A light wind day paragligding at Ringstead Bay near Weymouth, Dorset. Music is Porcelain by Moby, Soundtrack/theme song from the 2000 Danny Boyle film "The Beach" with Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen & Tilda Swinton.
Australian pilot loved the video and coastal flying. The south of England seems to have so many magical sights. Are you able to fly the Dover Cliffs? At the moment in Victoria, we have stage 4 restrictions so no flying at all, so your video cheered me up. Eventually, international travel will open again so look forward to seeing your beautiful coast and glass of wine at a few pubs.
I have no idea about flying the Dover cliffs as it’s outside my area. We wee restricted with no flying for a while but now restrictions are lifted, for the time being. We are lucky in the Wessex clubs to have many great sites and are not crowded like further to the east in Sussex. We can often have a site with only one or two pilots flying. This particular site, Ringstead, is popular and we can have 20+ pilots at the site on a good weather day.
It depends. If we are local there are other pilots who will come to retrieve. Do a favour then get it back. If you are 100 miles from takeoff, then train, bus, taxi, hitch to get home. Always a way and no one is ever stranded.
Look out for a sw going ssw and come on down. I am bound to be there for it. Happens a few times a year. I want to do the full run to St Albans and back. A mega coastal run!
No! The next day could be wind and rain. The cruise ships are anchored up because of Covid-19. Not for bring tourists to Weymouth. Though Dorset is a particular nice part of the UK.
Steve Shovlar either way you have yourself a gorgeous site. Sometimes it better when good days are rare, it’s a larger incentive to go get it! Here in California it’s boring blue sky and sun every day😇
It’s dangerous, of course. But training, experience and the use of common sense reduce risk. Flying coastal sites in laminar air and non thermic conditions reduces the chance of a wing collapse. No licence required but most sites need membership to the local club. And to join the local club you have to pass EP and CP courses. It depends where you are in the U.K. for training but a google search will produce your local instructor. In Dorset it’s flyingfrenzy.com
It’s my vario. It tells me when I am going up, the higher and faster the beep the quicker I am going up. No beeps means I am not rising. If it grunts I am going down!
Absolutely not. Would be completely outdated and compared to modern wings have very little going for it. Use it for ground handling but don’t go airborne in my opinion. You can get a decent second hand wing for a few hundred quid.
