Greg- magnificent stuff! The 'freeze frame' in combo with your terrain analysis and thought process for planning your line is pure gold. Please keep these coming!
@@greghamerton4422 On the contrary, your calmnes amazes me and gives me a lot of confidence. You sound as a very experienced "master, teacher, guru"-pilot who's delighted to be in the air and so happy to share his passion with others. Keep on, thanks a lot.
Greg, all of your videos are good but this one was especially instructive on a subject that is difficult to find information on. Thanks for your efforts and I look forward to more in the future.
I use to watch this video when I first started paragliding wondering what the hell im so confused lol there are so many concepts to understand a couple of years later and it finally all makes sense, Greg you’re a legend!
I really like the instructional videos where you stop the action and diagram out your thought process. You did a great job on this as well as the video accessing potential LZs. Thanks as always.
New to free flight mountainous terrain, I have searched the internet for a few months for the knowledge explained in this one vid. Thank you FlyBubble.
Oh man I love everything about this video. It's the kind that's so hard to find and teaches me so much. Please please for the love of God ... Give me more
really good info on mtn flying. its all I've ever really done and you nailed it. I love the way you read the thermal, timing it... I get so excited in thermals I usually cut the circle too tightly and get beat up! lol You have great patience... probably from years of experience, but my heart palpitates when I head into a thermal... so I must work on my patience, I think. I've only been flying for 5-6 years, I'll be 57 years old next month... but I don't care.... I still scream with joy every time! just so exciting and amazing. thanks again. :)
Just great you made me realize I know nothing!! good thing I sit in a trike lol great read of the landscape I learned a great deal, always enjoy your videos, thanks.
These videos are priceless! It's incredibly helpful for a learning pilot to compare his/her own estimations of the scene to what you experienced guys read in the terrain and what the actual circumstances are in the end. Great work. Please keep doing this!!! Happy landings :)
Cracking video there Greg, the theory is extremely insightful and the use of the 360’ and GoPro very slick with good sound quality also. I may even invest in a 360’ camera looking at the angles you can get. As for the FlyBubble shop comment at the end, I purchased my Gin Genie Lite2 from you guys and Carlo spent three hours helping me chose the right pod harness, and then got it set up really well. Extremely good service.
I’ve come back and watched this video several times since I started flying a little over a year and a half ago. Great information and helps me look at my local mountains as a more experienced pilot now that I’m attempting little XC flights.
i have only one word for you Greg... AWSOME...i invite you to Pakistan to fly Himalayas and Karakorams as we have a great loving community of PGs here in Pakistan who would love to learn a lot from you... This video made my confidence flying in mountains 100% more confident from today.. especially the way you explained the wind path and expectations of thermals... i would definitely use a pen an paper from next time to draw a site plan and make a perfect flight whenever I fly... Hats of to you man.. that is the best I can do till you come to Pakistan.. Looking forward to seeing you come to Himalayas and Karakoram and forget the Alps :)
Greg, Extremely informative. I'll echo the comments about the on-screen drawing, it makes the explanation so much more accessible to me. Your video, audio and editing upgrades make your already excellent videos even better. Please keep them coming. Cheers.
Super explanation with all the valley, wind, heat logic. Please make more videos like these for XC flying. As, I learn something new every time and things that I never anticipated. Thanks.
This is excellent ! Very educational, I know the basis of what you describe but you provides a wealth of contextual clues and details that add a lot to my learning and interpretation. This is all easy to understand and more importantly to retain. Most of what I do is ridge lift but I am now slowly venturing into XC and thermal lifting where I can find it. Many thanks.
I’m so thankful for your teaching, and your calm style of teaching. I’m new to the sport and I’m thankful for your knowledge and willingness to pass it on! Good job and great video!
So much knowledge passed on in this video, and the view was just out of this world! as a total newbie I learned so much, keep on making these kind of videos!
so grateful, first big thermal flights now in brauneck near munich with my up mana, been watching you all the way. You do the flying I want to do, and calm safe strong sensible adventuring mountain fun! Weeeeeee! I can fly! Thank you for putting a doable picture in my head. After that it became obvious. 🌹❤️
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19:00 The packet opening up in the rucksack is worrying. Double headed zips: always close so both heads are one end or the other, never in the middle, they will open themselves like that.
Amazing explanation! thank you sir! But a short suggestion: what about painting with different colours. For example when you started talking about the situation in middle of June (8:15) maybe using orange or so, so we could still tell the difference lateron.
Watch out this valley there is where we have a circuit pattern for planes (and gliders on the other side). If you fly towards Toulouse be sure to check if area R46 (in red) is active, is it often is, because when it is there are low alt flying fighter jets.
Thank you SOOO much for sharing your knowledge! I have been learning a ton from your content, and I really appreciate your channel. As a result I will be a faithful customer to flybubble from here on out :)
thanks for sharing your knowledge & experience keep making ..every aspect of your vids are awesome but BUT .....they are so good that almost all in- flight vids deserve a "long version " For the hungry people ;) thx a lot
Great video, we can feel great energy. In Brazil, we have mountain places that are awesome for sightseeing and for technique practices. If you guys come here someday, you will be very welcome. Fly safe!
Nice video, as a beginner I love to see such content to get a first idea of what it's about in flying such terrain! But I wonder at the end, you kind of messed up in going too far on that ridge without the height and were forced to retract or even land? It's kind of contradictory to what you said about the plan for the day, which was get high on the first mountain and move along the ridge with height?
Around 15:00 on glide the the pyramid face. There is a slight valley headwind on this glide. "To optimize I need to be on a little bit of bar." His explanation was that you want your groundspeed to be close to 30 km/hr. Can someone elaborate? Why 30?
Great explanation, thanks! Question, how can you tell that the wind through the valley on the right is flowing from the North to South, and the valley on the left flows South to north? Is this simply knowledge of your local spot, or am I missing something?
Greg, are the directions marked at 6:09 correct? From the placement of the trees' shadow and your wing's shadow, it's likely that you are facing west rather than north at this point. Is the north-south orientation you've sketched actually the correct direction and it is indeed a south facing slope rather than east-ish? I maybe wrong but I'm calling it out nonetheless so that you would care to correct my observation :)
i have to interject a cautionary note here. As a high hour hangglider pilot, i have seen many paraglider pilots at mountain thermal sites. Very near most thermal lift is a contingent of down air, (the stronger the thermal, the stronger down air). This leads to considerable turbulence surrounding strong up air. This strong down air can often lead to the paraglider wing being forced down faster than gravity can pull the pilot down. This leads to a condition referred to as Mae Westing, (looks like a big bra, in the air) where the control lines of your paraglider come over the edges of the wing and get trapped in the center of the wing, leading to a complete inability to turn. Strong, turbulent mountain air, is a condition which paragliders are ill equipped to handle safely. Over half of the pilots that i have seen in a "Mae West" condition, died, due to a total lack of control of the paraglider. Paragliders are great for ridge lift and very mild thermal air. If you want to fly mountain thermals, learn to fly a hangglider, they are made for mountain air conditions. i am aware that most will not listen to this caution..., just don't say you were not warned. i post this only because, i hate to see ppl die of ignorance.
crazy question, those thermal guns that you aim at stuff to get a temperature reading would that work to get a reading from that far away? I got mine out and it works at very long distances. infrared thermometer
Wow! Please keep making these thermal theory videos. The drawing on the screen was incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Greg- magnificent stuff! The 'freeze frame' in combo with your terrain analysis and thought process for planning your line is pure gold. Please keep these coming!
@@greghamerton4422 On the contrary, your calmnes amazes me and gives me a lot of confidence.
You sound as a very experienced "master, teacher, guru"-pilot who's delighted to be in the air and so happy to share his passion with others.
Keep on, thanks a lot.
Greg, all of your videos are good but this one was especially instructive on a subject that is difficult to find information on. Thanks for your efforts and I look forward to more in the future.
I use to watch this video when I first started paragliding wondering what the hell im so confused lol there are so many concepts to understand a couple of years later and it finally all makes sense, Greg you’re a legend!
I really like the instructional videos where you stop the action and diagram out your thought process. You did a great job on this as well as the video accessing potential LZs. Thanks as always.
These tutorials are AMAZING! Thanks. I am learning so much.
I love your reviewing the best flight path. And, no music. Just good technical information. Good job.
New to free flight mountainous terrain, I have searched the internet for a few months for the knowledge explained in this one vid.
Thank you FlyBubble.
Thank you for this great instructional content. Please keep these coming. We beginner pilots really need these kind of thought-process examples!
Oh man I love everything about this video. It's the kind that's so hard to find and teaches me so much. Please please for the love of God ... Give me more
really good info on mtn flying. its all I've ever really done and you nailed it. I love the way you read the thermal, timing it... I get so excited in thermals I usually cut the circle too tightly and get beat up! lol You have great patience... probably from years of experience, but my heart palpitates when I head into a thermal... so I must work on my patience, I think. I've only been flying for 5-6 years, I'll be 57 years old next month... but I don't care.... I still scream with joy every time! just so exciting and amazing. thanks again. :)
Just great you made me realize I know nothing!! good thing I sit in a trike lol great read of the landscape I learned a great deal, always enjoy your videos, thanks.
Greg, you're on fire. Thanks another great lesson.
Best thermal theory I seen, especially the screen depicting and the drawing. Thanks
Thanks so much for the video! It's always great to see your thoughts behind what you're doing. :)
Nice vid. In Luchon you actually need to beware of the valley breeze from February til early November
This is so informative and quite fascinating to see the thought processes when flying, thanks for sharing Greg
These videos are priceless!
It's incredibly helpful for a learning pilot to compare his/her own estimations of the scene to what you experienced guys read in the terrain and what the actual circumstances are in the end.
Great work. Please keep doing this!!!
Happy landings :)
Wow loving your educational videos , totally blows me away , I feel excited and learn so much and very much appreciated, happy flying .👍
Cracking video there Greg, the theory is extremely insightful and the use of the 360’ and GoPro very slick with good sound quality also. I may even invest in a 360’ camera looking at the angles you can get. As for the FlyBubble shop comment at the end, I purchased my Gin Genie Lite2 from you guys and Carlo spent three hours helping me chose the right pod harness, and then got it set up really well. Extremely good service.
I’ve come back and watched this video several times since I started flying a little over a year and a half ago. Great information and helps me look at my local mountains as a more experienced pilot now that I’m attempting little XC flights.
These tutorial videos where you draw on the landscape are superbly useful! Please keep them coming!
Man just an amazing video! So much rich of good learning. It takes years of experience to learn those simple things
I love this kind of analysis! I would love to see more like this! :)
I love these videos. Inspirational and relaxing. Thank you!
i have only one word for you Greg... AWSOME...i invite you to Pakistan to fly Himalayas and Karakorams as we have a great loving community of PGs here in Pakistan who would love to learn a lot from you... This video made my confidence flying in mountains 100% more confident from today.. especially the way you explained the wind path and expectations of thermals... i would definitely use a pen an paper from next time to draw a site plan and make a perfect flight whenever I fly... Hats of to you man.. that is the best I can do till you come to Pakistan.. Looking forward to seeing you come to Himalayas and Karakoram and forget the Alps :)
Greg,
Extremely informative. I'll echo the comments about the on-screen drawing, it makes the explanation so much more accessible to me. Your video, audio and editing upgrades make your already excellent videos even better. Please keep them coming. Cheers.
Wow great video! Bob Ross for paragliding. Happy little thermals
Super explanation with all the valley, wind, heat logic. Please make more videos like these for XC flying. As, I learn something new every time and things that I never anticipated.
Thanks.
Another great watch, packed full of useful information. Thanks Greg
I don't fly as yet (sadly) but I love watching your videos Greg.... there's always a lesson in it. Keep up the good work and happy and safe skies.
Same here. Just watching these videos gives me a rush of positive emotions.
This is excellent ! Very educational, I know the basis of what you describe but you provides a wealth of contextual clues and details that add a lot to my learning and interpretation. This is all easy to understand and more importantly to retain. Most of what I do is ridge lift but I am now slowly venturing into XC and thermal lifting where I can find it. Many thanks.
I’m so thankful for your teaching, and your calm style of teaching. I’m new to the sport and I’m thankful for your knowledge and willingness to pass it on! Good job and great video!
Nice, nice, nice video. And a splendid day in the air...
Really instructive ! You might have avoid some future incident and stressfull situation for some of us
So much knowledge passed on in this video, and the view was just out of this world! as a total newbie I learned so much, keep on making these kind of videos!
This video would be a valuable asset to anyone producing flight simulations which feature paragliding. Thanks, and keep up the great works! :)
so grateful, first big thermal flights now in brauneck near munich with my up mana, been watching you all the way. You do the flying I want to do, and calm safe strong sensible adventuring mountain fun! Weeeeeee! I can fly! Thank you for putting a doable picture in my head. After that it became obvious. 🌹❤️
19:00 The packet opening up in the rucksack is worrying. Double headed zips: always close so both heads are one end or the other, never in the middle, they will open themselves like that.
What an excellent tutorial on reading the terrain and thermal centering. Thanks ... your videos are outstanding !
Very good information, nicely edited.. this is a real help for less experienced fliers out there, thanks!
Very helpful and thought provoking clip for paragliding students. A similar edu-clip on detecting thermals on plain land wound be wonderful. 🙏
Very useful and a really clear explanation about what is going on - or should be!
16:38 Amazing. After all the explanation & still thermals and everything. Everything about this video is fantastic.
Really good video for me as for the begginer just right after the course, thank you so much :)
Just awesome video. Love the instruction.
Amazing explanation! thank you sir!
But a short suggestion: what about painting with different colours. For example when you started talking about the situation in middle of June (8:15) maybe using orange or so, so we could still tell the difference lateron.
very nice video! good explaining, much to learn about valley wind,thanks!!!
Watch out this valley there is where we have a circuit pattern for planes (and gliders on the other side). If you fly towards Toulouse be sure to check if area R46 (in red) is active, is it often is, because when it is there are low alt flying fighter jets.
Awesome video. Awesome explanations. Thank you!
Thank you SOOO much for sharing your knowledge! I have been learning a ton from your content, and I really appreciate your channel. As a result I will be a faithful customer to flybubble from here on out :)
Wow amazingly well explained! Cheees!
thanks for sharing your knowledge & experience keep making ..every aspect of your vids are awesome but BUT .....they are so good that almost all in- flight vids deserve a "long version " For the hungry people ;) thx a lot
I'm looking to take up the sport. This looks so much fun.
Lucky enough to have learned and live in the mountains :D
Great video, we can feel great energy. In Brazil, we have mountain places that are awesome for sightseeing and for technique practices. If you guys come here someday, you will be very welcome. Fly safe!
Very nicely explaind. Thank you!
beautiful work mate
Awesome tutorial, I had to watch it a second time because I was getting too distracted by what looks like your open harness.
At 14:30ish minutes that ozone Enzo 2 passed you like you were standing still! LOL
Thank you so much for this easy to digest info bit. Cheers from Finland!
Great information, thank you for sharing your experience!
Excellent video, thanks
Thanks Greg. Once again an excellent video!
Very very good Greg... thx again...
Nice video, as a beginner I love to see such content to get a first idea of what it's about in flying such terrain! But I wonder at the end, you kind of messed up in going too far on that ridge without the height and were forced to retract or even land? It's kind of contradictory to what you said about the plan for the day, which was get high on the first mountain and move along the ridge with height?
This is the kind of vid I love! Thanks for sharing your knowledge in an entertaining way!!
Hello and thanks for this nice video . 🙂👋
Perfect 😁👏👏👏👏✌👍 Like from Brazil !
Well good video. I like
I'm impressed with your video and especially from the camera position. Would you share your camera setup?
It is probably a 360⁰ camera. And attached to a pole on his helmet.
Another great video full of good content, this one was just a little slow for me.
Very well presented
Around 15:00 on glide the the pyramid face. There is a slight valley headwind on this glide. "To optimize I need to be on a little bit of bar." His explanation was that you want your groundspeed to be close to 30 km/hr. Can someone elaborate? Why 30?
Great explanation, thanks! Question, how can you tell that the wind through the valley on the right is flowing from the North to South, and the valley on the left flows South to north? Is this simply knowledge of your local spot, or am I missing something?
...And the sun is on the right of the picture, not left (look at the shades on the back of Greg at 12:00)
very nice video ;) great job :)
SO HELPFUL!!!! Loved this breakdown so much!!!!!
Too short! :-)
Very great video.
Many thanks as it is lot of work to produce a such tutorial video.
Lovely stuff. I just ordered some peepee tubes and a book to say thanks. So thanks!
Nice video . Thks
Greg, are the directions marked at 6:09 correct? From the placement of the trees' shadow and your wing's shadow, it's likely that you are facing west rather than north at this point. Is the north-south orientation you've sketched actually the correct direction and it is indeed a south facing slope rather than east-ish? I maybe wrong but I'm calling it out nonetheless so that you would care to correct my observation :)
Brings all whole new meaning of Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Great video.
This is gold! Thanks @greg
Great, as always! Thank you!!!
i have to interject a cautionary note here. As a high hour hangglider pilot, i have seen many paraglider pilots at mountain thermal sites. Very near most thermal lift is a contingent of down air, (the stronger the thermal, the stronger down air). This leads to considerable turbulence surrounding strong up air. This strong down air can often lead to the paraglider wing being forced down faster than gravity can pull the pilot down. This leads to a condition referred to as Mae Westing, (looks like a big bra, in the air) where the control lines of your paraglider come over the edges of the wing and get trapped in the center of the wing, leading to a complete inability to turn. Strong, turbulent mountain air, is a condition which paragliders are ill equipped to handle safely. Over half of the pilots that i have seen in a "Mae West" condition, died, due to a total lack of control of the paraglider. Paragliders are great for ridge lift and very mild thermal air. If you want to fly mountain thermals, learn to fly a hangglider, they are made for mountain air conditions.
i am aware that most will not listen to this caution..., just don't say you were not warned. i post this only because, i hate to see ppl die of ignorance.
Amazing tutorial !! So helpfull, thanks a lot !
Wow this video was so helpful thanks!
Great thanks for the help
Nice tutorial, thanks! :)
the song at the was nice so i'm sharing it with you. its by Mountain Air
Cody Francis
Awesome!! As always
What gear do you use for recording ? Footage are awesome !!
Beautiful, thank you!
after grant thompson (TKOR) died it made me respect all these videos i take for granted RIP :{
Thank you, great video!
Good stuff, thank you!
Awesome Greg!!! Thx!
crazy question, those thermal guns that you aim at stuff to get a temperature reading would that work to get a reading from that far away? I got mine out and it works at very long distances. infrared thermometer
Nice video!