It's the most fun you can have flying. Then lured by performance, you take up sailplanes, maybe considering the financial but likely not the logistical aspects. When the latter becomes more than apparent, you take up powered flight. If you're not choosing this for frequent travel, or your wife doesn't like flying in small aircraft, you know what you'll end up doing. Hangers, fuel, annuals, maintenance, expensive repairs. If you don't fly every day (or week, or month) and do a little math, you'll be stunned at the cost per hour. Some may find driving a UPS truck around the familiar patch worth it, most not at all. Then you'll remember when flying was way more fun. Now of course, just a story. I'm not expressing my experience ;-)
Thanks for a brilliant vid. I haven't been in my Fun 190 for ages, I feel both refreshed after watching your vid and disappointed in myself for not flying my Fun for so long. I usually hate videos with music, yours is a rippa. That blues is fantastic and a good match for your vid. 10/10
Sir...i'm only 68 and homebound last eight yrs. due osteoarthritis. Not left my apprtmnt. Need hip replacements but was told...no high impact sports 😢 If I cant hangglide like before and go crosscountry motorcycling, I don't see the trouble of having the op. Just suffer in silence, limping from bed to computer, kitchen and toilet. TH-cam has been my life last eight years...travel the world thru it !! 😊 If you have no problems with joints...no harm trying. Even triking.
Hay nice vid., so you took it up at 46. I started last year {51}and I just can't get my foot in the door. Where do you go to get good help? I need a SO to finish my license and some gear too prefer new Malibu but it seems you can't even buy it. Learnt with Tony at Newcastle. I'm at Sunshine coast. The clubs are....mmmmm Just getting excuses worse than skydiving. Is there something happening south of Sydney or Victoria? Any safety offices out there? Swooper PPG RAA
Yeah I don't like heights in general but it's different when your in the security of the harness and there is no surprises because everything is in clear view , you also have a parachute in the harness which gives you a bit more peace of mind. It's not like a roller coaster where you loose you stomach unless you make it so , as long as you don't suffer from full vertigo you should give it a go , book a tandem flight they usually let you control it for a bit and see if you like it 👍🇦🇺
Many pilots are afraid of heights in non-flying contexts. I won't stand at the edge of a launch ramp without a wing. I don't like looking down from a 3rd floor balcony. I'm unconfortable close to any edge with a 3 meter drop if there are no rails... But with a wing, I know it flies, so it's fine! Fear of heights is actually fear of falling.
Yeah, I can't climb an open air stair case (like on the outside of a large bulk storage tank) more than 20-30 feet without locking up. I can fly in my hang glider 1000's of feet above the ground.
ericoschmitt is right on. I can't stand on top of a building looking over the edge. Creeps the shit out of me after hang gliding for years. But hooked into a wing I've proven, SO totally different. It sounds funny, but you don't even notice it unless you want/need to.
It's the most fun you can have flying. Then lured by performance, you take up sailplanes, maybe considering the financial but likely not the logistical aspects. When the latter becomes more than apparent, you take up powered flight. If you're not choosing this for frequent travel, or your wife doesn't like flying in small aircraft, you know what you'll end up doing. Hangers, fuel, annuals, maintenance, expensive repairs. If you don't fly every day (or week, or month) and do a little math, you'll be stunned at the cost per hour. Some may find driving a UPS truck around the familiar patch worth it, most not at all. Then you'll remember when flying was way more fun. Now of course, just a story. I'm not expressing my experience ;-)
Thanks for a brilliant vid. I haven't been in my Fun 190 for ages, I feel both refreshed after watching your vid and disappointed in myself for not flying my Fun for so long. I usually hate videos with music, yours is a rippa. That blues is fantastic and a good match for your vid. 10/10
I'm refreshed 😎 Thanks for sharing 👍
You guys are having too much FUN again 😀👌Cheers
Always
What a nice location!
Sir...i'm only 68 and homebound last eight yrs. due osteoarthritis. Not left my apprtmnt. Need hip replacements but was told...no high impact sports 😢 If I cant hangglide like before and go crosscountry motorcycling, I don't see the trouble of having the op. Just suffer in silence, limping from bed to computer, kitchen and toilet. TH-cam has been my life last eight years...travel the world thru it !! 😊
If you have no problems with joints...no harm trying. Even triking.
Great video, thanks!
Great flying, where are these locations?
I think I figured out from context that you are down in Oz, yeah? Beautiful sites and great flying.
Превосходно 🦅
Great video, I knew half these sites, but where is the one at 8:28? What an awesome TO.
Mount Borah at Manila , West launch
@justhangin7186 cheers mate, I never made it there.
Hay nice vid., so you took it up at 46. I started last year {51}and I just can't get my foot in the door. Where do you go to get good help? I need a SO to finish my license and some gear too prefer new Malibu but it seems you can't even buy it. Learnt with Tony at Newcastle. I'm at Sunshine coast. The clubs are....mmmmm Just getting excuses worse than skydiving. Is there something happening south of Sydney or Victoria? Any safety offices out there?
Swooper
PPG
RAA
Yes definitley , Tony Armstrong teaches at stanwell right near the moyes factory ; look up Hangglide Oz , or Peter Holloway in Victoria
How do people with a paralyzing fear of heights become hang gliders? Is it something that can be overcome?
Yeah I don't like heights in general but it's different when your in the security of the harness and there is no surprises because everything is in clear view , you also have a parachute in the harness which gives you a bit more peace of mind. It's not like a roller coaster where you loose you stomach unless you make it so , as long as you don't suffer from full vertigo you should give it a go , book a tandem flight they usually let you control it for a bit and see if you like it 👍🇦🇺
Many pilots are afraid of heights in non-flying contexts. I won't stand at the edge of a launch ramp without a wing. I don't like looking down from a 3rd floor balcony. I'm unconfortable close to any edge with a 3 meter drop if there are no rails... But with a wing, I know it flies, so it's fine!
Fear of heights is actually fear of falling.
Yeah, I can't climb an open air stair case (like on the outside of a large bulk storage tank) more than 20-30 feet without locking up. I can fly in my hang glider 1000's of feet above the ground.
ericoschmitt is right on. I can't stand on top of a building looking over the edge. Creeps the shit out of me after hang gliding for years. But hooked into a wing I've proven, SO totally different. It sounds funny, but you don't even notice it unless you want/need to.
@@fly1327 Yeah,weird. I have no queasiness looking out the window on an airliner,but put me on a 10 foot roof...
Your collection is only missing a wills wing falcon 4 and a icaro Piuma 👌👌👌
I have a falcon 4 dune , the purple one in the vid 😉
@@justhangin7186 oh! Ok, i didn't notice it, so you just have to put icaro piuma on your to-do list 👌🙌😀
@@josefernandosilvacroskey4042 I have an icaro relax 16 😉
@@justhangin7186 😆😆😆 it can't be my friend, you have all the brands, i bet your favorite is the moyes malibu 2 😄😄😄 🙌🙌🙌
Its like nothing else.