Paragliding Miraflores, Lima, Peru
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Calina and I were flying in Roldanillo, Colombia, and then went for a few moths of travelling around South America, Our first stop was Lima, Peru, and so we got to have a fly at their local site, Miraflores.
Although our flight was pretty short, about 40 minutes because the wind was picking up it was still one of the most memorable flights I have had, mainly because it is so bizarre to be flying alongside a sprawling metropolis like Lima.
You launch, climb up, and then have the ocean on one side and a massive city as far as the eye can see on the other.
The wind was crossed and going up to 35km an hour so we kind of had to crawl to make any progress in one direction, but equally it was easy to get enough height to be high above the buildings along the coast.
The site is free to fly and you can chat to one of the tandem pilots on site and they will give you a site briefing, you have a pretty tiny landing spot by the beach if you can't top land, so that was a bit nerve wrecking, but when the wind is right the top landing area is huge, and the guys will talk you in if you need it.
Paragliding in Lima was pretty awesome! A+ for a soaring site
I love it
Par de locos. Felicitaciones.
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Haha! When you can fly how can you not fly!
Excellent video, great editing, stunning images !
Thanks very much mate :)
very nice!
4:49 That's why all paragliders should have handles on the rear risers. It's hard to grab _just_ the rear risers _quickly_ on a windy landing. I don't know why the handles are not the rule.
For sure that would have helped, I always try now to lok at them a few meters before when it is windy, and then just before touch down I put my hands on them ready to grab. Maybe handles would be more prone to getting tangled in the lines or something? But the higher rated gliders have them don't they so probably not. Maybe in the next generation!
EXCELLENT (BRAZIL9 I GO TO MIRAFLORES NOWWWWW (Январь
Hey how much did this cost in American dollars ?
Hi, we fly our own wings so we didn’t have to pay. Foreign pilots, at least back then don’t have to pay.
I was considering taking a Spanish class there in Lima. Is it safe there?
Very safe as far as we could tell, especially in Miraflores which is a more affluent part of the city. Apparently there are some dodgy areas (like cities everywhere in the world), like around the airport, but Miraflores felt really safe to us, and we went to a couple other neighborhoods and never felt like it was dodgy at all. Enjoy it is a great city!
In contrast to other hispanic countries that were settled by Canarians and Andalusians , Peru and Lima in particular, was settled by Castillian nobility. You won't find a better Spanish anywhere in the Americas. It is as close to neutral as you can get. Few attempt to imitate it because of its difficulty.