Paragliding - Side Landings. Episode 4  

I love the way you give multiple examples.

You’re definitely #1 when it comes to paragliding instructional videos. Keep up the great work.

Thank you. Your instructions are fabulous.

THANKS 🙂

Nice teaching sir. You are great 👍👍👍

Thank you so much! Great instructions 🙏🏼

love it thank you

I really love you videos!!..

Great work

Excellent demonstration. Thanks!

As usual you awesome.

Bloody Brilliant. I love it when you touch down and keep the glider inflated so effortlessly and then take off and do another demonstration and then do it again for another demonstraion. Marvellous!.

These tutorials are so good. Full of useful information. And lots of repeats and variations.

Excellent demonstration. Thanks for sharing.

Love your vids dude. I’m an advanced Paramotor pilot, but have just received my P2 free flight certification. These videos are definitely informative!

you are a very good pilot, with a great giving heart , a great profetional teacher and a very talented instructor . i never saw somebody like you with so mutch pation to healp the others to succes .you are something special , sometimes i even cant belive that people like you exist in realety

Love these instructional videos Mark. I learned so much from them! Thank you!

And another wanderfuly informative lesson, really like your simple, repetitive type of explanation, it works magic for learning, thank you so much!

Excellent tips thanks. I wish you had been my teacher when I was learning! I have watched 3 of your videos now and learnt valuable information from each one. 👍👍

excellent, this video goes to playlist "worth seeing multiple times" :-)

Love this! Thanks Marc! Probably you have saved many a sprained ankle, thanks!

Watching this, I realized this same technique would be handy if I'm landing somewhat off of straight upwind. For example, I sometimes try to land on a car track that isn't lined up with the wind. I've just been running it out on a diagonal which isn't so easy sometimes in low wind landings.

Instruction bang on great vid cheers

Wonderful and very informative. I love your style and enthusiasm for what you are teaching! Keep them coming. So glad I found your RU-vid site.

Great video Mark, makes perfect sense. I look forward to seeing the cobra launch vid.

Wie immer ... super erklärt , viele Grüsse aus dem Schwarzwald .

Hi Marc, great videos and I am well jealous of your man cave! The technique I like for side landings is to use what I call the crossed control method - lean hard into the hill with weight shift and keep on track with outside brake. This makes sense to me because if you overcook the outside brake and get an insipient spin - it turns you out from the hill. Using this method the wing is crabbing inefficiently across (but slightly in to) the face of the slope - where you may still be in the lift band. The cross controls reduces the efficiency of the wing and helps the descent. As you get close to the ground, reduce the weight shift and add inside brake to touch down. This method is like how I used to land my old biplane that didn't have flaps so needed to be side slipped in.

I've come in too fast for years this should sort me out. thanks

My knees enjoyed watching this video. And said let's do exactly the same next time 😊

Thanks Mark, another great resource for pilots. Videos are getting even better too, your production values are gettiing slick.

Hi Marc, Just found your channel - liking it! thx I fly mostly in Austria, Italy & Switzerland (typically TO @ 2000 / LZ @ 500) for more than 20 years and see many flatland / hill flyers having a problem visualizing thermal, wind, trigger points and turbulence/lee influences at different levels and surfaces - think it would make a great vid to take on such a subject... ? I'm still learning things every time I fly :-) so, I hesitate to throw in my tips.

Awesome stuff.... I have looked for side landing videos, so as to get me ready for when the covid ban is lifted... (who's reading this in 2030 and remembers covid as that thing that stopped us from flying for far too long) ... I can tell you there aren't that many side landing videos, this one is the best on the internet and the ONLY one that has allowed me to get my head around just what I need to do to perfect those side landings, brilliant stuff, thanks for your efforts.... Looking forward to what ever episode 5 brings 😁

Thank you for this. How does this technique change with no wind coming up the slope? You do say “what wind there is” so maybe no change?

I payed my instructor over $2000 and he didn't give me 1/100th of the info I can get from your videos. He payed attention to me every time I mentioned payment though.

Hi, I was wondering if I could apply this method on a flat landing zone if for some reason on a U shape approach I have not enough time or height to make a 180 degree turn but only a 90 degree turn ?