Hey Chris, this is brilliant idea ! I never ben even close to use one like this but nobody can predict the future. This is the future life saver. Thanks for sharing . J.
Hi Chris. A very good video about having a back up. I had done around 1700 commercial PG tandems and one day flying my Gradient bi- golden 2 I observed a big clip in mistake shortly after take off at about 200'. Pax was in front of me, just normal but, somehow I had managed to clip my left riser to the main carabiner by the trimmer webbing (where it attaches to the riser) and not the riser loop. If you are familiar with the bi golden 2 risers the trimmer webbing is sewn to the riser very low and close to the riser clip in loop. I had nothing to secure it mid flight! A spare carabiner would have done the job. I was very fearful and all I could do was to keep calm, not alarm or tell the customer and fly out from the mountain to a gain more height to safety and visualise a reserve toss in my mind and be ready to execute one. I flew the 3.5 km to the landing field and a tandem pilot started doing wing overs in from of me. The pax saw this and said "can we do that? " I had to make up some excuse and fortunately we landed ok and kept it quiet. I never did it again and I started carrying a spare carabiner after that but I like the additional climbing strap idea. I also spoke with a friend who also few the same wing for a different company who also confessed to doing the exact clip in mistake. Thanks for sharing your experiences too. I'm really enjoying your videos Chris. 👍🏼
When flying solo even tandem I always back up the main carabiner with a soft link, when flying with an old wing I always reinforce the riser with another soft link; there had been a riser break before, so not taking any chances.
Would be interesting to see how these theories work. Like try them over water with height (SIV conditions) I have a hunch some of theses ideas might be harder to execute than thought. But thanks for sharing. More power to the people that share their ideas for better safety, Cheers :D
@@ChrisSantacroce bof le jour où je pense que j'ai besoin d'un bout de sangle pour attacher mon passager que j'ai oublié d'attacher j'arrêterai de faire du biplace. Un matériel fiable et des procédures professionnelles sont bien plus efficaces qu'une pauvre sangle anti connerie de mon point de vue. Mais peut être que 42 ans d'expérience ne suffisent pas à rendre mon avis crédible à tes yeux ?
Hey Chris, this is brilliant idea ! I never ben even close to use one like this but nobody can predict the future. This is the future life saver. Thanks for sharing . J.
Hi Chris. A very good video about having a back up.
I had done around 1700 commercial PG tandems and one day flying my Gradient bi- golden 2 I observed a big clip in mistake shortly after take off at about 200'.
Pax was in front of me, just normal but, somehow I had managed to clip my left riser to the main carabiner by the trimmer webbing (where it attaches to the riser) and not the riser loop. If you are familiar with the bi golden 2 risers the trimmer webbing is sewn to the riser very low and close to the riser clip in loop.
I had nothing to secure it mid flight! A spare carabiner would have done the job.
I was very fearful and all I could do was to keep calm, not alarm or tell the customer and fly out from the mountain to a gain more height to safety and visualise a reserve toss in my mind and be ready to execute one.
I flew the 3.5 km to the landing field and a tandem pilot started doing wing overs in from of me. The pax saw this and said "can we do that? " I had to make up some excuse and fortunately we landed ok and kept it quiet.
I never did it again and I started carrying a spare carabiner after that but I like the additional climbing strap idea.
I also spoke with a friend who also few the same wing for a different company who also confessed to doing the exact clip in mistake.
Thanks for sharing your experiences too. I'm really enjoying your videos Chris. 👍🏼
Ian Ppg-Flyer thanks for the story - there are tons.
Great idea. I've personally witnessed two different take offs where the passenger or pilot was only half clipped in.
When flying solo even tandem I always back up the main carabiner with a soft link, when flying with an old wing I always reinforce the riser with another soft link; there had been a riser break before, so not taking any chances.
Nice - a guy with your mindset should have some webbing and an extra biner for all of
the random stuff that can happen
Even as a solo pilot. This might not be bad idea to have.
Never a bad idea to have a back up plan
Would be interesting to see how these theories work. Like try them over water with height (SIV conditions) I have a hunch some of theses ideas might be harder to execute than thought. But thanks for sharing. More power to the people that share their ideas for better safety, Cheers :D
Thanks for idea
good infos Chris, thnx.....
4:32 plz from the other side...plz
Au lieu d'inventer des trucs inutiles pour des incidents facilement évitables il suffit de voler avec du matériel en bon état.
Au lieu de prétendre que cela ne vous arrivera jamais, gardez l'esprit ouvert.
@@ChrisSantacroce bof le jour où je pense que j'ai besoin d'un bout de sangle pour attacher mon passager que j'ai oublié d'attacher j'arrêterai de faire du biplace. Un matériel fiable et des procédures professionnelles sont bien plus efficaces qu'une pauvre sangle anti connerie de mon point de vue.
Mais peut être que 42 ans d'expérience ne suffisent pas à rendre mon avis crédible à tes yeux ?
@@patrickmichel782 Il y a la différence, tu penses à toi et je pense à toute la communauté
Sorry i think this is as illegal as it looks
WTF are you talking about?