Pete, your take offs / landings are excellent, found them very similar to Andrea Ghidini's one - he puts lots of energy to his final before flare and also doing upslope landings to a perfection. I should try upslope landings as well, I believe it is safety and more pilots should be comfortable doing it. Thanks for sharing this video, quite valuable, thanks Pete!

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words although Andrea Ghidini landing are on a whole different level 😄. But yeah I think if you are going to be flying around mountains then you should be comfortable doing this type of landing,… and anyway, they are fun!

Smithy's right - a light wind FOTW is easier than on the flat. I did one half way up the Crown Range once to get better distance than everyone who landed on the Terrace. In the UK I sometimes did a test flight which consisted of a takeoff, hands-off trim test , a 180 and FOTW. By the time you've done a couple of dozen the nerves will go. On a single surface you need to be over generous with speed on the way in so as to have some left for a good strong flare. Looking good already ☺

Views while flying in Switzerland are postcard perfect. Nice landings. What’s that old saying “takeoffs are optional but landings are mandatory”.

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Trust me, around the 7:45 point I definitely didn’t feel like take off was going to be an option 😂

YESSSS LETS GO!!! This was such an epic video mate 🔥🔥🔥 This is exactly what I want to learn with the straight on fly on the wall! Legend, you’re my hero 😆👍

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, cheers Cameron 🤙🏼. I see you have been putting that shark to work 👍🏼

@TheCameronEvans

2 жыл бұрын

@@petehelliwell yeah trying to put some good hours on it and learn everything I can before I use the RS 3.5. Would like to learn to top land with the shark and dial in spot landings with it

Wow, Pete! That sure looked like a lot of work!

just sumbled over this one - thanks so much for letting us cruise with you. the start at 7:45 had me "ussssshhhhhh" in my seat, wife came by and asked whats wrong :D haha

Absolutely amazing mate...wow what a rush you are a legend

Excellent video Pete and really well put together! I'm very impressed - great flying but you've also nailed the editing and especially the sound. Your commentary is fun and makes it interesting. What camera and mic setup are you using? BTW - when me and Tim did that top take-off we thought he'd had a dodgy take-off... But yours really takes the biscuit!!! 🤣

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Darren. Appreciate that 🙂. Maybe that’s how i got myself in to that take off position, by taking all the biscuits and upping my wing loading 😂. It’s a tough launch at the best of times!

Love it! Thanks for sharing

Love the videos!

Super hang gliding video.Thanks.

That was alot of fun thanks Pete

very well done and great edit too

Thank you for this great video. I wish I dare to try this some day.

Thank you for sharing very beautiful country

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, It is a beautiful area!

Wry cool! Looks fun mate!

Bravo!!

Gidday Pete Excellent video, thank you.

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Donald 😊

nice practice 👍

I need to learn that too! For any chance of real XC where I live, most pieces of land are hills. This sort of explains why the club distance records for PG are 3x the HG ones. The problem is most spots don’t look ideal for practice/learning.

Nice one Pete ! That looks so fun

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Heaps of fun! Can’t wait to give it a go on the acro knob 😝

@vodkaboxing

2 жыл бұрын

@@petehelliwell can you please !

You got yourself a subscriber dude! This was fabulous!

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks, glad you liked it 🤙🏼

@wawePELADO

2 жыл бұрын

@@petehelliwell So do you know what amount of difference will have with some tail wind? Next time a cameraman on the slope to see the action from the ground. Thanks for posting.

Rocking the Murch Merch T-Shirt.

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

😉😎

Awesome! Seems you did better on your first (alone) ones than when being watched. It happens. Is that Peter Neuenschwander flying with you? Quite the amazing pilot, that one!!! Would be nice if you posted his fly on the wall landings as well if you caught them on your camera, at least I for one would like to see the Aeros doing it. I wouldn't mid a summer in Interlaken!!! Maybe one day I'll do what you're doing. Keep up the good video, less airtime fortunate pilots like myself nowadays need something to drool all over LOL

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

It is the man himself yes! I obviously couldn’t take the pressure of his watchful eye 😂. Unfortunately I didn’t get any decent shots of his landings. As for summers in Interlaken, I’m only a couple of weeks in and I can’t recommend it enough!

Holy… seriously what a rush!!😱!!

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a bit exciting alright!

Superb job showing us how it is done. Amazing site (where is it?) Greetings from Valle de Bravo Mexico

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

This is in Interlaken, Switzerland 🙂

Slope landing was gd but you ralku nailed thank trunk transition! 😉

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

😂

👏👏👏👏👏👏

It looked like you gently tapped the windsock on your downwind leg at 6:36

Thanks for this very educational video. Quick question - what do you recon is a good trick for launching on flat slopes without pushing out/stalling?

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Firstly don’t do what I did at the 7:45 point in the video 🤦🏼‍♂️. But actually, some things that can help on the shallow launches. A loose grip on the down tubes is important, You don’t want to have them in a tight grip. That’s a good way to transition your weight in to the glider at the wrong point of the take off and you can loose the feeling of the glider as it starts to fly. You want to feel the pressure of the down tubes wanting to move forward in your fingers. Another thing I like to do is stand nice and upright and progress in to the run with 3-4 slow steps first. The slow bit sounds a bit backwards but it will help to prevent the nose from popping up and helps keep your body posture upright as you accelerate, obviously you’re going to need to follow that up by running like f*ck!!

@HG_well

2 жыл бұрын

@@petehelliwell I really appreciate the info. I try and collect as much data as possible. What you say makes sense to me. I’ve been watching others launch at that spot and I always wondered how they do it, as it seems really shallow to me. We have a similar launch near here, a place called Chelan. It gives me butterflies just thinking about it. I’ve also been told big strides.

I felt that basebar scrape pete ...

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

I can still feel it….. 😐

Phheeeeewww Pete that launch was gnarly! Looked like the glider yawed on you pretty hard too - was there a cross from the right or something? Would love to hear your take and analysis on it!

@petehelliwell

Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t the best launch ever that’s for sure. It is a shallow launch to start with so I was been extra careful. Also the pilot that went before me did exactly the same thing. We had about 10 minutes between launches. The wind was straight up but light. Yes the glider yawed a bit, maybe there was something from the side that non of the wind socks picked up on. Or maybe I just ran out of skill right at the worst time.

Man well done. Guess you just have to throw Balls to the wall. I really want to be able to do these....

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s it, I was put in to a position where i needed to do it for my exam. Maybe I wouldn’t of actually ever tried it if not. But anyway, I’m really glad i did give it a go.

Why are you pulling the string?

Yeah it's definitely easier then on flat ground Yeeeee haaaaaaa!!!!!

Salut. Vous devriez proposer les sous-titres pour les traductions. Les Français sont mauvais en anglais 🤪 Surtout moi 🤣

@petehelliwell

2 жыл бұрын

Bonne idée oui ! Je vais chercher comment mettre des sous titres. Ou peut être que je devrais essayer de parler français pendant que je vole pour m’améliorer

@jeromebarbaray5603

2 жыл бұрын

@@petehelliwell Ça serait trop bien 👍