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Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for your comment. I'm afraid I don't know anything about the regulations in China, but I wish you all the best. Happy flying!

That's amazing! Good to hear from you and all the best with your paragliding training. You're going to absolutely love it! So many adventures ahead of you

Thanks Ben

Thanks mark

Tim. Sorry I don't know his second name

The instructor is called Tim but I'm afraid I don't know his second name. He's an acro pilot and a brilliant instructor and also good friends with Theo de Blick who is his teacher I believe

I will see if I can cut the website address to here

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I have cut and pasted the website of the rise paragliding school account

It costs 6,980 RNB. Which is approximately £780 . But it's also 50rnb per trip up the mountain.

Wow that's amazing! Yes that would be fantastic if we could meet up

@@johnrudge777 Sorry I had not checked my messages properly. I had expected a notification if I'd gotten an answer. None came. I'm currently in London. I'll be flying with our Chinese paragliding club all next month in Europe and back in Beijing at the very end of July. I just sent you a message through FB. We have a mutual friend here in the UK.

Thanks 👍

Awesome! 😎 Yes, there are some very good places here in China I'm told where you can fly more than 100 km.

I agree Mark and to be honest I also feel it's a bit dangerous. Fact that you can't go cross- country is also a big shame

Yes I was very aware of the dangers of that cliff in front and also the ridge to my left which is why I was keeping slightly to the left of the spine that runs down from takeoff because of the cliff coming up in front where I imagined the rotor could be. It does seem a bit of a tricky sight and also potentially very dangerous. I do agree with you. I was aware of this and trying to fly in the safest place as possible. But unfortunately because there was not much left I was forced to go low.

Thanks James!

Awesome! He is a really nice guy as well

Thank you buddy!

Yes, you are absolutely right in most cases but when I'm going backwards I prefer to do a full frontal and collapse the A's because as the wing is diving down it gives you time (milliseconds ) to turn around and get ready to pull the brakes or the back risers before it re-inflates but as you can see from my video, I did not pull the A's hard enough which cause the wing to reinflate before it got to the ground. The reason I like the full frontal technique is because as the wing dives at the ground it increases speed. But when you pull the back risers, you are also in vulnerable position if it's very windy because you are still slowing the wing down before it stalls. But the main thing to remember is that this technique must be practised because it can go wrong if you do what I did and don't pull the A's hard enough. So as you have said, if in doubt, just to pull the back risers.

Thanks for your comment. So basically on that day the wind was about 35° off to the right hand side as it was coming from the southwest. So you are absolutely right. If the wind is straight up the hill then the turn direction will be the same both ways. But on that particular day, even though the wind was very light, it was slightly coming from the right.

Actually it was not as windy as I thought it was. I think it was only gusting up to about 25 km an hour. Max at the beginning but then the wind dropped off to probably about 18 to 20

Lol😂

Yes he flew back safely 😄

Yes, it's worth going there just for the pizza 🍕 in that place

For Ground handling. I would definitely recommend an old training harness, something with a small seatboard and with back protection and nice comfortable straps. Otherwise it will be uncomfortable in a lot of these lightweight harnesses

@@johnrudge777 the thing is I'm nomadic and wondering if I switch to pod harness what I will ground handle with 😅 I can't travel with 2 harness

Thanks Will. A real pleasure to meet you and all the other pilots and looking forward to seeing you all again sometime

Yes, I think you're right Tim. I was overthinking it I believe. And afterwards. I realised that it would have been fine to fly down but I think I was intimidated by the sheer size of the clouds and also not used to flying with such big mountains. I think. Made me a little bit nervous

Oh that was who it was cool. Thanks and it was fun flying with you too. Thank you for showing me where the thermals were