+Róbert Tokai sorry to say that, but some of the pilots here are mentally retarded. Special mention for the one who lands in full middle of the camping area while he can land anywhere else. This one is obivously stupid, no one can defend that.
Sylvain Rivier actually I was there and I know the pilot. He did not reach the LZ cause of strong wind in the valley. No one wants to land in a camp on purpose. Believe me. These situations are Er landings. :-)
Many paraglider-pilots I know, and many in this video it seems, have a tendency to not choose a landingspot early, they just fly and see where they end up! Big mistake! The more beginner you are, the more important it is to choose a field early, and stick to it! And ALWAYS wait with losing altitude until you are OVER the field! In this video many misjudge the sink and wind-gradient, and end up being unable to reach the field...
Ozone also I feel like most are lacking coaching and or sufficient knowledge of canopy flight. It’s like these guys bought a glider and watched some video on how to launch and fly it but not land it
You don't stay over your landing spot, you stay upwind until your landing path will begin, so you'll double your chances of not being dragged away by the wind. Reducing your downwind leg, will reduce the time you fight the wind with less space for surprises and for a much better estimated trajectory since you have almost landed.
Man, those were great emergency landings! The problem with paragliders as I see it is they don't penetrate high winds very well and the wind doesn't always stay at the velocity you take off in. I flew hang gliders avidly for 10 years, lots of competitions, and always made it to where I wanted to land. Sometimes not by a lot. My record headwind landing was 40 MPH and I sure didn't plan it that way LOL. I landed going backwards and fell on my ass, but somehow managed to keep the nose down and not get blown over backwards.
Paragliders you see in this video, even if they use advanced options like cocoons and avionics can't be considered as serious pilots : most of them look like they never pushed the door of a paragliding school. The one landing rear wind in a backyard because he doesn't know how to do a 8 style approach doesn't even wear a helmet !
Guy on 4:40 must say THANK YOU to his wing. seems like pilot dont know, what he should to do for optimal. and those chaotic clevant's puching... where he learn to fly?..
What's weird is that the pilot did have the sense to go for big ears just before landing, which does seem to indicate a certain skill level beyond total idiot. I suspect it's recklessness more than lack of know-how that caused the pilot's situation.
@@harryhalfmoon I don't know what to think of him : he did a great job seeking and negociate the thermal's bubbles but he started panicking just a second before entering the main thermal zone ; I really don't know what was running in his head at this moment : it's a situation most of paragliders love to encounter, it means "jackpot" to me ! He missed a great fly.
When you're in the gradient, pulling the brakes is not an option : you need speed to pass through. The solution when you feel like you're attracted by the forest ( typical gradient situation ) is to release your brakes and target a tree in front of you (!) When you get enough speed, you can just add a little brake or pull the rear elevator to turn for the nearest place to land and you keep your hands up until you're ready to flare ! You need a maximum of speed to land safely in the gradient.
Oh man that one where the guy got blown OTB and had to just go with it through the rotor and found a clearing and landed safely was so lucky and skilled, iMO he did the exact right thing and I was shaking watching it, bravo man whoever you are. Lol
I don't think "all pilots landed safe" is a correct summary. I did spot one or two unsafe landings. It looked like luckily no injuries were involved. That's positive at least. And perhaps investing in a helmet would be no luxury. :-) I wish you countless safe landings!
the one at 5:35 ? yep... though he kept a cool attitute and with a bit (a lot) of luck ended up landing fine german paragliders are always full of hope
Hey man, half of those incidents wouldve been perfectly fine with an accelerator! You have a hook at each risee to connect it to, to gain about 20% airspeed..
Flight 4 I think? Green and gold wing, takes off, berries himself deep over the trees with no exit, does a pass over the launch and flys directly into the venturi zone and wonders why he's flying backwards and can't steer! Lucky he found that small small patch of clearing to safely and softly land! PLUS his speed bar wasnt even connected! WTF?? So many pilots need to go back to basics, more GH, more sleddies, more guidance more importantly!..
He was not stucked over the trees ; He was doing a good job in this bubble so he can fly over the take off to reach the main thermal zone ( what you call Venturi zone ) ; I really don't know why he panicked entering the main thermal : he was not even in front of the wind ! He just had to let it stall inside the thermal and let's go !
I’ve never done paragliding but from my experience flying rc planes these guys really stink at finding landing spots. They don’t really know how to point reference or anything.
I wonder why some comments below are so aggressive !! this video to show some incidents of bad landing, so what you expect to see ?? why some people show off and with others as idiots,,,? It is very good to learn from the mistakes of others than yours. and if you look at the monthly reports of incidents, you will see a lot of incidents happened because of bad planning for landing. you ddn't see the exact conditions of each landing, so no need to offend others. keep safe.
Yeah people - stop pumping the hell out of yr control lines. I've seen people pumping so hard they stall their wing (with a serious injury the result). You NEVER need to pump; feel them instead.
@@toximaxi I'dont need to be perfect as you mean to see the difference between a bad decision and a stupid mistake, if you are addicted for paragliding you won't do such elementary mistakes.
They are placing themselves in peril. I was trained to always look for a landing site and be over your LZ before getting too low. At the point of writing this, I am half way through, and sure, the folks are making bad decisions but seemingly are able to survive and actually make fairly good landings. Any landing you come from alive or without serious injury is a good landing.
Bad decisions you have to go to school to learn how to fly in safety conditions it is crazy and stupid to be under a paraglide with a so bad level of knowledge !!!
It is a collection and not only one pilot. Each of pilots made one bad/risky decision due to the conditions changed during flight or came in other situation. If you fly you know that weather can change during flight also. If you have never had situation in your life like this to solve you are lucky. They solved it (good or bad is secondary) and there is not much time to think in these situations. Fly safe! ;)
I am not protecting bad decision here but you should know this before judging: 1. These pilots are hungarians (as am I), there are lots of us who love to fly and we have practically no mountains to fly from, our airspace above the best takoff places are often heavily restricted. Also, our mountains are not steep enough, it is quite difficult to find reliable thermals to keep you up. 2. As a consequence of the first point it is difficult to accumulate experience (unless you also travel a lot, e.g. to Austria) that gives you skills to reliably estimate what you can reach and what you cannot (or in what wind you'd better go home). Add this to the everlating wish to stay in the air and there you go with what you just have seen. 3. Training has nothing to do with this, those -sometimes bad- decisions are made by the actual pilots, who chose to risk (mostly themselves) instead of safe (and "walky") approach. What you should request from a training though is to teach how to FLARE, which is quite essential... E.g. pilot 14:40 who found a perfect spot for landing, and actually did apporach it quite well, why he did not flare? As for the last: I still prefer such "how not to" videos compared to those showing ppl who have 3000000 flied hours and I cannot even notice what they do when they do it :) C U up there.
No excuses please. Pilots in countries without mountains can do winching to get in the air. For their mountain flying experience they should indeed travel to an area with mountains and take a course at a specialized parapenteschool to learn the do's and dont's of mountain flying. There is no other (safe) way! It's very easy to recognise the pilots without proper training: they start sitting immediately after takeoff, and do not get out of their seat during landing. You learn why these are pilot-errors at first lesson!
I did not write excuses. I wrote reasons.... I beleive judging someone as "idiot" is way too simple, therefore rarely correct. I do not agree on your statement about how to recognise people without training. They do it because they CHOOSE to, not because they do NOT KNOW that they should not. No matter how many hours you train - you always will meet unexpected circumstances up there. What will matter then is how you decide (choose to act) not what your trainer did/did not tell you. That is all I say. I do not say it is totally OK to endanger yourself or others. Chhers, V.
Last landing (10:40) is, of course, a very good decision and well executed but the pilot seems non to be a very experienced one because it was non difficul not finishing so long (by simply entering in final a bit lower) and he was not standing up but almost seated when landed near the rock well visible at 14:51 - extremely dangerous for the back! He seems to be a fairly good pilot but not very conscious about danger and safety - maybe because of a poor school training.
"No mountains" are by no means an excuse. I happen to know several paragliding pilots who live in Northern Germany, where we have absolutely nothing like hills, let alone mountains. I know what I am talkong about since _I am also living here_. We've got nifty 900 km to go (one way, nb.) if we are about to take a trip to the Alps. This is like crossing your beautiful country back and forth at once. Alternatively, it takes 350 to 400 km to some Danish paragliding site. We are forced to get any opportunity for practicing, anyway, from just groundhandling to towing / winch launch. Obviously, you don't need actually any steep high mountains to fly neither. I am sure you know it all. What's more, you certainly know that the beautiful country of Hungary is surrounded by higher mountains. You can choose between Carpathian and Alps, depending on twhere you are resident in HU. So go for a day trip to Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, or even Austria - to name just a few of your EU neighbours with quite nice mountains. In case you cannot, for whatever reason, take such trips too often: another idea is to go for flying camps and exercise under professional support wit a trainer. Don't tell me there were no flying schools in the modern country of Hungary offering such trips/travels. On my voyages, I have met Hungarian flight school groups quite often, for example in Lijak/Kovk or even in Bassano. Here in Germany, it is quite usual to make such "supervised" trips. There are students/trainees along with free (licensed) pilots there, the latter even with B-Schein (Cross country license). Works fine, makes fun and teaches you a lot. Sure, it costs a few euros or forints, but it's certainly worth it - what you learn can save you butt, just in case. It's also not a shame to get professional advice to improve one's skills, since nobody of us is perfect, which also applies to us pilots. :) Besides, you can usually order a test glider or two from the school, normally at no extra fee. So this might be worth considering, IMHO. Stay safe!
Stanion Wuffy Epic paragliding fails / wins and chrashes is a series. ER landings is the title of this episode. check out all the other episodes! cheers ;-)
My question is - OK, you depart Nopesville, you're losing altitude, you pick the one clearing ahead, you make the PERFECT landing.. BUT.. your in the middle of a forest, no roads, no houses, somewhere in F-thatastan .. NOW WHAT ?? - Fun sport.
Why don't you just admit to yourself that you're a fearful person, and move along to a different video that is more in keeping with your personality type like sitting on your couch while drinking a beer and listening to shity music?
You've got legs don't you? Hike. You're not that far from a nearby village or road unless you went for a very ambitious XC flight and purposefully went far from any civilization.
Yes, I do pumping the breaks but it is not a good technique. I try to get rid of this bad habit beacause if you do it like this you can not feel (or it is harder to feel) when the wing falls into fullstall. it is better to keep the breaks down or pull them down slowly to a fix point. :) Fly safe! ;)
To me it was not HOW you all got into Thease situations. It was how you used what skills you had to land safely. Maybe not everyone's choice. But you all landed. Period
What I do not understand, why do those pilots turn at the last moment into the tightest space available when there is a better option just next to them?
@@alexandrechatty5439 Yes, that could be. That means they are not at a level to fly yet. Instructor should train them a little more. Also, not everyone should fly...
@@efesair4336 In France, where I live, there is legally no need to have a licence to fly a paraglider even if two licences exists : the initial licence and the pilot licence. I have the pilot licence though but I think no one should buy a wing without at least the initial licence that validate the basic flying school course.
@@alexandrechatty5439 Licencing is good but as an instructor ı can say that the licence has only a legal value. Good training from a good instructor is key. But instructors who need to make a living off teaching have a lot of pressure. Good training costs time and money. And only few people are willing to pay those amounts. Also, in my early days there was no internet purchase, you had to go to a school and they looked at your level before they sold you a wing. Today anyone can buy anything online..sadly.
What you may not realize, if you're not a paraglider pilot, is that most of these situations here have a strong wind present. This limits your movement when you're flying facing the wind, because you'd be going very slow and still sinking the same amount. When you're facing opposite the wind, you're going super fast, and you don't want to land in this direction. So you're limited in the directions you can reasonably fly to. When you land you want to be facing the wind, so you're going slow, for a gentle landing. A downwind landing can have you hurling towards the ground really fast and can easily injure you.
That guy at 3 minutes on the dot. So much luck, so much skill at the end to pull that off. I was freaking out with all LZs ending in electrocution... Edit: I noticed a lot of people pumping the brakes to sort of drop slowly and controlled straight down. I was never taught this technique
It's a landing technique to steepen your descent, but it can be very dangerous if you don't have the good rythm. I prefer doing big ears, way easier to pull off consistently
You need to be really comfortable with stalls before you start doing that technique. Not that you'll actually do them that low, but you do get really close to stalling when doing this technique, so you want to make sure you're able to recognize when it happens and react appropriately if it does.
it's sick to ... entrust your health ... life to a piece of rag and string .... for adrenaline. (to chore by... powierzać swe zdrowie... życie kawałkowi szmaty i sznurkom.... dla adrenaliny )-:
Like... wtf? people im school i learned land like that first 20 flights. Than training kicks in. Do any of these pilots ever attempt precision landing? I mean, you can land almost vertically. what the hell are all these wingovers in peoples gardens?
