Great video! I love these without music,just the ambient wind sounds!

OK, Maybe I can help. Been training for about 25 years. 1) your harness must allow you to get fully upright and not take any pressure on your hands to hold that position. 2) If our harness drops you down in the control frame instead of rotating you upright and higher on the downtubes, it makes things a lot harder. Because you have pressure in your hands to hold yourself upright, you can't feel proper bar position/speed. Also, being lower in the control frame reduces the amount you can flare. If your helmet covers your ears it makes it hard/impossible to hear airspeed. Proper landing: 1) "Trim glider at Minimum sink speed" 2) add speed when approaching the ground to account for wind gradient 3) Rotate upright (not down) and place hands near shoulders for maximum flare 4) Once at landing level above the ground, you should have downtube pressure in your fingers only as you sped up to get low. Ease out keeping landing altitude consistent. 5) At some point you will have no pressure in your hands...that is "minimum sink" speed. 6) Now, for the first time in your landing, you can have some pressure in your palms as you ease out to flare airspeed while maintaining the same low altitude. 7) Listen for the airspeed and when it sounds correct, Flare up, not out and land with no forward speed. Landing is a climbing maneuver, you should be very close to the ground when you flare. The glider/harness/helmet should help with this process not hinder it. Set up the glider properly. Flare enough to achieve zero groundspeed (this is the first time you should notice it and do something about it). In higher headwinds you obviously flare less, no wind is very aggressive flare.

Those lz's are huge. I have to make an S turn approach. Nice landings!

Never understood why a pilot would put the camera facing him instead of what we want to see, which is what the pilot is seeing. You see this with motorcycle clips, surfing clips, you name it. Show us from your perspective. Unless it's a training video. Not to be harsh, but it looks like narcissism. I was doing paragliding back in the 90s, and I was one of the first people to ever put a camera on his helmet. ( I got strange looks. The camera was big and people asked why I would want to do such a thing) Anyway, I took videos from my perspective to give the viewer my experience. I did not point the camera at me to say, "hey look at me, I'm cool!" lol.

@skeetzoid

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, better to have the camera show the pilot's perspective, more informative for the viewer planning to fly the same site. But lately I've been pointing the camera at myself to check why I've been having problems landing after I upgraded to a double surface glider.

This is outstanding.

The landing at 1:20 is the best ... Get landing gear out early carry more then trim speed into LZ. Same Guy at 2:19 Nice.

@SVSky

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Clark Frentzen, Ed Levin park and Lake McClure. Very solid, experienced pilot

0:45 belly landing, nice

Soy de santa cruz Bolivia eugenio. Espectacular sus vuelos

Landing in gi-normous fields helps considerably...

When I flew a Sundance rigid wing, I sometimes found bleeding off the speed a challenge when the landing zone was limited. The ground effect compared to my Rogallo Standard gliders was amazing. I had never seen a drogue chute used before this video. How helpful are they? The size seemed surprisingly small.

@feetgoaroundfullflapsC

4 жыл бұрын

Wonder if a wing suit style winglets under your arms will have the same drag effect when you bring you go to the standing up position to land. Also you can adjust your position for more drag, or less that way.

@someguy2135

4 жыл бұрын

@@feetgoaroundfullflapsC Winglets would help. I wonder if it would be enough to bother with, compared to a drogue chute.

@DerrickNedzelMtnBike

4 жыл бұрын

A small deluge chute is surprisingly effective in reducing the glide of a modern high performance glider. Even with the variable geometry full off (didn't have that on your old regally!) a high performance wing will glide a long way in a no wind landing! :-)

@DerrickNedzelMtnBike

4 жыл бұрын

Some Guy flying a rigid had to be pretty amazing! I have flown hang gliders and gliders, but no rigids.

I seem to do better when the wind is constant. Thermals or turbulence can bring me unstuck.

Brilliant

Thos were beautiful

@2:55 Why did you use a drag chute?

@davegreene1198

4 жыл бұрын

Probably felt he was coming in too hot?

@DerrickNedzelMtnBike

4 жыл бұрын

Jonnyreverb a drogue chute increases drag. Modern high performance gliders have very good performance and will glide a long way, especially close to the ground where they are in ground effect and where there is typically less head wind (wind gradient). If you are landing in a small field, the wing may not slow down enough before the end of the field to allow you to do a landing flare - instead of flaring the wing would climb causing a big climb and then a big drop to the ground. With the drogue chute you have extra drag, so the wing slows down a lot faster, allowing you to slow down to a slow enough airspeed to allow a landing flare where the wing rotates back causing further drag and slowing down, but without climbing.

@someguy2135

4 жыл бұрын

@@DerrickNedzelMtnBike Good explanation!

@Clydearb

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

What's the best sink rate for a modern hang glider?

@Rapturetotheclouds

2 жыл бұрын

0.6 m/s on a rigid wing

@Eigil_Skovgaard

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rapturetotheclouds Glide ratio L/D = 15-20, right?

what gives with the drogue chutes they went out with the ark and arent needed. and the lass that doesnt know how to flare landing on her belly

@TheTormhel

2 жыл бұрын

You probably haven't flown anything of performance.

@brightspark4817

2 жыл бұрын

i flew a mainair magic 4 at a lot of sites with little or no bottom landings . had 200 hours of flying experience in my 1st year @@TheTormhel

What are those little parachutes behind the hang gliders for?

@brightspark4817

3 жыл бұрын

drogue chutes to slow you down NOT NEEDED and went out of fashion in england years ago