Lines broke. Would love to know how many hrs were on the wing/lineset and what the loading was at the time of the failure. Glad that you were able to toss right away!
Would like to know why the wing was behaving like this from the start. What wind conditions caused the collapses. Any experienced flyers have any opinions?
He was practicing some collapse shit, then 360...during that speed decent his line collapsed...his reaction and reserve deploent were real and not training 🤦🏼♂️
Some narration/ context would be helpful. Without knowing what your thinking/ inputs were, it kind of looks like you did a few wingovers and lost energy, the wing going limp/jellyfish at the deadpoint for a couple iterations (edited) then lines break?
i think for once this is a crash video where the pilot did everything right and also seems to be really good at what he does, judging by those mistys and the clean wingovers. usually as soon as you click on one of the classic crash clips you can immediately tell that the pilot is out of their skill range doing acro maneuvers at heights and in conditions they shouldn't be doing them in. not the case in this clip in my opinion. he might have been a bit low towards the end but he managed to get the reserve out in time so I guess you could argue it wasn't. only thing that could have been done to avoid this would be to check your equipment regularly and look for frayed lines etc. really nice reserve throw and acro skills. cheers man hope youre alright
Truly horrible conditions. There were a few star pickets (steel stakes) around that he could have impaled himself on as well. I might suggest that he was pulling deep figure-of-eights to get down faster - not wing overs as such. If so perhaps a B-line stall might have served better? What does the pilot say?
"i think for once this is a crash video where the pilot did everything right " Apart from maintaining their equipment. Regular high G maneuvers need extra servicing/maintenance, or this will happen. Spoken by a reformed sinner - brake line snapped during a wingover.
@@kevinshort3943 I'm glad to meet someone that's a reformed sinner instead of read about you in a report somewhere. I'm in trouble I got p2 license coming I don't have any launch sites yet so I'm going to go to farms and make my own launch sites. I'm going to try to take a bag of cornstarch with me and fly up under a cloud and make it rain on a farm. Then I'm going to tell everybody that my friend that does real well for himself and is going to let me fly got an inch or two of extra rain. My rich friend won't admit that he's making all this money on me and I'm not going to make me but you can go ask him how much extra things he gets for me making it rain on all of his land. These Farmers have all laughed at me for years they all kind of like me and now they're all going to be jealous because I'm making it rain on somebody else's farm. I want have 5 or 6 bicycles strobe lights on my harness so I'm flashing in the sky and I want to get a boat horn so I can honk at make a big loud noise at people. There's only nine thousand people here and every one of them has heard a big story about me stealing 6 chickens and jumping over a fence or who-knows-what. I hope lying isn't a sin that makes your wing fly crooked.
seems like pilot weight is not corresponding to glider size... since beginning of vdo glider is fluttering as if no weight is beneath under... pilot had to use rescue chute... lucky cat👍
Practicing wingovers with any wing may result in severe collapses and nasty situations. And Artik4 isn't an exception. It's a sport wing and it can have sporty reactions that require precise and well timed inputs. It looks like this guy was trying now this, now that, and finally things got wrong. Overconfidence. You better take some SIV's and practice wingovers over and over and over before doing it on your own.
dont necessarily think thats what cause this to happen. he was doing a lot of stuff all at once but it all looks pretty controlled. wingover timing looks on spot aswell. his lines snapped though, that's what caused this
It does though, dyneema is only so strong and so durable so too the attachment points on the wing. Acro training really loads things up. I've seen training runs were every a line was torn free of the leading edge.
You pushed beyond the limits of the wing, and your skills. It’s nothing to be congratulated for! Respect the air, or it bites back. Fly for the pleasure of flying, not to throw yourself around like an idiot and then claim great skill in recovery. A good pilot should never have to use a reserve!
Ouch bro. Nice reserve throw. Couldn't help but notice you exited your weight shift early.. you need to lean in a bit longer, SIV can help.. leeeeeeaaaaannn innnnnn, brake, laaaaaaaaaannnnn in...brake... You can see before the throw already wing is being deformed... Anyway I'm sure has been said a 1000 times already haha 🎉😂
OK, approx 2:06 to 2:10 is reserve pull/deploy/open...4 seconds, pretty good and you can see the sink rate with very little oscillation from what looks like a DUDEK Globe-Light (which is nice to know, as that's the reserve I have) :) ru-vid.comUgkxWMCTYUsgsHpdsMjYtTU7dR3CkL7gUzCX Glad the pilot is OK; very quick reaction to a bad-situation; this guy is definitely 'in the loop'/good situational awareness :)
Almost as if it were planned.. let's do some big wing overs to create an event, and then be ready to throw. We do this in SIV classes (best over water, but great practice)
Looks like to little brake on the outside - collapse. It was poor timing on the turn before that one as well, so I guess bad timing got worse for each turn. Great idéa to toss the reserve. Though I get the impression that the fault is induced by will and the reserve toss was more or less lanned. At least the pilot was ready for it.
@@SuperAnatolli This guy seems to be a pretty good pilot. Some countries run gear to there expiray date... and then some which is where the problem has mostly arisen from (tired lines)
