Hey. I was about 80kg at the time, so maybe 85 all up weight. Even at the bottom of the weight range it's not fantastic for speed soaring, but it's cheap and fun
Cheers Barry. My normal wing has been in for repair for a few weeks so I was more motivated to get out on the Attak. It's a great little wing and well worth its money, it's been on quite a few adventures so far!
Bonjour Frederic. In the opening scenes the camera is on a selfie stick and attached to the walking pole attachments of my harness. Later on I move it around quite a lot, but generally it's secured by pushing it between my hips/legs and the outside of the harness. I have it on a short tether so I don't have to worry about it falling. Thanks for asking!
Cool, I'm flying the exactly same wing. Love it, have flown in the area as well. But I never had that strong collapses with it. Might be because I'm top loaded. Still, I have one photo that almost looks similar like that thumbnail here...😂
To be honest neither have I, and I suspect that's why it happened. The wing has so much passive safety(look at how it recovered itself!) I let my guard down. Flying around with my hands off the brakes was not clever, I accept that
@@The.FlyGuy well, i looked at his videos after reading the comment... I expected something more as what I finally saw ... I loved this video btw, but maybe I'm biased because I'm flying the same setup and flown there XC ... And the memory of the strongest thermal I ever had (peaked 9m/s)
I guess i would only upload an incident if theres some learning to be take.. otherwise whats the point? Your only gonna catch some flak! 😝 Good to hear ur more concious now.
@@WuTangChillaBee I wouldn't say I'm more conscious 😂 I'd just say this flight was worth it. The learning point for this incident was not to release both hands when playing with cameras, that was inexcusable. If I had to answer why I did that? I'd been flying for over 4 hours, the last hour had been particularly hard going, I was drained, and I let my guard down. It was 100% my fault, and would have easily been avoided had I actually been flying
@@The.FlyGuy think same could have happened to me. I know this area quite well, have flown this exact route several times as well (both ways) and normally at this spot the air is quite calm,laminar and so an opportunity to eat, drink (or video). How were conditions the rest of the flight?
Hi Ben, it's on a selfie stick which is tethered with some old brake line to my harness. I tend to move it around a bit throughout flight. My harness has hiking pole attachments in the back that I use for the shots behind my head. For the side/front shots I tend to just tuck it inside the harness and trap it between my hips and the harness. I'm not overly worried about it coming out of place or falling because it's tethered
@@BenBowler nice, enjoy. If you can tape over any gaps in the stick you will reduce the snag risk further. I've got tape around the top of the stick where it attaches to the camera to it can't snag on the bolt, as an example.
@@The.FlyGuy pas des problèmes avec ? Tu es content? Le fait que le conteneur avant ne propose pas correctement différentes tailles est un inconvénient pour moi.
@@safranpollen Désolé pour mon français. le récipient est petit. J'utilise un U-Turn Backup 115 et ça va. Yeti-UL ou similaire fonctionnerait également. Mais je pense que c'est un harnais fantastique :) très léger, très confortable
@@The.FlyGuy I have a a charly steerable rescue, Diamond cross. I think a bit to big for the frontcontainer. . Bogdan harness are for this problem well constructed, you can switch between 4 different container sizes.
Quand le plus important dans un vol est le buzz sur RU-vid on pilote avec la perche de la gopro et pas avec les freins. C'est franchement moins efficace !
... εγώ κινδύνεψα στα αλήθεια ρυθμίζοντας μία κάμερα πριν 10 χρόνια ! Μεγάλη προσοχή λοιπόν για να έχουμε πολλές τέτοιες υπέροχες εμπειρίες! Μπράβο σου για το όμορφο βίντεο που μοιράζεσαι και μπράβο για στο ασφαλές αλεξίπτωτο που πετάς!
@@The.FlyGuy Was it induced by your movements or was it about to happen but due to lack of active flying for 5-10 seconds you couldn't prevent it? I am always nervous to take out or adjust a camera
