OK, why don't you post videos of all your landings so we can learn how to do it. I went to your channel and even tho you've been here 5 years, I didn't see any videos of your landings. What am I missing?
I once landed at an abandoned drive-in movie site, landed into the wind like your supposed to, but didn't notice the gentle slope towards where the movie screen was and ground effect, so I glided about 2 feet off the ground for 200 yards into some bushes and a fence.
Way to much speed on your aproach??? How can you fly that low with hands on bottom bar and in gorrila. I myself like to stay in prone right till the last minute and then into gorrila and onto side bars at same time, then solely consentrate on the landing. Glade you did not get hurt. I have one well deformed wrist from a bad landing I had in 1978, but then I to was lucky as I came down 150 foot with failed keel on glider, Mear uk. Still great to watch, poeple will learn from it. Pete (the wrist)
ive been watching a lot of HG videos and reading some books trying to get me some knowledge before i sign up for a lesson and really appreciate when people are posting this kind of video to hopefully minimize the mistakes that a newbie will be making, like me. Thanks
Close to stall speed at high angle of attack you may get wing tip stall due to billow shift, causing the glider to turn to the opposite side of the pilot's input. So you see him clearly turning left while the glider goes right. Below a certain speed you can't turn a high performance glider anymore, you go straight, stay in the middle and flare.
Great landing. He looks like there was a lot of strong thermal activity near the ground that kept increasing his altitude each time he was ready to descend into the LZ. Eventually, he ran out of runway, and maybe panicked a little.
Thanks for having the balls to put yourself out there. I wish I had started hang gliding back in the 60's when we were trying to figure out how to jump off our rooftops!
Lose the music ......
Right at the end, it was just a sudden gust of gravity.
That doesn't qualify as a crash. I doubt he popped a sprog! I've fallen harden than that coming out of a bar on a Friday night.
any landing you can walk away from is a good landing
OK, why don't you post videos of all your landings so we can learn how to do it. I went to your channel and even tho you've been here 5 years, I didn't see any videos of your landings. What am I missing?
I once landed at an abandoned drive-in movie site, landed into the wind like your supposed to, but didn't notice the gentle slope towards where the movie screen was and ground effect, so I glided about 2 feet off the ground for 200 yards into some bushes and a fence.
Where's gravity when you really need it?! :-)
how much is a wing like that?
Way to much speed on your aproach??? How can you fly that low with hands on bottom bar and in gorrila. I myself like to stay in prone right till the last minute and then into gorrila and onto side bars at same time, then solely consentrate on the landing. Glade you did not get hurt. I have one well deformed wrist from a bad landing I had in 1978, but then I to was lucky as I came down 150 foot with failed keel on glider, Mear uk. Still great to watch, poeple will learn from it. Pete (the wrist)
200 for equipment or medical costs?
ive been watching a lot of HG videos and reading some books trying to get me some knowledge before i sign up for a lesson and really appreciate when people are posting this kind of video to hopefully minimize the mistakes that a newbie will be making, like me. Thanks
That looks like a learning experience. Glad the pilot made it. Hang glider parts can be replaced.
Gotta love that hardware-assisted braking!
lol he was doing so well! i am taking my first course this spring after watching my father fly for years.. excited!
Close to stall speed at high angle of attack you may get wing tip stall due to billow shift, causing the glider to turn to the opposite side of the pilot's input. So you see him clearly turning left while the glider goes right. Below a certain speed you can't turn a high performance glider anymore, you go straight, stay in the middle and flare.
Gravity: not just a good idea but the law!
Great landing. He looks like there was a lot of strong thermal activity near the ground that kept increasing his altitude each time he was ready to descend into the LZ. Eventually, he ran out of runway, and maybe panicked a little.
Thanks for having the balls to put yourself out there. I wish I had started hang gliding back in the 60's when we were trying to figure out how to jump off our rooftops!
those gliders like to fly a lot , specially downhill. :-)
hahahahaha...I could feel your desperation! You were probably thinking "Damn performance wing". It could be worse for sure!