100% What you don't know that you don't know is real! Thanks Chris! Can't express my gratitude for helping in keeping pilots, friends, family members safe and wise.
Thanks for the info, I’m a P2 and I’m flying a mountain site with an observer, it is a extremely spicy site sometimes, my last flight was 45 minutes and extremely turbulent, actually spent the last 30 minutes trying to get down, ultimately just had to wait for a light cycle in the LZ because it was lofty everywhere, was an exciting flight and I did well but I’m still taking things slow, I want that p3 but I want to be safe and smart also, one thing that a very experienced pilot told me that stuck is “you don’t know what you don’t know.” It sounds simple but the thing is there is so many conditions I haven’t experienced and taking one step at a time makes the most sense to me
I just wanted to publicly thank Chris for the great training he has given me and my family members. Your safety training in all areas has made the sport much safer for all of us. The knowledge you've put in my head has enabled me to react correctly to comprising situations I've managed to get myself in. I know there are many really bad situations I've avoided, thanks to your vast knowledge and common sense you have instilled into all of us. I think it's amazing the way you keep an eye on all of us as the years go by. The assessment of our behavior and equipment correcting when needed is truly appreciated. Thanks for being at the top of your game!
Great story about your "New pilot" Chris. HOWEVER, rather than putting the brakes on learners (which never works) you should be kicking the experienced guys in the butt to go help the new guys learn and "give back" to the sport.
I taught myself how to fly. That’s the whole reason I got into this sport, because it’s not required to fly. I read through the paragliding manual that teaches everything you need to know, as well as using TH-cam to see how the knowledge is applied. I know my limits and fly within my limits.
@@ozoneswiftak yep. There’s tons of areas here in Alaska to be able to fly without worrying about them being rated spots. But there are a few spots that look fun to fly at that are rated that I can’t fly because I’m not.
Why hours and years and logged flights? Why not skill and comprehension and understanding of situational awareness? Seems stuffy and bogus. 10 years to still be an intermediate when i just watched a redbull xalps competitor style it after 4 years of flying.
Why hours.....because flight hours translates to direct real world experience. Why hours plus flights....because a new pilot could easily log 20 hours flying a dynamic site in only 20 flights, same goes for flights. A new pilot could easily log 40 flights of 5 minutes each at a dynamic top landing site. Neither of these scenarios on their own gives a new pilot the real world experience to fly complicated or technical sites. However combine the two, flight hours plus flights, and you have a basic metric for understanding a pilots real world experience. Adding requirements for demonstrating spot landings, ability to fly thermal and dynamic sites, demonstrate good judgement when flying a new site, etc. gives the pilot and his peers the necessary metrics for progression to more advanced sites in a non biased manner. If you are self taught and are accident free, good for you however you will never know what you do not know. Flying ignorant of in flight incidents and being fortunate to have not experience an inflight incident does not make a hotshot pilot, just a lucky one. Everyone thinks they are a pro until they get their bell wrung. Nothing you watch on youtube can match having a real instructor and methodical training.
100% What you don't know that you don't know is real! Thanks Chris! Can't express my gratitude for helping in keeping pilots, friends, family members safe and wise.
Thanks for the info, I’m a P2 and I’m flying a mountain site with an observer, it is a extremely spicy site sometimes, my last flight was 45 minutes and extremely turbulent, actually spent the last 30 minutes trying to get down, ultimately just had to wait for a light cycle in the LZ because it was lofty everywhere, was an exciting flight and I did well but I’m still taking things slow, I want that p3 but I want to be safe and smart also, one thing that a very experienced pilot told me that stuck is “you don’t know what you don’t know.” It sounds simple but the thing is there is so many conditions I haven’t experienced and taking one step at a time makes the most sense to me
I just wanted to publicly thank Chris for the great training he has given me and my family members. Your safety training in all areas has made the sport much safer for all of us. The knowledge you've put in my head has enabled me to react correctly to comprising situations I've managed to get myself in. I know there are many really bad situations I've avoided, thanks to your vast knowledge and common sense you have instilled into all of us. I think it's amazing the way you keep an eye on all of us as the years go by. The assessment of our behavior and equipment correcting when needed is truly appreciated. Thanks for being at the top of your game!
I really appreciated this video. Thank you, Chris.
I'm not worried about my rating. After 20 years of keeping my p-2. I fly all sites available to me.
Great story about your "New pilot" Chris. HOWEVER, rather than putting the brakes on learners (which never works) you should be kicking the experienced guys in the butt to go help the new guys learn and "give back" to the sport.
Good call.
Great video! Thanks for putting that together.🤙🏼
Thank you for your thoughts on this. I feel like we’ve only scratched the surface and we can’t wait to come back to Utah for more training! 😁
Thanks for posting (a P2 Noob)
But I feel like if you never push yourself a little bit out of the comfort zone.. it's almost impossible to progress
I taught myself how to fly. That’s the whole reason I got into this sport, because it’s not required to fly. I read through the paragliding manual that teaches everything you need to know, as well as using TH-cam to see how the knowledge is applied. I know my limits and fly within my limits.
Can you suggest some good youtube channels that teach well? I wanna finish youtube and be prepared before I start my training.
Without your rating, you might not be able to fly most ushpa sites.
@@ozoneswiftak yep. There’s tons of areas here in Alaska to be able to fly without worrying about them being rated spots. But there are a few spots that look fun to fly at that are rated that I can’t fly because I’m not.
Tq sir
Can PPG hours contribute to PG ratings at all?
sir how can i make my career in the paragliding spirt?
Who gives the ratings, if this is a unregulated spot???
I hope its not the people, you have to pay for training???
See where im going with this?
Why hours and years and logged flights? Why not skill and comprehension and understanding of situational awareness? Seems stuffy and bogus. 10 years to still be an intermediate when i just watched a redbull xalps competitor style it after 4 years of flying.
Because you pay them by the hour!!!
Hahahaha
Why hours.....because flight hours translates to direct real world experience. Why hours plus flights....because a new pilot could easily log 20 hours flying a dynamic site in only 20 flights, same goes for flights. A new pilot could easily log 40 flights of 5 minutes each at a dynamic top landing site. Neither of these scenarios on their own gives a new pilot the real world experience to fly complicated or technical sites. However combine the two, flight hours plus flights, and you have a basic metric for understanding a pilots real world experience. Adding requirements for demonstrating spot landings, ability to fly thermal and dynamic sites, demonstrate good judgement when flying a new site, etc. gives the pilot and his peers the necessary metrics for progression to more advanced sites in a non biased manner. If you are self taught and are accident free, good for you however you will never know what you do not know. Flying ignorant of in flight incidents and being fortunate to have not experience an inflight incident does not make a hotshot pilot, just a lucky one. Everyone thinks they are a pro until they get their bell wrung. Nothing you watch on youtube can match having a real instructor and methodical training.