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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:01 🧑🏫 The video provides a basic understanding of energy management in Paramotoring. It discusses the concepts related to airspeed momentum and its management. 00:43 🚁 The video is meant for educational purposes for people who have already received training or are about to receive training in Paramotoring. 02:22 🪂 All wings have a certain energy level at which they prefer to fly, which can be referred to as airspeed or momentum, also known as trim speed. 03:20 ✈️ Two acting forces influence a wing's flight: Newton's law and Bernoulli's principle. The angle of attack is affected by applying the brakes, which temporarily increase lift but also reduce speed and energy. 05:26 🎚️ Speed bar and trims can help increase the wing's flight speed, decreasing its angle of attack and allowing it to cover more distance. 07:48 🛬 During landing, it’s advisable to come with hands up and slowly roll off the throttle, which allows the wing to surge forward and level off. 08:45 🛑 The safe zone to pull the brakes during flight is typically your shoulder level up. Going below the levels may lead to risk of stalling the wing. 10:10 🌌 During launch, increasing power and releasing brakes to gather airspeed before lifting off is advised. Immediately after lifting off it is important to release the brakes to maintain momentum. 12:05 🛸 At landing, energy management involves bleeding off all energy from the wing while dragging a foot as a feeler and setting down gently on the ground. 14:06 🌬️ The wing’s glide ratio determines how far it can glide for every mile of altitude. 16:26 💥 Advanced wing maneuvers like spirals and steep dives can build more energy in the wing than desired. Exiting these maneuvers too quickly can cause dangerous conditions. Professional training is advised. 18:25 🆘 Spirals can result in an auto rotation. Exiting spirals rashly can lead to the flier being 'gift wrapped' in the wing, unable to use the reserve. 19:37 🔄 If entering a steep maneuver, it's safest to exit this slowly to gradually dissipate the energy build-up. Dumping the brakes abruptly can cause unpredictable behavior, such as mid-air ballooning. 20:04 ↕️ It's crucial to set a personal goal of maintaining straight and level flight during exit from maneuvers. Balanced and controlled entry and exit from maneuvers show mastery of energy management. 20:47 🔄 Recovering from a too-steep maneuver safely often involves completing additional rotations. It's safer to slowly decrease altitude and attempt the maneuver again than to force a quick and potentially dangerous exit. 21:01 🎯 When learning new maneuvers such as coordinated turns, the goal is to complete the turn and re-establish straight and level flight in a controlled manner. 21:30 🔄 During turns, most of the rotation is achieved by first initiating a weight shift, which forms 50% of the turn, and then slowly applying brakes to maintain or intensify it. However, excessive brake usage equals loss of energy from the wing. 22:13 🔃 Weight shift turns are important to master as they disrupt the wing's airfoil less than using brakes. They should be used as much as possible to maintain energy within the wing in turns. 23:10 🎢 Pulling the brakes changes the angle of attack on one side of the wing, leading to a turn. However, heavy application of brakes can lead to a condition where half the wing stalls, causing it to spin. 23:38 ☯️ Brakes should be used in turbulent conditions where active piloting is needed to prevent collapses. They aid in making turns and adjusting speed to better match with other pilots. 24:06 🚀 A larger motor doesn't necessarily translate to faster airspeed. Rather, managing the airspeed is accomplished through manipulating the wing's energy via brake and weight shift controls. Made with HARPA AI
Another great video from AJ and the Barn! Love it! Quick question. When exiting a quickly building spiral I do my best to bleed off the inner brake while applying some outer brake as well. I still feel like I’m ballooning in exit. Can you give me some specific pointers for exiting a strong g spiral. Thanks!
PPG Pirate outside brake will force exit of the turn (in this case spiral). Unless you are proportionate with the inside brake as well when applying outside it will force and early exit. All it will do will tighten the spiral, and potentially bleed off energy slightly faster if done correctly, howevever not really needed. That’s something that I will use when swinging through the bottom of big wing overs to help dissipate energy for exit but even still not as big of an energy killer as you would think.
Exactly the same philosophy was developed by World War 1 pilots, lost largely after that due to the perception that power in the engine was the determinant. Some WW2 pilots understood.
