Hang Gliding safety guidance for intermediate H2 H3 Pilots
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- An intermediate H3 Hang gliding pilot shares his thoughts on how to enjoy hang gliding safely during this fun but somewhat dangerous phase of your hang gliding journey.
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I agree. Intermediate syndrome is real. I was fortunate to be with a great group that would watch out for each other. With the more experienced pilots recommending of conditions that would be acceptable for my experience. I advanced fairly quickly and was advised to be careful about Intermediate syndrome. I appreciated his concern and have seen accidents resulting from it. I was lucky enough to have escaped unharmed. But now as a wiser ?H4 I'm not as bold as i was. If it doesn't feel right I can just pass for the day. Maybe the free flight addiction is less than it used to be, or I have matured in my flying.
PIO is real when stepping up to a dual surface glider. I only experienced it once but it got my attention for 10 seconds that seemed longer.
As Page used to say Stay safe, get high and fly far!
Awesome advice and THANK YOU ! for taking the time to impart such valuable information.
Loved " treat every flight like it's the most important flight! Have a new mottow... " Treat every flight like it's you FIRST SOLO FLIGHT ! "
All that heightened sense of awareness and caution to make sure you have a safe and successful flight should be present at every flight you take no matter how experienced !
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Good video, thanks for providing insights
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and great analysis. A hanglider pilot never stops learning and you said very interesting things, there is absolutely no pilot that has flown all the conditions that are put there. I'll keep on in mind your arguments and thanks for helping the hangliders community!
Thank you
Thanks Sam!
Reassuring + grounding in a good way listening to this after pulling off a rushed hairy launch due to pure luck at a familiar site with a tight launch window. 16:03 hit home. Thank you for making this video.
Terrific video Sam. The flying community is lucky to have you.
Excellent video Sam.
Thanks for making the effort , very common sense !!!!
This video is excellent. I really appreciate the advise as a new pilot. I hope more pilots watch this.
It's all too easy to "GET AWAY" with things so many times that it makes up complacent. Gives us a FALSE sense of security in ourselves and our teachings. You are sooooo right brother. Kudos to you for not falling under peer pressure. I've been called out on that, but hey,,, I'm still here and still want to fly again. Soooo.. Ya know?????? Guess I'm a wussy. LOL I can live with that. Last flight on my (second aerotow flight) on my Sport 2 175, I hit a huge bump that caused my right hand to leave the base tube. I had a couple attempts to grab the base tube again, and did so, but jammed my thumb WAY backwards. I didn't think anything about it halfway up to 2000 ft AGL. I finished the tow and flew another 10 minutes in that thermic air getting good lift here and there although spotty, BUT,, My right thumb area started to ache. Landed 13 minutes later and decided to break down my glider because I didn't like how my right wrist was feeling. That was mid April this year. Here we are in mid Aug. and I had to go to physical therapist to help me with my wrist/thumb/forearm problem. I couldn't support my own weight on it. Now, after physical therapy,, I hope to be able to fly, not just my Falcon, which I'll start out with again in Oct., But my Sport 2 175 the next day. Stupid problem to have from just being towed in thermic conditions, but I didn't wear gloves, and my speed bar had to grip tape. The aerodynamic speed bar is soooooooo wide also. Not what I was used to. I got grip tape now, and will most likely get gloves to help out. Easy to screw up in ways you may never think of. Like you said. You don't know what you don't know!!!!!!!!! Like Clint Eastwood said,, A man MUST know his limitations.!!!!!!!!!
Great video, a mentor said to me remember that the weather has no memory
Hang gliding. Not hand gliding. LOL But thank you for this. Being a new H2 just moving up from a Falcon 2 225 to a Sport 2 175 I appreciate this video. Thank you for sharing and caring. Many happy landings to all. And launches of course. Here in AZ there's NO training hills near by. Only up in Flagstaff on a couple small mountains that are high in elevation and the roads going up are nearly impassible at any time without a major 4X4. The density altitude in the summer makes it very hot and difficult. In the winter it's still a long haul. Doing a practice hill to keep your skills up, I feel, is crucial to keeping your skills honed. I'm hoping to find a park like Buffalo Park in North Phoenix to be able to open it up for just this activity. This would include Paragliding as well. To top it off, there's NO H2 sites here at ALL. But there's a lot of places that many could be made in the outlying areas. Such a shame! This is a very well thought out and informative video brother. Needed to be said. That being said, all instructors, like mine, should be making a new pilot aware of changing conditions that affect the rating of a site. NO ONE, not even a H4 pilot, should fly a new site without a site guide that is VERY familiar with the site and all of it's nuances. EVER! It only takes one bad decision and your career is OVER! I know I'm a better safe than sorry guy more than most, but I'll be an OLD pilot even if I'm not a BOLD pilot. Hope I haven't ruffled any feathers. But ,,,,, remember,,,,, we don't know what we DON'T KNOW!!! SOOOOOOO important. Love you all and want the best experiences for myself and others. This community has an average mentality about things. Let's keep that AVERAGE a VERY AWARE one please. I depend on the AVERAGE guy for a LOT of my information as a newbie. Much respect to those helping others like me.
Gary. Please be very careful as an new H2 moving up to a sport 3. Many would agree with me in cautioning you that it is too soon. Personally , I didn’t upgrade to a sport until this spring a year after getting my H3 and 75 hours or air time. It stalls easier than a falcon. Make sure you maintain plenty of speed when landing. Don’t do coordinated turns during your landing patterns. If it stalls then in a turn your f’d. Fly safe
@@SoaringMech It's a Sport 2. But yes, I always carry speed for wind gradients etc. It is a little sluggish initiating turns, but it's stall speed is slightly higher than the Falcon throwing off my flare timing. My instructor actually pushed my towards it because I wasn't going to try it until this fall or next spring. But I trust his judgment. He's kind of a mother hen with his students.
Garry Kennedy if ur going be flying your S3, please watch this video to help u stay safe.
@@SoaringMech I don't have an S3. I have an S2
Garry Kennedy S2 is less forgiving so video should be even more helpful. Fly safe.
Bingo, conditions and pilot judgement needs to adjust to the minute, as conditions change, day to day, hour too hour.... Cool talk.
You should come join Bay Area Fledglings Facebook group
Most pilots make a flight plan before they even launch. This includes walking the LZ etc. But most don't make a contingency plan if that first plan fails. Always have at least 3 contingency plans. Because when you make a plan, you plan to fail. This is not usually the case, but when it DOES EVENTUALLY fail, and you haven't planned an escape route etc. You have planned to fail!!! You may get away with it 75 times in a row without a backup plan. But it's the other times that you'll be glad you did so that matter the most. Not how many times you GOT AWAY with it.
This is sooo true
@@SoaringMech I thank my instructor for these words of wisdom, and, they have come in handy a couple times when a weak link broke under tow. I'm a heavier guy and it happened to me more than other students. About 4 times actually.
I just watched Tom lows safety video. It is excellent and I recommend it to any pilot who is serious about flying safely. th-cam.com/video/IZVDItfqOlE/w-d-xo.html
It's called intermediate syndrome, their head gits them into something their ass cant git them out of .seen in in early 80s and that's what we called it.I started flying hanggliders again last year at 64 years, I am a lone pilot in lewiston and clarkston valley