" ANTI-FRAGILE " is said to describe airline safety, where every accident serves to make future flights more safe. Some in General Aviation are trying to encourage private pilots to benefit from AQP safety conditioning as commercial airlines do. Conditioning the mind and body to 'expect the unexpected' and be able to react to the most common problems can save lives.
@@terryroberts4321 well the knot itself wasn’t a huge issue if he would have kept his trims in and stayed off speed bar he would have flown and landed fine but on a reflex wing if you go fully accelerated and the trailing edge is pulled down at all it will have a violent collapse I don’t think it was anything to do with the wing itself I’d say that same scenario would have happened on any reflex you just have to check everything and make sure it’s normal
Paramotor and hang gliders are beyond foolish for the average weekend flier. College acquaintance of mine in the mid 1970s was hang gliding in Wisconsin off a bluff over a meadow on a pretty fall day, wind gust blew him back into the bluff and he broke his neck. He was only 50' up and not reckless, but IMO too inexperienced to not know when to say no. He left a daughter and young wife. To this day I am still very sad for them all and the life he missed out on.
Sad to hear that you have to take extreme caution and pay attention to your gear and the weather and with good experience it’s a pretty safe sport granted things can happen
So how does an average weekend flyer become a safer flyer if not through experience? Weather is the biggest threat to paramotor pilots in my experience, assuming you leave the ground with a good wing. If you do a good preflight, and don't fly in turbulence and thermals, you are unlikely to have any issues, at least with a paramotor. I have no experience with hang gliding, so I can't really comment.
@@headdown1 here is what I have seen in person and in statistics a person that only flys randomly on weekends in only good weather on low rated a or b wings tends to not try anything crazy as far as maneuvers and stays on the conservative side of flying on the other hand guys who fly say every other day do gain a lot of experience however they tend to get comfortable and complacent and think “it can’t happen to me”. And that’s when they try something new or out of their skill zone and they get hurt sometimes you need to dial it back and remember the basics that was a really good question thanks
@@Anthonybuening Hi Anthony, It sounds similar to skydiving in that experience often determines what it is that hurts or kills you. In skydiving it is hook turns on landing that maim and kill experienced jumpers. I still loved to do them though, in spite of the danger. Weather to me with a paramotor is a bit of a different story. Skydive canopies just cut through turbulence and collapses are not common. I have jumped with winds over 20 mph and gusty with no problems. In contrast, a paraglider canopy feels very fragile in turbulence. And from what I can see, even experience only goes so far when flying a paraglider/paramotor in rough conditions, and even the best paraglider pilots can have a collapse in rough air. I would think that the danger increases when the paramotor pilot gets enough experience that he starts flying in rougher air than is typical in early morning/evening. In a way flying a canopy is a bit like winter driving. It is by getting experience driving in worse and worse condtions that makes you a better and more confident driver. IF you don't have an accident on your way up the learning curve.
@@headdown1 I think you hit the nail on the head the way you said that and yes skydiving canopy’s are way different in aspect ratio and they tend to not collapse like Paramotor canopy’s
I couldn't agree more about altitude. Always take it up high to experiment with new wings, speed test, or aerobatics. Tucker did the same type of top speed test with the first release of the Kougar 3. He too had a collapse, but he had a lot of altitude to recover. Niviuk changed the risers after that. I fly a Kougar 3 with the updated design. It is horrible what happened to him and others, but it also effects the sport and brings unwanted attention to our sport. Look what happened to the drone and RC sport. Yeah, think before you do something stupid. It reflects on all of us. Retard politicians know nothing about anything, so one Karen bitching, could change everything for the rest of us. I post TH-cam videos, too, but for fun and not to try and make a living. If you want to make money on TH-cam, do camera, lawn mower, computer, kitchen cookware, reviews. Paramotoring is a cult following with a limited viewing. One starts doing stupid shit to try to get more views. Gott is starting to do that with the base jumping. That's a sport that is just a matter of time before something bad happens without a reserve or altitude to recover from an issue. Then they finally F themselves up and post that and then want to do a come back kid video. Think of your love one's before you do something stupid. Just say'n.
@@Anthonybuening I have been following you for a few days. Your video content quality is very good. But I noticed that, due to video optimization problems, the videos are not getting more views and subscribers. You need to fix it. Best wishes
Actually altitude is your best friend in this sport and if you are going to go full speed bar great but have plenty of altitude on a new glider because you don’t know how it will respond
He only was at about 80 ft. I dont think he ever made a video going higher than toplanding the Franklin mts. You cant use excessive speed on these things. If you get a big motor, all that happens is you tilt backwards causing you to ascend faster. Height is your friend in that you have more time to realise whats wrong and be able to do something about it like throw your reserve.
" ANTI-FRAGILE " is said to describe airline safety, where every accident serves to make future flights more safe. Some in General Aviation are trying to encourage private pilots to benefit from AQP safety conditioning as commercial airlines do. Conditioning the mind and body to 'expect the unexpected' and be able to react to the most common problems can save lives.
Exactly
pre-flight what did the do wrong then???
He had a tension knot in his glider that he didn’t see and he took off with it
@@Anthonybuening it's quite amazing a knot can do that? maybe a shit wing ?
@@terryroberts4321 well the knot itself wasn’t a huge issue if he would have kept his trims in and stayed off speed bar he would have flown and landed fine but on a reflex wing if you go fully accelerated and the trailing edge is pulled down at all it will have a violent collapse I don’t think it was anything to do with the wing itself I’d say that same scenario would have happened on any reflex you just have to check everything and make sure it’s normal
Paramotor and hang gliders are beyond foolish for the average weekend flier. College acquaintance of mine in the mid 1970s was hang gliding in Wisconsin off a bluff over a meadow on a pretty fall day, wind gust blew him back into the bluff and he broke his neck. He was only 50' up and not reckless, but IMO too inexperienced to not know when to say no. He left a daughter and young wife. To this day I am still very sad for them all and the life he missed out on.
Sad to hear that you have to take extreme caution and pay attention to your gear and the weather and with good experience it’s a pretty safe sport granted things can happen
So how does an average weekend flyer become a safer flyer if not through experience? Weather is the biggest threat to paramotor pilots in my experience, assuming you leave the ground with a good wing. If you do a good preflight, and don't fly in turbulence and thermals, you are unlikely to have any issues, at least with a paramotor. I have no experience with hang gliding, so I can't really comment.
@@headdown1 here is what I have seen in person and in statistics a person that only flys randomly on weekends in only good weather on low rated a or b wings tends to not try anything crazy as far as maneuvers and stays on the conservative side of flying on the other hand guys who fly say every other day do gain a lot of experience however they tend to get comfortable and complacent and think “it can’t happen to me”. And that’s when they try something new or out of their skill zone and they get hurt sometimes you need to dial it back and remember the basics that was a really good question thanks
@@Anthonybuening Hi Anthony, It sounds similar to skydiving in that experience often determines what it is that hurts or kills you. In skydiving it is hook turns on landing that maim and kill experienced jumpers. I still loved to do them though, in spite of the danger.
Weather to me with a paramotor is a bit of a different story. Skydive canopies just cut through turbulence and collapses are not common. I have jumped with winds over 20 mph and gusty with no problems. In contrast, a paraglider canopy feels very fragile in turbulence. And from what I can see, even experience only goes so far when flying a paraglider/paramotor in rough conditions, and even the best paraglider pilots can have a collapse in rough air. I would think that the danger increases when the paramotor pilot gets enough experience that he starts flying in rougher air than is typical in early morning/evening.
In a way flying a canopy is a bit like winter driving. It is by getting experience driving in worse and worse condtions that makes you a better and more confident driver. IF you don't have an accident on your way up the learning curve.
@@headdown1 I think you hit the nail on the head the way you said that and yes skydiving canopy’s are way different in aspect ratio and they tend to not collapse like Paramotor canopy’s
I couldn't agree more about altitude.
Always take it up high to experiment with new wings, speed test, or aerobatics.
Tucker did the same type of top speed test with the first release of the Kougar 3.
He too had a collapse, but he had a lot of altitude to recover.
Niviuk changed the risers after that. I fly a Kougar 3 with the updated design.
It is horrible what happened to him and others, but it also effects the sport and brings unwanted attention to our sport.
Look what happened to the drone and RC sport.
Yeah, think before you do something stupid. It reflects on all of us.
Retard politicians know nothing about anything, so one Karen bitching, could change everything for the rest of us.
I post TH-cam videos, too, but for fun and not to try and make a living.
If you want to make money on TH-cam, do camera, lawn mower, computer, kitchen cookware, reviews.
Paramotoring is a cult following with a limited viewing.
One starts doing stupid shit to try to get more views.
Gott is starting to do that with the base jumping.
That's a sport that is just a matter of time before something bad happens without a reserve or altitude to recover from an issue.
Then they finally F themselves up and post that and then want to do a come back kid video.
Think of your love one's before you do something stupid.
Just say'n.
I agree with you 100 percent
I like this video
Thank you
@@Anthonybuening I have been following you for a few days. Your video content quality is very good. But I noticed that, due to video optimization problems, the videos are not getting more views and subscribers. You need to fix it. Best wishes
@@ForidaKhatunSetu what does that mean
...not a sport
Yes it actually is you wouldn’t know because you don’t know anything about them
Why not? WATCHING football on tv is a sport and all you do is drink beer and eat nachos. So is it really a sport?
@@UpcomingJedi he’s just being a troll he doesn’t know
STOP. Trying to go to 10000 feet or using excessive speed.
Actually altitude is your best friend in this sport and if you are going to go full speed bar great but have plenty of altitude on a new glider because you don’t know how it will respond
He only was at about 80 ft. I dont think he ever made a video going higher than toplanding the Franklin mts. You cant use excessive speed on these things. If you get a big motor, all that happens is you tilt backwards causing you to ascend faster. Height is your friend in that you have more time to realise whats wrong and be able to do something about it like throw your reserve.
@@UpcomingJedi you are exactly right