A chain of small mistakes can ruin your flight | Bombing out early 

i like it that there is no music. Just the real scene. Showing low saves and no saves and epic thermalling. Keep it real and huge respect!

most authentic "how to paraglide" teachings! thanks a lot for such great content!

I literally feel this video…I’ve had the same thought process and I know the exact feeling of huge disappointment when your feet touch the ground. Best thing about it is that you had a safe landing and now you have the opportunity to fly again!

Bombing out is not the worst after escaping from a area with no landings. Better stay on the safe side and don't spend the rest of the day in a tree. Thanks for sharing!

Lovely video and I have to say these are very high level mistakes. Even Medium level pilots wont see or feel them as mistakes at all... You have much higher standards as compared to most of us..

Dude seriously, couldn't watch your suffering till the end.. Had almost the same situation this year, killing a FAI200+ day. But at least you managed to escape and reach a nice landing spot. Instead of escaping out when I had the change I took the risk and bombed out high in the moutain into a deep and long valey above the forest line. Hiked down for 6+ hours (+ 1 twisted ankle). Mistakes were made, lessons are learned.. I hope LoL.. Good video (watched it till the end)...

another excellent tutorial in the series. i think im a better pilot just from staying home today and binging on your videos 😂 thanks again.

Learning a lot whith your vids! Thanks for share!

At least you had beautiful countryside to stare at!

I think most of the mistakes are "I was not patient enough" (at least for me it is), not patient to stay in weak, not patient to to wait for another to appear, not patient to go slowly ahead,....and at the end I am alway not patient enough to fight in low height and I rather throw a towel in the ring :-) Excelent video.

Thank you for sharing

Thanks for sharing!!!

oh man, you really don't give up 😁

I could feel the anxiety where you pushing too hard.. it looked like it was high pressure. You had a very valuable lesson on when to slow down and speed up that day.. Great tool for people very honest.. everywhere you went should of worked. The sport is a real head game and the minute you fuck up, you have to regroup mentally.. I think you learned that.. Great video💯

Very very very low flight. Solved good. 👍 Great video.

I've done considerable mathematical analysis of this. Going by what everybody says that weak thermal is probably increasing. When the sun comes up early and heats one side of a steep slope the other side is still cold and there is the week thermal at that point. If you can hang onto it until 12:30 just as habit you will get more strong thermals. You have a good eye and skills to pay the bills. If you would grab each of those weak thermals and tell yourself that is where the win is, and go by the time of day. Grab every weak thermal before 11am. I saw that first green place where you were low and I said to myself I could land right there good good. Then when you flew up to that road I was thinking wow he could land right there. Then when you got to the green part of the end I was so happy for you. I could have landed there. It will be a long long time before I would ever try to land on that road.

Wow, self-made "handle sticks" for C-B steering control on Cure2 ! :))

I can feel your pain! Been in that situation several times! Maybe thermalling up a bit higher at Steinplatte would have helped? At least Pillersee is a nice place to bomb out next to. I've been living there for about 5 years...

Great video! Question: you are looking for thermals close to terrain. At least where I fly, the thermals don't work well (unless they are coming off a spine) unless I'm at least 70m above the terrain. Your thoughts on this greatly appreciated.

When you have to hope there is no strong sink to not land in the trees you know you already fcked up :D

I find working thermals so close to terrain is very difficult. They are just too small being close to the ground. All of your assumed triggers looked good and they may have been there, but you may have missed them for their diameter being small. If I'm low like that, I try to make as much distance from terrain as possible by flying/climbing out front until I can fly back to the mountain for the real boomer. Maybe the camera perspective was fooling me and you were higher than what it looks like. Flying out front gives the safety of ground clearance and fatter/easier thermals, even if they're the ones that don't go as high. You probably already know this though. I too hate the feeling of mistakes leading to more mistakes out of desperation.

Really nice, I would be way too nervous to be that low over the trees without a close bailout. Can you post a pic of your 360 cam mount the quality is pretty impressive.

Novice question - back in the valley when you were trying to get out were you a: on speed bar, b: hands up or c: min sink (hands shoulder)? Thx

Could be one of my flights. Safety first and then you realize that you're already too low. Where do you fly there? It's a beautiful spot.

Also another mistake is to try to catch the thermal doing 360 close to the mountain. Is better to do 8 until you are high and far enough.

You’re being far too self critical. The air was clearly. very stable and the tiny bits of lift you went through were just that - tiny bubbles.

You are not hard enough on yourself. Take a good hard look in the mirror. Were you the best darn pilot you can be?