Glad you enjoyed it. I know it wasn't the typical video but I wanted to describe my feelings about paragliding. It is so very different than using a paramotor. Everything was different - even the way you sit in the harness. Something I would do again, but I prefer the motor much more. Thanks for writing me!
Chris amazing adventure in free flight i did 3 months in spain in 2022 and i love it, been happy to have down my belt and SiV but it's a unique way to flight of patient and calm during the flight, thank you for sharing most love Fly Baby Fly PPG.
It was unique and different for sure, but I definitely have a greater appreciation for it now and for the skills needed to pilot one of those. Always thinking and always calculating. I will stick with a motor though! Thanks for the comment!
You are a braver man than I am, I like squeezing my left hand to create my instant thermal ;) Great adventure, I also really like the random footage of everyday life and things you spotted but couldn't really give a place in the story, at the end. Hope your bike is ok (sounded very optimistic, the bare frame with wheels should be ready tomorrow morning!). I'll tune in for sure.
The appreciation I've gained for paragliding pilots was worth it. Definitely a different sport all around. Thank you for noticing the random footage! I purposely take my phone out and film things just for the ending of each video. I think it is important to remind people that the adventure is more than just what I capture and talk about. So many friends and events and each has its own story. You might like the next video if you like the end screens. Thanks as always for watching and for taking the time to write to me. Much appreciated!
Man Kris, do you ever have time to work?!? I'm kidding, I know that you do. Looks like a great time, and looks like you had a premium wing to work with. What a blessing.
I must admit that I have a beautiful office and the scenery is always changing! I have been very blessed and continue to be blessed daily. Additionally, APCO has been good to me and I wanted to let the viewers know how special that company is to me. Sometimes it looks like it is all fun, but there are many hard trials I've had to endure that I don't show on camera. The cost (not just financially) has been very great. But it has been worth it! Thanks for writing me Richard!
Very cool. I’m a free flight paraglider pilot, i would like to get a motor at some point so i could fly around my house when it’s not soarable, but i don’t think it would ever take over my passion for free flight and XC, like you said its a thinking man’s game, and when you start linking crossings, and just flying into the great unknown it’s so challenging and so rewarding.
I have so much appreciation for XC paragliding pilots now. There is a lot to learn and the amount of practice it must take to get good at it. I know that if I ever got into that sport I would have a few landings that I wasn't proud of. It takes a lot to know where you are going and the best way to get there. It seems sometimes it must be a roll of the dice to choose a path and hope you find the right thermals along the way. Definitely a chess game in the sky. Try the motor - you might surprise yourself by how much you like it! The difference is like riding a canoe versus riding a speed boat. Thanks for the comment.
@@mydogischoking yea, I’ve done it for 3 years. I’m by no means “good at it” making it about 6 miles out and back has been a benchmark that took me two years to get to, now I can do that regularly I’m pushing myself a little farther. I’ve landed in trees twice. Once was my first flight at my local site, I had less than 3 hours of flight time and flew too far down wind from LZ, couldn’t make it back. No damage to gear or myself. Second time launching with a very bad tension knot effectively stalling half of my wing, at a site that had only one tiny bailout zone surrounded by tall trees, I decided to hit an area with trees that where not too tall, again no damage to gear or myself, just valuable lessons that luckily didn’t cost anything except bruised ego. Its a definite learning curve, but you start to pay attention to sun angles, and what terrain will heat up faster because of sun angles, as well as wind direction of course when there’s Lee side conditions it’s going to be turbulence, but when you have sun hitting a Lee side of a mountain it can create some really strong but turbulent thermals. You begin to think about all of these things and plan your route accordingly, always with a LZ within glide.
@@mydogischoking oh, and where I fly isn’t nearly as smooth and nice as Colombia, it’s usually high pressure and well over 100° in summer so the thermals are very tight, very strong and have very hard edges. But if you can hang on to them you can get really tall.
Your episodes are really enjoyable thanks for doing them
My pleasure! Thank you for taking the time to watch them and for writing to me!
Another great episode, thanks for bringing us along.
Glad you enjoyed it. I know it wasn't the typical video but I wanted to describe my feelings about paragliding. It is so very different than using a paramotor. Everything was different - even the way you sit in the harness. Something I would do again, but I prefer the motor much more. Thanks for writing me!
Chris amazing adventure in free flight i did 3 months in spain in 2022 and i love it, been happy to have down my belt and SiV but it's a unique way to flight of patient and calm during the flight, thank you for sharing most love Fly Baby Fly PPG.
It was unique and different for sure, but I definitely have a greater appreciation for it now and for the skills needed to pilot one of those. Always thinking and always calculating. I will stick with a motor though! Thanks for the comment!
Me too motor more than free flight we’re now two hahahahaaa is hard work inside movement all day long will keep in touch be safe brother.
You are a braver man than I am, I like squeezing my left hand to create my instant thermal ;)
Great adventure, I also really like the random footage of everyday life and things you spotted but couldn't really give a place in the story, at the end. Hope your bike is ok (sounded very optimistic, the bare frame with wheels should be ready tomorrow morning!).
I'll tune in for sure.
The appreciation I've gained for paragliding pilots was worth it. Definitely a different sport all around. Thank you for noticing the random footage! I purposely take my phone out and film things just for the ending of each video. I think it is important to remind people that the adventure is more than just what I capture and talk about. So many friends and events and each has its own story. You might like the next video if you like the end screens. Thanks as always for watching and for taking the time to write to me. Much appreciated!
Man Kris, do you ever have time to work?!? I'm kidding, I know that you do. Looks like a great time, and looks like you had a premium wing to work with. What a blessing.
I must admit that I have a beautiful office and the scenery is always changing! I have been very blessed and continue to be blessed daily. Additionally, APCO has been good to me and I wanted to let the viewers know how special that company is to me. Sometimes it looks like it is all fun, but there are many hard trials I've had to endure that I don't show on camera. The cost (not just financially) has been very great. But it has been worth it! Thanks for writing me Richard!
Very cool. I’m a free flight paraglider pilot, i would like to get a motor at some point so i could fly around my house when it’s not soarable, but i don’t think it would ever take over my passion for free flight and XC, like you said its a thinking man’s game, and when you start linking crossings, and just flying into the great unknown it’s so challenging and so rewarding.
I have so much appreciation for XC paragliding pilots now. There is a lot to learn and the amount of practice it must take to get good at it. I know that if I ever got into that sport I would have a few landings that I wasn't proud of. It takes a lot to know where you are going and the best way to get there. It seems sometimes it must be a roll of the dice to choose a path and hope you find the right thermals along the way. Definitely a chess game in the sky. Try the motor - you might surprise yourself by how much you like it! The difference is like riding a canoe versus riding a speed boat. Thanks for the comment.
@@mydogischoking yea, I’ve done it for 3 years. I’m by no means “good at it” making it about 6 miles out and back has been a benchmark that took me two years to get to, now I can do that regularly I’m pushing myself a little farther. I’ve landed in trees twice. Once was my first flight at my local site, I had less than 3 hours of flight time and flew too far down wind from LZ, couldn’t make it back. No damage to gear or myself. Second time launching with a very bad tension knot effectively stalling half of my wing, at a site that had only one tiny bailout zone surrounded by tall trees, I decided to hit an area with trees that where not too tall, again no damage to gear or myself, just valuable lessons that luckily didn’t cost anything except bruised ego. Its a definite learning curve, but you start to pay attention to sun angles, and what terrain will heat up faster because of sun angles, as well as wind direction of course when there’s Lee side conditions it’s going to be turbulence, but when you have sun hitting a Lee side of a mountain it can create some really strong but turbulent thermals. You begin to think about all of these things and plan your route accordingly, always with a LZ within glide.
@@mydogischoking oh, and where I fly isn’t nearly as smooth and nice as Colombia, it’s usually high pressure and well over 100° in summer so the thermals are very tight, very strong and have very hard edges. But if you can hang on to them you can get really tall.