Looks like a thermal pushed him up and he was already braking quite a lot, the result is a push back and then slingshot. Mistakes were mostly grabbing the risers braking too much not standing up for landing
The student is flying too slow. You need to be out of those breaks and flying as fast as you can stand close to the ground. Prevent stalls from speed gradients and turbulence on the ground if you're really going fast.
As everyone seems to see that he had „to much brake“: The only thing you can see is that he had less brake as the canopy accelerated again. What really happened with the brakes is not visible as the thermal hit. And the only big root cause seems that the instructor sends students to the sky who obviously are not familiar with thermals at all.
One second before the collapse his hands were below the carabiners! It looks to me as if the only reason he suddenly let go of the brakes was because he was startled when the glider stalled and he fell behind.
Yes thermals are invisible turbulence is invisible. The only hope you have is to be flying with enough speed to dominate these things if you're flying slow you might wind up like this pilot stay out of them breaks when you get close to the bottom slow some slow down some then do a big landing flare. Flying low and slow ain't the way to go.
@@markmcgoveran6811 just half right. If you fly without any breaks at all you risk a frontal collapse, which is quite harder to handle especially if your are low already. I always fly in turbulent conditions with pressure on the brakes. No brakes at all is mire risky especially when you have a big wi g compared to your weight (like I do).
@@uberdenwolken4564 thank you for the response. I bought an epsilon 9 and I'm learning how to fly it. I spent 7 years in electrical engineering school and I looked at a lot of things like wings vectors flows things of this nature. I'm on the heavy end of the weight range for the paraglider Wing I bought. The advance company that made the epsilon 9 said if you would just take your hands off the brakes it would fly better in turbulence then you can fly it yourself. I watch that Greg hammerton from five bubble he had a landing setup video that was about three minutes long. He starts out with the brakes on the toggles grabs them puts on slight brakes makes his turns gets lined up takes the brakes off completely and gets a dive going and puts on the brakes again close to the ground and flares for the stop at the end. I see what you mean if you're flying on the light end of the scale more frontal collapses you don't deal with turbulence very well and the lines tend to get twisted. When you see these people in these contests for precision landing and their butterflying the brakes, they are in a parachutel stall at that point the glide angle is pretty steep and they are flying very slowly. They're very close to a full stall when they do this.
@@markmcgoveran6811 stay with Greg - he is genius :) Yep, depends on where you are in the range. But in my case: If i enter a thermal I still can release the brakes and „speed“ up the glider. With brakes fully released already while entering a thermal you might have to push the speed-bar. But I bet you will not reach it within this split second. ;) Always have slightly pressure in turbulent conditions. You need to be able to control the wind in both directions - brake & release.
