Flying an Uncertified Mini Wing! - BANDARRA

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Disclaimer, I don't recommend anyone flying uncertified wings
I love the BGD Seed. It's a scaled down Epic and was designed as a groundhandling wing but built well like any other BGD wing.
So, since I've groundhandled it for over 100 hours and in that time had the chance to have little hops that turned into little flights getting progressively bigger, as the wind was right I thought it was good opportunity to try and actually soar it.
I've done it before, but not on camera, and because it's small and the lines are short, it is super agile. Flies fast (I'm 90kg and it is 14sqmt) and rolls and dives a lot when turning, even with very light input, making it mega fun to fly.
It was quite easy to top land with it. It carries a lot of energy through the turn, meaning you will lose height when it dives to turn but you do recover most of it as you come out of the turn.
I've landed it before in near nil wind and it flares fine, and on this day there was a lot more wind that than so landing was super smooth and pretty much came down vertical.
All in all a really fun experience! Might need to get a proper speed wing :)
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