We all understand the lure of lift, but tall clouds really suck! Learn about the physics in th-cam.com/video/yLqHfE8A29Q/w-d-xo.html Thanks Ben for sharing your experience with such honesty and humility.
My friend had this happen to him in a real hard glider, he ascended to 25000 feet and went hundreds of miles before he could land. This must have been terrifying. Glad you survived.
Yesss.. 25000 feet? That's it? Well, my friend actually was sucked up 45000 feet, and he flew close to more than 1000 miles before he landed. I'm glad he's alive!! He's the real trooper. !
@@Hello.NateAdams pffft, that's nothing. I was sucked up into space during a solar storm and ended up on Mars. Was weeks before I was able to hitchhikers a ride back to earth with an extraterrestrial fella, wasn't keen on the probing, but a fair deal I guess.
Holy crap, even after all the horribleness of the storm, you came down with fucking 20m/s !!!!! Nobody talks about how lucky you are to hit a tree there and not just die from the impact.
Dude I can’t believe you’re still alive on this earth. Those people that took care of you gives me chills bc that’s just such a blessing. Happy for you brother and wish you luck on your next adventure! Cheers from East Tennessee!
I was flying that day. I always stayed out towards the front of the clouds where I was sure I could escape if necessary. This isn't ideal since the better lift is near the mountains. Because of my position, on the way back, I could see the huge cumulus forming near launch. I was glad I'd made the more conservative decision.
you will fly for many many years that way! it's always a dance between being overconfident and underconfident, somewhere in the middle is the perfect balance where you fly beautiful lines and feel free ... with a little fizz of fear/excitement/apprehension and the music of self-belief lifting you up :-)
I was flying that day also, but did not see else than a cumulus or castelanus. At this time I was more Est. I was surprise to see so many accidents this day because of the rain.
This is probably the most respectful and informative piece I've seen on this story. Thanks for sharing this forecasting story and helping people dig deeper, through freely available teaching, to actually learn from other's mistakes.
@@ASchnacky I don't. What is being an ass to a stranger going to teach that almost dying and getting severely injured didn't? It's not helpful or productive. Kicking someone when they're down serves no purpose other than to inflate one's own ego.
The best of humanity on display in that family that cared for Ben, all without accepting remuneration. What an incredible story, and a good lesson for us all.
Thanks to the pilot to share , very glad you survive and can enjoy life again! Thanks Greg for this very educative video, useful for all of us, let's be careful and humble! ♥
Funny to found my name in the video on the striking red label. Guilty as charged. It was spot on to say that we had grown accustomed to "ignoring" the warning because it hadn't materialized in the past week... I mean we knew and accepted that it could overdevelop and get nasty at any time yet decided to fly "on the edge" of what's safe until one day it actually overdeveloped to a gigantic cell after a week of epic flying under the cloud base. There were clear signs throughout the day for the slower gaggle that it might be best to land and go have a succulent lunch instead. I personally turned around almost exactly where Ben got sucked up 2 hours later because I already didn't like what was happening in the air, there was a clearing in between cumulonimbuses so I got to see what's growing above me and lastly it was too dangerous to fly any further due to strong lift and low cloud base... yet some pilots continued flying towards Dharamshala. 20 minutes later we were racing on full speed bars with other 30-50 pilots to the landing zone. It was interesting to watch pilots landing in the rain while we were already sipping masala tea oblivious to the reality that there were quite a few pilots sucked up into the clouds fighting for their live. 9 (reported) accidents in one day.
What a beautiful family 👌🏼in all of actuality, amongst all of the bad stories on the internet and in the news, we hear of sonething like this where humans really are the best of the best. ♥
Your lucky to be alive. I did this once in a sail plane. Once. I got sucked up into a thunderstorm with absolutely no way to kill altitude. Even with full spoiler and max spiral i was climbing. Staying inside of your margins are extremely important and the difference between smart and stupid.
Brilliant film clip with excellent storytelling and editing thanks Greg. Your knowledge and presenting skills deserve to be on mainstream media, maybe Channel 4, as well as your wonderful TH-cam channel. So pleased that Ben survived to tell the tale.
Thanks Barry, I have my own Channel 4 - my website - which is much more fun for me to deal with :-) I'm glad you enjoy the presenting, I've got a way to go yet but some rough edges make it real, yeah?
@@ohokcool thank you for catching that the thing is I didn't I think my autocorrect did this it's been bugging for a couple of days now anyways thank you Happy New Year
Bloody hell mate, that’s a nightmare to happen. I’m glad you made it out alive. You looked like you did ten rounds with Mike Tyson. Ref the family that helped you off the cliff and aided help to you. Can we do a gofundme so myself and others can donate to. I hope this is something we can do. Rest up buddy and please don’t stop flying.
This reminds me of an old video of an FPV drone that was also sucked up into a thunderstorm, even with full down elevator it wasn't able to descend. Those updrafts are wild.
That SkewT is from the valley, not from the peaks where the cu was forecast and was moister. But you can clearly see the strong risk of epic storms on all the SkewT's shown here. In this case it was probably formed by the convergence at or above the inversion rather than the more conventional thermal driven through a weak inversion. CAPE is unfortunately not a predictor of all different types of instability that could form storms, and actually there are multiple different types of CAPE and it's important to understand the differences and which one you are using. SBCAPE (Surface-Based Convective Available Potential Energy) is a measure of instability in the troposphere. This value represents the total amount of potential energy available to a parcel of air originating at the surface and being lifted to its level of free convection (LFC). No parcel entrainment is considered. MLCAPE (Mixed Layer Convective Available Potential Energy) is a measure of instability in the troposphere. This value represents the mean potential energy conditions available to parcels of air located in the lowest 100-mb when lifted to the level of free convection (LFC). No parcel entrainment is considered. MUCAPE (Most Unstable Convective Available Potential Energy) is a measure of instability in the troposphere. This value represents the total amount of potential energy available to the most unstable parcel of air found within the lowest 300-mb of the atmosphere while being lifted to its level of free convection (LFC). No parcel entrainment is considered. SkySight shows SBCAPE which works well in thunderstorms growing out of thermals and pushing through the inversion, but MU/MLCAPE probably would have shown this specific storm possibility more clearly (but is not so reliable in flats or thermal originated storms). We might see if we can blend them all together for mountainous regions foing forwards.
I love watching rich, privleged people experience their first hardship and or life and death. They really go from being adults to kids with no direction at all.
Thank you Ben and Greg for the share and insights. As a new pilot I am trying to make the right decisions early. I can appreciate the path of decisions that leads to events out of our control because I’ve made some in my flights. Looking back, talking through the poor decisions of the flight with other pilots, and being open to their insights are valuable skills to develop in the journey of becoming an old pilot. Making the right decisions early is difficult when we are striving to improve which happens more quickly as we push the limits of our skills. Ben I am grateful you survived and shared your experience. Heal and fly!
Thanks for sharing this terrible and instructive experience. Really glad Ben is still alive and I wish him many more flights and to enjoy each day of his life.
Thanks Steed, don't worry it's not always like this, but if the cloud is taller than it is wide, then it's best to stay right on the edge of it ... or just avoid it altogether!
I remember standing in the landing field in Spain on a partially cloudy day. I was surprised to see dozens of gliders returning to land all at the same time. I asked one of the first down why and he turned to point to the moutain top, started to say, "That...", then corrected himself, "You will see shortly." Then it appeared over the moutain. No longer fluffy fair weather clouds, but a huge dark/black thunder head, a roaming single cell. Within 10 minutes the landing field was as dark as night. Hail, rain, then straight back to flying weather. Instructors congratulated everyone for getting the hint and getting down long before it hit.
I’m truly sorry to hear about what happened to you, and I’m praying for your speedy recovery. I’m confident you’ll be soaring again in no time. I left Bir at the end of October. December to February can indeed be challenging times for flying in Bir.
Thank you for correcting me ben kind of looked liked you when I was watching the video. Couldn't identify it's ben. 😅 Honest mistake, couldn't wait to complete and jumped.
This is really sad. Please never fly when storms are predicted. They do live by breathing. God bless you sir. Learn from this, and thanks for sharing this information to spread awareness.
Jesus man, that thing chewed you up and spit you right back out. Glad you’re still with us. Really though you felt firsthand a small fraction of the insane power and energy that dances through the atmosphere every day. Humbling
Got sucked up by a thermal on a jump years ago as a young paratrooper, I was powerless and completely freaking out, didn't matter what I did, I was going for the ride until I was released. I wasn't the only person that was sucked up, there were several of us, we ended up way off the DZ, a couple of guys got injured as well on the landing. Very scary stuff for sure. God bless and thx for sharing the story dude.
a cautionary tale, my man you are mental I'm not flying my drone in that weather never mind about myself lol commented before I watched the whole video, I'm so glad you are ok that was wild
Wooooow, What an adventure, my friend. I'm glad to hear you're okay. This is surreal. I've stopped flying because I noticed these CBs in the sky. Luckily, you're okay.
One of the most stupid statements ever! Ingesting lead wont kill you either. Also substances, that cause cancer. And what about other hormoninfluencing substances in your food? They gonna drive you mad and make you fat!
Flying mountains is no joke. Stay safe out there comrades. What we do is miraculous enough without the additional risks of pushing nature. Glad you're safe!
You need three things for a CB. Moisture, unstable air due to lapse rate, and initial lifting. When moist air is lifted it cools. As it cools it can't hold as much moisture so the humidity turns into rain. When water turns to vapor it takes a lot of heat (latent heat of vaporization). So when it goes from vapor back to water it releases that heat. Thus the heat rises in the unstable cold air. The column of warm air cools and more moisture turns to water and more heat is released, that rises again. This keeps happening until there is no more moisture to be released. That air will start to descend as the next column of moist air replaces it. As these two columns rub against each other this creates wind shear and static electricity that creates lightning. This will go until it has no energy left and can create a micro-burst where the lifted air and rain will collapse and fall like a avalanche.
This just reminds me of that documentary about that guy who was racing in a comp in Australia I think, and got sucked into a thunderstorm, I think he actually froze he was taken so high into the atmosphere. He survived but idk how.. Glad you lived to tell the tale.. Its clearly no joke and needs to be heeded with a big warning..
This is such a valuable video, especially the part about the fc. Often, it's not that the forecast is wrong, but rather that we haven't understood all the clues. Thanks for sharing 👍
yeah it took me a while to puzzle it out, then I saw the large lake area upwind, and the cloudbase, and realised they'd just failed on the moisture level. I might have been tricked with the forecast too. But what you see in front of you doesn't lie.
Have you watched the video about the lady that was sucked into a storm and spit out at like 34,000 feet? Everyone was dubious about it until the company that made the GPS/Vario confirmed her readings were accurate.
Hi ..sir ..always watching your videos to learn something about paragliding.. I was also flying that day n then decide fast landed but before half an hour i landed in main landing but surely weather was really bad towards palampur ..dharamshala side.. We are local here so many times its helps to take good decision..
Merci du partage. Voler avec le "Dragon" doit être une drôle d'expérience. Tu t'en sors vivant, chanceux, j'espère que tu t'occuperas bien de cette famille qui t'as recueilli quand tu étais...perdu...! Merci du partage, Gratitude pour ton humilité d'homme volant. Bonjour du Sud de la France "Gourdon" 🇨🇵😉👍
Agreed. I've always thought it would be useful to have a way to drastically reduce the surface area of the paraglider, but yes, until then ... best to keep these big slow flying mattrasses in gentle air :-)
@@FlyWithGreg Hi Greg, picking up on this comment: There's been discussions of whether BASE systems for XC harnesses would be a sensible thing. Obviously as a means to save yourself in autorotation etc., but do you reckon it would have helped Ben out in this situation?
@@knuble You would have still been going up with a base rig. Cutting away and waiting to deploy until close to the ground is for extreme base athletes.
The cutaway systems are releasing the chute immediately so they wont even theoretically help. Plus they are way to expensive and require extra training. Sorry, thats a nonsense discussion. The only thing saving you is not being in that situation by fly away early enough / not flying any more when it goes boom.
A good cell can suck you up and spit you out in orbit. You were lucky multiple times. The lack of oxygen knocked you out and fate took over. Waking up on the ground‼ I dont know anything about this sport/hobby but I do know what happens at certain altitudes. 🥶 Incredible.
yeah forgive me my little upsell ... there's just a lot of stuff available to study that can shortcut all these problems, so I feel kinda obligated to mention it. You're also welcome to just enjoy my films :-)
As someone more interested in weather and somehow ended up on this video, I saw sounding and it was a dead giveaway for the risk of thunderstorms because of the CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy).
What was the condiiton of your wing in the final descent? from the trace, it looks like you were perhaps under your reseve, thus essentialy straight down? I'm not a glider pilot but I have a few thousand skydives and lots of tandem halo under my belt. I'm not understanding the forces you speak about at the top of your ascent. Do you mean g's from rapid changes in ascent? Not sure if your inclined to respond, but I'm very interested in those details. Glad you're safe brother. Very glad. Hope you get back up soon. Cheers.
Hello guys, sry for asking I m not familiar with thermic flying, I m a PPG and airline pilot, but wouldn't it help to do a full stall or to fold the glider with the B´s to get out of it?
We all understand the lure of lift, but tall clouds really suck! Learn about the physics in th-cam.com/video/yLqHfE8A29Q/w-d-xo.html Thanks Ben for sharing your experience with such honesty and humility.
Have you done one on the weather apps you show here?
I see what you did there.
been there done that, king mountian idaho
"Better to be down here and wish you were up there, than to be up there wishing you were down here." Glad you're alive.
Haha! No doubt
Most Caucasian blood lines don’t understand this saying.
@@lionsdejudahdo you even know what caucasian as an ethnicity is?
Do you know where the Caucasus are?
My friend had this happen to him in a real hard glider, he ascended to 25000 feet and went hundreds of miles before he could land. This must have been terrifying. Glad you survived.
He must have had oxygen kit then?
Wow, talk about keep on keeping on!
Yesss.. 25000 feet? That's it? Well, my friend actually was sucked up 45000 feet, and he flew close to more than 1000 miles before he landed. I'm glad he's alive!! He's the real trooper. !
@@Hello.NateAdams pffft, that's nothing. I was sucked up into space during a solar storm and ended up on Mars. Was weeks before I was able to hitchhikers a ride back to earth with an extraterrestrial fella, wasn't keen on the probing, but a fair deal I guess.
@@Zany_Zim Haha,.... Dayum! 😮
Holy crap, even after all the horribleness of the storm, you came down with fucking 20m/s !!!!! Nobody talks about how lucky you are to hit a tree there and not just die from the impact.
It's about 44mph, and once the air got thicker he would've slowed more but regardless its going to hurt bad.
72 km/h 🤯
Dude I can’t believe you’re still alive on this earth. Those people that took care of you gives me chills bc that’s just such a blessing. Happy for you brother and wish you luck on your next adventure! Cheers from East Tennessee!
I was flying that day. I always stayed out towards the front of the clouds where I was sure I could escape if necessary. This isn't ideal since the better lift is near the mountains. Because of my position, on the way back, I could see the huge cumulus forming near launch. I was glad I'd made the more conservative decision.
you will fly for many many years that way! it's always a dance between being overconfident and underconfident, somewhere in the middle is the perfect balance where you fly beautiful lines and feel free ... with a little fizz of fear/excitement/apprehension and the music of self-belief lifting you up :-)
I was flying that day also, but did not see else than a cumulus or castelanus. At this time I was more Est.
I was surprise to see so many accidents this day because of the rain.
@@FlyWithGreg
I'd rather follow you than that guy any time Sir!
@@FlyWithGregTrue for surfing too!
Holy shit he climed fast. How did he survive
This is probably the most respectful and informative piece I've seen on this story. Thanks for sharing this forecasting story and helping people dig deeper, through freely available teaching, to actually learn from other's mistakes.
@@ASchnacky I don't. What is being an ass to a stranger going to teach that almost dying and getting severely injured didn't? It's not helpful or productive. Kicking someone when they're down serves no purpose other than to inflate one's own ego.
The best of humanity on display in that family that cared for Ben, all without accepting remuneration. What an incredible story, and a good lesson for us all.
Thanks to the pilot to share , very glad you survive and can enjoy life again! Thanks Greg for this very educative video, useful for all of us, let's be careful and humble! ♥
Funny to found my name in the video on the striking red label. Guilty as charged. It was spot on to say that we had grown accustomed to "ignoring" the warning because it hadn't materialized in the past week... I mean we knew and accepted that it could overdevelop and get nasty at any time yet decided to fly "on the edge" of what's safe until one day it actually overdeveloped to a gigantic cell after a week of epic flying under the cloud base. There were clear signs throughout the day for the slower gaggle that it might be best to land and go have a succulent lunch instead. I personally turned around almost exactly where Ben got sucked up 2 hours later because I already didn't like what was happening in the air, there was a clearing in between cumulonimbuses so I got to see what's growing above me and lastly it was too dangerous to fly any further due to strong lift and low cloud base... yet some pilots continued flying towards Dharamshala. 20 minutes later we were racing on full speed bars with other 30-50 pilots to the landing zone. It was interesting to watch pilots landing in the rain while we were already sipping masala tea oblivious to the reality that there were quite a few pilots sucked up into the clouds fighting for their live. 9 (reported) accidents in one day.
way tl;dr
@@Tokyo-go2du Work on your attention span.
It'll do wonders in the long run.
@@Tokyo-go2du cool story thanks for sharing
@@Tokyo-go2du aka: "dUrRRr i KaNt ReEd gUd"
@@Tokyo-go2duso dont read it?
What a beautiful family 👌🏼in all of actuality, amongst all of the bad stories on the internet and in the news, we hear of sonething like this where humans really are the best of the best. ♥
Your lucky to be alive. I did this once in a sail plane. Once. I got sucked up into a thunderstorm with absolutely no way to kill altitude. Even with full spoiler and max spiral i was climbing. Staying inside of your margins are extremely important and the difference between smart and stupid.
*you're
Get a life arc
@@PeasantKing-od5lgFaulty response. You should thank me for helping you to use grammar correctly.
Brilliant film clip with excellent storytelling and editing thanks Greg.
Your knowledge and presenting skills deserve to be on mainstream media, maybe Channel 4, as well as your wonderful TH-cam channel.
So pleased that Ben survived to tell the tale.
Thanks Barry, I have my own Channel 4 - my website - which is much more fun for me to deal with :-) I'm glad you enjoy the presenting, I've got a way to go yet but some rough edges make it real, yeah?
Thanks
Thanks MarcBrai, that's very kind of you!
bro happy ur alive man this is INSANE!
The sound of the audio in the storm is inane! You don’t realize how truly thunderous and loud those forces are.
I've been doing paragliding for about 6 months now and this scared the shit out of me I'm really happy you are okay thank you for posting your Video
Why did you repeat everything you said? 👀
@@ohokcool thank you for catching that the thing is I didn't I think my autocorrect did this it's been bugging for a couple of days now anyways thank you Happy New Year
@@ASchnacky I would say the same thing to you but I'm not you so I hope someone helps you ♥️♥️
@@ASchnackycall your mom, dude. you could use some parenting.
@@ASchnacky what
Incredible story man, glad you're safe. Others will learn from this and may just save lives.
Bloody hell mate, that’s a nightmare to happen. I’m glad you made it out alive. You looked like you did ten rounds with Mike Tyson. Ref the family that helped you off the cliff and aided help to you. Can we do a gofundme so myself and others can donate to. I hope this is something we can do. Rest up buddy and please don’t stop flying.
"There are no old bold pilots". 👍
You got so lucky!
Thx so much for sharing. I’m going flying with my son in Colombia in a month and will share this story with him.
Amazing how these gliders will keep flying. Thanks for sharing - glad you are safe
Way to go for the record 👏 buddy
This reminds me of an old video of an FPV drone that was also sucked up into a thunderstorm, even with full down elevator it wasn't able to descend. Those updrafts are wild.
I'm glad you're ok, thanks for sharing this experience!
Holy Jesus I can't even imagine. That's terrifying. I couldn't do that hobby that's too intense for me. Glad you're OK
That SkewT is from the valley, not from the peaks where the cu was forecast and was moister. But you can clearly see the strong risk of epic storms on all the SkewT's shown here. In this case it was probably formed by the convergence at or above the inversion rather than the more conventional thermal driven through a weak inversion.
CAPE is unfortunately not a predictor of all different types of instability that could form storms, and actually there are multiple different types of CAPE and it's important to understand the differences and which one you are using.
SBCAPE (Surface-Based Convective Available Potential Energy) is a measure of instability in the troposphere. This value represents the total amount of potential energy available to a parcel of air originating at the surface and being lifted to its level of free convection (LFC). No parcel entrainment is considered.
MLCAPE (Mixed Layer Convective Available Potential Energy) is a measure of instability in the troposphere. This value represents the mean potential energy conditions available to parcels of air located in the lowest 100-mb when lifted to the level of free convection (LFC). No parcel entrainment is considered.
MUCAPE (Most Unstable Convective Available Potential Energy) is a measure of instability in the troposphere. This value represents the total amount of potential energy available to the most unstable parcel of air found within the lowest 300-mb of the atmosphere while being lifted to its level of free convection (LFC). No parcel entrainment is considered.
SkySight shows SBCAPE which works well in thunderstorms growing out of thermals and pushing through the inversion, but MU/MLCAPE probably would have shown this specific storm possibility more clearly (but is not so reliable in flats or thermal originated storms). We might see if we can blend them all together for mountainous regions foing forwards.
What is the resolution of the skewT on skysight and how do I see where the grid I am selecting extends to? Thank you for making such a good product!
@@GeorgieWorgiey It's from our full model resolution, with about 70 layers in the bottom 50,000ft - double what you have elsewhere.
I love watching rich, privleged people experience their first hardship and or life and death. They really go from being adults to kids with no direction at all.
Thank you Ben and Greg for the share and insights. As a new pilot I am trying to make the right decisions early. I can appreciate the path of decisions that leads to events out of our control because I’ve made some in my flights. Looking back, talking through the poor decisions of the flight with other pilots, and being open to their insights are valuable skills to develop in the journey of becoming an old pilot. Making the right decisions early is difficult when we are striving to improve which happens more quickly as we push the limits of our skills. Ben I am grateful you survived and shared your experience. Heal and fly!
Thanks for sharing this terrible and instructive experience. Really glad Ben is still alive and I wish him many more flights and to enjoy each day of his life.
00:58 Ben: "Time to gtfo of here."
01:07 The storm: "No"
Thanks Ben for sharing your experience to prevent and save lives, hope You get well soon and Saludos desde México!!
Despite our experiences, we must remain humble. Not fearful, but humble. An instructive story with a happy ending. Thanks👍🙏
Godspeed!
Thank you for sharing. It’s great to hear you’re in the mend.
Take care.
get well soon ben I learned a lot from this thanks for sharing !!
Thanks Steed, don't worry it's not always like this, but if the cloud is taller than it is wide, then it's best to stay right on the edge of it ... or just avoid it altogether!
Thank you Ben for sharing this story! Wishing you a speedy recovery!
I remember standing in the landing field in Spain on a partially cloudy day.
I was surprised to see dozens of gliders returning to land all at the same time.
I asked one of the first down why and he turned to point to the moutain top, started to say, "That...", then corrected himself, "You will see shortly."
Then it appeared over the moutain. No longer fluffy fair weather clouds, but a huge dark/black thunder head, a roaming single cell.
Within 10 minutes the landing field was as dark as night. Hail, rain, then straight back to flying weather.
Instructors congratulated everyone for getting the hint and getting down long before it hit.
I can't believe he woke up on the ground....alive. 😮😮😮
this man is a miracle, thanks for sharing this experience, very informative. Glad he is okay, Universe is with you man, that wasn't your time.
I’m truly sorry to hear about what happened to you, and I’m praying for your speedy recovery. I’m confident you’ll be soaring again in no time. I left Bir at the end of October. December to February can indeed be challenging times for flying in Bir.
Ben's recovering well, back at work and doing handstands! His family is very happy he came back from the heavens.
Thank you for correcting me ben kind of looked liked you when I was watching the video. Couldn't identify it's ben. 😅 Honest mistake, couldn't wait to complete and jumped.
This is really sad. Please never fly when storms are predicted. They do live by breathing. God bless you sir. Learn from this, and thanks for sharing this information to spread awareness.
Jesus man, that thing chewed you up and spit you right back out. Glad you’re still with us. Really though you felt firsthand a small fraction of the insane power and energy that dances through the atmosphere every day. Humbling
Glad you made it back in one piece, buddy.
Unreal expereance. Good on ya for sharing it with the global community.
Wow, you had an incredibly fortunate outcome! Kudos to the family that helped you.
What a harrowing experience, thank you for sharing, hope ur healing well. Merry Christmas ❤
Thanks for sharing Greg, I bet this will save a few pilots. The knee is fine again. Cheers.
Got sucked up by a thermal on a jump years ago as a young paratrooper, I was powerless and completely freaking out, didn't matter what I did, I was going for the ride until I was released. I wasn't the only person that was sucked up, there were several of us, we ended up way off the DZ, a couple of guys got injured as well on the landing. Very scary stuff for sure. God bless and thx for sharing the story dude.
a cautionary tale, my man you are mental I'm not flying my drone in that weather never mind about myself lol
commented before I watched the whole video, I'm so glad you are ok that was wild
Thank you for sharing. Glad you made it out safe
Glad you made it out alive. Great family that helped rescue you. Your eye still looks bad, hope that improves.
Thanks for sharing this especially the analysis! Ive gone thrice to bir for my paragliding courses and it's a very special place
Thsts too heavy. So greatful your still alive ❤🙏
Wooooow, What an adventure, my friend. I'm glad to hear you're okay. This is surreal. I've stopped flying because I noticed these CBs in the sky. Luckily, you're okay.
What does not kill you, makes you stronger! Stay positive, Ben, and keep loving life.
Greg, thank you for posting Ben's story!
One of the most stupid statements ever! Ingesting lead wont kill you either. Also substances, that cause cancer. And what about other hormoninfluencing substances in your food? They gonna drive you mad and make you fat!
gfy
a magnitude 7.1 earthquake just happened near this area earlier… damn you lucky
Flying mountains is no joke. Stay safe out there comrades. What we do is miraculous enough without the additional risks of pushing nature. Glad you're safe!
Wow, i didnt know mountains that can fly existed.
Wow.
The more you know.
You need three things for a CB. Moisture, unstable air due to lapse rate, and initial lifting. When moist air is lifted it cools. As it cools it can't hold as much moisture so the humidity turns into rain. When water turns to vapor it takes a lot of heat (latent heat of vaporization). So when it goes from vapor back to water it releases that heat. Thus the heat rises in the unstable cold air. The column of warm air cools and more moisture turns to water and more heat is released, that rises again. This keeps happening until there is no more moisture to be released. That air will start to descend as the next column of moist air replaces it. As these two columns rub against each other this creates wind shear and static electricity that creates lightning.
This will go until it has no energy left and can create a micro-burst where the lifted air and rain will collapse and fall like a avalanche.
İlk önce geçmiş olsun diyorum. Ve size çok teşekkür ediyorum. Bu tür video ile eğitime olan katkınız her zaman takdir edilecek.
Thank U for this very good RETEX, good explains about the aérologique config ! Happy that you survive Ben...
This just reminds me of that documentary about that guy who was racing in a comp in Australia I think, and got sucked into a thunderstorm, I think he actually froze he was taken so high into the atmosphere. He survived but idk how.. Glad you lived to tell the tale.. Its clearly no joke and needs to be heeded with a big warning..
This is such a valuable video, especially the part about the fc. Often, it's not that the forecast is wrong, but rather that we haven't understood all the clues. Thanks for sharing 👍
yeah it took me a while to puzzle it out, then I saw the large lake area upwind, and the cloudbase, and realised they'd just failed on the moisture level. I might have been tricked with the forecast too. But what you see in front of you doesn't lie.
All the best to Ben and fly safe everyone :)
wow crazy! blue skies indeed!
Always nice to wake up alive 😉 also that flight tracking software is really cool to watch.
Almost 20m/s in peak!! That equates to about 4000ft/min, roughly twice the normal climb rate of a jet airliner.
And at 7000m with no oxygen mask. No wonder he blacked out.
Was this in Bir Himachal Pradesh?
I know nothing about paragliding but I am a weather enthusiast an getting sucked into a thunderstorm updraft would be terrifying.
3:36 what a beautiful heart-shaped mountain
Thanks!
I'd love to get the full footage of this to create a 'proper' movie of it
Rich people think they are invincible.
Grate example of a miracle by God hand Glad you are alive and tell the story
insane story, glad you make it in one piece :D
16m/s what a nightmare
Have you watched the video about the lady that was sucked into a storm and spit out at like 34,000 feet? Everyone was dubious about it until the company that made the GPS/Vario confirmed her readings were accurate.
I would really like to see the whole recording of the flight.
Hi ..sir ..always watching your videos to learn something about paragliding..
I was also flying that day n then decide fast landed but before half an hour i landed in main landing but surely weather was really bad towards palampur ..dharamshala side..
We are local here so many times its helps to take good decision..
Complimenti per l'analisi e la condivisione 👍
wow what a story
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I don’t understand why he didn’t instantly cut his glider when he started going up to high.
Maybe because of the lack of oxygen, his mind didn't work as it should!
Great into!
Merci du partage.
Voler avec le "Dragon" doit être une drôle d'expérience.
Tu t'en sors vivant, chanceux, j'espère que tu t'occuperas bien de cette famille qui t'as recueilli quand tu étais...perdu...!
Merci du partage,
Gratitude pour ton humilité d'homme volant.
Bonjour du Sud de la France "Gourdon"
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great break down greg
Im glad God was with you that day 🙏
When we want to be in the air but need to be on the ground. That is the issue. Glad you're on the ground.
Agreed. I've always thought it would be useful to have a way to drastically reduce the surface area of the paraglider, but yes, until then ... best to keep these big slow flying mattrasses in gentle air :-)
@@FlyWithGreg Hi Greg, picking up on this comment: There's been discussions of whether BASE systems for XC harnesses would be a sensible thing. Obviously as a means to save yourself in autorotation etc., but do you reckon it would have helped Ben out in this situation?
@@knuble You would have still been going up with a base rig. Cutting away and waiting to deploy until close to the ground is for extreme base athletes.
@@mtsurveyor Is this even possible with PG BASE rigs? All acro solutions I've seen release the reserve as soon as the main wing is gone
The cutaway systems are releasing the chute immediately so they wont even theoretically help. Plus they are way to expensive and require extra training. Sorry, thats a nonsense discussion. The only thing saving you is not being in that situation by fly away early enough / not flying any more when it goes boom.
Mad!
Absolutely wild
Reminds me of the story of William Rankin. So lucky to survive
A good cell can suck you up and spit you out in orbit. You were lucky multiple times. The lack of oxygen knocked you out and fate took over. Waking up on the ground‼ I dont know anything about this sport/hobby but I do know what happens at certain altitudes. 🥶
Incredible.
Great video, thanks for share! :D
Great video! Obviously the weather course would be a wise idea.
yeah forgive me my little upsell ... there's just a lot of stuff available to study that can shortcut all these problems, so I feel kinda obligated to mention it. You're also welcome to just enjoy my films :-)
As someone more interested in weather and somehow ended up on this video, I saw sounding and it was a dead giveaway for the risk of thunderstorms because of the CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy).
What was the condiiton of your wing in the final descent? from the trace, it looks like you were perhaps under your reseve, thus essentialy straight down? I'm not a glider pilot but I have a few thousand skydives and lots of tandem halo under my belt. I'm not understanding the forces you speak about at the top of your ascent. Do you mean g's from rapid changes in ascent? Not sure if your inclined to respond, but I'm very interested in those details. Glad you're safe brother. Very glad. Hope you get back up soon. Cheers.
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Paura!!! 😱🥶
Ben seems like a great dude. And that Indian family? Peak humans they are.
crazy story, i was shocked when i saw the flight record
Praise God you're alive!!
holy shit dude! thats one hell of a story
Hello guys, sry for asking I m not familiar with thermic flying, I m a PPG and airline pilot, but wouldn't it help to do a full stall or to fold the glider with the B´s to get out of it?