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Depends on the tone of voice and body language, couldn't see/hear any of it but if you're like me, you'll return the energy that you receive and so he must have been very polite. Otherwise, someone barking "you can't just land where ever you like" would have been met with "you can't just talk to who ever you like"

Just say “gravity is a b!tch and is Mother Nature with her wind or lack of it. These women are against me” and by the time he gets it you’re gone…

Be careful, there could be German forces in the hedgerows. Wow that looks so much like Sainte-Marie-du-Mont from the air. I would love to visit England someday. What a beautiful country.

Would be good to have altitudes in feet, unless you’re Russian 😅

Mate of mine had his hangie skewered by a bale spike by a farmer, it wasnt even his land, hangie destroyed, farmer tried to blame his neighbour, it ended in court with the farmer paying for the damage. You get good and bad but mostly a positive reception, so long as you keep away from livestock and cultivated land, as i told people when i was a coach, always pick the safe option to land, you can pay for damages later, not that i am in any way condoning landing where damage can result, broken backs are for life.

No one wants people flying over their property. 🤗

Gravity happens…….

just an idea.. but i do wonder if anyone had ever thought about specially prepared ground to induce thermal lift.. so you might have.. say, .. 1/2 miles squared of black surface surrounded by 5 mile squared of white surface,

So you don’t like people just showing up on your property? Hummm why so many illegals allowed all over your country then?

Earth looks pretty flat to me!!!

You need to land at an airport next time...😊

Never done this but love it as a recomended video. Looks really cool, and also scary.

Id be very happy to see one of you turn up on my land. Imagine living your life angry. Pity them and get on with the fun.

Some people are Jerks. I would be happy as a pig in muck if somebody landed in my back yard with a parachute. I would get the kettle on. Its nice to be nice.

Honestly, i may have had the same immediate reaction as the Farmer/landowner. But after you explained i would have sent you on your way with a cuppa and a smile!

I'm not a pilot, and I don't know what the rules are, by I'm with the farmer. Surely you should only be able to land on a site for which you have permission, and to do otherwise is trespassing. "I had hoped to go further" isn't good enough.

Fish and chips and pizza , no wonder your not getting enough lift 😂

Well, it seems the vast majority of these comments fall on the side of the paraglidist. Even though this person needs no license or have done any training to operate this thing, but more importantly is not required to have any insurance beyond his own personal travel insurance. .......unlike the landowner with his car or tractor. I am going to give you the perspective of the inconvenienced land owner, so lets put this little hypothetical situation of trespass forward........ If you are working in your shed earning a living and you are dragged away from that job by someone who climbs through your rear house window and knocks over some house plants that you were going to sell and he destroys them, when you confront this uninvited guest about it and their reply is "that your house was the only one with an open window" do you have the right to be tad upset.? Then.....he asks you to unlock the front door so you can leave and expects you to be polite to him. This is no different than being dragged away from servicing your farm machinery to accommodate an uninvited paraglidist who drops into your field and tramples all over your crops and feels entitled that you should be nice to him. By-Laws should be in place that allow land owners to charge a landing fee, much like airports do, to anyone who drops in uninvited. Oh how these people would plan their landing places a little more carefully if that was so. Bring on the entitled abuse.......

Would be nice to put a card in the post for the field owner apologizing for the inconvenience and an offer for a pint at the local pub. Can never have enough friends and you never know if your gonna end up in that field again 😉

You and balloonists are a menance now. Before when it was a handful of people doing it. Now it tonnes of yupee's weekend ceo with f all better to do. How would you feel if a man just walked ino you garden while your kids are playing. Its not on.

Prob where he had his containers full of canabis buried .

While it might seem strange to some. The laws in the US make it the owners liability if anyone gets hurt on their land. Which can lead to claims for medical damages.

I understood that paragliders are not permitted to fly over towns?

'how dare you crash-land in on MY land?" :) Karens are everywhere.

During a flexwing fly-in even here in the USA, one of our friends experienced an engine out and put it down in a field much like the one in this video. The radio call went out, and I was the nearest pilot, so I turned towards the location being called out, and went to make sure he was alright. When I flew over, our friend had set the aircraft down safely and was already talking to the farmer who had come out to greet him. By the time I landed, the sun was about to set, and other friends with trucks and trailers made their way to pick the downed pilot up.........only to find that he, the farmer and family where all having dinner, over some cold beers as our pilot buddy told them flying stories. : )

By law you can land where you like if unpowered and theres nothing a farmer can do

How is it possible that I can buy a paraglider and go fly where I want but I can't do the same with a little quad copter?

You need to live in a country with right to roam laws mate. Scotland's a nice place. 😊

i’m assuming R2D2 is either a range finder or thermal indicator?

Amazing I had no idea such distances were possible, I live close to malvern and often go for a walk along the hills and am always fascinated by the paragliding, i’ve likely seen you in the sky at some point. is there a resource you can point me to to learn paragliding around malvern area? Cheers Tom

What did you take off from?

Thanks for sharing. You're half way to having that misty/heli landing on point ;) Practice makes perfect... (Better to learn it as a ground handling manoeuvre first though).

love the update on dinner plans at the end.

You do need to pay better attention to contingency before jumping.

so apparently the UK does NOT have a "right to roam" law?

Very nice flight, good story, ty for sharing!!

Come to Switzerland. Never a problem. Brits are so protective of their castles.

"You cannot just land anywhere" - and what would you expect me to do?

Well sir, there’s this thing called gravity…

Love the stream of consciousness narrative! Authentic. Great flight, a lovely wife and daughter to go home to. Plus a lot……of cheese! Love your posts.

Nothing sus about padlocks and barbed wire but when you add an angry man who watched you land and immediately confronts you...🤔

Fish & chips AND pizza. No wonder you fell out the sky. You’re gonna need a bigger wing.

The guy was hiding something and has no clue of Gravity.

I landed out in my LS4 near Midhurst. The farmer was most welcoming. I even gave him £20 to buy himself a crate of beer as a thank you from me. He said "why not, its friday after all!"

Lovely flight you have a good wife

The answer to "You can't just land anywhere you want!" is: "Precisely, Genius! Without an engine, I do not have control over where I land. So I can only land wherever the wind takes me."

Who's contacting the DJs that make a hit from random noises to do one (or a few) about the variometer?

The most disappointing part of this video is not the farmer….its that the pizza place has a boring name when nearby Codfather Part 2 is so clever!

Milton keynes was my old stomping ground. I remember flying over it on a trial flying lesson and thinking it looked soooo boring , flat and square everywhere lol. At least its good for landing and hoping on the train home.😂

Given the challenges farmers face I have a new found appreciation for their 'between a rock and a hard place' demeanour. Most don't know how to do life differently, and we can all be so thankful they have a real resistance to otherwise just giving up and selling up to property developers. In fixed-wing gliding more gliders have retractable engines than not these days, and there is less of a culture of willingness to spend a day driving a trailer around and collecting someone from a field. As such landing out in a field is becoming a thing rarely seen. There will always be pure gliders, but I am sortof glad that we don't disturb the farming community as much as we used to. I had the misfortune around 15 years ago to land in a field having forgotten my mobile phone. The farmer could not be any less pleased to see me there, but he did ultimately loan me his phone to call for my crew. They're great people at heart but have so much to contend with. As has been said already, being explanatory polite and apologetic goes a long way. I've had a lot of success with inviting kids to sit in the glider for pictures or offfering them to come to the club and have a flight at my expense. Sadly none have ever actually taken my up on the latter, but its the gesture that counts. I've also had the misfortune of landing in a field that a commercial balloon flight had landed in some weeks before - It had done some significant crop damage during their retreive and scooted out before the farmer had been able to arrive at the field. Insurance ended up involved in that one, as the glider was held ransom to the demand of a £500 sum for damages despite all my attempts to diffuse the situation having caused no damage at all as the field was now harvested and about to be ploughed.