Best explanation ever! Thank you, Marc! I think it will be also great to demonstrate - in a 100% safe manner, of course - typical beginner mistakes and the effects they induce in the wing, like inducing a frontal, symmetrical or asymmetrical, pulling on the wrong brakes inducing a wrong roll. Or tips on how to untangle the lines. Great channel! 👍💪👍Keep these awesome videos coming!🙏
Good question Yoann, Well you loose height doing wing overs so I guess the answer is yes, I personally do them for the fun and G-Force, doing good wing overs both sides is an art and fantastic to get them perfect.
I've been watching your video since January. I got my glider three weeks ago and have been waitin go out in the right conditions. Today is the day. I have a 7 mile an hour straight on shore off the ocean. I'm going to practice my groundwork today, tomorrow and the next day, I have your videos memorized. Thanks for the great instructions.
As someone who attended this first week of fly guiding, I can honestly say it was it was a week I will fondly remember and will definitely go back again.
Hi Marc, Great video like always. Writing out of Vancouver Canada. Had my first paragliding lesson last weekend and will continue this weekend. I have a question regarding wing selection. I want to do both Paragliding and eventually also transition to Paramotoring. I am looking at a Apco F5. Will it be possible for me to use this wing for both ? I am a male, 62 years old and 82kg.
thanks man for this awsome video I'm a beginner and it does help a lot you take time to explain again and again and again and it's very helpfull chears from France and keep going see ya in the air sometime😎
Hi Marc! I am impressed, how you can explain your steps of GH! I do paragliding now for 12 years, but i have never seen before how nice and with every detail a person explain this difficult "handcraft'' thanks a lot and yes, you can be very lucky about your nice spot there! Greetz from George, germany
Nice, very good you strongly mentioned etiquette, sometimes on smaller hill, where there is litttle bit crowdy, it is big problem, everybody want to be established and some people have problem with correctly joining others in thermal. About this finger wrap, isnt't it hurting on the finger? I do hand wrap when circling in very weak thermal in flats, so it is not so tiriring, but doing it over one finger seems to me like too much pressure n the finger.
Minimot test flight was bad, I was way too heavy to climb on it, 100% better for 70 kg pilots, The footage was deleted as I almost crashed, it was rather scary.
Leading edge rods get bend when you fold leading edge inside down. Bad. Better just pack leading edge all together, the rest of the glider doesnt matter
I flew with one of the test pilots from advance in Switzerland and he completely disagreed. Said I was wasting time, the roads are designed to bend and spring back. I'm still unsure but I sometimes do it his way if I'm getting the wing wing out within an hr!!
@@charliedenny1if it’s good enough for the best pilot Chrigel Maurer it’s good enough for me. Yeah the rods can be bent these days without any problems.
@@charliedenny1 Good competition pilots get their wings for free from sponsors, just for the season. For them yes, it makes no sense to care about rods too much because they will sell the wing shortly after
Hi, Thank you for the instruction. I don't harmonica my gliders myself. i just make sure all cells are upon eachother and strap them down. Then i roll the sides in like a sausage. this way i don' t get sharp folds.
PITCH CONTROL 5:07 - Running reverse launch 1 - too much break - glider hangs back 7:53 - Running reverse launch 2 - much better, bordering on not enough pressure 9:04 - Running reverse launch 3 - good pitch control (hints of pilot induced oscillation) 11:40 - Reverse launch 4 15:22 - Reverse launch pitch control demo 16:01 - How to rose up & fix a glider that landed leading edge down STRONG WIND LAUNCHING & LANDING 27:45 - Rear riser technique to keep the wing on the ground & under control in strong wind (essential technique!) 32:12 - What NOT to do to keep the wing on the ground in strong wind 30:00 - Bouncing wing whilst held down? Rear risers & step to the wing 6" 29:15 - High wind reverse launch explanation 30:12 - High wind reverse launch demo 1 31:35 - High wind landing approach 31:45 - High wind landing - "flare, turn, punch, run at the wing" (quick) 33:53 - High wind reverse launch demo 2 35:04 - High wind landing 2 35:45 - High wind landing - "no flare needed, turn, punch, run at it" (quick) 36:38 - Inducing a small dive to get your feet back on the ground, followed by aggressive kill <- this was very useful advice! 37:12 - How to rose up in high wind (rear risers on and step to a wing tip) Great video as always Marc & Sian. You really are top instructors. Super helpful to see your strong wind control techniques! Here are some bookmarks of my favourite moments.
Great video series! Thanks for all the tips! Really helpful Only thing i want to request is that you make the series into playlists here on youtube so its easier to play them all!
Would love to learn to paraglide, but it's not something that you get second chances if you have a misfortune accident. Rappelling might be safer and more affordable to get into.
Hello Marc. What a beautiful place to fly. I'm Frank from Kilkenny in Ireland. Our weather for flying the past few years is so bad. I have 15 years flying but would like to do a guided xc of 50 km or more. Perhaps 100 km. I have a rush 6 which is amazing to thermal on. I am still learning after all these years and would love a guided xc so I can relax and enjoy it, instead of being stressed out in mental rough thermals. Your video and instruction was brilliant. So calm and relaxed. Well done you. Best of luck to all your students. Where do you mainly guide from. Thanks Frank
