Red Rocks Hang Gliding Competition 2023 - Launch and Landing Compilation - Monroe, UT

(Videos are between June 18 & 24, 2023)
This is not nearly all of the launches and landings, just the few I was able to capture on my camera(s) while filming for the event. No one was injured at the event, and everyone had at least one great flight. We look forward to seeing you out there next year!

[@GlideLA]

Thanks for recording and publishing these.

[@RyanVoight]

Great to see so many good solid launches, and a lot of successful landings (albeit some more shaky than others). Only one or two crashing arrivals, which we'd all like to be at 0 but seems there will always be some, especially in the mountain west environment. Kudos to the organizers! And thanks for the video!

[@streetphone4619]

Great video. Takes me back 40 years. Thanks for uploading. So nice watching (mostly) great launches and landings.

[@17999msl]

Watching these is always feels like I’m in the 🥜🖼️. Thanks RJ
PS it was me Jamie!

[@alebarragan11]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[@SoarswithSwords]

Thanks for watching!

[@mohdsaifulmohdsaid852]

happy flying

[@user-iv6xs3mu7g]

КРУТО!!!

[@tepman_123]

Some of these pilots need to practice their landings big time...

[@stefanmargraf7878]

Thats perfect fun! I wish to participate.

[@timothycurran8474]

Hopping to make this event next year.

[@mofayer]

I noticed that the smoothest landings where the ones that picked up their feet before flairing.

[@caricadopico7717]

Muito legal eu sou piloto também.

[@Yacht-building]

How can I take part in your event next year??

[@andymccann2716]

Seems like conditions at the LZ were rough

[@SoarswithSwords]

It was a little challenging, especially with the high altitude and slope of the LZ.

[@Wolf-xu1fj]

What is the goal of the competition, how do they compete?

[@SoarswithSwords]

To fly through a series of waypoints and land. The challenge is in first of all staying up using only rising air, no motor, and second of all doing it faster than anyone else (it's a race!).

[@Wolf-xu1fj]

@@SoarswithSwords ok, thanks

[@richarddevaottien7724]

That chemtrail smog must be killing your lungs

[@mofayer]

What's the argument against having wheels? Looks like it could be useful in some conditions

[@scottw550]

In 1976, I added some wheels made from some small plastic skid pallet doughnuts. The only other wheels available had a cross-section of a football and would split. My hang-glide instructor wanted me to go into business with him to market them, but I didn't think the market was big enough. 20 years later a California company basically did just that, and then I realized my mistake.

[@99bx99]

I always thought wheels were kind of sissy and good pilots didn't need them. I flew avidly for 12 years and only bent my control bar once landing on top in a rotor.

[@flytavo]

Ego

[@99bx99]

@@flytavo I was really good at landing. In 12 years, I only fell down 3-4 times. The trickiest landing was on a 15' deep beach at Ray Hooks house directly below the launch at Makapu, Oahu. It was a 90 degree crosswind so get slowed down while getting blown sideways, throw all your weight to the windward side and flare. That was fun.