In my hang glider, and in a very punchy thermal, the nose falls off the column of rising air first. I feel that the same thing happened here. The nose falls off first. Very likely into sinking air. In a hang glider, it's no big deal. Just keep the nose down to get the air speed you need to pull out safely. But in a paraglider, the nose collapses. Does this sound to you like what may have happened here?
In my hang glider, and in a very punchy thermal, the nose falls off the column of rising air first. I feel that the same thing happened here. The nose falls off first. Very likely into sinking air. In a hang glider, it's no big deal. Just keep the nose down to get the air speed you need to pull out safely. But in a paraglider, the nose collapses. Does this sound to you like what may have happened here?
@@garrykennedy5484 yes, I think the same. The pilot is probably "fallen out" of the thermal draft. Since it often occurs, that beside the uplift, there is a fast downwind.
In my hang glider, and in a very punchy thermal, the nose falls off the column of rising air first. I feel that the same thing happened here. The nose falls off first. Very likely into sinking air. In a hang glider, it's no big deal. Just keep the nose down to get the air speed you need to pull out safely. But in a paraglider, the nose collapses. Does this sound to you like what may have happened here?
How could you not feel that frontal before it happened? Your hands didn't move at all while you wing was pitching prior to the collapse. Practice dolphining more to get a better feel for pitch control because you didn't have any in this video. If you controlled your pitch on the previous 2 bumps you probably wouldn't have collapsed. The only time you hand moved was in reaction to roll movements.
@@severinbechtold1873 What else can I say? When you know how to feel it you know. Just needs more time and experience and more concise and timely input. His hands are not reacting fast enough or with enough movement. He doesn't have the feel for it yet. Hence the advise for him to practice particular pitch control skills.
@@dirkdiggler3009 Agree. I guess it was more left side collapse than the frontal. His luck was that he was already slightly breaking the right side at time of the collapse ( even though he was weight shifting to the dead side). That collapsed side had to be signalling that already before by loss of the brake pressure ( actually probably both sides). Good that nothing happened.
I agree. It could be catch long before it's happened. From my point of experience it's obviously visible, but couple ears ago, when I wasn't such a experienced with strong and narrow, thermal bubble, I was doing the same. Ist even easier fight with wing, in such a conditions, while you're sitting in extra light harness. It's more easier to overreacting than in heavy harness. Happy that pilot it's save and even more he continues the ✈️
That collapse took about one second to recover, so nothing serious happened.. good wing, fast recover, no serious altitude lost on this collapse. Why and how RAST would make it any safer? Small collapse on small turbulence --> big collapse on bid turbulence... That's paragliding bro!
Maestro and e.g. NyosRS belong to the same safety-class (high-B). IF NyosRS would be "more safe" it should lead to a lower safety-class - or - to a higher performance in the same safety class. But according to my measurements, trim and accelerated flights of Nyos are slow compared to Maestro. The consequence of RAST is - in my opinion - that it calms down the glider and let you feel like sitting in a Rolls-Royce, eliminating small information (which some people make nervous). In extreme conditions, both gliders set the same demand to pilots (high-B).
