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Hi. It’s quite simple: free software from dashware.net allows to overlay a GPS track for example in GPX format onto a video file…

@@florinelzx6r tanks a lot, in my next vide it will be with that

Agree! I have never landed in a full blown gust front but I have been on the ground in many of them and I think making it in one piece after caught flying in a gust from is a flip of a coin… it could go either way…

Here it is: www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:florin_el/18.7.2024/08:04 Glorious 17km final glide from abeam Kronplatz all the way to camping 🤩

@@annejanroeleveld as they say: it’s nice to be high but it even nicer after you’ve been desperately low… eventually we had some good learning experience with this Belgian Open. Days I would not have flown XC on my own we got some pretty decent tasks!

In competition there are 3 safety levels reported on the radio: level 1 when all is nice and safe for flying, level 2 when pilots become concerned of some danger (turbulence, incoming rain, increasing wind) and level 3’when is dangerous and unsafe to fly. In this task there were level 2 and 3 reported due to incoming rain shower, on the course line…

@@martind5596 haha… good observation. The day was windy and most of the pilots landed after the first glide towards the first turn point. Only 18 of us made goal me, getting stuck for a while… did not help to fly with the rest of the group.

Thanks! I have a GoPro 11 Black with a 512GB memory card. Normal battery bank in my cockpit with a long cable that I connect after takeoff. Works quite good, I think I can have about 20h of footage in HD.

@@florinelzx6r muchas gracias,Buenos vuelos

Exactly that! Nicely spotted. I thought I would be clever, joining the others, away from the mountain, thinking that a smoother climb would work faster… but there was no comparison with what thermals were peeling off right off the rock faces… and 3 minutes lost meant 300-400m under the guys that went straight to the right place…

I think that was one of the last turns before the start time... I made it a bit tighter as it would have been too far away to go round the whole circle, it was not to get an altitude advantage as we were all zeroing or even sinking a little... As long as the harmony of the gaggle is not disturbed and you keep a predictable trajectory, it's good. Once this harmony is disturbed... no worries, you will know immediately... in many different languages!

Thank you for appreciating! It’s quite easy to have telemetrics as video overlay: use dashware, create a project where you use the video file from any camera and a GPS track as data source for overlay. I use the data from a Garmin Fenix, in gpx format. The only job is actually to sync the video with the track. Try it and let me know how did it go.

Thanks! In this kind of competitions I feel it’s actually easier to find the cores as everyone involved is very skilled and very hungry to climb the fastest…

I have found tutorial videos...thanks for your inspirational videos.

Great. It's quite easy with dashware. I use a Garmin Fenix for the gps track. I am glad you liked them. Where do you fly usually, where is "the home place"?

Imi pare bine ca ti-a placut. Cum a fost la SIV? Cu cine ai avut SIV-ul? Si eu ajung in zona la inceputul lui iulie, sper sa pot zbura sa "innoiesc" clipul caci video-ul din Annecy are ceva ani deja!

@@florinelzx6r SIV-up a fost grozav. A fost multa teama, panica, adrenalina, toate transformandu-se in incredere la final. Cursul a fost cu Alex Ciuhandru, un super instructor. Recomand. Astept clipul re-innoit :)

Super. După descrierea ta, pare-se ca SIV-ul a fost “ca la carte”. De Alex, ca instructor, am auzit numai lucruri bune: e foarte greu de prins un loc la cursurile lui dar mai încerc! Am ajuns la Annecy. Vremea e un pic capricioasă dar am avut 2 zile de zbor. Am ales să zbor de la Forclaz până la Pointe Percee, capăt de Aravis. czcams.com/video/HghjbWXPbTU/video.htmlsi=bU8CjORsrEMr84I_ . Va veni și versiunea cu telemetrics…

@@florinelzx6r Da, a fost un SIV reusit. Desi am avut vreme cam rea, am reusit 8 zboruri din 9, ceea ce a fost impresionant. Iar Alex e de nota 10. Eu am prins loc la SIV facandu-mi rezervare cu un an inainte.

That's right! Kind of a silly and risky situation to be in. The day was working and I was reasonable confident that there will be lift close to terrain and actually on the left side of the takeoff (right side as I am approaching the mountain side) the terrain is dropping further 100m+ but, when I connect with lift I am already at or below the bomb-out landing zone so, in case I cannot find anything, a perfect flying day is finished even before starting. Luckily it was not the case, that day, and I am hopeful I learned something :).

Very possible that was a factor as well. It was a nice daily routine with 12 hours of activity out of which 5-6 hours of flying but it was also taking its toll towards the end. Also, at this point, for me, it was not much to gain or to lose in this comp so I could as well try the impossible: push lower against the wind. About 50 of us with similar ideas ended on the ground within 1 square kilometers :(

Thank you very much, Uli! It was a place where paragliding really seemed an athletic discipline! 🤣

Thank you for encouragement!

It was overdevelopment over goal area, a cumulonimbus was growing up in that area.

Glad you like them! Thank you! Did you fly in this area?

Cannot remember the name but his story did not finish there: he recovered the glider, flew a part of the task and landed on an area with olive trees. He climbed on those trees to remove the glider and, apparently, you can be alergic of some substance that is on the leaves of the olive trees. He had an anaphylactic shock. Luckily the medics arrived just in time to save him. 5 more minutes and it could have been different outcome. What a day!

Wow fucking hell

Thank you very much! I cannot wait to get back home to have some time to watch them myself 🤩

We are ready: gliders re-trimmed, rested, the forecast seems to be fantastic for today… probably will be a loooong task!

Glad you enjoyed it! Today is a new playing day so, hopefully, more flying to come!

Thanks!

Mistakes cannot go unpunished… I made a beginner’s mistake right at the beginning of the task and lost then gaggle l. Then I flied superbly and caught some up but ended up deciding to go on my own path… and that was the long and slow way. Nevertheless, is was a good cross country flight until the meet director called and asked me to land :)

I am not too sure but I think is around 40km/h at trim. Full speed what will be around 60km/h

Glad you enjoyed it. The temperatures are going higher in Pegalajar, hopefully we can climb higher today for better views and, more importantly, cooler temperatures.

This area is so diverse: from dry, desert like area to green valleys and high mountains! Nice flying here

Thank you! I will try to download it tomorrow. It was a long and painful process to get up and a bit sketchy too as it drifted a lot towards the mountain with strong wind…

Definitely. It’s a fantastic place for paragliding races. I will be back in the following years if they will organize other competitions here!

Mulțumesc!

Thank you! That’s really encouraging me to make a short clip every day!

@@florinelzx6r please please you ✌️

Mulțumesc mult!

😂I have not even seen that sequence in the edit: most likely it was a toilet break ☺️