Well done Greg....great concept whereby us mere mortals can fully appreciate what all the theory is about by seeing it in put into practical use. Cheers.
EXCELLENT way to really get to KNOW your wing. As a precursor to this I would also add to be in a reverse position on the ground and pulling brakes to the stall point while you are both one the ground AND LOOKING at your wing. In fact move the wing between the stall point and the COLLAPSE point carefully noting the angles and behavior of the wing and watch everything and establish YOUR control and THEN doing everything suggested in this video.This way you get to SEE how the wing THAT YOU ARE UNDER actually responds to both a COLLAPSE and a STALL and you will know what the wing will do immediately AFTER a collapse AND AFTER a STALL. WHAT A GREAT VIDEO. I LOVE most of all your high wind videos on launch CHECK THEM OUT.
Hi Greg, greetings from Aus 👍🏻 I’d love to a video of all of the ‘mistakes’ made from doing all manoeuvres incorrectly!... As a novice I take all of your years of experience very concisely and as a crucial part of my ground learning as I take my early stages of learning very serious at the moment and am watching countless hours of your tutorials and other videos to help take my early stages of flying into a safe and well armed place in the sky! Thank you once again Greg for imparting your knowledge, I want you to know how much your videos have taught me and still do 🙏🏼
Flybubble Paragliding indeed, it has been the greatest and most fun thing I have ever committed to in my life! I suffered a spinal injury in 2011’and as a result was forced to give up skydiving, and several other hobbies of mine, and I never thought I’d see myself in the sky ever again, but after a very long road to recovery I discovered paragliding, saved up over a really long time and put myself through a highly regarded training course here in Aus and haven’t looked back yet! Thank you for your advise and reply, every moment I’m under my wing I’ve never been happier ☺️☺️☺️
You're welcome Nour! this is a great thing to play around with when you're waiting for the flying to improve. lots of groundflying will build a good connection with your wing.
I have never had much love for parragliders as thought they were a doddle to fly. But,, watching your video was good, looks like I have been wrong thanks for showing.. but mind you I will stick with the HG as thay are a doddle to fly, for me anyway. I have been flying then for a long time now. Cheers mate will watch more of this stuff from now on. Cheer,Pete
Hi, Can you do a video on launch site assessment? What type of sites to be avoided. To avoid taking off at wrong time or wrong place. It will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. :)
Hey Greg, firstly, thank you for your videos and Flybubble website. You have really helped me become a better pilot. I live in Joburg, and my questions is: Where did you spend most of your time practising ground handling in South Africa? If I could find a place that had a consistent draft, where I wasn't getting in the way of other pilots trying to take off, I would spend a lot more time there practising. Thanks!
Hey Grant, yes that's a bit of a challenge for many pilots. You can only learn so much on a school playing field, being that it's flat and usually windstill or gusty - but that's still worth the time to do. In your case I'd recommend booking a trip to Bulwer, link up with Hans at Wildsky so you can use their training sites too. Alternatively a holiday to Wilderness, with Jan at Cloudbase or Deon at DolphinPG. go play on the dunes. Booking at least one day of instruction means you get the most out of the trip and can bypass/shortcut things it might take a long time to puzzle out/correct on your own. In my case, i spent a lot of time in Wilderness and also just messing around on the landing fields in the Cape.
Thanks so much Greg! I just spent the last 3 days in Bulwer and it was the perfect place to get the ground handling practice I needed, your advice is much appreciated! Hope to meet you one day when you visit SA again. All the best!
So Question how is the bread applied??? what do you pull or push?? how do you turn a lot of question and by the way finding a 20km steady wind where do WE find that and a shallow slope..
I have firebird first (DHV 1). And it is very hard wing to stall any advice. I have tried to make wraps but you can't release them quickly. Another exurcise baybe?
Hi could you please help me? I want to buy a wing which is good for paramotor gliding and paragliding, is it possible? I mean you could attach a motor to your self couldnt you!? Because here where we live there are nohills at all :-( and the country is so small and ... The only thing which we have going for us is Wind near the shoores, but motor is something else isnt it? thanks
Next time dont leave out the wind speed / air pocket advice. If there are pockets of air it can make your wing stall. If above ground flying, full frontal can take alot of altitude to recover. flying heavy on the breaks can lead to disaster. so always perform right above the ground at first. thanks for reading.
absolutely not! Because if you make a tiny mistake with your stall point and it drops back into a stall, it will tip you onto your back in your harness, and you'll land badly. Legs down prevents this rotation.
+Gfdf Perte I believe the intent of this video is for you to find that stall point of your particular glider. This would be done by feel - slowly pullig on more and more break till you find the stall point. The hand position could vary vastly depending on the glider.
Hi, Greg! I've made russian version of your video with russian titles: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N5XqODgFSDQ.html if you dont mind
***** okay, friends. in our next translations i shall comply your requirements. normally automatic translation of captions is not correct somtimes. it will be great thing that i can get you projects (AE, Premiere, Avid, Cool Edit) with titles so i can translate its directly in projects and render. Or i can made for you a russian translations only and you will use it, render and upload on you channel. pilots in russia needs to fly cool too :) thanks for your channel!
