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@@pat13487 it strongly depends on where you want to fly. If you want to fly in the desert sites, consider April or late September/October as summer can be too active. However for the standard flying, May to September seems to be best. All of the clips in this were from April, which I found was a really good general time to fly

Thank you, it was a great week away. I agree, one doesn't think there would be much there compared to the alps etc, however it was surprising how much access there was to paragliding - and even on the non-flying days, the access to important history is a win!

@@Jessydu47 i believe as long as you're not in restricted airspace in Norway, you're allowed to free fly. This isn't a site so there is no official field, however there are plenty of options, and generally speaking as long as a field doesn't have crops in it, you're fine to land as long as you respect the landowner

For a last minute choice it worked out great!

nice one. Definitely wearing a large winter coat so people can't see what's behind you is a really useful hack too

Yes, when I am in Durban. Aiming to be back from 5th to 21st of March 2024

Nice one, I hope you enjoyed all South Africa has to offer!

@@TomWatkeys Sure did Tom. I visited for three weeks and flew almost every day. Looking forward to coming back again soon.

Thanks Faith, keen to catch up again in the UK!

Awesome, please let me know how your flight goes, and if any of the info was super useful, or if I missed anything

In Durban, you want to try WildSky Paragliding - they are based in Bulwer, but they have a satellite operation for the Bluff. Personally, I would make a weekend out of it and head up to Bulwer

That's a great idea... For me personally, I use digital amp modelling, it saves on carrying! I'll make one next year when I finish building v2.1 of my setup

Thank you so much. Those are just some black boxes which I animate in - to change the aspect ratio - you can do it any software, this is an easy tutorial on it to make it easy ua-cam.com/video/1Z8AMZXi0Bw/v-deo.html

@@TomWatkeys Been trying to figure this out for ages 😅 Need to work out on those editing skills🤣

Absolutely, a useful solution

Hey there. If I remember correctly, the trail i took was called Rimstigen. You can park up at the end of the road - it's about a 2.5 hour hike up to a beautiful glacial lake - from there you keep following painted markers through a boulder field, which will bring you up on top of the takeoff. Parking marker for you at these co-ordinates 60.92036395875861, 6.867186286975617 This was my takeoff pin - the hill here is very conical, so you can takeoff with a crosswind no problem (as I did) 60.92848412680295, 6.831788703097284 It's a really beautiful fjord - if I went again, I would camp at one of the campsites right by the parking for a night or two, this would give you a bit more leeway with conditions - I got quite lucky that it was perfect when I arrived on takeoff. I'd also suggest doing a landing zone reconnaissance before hiking up - I don't think where I landed is the best spot, and there were lots of other options - I didn't do a proper reconnaissance hence why I ended up changing landings late - I'm quite sure that was someone's personal property, there are lots of grassy fields around which would be much easier and more suitable with a wind direction

Also to add, if you stay in that Fjord, there are some awesome SUP/kayak tours, I don''t think you'll have a more "pure" fjord experience than staying at one of those campsites

Amazing man! I'd highly recommend once you have the license, going straight up to Monterey - there's a lady instructor who works there on the dunes. It's a lot more forgiving than Torey, and MUCH easier to walk up if you bottom land. It's a really good place to build you confidence and ground handling, I'd strongly recommend it as a first stop. Santa Barbara mountain sites could be a bit intimidating for your early flying, and the recovery there is quite tricky, so you'd be looking at 1/2 flights a day - whereas Monterey and Mussel Rock are far more friendly and recovery is smooth sailing. You can contact Cyn on instagram - Raven Wolf Sky Sports - instagram.com/ravenwolfskysports/ for Monterey, Tell her you're buddies with the South African, Tom, and she'll look after you

@@TomWatkeys Thank you so much for the insight! Seriously that's awesome. Maybe come late summer as I have my P2 I'll have to give that a go. I'll check back in!

@@wyatt.photos Awesome sauce - keen to see you in the air my dude

Thanks so much Barry! There was still a load of things I had to leave out because I aimed for 2.5. What a great time it was

Thanks so much Matt!

Hey that's awesome to hear! For me, paragliding is as safe as you make it. For instance, I fly SAFE rated wings (EN-A/EN-B) in SAFE conditions, usually always with a reserve, and I have made sure to progress slowly, as well as doing an SIV course. This is the equivalent to only ever driving a Volvo, in daylight, on tar roads, not speeding and doing an advanced drivers course. Of course there is still a risk, but everyday some people get in their unroadworthy cars, speed to their destination, in the rain at nighttime.... I'd say my flying margins are safer than their driving margins

​@@TomWatkeys Nicely put! Thanks for the response.

Hi there. The other side has a much steeper takeoff, I would suggest an anchor (at those wind speeds) and do your pullup quite far back so there is a little bit of rotor to take the edge off the speed, once you're airborne that will be a lovely flight.

This is the bluff, north coast is a lot harder to find spots on

Always a pleasure being there hey

Thanks Raz-L. Yeah stage volume is a tough one - I would suggest that at the very least you try and run in ears as the drummer in this scenario - that way you can have you own mix where you can have your drums nice and loud in your ears so you can at least match your own dynamics to everyone else's. I've even played gigs where I plug my in ears straight into the "Headphone out" of the module and then just leave them a little loose in my ears to hear the other instruments. I do understand that on stage, other muso's struggle to hear the ekit over their already loud amps - but again that's kind of the point of this - their amps are probably already too loud for the stage. The foldback (monitoring) should at least be able to push the drums to a level where they match the guitar amps, if they can't then either (a) The foldback is underpowered or (b) the guitar amps are too loud, both of these scenarios are already undesirable as in (a) the singer won't ever be able to hear themselves and (b) you run into complication with FOH sound from amps being too loud. I'll be doing a video this week hopefully on running in ears for a full band and what that entails - pro's, cons, technical requirements etc....

Thank you!