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In the early 80's I watched a skinny kid launch from Dog MT. WA in an old Wills Wing SST two sizes too big for his weight on a really windy day, about 35 MPH. He went up and back, and back. Then he disappeared behind a ridge. Never heard how he made out.

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What would have happened if he'd turned away from the wind? Death Stall?

It’s better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than in the air wishing you were on the ground. I experienced this, a few times. The last time brought home the full realization of what being under a canopy in winds that exceeded not only my ability but any sense of sanity, set me straight. Re the wave comments, etc… fly your own flight but? Many have died for pushing the edge too far…

What a horrible hobby

A VERY good lesson to learn - many thanks for posting your experience and sharing your reflections with others. Damn good recovery and you kept calm throughout.

Nice riding out a good tossing!

Wow, I don't have a clue how I got here but thanks for the ride. Lol I think my mouse is glad you're down. I was hanging on to it very tight lol.

Mission accomplished. Skids worked great. Not sure if you mentioned possible options for turning tail, if needed. But obviously it wasn't too tough to get out front to land. I've witnessed where it wasn't possible to get the required altitude, resulting in a hard top landing with broken ankle. A little cross to the wind, can be very significant too.

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Fun playing with the Anemoi They are a spirited bunch

In 1995 I bought a micro lite full single seat wing with a twin cylinder Suzuki air cooled 247cc engine. Etc. for £1800 second hand. Did not have any training just thought it would be great. To try a few hop out of Fields etc trying to find places in the UK where you can do this is expensive and hard work. So I drove up to the most out of the way type place I knew South west Carmarthen shire. Dyfed national park. . Didn’t check weather. Hadn’t ever set up the Wing. Just started and then Went on to rebuild this 2stroke Port valve Gp engine. ( I knew these suzie engines well. But the Dynomo type electric stuff not so well ). … il let you all know how many BONES I broke later. ….

i've heard an expression before : "on some days, even the birds are walking"

6:50 I don’t get why you want to descend yet seem determined to stay in the strong ridge lift zone? You could have drifted down wind out of the lift, or gradually clawed your way forward until clear of the front edge of lift. What stopped you?

I did not expect the flaps would help. They just convert drag into lift, neither of which you look like you need. Flaps up, speed max, direct away from the ridge and out of the acceleration zone as you did. Your "drop" looks like you lost all lift and plummeted. I flew paraglider. If we get a drop out like that the wing folds up, then reinflates and tries to overtake you downwards for airspeed. If you don't put the right controls in at the right moment you fall into the wing, "Gift wrapped for god" they call it.

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I’ve had birds pass right by me

Sheesh. No thankyou

This has some beautiful stunning spring flying but please please please .... keep the video at the normal speed.

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As a paraglider pilot, I must say you did exceedingly well keeping calm and staying focussed on the job. Many will panic and commit more errors when conditions are not benign. 8:36 was scary as hell. Well done mate. Watch the conditions next time !!

Quite an experience you got there, you landed safely and without any damage to the wing, that's called experience. Well done ! 👏 Flying in laminar winds must seem so dull now 😂

Please remove the upper apex pads.......

сдуваемые с ровнины полей термики на вершыну образуют такую нестабильность при дневном солнцестоянии. Предположу что к вечеру болтанка изчезает и ранним утром.

Самое главное то, что смог об этом рассказать.

Folha seca temos que voar igual a uma folha seca sem brigar com a térmica...sou voador de paraglider no centro oeste do Brasil. Gostei do vídeo acho muito legal as asas rígidas.

That looked aweful. Glad you landed safe. Thx for sharing

Do glider pilots generally carry an emergency chute? Can't see any

Thanks for sharing...brought back some memories of Terrace B.C. 1980. Took off when i probably shouldn't, but seemed fine on the top of the hill. Played for 20 min or so in good but bumpy conditions....then suddenly got sucked up into the mist. My machine was not very fast (old Australian Cohen) and it could not keep up with the increasing windspeed. I spent over an hour side slipping and doing everything I could to make the thing fly as inefficiently as possible. Being in the mountains and not wanting to get on the backside of the one I was over made me reluctant to do any circling (with a downwind leg). Although I did get pushed back behind the mountain top for a while (it dropped off steeply to the valley floor behind), I slowly managed to edge my way forward when I was just inside the cloud with the ground barely /intermittently visible and once out over the valley in front again it got very rough but lift dropped off a bit. Once I got down above the forest, it got very hairy and I had to land on a road in the turbulence between the trees, which went surprisingly well. My only instrument was an altimeter which at its peak it showed 12,300 ft ASL (Canada was still in imperial then) which was about 9,000 ft above take-off (landed at 600 ft ASL). I was frozen and exhausted when I finally got down, and my arms were a bit rubbery from trying to keep the nose down. Although I was a bit worried a few times when I was going backwards towards a certain crash, I kept thinking how exhilarating it was and how much I was learning from this forced 'exercise'. Can't say I enjoyed every minute of it, but most of it was a hoot. I had flown for several years continuously at Byron Bay, Frazer Island, Stanwell Park etc. in Australia a few years before that, (OK, I was a beach bum with a hang glider) but this one taught me a lot in a very short time - but of course I wouldn't necessarily want to do it again.... May safe winds and good judgement always be with you...ain't hindsight great!

My mind just tells me if going downwards too steep in rough winds it might flip you upside down like frontflip.. Am I right?

you missed to communicate clearly: don´t do a takeoff with this forcast !

77 and still flying ….. do wonder if I am that ‘old fool’?…..Thank God for that tail …fitted one to my old Exxtacy …but no longer fly her … too damn heavy …pg is much more convenient convenient

Phew! I used to hang-glide almost 50 years ago (the kites were much simpler then). My mentor, after a serious close call decided to call it quits, basically because he had come to the conclusion that the addiction to flying all too often over-powered the reasoning of common sense. I trusted his judgment completely and did the same..... But wow...kites have come a long way since then! Not sure I'd make the same decision now-a-days!

Ha, you won't do that again!😂

Glad to see that you came down safe...

I gotta give you credit where its due... those were some of the worst camera angles possible

Thanks for posting this Good job getting down. The following comments are not directed at you, but just for others viewing. IMO It’s much more rewarding and satisfying to have a successful flight in conditions that require you to work at staying up than flying in conditions at the upper limits of you and your wings ability and performance envelope. The safety margins are more in your favor too. Chasing long distance flights and aerobatics is not the only way to enjoy flying. Don’t be pressured by peers and industry media promotions of the higher risk stuff.

Thank you for this video. It can save some lives ...

Your legs are shaking when you land after one of these sort of flights.

I would like to make a comment about the nature of turning aircraft mathematics and glide ratio. When you are flying through the air on anything and it's rated for 100 kilograms it will fly straight with probably 200 kilo grams. Perfectly straight with a perfect pilot. The second you turn you have a bank angle it reduces your vertical. The bank angle also loads up the wing and as it loads up the wing that makes it want to dive into a spiral because that's the easiest path for the wait to get to the ground besides the straight dive. I studied a lot of paraglider crashes and this lack of speed combined with a loss of glide angle when you turn adds up to be a spiral. When you had that drag shoot behind you, you increase the drag without increasing the lift and when you turn the asymmetrical effects cause a loading of the yaw axis. Your airfoil is not as perfect with the flow going over it less than parallel to the yaw axis. I am not sure where the limit would be as far as the minimum radius of curvature you can fly and still have enough steering authority to come back out of the spiral dive. I'm learning to fly in epsilon 9 paraglider and I wanted to get a drag chute to put behind me to make my landing speeds lower. I don't want to get that dreaded swing motion going when I'm close to the ground and I thought if I had a drag shoot to throw out behind me it would cause parasitic drag on the payload and the wing would take down and die of a little bit so it would be flying without wanting to stall and the way would be lifted up off the wing a little.

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These two approaches/landings were at different speeds with the HG using the Drogue flying slower. If this HG had sped up the increased decent rate/slope would have been even more pronounced compared to the HG without the drogue.

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With the compression of the air over the ridge resulting in the reverse ground track would a strategy of trading speed for altitude to get above the compression layer and the tracking to a safe landing area been an option? I ask because I encountered the same issue in a small slow powered aircraft attempting to cross Avery high escarpment when a massive cold high pressure air mass moved in way ahead of forecast (long ago decades before the internet and cell phones). I was a few hundred feet above the plateau where the compression layer and quickly went from very slow ground speed to a negative ground speed. At that point I elected to reverse course enough to clear the dangerous turbulence and spiraled up 1,000 ft (~300 meters) and turned back on course. At the higher altitude it was still bumpy and slow but the reverse ground was no longer an issue. A short distance ahead and the air smoothed out and the ground speed increased.

I've been in that situation couple of times. 1980: 1300ft mountain edge. Kaapschehoop, South Africa. Worst time was when I was blown backwards. I turned downwind at top speed, trying to avoid the rotor effect that could drive me into the ground. Eventually I turned around and lost about 200 feet instantly, but just manage to clear the ground, facing the wind. I had to pull in maximum and when level out inches above the ground, I broke my trapesium vertical bars as I ploughed about 60ft/ 20m through the grass. What a feeling when your canopy covers you like a blanket, but alas I crawled away from under it. Praise to God.

Lift/drag. That’s all there is to it. More drag steeper approach.

As always pilot error. Should have went for the landing as soon as he launched and knew it was not going to be good.

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