Paragliding Safety: Getting down with B3/C3 aka Tip Stalls, B Ears or Bunny Ears (descent technique)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Everyone knows about Big Ears, but very few pilots know about the alternative. Especially effective on high aspect ratio wings, the B3/C3 technique or tip stall produces a swept wingtip that reduces the wing area for a rapid descent. How does it work?
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Yay! Another Video! Thanks, been a fan of this channel for almost 4 years.
Very good! Thanks Greg & Flybubble for another great instructional video!
awesome subtitle tip.. most of my colleague didn't know how to activate this... cool
I tried doing B3 tip stalls on my Omega Xalps 3 while on holiday in Tenerife, WOW, so easy compared to big ears, take less effort to pull in and pop straight out with no brake line tangles. Definitely my preferred method now!
Funny how the weather isn't allowing us to get up....and your showing us how to get down 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks
Hi Gregg. I see you bring your hands together like your encouraging the tips to bend in unlike big ears, is this action habit or mandatory. Great video .
Mandatory :-) depends on the wing, you need to guide it inwards to the balance point. You can see one of them makes a flappy tip and I adjust with less pull to get it settled. There's no 'bigger b3" with this technique .. it's either in, or its not
clubsnapperuk : by the way, it is not mandatory to make your big ears (only A3 lines) one after the other. It can be done simultaneously. For big big ears (A3+A2 lines) it's better to do it separately ... + full accelerator (always mandatory with big big ears ).
Laboratory UNI1 seems me using the word mandatory was grammatically wrong. My apologies. I meant. Was it an action that was part of the procedure.
hello Flybubble, nice video, thanks. I don't understand why you speak about C3 ? with a 4 liners, 3 liners, 2 liners we are speaking about B3 (not C3) . And A2 , A3, A4 for big ears (depends of gliger) .Perhaps i had not a good understanding of your message .cheers.jérôme
Hello Jerome!
Glad you like our video - a great compliment from such a great and experienced pilot and instructor like yourself! :) Thanks for your question about what to call the lines. Normally I would agree on most wings with you but according to the official line plan of the OMEGA XALPS 3 (see the screenshot in our video @ 00:23) the lines you pull to induce the "B3/C3" descent technique (a.k.a. "tip stalls" or "bunny ears") are actually labelled "4C3" in the line plan. We call them "C3" for simplicity. I've replied to your email in some more detail. Cheers!
It's normal for "2 liners" to have more sets of upper lines e.g. Gin Leopard, Ozone Zeno and Enzo 3, and OMEGA XALPS 3, which all have four sets of upper lines. The "2 liner" part is only referring to the main, lower lines.
Each manufacturer labels the lines on their 2 liner wings (and all wings) differently.
Advance have labelled the front main lines of the OMEGA XALPS 3 as AB, the rear lines C and CD, and the upper lines as A, B, C and D.
Gin and Ozone have both labelled the front main lines of their 2 liners as "A" and the rear main lines as "B", however they have each labelled the upper lines differently. Gin have labelled the front upper lines on the Leopard with numbers, and the rear upper lines with "B" and "C".
Ozone have labelled the upper lines on the Zeno and Enzo 3 with "Aa", "Ab", "B" and "C".
Each has their reasons for how they chose to label their line plan, I suppose!
My friend tried this technique on a Low B glider and stall spun his wing. Breaking his back on impact. Use with caution ⚠️🤙🏼🏴☠️
There's a reason Greg asks people to try this on the ground first... Also don't try new manouvres without lots of height.
You guys are awesome! Do you know if this will work on the ion 5 (3 liner)? My big ears stick and i would surely prefer this technique, Thanks, cheers!
Thanks bro.
Which line would be the right one on the OXA1? Thanx in "Advance"! :D
Cool! Never knew this existed. What is the general difference in sink rates between B3/C3 and big ears?
It differs by wing but to get an idea see our previous video: Paraglider Control: Big Ears or C3? (Gin Carrera) ua-cam.com/video/UxhXxyUcBPE/v-deo.html
For me, the sink rate looks similar. But the good thing is how fast it recovers. Also, you are stressing less the fabric, you are not brushing the canopy with the lines.
Stan it depends on the wing. It's very hard to measure.. I tried during the video but the sink rate was constantly changing. On omega xalps the c3 is certainly faster descent.
Hi Greg... anyone tried an adaptation of this on the Maestro? I've done some groundling with mine but not had a chance to try it in the air... Nancy or Carlos? cheers!
Doesn't work on the advance Xi as it only has B2 and C2.
Stabilo line is not a B3 and won't make the tip collapse
NEver heard about thi technique. Do you prefer this instead of big ears? (BTW Do you distinct between "ears" and "Big ears"?
Only on some wings I prefer it, like advance sigma10, most niviuks... and yes, I should say Ears for one line and Big Ears for two, but then it's not the same for each wing. Some wings 1 line produces Big Ears
@@greghamerton4422 Thank you for explaining it.
@@greghamerton4422 Niviuk would be B3 correct?
you push the bar after the B3 pulling in ?
You can safely accelerate before b3
@@greghamerton4422 thanX Greg
@@safranpollen I tested it yesterday, there's a lot more pressure so it's easier to do b3 first then accelerate. You can gently release it while staying on the bar though...
@@greghamerton4422 gonna try it, weekend looks smart for indian summer magic...
I tried this on a Carrera o C3 plus but didn't work as expected... I try again on the ground with B3...
In case you didn't already, see our previous video: Paraglider Control: Big Ears or C3? (Gin Carrera) ua-cam.com/video/UxhXxyUcBPE/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/fzMrXw7JPf8/v-deo.html
I've been doing it on the Carrera and works really nice. Now I have the Explorer and I have to try it again properly, because I tried it once and was looking very unstable. I hope it will work also. But the Carrera is robust like a tank compared with the Explorer.
@@Electroguepard its hard to push lines on carrera plus too
Yes I think it's b3 on Carrera but carlo said it was c3. Let me know if b3 works
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works ok on the Mantra7 (C3's , but havent tried B's yet) ua-cam.com/video/wGb4GfK2H2Y/v-deo.html