pilot did extremely well to deploy his reserve given his extreme rate of turn and the g-forces he had to withstand. The parachute bridle is lengthened to enable it to clear the aerial wreckage and behaved precisely as designed. The reserves are not cut-away on a hanglider.
to be fair there is a good chance he might have survived that over water if the parachute had failed as that spin was performing an auto rotation and was slowing his descent speed, rather like a sycamore seed, still though scary as fuck !!
Lucky. That's the most violent energetic aftermath of a frame break seen. Could have wrapped up the reserve parachute in a hurry. Lucky pilot. He got out safe from the worst scariest situation. Lucky.
Or he almost ran him over,. depends :) According to what they teach you when you simulate these manoevers to get a licencese, the engine should be off already when your tight next to the person. I think they had to give quite some reverse thrust, but whatever ..
It would have been perfect if the glider wouldn`t have folded like cardboard and instead worked properly throughout the show. So nah, I wouldn`t call people lucky just because they had luck after being unlucky in the first place.
These parachutes are always advanced quickly, up to 5 m * s-1. That is why it is good to have a parachuting course with training on a simulator for a special way of impact, when the body goes into an arc ...). Definitely the pilot should do any work, if possible different. That the parachute was not wound into the kite is only luck, not the art of the pilot, and the acrobatics were not in accordance with what the kite can withstand, so it was a big irresponsibility. Apparently he was a very young pilot and all that remains is to wish him a long life, because such pilots have a very short lifespan.
kudos to the cameraman for staying with the whole thing instead of like some morons who lower their cameras to get an eyeful at the most critical moment and cause themselves to miss the shot of a lifetime!
@@larrywest538 Kind of. Rescue chutes for hang gliders are designed with that risk in mind. Many are ballistically deployed so that you can fire the reserve away from the spinning glider, for that very reason.
Thank God for this outcome! I don't care what you say these flying machines have a limited life time and should not be stressed like a factory built aircraft built for aerodynamics
You speak from knowledge and experience or are you just babbling from ignorance without really knowing shit? Btw, a hang glider is not a flying "machine". Doofus.
this also happened at a small air show in the USA, he also used the parachute, the following year people were disappointed that he did not do his BIG FINISH!
In this case it was the high g-loading on the base-bar (thing you hold on to)induced by radical aerobatic maneuvers (high speed entry into turns). Additionally the carbon base tube was apparently weakened by previous damage. This is one of the rare hang gliding accidents attributable to equipment failure. 99.9% are pilot error. A little bit of both in this one.
All the hang gliding and gliding I have done, I have only ever had one worry, that has always been about the structure of the craft and what it can take But thest days if you look at the old gliders I fly. I have no worry they are well strong..but then, I do not stress mine like this guy did,, dose???, Horrid to watch that, even though he had a cute, I never wear one myself as most of my flying is low down. Thanks for showing. Cheers, Pete
Truly! He could’ve easily drowned, especially if he had passed out. Those kind of G forces with him swinging around like that could’ve easily causing the pass out.
I've never witnessed a collapse like that before. They generally use Grade 8 fasteners, so that was some serious force on that particular bolt(s). You know the pilot had a nice adrenaline headache, after that.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but he would have required great strength to pull his arms in against that spin and then to locate the parachute. You can see his arms flail back out at speed as soon as the chute is away.
ive seen paragliders doing chute testing over water. the harness is heavy dont think id like to try it without the saftey boat. what gave way on the glider was it not to spec for aerobatics or had a fault.
It probably broke because he was inverted. Hang gliders are designed to support a weight hanging below them, not supporting the weight of the wing inverted. It requires additional support wiring on the top which, unless it's a high-performance glider intended to for loops and wingovers, probably isn't there.
at other hang glider reserve deployments i see the chute is on a long bridle, i mean far away from pilot. by paraglider it isn't far away. whats de different?
I really don't know because he was slowed by the glider but without the parachute the water don't give more safety,isn't it? I really don't know, Im just learning and I don't wanna try to probe anything :p. I think that the glidder was very clever waiting the moment to launch the parachute. PD: English is not my language, sorry for any mistake.
This video capture offers an excellent tutorial on just what can happen. As a beginner to the sport, I am grateful to have seen this and what can happen when pushing the kite to the limit. The Schloss only adds to the value. danke fur sharing.
With the exception of high-performance gliders built for it, hang gliders aren't designed to be inverted (upside down). Most of the wires that support the frame are set up in such a way to support a weight hanging underneath, not supporting a wing that's inverted.
@@petedavis7970 I do, often, nothing to do with being tough, its adventure and physics... You have done 100mph on a road not designed for it, what makes you so special?
@@pimplequeen2 Look, you clearly don't know anything about hang gliding. I'm not saying not to do acrobatics. I'm saying that you need a high performance glider designed for it. You clearly either lack the reading comprehension to understand what I'm saying, or you disagree and think people should do acrobatics in regular gliders, which is advocating STUPIDITY.
I just bought my first glider without mast, and this video scares the shit out of me. I shore wont be doing any aerobatics vith it. It accelerates quite diffrently than my old WW super sport.
I'm surprised there isn't some sort of emergency quick release that would separate you from the glider. It would have to be tiny explosive co2 carts or something of that nature
surpriced his shut did not get tangled with all the filps he was doing during the deploying. and then not to have drowned. he need to know he is BLESSED
> why did this happen in the first place The pilot was doing loop de loop flips and the glider collapsed under the strain. The entire glider is held together by wires and is made from aluminum. Looks like a wire snapped or possibly one of the tubes buckled. It's difficult to tell from the video. Hang gliding is NOT a dangerous sport, but can be if you do unorthodox things like this. I have never desired to do acrobatics.
I'm impressed that parachute was able to deploy without getting entangled in the hang glider.
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LUCK
pilot did extremely well to deploy his reserve given his extreme rate of turn and the g-forces he had to withstand. The parachute bridle is lengthened to enable it to clear the aerial wreckage and behaved precisely as designed. The reserves are not cut-away on a hanglider.
Medals and applause to the rescue boat who reacted perfectly.
To much stress on the frame. We've seen the same thing happen with real aircraft. The person that designed the parachute earns a big thank you.
that was a real aircraft.
took a supercomputer to figure that huh?
It looks like the wing tensioning wires went.
*Too
Lucky man. That deployment was far from guaranteed.
Mike Breen especially with a spinning rig. it's lucky that the lines did not wrap around the wing before it stopped spinning.
to be fair there is a good chance he might have survived that over water if the parachute had failed as that spin was performing an auto rotation and was slowing his descent speed, rather like a sycamore seed, still though scary as fuck !!
he would have been unconscious by that time the way he was getting whooped around. probably would have drowned. just a very lucky guy.
Lucky. That's the most violent energetic aftermath of a frame break seen. Could have wrapped up the reserve parachute in a hurry. Lucky pilot. He got out safe from the worst scariest situation. Lucky.
Mike Breen
Sexist....
It was a transsexual....
That boat did a good job of keeping track of where he was coming down, got to him right after splash.
European IQ
@@timurg3377 Common sense where I'm from.
he was very lucky, during the war in Vietnam 30% of the crews that parachuted into the water drowned, and these men had training and equipment.
@@marka7831 Bless their Souls
Or he almost ran him over,.
depends :) According to what they teach you when you simulate these manoevers to get a licencese, the engine should be off already when your tight next to the person. I think they had to give quite some reverse thrust, but whatever ..
That was just way too perfect;
-parachute perfect
-rescue boat on piont.
He could have played the lottery that day and maybe hit the jackpot
It would have been perfect if the glider wouldn`t have folded like cardboard and instead worked properly throughout the show. So nah, I wouldn`t call people lucky just because they had luck after being unlucky in the first place.
@@paperclip7003 pull 50 g's on any glider and it'll fold like that
just good preparation and a bit of luck
How did he deploy the chute? Seemed to come out of the aircraft
@@kennethsmith2758 It's packed in the harness in front of your chest. Easy to pull out and throw, and is part of our training.
Thou shalt not over stress that structure.
Glad the pilot made it.
This cat just used up several of his nine lives. He better keep an accurate count.
he was very lucky with that deployment , could easily have got a very different result
When something like that goes wrong, you have the rest of your life to figure it out!
Great understanding of the situation in this comment
He was coming down fast. That water landing was a blessing.
Yeah exactly what I was thinking.
These parachutes are always advanced quickly, up to 5 m * s-1. That is why it is good to have a parachuting course with training on a simulator for a special way of impact, when the body goes into an arc ...). Definitely the pilot should do any work, if possible different. That the parachute was not wound into the kite is only luck, not the art of the pilot, and the acrobatics were not in accordance with what the kite can withstand, so it was a big irresponsibility. Apparently he was a very young pilot and all that remains is to wish him a long life, because such pilots have a very short lifespan.
I came down on a reserve once, landed going forward at 20 mph on my face in the mud. Lol
planning more than blessing
Crazy pilot, I usually fold my wing after i'm landed.
😂😅
Ballsy time-saving maneuver, I'd say.
He’s just different
He is organized landing with your wing folded
LoL at folding wings after flight! Brilliant 👍
I used to fly in the 70s in SoCal before parachutes were invented for hang gliders. One word for us… CRAZY!!
Rescue was 100% ready!
Nice job team!
kudos to the cameraman for staying with the whole thing instead of like some morons who lower their cameras to get an eyeful at the most critical moment and cause themselves to miss the shot of a lifetime!
That's a ride he will never forget. Makes the gnarliest amusement park ride look like a baby stroller ride through the park.
that's what test pilots do. Excellent footage, thanks for posting, from another X-hgp
Wow, such beautiful medieval castle !
I can't believe he was able to come down with a parachute instead of a tangled, useless mess.
LUCK...!!!
@@larrywest538 Kind of. Rescue chutes for hang gliders are designed with that risk in mind. Many are ballistically deployed so that you can fire the reserve away from the spinning glider, for that very reason.
Thank God for this outcome! I don't care what you say these flying machines have a limited life time and should not be stressed like a factory built aircraft built for aerodynamics
You speak from knowledge and experience or are you just babbling from ignorance without really knowing shit? Btw, a hang glider is not a flying "machine". Doofus.
this also happened at a small air show in the USA, he also used the parachute, the following year people were disappointed that he did not do his BIG FINISH!
In this case it was the high g-loading on the base-bar (thing you hold on to)induced by radical aerobatic maneuvers (high speed entry into turns). Additionally the carbon base tube was apparently weakened by previous damage. This is one of the rare hang gliding accidents attributable to equipment failure. 99.9% are pilot error. A little bit of both in this one.
doing aerobatics with a previously damaged peice of equipment, genius shit only a toxoplasmosis infected frenchie would do.
What a well trained pilot! He was lucky that day!
Great rescue and great team support!
Soft wet landing and boats on scene makes a good ending, watching the high stress manoeuvres I was waiting for the fold. Great flying though.
*This was a real CLIFF HANGER! Boy had some altitude. Happy to see a safe landing.*
Disoriented, finally being able to deploy the chute after overstressing the hang glider. Crazy and fortunate.
"Oohh la la."
The reactions couldn't be more French.
and the speaker say "don't worry, It could be easy to pull his parachute"
@@Doublejey I think the commenter is an SIV instructor (David Eyraud)
All the hang gliding and gliding I have done, I have only ever had one worry, that has always been about the structure of the craft and what it can take But thest days if you look at the old gliders I fly. I have no worry they are well strong..but then, I do not stress mine like this guy did,, dose???, Horrid to watch that, even though he had a cute, I never wear one myself as most of my flying is low down. Thanks for showing. Cheers, Pete
Flight of the phoenix ! Great job that flyer ! Thanks and God bless !!
A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION !!!
Salute bro I'm glad you got that bad boy out there!
Well organized event. Rescue team deployed as he/she? was coming down 10/10
The most amazing thing is that two boats were there to rescue him !
Boats on standby are pretty much a standard feature at acro events.
How is that the most amazing thing? Wtf?
once the chute opened he looked like an angel falling to earth
Congratulations to the organizator, to have planned a rescue boat, "in case of..."
They saved his life !...
:-)
From Brussels, with Love !...
Truly! He could’ve easily drowned, especially if he had passed out. Those kind of G forces with him swinging around like that could’ve easily causing the pass out.
By the way, hello from Phoenix Arizona. USA.
I'm happy everything worked out for him.
Biggest butterfly I have ever seen.
Thank God this person is ok.
God bless.
Happy birthday to you ! Happy birthday to you ........
Beautiful rescue from the boats too!
Nice snowy white rescue parachute!
I've never witnessed a collapse like that before. They generally use Grade 8 fasteners, so that was some serious force on that particular bolt(s). You know the pilot had a nice adrenaline headache, after that.
talk about on point with the boats!
friend those twists must have been very strong, amazing
no. This happened because of high g loading on the wing. Only occurs with radical maneuvers like loops.
LUCKY SAVE!!!! happy landing
A big thanks to the boat which calculated WHERE the parachute is going to land. Bravooo
the video was shot in Montreux, Switzerland (at the end you can see the Chillon Castle)
Villeneuve actually, during a show
@arpnlaei not only the G's, but the fact that the spinning wings didnt hit the chute while it opened. wow.
Well sorted, must've taken SOME throw! Top pilot.
Skysurfer hello
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but he would have required great strength to pull his arms in against that spin and then to locate the parachute. You can see his arms flail back out at speed as soon as the chute is away.
Doubt it. You have to be spinning extremely quickly to have that kind of resistance.
Holy G forces Batman ! That person just used up eight lives.
Surprised the glider didn't get caught up in the chute... looked very very close! wow
Overdoing the aerobatics caused this crash. He was lucky the parachute didn't become entangled with the spinning hang glider.
No, overdoing the aerobatics caused the glider to fold up like a butterfly. Gravity caused the crash (splash, actually).
If we ever need someone to point out the absolute obvious , you're our guy !!!
good demonstration of pilot control..
Oh la la! Magnifique! Bonjour! (I don't speak French, sorry, but I really liked the video).
impeccable presence of mind ...
ive seen paragliders doing chute testing over water. the harness is heavy dont think id like to try it without the saftey boat. what gave way on the glider was it not to spec for aerobatics or had a fault.
"tranquilizer"... more like Paralyzer!
Wow!
nice soft water landing. Parachutes are the best!!!
jwboll hello
wow, what if the hand glider spun into the parachutes ropes??
Beautiful 😍😍
After the parachute deploys, is the man in the position with his head down and feet above him?
No - Harness will keep you in the prone (level) or "hang" (launch/landing) feet down head up.
did the side wire(s) break?? or, cross bar? and why?
nice footage! and rescue, very lucky to get his chute away and free.
It probably broke because he was inverted. Hang gliders are designed to support a weight hanging below them, not supporting the weight of the wing inverted. It requires additional support wiring on the top which, unless it's a high-performance glider intended to for loops and wingovers, probably isn't there.
@@petedavis7970 This is literally acro glider international competition. Those are the high performance gliders.
I shat my pants watching that.
at other hang glider reserve deployments i see the chute is on a long bridle, i mean far away from pilot. by paraglider it isn't far away. whats de different?
My heart was near to stop!
Nice job pilot! Gotta get a new rescue boat driver tho... drives right over the lines!
@ArtStone No, circus performers and acrobatic flying performs will never put their own life in excessive danger on purpose.
I really don't know because he was slowed by the glider but without the parachute the water don't give more safety,isn't it?
I really don't know, Im just learning and I don't wanna try to probe anything :p.
I think that the glidder was very clever waiting the moment to launch the parachute.
PD: English is not my language, sorry for any mistake.
This video capture offers an excellent tutorial on just what can happen. As a beginner to the sport, I am grateful to have seen this and what can happen when pushing the kite to the limit.
The Schloss only adds to the value. danke fur sharing.
Phew, it appears he would’ve been in GLOC quite soon if he didn’t get the chute out right when he did. Scary stuff, glad he’s ok
More lucky than skills. Deploy at this spin was a miracle!
Really... waht do you know?
Do any of the acro guys use rocket (compressed air) deployed parachutes? I saw these advertised years ago.
With the exception of high-performance gliders built for it, hang gliders aren't designed to be inverted (upside down). Most of the wires that support the frame are set up in such a way to support a weight hanging underneath, not supporting a wing that's inverted.
Lol, you stick to the rules my good man, leave the edge to those with an affinity for it :)
@@pimplequeen2 Knock yourself out tough guy. Put a hang glider through a move it's not meant for and prove Darwin wrong.
@@petedavis7970
I do, often, nothing to do with being tough, its adventure and physics...
You have done 100mph on a road not designed for it, what makes you so special?
@@pimplequeen2 Yeah, I'm sure you're a physics whiz. You're coming off all geniusy.
@@pimplequeen2 Look, you clearly don't know anything about hang gliding. I'm not saying not to do acrobatics. I'm saying that you need a high performance glider designed for it. You clearly either lack the reading comprehension to understand what I'm saying, or you disagree and think people should do acrobatics in regular gliders, which is advocating STUPIDITY.
No, actually I read. But thanks for sharing your ideas on what you consider to be a principle source of information.
I just bought my first glider without mast, and this video scares the shit out of me. I shore wont be doing any aerobatics vith it. It accelerates quite diffrently than my old WW super sport.
Чудесное спасение, правильный парашют.
the commentator is incredibly calm as if it was usual
I think I saw Wile-E-Coyote do this on looney toones... except he ended up a puff of dust on the canyon floor. Not smart.
Would love to know what he was flying??
Wow, the g-forces from that spin as he was deploying! Yikes.
Wow you could hear the wing spar snap from that far away.
I'm surprised there isn't some sort of emergency quick release that would separate you from the glider. It would have to be tiny explosive co2 carts or something of that nature
Sorry for my humor, but that was even better show!!
Great bro
YEAH...¡¡¡ Another LUCKY MAN...
Holy crap dude!
What's yours parachute? It openned pretty quickly!!!
The way he was spinning, I was afraid the chute was going to get tangled.
I didn't know hang gliders had parachutes. But it is a good idea.
surpriced his shut did not get tangled with all the filps he was doing during the deploying. and then not to have drowned. he need to know he is BLESSED
What prevented the parachute from tangling with the glider as it was spinning around? Was he just really lucky?
It looks like the fall speed in autorotation was quite low.
> why did this happen in the first place
The pilot was doing loop de loop flips and the glider collapsed under the strain. The entire glider is held together by wires and is made from aluminum. Looks like a wire snapped or possibly one of the tubes buckled. It's difficult to tell from the video.
Hang gliding is NOT a dangerous sport, but can be if you do unorthodox things like this. I have never desired to do acrobatics.
reminded me of dove hunting when I was a kid...without the chute.
> What's yours parachute? It openned pretty quickly!!!
It rests on your chest.
Superb parachute and awesome skills flying cheers
Thank God he survived!
lucky bastard, be safe.