Haha! I even captured it in a "unauthorised" way, by screen capturing the RU-vid video, also here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aDUyxmK46bc.htmlsi=pr_iuCArC8cHpDlN
always a bit scary to share thermals with those :P I wonder how much they can see paragliders from there and can visualize the routes of both to prevent any close calls
Personally I think paragliders are easy to see, you need to have your "eyes out" but it's much harder to see a thin glider head on and you have much less time. When you've seen a paraglider (big colourful blob) they barely move. Having said that I did paraglide with FLARM and it's possible a glider pilot isn't doing their proper lookout (the most important job really, it's taught well too)
@@sharemyjoys yeah, FLARM becomes more and more popular, but it only warns the side with the actual computation device, not the paraglider, and even though as far as I have seen are quite tiny and it might be not clear from where the danger comes from. It does warn you, though. Not sure how good that is in practice with both aircrafts e.g. thermalling changing the direction all the time,
