Yes, if you need to lose weight by jogging with your hang glider on the shoulders, it is certainly the most correct technique. I wonder what would happen, though, if the available landings were smaller than an airport, a savannah or a Siberian tundra. 😉
Exactly my point... Fly into an RLF and add some mid-day thermal activity. These guys would be landing on their noses by the look of their approaches on their DTs.
@@danield679 ouais ça change rien à la difficulté du poser en aile delta le problème c'est surtout quand il y a pas de vent de face c'est là que le drag chute, et utile.
The drogue is an excellent means of controlling a steep glide-slope for getting into RLFs. It is an extra level of complexity, but for XC flying, it can be a real life-saver. If you're merely a bowl-flying pilot, always landing in the same big LZ, then the drogue is not likely your cup of joe.
WOW! Did anyone else notice the extreme static electric discharges at around 6:04 - 6:08. I thought I was imagining it at first... has anyone else ever experienced this?
a so so flight with a kick A$$ landing was a great time. a kick A$$ flight with a bad landing will only be remembered by one thing. that sloppy rotten landing. that's just the way it is.
Ya know, if this vid wasn't titled '...from MASTER hang gliding", I wouldn't have commented, but come on..... All landings performed on the same LZ in perfectly smooth conditions, on a perfectly flat, humongously-large LZ in which to land in ANY direction? This is NOT challenging at all. No proof of any pilot here being a master. Yes, they are some smooth landings, but then you'd expect no less in perfect landing conditions such as these. A few errors are visible, though, if these pilots are rated as masters. The pilot with the yellow-ish gloves always transitioned from control bar to down-tubes at much too high an altitude on every approach. That will eventually get him seriously messed-up if he ever is forced to land in active conditions and/or enclosed RLF's. The pilot with the dark-gray gloves (first landing) did much better by remaining on the control bar until flying withing ground effect, though in active conditions, he hopefully would have transitioned just before flare so that he would have the most positive control up until that point. Flying on the downtubes is a recipe for real disappointment and pain. If you would like to view some very good impromptu out-landings by a real XC master, look up Robert Booth's "East Bay Hang Gliding" channel... "Roberts intense landings" vid on youtube. Probably the best out-landings ever recorded on YT! Fly smart!
Doesn't hurt to master flying the glider in the upright position with hands as high on the down tubes as comfortable. Try some light thermaling in this position, with appropriate clearance. This way you'll learn to more confidently execute your landing sequences while upright, and avoid the risk of blowing the transition while close to the ground where it is costlier. Sometimes the conditions do merit remaining prone until the last second, but that is very rare. The conditions in this video look very calm. There is no reason not to at least practice flying the entire downwind-base-final sequence on the uprights.
I must agree. Where I fly, we need more speed and more authority in a mid day conditions. I can understand one up one down on the final, but both hands on down tubes, at shoulder height is only possible in very smooth air.
@@SVSky Sure Robert 'teaches' a high approach while on dt's.... every instructor does for H1/H2 pilots. Get over yourself. Hopefully you will grow to be a more advanced HG pilot, and you will understand that attempting to control your glider in active conditions while on the dt's will likely, at best, result in poor control, especially when approaching an RLF. All one needs to do is look at many of your landings..... many times you balloon-up as you approach ground-effect. Ballooning in the LZs that you picture is no big deal, but If you did this within a very-restricted landing field (RLF), you could severely injure yourself. Some of us are not blessed with gigantic LZs, so we MUST have perfect control from high-approach all the way to the spot-landing. Every pilot should strive to have perfect control, and if you find yourself ballooning, or deviating from your planned landing course, then something is wrong with your control. Fix it!
@@TIm_Bugge Sure, this advice is de rigueur for H1/H2 pilots. But as you advance to fly within more active conditions, into RLFs, you, as a more experienced pilot who MUST have ultimate control of your aircraft in turbulent conditions will understand that controlling your aircraft from a very poor mechanical position such as the DTs will only give poor results. Especially if you are attempting to spot-land due to obstacles and/or steep glide slopes. Yes, you can be in a very upright position while controlling your aircraft via the control bar. You can also be in a OUOD position (One-Up, One-Down). You should always be thinking how to better control your craft, and being on both DTs ain't it, brother.
@Rod Loucks These guys are not masters. But I know plenty of H5 pilots who routinely fly XC and swear by wheels to help save their DTs in crazy landing conditions. Wheels can help save a lot of money, especially when you're not sponsored.
