Paragliding in STRONG WIND? Avoid THESE dangers! 

agreed! it's just hard to pack into your bag when you do an outlanding on a ventus :-)

And not to forget, amazing content, as always Greg ;D

A wing for very advanced Pilots only though.

I haven't tried it, but I'm a bit concerned with a wing that is capable of going so fast + flown in strong wind + close to ground + turbulence + odd 'reversed' pilot input required (don't catch forward surges or you cause a collapse on reflex, after collapse don't go hands up or you're fully accelerated) ... if it gets turned downwind you come in so very hard. But I'm happy to give it a try! What is the wing kill method like? I'm guessing the A kill won't work (reflex) and the brakes requires going through a power surge first.

@@FlyWithGreg Due to the reflex, it's much more collapse resistant than average paragliders. And as you change the whole angle of attack with the breaks, the classic problem of accelerated breaking collapsing the wing is not possible anymore. It feels so stable while flying, as if you have a hard piece of uncollapsable rock over your head xD. Flying it is actually pretty intuitive. You'll get used to it super fast. Fly it at the coasts in laminar wind, and you will never feel safer on any other wing. It's made for soaring and it does it best by factors. You have infinite control over altitude and wing-power. It can't overpower you on the ground what so ever, and it doesn't suddenly lift you up without your inputs. You have insanely more control to not get blown over the cliff edge and you can manuver a lot better, as you control up and down aswell in addition to left and right. The speed can be dangerous, but it's also safety, especially in soaring it is! They flew it in 70km/h wind at the coast already. Went easy ;) Pretty much unbelievable! You can't kill the wing. A-lines have so much pressure, you can do pull-ups on them and it won't collapse the wing xD. Breaking will just generate lift. If you need to really kill it, you have the kill-mushrooms you can pull, completely depowering the wing, like a kite. Fly it at the coast. You'll never come closer to feeling like a bird, I swear and you never felt safer flying. Just do it in laminar winds. For turbulent termal winds it's a different story. As you can't collapse the wing on purpose with pulling A-lines, doing safety testing is rather difficult. There is not too much experience how it will behave if it collapses, but as said, it's ultra sable in air and super hard to collapse. In one of the FLARE introduction videos, you can see a half-wing side collapse, and it recuperates very gently. Also there is SIV video on youtube, where the guy pulls plenty of stalls. It doens't look any worse than stalls on other paragliders, in contrast, as you come out with speed after stall, you have less problems to handle the developed G-forces, as you can just to hand up and flare the energy out. The wing doesn't develop high G-forces ever, except if you want it to.

All problems I ever encountered while paragliding was due to not having control over lift and sink and not having depower. Got lifted by a sand-devil, which wouldn't have happend with a moustache. Almost hit a power cable, because I didn't have "sink/lift on demand" as I would have needed it right then. Got once overpowered while groundhandling on the dune, which woulnd't have happend with moustache depower. It's addition safety, and it's amazing ;) Since kiting has depower, it got a lot safer. The same will happen with paragliding. A one-axis controlled airplane with such narrow speed windows just sucks, considering the range of what air is capable to do.

indeed, good catch! so imperial pilots can push it to 23 :-)

Seemile 1.8 km. (Land) Mile: 1.6 Km

I like that in the UK we do altitude in feet, vertical speed in m/s, windspeed in mph and distance in km. Here in Pembrokeshire we actually use fathoms/minute for lift.