How to find the FIRST THERMAL on your paraglider!
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025
- Do you sometimes struggle to find the first thermal on your paraglider? When conditions are light (and you're flying heavy) it is critical to find the lift before you sink out and lose a good flying day. In this video I'll show you the SECRET of how to find that elusive thermal.
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Greg, I really got a lot out of this video. The narration combined with the Avery visual really helps me visualize the process. Thank you.
It's my pleasure, now I know you guys know the secret, and I've caused a few thousand hours more airtime! My mission is to accelerate the evolution of paraglidus migratus
Do you have any videos on the software you used to track your glide?
Thanks, Canadian Skydiver pilot here first trying to scoop insights from the paragliding world.
I keep learning soooo much from your videos! Trying to get my skills up to par for XC, but sooo much more to learn. Thanks for this one! That’s what I needed to pin down those thermals!
Another top tip that I created and it works successfully for me and I would like to share it with some of the people here who can learn is I use a clip on bubble machine a very small one battery power it sits behind my collar and shoots out soap bubbles so that when I'm circling around in the thermal I can see bubbles in the lift or the drift or in some cases the sink it really is the best way to determine how to go right or left so you're welcome for that
Já tinha imaginado isso e você me confirmou.
always enjoying watching your videos. Make me want to go and start paragliding again. (1990)tx again .Jacques from Jasper, Canada👍
This really helped I’ve found I struggle to get off the ridge I see we’re I been going wrong
It takes commitment, because you feel like you are going to go down to the bottom ... but if you work on your slope landing skills, then the fear goes away, because you can come back in and land half way up the slope. I often do many attempts early in the day, just to practice this skill.
Upwind thermals can also steal some of the upslope wind. Often when everyone starts getting lower on the ridge, the best tactic is to resolutely dive upwind and connect with the thermal that reduced the dynamic lift. So following lifty bits upwind is good, but also look for sudden sink cycles then push straight upwind instead of hugging terrain all the way down, under the thermal column.
My greatest bucket list item is to learn to free fly in the thermals! Great content, thanks!
As a soon-to-be pilot I love to see it broken down this way!
ok this is a great video - and all the comments are also informative - it kind of reminds me of the process for PPC marketing where you first scout out keywords using automated tools that try lots of different ones, and then once you have the data in you choose the ones that convert the highest and then you put all of your marketing budget into those...
I like your videos really much! They're so helpful. I'm new in Paragliding with 60 flights since last summer. Greetings from Switzerland!
Yay Rippa! Nice! Hi greg, I found this information useful. Cheers. I'm glad my friend got a win!
Thinking to start paragliding, your videos really bring the art of flying closer to me ;) Thank you
Super helpful video with the visualization.
Thanks Greg... Simple and well demonstrated. Roll on being freed from sofa flying....
This video will help me. I'm new in paragliding and I will find my first thermal next week. I will do exactly what you do in this video.
Thanks.
I cant wait to start my training this year but I feel like I've leard quite bit from you already.
I like how you explained that
So great to see the area I live in on the screen. Thank you gregg, keep rocking it!
Gracias Greg muy buen video y tus enseñanzas son de mucha ayuda saludos desde San Diego CA
Will deffo be trying these tips! Cheers Greg! 🤙
Hey, great technical points, very well explained . very helpful for beginners. thank you!
Best PG videos on the net! MANY thanks! I'm just not at the stage of learning about thermals, & hope to find my first ones soon! Stay safe!
Glad it was helpful!
On 14th Jan, climb up to 821m,this is 1st time I catch the thermal. After watching yr clip, it gave me more impressive for climbing up, thx Greg.
Greg this is really good! Holding onto the first weak climb is something I'm struggling with at the moment, it's going to be great to have this knowledge in the back of my brain when I fly next.
Hi Greg, I will try this out in June in Bassano. 😀
0:44 2 thumbs up and 2 from me thanks Greg!!
This is again a good simple explanation 👍
Genius! Very helpful, thank you Greg
Greg, crazy thing get an inferred thermometer and aim it at different spots I think you will be amazed.
Thnx Greg, good info's... 👍
Thanks Greg! Awesome.
loving your videos a great source of education. learning stuff on every video.
This is such a great presentation thank you very much Greg. Such a nicely concise explanation with excellent visuals.
Perfect explanation! Well done! 👍🏻😋
Thanks for the useful video. What's the software you're using to visualise the tracklog?
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This is very informative. Alot of guys and gals just luck out on finding thermals. Maybe an instructable video on flatland thermal finding. We tow alot where I'm from.
Thanks for another great video Greg. Going to go put this into practice tomorrow out in Dominical, Costa Rica! 🤟🏼
Excellent , that's taught me a lot more than I thought I knew ;),
You quickly mentioned the thermal wouldn't go all the way up the hill and knew (why please explain?) it would stop at the broken ground and start rising without going any further up towards the hill top.. I also assume if the wind was coming from the sunny side things would be different ... is that another story then ? cheers Greg
Thanks again Greg for your valuable content! :)
Loved the info. Very clear. Thank you Sir!
Great video, thanks for sharing the knowledge. Must fly better!
Great vid as ever! It would be great if the sun direction (in this one) and the wind direction (XC vids) were clearly marked if poss please
sounds like a premium feature, for members ;-)
@@FlyWithGreg As a member already, I look forward to it! 😉
Thank you! Really kind and clear.
thank you for your good explanation dear greg.
Such clear visual aids! Thank you so much for that amazing work. So helpful.
thanx Geg 4 the thermal use I will try it out
All your videos are fantastic
Excellent visualisation!
Greg thank you!! For all your videos. I am am EP pilot, I haven’t flown for two years firstly because of injury and secondly due to Covid!! But all your videos are helping my with my theory work!!
Good trick. Looking forward to trying it in the spring. Thank you Greg.
Absoltly great ! Thats the content i am looking for ! good explaition!
Very good tips, on my fliying zone, Mar del Plata, Argentina, are small hills like that, and finding the termal is just an art.
thanks for explaining that so well. I am one of those who cling to the ridge in case i bomb out and have to walk back up (as I have done many times).
Thank your for your helpful videos. I just started Paragliding this year and fell into love with it.
Thanks Greg! I appreciate your videos! Baby bird learning how to thermal over here...
An entertaining change from the current weather lockdown... Winter is back...
Super helpful video Greg!
Thanks so mcuh.
Really really nice and thanks for sharing your experience
Thank you Greg, for sharing your paragliding advices.
Good job bro 👍 jeep on and i will surport you and thanks a millions Times 🙏
always top top top greg :) thank you trom Tunisia !
Excelente información 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
me encanta tu canal ,aprendo mucho
Brilliant videos Greg !
Hi Greg. Thx for this amazing vid. To find the First bubble at a Ridge is for me as a beginner in XC flying really Hard. I your vid shows a Good strategy!
Top instructor
very good video, well visualized, well explained, good for beginners
Thank you for your safety advice
Thanks for another great tip!
This was very useful for a newbie like me. Thanks Greg!
Alright Ripman!!! Awesome video Greg! Thank you!
Hey Greg, great video mate, thanks!
Awesome work Greg!!!
Thank you for the informational video
very informative and helpful!
Great video Greg, I've found all of your videos and content very useful, thanks for sharing your knowledge and Congrats Ripman Ridin on winning the Comment contest :D
It will be useful this spring! Thanks a lot
Thanks, it's very helpful
Love this video Greg, thank you
Great video👏🏻. Keep posting...
Thank you so much, so basically you turn upwind into the first decent lift bump. So my question is you look and remember the terrain and draw a mental line?
It was really interesting fact to know for ameture pilots like me. It's really nice how you explain the concepts. Thinking of subscribing for the membership... Happy flying..
Such brilliant tips, I was waiting for this video for ages😄👍.
Even if I know it by experience to share your simple trace remembers us the basics. Thanks
Awesome video. Thank you 🙏 ❤️
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience, I'll be sure to check back often to continue to learn.
Ripman has been training for this prize his entire RUclips career.
This one is going straight into my useful PG skills folder, cheers Greg. Fingers crossed Boris lets us out soon for some socially distanced flying.
Great hints I like your Channel a lot !!
Great video really helpful for me as a newbie
This is an incredibly helpful video. Thanks Greg.
Thanks! This was very helpful :)
super explications Greg
This is a great instructional video! Thank you!
Thank for the advise
Thanks Greg. It all makes sense. I've been flying for 13 years now, but still hope to learn more. Your insights help me with that.
Great video, thanks!
Hey Greg thanks! Great video! I actually got my first ever thermal today!! Without actually knowing it this is nearly exactly what I did. Although my flight was late afternoon and the sun was behind the ridge with the sun still affecting the flatland further out from the ridge. I was so happy with my achievement! I’m sure I made a meal of it compared to the pros but for a novice low hours pilot I was stoked with my climb up to 500m :) thanks your theory will help me in future to be a little more calculated about how I go about it. Awesome