Acro hang gliding crash - The pilot survived! (eng subs) 

... swim away from,

Sure! Thx for your feedback

@@My_Fair_Lady What is the hard stuff then?

@@My_Fair_Lady You can't do an outside loop in a hang glider. Think about that some first.

haha good point !

I laugh at the tinyness of your house. I am planning on an expedition to the upper floors of mine next year but it is complicated because you need to take oxygen with you because the air is so thin. Also it is very cold up there! At least we finished another tram station in the living stadium this year so if you want to go to the toilet hall you don't have to leave the living stadium five hours in advance.

I try this every day as soon as I get up !

I flew a HP 2 in the Owen's for many years a duck also, known Mitch forever

thanks for the story !

Haha yes, it’s something they teach in French sports commentator’s universities it seems, because they all do the same irritating high pitched nervous thing where they frantically produce decibels without actually saying anything useful. I prefer the English snooker tournament style of commentary, low and steady tranquil questioning of options. 😊

thanks for your feedback!

Motion and confinement has a different effect, especially for someone who’s body feels so free while gliding. Thanks for the story, much respect to you and those that do this.

have with more than a few confirmed pilots and athletes have little or no tolerance for being confined and not on the controls without getting motion sickness.

Sure he is !

#Legendary - how else can you describe him ?

Aaron Swepston, aka Looperman, invented and perfected the "Twisty," (which I will not insult with a French spelling) where you come OUT of a loop going back the way you went in. It's wild! MacAleer stole the idea. I've flown with them both. Aaron is a World Champion in Hang Gliding Aerobatics.

"Swam," but oh well.......

indeed, was just thinking about better pilots, Guido Gehrman, Chris Mueller, Jeff Huey, dead or maimed either from pushing the margins like this, or no fault of their own other than being in the air, in that aircraft when shit happened. I can make no other excuse but the hand of god and some purpose still remaining for this mortal form.

It's conservation of energy. Although it is a bit harder on a hang glider because they have so much drag compared to regular aircraft.

im dyslexic and first read it as bald pilots and was like there is defenitly old bald pilots!!! lol

Did you see Aaron Swepston there back then? He did the Telluride Aerobatics back then a few different times. Aaron invented the Twisty, I watched him practicing it in WA at local sites. Aaron then won a World Championship in HG Aerobatics.

@@logmeindangit I’m sure I did. I would go there every year

@@Hovermaster Aaron invented the twisty. I remember talking to him about it many years ago, and watched as he practiced at a Washington State site, Dog Mountain. Took him a while, but he ironed it out. Mitch got it from Aaron, aka Looperman.

Sure! go for it !

see you in heaven

Good luck. Lol

Good idea. You should try the loop close to the ground too, loops near the ground are safer.

I will come... To your funeral. Nah probably won't even do that haha

Who are you? The authority on hanggliders?

@@michaelm1573 Was there an error in my observation? Did he have the needed airspeed to avoid the water? Please, give me your expert opinion...

@@penrynbigbird Not an airspeed problem. He was trying to look cool by skimming the water in ground effect, just misjudged his height above water.

@@davidkey5531 Exactly.

@@michaelm1573 If H5-Phil holds an H5 rating then he has the rare official distinction of "Master Hang Glider"... He might know a thing or two.

LOL, been doing that same stupid shit over hard ground at 9000 ASL in Telluride since 1984. Good thing this time it was filmed by a pro..... lol.

@@sigiloXXX: Actually, I have flown hang-gliders in the past, but now that I'm 70 years old I prefer flying my power paraglider trike & have cut down on sky diving to about twice a month. Even then I rarely free fall anymore, just do a hop & pop from 12,000 and float down. Those opening shocks are getting rough on these old bones.

I know, right? I mean, who was the pantie-waist who posted such a snow-flaky, limp-wristed warning?

Wana bet?

@@petethewrist statistics and betting were made for each other. On an actuarial basis the language would be changed from "no" to "not many" and you have a bet.

There are some old boring cliches about flying, and this one deserves the biggest yawn. It's usually quoted by non--flyers, or those with limited flying skills.

@@jackfrost2146 ..... do you fall in your quoted categories?

@@Dan-xo9ly Yes--I'm old and marginally bold.

good feedback !

yes you can! that's why there is safety boats

The description states "he came out unscathed".

I was thinking of the greek Icarus saying "when you fly to high to the sun your wings will get burnt" but ......... if you fly to low this crap will happen You can say the "Flight of Icarus", but inverted ;)

haha

i wouldn't show it to mine :-)

@@GuillaumeBroust ❄❄❄❄❄

LMFAO!!!!

true !!

Sad to hear about that. But it's not about the sport, it's about the risk management. You can have an accident in your car if you want. Mitch is a world class pilot, so he has more skills than any other guys. Best regards and be safe

@@GuillaumeBroust the problem here isn't one of him having skills (although clearly he isn't as skilled as he thinks he is), the problem is the perception of others, especially those who have the power to restrict us even more.

@@nicktulloh STFU, " if you do that, they will end the sport" is a line of bullshit I've heard since I started flying in '79. What loses the sport is real estate development. Fuck off.

haha thanks for the note! (sorry i'm french...) :-)

Although, many now refer to stunts on paragliders as "acro." What terminology morons, IMHO!

This information comes from Mtch McAleer himself. I think he knows what he says.

@@GuillaumeBroust Look at the video. It's right in front of you. I'm not saying that the nose plate didn't hit him in the back. I'm saying that the control bar didn't break.. he was simply catapulted froward when the thing hit the water. He can say whatever he likes, but I'm going to go with the video showing what happened being more factual than someone saying what they think happened.

@@ryanokeefe12 I was primary thinking as you thought, but as Mitch McAleer is the pilot who went through the control bar, I think he knows whats happened

@@GuillaumeBroust again, it's in the footage. You can clearly see the control bar remain in place. I don't know why he feels the need to make things up. It defies physics to say that the control bar broke and went forward with him, when it is the first thing to make contact with the water. If it did actually break, it would have folded backwards, not forwards.

true !

please contact the pilot Micth McAleer

actually had the absurd notion to drag my hand in the water at way over 100mph. doh, the reserve container hit the water and the rest is history.

they pick up them to the take off (mountain above)

yes... it was crazy for sure

Gravity is amazing. You point the nose down and it accelerates immediately.

haha

yeah true! in france we say "There is no good pilots. There is only old pilots..." Cheers

Hoover and Yeager were both bold and old! Two of the finest pilots that ever lived!

@@oneskydog4401 you're right about Hoover but clearly you never met Yeager

euphémisme!

Nick, you have the right idea. Darker ground absorbs more heat than lighter surfaces. Often, in the Seattle area, a black parking lot will create a healthy thermal flow that ends in a nice, puffy cloud if conditions are right. Happens a lot in the spring. Rocky mountain surfaces heat up in the sun, too, more if they are dsrker. Same goes for darker patches of land, like plowed farmland. Also, terrain plays a big role. Imagine a mountain heating up in the morning sun as it rises toward its summer noon peak. Now imagine a small model of the mountain, flipped upside down, sprayed with water from a spray bottle. The water generally slides along and drips off the peaks. Thermals tend to slide up the mountain just like the water runs "up" the angled slopes of the mountain, until it finds a peak or change in slope where it breaks free and falls away. Now, visualise that model flipped right-side up, and imagine the water continuing to slide up the slopes like it did when inverted. That is what thermals tend to do, as they are generated on sloped surfaces. They tend to slip along the inclined surface until they reach a peak or other change in contour where they will break free and rise vertically. Then, any prevailing wind will cause thermals leaving the mountain to lean as they climb into the sky, pushed downwind with the moving air mass. You can see it as clouds tend to lean and drift. You can sometimes visualize the angle of the thermal that rose to make the cloud, following It down to whatever ground mass created it. It is a wonderful concept to grasp as you fly around, trying to read the land and find a thermal to climb in. Another thing to think about on a hillside, is that thermals sliding up a mountain tend to cycle through as they carry the heated air up from where they started down lower. When a thermal breaks loose and slides up the hill, cooler, heavier air is drawn in where the thermal began, and the breeze flowing up the hill stops when that heated "bubble" has flushed past an observer on the mountain. That cooler air down below takes a little time to heat up from the warm ground, and when heated, it soon becomes expanded enough to slide up the mountain and pull in another rush of cooler air behind it, displacing it, and the thermal cycle begins all over again. The thermal cycle time varies with the terrain and conditions, but is fairly regular. It can be every minute or so to several minutes from thermal to thermal at a mountain launch site. You'll see pilots often checking thermal cycle strength and times as they wait on launch, to get a feel for when to launch. Pilots often like launching as the thermal flow builds, so they get well off the hill before it has passed by them, and get into the majority of it, instead of waiting roo long, taking off as the thermal is almost done. If they wait too long in the cycle, the may find the thermal has passed as they get away from the hill, and it dumps them out the back of it. Understand that the thermal will also be shedding warm air off its "back" as it slides up the mountain slope, which may give the lucky glider pilot additional lift after they launch and get out away from the hill. Timing matters! And that is all I know about anything...

@@logmeindangit thankyou so much, this is thr information, have been seeking !!!!! I would like to paramotor more than anything for endurance, thought learning gliding techniques would help alot with that.

Not just gonna float becaue there's a hot road 😂

HA!

What is not tame for a hang glider then?

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aie

Nope, landing

yep

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