 9 high-end be and it's the biggest one they got and I'm coming in heavy on the wing I don't have any choice I can't go out here and buy something in the mid-range that I would fit. The guy cut me a deal and told me that if I bought the wing and the lessons and every bit of equipment from him all at once he had the whole outfit from another guy my size that moved up or something and that epsilon 9 I got is like new. I'm not squeamish. I don't have the money to go around like a skier staying in ski lodges and flying in the air at a ski resort because they don't have any snow right now so everybody is flying in the air at the mountain in the ski resort. If I listen to you I just might as well throw my wing in the wood stove and quit now. I can't afford to go to new flying sites I can't afford to go to Old flying sites all I can afford to do is fly here in my home and that's what I'm going to do right here in the back end of the devil's anus. I already have one forced place to fly out of it's a giant field my friend owns and I can go cut out cedar trees and stuff like that all I want to get myself a good deal. I simply don't have the money to go somewhere even if I didn't fly. So I'm going to fly out of that guy's place and every time I get up in the air I'm going to try to throw out a box of cornstarch and tell everybody I'm a cloud cedar and the reason he's rich is because I make it rain on his farm not yours. Then I'm going to have an exclusive personal one guy invitation to most of the flying ground here that is even remotely possible to fly. I'm going to try to do one of two things either launch from this place I'm at fly up wind throw out some cornstarch, and fly back to my car. The only other thing I'm going to do is launch from someplace and fly to my house. I'm going to have a bunch of flashing strobe lights like bicyclist have and a big loud boat horn with me so I can fly over and everybody will see me and I can honk the horn at him and get him to look and then if I have to land I'm going to honk the horn and try and get everybody to see me so if I crash land they'll know where I am to help me. I'm going to go around and lie and tell every farmer that I made my friend Rich and I got him an extra $6 in of rain on average every year. The story is going to grow like wildfire. I'm already famous around here for my various exploits riding motorcycles working on boats and all sorts of other crazy things like shaking off a hit. I had a crazy anorexic girlfriend and her family was mean to her all her life everybody's been mean to her and now all of a sudden I show up and she was so pretty and I was a big ugly giant from the boats. Her mom would leave town and she would be running the bar for the weekend and the second that bar closed we were upstairs and moms bed for a 6 hour tests of my trustworthiness.her brother didn't like it. He tried to run me over and eliminate me from the gene pool in front of the entire town. Everybody thought I should call the police or something I don't know what their problem is but my girlfriend was in the best possible mood when her brother tried to run me over and she broke up the biggest fight in the history of the bar. She said "I got the board to fit your ass Moses getting that bar we're closed everybody else go home."I'm not just a person who's learning to fly a paraglider and has to hide and be afraid of everything and can't find his own new land zones in his own new launch zones because Ari told me I couldn't and I better just cry. I'm not a gangster Gary I just play one in a small town. So yeah I'm flying heavy on the wing cuz that's what I could get and I'm coming in heavy cuz I'm a gangster and if I have to pay with my life I'll pay it. So yeah ari, thanks for your advice about poverty. I would say you missed your mark right out of the get-go. Don't buy any equipment rent the equipment at the flying School. That way you won't have the huge expense of buying equipment that you can't drive anywhere to use and if you don't like the sport after you try it you aren't in for five or six thousand. If you can get your lessons with rented equipment is there any way you could just rent, after you get your license and fly? If you have to travel you're going to have to pay an extra baggage fare every time you take that wing and equipment with you on the bus or the airplane. There again you finally get a clue that everybody isn't going to progress to do acro. I'm not studying to be a paraglider pilot I'm studying to be an epsilon 9 pilot. You need to learn a bunch of wings and change and progress and grow and do this and that I just need to learn one thing so I can fly around here like a even though I'm not a gangster I just play one in a small town. I won't have anybody flying with me probably ever around here but I'm going to have 9000 people on the ground talking about me gossiping about me bragging that they saw me flying honking my horn and if it gets dark and my girlfriend calls 911 and asked about me they'll put a thing out to all the volunteer firemen first and ask them if they saw me. My roommate will know where I'm flying and was I intending to fly a loop and come back to my car or was I intending to fly a line back to my house.when the announcement goes out over the radio for the fireman to step out and have a look for my flashing light in the tree phones will ring and somebody will call in and tell everybody where I am so they can come help me. If I get to where I can fly the epsilon 9 I may have to have an invitational fly in an invitational hike and fly and tell all the people like you and the world's champions they can't beat me here. We can all take off from the same place and we can all fly towards the goal and as soon as you land you won't be able to launch again no matter how good you are because some farmer will tell you this is private property if you weren't a cloud cedar like that McGoveran 16:36 over there you are not coming on my property. Every one of you has a right to land anywhere you want on the face of the United States on a good green earth the Lord gave us... None of you has a right to launch from private property if the owner tells you know and tell me yes so I can beat the best in the world and I can fly right down here in the back end of the devil's anus for turbulence.
Now that’s a great chat. You’ve said it perfectly!
Thank you kindly
Stoke as currency! The most under rated form of currency. Not just in sports, but in life!! Right on!
Thanks so much!!!! You're rich, make it rain!!!
Funny story so i watched this video 6 months ago riggt before buyin a uturn passion 27 meter enC... i watched alot of flybubble videos and he helped me through most of wat i was struggleing with...which wasnt anything really but i learned from him... anyway im out in the country and we dont have mountains or big ridges but i did get some airtime and that wasnt enough so i decided to buy a paramotor and now i have 10 hours on my motors hour meter... happy flying... ps dont self teach..🤪🤪😁
I am not condoning self teaching but I am self taught, but I have an extensive background in BASE and HALO, but I am self taught on paragliding and paramotoring, I am still overly cautious about when, where, and how I fly.
Excellent advice and content. I'm a very new pilot and much of this advice sounds straight out of my instructors mouth. With my climbing background I find myself pretty gungho which I know is no no. I just want to soar haha. But yes is best to take things slow in this sport.
Gungho will help you down the road, but you gotta survive till then! ;)
Do you still sell wing/harness packages?
Is there a really good site that gives unbiased reviews on wings? If I wanted to pick up a low B, I'd really want to know what that means. I get the point, but am afraid the manufacturer may oversell it. So want to see what are truly considered proper Low B.
I’m thinking progression wing from an en A to a B wing in your weight range that suits your level competency and skill , do some homework there are plenty videos on the topic of choosing a wing and above all talk to instructors involved with paragliding to point you in the right direction .
I have been saving my money for a long time and I finally purchased a new wing it is an O-Zone Atom-3 , it’s a medium I Purchased a kiting harness, and after about 10 hours of desperately trying to keep the wing above me without it dragging me all around the soccer field I finally learn the ropes I actually think that I did very well for such a large wing to be starting with, I live in New England I took it to Mount Washington to take a chance on going for a short little ride and and when I saw. What I was up against I chickened out due to lack of experience and went home...... Paragliding and powered paragliding has not caught on yet in New England and I’ve been researching , Looking for flying instructors and I find there is nobody for me to go to from around here, I am not a wealthy person and leaving and going to another state for flying lessons is out of the question, I have a small metal fabrication business that would collapse without me at the helm , so for me it looks like it’s going to be a very long process of taking baby steps
I am right now in the process of building my. On power unit, I sent away for a detailed instructions on the correct way to go about it but flying it is definitely not in my future plans, tell me do you think after being an expert at kiting the wing should I just throw caution to the wind and strap on the motor and go? Taking very small short flights naturally, I just don’t know where to go from here
Dont learn paramotor by yourself. Its dangerous and expensive.
If your business cant survive while you are 1 week away for instruction, how will it survive if you have a twisted ankle or broken leg?
A bad landing with a heavy motor on your back is enough.
If you dont know what you are doing, you will break your propeller many times, which is few hundred dollars. If the propeller touches anything ( lines, cage, grass...) while spinning it is damaged. I borrowed the motor of a friend and the propeller touched long grass on take off, and my friend had to send it to be rebalanced.
You need help by someone who knows how to fly. To learn take off and landings at least
@@niconico3907 yes you are right
Ari, another question for you, and a strange one perhaps. Would it be feasible to use paragliding functionally, not just recreationally? As in, a free or nearly free (after it pays for itself), natural and carbon neutral alternative form of transport? Assuming you live rurally, of course, with a decent take-off point on your doorstep. Really rapidly coming to the point where I have to face the reality that I may just have to take the plunge and learn to do this thing (having already done a bit of microlighting as a teen). But that question interests me. If I learned, could I take the glider instead of the car for some journeys? I get that it's dangerous, but so is driving, and I love driving, and loads of people do it accepting the risks. More danger on the depth axis with paragliding, but presumably less on the length and breadth if I approached it with the same healthy caution and rigour specific to the discipline as a learner driver ought to with driving. So if I didn't become a sky racer, how dangerous would it be in comparison?
Can I make a career off of it? I want to learn and make a career doing it? Got any advice for me?
Geez 10k😕is it worth the money if you only have weekends to fly
Never flown here. Which should I do first? 50 hours kiting practice or learn how to fly with trainer? I think it would be more useful to practice kiting first so the trainer/trainee can focus on teaching flying.
Sounds like good price on complete set up.
Hard to beat!
Where are you based out of? Would you recommend buying a junk paraglider/ hog and do ground handling?
I'm based out of Bend Oregon. And YES! Buying (or getting for free) an old glider thats not air worthy anymore is an excellent way to start learning. The older, more beat up gliders are harder to kite, so when you finally move up to a new, modern glider, it will feel so easy!
Great info!
I think it probably applies to PPG as well. What do you think?
@@AriintheAir The PPG pilots are a little more friendly, I feel.
Ppg is even more expensive.
This is very much my speed Ari. I went to our local (boulder, co) launch almost a year ago and talked to a lot of pilots. I got totally jazzed about getting involved and have literally watched about every RUclips video on learning to paraglide. I just got my first LOW B wing used and plan to spend this entire season just mastering kiting skills.
My question: you (and EVERYONE else) recommends taking lessons before flying. That's my plan as well. But what about in my case just mastering kiting? If I'm spending those 50+ hours on the ground, can't I just become the boss without lessons? I know there's the possibility of picking up a few bad habits and having to relearn them, but I plan on trying EVERYTHING and seeing what works best. Is there any harm in this?
Keep up the awesome work! (and kudos to Andre B as well).
I would say that you can teach yourself to kite. I don't think you can teach yourself to fly in the same way. You don't necessarily need an instructor, but you need a mentor who is an instructor - which is kinda a paradox that leaves your best bet being an instructor. I think you can lower the cost and the time of instruction by showing up as a kiting boss!!!
@@AriintheAir Thanks for the response Ari. I take this activity with great respect, and am patient enough to learn well. When I'm ready to fly I'll for sure go with an instructor. As you said, you have to be licensed to fly anywhere anyway, and want to be accepted in the community. I'm excited just with kiting for now, and have put in about 10 hours following Andre and Gemma, along with you, flybubble, etc ,etc (I like Peter Holdy's guidance as well).
Super stoked to be getting involved, and appreciate your positive and thoughtful videos Ari. Keep 'em coming!
In my opinion, you could easily learn to control a glider on the ground via RUclips videos and ground handling. The reason that an instructor or mentor becomes so important is because you don’t know what you don’t know. Meteorology and weather, indicators of dangers, etc, are very hard to learn and identify without someone more knowledgeable showing you what to look for. The value of taking a P2 course is less learning how to control a wing, and more learning what will kill you.
I’ve been flying for a bit over a year at this point, and there are still many circumstances where i have to make conservative decisions because i simply don’t know what I’m looking at. Wether it’s a cloud or some weird wind, it’s an incredibly complex thing.
Get started ground handling, but be careful, the wind is a lot more powerful than you think. Start in light conditions, but stay grounded until you have a mentor or instructor
Hi I am in China, paragliding is very expensive, may I ask in your country for a novice to play the old paragliding need how many dollars
Good vid!!
All what I remember from this video is continuous don’t don’t don’t
It's a very expensive sport and the people in it are generally not very kind two new people.
My galaxy watch has a barometer and can measure altitude could that work?
Altitude is super helpful and a watch with a barometer will definately work for that!
SIIIIIIICKKKKK
I was lucky. Friend bought me glider bgd epic 2018 40 hours, lightly used advance progress 2, new reserve, all for 1800€. I have pracrise near his home 4 dais lunch and land and groundhandling. Then I went to course for 2.5 day. One day jus me and instructor. It cost me. 200€. So for me to start paragliding 2000€. Mi advise is find friend who is paragliding. :)
I like frugal👊
Does anyone knows any good schools/instructor in Spain, Itlay or Portugal??
Incredible :O
cheap just means being on the front page for being a darwin lol
Could be, but you can be thrifty! ;)
Background music irritating. Just saying
#bollocks this will encourage people to go away from instructor tuitions with loads of groundhandling
You must be an instructor.... lol
@@AriintheAir no but i see people regularly try and fly locally to me that have done little or even and groundhandling or training. They are a danger to themselves as well as potentially others... even a free tester/taster course or a phone call to an instructor will show the level or knowledge you should logically posses before taking to the hill let alone the air...
start at 3min...dont waist time with intros like this
I've been dirtbagging my whole life LOL but I work hard I have two jobs I've always had two jobs. Thanks for the video brother this is great
What happened to your cheek?
Well, I bought a used truck and the engine siezed 11 miles later. I then doubled down and spent $2300 on a new motor and Harrison and I spent 5 days putting it in. Then I was out of money and the truck was having a few hickups, and I stressed myself into a cold sore. Change of seasons, stress, sun - the perfect storm. Didn't let my facial virus stop me from vlogging!!!!
Ari in the Air I hate when that happens. I get them sometimes too when I am stressed out. Love what you are doing with these videos. I am almost done watching your High Wind video right now. Such great information. I am going to suggest them to everyone on Thursdays show. Have a great night!
I thought it was a mic :)
Hahahahaha lets go with that! @@577buttfan
You didn't really teach anything
This is useful feedback! I'm kidding.