Flying in turbulent air on a paraglider
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2021
- Mid August in South Tirol, Italy. The weather forecast was wrong, so we got strong wind from unfortunate direction and low cloud base. Decided to launch though and flew a little 100 km triangle in those demanding conditions. A lot of lee side flying, battling against the strong wind, and working on keeping the wing open.
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Great job! I flew in Chamonix in a Foehn wind and it was like a washing machine. Kissed the ground when I landed!
Lol
Great job !!!
The sigma seem to absorb the energy of the air into concise elastic movements with clear counteractions needed by the pilot in a really nice way, wish I was in the correct weight range for it :)
Great job handling your glider. A little too sketchy for me.
I don't understand why the lee side flying works? I thought it would be all sink?
Looked fun but I'm sure you were destroyed after the landing 😅
Do you often get big collapses under the Sigma 10 when you fly accelerated? On less turbulent days for example?
I don't fly it anymore. But during the 500+ hours on it, I had only 3 massive collapses - 2 asymmetric and one frontal. The latter you can find in my videos. The glider is very stable and collapses late, but when it does, things quickly get very dynamic.
@@dymanoid Thanks for the feedback! Many more good flights to you this year!
good job anyways 👌
What is your take off weight and range of weight your paraglider ?
70-88 is the range, I am @ 89 all up.
Why was the air so turbulent? (Apart from the lee side at the begining) I hope i dont have to fly in that kind of conditions.
Strong regional wind, strong valley breeze and narrow valleys, humidity, and lee side both from the regional wind (near the summits) and from the valley breeze (caused by terrain).
What Glider ist this? An Omega 2? Thanks
If you'll have a look at the video description, you can find out that it's a Sigma 10 😉
@@dymanoid oh i see, thank you
Wow! Can’t argue the videos title haha
Well done, great flying mate, was great to watch also, so thank you for sharing.
Do you think this issue could be eliminated by using a smaller rated wing?,, low to high B just for curiosity, something more pitch stable.
Often wondered because the wing I fly at a certain site near home is a lot of work and can get me far, but I’ve often wondered if I used one of my older lesser rated wings…
Just curious is all
Thanks for watching :) I prefer to fly one wing in all conditions, this gives me the confidence 'cause I know what to expect. Indeed, you can choose a different ('easier') wing for the turbulent weather, it's a personal preference, I believe. My personal feeling is that we should fly gliders only we feel comfortable on in the strongest air. I won't suggest you anything, but if I was thinking 'wow this wing is too much for this air', I'd definitely consider stepping down to another ('easier') wing in general.
@@dymanoid yeah cool man, great reply, that was good to read and made some solid points.
How many hours do you have up if you use a log book in your country?
They’re very strict over here in Aus, everything involving aviation is all under CASA, civil aviation safety authority, the big dog who governs all things fly Iggy related, so now our decades old HGFA hang gliding federation of Australia, but stay with me here, we fly under SAFA sports aviation federation of Australia * now breathe as I think I went blue just then haha
Hit me up again dude, I like the way you think, it’s clearly working for you.
Peace homes ✌🏽
@@patrickswayze2596 We're not required to log the flights here in Europe, but I do that anyway - just for my personal statistics. I believe I have something slightly over 800h as of now.
@@dymanoid oh wow! That’s some serious hours brother!,, very impressive 🙏🏽
Huge respect man, that’s a lot of hours.
Over how many years have. You been flying?
@Patrick Swayze It's not that much, some people fly 800h a year. I make 250h a year at most and fly since 2016.
Hi, kann ich content von dir betreffend aktives fliegen für ein neues Video von mir benutzen? :)
Ja, warum nicht? Bitte einfach einen Link zu meinem Video oder zum Kanal als Quelle hinzufügen - und gut ist 👍
This video is useless because, the observer, behind his smartphone, does not feel anything at all.
They're thems smartphone. please be inclusive
@@Florian24 Sorry but, no one forces them to use a smartphone while flying.
@@Florian24 thems is not correct. It's their. Please be grammatical. But really i dont give a flying fuck about inclusive so disregard.