It was a pilot induced spin. All the turns in this video are not sharp but forced. The colapse of the glider was caused by the heavy handed pilot. I am glad it ended up well.
The dude was braking to much his cayenne5, He was already flying to slow, when he caused a negative spin, luckily the glider forgave his error and let him land safely.
My first reaction, right from the first turn was that the pilot is far too heavy on the brakes, look, lean, apply gentle brake... As said before, he spun the glider...
Lots of space on this site! Why not doing a longer straight glide from your left? In the height, where the glider started to spin, you already could have had your legs out of the pod. Maybe doesnt look cool enough, but better than diving into ground in flying Position. Have seen many guys bombing in, because they could not get their feet out of the impress.
As others say, this looks like a spin and not a collapse, e.g. the right side of the wing just stalled, with a nice yaw movement. Looks like a good reaction (but hard to tell exactly what the pilot did), with the right side immediately recovering and plunging forward. As the people in the audio said, glad you had some height to recover from that!
@@niigataflyingclub Really glad you were fine - I also fly in Japan, and so I'm familiar with what you were trying to do :-) I was taught the same, but yeah, always important to be careful on those tight, altitude-losing turns
Да не коллапс это был, а сорванное зажатое крыло на низкой скорости при крутых поворотах. Плюс пилот до последнего сидел в подвеске, увеличивая шансы на твист при неприятностях с крылом в условиях турбулентности. Пилот сам себя загнал в неприятности и счастливо из них выкрутился. А мог бы и нет.
Thank you for sharing, i mostly agree with the other comments but i must say the glider really recovert great and very fast things happens i had one spin like that as i reallyy wanted to fully turn small heavy thermals and forced my wing into a turn as result i spon like 30 meters up right next to a cliff ^^ wasnt fun at all
As others say, it was a spin induced by turning too slow. In the pilots defense, you can see there was some thermal activity that made coming down hard, and probably contributed to the spin too. Kudos for going hands up and allowing it to recover quickly.
@@jonathansummerfield8390 Please share your expert advice for when it get´s floaty or bubbly just before final approach and you have little space to manouver.
@@quoth_raven I didn't want to criticize you. I meant some people do mostly coastal soaring and other fly only in moutains with stronger conditions. So no offence :-) As I dont know the topographic situation its difficult to give you an answer. Instead of S-turns you could go for big ears and glide in from the side. In stead of killing the dynamic of your wing go for more dynamic turns - wing over like to kill altitude.
@@quoth_raven I dont want to compare regular pilots to the pros, but I did fly with Patrik von Känel once and the landing precision on small peaks in the alps is insane.
@@jonathansummerfield8390 no offense taken or meant ;) personally I'm not comfortable with ears on landing (less manouverability due to having your hands full and also being in speed) or with too dynamic turns close to the ground... but kudos to the pilots that master those techniques. I'm not sure they should be generalized though.
That wing recovery was super quick which saved this pilot from Injury, but at treetop height should he(she) not be out of the pod harness ready for landing? I have a lot to learn about this kind of malfunction and the causes of it but it seems like a bit of pilot error combined with less than ideal conditions, anyone who knows better please enlighten us all. Speed is your friend when trying to keep a wing inflated and it appears to me the pilot tried to slow it down way too much. Just my novice observations.
Proof that the Cayenne 5 is a VERY safe glider, too heavy-handed in manouvres, not allowing the wing to build speed before the next turn. It's like he was doing wing-overs without actually allowing the wing to build up speed/energy.
He spin the glider. Luckily, there were no cravat while exiting spin. Glider might turn right very fast on left side to the ground if that was the case.
@@condorenvy a deformatoin can also be an advantage. Paragliders and hangliders are equal in terms of safety. A deformations means also a reset of a bad situation
@@Kurikost_ Sure, doing big ears or practicing stalls or doing an SIV course is one thing. "I hope that my wing collapses as I'm setting up my landing approach " said no one ever.
I used to fly hangglider (s), but sooner or later you gonna see, it's a kind of pain in the a... to carry that heavy stuff up the hill .. and security with a hangglider is way better than it used to be ...take care
Is anyone going to mention the fact that upon recovering from what could have been a really bad day, the pilot then comes in to land with way too much brake applied? Those little flapping movements work fine IF there is plenty of lifting air/wind blowing (as is often the case on coastal/ridge sites)...but definitely should not be used in these conditions in my opinion.
He is putting tooooo wayyyy much break inputs, low speed due to.too much breaks ( spin ) and also I noticed he seems like doesn't have feeling of his pitch controls.. Anyways glad that he made it ..
They think jetflap is solving all their problems.. anyway i also see a trim problem there.. the glider is flying slow also with the leading edge rised.. must go in for an inspection.
Excellent piloting!! Very precise correction... just at the right moment. Incredible!! Great slow motion too. Very high quality. Kind regards from Colombia in South America. What a weird collapse! Was the wind coming down the mountain?
Paul Skywalker you need to take a good course when they teach you how to fly a paraglider, doesn’t matter the level of the homologation. Clearly in this case the pilot applies too much brake and the right side stop flying, very lucky because I think he don’t know what happened and for some comments you not are the only one think was a collapse or wing problem 🤦🏻♂️
