I'm a pilot from Brazil, so I can tell something about the two last accidents of the video. We were in a major event in Brasília and I was in the air when I saw the two guys with the reserves deployed. The one filming, Marcus, got away with no scratches, only equipment damage, unfortunately the other pilot Alan wasn't so lucky. He had his femur broken and the surgery was not as expected, but in the end everything went fine. In the other video the guy who smashed in the water just ended his day of SIV and decided to make another flight by his own. He had no radio and the instructor was in the ground yelling for him to trow the reserve, with no response.
Those guys got those reserves out REALLY quickly, like there was zero thought, just reaction, which was exactly what was required. Good on them for obviously practicing, being aware at least after the crash (for the guy in the rear). It's pretty bad when the guy looking rearward has more situational awareness than the guy looking forward. GEEZ, the sound when that guy hit the water was painful just to listen to.
I'm the guy flying the blue wing and what you said is totally right, it was pure reaction without much thought. Thanks God we both are OK. I got up after the crash without any absolutely any kind of injury. The other guy broke the femur. Always fly with the reserve. There's no reason to fly without it. 👍🏻
@@marcusparamotor Hopefully you were the guy in front, after what I said. ;-) Too bad he had injuries, but even that was pretty minor, considering what it looked like on video. Those skies look too busy for my taste, kind of like flying into Oshkosh during the fly in. No chutes or reserves in our case, obviously. I was under the hood one day, training toward my private in a 152, and we were supposedly being followed by Exec radar, when all of a sudden I had the yoke wrenched out of my hands, and we did a VERY hard bank and yank at about 70 degrees. I very quickly popped my head back to look, and saw a twin boring through the space we just occupied, still wings level, and we were the ones looking directly INTO the sun, which is why we had requested ATC monitoring. ATC never said a word about it, before, during, or after. I wanna tell ya, they heard about it though. Thank god my instructor was paying full attention or I wouldn't be writing this. The air is not a forgiving place, when serious errors are made. The best you can do is learn from situations like that, needless to say, really, which is also obviously why Tucker takes the time to do these analyses, and for my money, he does a good job of it. I'm probably too old now to get into this sport, but MAN, does it look like fun! Stay safe.
@@MrJdsenior True!!! This kind of video is important. Very important. Too avoid some new accidents. Thank you. And thanks @TuckerGott for sharing my video
The outside pressure on wing-overs is counter intuitive if you're just thinking about it like a side to side turn. If you realize there is a lot of pitch change on higher wing overs it becomes a lot more intuitive. When coming off the high side and starting to swig back to the other side, the outside of the wing takes a steep angle of decent and surges/ dives toward the ground, so the outside brake is acting as some surge/ pitch control, its just asymmetric. Once I started looking at it like this, it became much more intuitive for me. I just realized it's not outside brake to counter steer the wing, it's really just slowing the surge and I'm used to doing that when flying out of every thermal and on a lot of my inflations.
I have been looking forward to some more of these! This is the kind of content (as well as the lazy flights over fields) that really interests me. Analyzing where people messed up, and how to prevent it, is so important. My helicopter instructor was actually killed in a helicopter crash a few months after I gave up training, using a customer's old helicopter doing max performance takeoffs too close to some pine trees. They collided with the trees, fell 80 feet, and burned to death in the cockpit. It's sad, but you can learn a lot from reading such reports and understanding the causes. Keep up the good work.
Always glad to see these. I just started to get into wing overs after a year and a half of flying and its good to know what's possible. I'm always sure to keep pressure on that outside brake an so far so good.
Just when I was getting comfortable with maybe checking out this sport, BAM! Thanks for being honest and showing the good, the bad and the ugly side of things.
Its inherently dangerous, even tho so many try to claim it isnt. I chose to fly, because its worth it. You won't hear me justifying my decision by lying to myself and others, about the danger. Its wonderful that most of us have the freedom to choose to really live, even when it means we risk the inverse.
Plain and Simple... Your videos are friggin' fantastic ! Your breakdown of unfortunate mistakes, is critical to helpping make the Paragliding and PPG community a safer place. Well done keep it up !
Tucker i seriously think UA-cam should be a lot easier on you. Your videos are great for people that do this type of stuff and your videos have possibly saved some lives 🤷🏻
UA-cam has some crazy rules about what is okay and what is not. You have a million OnlyFails girls making dumb shorts about their "perfect flower"... and that's okay. But someone tries to review an accident to educate people and suddenly UA-cam has some standards about what's not appropriate.
@@pillowtalk1982 Not as bad as Farcebook. Mark Cuckerberg banned me simply for saying that most shootings in my town are because of gangs and drug dealers. Within two minutes Farcebook said I was obviously selling lead slingers and unlicensed pharma… and permanently banned me. Like WTF? And they deleted my Instagram channel too… because it was connected to my @facebook account. So I had to make a new IG without facebook, and start over.
The duo pilot colliding will be best friends for life. Awesome video! I hope they are fine. Also, YT demonitizing Papi is agrro move. Papi doesn't deserve to be demonitized.
I just ordered a new reserve. I'm still rocking one I bought when I went through flight training 6 years ago. Figured it was probably a good time for a new one.
It has been a very long time since I' 've seen you. I'm glad you are still going strong, and the evolution, for me, would not have bee predicted. Stay safe. Rob
I don't know what I don't know, but I'd like to think that watching these crash reaction videos has educated me in a way that has prevented some potential accident from happening whilst flying. All the little bits of advice is somewhere in my subconcious and i think it has made me more aware of what not to do whilst out enjoying a flight. It's a really valuable resource for our small community of PPG flyers, thanks for making them Tucker.
Please don't assume any of this is going to be useful unless you practice what you learn in an SIV. In the heat of the moment you won't remember this stuff. That's why it's important to do an SIV to actually do certain maneuvers and know how it feels to get out of them.
Good the see the first paramotorer in one piece but watch at exactly 5:46 and you will see his backside hit the ground. Luckily it's sand but any kind of rocks, boulder or just a hard surface can break bones at that speed. Spine, hip bones etc. Weather paragliding or paramotoring always , always land on your feet. Again, good to see him unhurt. Happy flying... Thanks Tucker for a great channel
Props to both pilots for getting their reserves out after that mid-air collision. Looks like the second pilot was gift wrapped with fabric over his face the whole time!
Thank you for doing these videos. Those guys both reacted quickly getting the reserve pulled. Shout out to My Dog is Choking. I'm so wrapped up in his Adventure lol. I saw that crash. I couldn't believe the guy was alive. Maybe I'm wrong here but from what I understand from his video, this guy didn't really have the experience to be trying big wingovers. Apparently, Cris was even worried about him when flying.
Reminds me of the wraps I’ve had while skydiving. I call them having a nylon salad, hold the dressing😂. Scary sh*t sometimes. Great reaction time on both pilots🎉
Through years of skydiving I only had one really serious snivel. I had altitude so I tried to clear it. Finally went for the cutaway and reserve ripcord. I started an “Oh sheet!” and suddenly the chute popped open with a pretty good whack…ouch. I hadn’t pulled the cutaway completely loose so I carefully patted it back onto the Velcro. Didn’t make me want to quit skydiving but it did make me hyper aware of my equipment, pre jump prep, body position…etc. Now my body says no más but boy do I miss my brief but eventful youth. 🪂
Some guy ate it in a spiral at my first s.i.v... he got away with it but guy was 60% black and blue and left the hospital in crutches. Reserves are a must, and people need to be practicing reaching for that handle. At 5g in a deep spiral it's not so cut and dry as just toss it out.
One of the things my mentor kept pushing on me was practicing finding the handle. My reserve is on the right side of my PowerSeat Lite. Basically even with my eyes closed I can put my hand on my thigh and run it straight back until it runs into the handle. But 5G? Holy Crap that sounds intense.
i really appreciate those fail videos, even if i have a hard time watching the grueling stuff. talking about reserve, i think we should do it more - why you might ask? because i'm a paraglider - not just that, but hike and fly, i want to get to the ground asap without gaining any altitude - but this might cost my my bones or my life. Would love to see you do more on that. Safety in sports is all that matters in the end - I'm a climber so I get it.
You do a great job on these incident reviews. Would be good to include more discussion about complacency. It's amazing what we can get away with, until we can't.
Portuguese speaker here: in the last video the guy is saying "Throw reserve! Throw reserve!" (Joga reserva, joga reserva!) over and over again, so I assume he had one.
I remember back in the day that if I wanted a quarter pounder, maybe I could order a paramotor on Amazon and just fly down to MacDonalds and get one..after a couple of these videos I kinda got the feeling maybe I should take lessons first
The last video with uncontrolled rotation into the water: 100% recoverable by pulling outside brake. Your suggestion of trying to clear the cravat whilst still rotating is what people often try, and is incorrect. Good SIV instructors teach this the same: 1. Stop the rotation (or throw reserve if you're not trained or don't have altitude to solve problem) 2. Get a heading and fly away from danger like terrain 3. Clear cravat As Malin Lobb points out, uncontrolled rotations to the ground are the biggest killer in the sport, so it's important to get this right
The guy doing the hangovers spiraled into the lake, not because of the cravat but his response was improper. Aviate navigate communicate. Fly straight and aviate. When he got the cravat could have shifted his weight and flew straight. Most important thing in all of this aviation from parawing to stealth bomber. Fly straight. If it will fly it will fly straight. Whenever your flight path curves you increase the load on the wing rapidly. If you had a flight path that was straight after you had this cravat you wouldn't have problems landing. When he had the problem, he should have focused only on flying in a straight line. At first the curvature wasn't too bad but it kept tightening and tightening and tightening and he never should have let it begin to turn in the first place.
The autorotation in the last one is recoverable with the right training. It doesn't involve fishing out Stabilo lines while in an Auto.... At least on a paraglider it is.
I think all you have to do is pull really hard in the opposite side. It happened to me once, I was much higher fortunately. I was considering throwing the reserve, but luckily that move managed to get me out of it and the cravatte went away on its own
@@DrAElemayo like you said. I don't know about the paramotors, but in normal paragliding, based on the SIV sessions, when you got in auto-rotation by asymetric collapse and let it rotate couple times to get it its max impact, you get support from the inner side of the risers and weight-shift to outside. You don't even have to just pull outiside breaks too hard. And if you haven't done this kind of exercise before, maybe you're not used to it because it involves relatively higher Gs and affects much more than even spirals, so you can get caught off guard. Some kinds of these cravats, in a real scenario, could said to be more harsh then artifically created auto rotations. Even the higher cravats, which, in this scene, are said to be much harder to recover than others. When you get into this situation, if you cant recover anyhow, you can release the inside brake, grab with both hands the outside brake, and pull it as hard as you can. That is one and possible the only way to recover from the hardest cravat caused autorotation, ofc if you have enough altitude. if not so, throw your reserve without second thought..
Good day, Tucker. I started paragliding in 99. On the hike to launch i was bit by a tick and lyme disease took over my life. It was a bad case that had me bed ridden for over five years. Long terrible story. I recently decided I was going to start flying again. I bought my wing & and gear, now I'm considering ppg. I would love any thoughts you might have on a motor for a non- aggressive 185lb. 56yr old Pilot. I do love the peace and quiet of paragliding, so i don't know if a quiet motor is a dream or if they even exist. And last, these old bones would love something light. Am I being realistic or looking for a unicorn ? If you can keep up with all these comments and get back to me I'd be so thankful. Peace and Grace.
Dang! Lyme disease is scary. I got it as a kid but never had it that bad. Sorry you went through that! As far as motors, there are more quiet options but nothing that is truly quiet. An Atom 80 would be your best bet, but you may want to size up on your glider as you are on the heavier side for such a small motor. That will be a lightweight setup too!
you can't find a quiet paramotor. Doesnt matter if its electric or gas. The propeller makes a TON of noise and can't be avoided. You find a silent propeller and youll be rich, instantly.
dan burton had a fatal paramotor accident on 18/9/2021. todays date is 31/10/2024 still waiting for a FAI. INVESTIGATING all film knowledge from two paramotorists were all on film. on how the accident happened.so why does it take years to get a investigation . both experienced pilots were members of BHPA. UK.
I know there is not enough info to go off of, but if you had to guess, would you say that one collapse that just happened to your friend josh was because he was over controlling the glider and made a wrong input, or do you think that was a lack of pilot input? If you had to guess
It is possible he just missed a surge, but more likely he flew into something major that I missed. The air was so trash. There were even dust devils, so its possible there was something very isolated.
Same. I enjoy the activity, not the clusterf*ck of people and their self imposed rules. If I wanted to show off my money and hang around doing nothing, I'd go to a car show. Much safer and not as weather dependent.
Yes, some go down slower than others, some are lighter, some are steerable, most are not, some are easy to repack, some are difficult to repack, some are expensive, some open quickly, some don't. Some are rated for resisting the opening in very fast fall, some only in moderate speed.
ua-cam.com/video/ZvXE5rsfuZQ/v-deo.htmlsi=NcFtQdws1msTMwfC I have this one. The orange one, which catch the motorbike. If its good enough for redbull, its good enough for me. The color is also important, if you throw the reserve, you probably want to be seen by people around and rescue services. Orange is more visible, and I think people will better know something is wrong if they see orange instead of white.
I mean, that disclaimer might work if UA-cam had _actual people_ checking and demonetizing videos rather than a cursed spaghetti of bots and automated systems... But if they had actual people doing it, they wouldn't get demonetized in the first place.
I’d love to see a video from you flying with a spyder or beginner wing (appropriately sized) and showing proper weight shift,pull, timing of wingovers or assymetic. Something to give people some proper foundation to look at. There are videos out there but not the greatest or on a spicy wing and you can’t see much. I think this would also be beneficial to show pilots you don’t need to upgrade your wing prematurely and you should be nailing them on easy wings first
@ as soon as I seen it I ran to my truck immediately to watch it. I was thinking damn Tucker you’re 2 hours early. Awesome video you have been posting a lot lately.
He is good, but he should find a safer place to fly, with more and better emergency landing options. I don't think he could do that as well a second time. What if there is wind, this spot will be very turbulent.
Please cover more incidents like this, paramotoring is such an amazing sport and popularizing risk awareness shouldn't be understated. Also please stay safe where you're at out in the desert, there aren't nearly as many trees to catch you if you ever happen to crash out!
More proof that allowing anyone into the air without a training minimum and skills test is a fucking stupid idea. These things should be brought under the PPL umbrella. Twice now i've had one of these guys near my aircraft.
i wish youtube would allow gory content , in my opinion it is censorship , like for example if there is a traumatic injury why does there have to be a censorship blur or even a black bar , how can people really learn to pack a wound without ever seeing how to pack an artery
UA-cam needs to seriously chill. There is a huge positive training aspect to incident breakdowns. Everyone that does them has been feeling YT heat. Well done presentation as usual. Fly Risky, but fly safe.
It's easy to spot a new and potentially untrained PG pilot by Russ's lack of helmet. I dont think I've ever flown with an experienced pilot that's not wearing a helmet. Glad he's alright!
@Buttfan_boi that would fall into the new pilot category. I had several big mess ups in my first w years that were far more painful. Glad your lesson was pretty much free and I'm sure you learned a lot 😀
UA-cam sucks and is soon to be gone. Someone needs to develop a true platform for creators without forced ads. UA-cam ads have gotten ridiculous lately and they continue to demonetize their creators. Many of the public prank people have moved to private websites to upload their videos. Maybe you should make something similar for paramotor/aviation content creators.
USA needs step up their game. The best crashes are always filmed somewhere else... If reserve chutes were free and weighed nothing, more pilots would carry them. Sounds like youtube is making it harder for creators to earn $$. Jokes on them tho, plenty of channels that don't monetize to begin with...
As someone who films motorsports events using drones the guy buzzing the race kinda irritates me. We get paid to film, its our job, as pilots you need to recognize that events are hotspots for drones now and to not buzz events smh. No reason you need to be flying that close not to mention the carlessness letting his goggles go through his prop luckily no one was injured by that at the event
I’m part of the dirt bike club that put on the race, it was requested and coordinated by race event staff for me to do a flyover prior to the beginning of the race so I would have the field to fly around, this was not a random buzzing of an event. The googles are 100% my fault and very lucky no one got hurt from that mistake. Unfortunately you’re not able to see when goggles come off your helmet and get caught in the netting behind you. Will apply some sort of safety strap to them from now on to prevent this from happening again
@austinflagg good to know and glad you made it down safe! I've been filming events before and had random guys come flying over at treetop height no warning, nothing. As a drone operator I'm ultimately responsible if they hit me doing that and I think that's bs. They're supposed to be 500ft or higher unless landing or taking off just like were supposed to be under 400ft. Obviously this was requested so it doesn't fall in that category
@@TuckerGott aren't you subject to part 103 regulations? When I grew up flying expirmentals we weren't required to have licenses or register the aircraft like now but we still maintained a minimum of 500ft just for safety if nothing else. Plus drones didn't exist back then so we wouldn't have had to worry about them like today. Just saying buzzing events like I've seen (not this situation) isn't the safest thing for anyone these days seeing as drones are more than likely going to be at events.
It seems like most of it is the automated review flagging it. Most of them get the pass when I request a human review. The crashes normally stay demonetized.
Advertisers don't want to be associated with videos that might make them look bad. A lot of base jumping content involves people doing reckless and/or illegal things. I guess the less problematic content ends up tarred with the same brush.
I'm an HG pilot, and I love this series. Very EDUCATIONAL AND INSTRUCTIVE, UA-cam.
I'm a pilot from Brazil, so I can tell something about the two last accidents of the video. We were in a major event in Brasília and I was in the air when I saw the two guys with the reserves deployed. The one filming, Marcus, got away with no scratches, only equipment damage, unfortunately the other pilot Alan wasn't so lucky. He had his femur broken and the surgery was not as expected, but in the end everything went fine.
In the other video the guy who smashed in the water just ended his day of SIV and decided to make another flight by his own. He had no radio and the instructor was in the ground yelling for him to trow the reserve, with no response.
Sometimes lessons in life come with a price!
Those guys got those reserves out REALLY quickly, like there was zero thought, just reaction, which was exactly what was required. Good on them for obviously practicing, being aware at least after the crash (for the guy in the rear). It's pretty bad when the guy looking rearward has more situational awareness than the guy looking forward.
GEEZ, the sound when that guy hit the water was painful just to listen to.
They both reacted perfectly!
I'm the guy flying the blue wing and what you said is totally right, it was pure reaction without much thought. Thanks God we both are OK. I got up after the crash without any absolutely any kind of injury. The other guy broke the femur. Always fly with the reserve. There's no reason to fly without it. 👍🏻
@@marcusparamotor Hopefully you were the guy in front, after what I said. ;-)
Too bad he had injuries, but even that was pretty minor, considering what it looked like on video. Those skies look too busy for my taste, kind of like flying into Oshkosh during the fly in. No chutes or reserves in our case, obviously.
I was under the hood one day, training toward my private in a 152, and we were supposedly being followed by Exec radar, when all of a sudden I had the yoke wrenched out of my hands, and we did a VERY hard bank and yank at about 70 degrees. I very quickly popped my head back to look, and saw a twin boring through the space we just occupied, still wings level, and we were the ones looking directly INTO the sun, which is why we had requested ATC monitoring.
ATC never said a word about it, before, during, or after. I wanna tell ya, they heard about it though. Thank god my instructor was paying full attention or I wouldn't be writing this. The air is not a forgiving place, when serious errors are made.
The best you can do is learn from situations like that, needless to say, really, which is also obviously why Tucker takes the time to do these analyses, and for my money, he does a good job of it.
I'm probably too old now to get into this sport, but MAN, does it look like fun! Stay safe.
@@MrJdsenior True!!! This kind of video is important. Very important. Too avoid some new accidents. Thank you. And thanks @TuckerGott for sharing my video
@@TuckerGott Thanks for sharing my video and situation. Hope some pilots start use reserve from now on.
The outside pressure on wing-overs is counter intuitive if you're just thinking about it like a side to side turn. If you realize there is a lot of pitch change on higher wing overs it becomes a lot more intuitive. When coming off the high side and starting to swig back to the other side, the outside of the wing takes a steep angle of decent and surges/ dives toward the ground, so the outside brake is acting as some surge/ pitch control, its just asymmetric. Once I started looking at it like this, it became much more intuitive for me. I just realized it's not outside brake to counter steer the wing, it's really just slowing the surge and I'm used to doing that when flying out of every thermal and on a lot of my inflations.
I have been looking forward to some more of these! This is the kind of content (as well as the lazy flights over fields) that really interests me. Analyzing where people messed up, and how to prevent it, is so important. My helicopter instructor was actually killed in a helicopter crash a few months after I gave up training, using a customer's old helicopter doing max performance takeoffs too close to some pine trees. They collided with the trees, fell 80 feet, and burned to death in the cockpit. It's sad, but you can learn a lot from reading such reports and understanding the causes. Keep up the good work.
Always glad to see these. I just started to get into wing overs after a year and a half of flying and its good to know what's possible. I'm always sure to keep pressure on that outside brake an so far so good.
Thanks for the shoutout
I just commented again on your channel about this haha. I hope bike is running well. Stay safe!
Great shoutout for a great channel... well deserved
Just when I was getting comfortable with maybe checking out this sport, BAM! Thanks for being honest and showing the good, the bad and the ugly side of things.
Its inherently dangerous, even tho so many try to claim it isnt. I chose to fly, because its worth it. You won't hear me justifying my decision by lying to myself and others, about the danger. Its wonderful that most of us have the freedom to choose to really live, even when it means we risk the inverse.
You wouldn't like motorcycles then
Plain and Simple... Your videos are friggin' fantastic ! Your breakdown of unfortunate mistakes, is critical to helpping make the Paragliding and PPG community a safer place. Well done keep it up !
Tucker i seriously think UA-cam should be a lot easier on you. Your videos are great for people that do this type of stuff and your videos have possibly saved some lives 🤷🏻
UA-cam has some crazy rules about what is okay and what is not. You have a million OnlyFails girls making dumb shorts about their "perfect flower"... and that's okay. But someone tries to review an accident to educate people and suddenly UA-cam has some standards about what's not appropriate.
UA-cam will do anything to NOT paying UA-camrs money they deserve!
UA-cam censorship is out of control
UA-cam loves Tucker, he is appointed King of the ppg YT stronghold
@@pillowtalk1982 Not as bad as Farcebook. Mark Cuckerberg banned me simply for saying that most shootings in my town are because of gangs and drug dealers.
Within two minutes Farcebook said I was obviously selling lead slingers and unlicensed pharma… and permanently banned me. Like WTF? And they deleted my Instagram channel too… because it was connected to my @facebook account. So I had to make a new IG without facebook, and start over.
The duo pilot colliding will be best friends for life. Awesome video! I hope they are fine.
Also, YT demonitizing Papi is agrro move. Papi doesn't deserve to be demonitized.
I just ordered a new reserve. I'm still rocking one I bought when I went through flight training 6 years ago. Figured it was probably a good time for a new one.
It has been a very long time since I' 've seen you. I'm glad you are still going strong, and the evolution, for me, would not have bee predicted. Stay safe. Rob
I don't know what I don't know, but I'd like to think that watching these crash reaction videos has educated me in a way that has prevented some potential accident from happening whilst flying. All the little bits of advice is somewhere in my subconcious and i think it has made me more aware of what not to do whilst out enjoying a flight. It's a really valuable resource for our small community of PPG flyers, thanks for making them Tucker.
Please don't assume any of this is going to be useful unless you practice what you learn in an SIV. In the heat of the moment you won't remember this stuff. That's why it's important to do an SIV to actually do certain maneuvers and know how it feels to get out of them.
Thank you! That’s the goal.
Good the see the first paramotorer in one piece but watch at exactly 5:46 and you will see his backside hit the ground. Luckily it's sand but any kind of rocks, boulder or just a hard surface can break bones at that speed. Spine, hip bones etc. Weather paragliding or paramotoring always , always land on your feet. Again, good to see him unhurt. Happy flying...
Thanks Tucker for a great channel
Props to both pilots for getting their reserves out after that mid-air collision. Looks like the second pilot was gift wrapped with fabric over his face the whole time!
Great job educating people on how these accidents might have been avoided. Fly safe Tucker.
Amazing how these gliders tend to recover on their own. The first video, his glider re-inflated within a couple of seconds of a full-frontal.
Thank you for doing these videos. Those guys both reacted quickly getting the reserve pulled. Shout out to My Dog is Choking. I'm so wrapped up in his Adventure lol. I saw that crash. I couldn't believe the guy was alive. Maybe I'm wrong here but from what I understand from his video, this guy didn't really have the experience to be trying big wingovers. Apparently, Cris was even worried about him when flying.
Reminds me of the wraps I’ve had while skydiving. I call them having a nylon salad, hold the dressing😂. Scary sh*t sometimes. Great reaction time on both pilots🎉
Through years of skydiving I only had one really serious snivel. I had altitude so I tried to clear it. Finally went for the cutaway and reserve ripcord. I started an “Oh sheet!” and suddenly the chute popped open with a pretty good whack…ouch. I hadn’t pulled the cutaway completely loose so I carefully patted it back onto the Velcro. Didn’t make me want to quit skydiving but it did make me hyper aware of my equipment, pre jump prep, body position…etc. Now my body says no más but boy do I miss my brief but eventful youth. 🪂
Replacing the cutaway handle is actually hilarious. I love that story.
Tucker you are the best. Stay safe and stay FLYING.😊😊
Some guy ate it in a spiral at my first s.i.v... he got away with it but guy was 60% black and blue and left the hospital in crutches. Reserves are a must, and people need to be practicing reaching for that handle. At 5g in a deep spiral it's not so cut and dry as just toss it out.
One of the things my mentor kept pushing on me was practicing finding the handle. My reserve is on the right side of my PowerSeat Lite. Basically even with my eyes closed I can put my hand on my thigh and run it straight back until it runs into the handle. But 5G? Holy Crap that sounds intense.
Tucker, can you do an educational video on the aerodynamics of paragliders/motors? And the different parts of them? (Risers, Brakes, Toggles)
I dropped youtube premium a few months ago for their ridiculous demonetization practices. Love the videos you make
I love AZ!!!
Thank you Tucker!
Nice save Austin!
i really appreciate those fail videos, even if i have a hard time watching the grueling stuff. talking about reserve, i think we should do it more - why you might ask? because i'm a paraglider - not just that, but hike and fly, i want to get to the ground asap without gaining any altitude - but this might cost my my bones or my life. Would love to see you do more on that. Safety in sports is all that matters in the end - I'm a climber so I get it.
You do a great job on these incident reviews. Would be good to include more discussion about complacency. It's amazing what we can get away with, until we can't.
Portuguese speaker here: in the last video the guy is saying "Throw reserve! Throw reserve!" (Joga reserva, joga reserva!) over and over again, so I assume he had one.
I remember back in the day that if I wanted a quarter pounder, maybe I could order a paramotor on Amazon and just fly down to MacDonalds and get one..after a couple of these videos I kinda got the feeling maybe I should take lessons first
The fact that this series can get regular content in disturbing... but hey that's life. Always something to improve.
These videos are vital and educational. I want You Tube to know these videos should definitely NOT be demonetized!
Always fly with a reserve. Always. It's our second chance 🙏🏻
The last video with uncontrolled rotation into the water: 100% recoverable by pulling outside brake. Your suggestion of trying to clear the cravat whilst still rotating is what people often try, and is incorrect. Good SIV instructors teach this the same:
1. Stop the rotation (or throw reserve if you're not trained or don't have altitude to solve problem)
2. Get a heading and fly away from danger like terrain
3. Clear cravat
As Malin Lobb points out, uncontrolled rotations to the ground are the biggest killer in the sport, so it's important to get this right
The second guy you had on there is my buddy Austin and he is a rockstar pilot
Great video!
The guy doing the hangovers spiraled into the lake, not because of the cravat but his response was improper. Aviate navigate communicate. Fly straight and aviate. When he got the cravat could have shifted his weight and flew straight. Most important thing in all of this aviation from parawing to stealth bomber. Fly straight. If it will fly it will fly straight. Whenever your flight path curves you increase the load on the wing rapidly. If you had a flight path that was straight after you had this cravat you wouldn't have problems landing. When he had the problem, he should have focused only on flying in a straight line. At first the curvature wasn't too bad but it kept tightening and tightening and tightening and he never should have let it begin to turn in the first place.
Thanks for the video 😊
The autorotation in the last one is recoverable with the right training. It doesn't involve fishing out Stabilo lines while in an Auto.... At least on a paraglider it is.
I think all you have to do is pull really hard in the opposite side. It happened to me once, I was much higher fortunately. I was considering throwing the reserve, but luckily that move managed to get me out of it and the cravatte went away on its own
@@DrAElemayo like you said. I don't know about the paramotors, but in normal paragliding, based on the SIV sessions, when you got in auto-rotation by asymetric collapse and let it rotate couple times to get it its max impact, you get support from the inner side of the risers and weight-shift to outside. You don't even have to just pull outiside breaks too hard. And if you haven't done this kind of exercise before, maybe you're not used to it because it involves relatively higher Gs and affects much more than even spirals, so you can get caught off guard. Some kinds of these cravats, in a real scenario, could said to be more harsh then artifically created auto rotations. Even the higher cravats, which, in this scene, are said to be much harder to recover than others. When you get into this situation, if you cant recover anyhow, you can release the inside brake, grab with both hands the outside brake, and pull it as hard as you can. That is one and possible the only way to recover from the hardest cravat caused autorotation, ofc if you have enough altitude. if not so, throw your reserve without second thought..
Started watching your videos a few years back and thought I'd get into paramotering. We'll.. now I'm a skydiver.
Close enough! 😂
Thanks for sharing
Good day, Tucker.
I started paragliding in 99. On the hike to launch i was bit by a tick and lyme disease took over my life. It was a bad case that had me bed ridden for over five years. Long terrible story. I recently decided I was going to start flying again. I bought my wing & and gear, now I'm considering ppg. I would love any thoughts you might have on a motor for a non- aggressive 185lb. 56yr old Pilot. I do love the peace and quiet of paragliding, so i don't know if a quiet motor is a dream or if they even exist. And last, these old bones would love something light. Am I being realistic or looking for a unicorn ?
If you can keep up with all these comments and get back to me I'd be so thankful.
Peace and Grace.
Dang! Lyme disease is scary. I got it as a kid but never had it that bad. Sorry you went through that! As far as motors, there are more quiet options but nothing that is truly quiet. An Atom 80 would be your best bet, but you may want to size up on your glider as you are on the heavier side for such a small motor. That will be a lightweight setup too!
sp140?
you can't find a quiet paramotor. Doesnt matter if its electric or gas. The propeller makes a TON of noise and can't be avoided. You find a silent propeller and youll be rich, instantly.
We just had a fatal paragliding accident up here in Utah at Willard Peak a couple days ago
I’ve been following that one. Very sad.
dan burton had a fatal paramotor accident on 18/9/2021. todays date is 31/10/2024 still waiting for a FAI. INVESTIGATING all film knowledge from two paramotorists were all on film. on how the accident happened.so why does it take years to get a investigation . both experienced pilots were members of BHPA. UK.
I know there is not enough info to go off of, but if you had to guess, would you say that one collapse that just happened to your friend josh was because he was over controlling the glider and made a wrong input, or do you think that was a lack of pilot input? If you had to guess
It is possible he just missed a surge, but more likely he flew into something major that I missed. The air was so trash. There were even dust devils, so its possible there was something very isolated.
@TuckerGott I've been seeing to many sketchy incidents with the viper on UA-cam gonna stick to my spyder 3 lol not such a spicy wing
Hey Tucker , Nice studio, We need to see that Icarus trophy behind you in the studio?
I was thinking about it actually but decided on a spot to put it. 😂
You need to branch out. Get outside of your box for a minute.........and do a coffee episode. Love your coffee setup!
0:30 like you tube is going to listen to a disclaimer…🙄
Why don't you do the recent coastal Moustache collapse or Greg's famous crashes?
Do you have links?
@@TuckerGott ua-cam.com/video/VCunacS6j0Q/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/QCPrGhG6qyI/v-deo.html
7:45 group rides and fly's, call me a Debbie Downer but not a big fan of them. Just me, yall have fun tho.
Same. I enjoy the activity, not the clusterf*ck of people and their self imposed rules. If I wanted to show off my money and hang around doing nothing, I'd go to a car show. Much safer and not as weather dependent.
Maybe try posting to nebula as well!
Reserve Parachutes....are some better than others???
Yes, some go down slower than others, some are lighter, some are steerable, most are not, some are easy to repack, some are difficult to repack, some are expensive, some open quickly, some don't.
Some are rated for resisting the opening in very fast fall, some only in moderate speed.
ua-cam.com/video/ZvXE5rsfuZQ/v-deo.htmlsi=NcFtQdws1msTMwfC I have this one. The orange one, which catch the motorbike. If its good enough for redbull, its good enough for me.
The color is also important, if you throw the reserve, you probably want to be seen by people around and rescue services. Orange is more visible, and I think people will better know something is wrong if they see orange instead of white.
Saw a great tweet. Paraglider dress like a witch flying on a broom with a cat on the front of the broom. You should do something like that.
When EOS? :P
I mean, that disclaimer might work if UA-cam had _actual people_ checking and demonetizing videos rather than a cursed spaghetti of bots and automated systems...
But if they had actual people doing it, they wouldn't get demonetized in the first place.
That mid-air was like an Arkansas wedding.
Goat
I’d love to see a video from you flying with a spyder or beginner wing (appropriately sized) and showing proper weight shift,pull, timing of wingovers or assymetic. Something to give people some proper foundation to look at. There are videos out there but not the greatest or on a spicy wing and you can’t see much. I think this would also be beneficial to show pilots you don’t need to upgrade your wing prematurely and you should be nailing them on easy wings first
Nice sport to watch from the ground..😂😂
Have you treated yourself to some bikini beans espresso yet? 😂
I had to stop working for this video Tucker. You’re 2 hours early lol.
Haha you know its good when you can't save it for lunch break!
@ as soon as I seen it I ran to my truck immediately to watch it. I was thinking damn Tucker you’re 2 hours early. Awesome video you have been posting a lot lately.
That second guy is a champ to pull off that landing.
Agreed, about as tight as it gets on that fast of a wing.
Right? He crushed it.
He is good, but he should find a safer place to fly, with more and better emergency landing options. I don't think he could do that as well a second time. What if there is wind, this spot will be very turbulent.
Why does it sound like someone added an explosion sound on the last video?
@@youdoyouplayer8529 It was the sound of him impacting the water. It was louder in person.
If you need a reserve and do not have one, most likely you will not need one again, eh.
Tucker I think it's time you start wingsuit flying
"Not a lot of context but they're from Brazil" - That's enough context right there 🤣 Brazilian pilots are crazy
How many of them do you know?
@@marcusparamotor 5
Any overseas trips planned Tucker ? #lovedicelandvids
Please cover more incidents like this, paramotoring is such an amazing sport and popularizing risk awareness shouldn't be understated.
Also please stay safe where you're at out in the desert, there aren't nearly as many trees to catch you if you ever happen to crash out!
I cannot wait til I can fly.
More proof that allowing anyone into the air without a training minimum and skills test is a fucking stupid idea. These things should be brought under the PPL umbrella. Twice now i've had one of these guys near my aircraft.
Reserves and guns...It's better to have it and not need it than the other way around.
Rumble?
Yooo UA-cam is wack with all the censorship lately I’m looking for a new platform to waste my time on. Any recommendations?
i wish youtube would allow gory content , in my opinion it is censorship , like for example if there is a traumatic injury why does there have to be a censorship blur or even a black bar , how can people really learn to pack a wound without ever seeing how to pack an artery
My name is also Gott 😂
I'm sure youtube doesn't profit from the same videos they deny you monetization from...
UA-cam needs to seriously chill. There is a huge positive training aspect to incident breakdowns. Everyone that does them has been feeling YT heat. Well done presentation as usual. Fly Risky, but fly safe.
What ever happened to " on to the next fiasco " ?
It's easy to spot a new and potentially untrained PG pilot by Russ's lack of helmet. I dont think I've ever flown with an experienced pilot that's not wearing a helmet. Glad he's alright!
I've been flying for almost 2 years. That day I forgot my helmet and stupidly decided to fly anyway.
@Buttfan_boi that would fall into the new pilot category. I had several big mess ups in my first w years that were far more painful. Glad your lesson was pretty much free and I'm sure you learned a lot 😀
How does that work if they demonetize a video but continue to create revenue with advertising? Isn’t that theft?
UA-cam sucks and is soon to be gone. Someone needs to develop a true platform for creators without forced ads. UA-cam ads have gotten ridiculous lately and they continue to demonetize their creators. Many of the public prank people have moved to private websites to upload their videos. Maybe you should make something similar for paramotor/aviation content creators.
Bro was gift wrapped
How is life going? me: 1:08
The sound effect did it.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 And me: 6:29
Its not latte :)
No?
This old AFF instructor thinks flying w/o a reserve is insane.
'not enough altitude' my a$$.. It's the last foot that kills you.
...insane.
+1 sub cuz I’m getting a paramotor and kiiiinnndda need ur advice
USA needs step up their game. The best crashes are always filmed somewhere else... If reserve chutes were free and weighed nothing, more pilots would carry them. Sounds like youtube is making it harder for creators to earn $$. Jokes on them tho, plenty of channels that don't monetize to begin with...
As someone who films motorsports events using drones the guy buzzing the race kinda irritates me. We get paid to film, its our job, as pilots you need to recognize that events are hotspots for drones now and to not buzz events smh. No reason you need to be flying that close not to mention the carlessness letting his goggles go through his prop luckily no one was injured by that at the event
I’m part of the dirt bike club that put on the race, it was requested and coordinated by race event staff for me to do a flyover prior to the beginning of the race so I would have the field to fly around, this was not a random buzzing of an event. The googles are 100% my fault and very lucky no one got hurt from that mistake. Unfortunately you’re not able to see when goggles come off your helmet and get caught in the netting behind you. Will apply some sort of safety strap to them from now on to prevent this from happening again
@austinflagg good to know and glad you made it down safe! I've been filming events before and had random guys come flying over at treetop height no warning, nothing. As a drone operator I'm ultimately responsible if they hit me doing that and I think that's bs. They're supposed to be 500ft or higher unless landing or taking off just like were supposed to be under 400ft. Obviously this was requested so it doesn't fall in that category
If you’re talking about paramotor’s, they have no obligation to maintain 500ft.
@@AAronFpv I hear you man and very understandable to be irritated with those pilots, that’s dangerous on everyone’s part when they fly like that
@@TuckerGott aren't you subject to part 103 regulations? When I grew up flying expirmentals we weren't required to have licenses or register the aircraft like now but we still maintained a minimum of 500ft just for safety if nothing else. Plus drones didn't exist back then so we wouldn't have had to worry about them like today. Just saying buzzing events like I've seen (not this situation) isn't the safest thing for anyone these days seeing as drones are more than likely going to be at events.
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Russ is not a legend. Russ is the reason flying sites get shut down.
Demonetisation? Is it possible that branding yourself "Risky" is kinda asking for it?
No. Because everything I post actually falls within UA-cam’s acceptable guidelines.
tree boy was luck as em tree tops and the size of those trees tops look cringe
come fly Scotland man
YT is turning into sh*t.
:)
Paramotoring? I'll pass!
UA-cam is a disgrace.
You're getting demonetized for base jumping content? UA-cam is an absolute joke
It seems like most of it is the automated review flagging it. Most of them get the pass when I request a human review. The crashes normally stay demonetized.
UA-cam wants to keep as much ad revenue as they can of course.
Advertisers don't want to be associated with videos that might make them look bad. A lot of base jumping content involves people doing reckless and/or illegal things. I guess the less problematic content ends up tarred with the same brush.
@@UpcomingJedi If a video is demonetised, there are no ads on it.
i what one but i am 10