FlyBGD is our venue to share the wisdom and analysis of paragliding accidents, techniques, and general advice with the flying world. We will be uploading educational paragliding videos every month in a bid to make our sport ever safer and even more fun. The lessons will range from how to recover from a extreme full frontal deflation just after take-off to how to hold your brake handle to kitting advice from Bruce's son Tyr. This series is powered by your feedback so comment with questions and we will do our best to share it.
Maybe it flies perfectly because of the new generation of designers at BGD. Is Bruce still involved in Diva 2 design? Since Papesh out of design of Nova Mentor series its never been so superb than Nova-Days! :D
This is the wing Anthony Vella took a collapse on at full speed. It is claimed that there was a tension knot that caused the collapse, but so far from the multiple angles I saw I have yet to see a knot. Unless there is video proof I am not seeing that there was a tension knot then this wing needs to be sent to an unbiased third party inspector who can verify the wing is trimmed appropriately and that it was a tension knot that deflected the wing and caused this collapse. If it goes to the importer or to BGD then anything they say in my mind isn’t unbiased and the credibility of BGD goes out the door for me like it did with Niviuk a few years ago. I think I speak for many PPG pilots out there that transparency is incredibly important when things like this happen. Please don’t make the same mistake Niviuk did.
I've seen Vella's accident videos, I like Anthony very much but it seemed to me he was doing an extreme speed test much too low to the ground so the wing had no time to recover after the collapse. So the main cause was pilot error.
hmm. not a lot of info? What are the take-offs like? whats the landings like? what is the wing-like in turbulence? is the wing capable of doing sats. or barrel rolls? and yes all depends on the type of pilot. at the moment I have a Viper 4. had a Driftair. demo a warp 2.
After Watching a siv instructor talk about frontals on RU-vid he says to bang the brakes the moment the wing folds, to reduce the collapse size… ive let the wing do its own thing before and it turned into a cravatted autorotation.. so I’m a big believer that you need to stop the tips from moving forward and reduce the collapse size.
