I love you my crazy brother of the sky, but is a great way to explain how to do the approach to landing from your perspective and is super great I can recommended it to anyone I know or ask me about how I do it. Man you nailed love your way to see it, every teacher have a different method but is how making the sense to the one don’t have any knowledge about it. Fly Baby Fly
Honestly wish I would have seen this last year! Did training last April but only managed one flight so when I got home I was kinda on my own. I'm a believer in altitude is your friend so every flight was 800 plus. Only problem with that, for me anyways, was I didn't get a good orientation of what it's like close to the ground and I could not get used to the ground rush and would butt land because of that. Now I did manage a couple foot landings but I was not comfortable. From the first flight this year I only flew about 200 max and most was 50 above the open fields and boy does this really help with judging speed and altitude! Helped my landings tremendously.
Thanks. Initially I had a lot of difficulty with landings, mostly because the wind conditions are not great 95% of the time but also because I was always flying high, doing cross country flights and not building precision control skills. So I had like 25 hours of flight time under my belt but still messing up 70% of my landings. Training like this helped me develop those skills and build muscle memory very quickly.
I’ve experienced the same, I’m more for XC to and my landings were pretty rough. I’ve posted a video of my landings. I finally figured out I was flaring to high and as you pointed out in your video, you have to feel the grass hit your feet first.
I’m very new at PPG, had professional training and am uncomfortable landing, coming from advance paragliding pilot to having 18kg on my back. Doing foot drag my cage is inches from the ground, of course you have no idea how close the frame is to the ground. When standing to land, impossible to get centre of gravity over feet like a paraglider landing, with motor the centre of gravity is behind your body, there is no adjustment to this on my harness. What happens is once feet touch ground, I do a painful force to bring motor to upright position, which strains the back. Try something else, to sit forward more (strains stomach muscles) all I achieve is raises my legs up, that’s useless, just can’t get back to normal standing position. Sitting forward also my back leaves the back of harness leaves a gap. Otherwise I’m at 45° angle coming in. Hopefully I will find a way sooner back breaker later…
Thank You for reaching out. I have flown with my paramotor with the hang points far too forward, AWAY from the paramotor and the result was the paramotor trying to force me into "laying on my back" type of position. If you hang test your paramotor from a tree or anywhere where if can be done safely, do you have this result? Or does the paramotor cage hang perpendicular (90 degrees) to the ground? If it does not, and you are forced into more of a laying position, the hang point must be moved backwards, TOWARD the paramotor some, which should lead to a natural standing type position while coming into land. It WILL move the center of gravity FORWARD so it is theoretically in you chest, not behind. This adjustment will make it more difficult to get into the seat of your harness after takeoff, but you should still have a comfortable angle while flying after you do get into your seat. I need to throttle off & slight difficulty getting into my seat, when I have the right hang angle. With that proper angle I had also had trimmed about 1" of my seat board to make takeoff & sitting in my harness seat easier too. I hope you understand what I had tried to describe, if not I can make a video showing whay I am trying to say. If there is no way to adjust it, then the paramotor may be too big for your body size otherwise modification is likely required, but must be done by a professional otherwise you assume all the risk to yourself & others if you fail. You must get this corrected before you fly again. Also, if you need more help, let us know what paramotor you have so maybe I can review it's design & give more specific suggestions. Let us hear your thoughts. This is good info here: ua-cam.com/video/mv--Fy1YYzU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=SeanSymons
@@JustinPPG thanks very much for your info. I have got hanging sim setup. Before your writing I had adjusted hang pionts to furthest back. I noticed that trouble on sim. I have the smallest lightest motor going. I am tiny. Yesterday I compared the frame of Atom 80 it was upright. Mine is on a slight angle it’s very comfortable in flight, but think that it’s the cause for not being able to get CoG on landing. I originally had longer leg straps but couldn’t remain that way because I was below mid balancing point of seat board in flight - on sim hanger worked well, sim is always different to flight. Thanks so much for your info. I think you’re right, it would be best to get a straight frame for my size.
Still a better idea is to have training or at least always connect anyone's amateur advise and your own great selfxperience with a professional advise. You don't learn how to cure people or fly a plane or drive a car or build a bridge on your own, do you? What makes you think flying a paramotor is dramatically different? Of'course you can learn much by yourself, but as well you can build yourself a wrong "system" and muscle memory.
Good points overall & I don't disagree with you. But... there always was & always will be someone that does something for the first time, without experience & without advice. The true pioneers of their fields! And if someone is brave enough to be the very first in those circumstances, then anyone else should have the bravery to do the same..... Especially when you already have proven equipment & information right in front of you. Don't let fear ruin your life friends! If you do then you'll never experience all of the greatest joy & excitement that being alive has to offer. I leave it to each living being to lead themselves, otherwise we wouldn't have freedom.
Realy good instruction!! To some extend far better then some of the professional instructor vids I have seen. Thanks for sharing!!!
One of the very BEST videos on landing..lve ever seen...great job
Thanks. I figured instead of trying to teach the subject directly, I'd teach people how to learn how on their own in a relatively safe manner.
When you first said you don't have training I thought this would be a terrible video. However this makes a ton of sense.
Nice easy to watch tutorial. Good job.
Nice! Best, Rob ^^
I love you my crazy brother of the sky, but is a great way to explain how to do the approach to landing from your perspective and is super great I can recommended it to anyone I know or ask me about how I do it. Man you nailed love your way to see it, every teacher have a different method but is how making the sense to the one don’t have any knowledge about it. Fly Baby Fly
Honestly wish I would have seen this last year! Did training last April but only managed one flight so when I got home I was kinda on my own. I'm a believer in altitude is your friend so every flight was 800 plus. Only problem with that, for me anyways, was I didn't get a good orientation of what it's like close to the ground and I could not get used to the ground rush and would butt land because of that. Now I did manage a couple foot landings but I was not comfortable. From the first flight this year I only flew about 200 max and most was 50 above the open fields and boy does this really help with judging speed and altitude! Helped my landings tremendously.
thanks for your video
you have a nice freshbreze paramotor
Good video, always interesting to see how others build their techniques.
Thanks. Initially I had a lot of difficulty with landings, mostly because the wind conditions are not great 95% of the time but also because I was always flying high, doing cross country flights and not building precision control skills. So I had like 25 hours of flight time under my belt but still messing up 70% of my landings. Training like this helped me develop those skills and build muscle memory very quickly.
I’ve experienced the same, I’m more for XC to and my landings were pretty rough. I’ve posted a video of my landings. I finally figured out I was flaring to high and as you pointed out in your video, you have to feel the grass hit your feet first.
Thanks this has help me out
Glad to help out.
I’m very new at PPG, had professional training and am uncomfortable landing, coming from advance paragliding pilot to having 18kg on my back. Doing foot drag my cage is inches from the ground, of course you have no idea how close the frame is to the ground.
When standing to land, impossible to get centre of gravity over feet like a paraglider landing, with motor the centre of gravity is behind your body, there is no adjustment to this on my harness. What happens is once feet touch ground, I do a painful force to bring motor to upright position, which strains the back.
Try something else, to sit forward more (strains stomach muscles) all I achieve is raises my legs up, that’s useless, just can’t get back to normal standing position. Sitting forward also my back leaves the back of harness leaves a gap. Otherwise I’m at 45° angle coming in.
Hopefully I will find a way sooner back breaker later…
Thank You for reaching out. I have flown with my paramotor with the hang points far too forward, AWAY from the paramotor and the result was the paramotor trying to force me into "laying on my back" type of position. If you hang test your paramotor from a tree or anywhere where if can be done safely, do you have this result? Or does the paramotor cage hang perpendicular (90 degrees) to the ground? If it does not, and you are forced into more of a laying position, the hang point must be moved backwards, TOWARD the paramotor some, which should lead to a natural standing type position while coming into land. It WILL move the center of gravity FORWARD so it is theoretically in you chest, not behind. This adjustment will make it more difficult to get into the seat of your harness after takeoff, but you should still have a comfortable angle while flying after you do get into your seat. I need to throttle off & slight difficulty getting into my seat, when I have the right hang angle. With that proper angle I had also had trimmed about 1" of my seat board to make takeoff & sitting in my harness seat easier too. I hope you understand what I had tried to describe, if not I can make a video showing whay I am trying to say. If there is no way to adjust it, then the paramotor may be too big for your body size otherwise modification is likely required, but must be done by a professional otherwise you assume all the risk to yourself & others if you fail. You must get this corrected before you fly again. Also, if you need more help, let us know what paramotor you have so maybe I can review it's design & give more specific suggestions. Let us hear your thoughts. This is good info here: ua-cam.com/video/mv--Fy1YYzU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=SeanSymons
@@JustinPPG thanks very much for your info. I have got hanging sim setup. Before your writing I had adjusted hang pionts to furthest back. I noticed that trouble on sim. I have the smallest lightest motor going. I am tiny. Yesterday I compared the frame of Atom 80 it was upright. Mine is on a slight angle it’s very comfortable in flight, but think that it’s the cause for not being able to get CoG on landing. I originally had longer leg straps but couldn’t remain that way because I was below mid balancing point of seat board in flight - on sim hanger worked well, sim is always different to flight.
Thanks so much for your info. I think you’re right, it would be best to get a straight frame for my size.
Still a better idea is to have training or at least always connect anyone's amateur advise and your own great selfxperience with a professional advise. You don't learn how to cure people or fly a plane or drive a car or build a bridge on your own, do you? What makes you think flying a paramotor is dramatically different? Of'course you can learn much by yourself, but as well you can build yourself a wrong "system" and muscle memory.
Good points overall & I don't disagree with you. But... there always was & always will be someone that does something for the first time, without experience & without advice. The true pioneers of their fields! And if someone is brave enough to be the very first in those circumstances, then anyone else should have the bravery to do the same..... Especially when you already have proven equipment & information right in front of you. Don't let fear ruin your life friends! If you do then you'll never experience all of the greatest joy & excitement that being alive has to offer. I leave it to each living being to lead themselves, otherwise we wouldn't have freedom.