KEEP UP: How to get higher when paragliding in light lift

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It can be very challenging to fly in light conditions, but it's also when your skills are really tested. Join Flybubble Paragliding as we try to levitate along a small shaded ridge in the lightest of breezes.
Tons of tips for paraglider pilots in this one! Launch timing, ridge soaring, search patterns, turn timing, watching other pilots, trigger lines, lift lines, turbulence, transitions, winter flying and using the vario. Enjoy!
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@thermalflyer3601 5 лет назад

This type of video where an experienced pilot is simply speaking aloud the thought process , explaining the decisions etc is incredibly useful. Thank you

@severinbechtold1873 5 лет назад

EXACTLY!! It can be ANY little flight, any thoughts that help less experienced pilots tremendously

@NicholasSladenDew 5 лет назад

Well said!

@mbrunnme 5 лет назад

These videos are like educational meditation. Love this vibe!

@severinbechtold1873 5 лет назад

I enjoy watching you flying in these weak conditions with little to no cutting in the video. You are a very good pilot; so that any unspectacular little flight helps pilots like me!

@preetisaxena5503 4 года назад

Great job Greg. Thanks again for this.

@tangolima647 5 лет назад

Thank you, Greg for this beautiful educational video!

@gabiciaba 5 лет назад

Very useful video,Greg✌️

@caspernilsson 5 лет назад

Great video Greg!

@NourLababidi 5 лет назад

Fantastic! Great content and video. thank you as always!

@climb315 Год назад

Love the videos! Thank you

@laniik 5 лет назад

thanks so much! this kind of narration is super helpful for us to learn the thought process of better pilots!

@Adventure_Bum 5 лет назад

Thank you for your videos. Love them!

@barrywebber100 4 года назад

Thank you fro sharing your skills and experience.

@AndreBandarra1 5 лет назад

Really reminds me of winter flying in the UK. Hopping from here to there and always trying to hedge my bets. A lot those rolling hills have taught me. Great video Greg :)

@AndreBandarra1 5 лет назад

yeah I've heard a lot of good things about Arnold and love that part of the country, near to where my dad lives too :) need to take the time to explore xc sites in portugal during summer. I've done some medium/big distances in the UK but here I think it will be different because we can get really high :) 2k, 3k :) and more. only been to 1500m or so in the uk

@arndwolvetang5025 Год назад

Very useful, great to join you on this flight

@jpetzke 5 лет назад

Great video - really appreciated hearing your thoughts while looking for lift in such light conditions and late in the day. Learned quite a bit from you on this one - even the simply obvious point while you were walking and knowing there is lift when the glider shoots forward, should have known that, but never thought about it that way until you mentioned it. Thanks!

@javierserrano2125 6 месяцев назад

Greg, you are a bird of prey!!!!love your work,,

@milcog3662 5 лет назад

Thx again Greg ! .....” thats the game, it’s verry simple” at 12:51.......😩😏

@paraglidingpassion338 5 лет назад

Greg super flying I love this type of flying this is when the skill factor comes into our flying.✅🆒🇬🇬🇬🇧🇿🇦

@ashbrand6739 Год назад

Thanks maté, some great advice 👍🪂

@flybubbleparagliding Год назад

Happy to help. 😁 See the Flybubble Knowledge Base for a wealth of free-flight info and advice: flybubble.com/knowledge-base

@junuhunuproductions 4 года назад

Very helpful!

@perkarlsson4915 5 лет назад

And I have never flown, yet watching each and every video you guys put on YT. Keep them coming!

@caspernilsson 5 лет назад

Bara att börja :)

@greghamerton4422 5 лет назад

we'll turn you into a pilot yet! :-) glad they inspire you

@billbankes-jones6034 5 лет назад

Greg. Your a star man!

@greghamerton4422 5 лет назад

... when I stay up ;-)

@mustafasinan866 3 года назад

Nice man

@SerbanOprescu 5 лет назад

Nice music, splendid views, very nice video.

@MotoFlyGuy 5 лет назад

nice. I really want to get in to paragliding. I love paramotor. but to stay up for so long and fly in silence must be great. most flights I like to go up high before landing and kill the motor and enjoy the glide down.

@tomasjuskaitis 5 лет назад

Nice video. Thank you for sharing all of those tips! Also, does FlyBubble sell these attachable ball compasses, as you've got in this video?

@shraddhajantre 2 года назад

Great video. I always curious about what that sound is in the background? Is that camera sound? In many Paragliding videos I heard of it.

@andersborum9267 4 года назад

As always it's very educational and inspiring. You're asking for suggestions .. as an aspiring pilot, I am interested in learning about the struggles you faced as a beginner to paragliding, i.e. what were your fears (if any) and the path to overcoming said fears or mental boundaries. I'm asking as I'm personally not afraid of heights per se (tandem flights), but definitely face some mental barriers about moving away from e.g. ridges (meaning the safer ground) and increasing heights. Are these normal thoughts for people getting into paragliding and something that'll simply go away as one continues to practice? (might be answering my own question here, but if the answer is that paragliding just isn't for everybody and one shouldn't have any concerns, even as a beginniner, I'll have to reconsider). Also, is it normal for beginners to do face plants when front starting as the canopy overshoots? (mine did a couple of times) I'm 45 and physically in good shape; also, I have access to some of the best pilots in Denmark for training (currently signed up for a team in march, 2021).

@ld4347 5 лет назад

hello , i want to come in your country, but where is this place to do paragliding please? thanks for your great videos

@m.sierra5258 5 лет назад

Hey Greg! I understand the things you say, but when I try them myself, I always have the problem that whenever I decide during the flying around that this is enough lift to circle/search there, I loose height overall. What are your technical tips for flying with little lift, especially how to fly curves, how much brake pressure on which brake, and at what point to search? How far away from the hill? How do you make quick direction changes without height loss? I refuse to accept that it is all in the aspect ratio of the wing, there has to be some pilot knowledge.

@therealtimedigimob 4 года назад

Great video! What location is this?

@ranman58635 4 года назад

I'm new so I hope this is not a dumb question. Above your brake toggles there are handles. What are those for? I'm guessing, trims?

@addzyify 3 года назад

They are for controlling the glider while using speed bar without losing speed

@MikeyFirst 5 лет назад

I see you flying with moderate brakes. It looks like a little more than the brake travel when flying actively. I presume that's somewhere in the range of min sink? Or is just to fly slow to be in the lift as long as possible? What's the idea behind this? Nice video footage! It's quite addictive to watch.

@davepacker5441 3 года назад

Did I see you cross a road near Breacon today ???

@jimfuhrman8665 5 лет назад

Great stuff @Greg Hamerton. The launch timing, you were talking about feeling the wing pull forward, so you were talking about a thermal lifting in front of launch? and feeling the air on launch pull the wing forward to backfill?

@greghamerton4422 5 лет назад

Yes Jim! There's a little change in angle. When the airflow ahead of the hill is descending in general, your wing hangs back. If it's ascending, you get a slight feeling of excitement! A bit more on flybubble.com/blog/keep-up-paragliding-in-light-lift

@magetervel 2 года назад

what kind of sensors would a drone need to be able to achieve something like this? Or maybe several meteorological stations and two metorologists as operators?

@sergioprospero 2 года назад

Where is your mic? Could you tell me the model please? Thanks!

@AP-gn9fd 5 лет назад

Another great video. I do a lot of coastal ridge soaring, are varios as useful in that situation as they are for inland thermalling?

@greghamerton4422 5 лет назад

yes! if you're below ridge height it's easy to notice changes in climb rate, but when you're above the ridge line, especially on the coast, it's hard to tell. Then you miss out on the small signals of a sea thermal, and miss out the chance to get really a lot higher and a lot further upwind from that coastal ridge.

@AP-gn9fd 5 лет назад

Thank you Greg!

@peterblackburn7269 5 лет назад

greg is that beeping unit work on wind change or height change as keep hearing wonder what it does? ,🤔cheers lovevideio

@m.sierra5258 5 лет назад

It's a variometer, indicating height change, e.g. vertical velocity. Beeping means up, higher means faster. Constant tone means down, lower means faster. They generally work using pressure sensors, the newer ones are assisted with accelerometers and gyroscopes to decrease the response time.

@liamainsworth1023 5 лет назад

Hi I have been watching your videos and really enjoy them. I weigh approximately 115kg is that to heavy for paragliding or should I try paramotor?

@danielcoffaro6569 4 года назад

I just started paragliding. I have a friend who is about that weight and paraglides. They make different size wings for different weights. The Kibo 2 is the wing that I use. The large for that wing is 100-130 kilos, so you could use that.

@sevie3026 2 года назад

i tought you could only use that thing to only slow you down as you go down, ive never tought that it could lift you up

@elismardoueidar4014 5 лет назад

Good afternoon friend! friend would I be able to buy a "B" wing used in your area?

@greghamerton4422 5 лет назад

sure, look on flybubble.com/shop/second-hand/second-hand-paragliders. email info@flybubble.com if you're overseas for a quote

@ParaglidingVlog 5 лет назад

For such light lift you need a good paragliding and preferably a new :)

@greghamerton4422 5 лет назад

the difference in sink rate is very slight with new good wings, the older ones still had OK sink rate, they just didn't glide as well fast, or feel as nice! So it's more important to focus on technique and timing, where you turn, where you search.

@nobloubartete 5 лет назад

Whats the averager?

@markmcgoveran6811 2 года назад

I love you more every day. I live in the devil's Ball as far as nice wins come off the ocean and stuff. It's all rotors by the time it gets here. We have these giant fronts that come through and man is it crazy sometimes. I just bought an epsilon nine 30 and I'm flying about 5 kg from the top recommended limit weight Wise. I swear I thought I saw this man walk around with his wing above him like an antenna on a grasshopper. When that wing jumped forward on him he ran into a thermal that was just for me on the ground. The camera doesn't reveal a lot of the terrain. Next spring when the air is highly unstable and the Sun is beating on a black field next to a big snow covered field I'm going out in that black field and try to take off from the flat ground. Just like it appears my hero did. Do you know how many times I have been accused of making a mountain out of a molehill? Finally a home for my skill!!!