2016 Early season Speedflying 

Looking at random speed flying videos and find you!

it is!

If you really need help I can look for links at amazon. Do you still require a tutorial?

Yeah it definitely is =) No most of the pilots I flew with were not using reserves!

Thanks. I got stuck on a post which turned me in a swing directly towards the mountain. The major impact was weakned by my left leg, the rest impact by my left hip. Through this my sacrum and symphyse broke (known as a common paragliding accident fracture) and the left side L5 S1 nerves got partialy damaged as well. I still have 1 big screw in my sacrum and a plate with 6 screws stabiliting my symphyse, as well as a minor nerve damage in the dorsal left leg. As I was already mentioning I was very lucky and I got along with minir deficits off that accident. Therfore I can normaly continue life and do what I ever did before ;-) For me the eyes opend, making me understand that I would ever execute this sports with an unexpected risk which potentially turn your life completely. And I think this is true for every extreme sports athlete and even everything in life that can be done. All in all I realized there are so much other things in my life that will make me happy (e.g. playing beach volley ball) but do carry such high consequene risks.

The higher the speed the higher the airpressure in the wing! Also the profil itself is way less curved.

Yeah I was quite ambitios about speedflying. Bit I am not flying any more. Have fun dude!

Thanks a lot! I am flying the Mirage 8.5 ;-)

Small size;-) I fly a glider size 14. Is a barrel roll difficult to do? It seems so smooth how you fly it!

Barrel rolls should not be tried just by the way! There is a big difference between wing sizes. A big wig is slower, has more resistance ,builds up bigger (radial) forces and takes more time to build them up - in the end much more sluggish. Compared to road vehicels you could say flying a barrel is like moving around a small roundabout. Now imagine you try this with a light small vehicle like a gocart.. easy? yeah !! with a lorry you cant go as fast since its much more sluggish and more heavy. I would compare your 14 m wing with a luxus limusine in this regard. More agil than a lorry but still not as agil as a small gocart. Back to the time when I flew a Spit 13 I was afraid of flying barrels, not only because I was more unexperianced, but also because the wing felt much more sluggish. It took me 2 years and several down size steps until I managed to fly my first barrel. Since then I flew hundrest of barrels. If you want to learn it to I would recommend you to begin with smooth curves, then increase and play with the dynamics of your steering and weightshifting. If you know the feeling for little curves fly them longer for some degrees step by step until you end up with fling down spirals. And if you feel confident about these you can further increase your stering impuls to make it shift from down barrel more into forward barrel. Dont force anything, try to develop a feeling for the wing behaviour, begin with the first trys at nice conditions, in high altitudes and a take a reserve with you. Most importantly stay safe and have fun! If you get into touch with other pilots or teachers, talk to them and ask them about their opinion, tipps and reflect what sound right to you ;-) best luck!

Thank you very much! This is good advice from you! :-)

No, most speedflyers do not use them.

Michael Lutz im assuming there's just not enough time to actually deploy most of the time?

Yeah right, most of the time it would not take long until an impact and therefore it might not help in usual cases

We were aged 25-30 at that time.

AND TODAY?

I am 29 years old, but Iam not flying anymore. But Pilots are aged in between 20-40 according to whom I met

Michael Lutz why did you stop?

I had a serious accident in August 2016. I think I was lucky and I decided to do other good weather stuff now :-)